Close Encounters with Jade

Crows are neat. I always thought of birds as "watchers". How cool would it be to just be able to fly anywhere you want, whenever you want? To be free as a bird.... Anyway, this article I found suggests that understanding the brain of a crow could help us to understanding aliens! It's kinda cool. I'm a few years behind the times on this as it was published in 2013. Still cool though.  Read all about crows and their alien brains: http://io9.gizmodo.com/crows-could-be-the-key-to-understanding-alien-intellige-1480720559

I keep hearing stories about these black eye'd children. Creepy little men in black type kids with coal for eyes - lacking all color - and monotone voices, with no emotive behind it, who come knocking at the door and asking to use the phone. If you let them in, eerie and haunted-like  things start to happen to you and your pets. It sounds totally bizarre! Is this real or folklore? What do you think? Read this chilling story! http://weekinweird.com/2016/01/28/witness-report-i-let-the-black-eyed-children-into-my-home-and-now-im-slowly-dying/

One decision can change your entire life. Wouldn't it be cool to see what would have happened if you had made a different choice? We see this on TV shows like The Flash where there are multiple earths. Multiple opportunities. Barry Allen is the flash in our universe and in another he's just an ordinary forensic scientist. In Fringe, there was an alternate universe where blimps floated in the sky and people had bluetooth earrings acting as phones instead of hand held devices. Just imagine the possibilities of what could have happened if you had just decided to hop on that plane to Europe, taken that road trip to see your favorite little cousin before he died of cancer, left the job you've been stuck in for the past five years and followed your dreams. Imagine the possibilities...

A few months ago a drone captured this footage of a Crop Circle near Stonehenge. Of course there are always the hum drum skeptics who always want to tell us it's the exquisite artwork of pranksters and we shouldn't jump to conclusions of looking to the sky...they might not be saying it's aliens, but come on! It's totally aliens! Check it out! www.metro.co.uk/2015/07/09/drone-captures-footage-of-this-creepy-crop-circle-near-stonehenge-5287933/

Are our domesticated house cats actually sent by aliens to spy on us and report back? According to this VICE article  that might be the case. Apparently some people theorize that cats are like alien camcorders, recording our every move! Their evidence cites ancient Egypt's worship of felines, I mean...I kinda get the feeling VICE is punking me with this one. But... it is an interesting thing to think about. Could cats actually be aliens? That might be kind of awesome. I'd probably be swayed to adopt a cat if that were the case! What do you think about cats? Love them? Hate them? Are they aliens?

Have you heard of the island of Creepy Dolls? It looks so cool. I heard about it recently and it's supposedly haunted by a child who drowned. I'd love to go and leave some of my old childhood Rainbow Bright and Punky Brewster dolls to the island's collection. This is definitely on my top ten list of places to visit before I die! What about you? Have you ever or would you ever go to this island of the creepy dolls? Read about the island: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3185228/Enter-Mexico-s-haunted-Island-Dolls-dare-Thousands-creepy-toys-hang-trees-quell-tormented-screams-ghost-little-girl-drowned-there.html

I heard about this bombardier beetle and had to learn more. Check this thing out. So wicked! It has evolved a self-defense mechanism  that actually contains chemicals which are used in rocket fuel. Rocket fuel beetles. Actually, there are several types of bombardier beetles all over the world and each has their own gnarly defense mechanisms. Whoever thought beetles were harmless was wrong. So wrong! Check these suckers out: www.wired.com/2014/05/absurd-creature-of-the-week-bombardier-beetle/