Welcome to The Questions of the World

Questions and mysteries are afoot in this edition of the Bluejacket Blog. Since I have to write at least one feature article this year I decided to go against the grain and focus on the creepy, confusing and down right dumbfounding events and occurrences of this world. I have been preparing this article for what feels like my entire life because my entire life I have been fascinated by these strange and odd occurrences. So, based on this, I have chosen some of the weirdest occurrences to bring to you.

Caution: all dog lovers may want to skip this one!!!

1. The Overtone Bridge

The Overton Bridge in Scotland is a very mysterious place and it is also P.E.T.A and every animal organizations worst nightmare. This place is where dogs go to kill themselves . This is common and was first noticed in 1960’s. Since then they have always done the following: they all go to the right side of the bridge, past the second or third parapet, and jump of the bridge. Now, I know there are skeptics among us, so I will tell you this, if the dog survives the jump they wait until they get better and then they make the jump again, thus becoming what the locals have deemed second-timers. They even had a psychic come and examine the bridge with her dog. The psychic felt nothing, but the dog was tugging to go to the right where the dogs go take the final plunge.

Let that be a lesson to everyone, bridges that look like they have a shocked face are never good.

2. The Dancing Plague

The Dancing plague occurred in July of 1518. Frau Troffea of Strasbourg France began to get down until he broke down, literally. His heart exploded! The cause..... excessive boogying. One might say this was not an isolated incident because over the course of the month, four hundred people began to dance to their untimely death, dying from exhaustion and heart attacks. You may say they just really wanted to dance till they couldn’t dance anymore; however, that is the complete opposite. They weren’t the first flash mob in existence some mysterious force took control of their body making it impossible to stop dancing. This isn’t the only time this has happened. In 1850 the exact same symptoms and events happened in Madagascar and in both cases they couldn’t figure out the cause of people dancing to the grave. 

In this party you dont stop till you drop..... or your heart explodes.

3. The Crying Girl

This case is very odd in the fact that Twinkle Dwivedi cries tears of blood. This phenomenon first appeared when she was eleven years old in front of her friends. This, however, has advanced to her pores now bleeding. This has been highly examined due to the fact that they have no medical explanation to explain this strange phenomenon. Many explanations have been given about this condition ranging from religious to supernatural, yet none clearly tells us what the cause of this is strange condition.

"For the life of the flesh is in the blood ... for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul."

Leviticus 17:11

4.  The Island of Madness

This place is the final visit on my odd little article and I think I have saved the most horrifying place for last. Poveglia Island has truly had one of the freakiest and horrifying existences on this earth. This island’s history started in Ancient Rome where it was used to place plague victims on the island. Skip some more years and when the Black Death came around Europe they did the same thing putting an estimated 160,000 people on this island and this isn’t even the end. In 1922 the island was again used as a place of horrors. This became the location of a Psychiatric Asylum in which despite the inmate’s claims of being haunted by the thousands of souls of the undead they were dismissed due to the faculty of the hospital thinking it was just their insane delusions. Enter the harbinger of death a doctor who wanted to make a name for himself and cure insanity by lobotomy. This was done by crude tools such as drills, chisels and hammers. They also had a bell tower in which they lead patients into the bell tower to go through inhumane treatments and torture; however, one day the ghosts had enough and lead the doctor to the bell tower, in which he jumped off of to land and still liv. From the testimony of a nurse who saw the whole thing,  there then was a fog that rose up and literally strangled the doctor to death. This island is still haunted and has been sold to a family once who left after the first night unwilling to give a reason; however, their daughter had a new huge gash on her face that required 14 stitches.



This is truly evil incarnate!! If you are ever here may god help your soul.



That’s it for this issue. I hope that I have successfully sedated your need for the odd and mysterious. Until next time...

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March Madness! by Lindsey Banks

As most American’s know, its MARCH MADNESS!!! Today is National Bracket Day and everyone is scurrying to fill out those brackets, most of them having Kentucky winning it all. After their fall to Vanderbilt on Sunday for SEC title, many fans believe that it will make the team better and go into the Conference ready to win and without a big head. They know they can be defeated, but have their fans on the edge and praying that they won’t be. Here is my bracket for the NCAA 2012 Tournament.