Horror Report

Year: 2017

  • Harvesting Blood From Babies’ Umbilical Cords Could Help Reverse Aging

    Harvesting Blood From Babies’ Umbilical Cords Could Help Reverse Aging

    Harvesting Blood From Babies’ Umbilical Cords Could Help Reverse Aging:

    Bodily fluids understandably make people queasy, especially when substances like animal blood are used in art. But if the blood of a newborn baby could make you feel young again, could you overcome your revulsion?

    That may sound like a horror movie pitch, but thanks to a group of Stanford University scientists Peter Thiel’s dream of injecting himself with young peoples’ blood could become a reality.

    Researchers at the California institution’s department of neurology found that blood harvested from babies’ umbilical cords had strong anti-aging effects in mice. Specifically, they discovered that a protein in the young blood called TIMP2possessed rejuvenating properties. The results were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

  • BILL NYE THE GMO GUY

    BILL NYE THE GMO GUY

    BILL NYE THE GMO GUY

    The science guy is good at garnering headlines with his outspoken beliefs.. He is in the face of creationists and conservatives, climate change deniers and all their ilk.. but so many who support him are scratching their collective brains in confusion at his buy in of GMO..

    The evidence: Monsanto CTO Robb Fraley will join Nye, on an episode titled “More Food, Less Hype.”

    “At a time when fake news is prevalent in our society, communication about science and restoring trust in the field has never been more important,” Fraley said. “I was excited and honored to be part of the show to help distinguish fact from fiction when it comes to GMOs. The fact is that GMOs are safe, effective and benefit the environment.”

    Nye’s show is streaming now, only on Netflix.

    There is a bit of interesting history here.. around March 2015 Bill Nye, who had expressed some doubt about GMO, became a fan.

    and from that? He’s now all in.

  • A pulsating sun or camera error?

    A pulsating sun or camera error?

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    A new video from MrMBB333 is a bit chilling.. 

    From the description: 

    A viewer was observing a Spain skycam, when all of the sudden the Sun appears to go into this intense huge flaring mode. Rapidly pulsating in the monitor of the camera. The viewer who watches the cameras often was VERY surprised by this. She grabbed he phone and began recording her iPad that was displaying the Spain skycam in hopes of this event happening again….it did, a few more times that you will see in the video.

    My take: Creepy, yes. But also take it with a grain of salt.. webcams spaz out.. so do iPads… and when recording the sun, cameras attempt to focus repeatedly. 
    That said, it was weird. It is intriguing. 

    One thing I notice more and more, on video and in person, that ‘orange hue’ the sun had when I was younger seemingly is gone.. it’s just a bright white spot now in the sky.. the calm heat that seemed to be there when I was younger is white hot now.. 

    Maybe the effects of the chemtrails in the air! Maybe just … something that proves my paranoia..?

  • THE PITTS:  iHeartRadio may not survive!

    THE PITTS:  iHeartRadio may not survive!

    ….and the company is the one saying it..

    This coming from an industry publication MARKETWATCH..

    The money quote: 

    iHeartMedia Inc., the biggest operator of radio stations in the U.S. and headed by Bob Pittman of MTV fame, plans to include language in its next quarterly report warning investors that it may not survive another year.

    The company IHRT, -4.84%  , which owns iHeartRadio and billboard advertising company Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings CCO, -0.85% said it continues to expect cash flow to be negative and is uncertain as to whether it will be able to refinance or extend the maturities of some of its borrowings, according to a regulatory filing.

    The company has almost $350 million of debt coming due this year, part of a massive $20 billion debt load it took on as part of a $24 billion leveraged buyout of then Clear Channel Communications Inc. by private-equity firms Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in 2008. It has another $8.3 billion of debt coming due in 2019.

    And the rest… soon … will be history. The Pitt-fall begins..

  • A MOMENT IN TIME.. EARTH FROM A BILLION MILES AWAY

    A MOMENT IN TIME.. EARTH FROM A BILLION MILES AWAY

    A MOMENT IN TIME.. EARTH FROM A BILLION MILES AWAY

    Find yourself!

    Just a dot… A little tiny dot.

  • Paranormal investigators visit Johnstown PA

    Paranormal investigators visit Johnstown PA

    Paranormal investigators visit Johnstown PA:

    They call themselves the Ghost Aholics Crew.

    They are a group of paranormal investigators, current and former law enforcement members, and a psychic.

    They’ve been to Johnstown before, in 2014. Now they’re back to see what spirits and activity they can find.

  • Remember When… Spiders Attack!!!

    Remember When… Spiders Attack!!!

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    Remember When… Spiders Attack!!!

    Some vintage comic book.. always remarkable to see how many spiders have attacked people on comic books since time and creation.

    Spiders are freaky.. there is an immediate visceral reaction that replaces all others. Whether in person, Toy form, or art.. it gnaws are your psyche ..

