Galaksi Yang Sedang Menemui Ajal

Beginilah citra sebuah galaksi yang sedang menemui ajalnya. segala bintang beserta planet yang ada di dalamnya meledak bersamaan dengan hancurnya galaksi tersebut. kehancuran galaksi tersebut menghasilkan ledakkan maha dahsyat menghancurkan segala materi yang ada di dalamnya. gas hidrogen yang mendominasi materi yang ada di galaksi tersebut terkompresi menjadi helium yang menghasilkan energi yang sangat luar biasa tinggi yang merupakan proses nuklir.

sisa ledakkan galaksi tersebut meninggalkan gumpalan awan panas berdiameter 1000 triliun tahun cahaya. yang kita ketahui kecepatan cahaya adalah 300.000 km perdetik. kini gelombang radiasi sisa ledakkan itu merambat meninggalkan pusat galaksi menuju ke galaksi lain di dalam ruang antar bintang. energi yang dibawa gelombang sisa ledakan tersebut mampu melemparkan semua bintang terlontar keluar dari dalam galaksi yang di laluinya.

Galaksi Bimasakti Terancam Ditabrak Awan Raksasa

Galaksi Bimasakti terancam di Tabrak Awan Raksasa, Gumpalan awan raksasa yang mengandung gas hidrogen dalam volume yang sangat besar tengah melesat mendekati piringan Galaksi Bimasakti,tempat tata surya kita bernaung. Tabrakan dahsyat yang diperkirakan terjadi antara 20-40 juta tahun lagi akan menghasilkan kembang api raksasa yang spektakuler sekaligus memusnahkan segala bentuk-bentuk kehidupan. Objek tersebut diberi nama Awan Smith, diambil dari nama GailSmith, seorang astronom AS yang mendeteksinya pertama kali pada tahun 1963 saat meneliti di Universitas Leiden, Belanda.Sejak ditemukan, para astronom masih berdebat apakah awan tersebut benar-benar mendekati galaksi Bimasakti atau menjauhinya. Rekaman data yang ada selama ini masih terbatas dan tidak jelas apakah objek tersebut bagian dari kabut Bimasakti atau masih bergerak ke arahnya.
Sejauh ini, para peneliti hanya mendeteksi gas dan tidak ada satupun bintang di dalamnya. Satu-satunya cara melihtanya adlah dengan teleskop radio karena gas dingin tidak memancarkan cahaya, tetapi memantulkan gelombang radio.
Jika dilihat dari Bumi, lebar gumpalan awan tersebut sebanding dengan 30 kali lebar Bulan. Dari kepala ke ujung ekornya cukup untuk menyelimuti rasi bintang Orion. Hasil pengamatan baru menggunakan teleskop radio terkendali paling besar di dunia, Teleskop Green Bank (GBT) di Virginia Barat, AS,menunjukkan bahwa objek tersebut bergerak ke arah galaksi Bimasakti. Bahkan seperti dilaporkan gabungan tim astronom dari Observatorium Astronomi Radio Nasional AS (NRAO) dan Universitas Winconsin Whitewater dalam pertemuan Masyarakat Astronomi Amerika ke-211 di Austin, Texas baru-baru ini, gaya dorongnya telah menyentuh kabut Bimasakti. "Jika tabrakan terjadi, hal tersebut akan memicu lahirnya formasi bintang-bintang baru. Akan banyak bintang raksasa yang terbentuk, berumur pendek, dan meledak sebagai supernova yang memancarkan cahaya menyilaukan," ujar Ketua tim peneliti, DR. Felix Lockman, dari NRAO.

Sebab, Awan Smith membawa energi sangat besar berupa gas hidrogen yang cukup untuk membentuk jutaan bintang seukuran Matahari. Awan Smith merupakan gumpalan gas yang berukuran panjang mencapai 11.000 tahun cahaya dan lebar 2.500 tahun cahaya. Objek tersebut saat ini berada 40.000 tahun cahaya dari Bumi dan 8.000 tahun cahaya dari piringan Bimasakti.Objek yang pantas disebut kabut monster di ruang kosmos ini bergerak dengan kecepatan 240 kilometer perdetik dan diperkirakan menabrak piringan galaksi Bimasakti dengan kemiringan 45 derajat. Tabrakan akan terjadi di pinggir piringan Bimasakti yang jarak ke pusatnya hampir sama dengan jarak tata surya kita ke pusat galaksi. Namun, posisinya jauh dari tata surya kita, diperkirakan berjarak 90 derajat terhadap pusat piringan. "Kami tidak tahu dari mana asalnya, apalagi orbitnya membingungkan, namun kami katakan bahwa ia mulai berinteraksi dengan bagian terluar Bimasakti," tandas Lockman.

Siapa 5 Orang Paling dibenci Dunia

1. Pol Pot
Saloth Sar Aka Pol Pot dan Khmer Merah partai politiknya yang memerintah Kamboja selama empat tahun (1975-1979), tetapi orang-orang Kamboja tidak memiliki kenangan yang baik dari pemerintahannya, mereka ingat Pol Pot sebagai penguasa yang sadis. selama pemerintahannya sekitar 2 juta rakyat Kamboja tewas dalam kelaparan, eksekusi politik, kerja paksa dll. Kekuasaan Pol pot berakhir setelah invasi Kamboja oleh negara tetangga Vietnam pada tahun 1979, pembunuhan massal selama pemerintahan Pol pot itu yang biasanya disebut sebagai Genosida Kamboja.

2.Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889) adalah diktator Jerman yang terkenal, dianggap bertanggung jawab terhadap Holocaust; Adolf Hitler memerintah Jerman 1934-1945 sebagai penguasa mutlak. Adolf Hitler menjadi presiden Nasional Partai Pekerja Sosialis Jerman pada tahun 1932. Menurut perkiraan antara 1939 dan 1945, kekuasaan Hitler menewaskan lebih dari 14 juta orang, termasuk enam juta orang Yahudi, orang-orang tewas di kamp-kamp konsentrasi, ghetto dan eksekusi massal, selain cara yang disebutkan di atas, banyak orang mati kelaparan dan penyakit; Kekuasaan Hitler berakhir tepat setelah perang Jerman melawan Rusia pada Juni 1941, ketika pasukannya kalah perang dari Rusia; Hitler meninggal pada 30 April, 1945 setelah melakukan bunuh diri.

