The missing fingers and tooth of Galileo Galilei were discovered at an auction stored in a wooden case. Friday’s announcement by Italian authorities brings the century old mystery to a close. The finger and tooth were removed from the 17th century astronomer’s corpse when it was exhumed from its original unsanctified grave to be moved to the Florentine church of Santa Croce in 1737. During the ceremony naturalist Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti removed three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth to be kept as relics. One of the fingers and the vertebra were preserved and are currently on public display. The remaining two fingers and tooth were passed through a series of owners and disappeared completely over a century ago. The newly re-discovered remains will be on display when the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence reopens in March as the Galileo Museum.


Galileo’s Fingers and Tooth Recovered by Collector [via Chris Holly's Paranormal World]

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Sometimes referred to as the Bigfoot of the South, the Skunk or Swamp Ape is a hominid that is said to inhabit the South Eastern United Sates. The skunk ape gets its name from the horrible odor that seems to accompany most sightings of the creature. They are described by witnesses as having brown to blackish fur and stand on average about 6 feet tall, though some witnesses have reported specimen as tall as 10 feet. The skunk ape most walks upright on its hind legs, but some reports indicate that swamp apes will sometimes drop to all fours to run. While there have been skunk ape sightings throughout the swamps of the South East, a large majority of sightings occur in the Florida Everglades.

Skunk ape sightings in the state of Florida date back as far as 1818 when residents spotted the creature in Apalachicola. Sightings continue to this day with the most recent Florida sighting being reported in the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization database occurring in March of this year. The incredible consistency in the descriptions that accompany sightings in Florida have led researchers to believe that if an unknown primate species exists, it most likely does so in the swamps of Florida. Taking up most of the southern tip of Florida, the Everglades provide almost 4 million acres of sparsely populated swamp for the skunk ape to call home without ever having to see a single human. Adding to the mystery, the local Seminole and Miccosukee Indian tribes that have lived in the Everglades for centuries are very reluctant to speak to outsiders about the creature.

Skunk Ape @ Wikipedia

This video from Chile shows a saucer shaped UFO hovering over what is described to be a statue of Jesus and then releasing some sort of electric discharge that hits the statue. The people that you can hear on the video appear to be genuinely surprised by what they are seeing/filming which leads me to think that the video may be genuine. Assuming that the footage is not a hoax, that only leaves me to question the electric discharge. Was it intentional (and if so why) or was it an accident that occurred when the craft got to close to the statue? Let me know what you think in the comments.

Saucer in Chile Zaps Jesus Statue [via Get X News]