Horror Report

Day: May 14, 2012

  • The universe can sometimes be very cruel

    The universe can sometimes be very cruel

    Some news stories are cautionary tales to remember youthfulness doesn’t equal invincibility. But it would be very unfair to label George student’s Aimee Copeland ordeal that. After all, she wasn’t really doing anything dangerous.. but still ended up through the freak laws of nature contracting a rare form of a flesh eating disease..
    The story has received a lot of worldwide attention. It’s scary to think.. zip lining with friends one minute, in a hospital after the water had germs that got into a cut and gave her a flesh eating virus. She lost a leg already.. She may lose her fingers. And her family has yet to tell her about her condition…
    Something seems so wrong about this in the grand scheme of things. She is on a hospital bed going through an intense ordeal of human suffering, she has not a clue as to the ramifications of what happened to her, and yet the rest of the world reads about her situation.. The rest of the world is only connected to her by words and brief seconds on nightly news shows.
    Yes, indeed, something just seems unfair about life sometimes. 
    The section from the ABC story that hit me the most:
    “Aimee appears to have normal brain function at this time, which is something I’m celebrating because within Aimee we have a very compassionate heart and an incredible mind of intellect,” said Copeland’s father, Andy Copeland.
    Aimee Copeland was riding a homemade zip line near the Little Tallapoosa River May 1 when the line snapped, causing a fall that cut open her left calf.
    Doctors at a nearby hospital cleaned and closed the gash with 22 staples, but bacteria that burrowed deep into the wound caused necrotizing fasciitis, a rare but deadly infection that claimed her leg one week ago.
    Copeland’s family said she’s coherent and able to nod and shake her head, a gesture she used to pick the Grateful Dead over the Rolling Stones Thursday, according to her sister Paige.
    “I just told her if she keeps improving like this, she’ll be out of here in no time,” said Paige Copeland.
    I just cannot fathom going through this. But even more cannot fathom watching someone else..
    Thoughts are with this person. I hope to hell that the universe gives her as good of a spell of luck as it did give her bad luck. How unfortunate..
    If you pray do it. If not, do it anything. She needs something.
  • “Engage captive audiences”

    “Engage captive audiences”

    No joke, no matter how funny you once thought the concept was: Smart surveillance is here. And the newest form of it that may be rolled out onto your street soon is a talking camera that will not only monitor your every step and stop but also be able to talk to you, too.
    More here from Alex Jones’ Prison Planet on the surveillance equipment, utilized in the UK, that is being prepped to head to streets in the United States. It can record conversations.. But it will have efficient lighting, or so the press release says.

    Marketwatch has the full press release which details the Smartsite ‘state of the art’ surveillance future. 

    It won’t just be your street corner watching you. The press release states the future this way:

    SmartSite is perfectly suited for installation in retail malls, sports venues, on college campuses, and in new construction. A full Activity-Based Costing analysis that would also factor in issues such as more efficient traffic routing during road repairs, special events and emergencies would further strengthen the argument for retrofitting. As the cost of the individual components comes down through economies of scale, the SmartSite system might well become commonplace

    Sound fun?
    Sound futuristic?
    SOUND 1984ish?
    The future is now.  One so dark you’ll need to wear shades.
  • UK video posted on noises in the sky

    UK video posted on noises in the sky

    Just as I posted the comments from a British reader I was sent this video: Scary Sounds in the Sky from YouTube..

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3b-EfELOCg&w=460&h=315]

    What is it indeed …?

  • Earth moaning and groaning update from across the pond

    Earth moaning and groaning update from across the pond

    I have been receiving lots of feedback concerning a story that Earth Informer starting dedicating lots of space and text to in January of this year: The earth groans and moans that are reportedly taking place all over the world. From Kiev.. to Australia.. to the UK.. to the US–all on YouTube for your downloading and streaming pleasure.

    Among the comments I have received, this latest one from a reader, named Alex, in the UK, is interesting. He wrote to the Earthinformer.com about his personal experience in hearing the loud noise coming from somewhere:

     I was at school and I had a music lesson. The class was quiet and suddenly we all heard this noise; it reminded me of a sound in the game Battlefield Bad Company 2 and sounded very similar to some of the sounds in the videos. The whole Class heard it including the teacher, he even temporally stopped the class just to listen to it. Anyway, I’m rambling on; I asked some of my friends in other classes if they heard it and they said yes. I don’t know what the sounds were as you probably well know there are many theories. Too many to know what to think in my opinion… 

    Good point: Too many theories. Theories abound seemingly more than the noises themselves.
    Thanks for the note, Alex.
    We are always listening for more.

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