3. George Walker Bush
George W Bush (lahir 6 Juli 1946) menjabat sebagai presiden Amerika Serikat 2001-2008, George Bush adalah salah satu presiden Amerika paling kontroversial dan dibenci, ia terpilih sebagai Presiden dalam pemilu yang sangat kontroversial 2001 dan dia juga bertanggung jawab memulai perang terhadap teror yang terkenal pada tahun 2001.

Menurut para ahli, dunia dan khususnya dunia Islam membenci Bush, karena kebijakan luar negerinya. Dunia sedang menghadapi kekacauan dan kehancuran; Menurut survei yang berbeda publik Amerika juga tidak begitu senang dengan dia, terutama karena pengeluaran militer yang berat dan causalities sipil perang melawan teror, sampai saat ini Amerika Serikat telah menghabiskan $ 704.000.000.000 hanya di Irak, selain itu, lebih dari 5000 tentara dan ratusan warga sipil tewas dalam perang yang tidak populer.

4. Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon (lahir 1928) menjabat sebagai Perdana Menteri 11 Israel dari bulan Maret 2001 hingga April 2006, ia juga menjabat sebagai komandan di Angkatan Darat Israel dari tahun 1940-an sampai awal 1970-an, ia berpartisipasi dalam Perang Kemerdekaan 1948, 1956 Suez War, Perang 6 Hari tahun 1967, dan Perang Yom Kippur-1973. Setelah pensiun dari tentara, Sharon bergabung dengan Partai Likud sayap kanan, dia sangat mendukung pembangunan permukiman Israel dibenarkan di tepi Barat dan Jalur Gaza pada tahun 1970, 1980 dan 1990-an.

5. Joseph Stalin
ada tahun 1924, setelah kematian Lenin, Joseph Stalin menjadi pemimpin Uni Soviet, diperkirakan lebih dari 60 juta orang tewas di bawah pemerintahan diktator ini, ia juga dianggap bertanggung jawab atas kelaparan Soviet 1932-1933.

Menurut catatan resmi Rusia, Stalin mempekerjakan sekitar 800.000 orang untuk kejahatan politik dan kriminal.

Selama tahun 1932-1933, akibat kebijakan pertanian Stalin gagal, Rusia dan terutama Ukraina menghadapi salah satu kelaparan terburuk dalam sejarah Soviet, diyakini bahwa 6 sampai 8 juta orang meninggal dalam bencana kelaparan ini, di Ukraina kelaparan ini dikenal sebagai Holodomor.

Sumber : http://www.kaskus.us

Orang-Orang dengan kemampuan 'Otak Super'

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Mempunyai memori super dalam otak anda, apakah itu berkah, ataukah justru menjadi masalah? Bagaimana jika anda bisa mengingat setiap detil dari pengalaman pribadi anda, tiap nomer telpon dari semua kerabat dan teman anda, hafal dari setiap kejadian yang bahkan dialami oleh orang lain? apakah ini menjadi hal yang menyenangkan? atau mengganggu, karena anda akan selalu ingat setiap hal, bahkan yang terkecil dan tak menyenangkan dalam hidup anda. Ada yang bilang ini suatu berkah, beberapa justru menganggap ini sebagai sebuah gangguan di otak yang belum terjelaskan penyebabnya. Didunia ini, ada 4 orang yang terbukti mempunyai SUPER MEMORY.

Berikut ini adalah keempat orang tersebut:

Bob Petrella

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Sebagai seorang produser dari televisi saluran Olah Raga tenis, Bob mempunyai kemampuan mengingat semua hal yang pernah terjadi dalam hidupnya. Dia ingat setiap nomer telepon seluler dari semua keluarga dan teman-temannya. Dan yang mengagumkan adalah kemampuanya mengingat setiap detil dari pertandingan olah raga yang terjadi bahkan berpuluh-puluh tahun silam. Sebut saja tanggal 30 maret 1981. Dia tidak hanya ingat bahwa pada tanggal itu Ronald reagan ditembak, tapi dia juga mengingat Indiana berhasil mengalahkan North carolina dalam pertandingan NCAA dimalam yang sama. Dia akan memberikan gambaran pertandingan dengan jelas, bahkan sampai ke momen-momen berharga dari tiap pertandingan itu termasuk skor finalnya. Menurut pengakuannya, dia sudah menyadari kemampuannya ini sejak usia 5 tahun. Dia menjelaskan bagaimana dia mengingat wajah neneknya dengan jelas, bagaimana dia mengingat semua kode pin atm miliknya bahkan semua nomer telepon temannya. Hal ini mendatangkan keuntungan, ketika dia kehilangan telepon selulernya. Jika orang lain akan panik karena kehilangan benda yang satu ini, tidak begitu dengan Bob. Dia tak perlu khawatir karena dia mengingat semuanya.

Jill Price

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Jill Price menggambarkan kemampuannya ini sebagai sesuatu yang tidak terkendali, Nonstop dan sangat melelahkan. Dari keempat orang yang nanti akan ditulis disini, dia adalah yang pertama kali didiagnosa mempunyai kemampuan mengingat yang luar biasa seperti ini. Jill menuangkannya dalam sebuah buku berjudul The Woman Who Can’t Forget. Dia mengaku sudah menyadari kemampuannya ini sejak usia remaja. Mampu mengingat setiap detil dari hidupnya sejak usianya 14 tahun. Dan bahkan Jill membandingkan kemampuannya ini setara dengan sebuah kaset video. Dia sering menenteng kamera video untuk membuktikan kemampuannya. Ketika seseorang mencoba ingin tahu apa yang diingat Jill, dia akan menyuruh anda untuk menonton rekaman video itu dan Jill sendiri akan menjelaskan apa yang terjadi, dengan caranya. Sama seperti Bob, Jill berusaha menghindari hingar bingar hollywood. Meski begitu dia sering membuat orang terkesan dengan kemampuan mengingatnya. Termasuk insiden Lockerbie (jatuhnya pesawat udara karena bom pada 21 desember 1988) atau episode terakhir film Dallas pada 3 mei 1991 . Namun begitu Jill terkadang merasa tersiksa, karena dia tidak mampu melupakan momen menyakitkan dalam hidupnya. Termasuk ketika dia harus mengalami patah hati karena diputus cinta atau cintanya ditolak oleh pria yang dia taksir.

