Strange Stories

I have to take note of some strange news stories I came across this week. Scientists at University of California at Berkley say they are working on inventing an invisible cloak. That’s right, an invisible cloak. This cloak will make you invisible. In order to make an object invisible you have to bend light backwards according to the scientists. Well these scientists have developed a 3-D material that will bend light. At the moment the UC Berkley scientists can bend light around a speck of dust, but that’s as far as they have gotten. It will take at least 10-years before we make anything of significance disappear.

The second story printed in the NY Times on August 11, concerns the estate of a William Milliken Vanderbilt Kingsland, a Manhattan resident who died two years ago. He was either in his late fifties or early sixties, no one knows for sure. Mr. Kingsland, as he was known, was a part-time art collector who claimed to have attended Harvard and married a French royal. Oh, by the way his real name was Melvyn Kohn. Well Mr. Kohn left no will when he died but he did leave some ‘stolen art’ from 40 years ago including a Picasso and a bust by Giacometti that has since been valued at $900,000 to $1.2 million.
The FBI attempted to track down the original owners by posting the stolen art on a website, but was no takers.

Bigfoot, that half man/half guerilla and his family apparently lives in the woods in Georgia, (not the Georgia that just stood on Russia’s toes) according to Rick Dyer, 31, a former Corrections Officer and his partner Mathew Whitton, who held a news conference in California. Both men showed grainy photographs of a body looking like a guerilla costume stuffed in a refrigerator. According to Dyer and Whitton they came across the body in the woods and saw other creatures nearby. On further DNA examination of the remains, the experts said Bigfoot was made from a human and 96 percent from an opossum.