Horror Report

Month: December 2011

  • A Grim decision: There is ‘no question’ the ground is unstable in Allentown cemetery

    A Grim decision: There is ‘no question’ the ground is unstable in Allentown cemetery

    This is another image from Allentown, Pennsylvania, of a sinkhole developing near a cemetery in the town–an historic cemetery that may now have to have graves moved.

    A court order was secured in case Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim may need to make the grim decision on what to do with the graves. Land is being watched closely in case any shifting in soil occurs. Nearby homes have also been evacuated.

    The cemetery holds 20,000 graves–including some from the Civil War.

    “It’s a very volatile situation. The ground is unstable. There is no question it is moving,” said Everette Carr, president of the Union and West End Cemetery Association,

  • Allentown the vanishing?

    Allentown the vanishing?

    The land of the dead…sinking underneath the crust of the earth.. Living there in Allentown.. and all the land is giving out.

    Billy Joel had a hit song about Allentown decades ago.. a whole new tune may need to be written if rumors, which are rampant online, turn out to be true: Allentown is sinking?


    What we do know is that a sinkhole has developed in an historic cemetery in the city. Officials say a water main break is to blame–along with a year of saturation with constant rainstorms and flooding.


    But the more interesting part comes around when you search out, as one YouTube user did, just where this sinking is occurring: Directly next to the site of a major gas line explosion in 2010.

    So sayseth the rumor: The center of the town is sinking because of massive earth changes–changes which caused the gas line to rupture and now the ground to give way under the feet of Allentownians. 

    While the premise sounds far fetched it also raises eyebrows when you consider proximity of where the ground is buckling.. The focal point being the center of town.. next to where a gas line did actually rupture a year back.

    Sinkholes have been in the news for several years now. Dramatic photos of dark openings that look as though they go to the center of the earth itself have been published all across the world. 


    Watching this one closely.. I am after all relatively close to it, anyway.
  • On the end of the year Thursday morning radar

    On the end of the year Thursday morning radar

    Lots of news from around the world ready to astound and confound..True horror in some respects, and in others scary … It’s 2011, still, if you didn’t realize it. Party like it’s 1999. And hope for the best in 2012. 

    And

    By the way, some more 2012 year in review material is coming. I am quite proud of it to stick around and stay tuned to this page.. humble me and even read it. I hope you’ll enjoy and share thoughts
  • A year end treat: You want propaganda?! You got propaganda!

    A year end treat: You want propaganda?! You got propaganda!

    And North Korea surely knows how to do it..

    Large images of Kim Jong Il on a motorcade of government vehicles on a snowy stretch of North Korean highway. The dear leader perished from the earth after becoming so overworked that he died on a train.. So they said. 

    A “clearly audible” out pouring grief took place as the motorcade swept through the streets.. According to reports, tens of thousands of people braved the freezing weather to say goodbye to the dear leader–and then most likely to home to freezing homes as well. 

    And sure, those images were “live.” Right? You mean, state run media would lie to the world? You mean they would call something live without it truly being live? It was getting dark in Seoul but on TV the light was abundant for the funeral procession. But I guess that just means God is smiling on Kim. Or wait, isn’t Kim God? 

    I think..?

    I’d be curious to exactly created the giant portrait–and we mean GIANT--of Kim Jong Il? You can’t just go to a Kinkos or Staples and get one produced, can you? … There is just something about nations that go all out with propaganda that impress me: Giant signs, giant images, and giant photos. Amazing quality on the massive image of Kim …I’m surprised the car was even able to movie with the weight on the humongous Kim.

    But why poke fun at the death of a tyrant. 


    Just get me the number to the giant portrait store!
  • Predictions for 2012

    Predictions for 2012

    The Earth Informer.. not the prognosticator of prognosticators.. but neither is that little groundhog.. so if he could try it, so could I. 

    The predictions for 2012. Hold me to them. We’ll check in ’13 how well this site did in its psychic ability to foretell future events before they occur.

    • Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee. Newt Gingrich will crash. Ron Paul will run as a third party… but won’t be a major factor. Barack Obama will be the president for the next four years after his victory in November 2012.
    • North Korea will launch missiles to threaten the United States. Kim Jong Il dead.. Un here. Ugh.
    • The tension in the Middle East will dramatically escalate in 2012. Iran, Israel.. Syria.. No nation will appear stable.
    • Lots of people will begin to think the end times are upon us. Not only due to the Mayan calender end in December 2012 but because of strange world events
    • Gas prices will soar.
    • The stock market will have major upticks and downward crashes. 
    • Unemployment claims will continue to fall.. Maybe to 8% or lower. But the real unemployment number will surge into the 30% range. The economy will look like it’s recovery but it will not.
    Am I a downer? Or a fine predictor or the future.
    Check in January 2013 and find out.
    If we are still here………….
  • Dumbest product of 2011

    Dumbest product of 2011

    A late year decision occurred: The pajama jeans were dumb in 2011 until I saw this: The Forever Lazy.