Brad Williams

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Brad Williams adalah seorang penyiar radio, Dia berdomisili di Wisconsin, amerika. Dia mampu mengingat apa yang terjadi pada tanggal 7 november 1991. Saat itu Magic Johnson mengumumkan untuk pertama kalinya bahwa dia mengidap HIV positif. Tidak hanya itu, dia juga mampu mengingat bahwa hari itu adalah hari Kamis dan seminggu sebelumnya terjadi badai salju yang sangat hebat. Sama seperti Bob, Brad juga senang mengingat momen dalam pertandingan olahraga, tapi dia juga senang dengan sesuatu yang berbau populer, seperti Academy Award misalnya. dia mampu mengingat semua nama pemenang serta kategori yang dimenangkan oleh orang tersebut dengan jelas. Meski peneliti tidak setuju bahwa ini adalah hal yang biasa, namun Brad berpendapat, dirinya tidak merasa berbeda dengan orang lain. Perjalanan hidupnya sedang didokumentasikan dalam sebuah film berjudul “Unforgettable” akan segera tayang di bioskop-bioskop di Amerika.

Rick Baron
Kalau ada orang yang mempunyai memori super dan memanfaatkan kemampuannya untuk mendapatkan sesuatu, dialah Rick Baron. Warga asli Cleveland ini mengakui kemampuannya pertama kali di USA today setelah dia membaca sebuah artikel tentang Jill Price dan kemampuannya. Dia mengakui menggunakan kemampuannya untuk mendapatkan banyak hadiah dari kuis trivia. Kartu diskon, tiket menonton pertandingan olah raga, bahkan tiket perjalanan wisata adalah salah satu hadiah yang pernah dia menangkan. Sejak usia 11 tahun dia sudah menyadari kemampuannya mengingat hari demi hari yang dia lewati, bahkan mungkin lebih muda dari itu. Menurut USA Today, saudara perempuannya sudah mengetahui bahwa Baron menderita OCD, dimana dari kecil dia senang sekali mengumpulkan barang-barang menjadi katalog-katalog kecil, dia bahkan menyimpan semua lembar-lembar tagihan dari Bank dan mengorganisirnya.

Lempeng Lolladoff dan Batu Dropa, Bukti kunjungan alien di masa lampau?

Batu Dropa dan Lempeng Lolladoff adalah dua artefak masa purba yang sering dianggap sebagai bukti adanya kunjungan alien di masa lampau. Benarkah ?

Kebanyakan dari kalian mungkin sudah pernah mendengar mengenai Batu Dropa. Sedangkan soal lempeng Lolladoff, mungkin masih sedikit yang pernah mendengarnya. Namun karena kedua artefak ini sangat berkaitan, maka saya akan menulis mengenai keduanya di dalam tulisan ini. Bagi yang belum pernah mendengar mengenai kedua artefak ini, mungkin kalian akan sedikit kesulitan mencerna isi tulisan ini.

Lempeng Lolladoff
Inilah kisah resmi yang beredar mengenai Lempeng Lolladoff :

Lempeng Lolladoff adalah sebuah lempeng batu yang ditemukan di wilayah Nepal dan diperkirakan telah berusia 12.000 tahun. Pada permukaan lempeng batu ini, terlihat adanya objek berbentuk piring terbang di tengah dengan makhluk berbentuk alien di sisinya (walaupun saya melihat makhluk itu lebih mirip Casper, the friendly ghost). Batu ini pertama kali diperlihatkan pada tahun 1947 oleh seorang profesor bernama Lolladoff kepada seorang peneliti Inggris yang kemudian mempublikasikan foto lempeng ini di bukunya.

Penjelasan lebih lanjut soal batu ini, akan saya berikan setelah saya membahas soal batu Dropa.


Batu-batu Dropa
Inilah kisah resmi mengenai batu Dropa yang beredar di internet :

Pada tahun 1938, sebuah tim dari Beijing University melakukan ekspedisi ke sebuah wilayah terpencil di Bayan-Kara-Ula di kaki pegunungan Himalaya. Ekspedisi itu dipimpin oleh Prof. Chi Pu Tei.

Di wilayah itu mereka menemukan rangkaian gua dan terowongan yang sepertinya dibuat dengan teknologi canggih. Di dalam gua-gua itu, mereka menemukan kuburan-kuburan berukuran kecil yang didalamnya terkubur kerangka-kerangka yang juga berukuran kecil.

Kerangka tersebut bisa dipastikan bukan berasal dari anak kecil karena walaupun hanya memiliki tinggi sekitar 1 - 1,2 meter, kerangka tersebut memiliki ukuran tengkorak kepala yang besar.

Satu-satunya penanda yang ditemukan pada kuburan ini adalah batu-batu lempeng berbentuk lingkaran yang masing-masingnya memiliki diameter sekitar 30 cm dengan tebal hampir 1 cm. Batu-batu ini memiliki lubang kecil di tengahnya dengan alur membentuk spiral ke arah sisi luar dan usianya diperkirakan sekitar 12.000 tahun. Batu-batu inilah yang kemudian disebut batu-batu Dropa. Total batu Dropa yang ditemukan oleh ekspedisi ini adalah sebanyak 716 buah.

