I wouldn't go the Jerusalem then if I were you.

My favorite one so far

Thats for the new links. None really interested me, but posting a quick blurb with the link is very helpful and either helps me get an idea without wasting time to click them, or pique my interest so I dig deeper.

this guy always fascinated me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe

John Heinrich Detlev Rabe (November 23, 1882 – January 5, 1950) was a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation and his work to protect and help the Chinese civilians during the event. The Nanking Safety Zone, which he helped to establish, sheltered approximately 200,000 Chinese people from slaughter during the massacre.

The Nanking Massacre killed hundreds of thousands of people, while Rabe and his zone administrators tried frantically to stop the atrocities. His attempts to appeal to the Japanese by using his Nazi membership credentials only delayed them; but that delay allowed hundreds of thousands of refugees to escape. The documentary Nanking credited him for saving the lives of 250,000 Chinese civilians. Other sources suggest that Rabe rescued between 200,000 and 250,000 Chinese people.

London Beer Flood

The London Beer Flood happened on 16 October 1814 in the parish of St. Giles, London, England. At the Meux and Company Brewery[1] on Tottenham Court Road,[1][2] a huge vat containing over 135,000 imperial gallons (610,000 L) of beer ruptured, causing other vats in the same building to succumb in a domino effect. As a result, more than 323,000 imperial gallons (1,470,000 L) of beer burst out and gushed into the streets. The wave of beer destroyed two homes and crumbled the wall of the Tavistock Arms Pub.

Umbrella Man

A person popularly dubbed the "umbrella man" has been the object of much speculation, as he was the only person seen carrying and opening an umbrella on that sunny day. He was also one of the closest bystanders to President John F. Kennedy when Kennedy was first struck by a bullet. As Kennedy's limousine approached, the man opened up and lifted the umbrella high above his head, then spun or panned the umbrella from east to west (clockwise) as the president passed by him. In the aftermath of the assassination, the "umbrella man" sat down on the sidewalk next to another man (popularly known as the "dark complected man") before getting up and walking towards the Texas School Book Depository.

Baltic Sea anomaly

The Baltic Sea anomaly is a 60-metre (200 ft) circular rock-like formation on the floor of the Baltic Sea, discovered by Peter Lindberg, Dennis Åsberg and their Swedish "Ocean X" diving team in June 2011. The team reported that the formation rests on a pillar and includes a structure similar in appearance to a staircase, leading to a dark hole.

Asteroid Impact
Learned a lot already, this thread is really up my alley so I figured I’d contribute a bit. Was really into this stuff last year, its kinda wordy/mathy at times but is some pretty cool stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_...l_significance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_winter

Notes: from articles and background knowledge

I was there, I dove into it and just drank as much as I possibly could while submerged.

It was awesome.

Hah, that's a pretty cool event. Should be an annual event for it or something. Like a beer fest type thing

i'm not big into conspiracies all but when you rewatch the tapes the umbrella man definitely is strikingly odd.

It's odd, but it is explained in the wiki article.

Umbrella man explanation debunked?

I'm not a big conspiracy nut either, but there's something about the JFK conspiracy, especially looking at those grainy photos/footage, that I'm really drawn to.

There are a few other suspicious people, the whole of the conspiracy theories page is interesting, if you;re into that sort of thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F....complected_man

Umbrella man was clearly an observer from Fringe.

Maybe a bit offtopic, but in case you guys didn't know this site it lists all sorts of weird places on earth, similarly to the wiki articles we're linking to: http://www.atlasobscura.com

I mean I do agree the explanation is weird, but then what do I know? I have no way to determine how normal it would be for someone to protest in this way over 50 years ago.

Now if we assume he was signaling, why was that even necessary? If you had shooter(s) in place, wouldn't they just wait for the car to reach the spot where they had the best shot and fire at will?

I get how people are entranced with the subject, but the conspiracy theories are all loopy. None of them make any sense at all. I've read a fair amount on the subject and have for many years. Note, though, that my father was a staff attorney on the Warren Commission. The idea that he would have been involved in a cover-up is a ridiculous joke.

He died in a plane crash in 2002. After that, I got several letters etc. from conspiracy nutters suggesting he'd been killed as part of the ongoing conspiracy. Tinfoil hatters, just ridiculous.

Back the truck up.

Obviously you're one of THEM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident

did a search and didn't see it mentioned earlier itt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointelpro

COINTELPRO (an acronym for COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

It was Americans spying on americans, rings a bell with what Bush was doing but this was 1956-1971.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Green

Haha I love eccentrics like that.