    For the nudist in you.. or the person who still wants to be a child.. Pajamas with feet. 

    The ad paints a good picture.. you can drink coffee, type on the computer.. open Christmas gifts. Even go to a tailgating party before a football game. All in your forever lazy. 

    Although I don’t know how much respect you’d get in a football parking lot wearing a full body pajama set. 

    But there may be something to this Forever Lazy frenzy.. could it be a sign that we, as Americans, are nothing but children in our mind? Childlike culture? Stay forever young… delusional that we are young but aging before ourselves in the mirror? I don’t know.

    Forever Lazy. A sign of the times or an exceptionally dumb blip on the radar. Time will decide.
  • Culture of 2011: Fear

    Culture of 2011: Fear

    We have been bombarded with scenes of torture and crime.. mayhem and murder.. terrorism.. fear.. and this is all just in our entertainment! This is all just at the 10pm hour.. this is all just at our local movie theater.

    Since 2001, the American mind has been on a steady diet of fear porn. Our pop culture and entertainment forever changed with airplanes flying into buildings ten years ago. And now, this year, it is clear just how far down the path of uncertainty this has taken us.

    • Protesters have been pepper sprayed for simply sitting on a sidewalk.
    • An American citizen in another nation, one who we say was a terrorist, was killed on an order from the President of the United States.
    • The United States Congress and Senate passed a bill that may allow for the arrest of American citizens–on the homeland–and indefinite detention without charges… A few stood up to oppose. Most didn’t. And most Americans didn’t even know that Congress had that provision in the defense bill.
    • Stories of overreaching cops.. police arresting those who videotape arrests.. police pepper spraying or tasing senior citizens.. drone attacks in nations that didn’t declare war on us..
    Oh yes, indeed… what a rabbit hole we have placed ourselves in.

    The term ‘slippery slope’ is heavily used, if not overused. But what other term truly could describe the place we find ourselves? The slippery slope….. where cops in black uniforms don’t patrol neighborhoods on foot but instead bust doors down after the drone in the sky says criminal activity may be taking place. Warrants? Nah… we have the drone now. The mighty eye in the sky.. 

    It’s not a bird. 
    It’s not a plane.
    It’s the future… slyly flying..
  • The biggest ass of the year

    The biggest ass of the year

    Bill O’Reilly. How cannot it not be?
    He earned his title with this:

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRBWekT_1Og]

  • The person of the year

    The person of the year

    TIME magazine made their choice: They picked ‘the protester’ as the person of the year. I agree with TIME in a degree, that may be the most important ‘type’ of person… it’s broad, yes. And nameless, sure. But we are all protesters in some degree..

    In my estimation, though, the person of the year is one sole human being… and no one besides a few in higher rankings of the government even knows the name of the person of the year. The man (or potentially woman) who shot Osama Bin Laden during the spring time raid in Pakistan. That, indeed, is the person of the year.. they changed history…

    Controversy aside.. whether it was right or wrong aside.. it surely was the most dramatic event in geo political affairs of 2011. And one person is responsible for that final shot. Either in the back of the head …or the front… 

  • The most important story of the year: The earth strikes back

    The most important story of the year: The earth strikes back

    Life became fragile in 2011. The very ground the earth stood on shook… sometimes to a point where the land itself moved.

    We will not forget the natural disasters in 2011. We will not erase from our memory those images of giant tidal waves simply removing villages and cities from the map in Japan. We cannot ever escape the visuals of a whirlpool in the ocean, gobbling up ships and whatever else was stuck within in.. No indeed.. in an instant, an earthquake hit, a tsunami thrashed, and a nuclear disaster began.

    Drought in Texas. Joplin tornado.. flooding in the Northeast. Irene hit New York City. An earthquake caused damage to the Washington Monument. It was costly in dollars.. and costly in lives.

    Just this past week, a typhoon hit the Philippines and once again… hundreds have perished from the planet.

    New Zealand quake.
    Flooding in Australia.
    Thailand flooded.

    It was exhausting even keeping up with the news. It was the year of disasters.. one major one a month somewhere on this planet.

    And no, it’s not the first time earth has had a bad year. But it sure as hell is one of the first times that the disasters all coupled together were as expensive as they are. 


    To think, it all started with a few thousand dead birds on New Years’ Day.

    Hazards and tragic stories were all over the news in ’11. Hope ’12’s a little quieter.