Tim ekspedisi ini kemudian kembali ke Beijing dan hasil penemuan itu disimpan selama 20 tahun di Universitas Beijing sebelum akhirnya diputuskan untuk diteliti lebih lanjut. Penelitian lanjutan ini dipimpin oleh Dr.Tsum Um Nui yang kemudianmenemukan adanya hierogliph yang berukuran mikroskopik terukir di atas batu Dropa.

Selain Dr.Tsum Um Nui, pihak Rusia juga menyatakan ketertarikannya atas artefak ini dan diberikan akses oleh pihak Cina untuk menelitinya. Tim peneliti Rusia yang dipimpin oleh Dr. Vyatcheslav Saizev menemukan bahwa batu-batu ini mengandung konsentrasi Kobalt yang tinggi.

Mungkin artefak ini tidak mengandung arti yang terlalu signifikan. Namun apa yang menarik adalah apa yang diceritakan oleh Hierogliph mikroskopis yang terukir di atasnya.

Hierogliph itu menceritakan bahwa pada masa lampau, sebuah ras alien bernama Dropa mendarat darurat di wilayah Himalaya. Pendaratan darurat ini menyebabkan sebagian besar kru pesawat mereka tewas. Kaum Dropa yang selamat kemudian tinggal di dalam gua-gua karena mereka diburu oleh suku setempat, Suku Ham.

Setelah beberapa lama, kedua ras, Dropa dan Ham bisa hidup berdampingan. Namun kaum Dropa ternyata tidak bisa memperbaiki pesawatnya sehingga mereka terpaksa menghabiskan sisa hidupnya di bumi bersama manusia.

Hasil penelitian Dr. Tsum Um Nui ini kemudian dikumpulkan dalam sebuah paper akademik untuk diterbitkan. Sebelum sempat diterbitkan, Beijing Academy of pre-History melarang penerbitannya. Setelah melalui berbagai usaha, pada tahun 1962, hasil penelitian tersebut akhirnya berhasil juga diterbitkan. Namun tulisan itu segera mendapat cemoohan dari kalangan ilmuwan. Dr Tsum Um Nui kemudian menarik diri dari dunia akdemis dan tinggal di Jepang sampai akhir hayatnya.

Nah, kisah Dropa ini kemudian menarik perhatian para ufolog yang percaya bahwa nenek moyang manusia berasal dari alien, atau paling tidak percaya bahwa di bumi ini ada beberapa ras keturunan alien.

Namun apa yang tidak diketahui oleh kebanyakan orang adalah, batu Dropa sudah sejak lama dianggap sebagai Hoax, bahkan oleh sebagian ufolog dan penganut New Age.

Apa buktinya kalau batu Dropa adalah sebuah hoax ?

Pertama. Tidak ada catatan bahwa pada tahun 1938 pernah diadakan ekspedisi oleh tim dari universitas Beijing ke Bayan Kara Ula. Jika penemuan batu ini benar-benar signifikan, bukankah harusnya ada catatan akademis mengenai ekspedisi ini ?

Kedua. Tidak pernah ada catatan mengenai ilmuwan bernama Tsum Um Nui dan Vyatcheslav Saizev. Bahkan kedua nama ini tidak pernah ditemukan di manapun. Dengan kata lain, dua nama ini adalah fiktif. Nama Tsum Um Nui bahkan sama sekali bukan nama Cina.

Ketiga. Beijing Academy of pre-History yang disebut pernah melarang penerbitan hasil penelitian Dr Tsum Um Nui ternyata adalah sebuah akademi fiktif.

Keempat. Keberhasilan penerjemahan hierogliph pada batu Dropa dianggap sebagai kisah fiksi. Soalnya tidak pernah ada Rosetta Stone (kamus) untuk mengartikan bahasa Dropa. Jadi boleh dibilang mustahil seseorang bisa menerjemahkannya hanya dalam waktu singkat seperti yang dilakukan oleh Tsum Um Nui.

Kelima. Suku Dropa memang ada dan mendiami wilayah Tibet utara. Namun suku ini bukan suku pigmi seperti yang disebut oleh Chi Pu Tei, melainkan berukuran seperti manusia biasa dan hidup secara nomadik.

Keenam. Sumber awal yang menyebutkan adanya batu Dropa adalah sebuah buku yang berjudul "Chariots of the Gods" yang ditulis oleh Erich von Daniken pada tahun 1968. Ketika buku ini terbit, demam ufo masa purba dimulai di seluruh dunia dan Daniken dianggap sebagai orang yang paling berpengaruh dalam penyebarluasan teori ini. Namun belakangan ketahuan ternyata Daniken banyak memasukkan fakta-fakta yang tidak benar di dalam buku tersebut. Daniken kemudian mengakui bahwa ia memang mengarang sebagian isi buku tersebut.

Ia juga mengakui bahwa inspirasinya menulis buku itu berasal dari tulisan Alexander Kazantsev, seorang penulis science fiction dari Sovyet. Namun anehnya, Kazantsev menolak klaim Daniken dan malah mengatakan bahwa ia menulis kisah-kisah science fictionnya berdasarkan cerita Daniken.

Yeahh. that tells everything.

Ketujuh. Tulisan berikutnya yang menyinggung mengenai batu Dropa dengan kisah tambahan adalah sebuah buku yang berjudul "Sungods in Exile" yang "diedit" oleh David Agamon tahun 1978. Agamon mengatakan bahwa penulis buku tersebut adalah Dr. Karyl Robin Evans, seorang peneliti Inggris.

Pada tahun 1988, David Agamon mengakui kepada majalah Fortean Times bahwa buku itu adalah sebuah hoax dan Dr. Karyl Robin Evans yang disebutnya sebagai penulis buku tersebut hanyalah tokoh imajiner. Ia juga mengatakan bahwa ia menulis buku itu karena terinspirasi oleh buku "Chariots of the Gods" tulisan Daniken.

Bukankah sudah sangat jelas ?

Tujuh argumen di atas sepertinya sudah cukup untuk menolak kisah batu Dropa. Tapi jika kalian merasa tidak cukup, maka sepertinya argumen kedelapan bisa menutup kasus ini untuk selamanya.

