The glowing firefly squid of Toyama, Japan






















"CJ Janssen • 1 year ago
He had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire. She is pregnant. The firefighter was afraid of her at first, because he had never been around a Doberman before. When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest. A photographer from the Charlotte, North Carolina newspaper, “The Observer,” noticed this red Doberman in the distance looking at the fireman. He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do. As he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her babies, and kissed him, just as the photographer snapped this photograph. *sigh* dogs are so awesome."

(I don't think she's kissing him - she's washing him, which is a sign of love from a dog anyway. She's looking after him. )

I'm not sure whether some of these have already been added, but I love them, and am too idle to check back...


Matterhorn Mountain Switzerland




Erupting Volcano with Aurora Iceland




The Milky Way over Jackson Lake




Ancient Rome




Moon & Venus Over Switzerland




Travis County Texas




Venice




France to Chamonix




Fly Geyser in Nevada




California Coast




The Eyjafjallajökull Volcano Iceland




Sand Harbor State Park Lake Tahoe




Valley Of Fire Wave




The Nebula

I know it's a total Cliché, but I'd still love to take a trip down the Grand Canal. And those firefly squids are pretty awesome too, would love to see them in the flesh. Not sure if I'd be too keen on eating them though..

The Grand Canal, yes.

Eating the squid - not for me, even f they weren't phosphorescent. It has the taste & texture of what I'd imagine cartilage to have. But those ones look beautiful.

My number one rule with food: Don't eat anything that glows in the dark.

Very shrewd.

An abandoned asylum. Pretty damn creepy..

Too many to post here, so here's the link to 62 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries.

Subway: A subway station underneath New York's City Hall is now a 'ghost' terminal having been abandoned

The Haunted Hotel at Tequendama Falls, Colombia




"I've been looking everywhere for this picture! This was taken on 9/11/01 at Ground Zero and has been the subject of great debate - some attribute it to "Mothman." I don't know what it is but it is creepy and, as yet, unexplained. If mothman is a harbinger of destruction, this thing fits the bill...."




Eerie photograph taken in the Bohemian Grove, California, date unknown.




Ominous place.




"Several human skulls with horns protruding from them were discovered in a burial mound at Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in the 1880's. With the exception of the bony projections located about two inches above the eyebrows, the men whom these skeletons belonged to were anatomically normal, although at seven feet tall they were considered to be giants. Burial was believed to have been in the neighborhood of 1200 AD."




Cemetary gate




creepy staircase




Caught in the grounds of a convent

Gilly wrote:
Is that squid picture in Japan are they radio active

Gilly said:
I've never seen that picture before, but if that is absolutely not a fake, then it's quite disturbing.

Have you read the 'Mothman Prophecies' Gilly?

And BC, did you really have to quote all of that

mild_peril wrote:
No I haven't, but I listened to a presentation about it once at the local New Horizonz, and found it interesting & baffling.

Is the book worth a read?