Category Archive: Weird

Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City. Story behind Haserot Black Angel monument

Story behind Haserot Black Angel monument

You probably saw the image of this gloomy angel more than once. This is the black angel named Haserot and here is his story.
A black statue of an angel stands in Oakland Cemetery, in Iowa City. It stands over the graves of three people: a woman, her husband and her son. This statue has a rather strange look. Most of the angels in the cemetery usually stand with their heads raised and their wings spread, symbolically striving for paradise. However, the wings of the black angel are not straightened and he looks to the ground … to hell.
The Black Angel also has a very grim expression, with cold, strange eyes and empty eyelids. Many people are nervous. Visitors to the cemetery often said that they feel uncomfortable in the immediate vicinity of the statue. They claim that they thought the statue was following them.
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The most striking findings are stone-carved horses with two, three, and sometimes four horsemen. 200 stone sculptures found by Russian-Indian expedition

200 stone sculptures found by Russian-Indian expedition
The Russian-Indian expedition found about 200 stone sculptures of horsemen and plates with images of people and animals. Also, stone pedestals and stone basins covered in stone. In particular, the expedition took place in the Pir-Panjal Mountains (Small Himalayas) at a height of two thousand meters. Noteworthy, the presumed age of stone statues is the 6th-7th centuries.
Meanwhile, he most striking findings include stone-carved horses with two, three, and sometimes four horsemen. Costumes of warriors, their weapons, equipment and harness amaze with an abundance of details. However, the faces of the riders are devoid of individuality, although in each of them is a certain generalized image of the warrior.
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Looking at you wooden idol. Slavic deities wooden sculpture in Togliatti. Work by 70-old pensioner Evgeny. Russia

Slavic deities wooden sculpture in Togliatti

In the depths of the forest, behind the sanatorium “Prilesye”, that is in Togliatti there is a pagan temple. It is here the amazing sculptures of Slavic idols decorate the forest. Their author – Evgeny, a 70-year-old woodcarver. According to the reviews of those who met and talked with him, Evgeny is friendly and quite cheerful. He works at the behest of the soul, as the Master should. He is constantly in the open air, and lives in a tent in this forest. Unfortunately, vandals spoil and even burn his sculptures from time to time. “They destroy and burn, and I’m building again,” he said with a smile.
The scale of his work, of course, is impressive. This is a titanic, uninterrupted work. Many dozens of pine trunks processed over the years can impress anyone. In search of deadly trees Evgeny passes many kilometers away from his tent. To deliver the trunk to the right place, he sometimes has to spend up to 4-6 hours a day. Chisel, ax, chainsaw – these are the main tools for the master. Meanwhile, in addition to carving wood, he also engages in healing. People who wish to get rid of infertility, from male impotence, and from other ailments visit him.
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Stories behind weeping monuments

Stories behind weeping monuments
Today was in the cemetery, and there on the monument was cut a weeping angel .. Doctor Who
On August 29, 1953, a pregnant woman named Antonietta Januzo, who lived in Syracuse in Sicily, discovered that the plaster statuette of the Virgin with the baby was crying. The news of this miracle spread quickly and led to a surge of mass religious hysteria throughout the island.
Local church authorities, slightly hurt by the publicity that this story received, decided to personally verify her truth. In truth, they simply did not believe the woman’s words. However, when samples of the liquid from the Madonna’s eyes were analyzed, it turned out that they were similar to real human tears. The church immediately recognized the miracle and erected a raca, where pilgrims honor the statuette in our time.
Obvious miracles of this type are so numerous that anyone who would like to describe them could not even place all the facts in one volume. Since inanimate objects can not cry or bleed, it becomes clear that this phenomenon is a supernatural order. Maybe it just means that the Lord proves his existence.
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Glamorous lady with a handbag gigantic weird monument. Japanese first open-air sculpture park Hakone

Japanese first open-air sculpture park Hakone

One of the favorite places of pilgrimage of every Japanese is the settlement of Hakone. It is here, in the shadow of the majestic Fujiyama, appeared the first open-air museum in Japan in 1969. From the very beginning the park was conceived as a mixture of different cultures and eras: from ancient art to modern Japanese sculpture. Once, the eldest daughter of Pablo Picasso chose a small Japanese village to give the owners of the park a large collection of works of her famous father. Later, an extensive collection of works by Henry Moore was added.
Meanwhile, The Picasso indoor pavilion is the only “serious” institution in the park. All the rest is a farce, a comedy played by local nature before passers-by, involving unexpected art objects in their game. Making fun of random passers-by, thickets of bushes can instantly turn out to be the huge head of an ancient god. How did it find itself here, far from his native Athens? But instead of answering, the giant head only smiles mysteriously.
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Molebka village, Alien Alyosha Monument in Perm anomalous zone

Alien Alyosha Monument in Perm anomalous zone
Located on the border of Permsky Krai and Sverdlovsk region, the village of Molebka became famous as an “alien cosmodrome”. Beyond the river is an anomalous zone with a cosmodrome and wonders. For those attracted to paranormal phenomena, Molebka is just the Mecca. Meanwhile, the place has many names: “Molebka’s Anomalous Zone”, “Perm Triangle”, “Molebsky Triangle”, “M-triangle triangle”, and simply “Zone M”. In fact, the village of Molebka became widely known in Russia and the world as a place of anomalous phenomena in the late 1980s.
The discoverer of the anomalous zone is geologist Emil Bachurin. In 1983, during the winter hunt, he saw a luminous sphere above the forest, and when he came to the place, he noticed in the snowdrifts perfect round spots, diameter of 63 m. He suggested that this is a track of an alien ship, because the locals often see UFOs, flashes similar to lightning here. In short, for the locals it is no more a sensation to see flying and moving in space objects. And this, of course, attracts tourists, their flow does not stop.
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Man-plane, Castellon-Costa Azahar Airport giant monument in Valencia, Spain. Work by sculptor Juan Ripolles. Opened March 2011

Castellon-Costa Azahar Airport giant monument

In fact, located in the municipality of Vilanova d’Alcolea in Valencia, Spain airport became famous thanks to the impressive monument erected on its territory. Interestingly, opened by local authorities in March 2011 a 24-meter-tall statue became a caricature of Carlos Fabre, who was the initiator of the construction of the airport.
Meanwhile, in this province is the homeland of Juan Ripolles – artist, sculptor, designer. The sculptures and monuments of Ripolles decorate the central squares of European, American and Asian capitals and cities. And his paintings – the collections of connoisseurs around the world. Besides, among the admirers of his work are the first persons of states.
And how could the airport of the province of Castiglione do without the work of its distinguished countryman?
Accordingly, before the airport appeared 24-meter statue of the Man-plane, which The New York Times called “a symbol of ruin at the airport without destiny.” By the way, the erection of this figure cost 220 thousand pounds sterling.
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