Kedelapan. Tahukah kalian bahwa tidak pernah ada bukti bahwa batu Dropa benar-benar ada. Bayangkan, Chi Pu Tei disebut menemukan 716 lempeng batu. Tapi mengapa tidak pernah ada satupun foto yang menunjukkan bahwa batu itu benar-benar ada ?

Lalu, mungkin kalian berkata, "lho, jadi foto batu di atas itu foto batu apa ?"

Di internet memang beredar beberapa foto lempeng batu yang disebut sebagai batu Dropa, namun sebenarnya foto yang beredar itu adalah foto batu Bi yang ditemukan dalam jumlah ribuan di Cina yang berasal dari tahun 3.000 SM. Foto yang saya pasang di atas adalah foto batu Bi.

Batu Bi, tidak berdiameter 30 cm seperti yang dikatakan mengenai batu Dropa. Lagipula batu Bi terbuat dari batu Jade, bukan kobalt. Dan di permukaan batu Bi, tidak ada hierogliph mikroskopis yang ditemukan.

Batu-batu Dropa disebut disimpan di beberapa museum di Cina. Namun tidak pernah ditemukan adanya batu-batu dengan ciri-ciri seperti batu Dropa di museum-museum Cina. Jika sebuah penelitian ilmiah menyebutkan adanya sebuah objek arkeologi yang ditemukan, maka tentu saja itu berarti objek tersebut harus benar-benar ada. Apalagi kita sedang berbicara mengenai 716 buah batu.

Jadi kesimpulannya, kisah mengenai batu Dropa yang beredar hanyalah kisah fiksi yang disebarluaskan lewat internet.

Sekarang, saya sudah memberikan alasan mengapa saya meragukan kisah batu Dropa. Lalu bagaimana dengan lempeng batu bergambar Casper, ehem..maaf, maksud saya alien. Untuk Lempeng Lolladoff, kasus ini sudah selesai sejak lama. Ingatkah kalian apa yang saya tulis di atas mengenai lempeng Lolladoff ?

Saya menulis bahwa Prof Lolladoff adalah orang yang pertama kali memperlihatkan lempeng ini kepada seorang peneliti Inggris pada tahun 1947 yang kemudian mempublikasikan foto lempeng itu di bukunya. Tahukah kalian siapa peneliti Inggris yang saya maksud ?

Peneliti Inggris yang saya maksud adalah Dr. Karyl Robin Evans, tokoh fiktif dalam buku hoax "Sungods in Exile" yang diedit oleh David Agamon (lihat argumen ketujuh di atas). Foto lempeng yang kita lihat itu berasal dari buku hoax tersebut. Dengan kata lain, sama seperti batu Dropa, kisah lempeng Lolladoff adalah kisah fiktif dan kita tidak akan pernah bisa menemukan benda fisiknya dimanapun juga.

Penutup
Dalam tulisan ini, saya tidak bermaksud untuk mempertanyakan teori ufo masa purba. Yang saya pertanyakan adalah kredibiltas dua artefak yang sering dijadikan dasar argumen untuk mendukung teori ufo masa purba.

Seperti yang sudah saya tulis di atas, saya pribadi meragukan kisah kedua artefak ini. Tapi, saya juga tahu, bahwa pembaca blog ini adalah pembaca-pembaca yang kritis. Sebagian dari kalian akan segera membuka google setelah membaca tulisan ini untuk memverifikasi sendiri apa yang saya tulis. Karena itu, saya akan sangat senang jika kalian benar-benar bisa menemukan lokasi kedua artefak ini dan memberikan kepada saya bukti keberadaannya.

Jika kalian sudah menemukannya, beritahukan kepada saya, maka saya akan segera merevisi tulisan ini.

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Top 10 Famous Real Ghosts

Winter is a wonderful time for a good ghost story. In the long hours of dark and the twinkling lights of the holiday season, it is all too easy to imagine more shadows than there ought to be. The most spine tingling stories, though, are the ones sworn to be true. The following list is of these sorts of ghosts: Specific apparitions, witnessed by several people at different times in the same place. The more witnesses, the more respected the witnesses, the better. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, these stories capture the imagination.

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Kate Morgan

Hotel del Coronado

The Hotel del Coronado is a stunning Victorian beachfront resort hotel in the very southern California city of Coronado, just south of San Diego. It was only four years open when a beautiful young woman named Kate Morgan checked in on November 24th, 1892. She was apparently very ill for the time she spent at the hotel, and it was later speculated she had taken a large dose of quinine in an effort to induce miscarriage of an unwanted child. That she was distraught there was little argument, so when she was found on the outside steps leading to the beach on November 29th, with a single bullet hole in her temple and a gun nearby, the death was quickly ruled a suicide. From that point on, strange phenomena have been reported at the hotel: strange noises, lights flickering on and off, and even the occasional ghostly woman in Victorian garb wandering the halls.

It is worth noting during my research on this story that the particular room number where most of the phenomena is witnessed varies from account to account. Whether because the accounts are second hand (and many of them are), or whether there is confusion due to the changing of the room number over the years as the hotel has expanded, I cannot say.

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Ghosts of the Stanley Hotel

If you where staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado and turned to channel 42 of your guest-room television, you would be watching one of my all-time favorite movies: The Shining. Doesn’t matter what time of day or night, or year for that matter, it is always on. That’s not supernatural, of course- merely a nod to their role as the inspiration for Stephen King’s novel. Employees report hearing the commotion of a great party in the grand ballroom when there is no one there. Children can be heard playing in the halls when there are no children at all, and many guests have reported seeing ghostly figures in their rooms at night, merely standing, watching. The fourth floor seems to be host to the most amount of activity, and there is one ghost in particular, purportedly Lord Dunraven, the previous owner of the land the property was built on, who can be seen standing over the bed or looking out the window of room 407. He is widely blamed for any jewelry or valuables that have gone missing in the hotel over the years.