  • UPDATE: FACEBOOK KILLER KILLS HIMSELF

    UPDATE: FACEBOOK KILLER KILLS HIMSELF

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    ORIGINAL POST:

    Steve Stephens, 37, is suspected of killing 74-year-old Robert Godwin on Sunday in a residential area east of Cleveland, police said.
    An aggravated murder warrant has been issued for Stephens.
    One of the newest pieces of information: There was a ping to the suspect’s cell phone picked up in Pennsylvania.. the location, it would appear, is on a highway north of Meadville and Titusville, near Lake Erie.  CNN is reporting that law enforcement in PA and 4 more states are on watch for the Easter Sunday killer.

    Meanwhile on the socials, there is a buzz an flurry of activity as to the whereabouts of Stephens..

    Rumors are filling threads and comments sections, but each one seemingly has leads drying up just as fast as posts are being made.. There are local news reports in Cleveland on a local ABC affiliate reporting that Twitter and Facebook posts last night had a highly re-tweeted post that the suspect was on the Corner of Caves and Wilson Mills in Chesterland Ohio..


    A rumor even swirled that police found the suspect’s car in Chesterland. None of it was true. Media outlets picked it up.. But none of it was true.

    It is a rough and ‘tumblr’ world right now. For media and journalism professionals? They are busy chasing their leads in the midst of rumor and HTML fear mongering…. damned if the report . .damned if they ignore….

    For the social media crowd? No one loses a job for reporting a rumor.

    For police? They are searching for the authentic leads… for the real thing that will get them to the suspect…

    And for the Facebook homicide suspect? This is the newest example of crime in the new age: Streamed online for an audience.. attention-grabbers abandoning the duck face selfie and fake life in exchange for high profile crime online.

    On Sunday around 2pm, Easter Sunday to be exact, Stephens posting a video on Facebook. The site took it down a few hours later… Stephens said he committed multiple murders–no official word yet that any of those claims are true.


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    Facebook, Instagram, Twitter..Periscope.. all the places where live video can be streamed and watched, have been the houses of horror as of late. Suicides …ratings.. beatings… And now. Murders.

    This is the rage on the raging socials–places where people can live stream their lives, whether filled with class or crass…blood lust now taking center stage, mixed in with memes and Easter family photos. The Facebook Feed for Stephens? Horrific and gory…

    This..THIS..is the real world we live in. Who created it? … Mark Zuckerberg just gave people a vehicle. We choose to drive the way we want.

    Social media has changed a lot. It has opened curtains on government, it has created a new form of friendship.. and yes it even exposed the United dragging a passenger off the plane. Years’ worth of ‘gotcha’ moments and relevant earth changing information has come from socials.. But it changed crime, too. It changed the way police find suspects.

    And …it even changed the way that murderers commit their crimes.

    As this is typed, a suspect is on the loose driving somewhere near the scenic lake Erie section of Pennsylvania. On his way to meet a fate yet to be Tweeted.

  • WIRED magazines opines: Discontinuing the NES Classic Is a Classic Nintendo Mistake

    WIRED magazines opines: Discontinuing the NES Classic Is a Classic Nintendo Mistake

    WIRED magazines opines: Discontinuing the NES Classic Is a Classic Nintendo Mistake:

    All of this written by Julie Muncy at WIRED:

    Considering the dizzying popularity of the NES Classic—Nintendo reported in January that they had sold 1.5 million units—it’s difficult to find the logic in ending production. The product’s entire brief life seems, in hindsight, to have been a rolling disaster: Product shortages popped up almost immediately upon release in November, and even now, four months after the holiday season is over, Nintendo still hasn’t managed to overcome the scarcity issues. Repeatedly, Nintendo has stated that they were surprised by the high demand for the micro console and their supply chains struggled to product enough units to accommodate it.

    It shouldn’t have surprised the company, though—and the fact that it did is awfully telling. Preloaded with 30 original NES games, the Classic offered an entire generation of Nintendo fans an easy way to play games that they hadn’t spent time with in years. It’s a different, broader audience than the type likely to buy a dedicated Nintendo home console like the Wii U or Switch, and it hit all the right buttons at a time when the availability of classic Nintendo products was at an all-time low.

    This points to an ongoing problem that has plagued the company for years: Nintendo doesn’t seem to understand, or be interested in, the ongoing interest and affection people have for their old games. People, whether they consider themselves gamers or not, want to play Mario games, want to remember what it was like to catch Pikachu for the first time, want to feel the thrill of getting the Master Sword in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, and videogames in general are excellent at evoking it.

    And I couldn’t agree more.

     

  • This photographer chronicles Pennsylvania’s forgotten industrial towns and people

    This photographer chronicles Pennsylvania’s forgotten industrial towns and people

    This photographer chronicles Pennsylvania’s forgotten industrial towns and people:

    THIS IS A GREAT ARTICLE..

    Photographer Niko J. Kallianiotis chronicles Pennsylvania’s forgotten coal towns and people. After the presidential election, his work took on special resonance.

    A sampling of some photos …