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The Brown Lady

Raynham Hall

Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, is home to the subject of one of the most famous ghost photos ever captured, the Brown Lady is named so because she appears in a rich brocade brown dress. She is widely believed to be Lady Dorothy Walpole, sister of Sir Robert Walpole, who married Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend in 1713. She died under mysterious circumstances in 1726, and sightings of her began shortly after. Though reports of sightings have waned dramatically since the photo was taken in 1936, sightings before then had been reported by some fairly reputable sources. My favorite account is from a Major Loftus, who was staying at Raynham Hall in 1849. Retiring to bed one night, he and a friend named Hawkins observed a woman in brown brocade who vanished as Major Loftus approached her. Determined to confront the apparition, the next night he returned to she same spot and saw her again. He was horrified to see however, that when he looked into her face he saw only two black sockets where her eyes should have been. Unsettling to say the least!

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Clifton Hall

If you have a spare £2.75 million laying around, you can be the proud owner of Clifton Hall in Nottinghamshire, England. The property was noted as far back as the 11th century, and was in the hands of the Clifton family from the 13th century until its sale in 1958. From there it became a school, then another school, then another school , then a planned set of luxury apartments, before finally settling as a private residence most recently belonging to a mister Anwar Rashid, his wife, and their four children. It boasts 17 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, 10 reception rooms, a private gym and a cinema. Oh, and a few ghosts, of course. The Rashid family experienced unsettling phenomena their very first night in the home, in the form of a knocking sound and a man’s voice calling “Hello, is anyone there?” In one incident, Anwar’s wife, Nabila, went downstairs to prepare some milk for their 18 month old son at five o’clock in the morning and observed her eldest daughter sat in front of the television. When calling out to her gave no answer, Nabila got a strange feeling and went back upstairs to her daughter’s room, where the eldest was found still fast asleep in her bed. The Rashids fled the house after 8 months of putting up with the hauntings. Though their accounts are the most recent and easiest to find during research, there had been rumors and sightings on the property for as long as anyone could remember, including babies crying and a woman who could be seen through a window pacing in a room that had been bricked up and inaccessible.

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The White Lady

Balete Drive

Oh, the ghosts of the Philippines! A Lady in White is undoubtedly the most common type of ghost anywhere in the world, and joins a laundry list of spirits in the Philippines for this story. I will say in research I have come across two accounts from locals of Quezon City, Philippines that say this is just a hoax, but I will stick with the majority opinion that there is something there. Believers report a woman in white with long black hair and her face either completely blank or obscured by blood standing in the middle of the road on Balete Drive. It is said you should avoid driving there at night – but if you do, make sure your back seat is full of passengers. Apparently it is in empty back seats that the White Lady will hitch a ride, spotted by the unfortunate driver in their rear view after they experience a dreadful ominous feeling.

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Chloe and The Myrtles Plantation

Legend has it Chloe was a slave in the house of the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana who had a bad habit of listening at keyholes to the goings on of the residents. Caught one day in the act by the Master of the house, he lopped off her ear as punishment, forcing her to wear a green scarf over her head to cover the wound. As punishment, she baked a cake with oleander leaves, a common plant in the south that is immensely poisonous. Though the master of the house was her target, her victims became his wife and two daughters, who died in agony a couple days after eating the cake. Chloe fled the house and was lynched by field slaves on the plantation for the wicked light she cast on the rest of them.

Fortunately or no, there is no historical evidence to back up this story, just an intriguing photo. True or not (probably not), there are certainly plenty of other ghosts to keep you company, including a young girl frequently spotted in a mirror on the stairs, and another young girl who chants voodoo over people who dare to sleep in her room. The Myrtles is currently a Bed and Breakfast that gives regular tours to those curious enough to want to see the house- just not alone after dark.

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Resurrection Mary

Traveling northeast on Archer Lane between the Willowbrook Ballroom and Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, young men might find themselves tempted to pick up a young woman hitchhiking on the side of the road. She has light blond hair and blue eyes, is wearing a white party dress, and has been dead since the 1930’s. If you pick her up, she will stop you in front of Resurrection cemetery and vanish from the car. She is a classic example of the vanishing hitchhiker legend, a type of ghost story that has been around for at least a few hundred years. What makes this one so distinctive is the consistency of the story- the girl looks the same, wears the same dress, disappears in the same spot. Also worth noting stories of this particular hitchhiker popped up suddenly in the mid thirties and have been going strong ever since, and not just for those in the know. An account from 1973 sees a cab driver inquiring at Chet’s Melody Lounge across the street from the cemetery about a girl who fled his cab without paying her fare. Only his description of her sounded mighty familiar to the customers: Resurrection Mary had struck again!

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The Flying Dutchman

It was 1641 when Captain Hendrik van der Decken swore he would round the Cape of Good Hope if it took him till doomsday. At his current rate, it probably will. The captain’s ship, known as The Flying Dutchman, has been seen frequently around the area, a phantom ship often so close the witnesses would swear it was on a crash course for their ship, only to see it vanish before them. It is always viewed as a bad omen to see the ship. Such a sighting was witnessed by the future King George V of England in 1881. He wrote: “At 4 a.m. the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars, and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up on the port bow”. Later that morning, the sailor who originally spotted the vessel fell to his death.

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Abraham Lincoln

Legend has it Lincoln saw his fate before he was assassinated. He reported a dream to his cabinet in which he wandered into a funeral at the white house, and when he inquired of one of the mourners who had died, the man responded “The President… he was killed by an assassin.”

Lincoln’s ghost has been spotted by many visitors and residents of the white house, among them First Lady Grace Coolidge, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and even Winston Churchill, who of course had something clever to say on the occasion. He claimed to be fresh from the bath, in the nude (what an image!) walking into the bedroom when he saw Lincoln standing near the fireplace. He quipped “Good evening, Mr. President. You seem to have me at a disadvantage.”, after which Lincoln smiled softly and disappeared.

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Anne Boleyn

Second Wife of Henry VIII and mother of a future Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn had three years as queen consort before Henry tired of her. Accused (most historians agree falsely) of adultery, incest and witchcraft, she faced an executioner’s sword with her head held high on May 19th, 1536. The executioner was reported to have said “Where is my sword?” before striking the single blow necessary, apparently in an effort to ease Anne’s anticipation by making her think she had a few moments more.

Her ghost has been spotted by several different people in several different locations: Hever Castle, Blickling Hall, Salle Church, Marwell Hall, and perhaps most famously the Tower of London. Though she is most often seen just as she was alive- a beautiful woman in a beautiful gown- some sightings are a bit more upsetting. More unlucky individuals will see her as she was just after death- headless, often with the head tucked under one arm. It has become such an iconic image it is often parodied in movies and television, and more elaborate Halloween costumes. One must not forget, however, what you would think if such a vision approached you in some dark corridor one night.

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Top 10 Famous Mummified Bodies

A mummy is a corpse whose body has been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air. Mummies of humans and animals have been found throughout the world – both as a result of having been embalmed and because of natural preservation through unusual conditions. Many mummies are thousands of years old and are famous because of the intriguing circumstances of the death or the remarkable preservation of the body. The following are ten of the most fascinating mummies, (mainly because of the story behind them or the incredible preservation of the body) most of which are still viewable today.

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Elmer McCurdy

Elmer McCurdy (January 1880 – October 7th 1911) was an outlaw killed in a gunfight in the Osage Hills in Oklahoma. A newspaper account gave Elmer’s last words as “You’ll never take me alive!” His body was taken to a funeral home in Oklahoma. When no one claimed the corpse, the undertaker embalmed it with an arsenic-based preservative and allowed people to see “The Bandit Who Wouldn’t Give Up” for a nickel, placed in Elmer’s mouth, which the undertaker would collect later. Five years later, a man showed up from a nearby traveling carnival claiming to be Elmer’s long-lost brother wanting to give the corpse a proper burial. Within two weeks, however, Elmer was a featured exhibit with the carnival. For the next 60 years, Elmer’s body was sold to wax museums, carnivals, and haunted houses.

The owner of a haunted house near Mount Rushmore refused to purchase him because he thought that Elmer’s body was actually a mannequin and not lifelike enough. Eventually, the corpse wound up in “The Laff in the Dark” funhouse at the Long Beach Pike amusement park in California. During filming of the The Six Million Dollar Man shot in December 1976, a crew member was moving what was thought to be a wax mannequin that was hanging from a gallows. When the mannequin’s arm broke off, it was discovered that it was in fact the mummified remains of Elmer McCurdy, who was finally buried in the Boot Hill section of the Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma on April 22nd 1977, with 2 cubic yards of concrete over his casket so his remains would never be disturbed again.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (10th April 1870 – 21st January 1924) was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century, who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917, and was the architect and first head of the USSR. In 1918, he narrowly survived an assassination attempt, but was severely wounded. His long-term health was affected, and in May 1922 he suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered. In December 1922, he suffered a second stroke that partly paralyzed his right side and caused him to withdraw from active politics. In March 1923, he suffered a third stroke that left him dumb and bed-ridden until he died on 21st of January 1924, aged 53, at his estate in Gorki Leninskiye. His body was embalmed and exhibited in the Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow where it can still be viewed today.

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Saint Bernadette

Saint Bernadette was born Maria-Bernada Sobirós (7th January 1844 – 16th April 1879) and was a miller’s daughter from the town of Lourdes in southern France. Despite her body not being technically mummified, she definitely deserves a place on this list. From February 11th to July 16th 1858, she reported eighteen apparitions of “a small young lady.” Despite initial skepticism from the Catholic Church, these claims were eventually declared to be worthy of belief after a canonical investigation, and the apparition is known as ‘Our Lady of Lourdes’ – the Virgin Mary. After her death, Bernadette’s body remains incorrupt and can be viewed in the Chapel of Saint Bernadette in Nevers. On December 8th, 1933, she was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

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Juanita

Juanita (“The Ice Maiden”) was discovered on the summit of Mount Ampato, Peru, on September 8th, 1995. She was 12–14 when sacrificed 500 years ago – a great honour for an Incan – they believed the Ampato God supplied water and withheld avalanches in return for human sacrifices. A young girl, boy and the skeleton of a woman were discovered in later expeditions, as were items left as offerings to the gods. The eruption of nearby volcano Mount. Sabancaya melted 500 years of ice and snow encasing Juanita, who was almost entirely frozen – her skin, internal organs, hair, clothing, blood and even the contents of her stomach preserved, offering scientists a rare glimpse into the life of the Incas. Juanita was wearing clothing resembling the finest textiles from Cuzco and was the closest sacrifice to the Inca capital, suggesting she may have come from a noble Cuzco family.

Juanita was chosen as the most beautiful and innocent and would be ‘guaranteed eternal life with the gods’. As the other bodies were further down the mountain, they were not as pure and worthy as Juanita. It took incredible effort (and whole entourages of priests, villagers, provisions, water, as well as symbolic items used in the ritual – all carried on the backs of hundreds of llamas and porters) to hold sacrificial rituals in the thin air and life-threatening cold of Mount Ampato – 20,000 feet high. Juanita was killed by a powerful blow to the head and was probably given chicha, a strong hallucinogenic drink before the ritual was performed. In 1996, President Clinton saw a photo of Juanita and reportedly said, “If I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That’s a good-looking mummy!” Juanita is on display at the Museo Santuarios de Altura in Arequipa, Peru.

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Ötzi the Iceman

Ötzi the Iceman (also known as Similaun Man or Man from Hauslabjoch) is a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC (53 centuries ago). The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch, on the border between Austria and Italy. The nickname comes from Ötztal, the region in which he was discovered. He is Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) Europeans. The cause of death was most likely a blow to the head. The body and his belongings are displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, northern Italy.

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Ginger

‘Ginger’ is the nickname given to the naturally preserved body of an adult man (believed to be the earliest known ancient Egyptian “mummified” body), who despite having died more than 5,000 years ago, had perfectly preserved golden hair, and even toe and fingernails. Ginger was found in at Gebelein, Egypt, and dates to the Late Predynastic period, around 3400 BC, or earlier. Before mummification was developed, human remains were placed in shallow graves, in direct contact with the hot, dry sand, which absorbed the water that constitutes 75% of the human weight. Without moisture, bacteria cannot breed and cause decay, and the body is preserved. However, it is uncertain whether Ginger’s mummification was intentional or not, though since Ginger was buried with some pottery vessels it is likely that the mummification was a result of preservation techniques of those burying him. Ginger is currently on display in the British Museum.

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Tollund Man

Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man (a ‘bog body’) who lived during the 4th century BC during the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in May 1950, buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, which preserved his body. The head and face were so well-preserved that at the time he was mistaken for a recent murder victim, however, he was later found to have died over 1,500 years ago. Autopsies have shown that the cause of death was hanging – the rope left visible furrows in the skin beneath his chin and at the sides of his neck, however, there was no mark at the back of the neck where the knot of the noose would have been located. The body is displayed at the Silkeborg Museum in Denmark, though only the head is original, and is attached to a replica of the body.

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Rosalia Lombardo

Rosalia Lombardo was an Italian child born in 1918 in Palermo, Sicily. She died on December 6th 1920 of pneumonia. Rosalia’s father was so sorely grieved upon her death that he approached Dr. Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer and taxidermist, to preserve her. She was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, Sicily and one of the most well-known. Her preservation is such that it appears as if she were only sleeping, hence receiving the nickname “Sleeping Beauty”. She is considered one of the world’s best-preserved bodies and it is hard to believe she died nearly 90 years ago. For many years, the formula that preserved her so magnificently was a mystery, but it has recently been discovered that she was injected with a mixture of formalin, zinc salts, alcohol, salicylic acid, and glycerin.

Formalin, now widely used by embalmers, is a mixture of formaldehyde and water that kills bacteria. Dr. Salafia was one of the first to use this for embalming bodies. Alcohol, along with the arid conditions in the catacombs, would have dried Rosalia’s body and allowed it to mummify. Glycerin would have kept her body from drying out too much, and salicylic acid would have prevented the growth of fungi. According to Melissa Williams, executive director of the American Society of Embalmers, it was the zinc salts that were most responsible for Rosalia’s amazing state of preservation. Zinc, which is no longer used by embalmers in the United States, petrified Rosalia’s body. “[Zinc] gave her rigidity. You could take her out of the casket, prop her up, and she would stand by herself.”

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King Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun (approximately 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. Tutankhamun was 9 years old when he became pharaoh and reigned for approximately 10 years, until his death. Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings (where he still resides) was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 almost completely intact — the most complete ancient Egyptian royal tomb ever found. Eternal life was the main focus of all Ancient Egyptians, which meant preserving the body forever. Egyptians mummified bodies because they believed in an afterlife. Believing that the afterlife was much like life in this world they had to preserve their bodies so they would be able to use them after they die. Egyptian culture believed the body was home in the afterlife to a person’s Ka, Ba and Akh, without which it would be condemned to eternal wandering.

The Ka was a less solid duplicate of the body. Without a physical body, the soul had no place to dwell and became restless forever. The Ba was able to leave the tomb and revisit the dead person’s haunts in the mortal world. The Akh was the immortal soul that emerged when the Ka and the Ba united after the deceased person passed judgement. The mummification process lasted for a period of 70 days, applied to all classes of Egyptians – rich or poor. The 70-day mummification process was as follows: 15 days spent on cleansing and purification, 40 day drying period and 15 days wrapping and bandaging. Tutankhamun has become one of the most famous Egyptian mummies, his death mask becoming one of the most iconic images of the world today. The cause of Tutankhamun’s death is unclear and is still the root of much speculation.

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Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)

In 1971 workers in China digging an air raid shelter near the city of Changsha uncovered an enormous Han Dynasty-era tomb containing over 1,000 well-preserved artefacts, as well as “the most perfectly preserved corpse ever found”. The tomb belonged to Xin Zhui, wife of the Marquis of Han who died between 178–145 BC, around 50 years of age. Her body is so well preserved that when found it was autopsied as if recently dead and her skin was supple, limbs could be manipulated; hair and internal organs were intact; remains of her last meal were found in her stomach and type A blood still ran red in her veins. Examinations have revealed that she suffered from parasites, lower back pain, clogged arteries, had a massively damaged heart (an indication of heart disease brought on by obesity, lack of exercise and an overly rich diet) and was overweight at the time of her death.

The ‘mystery of Lady Dai’ has not yet been solved. Scientists believe contributing to her remarkable preservation was the 22 dresses of silk and hemp and 9 silk ribbons she was tightly wrapped in. Clothes filled the coffin, which was perfectly sealed, keeping air out. There were inner and outer tombs, which were more than 50 feet below the earth as well as the four coffins she was buried in, each inside the other. However, some scientists suspect the real key to her preservation lies in the mysterious unidentified reddish liquid found in the coffin she was discovered in. To intensify the mystery, two other tombs containing bodies in a similar state of preservation have been found close to Lady Dai – Sui Xiaoyuan and Ling Huiping. Her 2,000-year-old body is currently housed in the Hunan Provincial Museum.

Bonus

Ancient Pompeiians

One of the morbidly fascinating results of the 79 A.D. eruption of Vesuvius is the number of holes found in the volcanic deposits around Pompeii, representing the corpses of people and animals killed by the pyroclastic flow and buried by the hot ash. The ash solidified before the corpses decayed so a mould of Vesuvius’s victims remained. Early in the excavation, Giuseppe Fiorelli discovered that filling these moulds with plaster resulted in highly accurate and eerie forms of the doomed who failed to escape, their last moment of life captured forever, the expression of terror often clearly visible. It is impossible to imagine the sheer terror these poor unfortunate souls must have gone through. This is a bonus because there is no single ‘famous’ mummified body, but an entire city frozen in time. The majority of plaster casts are situated around Pompeii and in the Archaeological Museum of Naples.

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