World's Largest Luminous Pearl - Yemengzhu

World's Largest Luminous Pearl - Yemengzhu. A mystery to the western world, luminous pearls are legendary in China, and people go to great lengths for a chance to even touch one of them. The largest luminous pearl has just been placed on display, in China’s Hainan province.

Very little is known about the giant green pearls of China. The few who actually have heard of these remarkable jewels refer to them as “Yemengzhu” and praise them to be rarities that bring good luck. They have been a part of Chinese legends for centuries, and people there believe that just touching them can bring great fortune and prosperity. But this kind of myths are all to common in a traditional country like China, and what makes Yemengzhu special has little to do with local lore.

Luminous pearls are wonders of the mineral world that shine in the dark without the help of ultraviolet light. This kind of Fluorite is so rare that western geology don’t even recognize its existence, and the Chinese only discovered the first one in 1982, at a Tungsten mine, in Guangdong. Since then, bigger and bigger deposits were discovered, and the largest one yet weighs 6 tons and is 1.6 meters in diameter. When it was discovered, it had an irregular shape, but was ground in the form of a sphere. The process took three years to complete, because of its tough nature, comparable to the finest grade of diamonds.

The largest luminous pearl is currently exhibited in Wenchang, China’s Hainan province, and has been appraised at 2.2 billion yuan ($331 million).







Via : Odditycentral

Two Moons Phenomena | Moon and Mars 2010

This night on 27 august 2010, we will see an amazing space phenomena where we can see moon and mars together, it will looks like a double moon, or two moons together, on that time planet mars will be on the nearest distance to earth. This event will happen again on 2287. So don't forget to see this moon and mars together on 27 august 2010 this night. A rumors said that this night moon and mars will have a similar size if we look from the land.

“two moons of 2010” in the sky, and it is not very far. On August 27, while Mars will grow to the size of the full moon, the people of this land you can see this amazing scene. It had been said that the Planet of Mars will be very close to the Earth where the distance between these two planets will be estimated to in the radius of thirty five million miles only. Mars will just look as large as the moon in the sky and it will be thought that two moons will be seen at one time at the Planet Earth even though the truth will be different from the actual situation. According to the NASA officials this was going to happen yesterday at 12.30 pm at the time of mid night. According to the calculations of the NASA officials this scene will be created after a long period of time in the year 2287 hopefully.

The Moon and Mars August 2010 controversy has confused the people a lot as this rumor was considered a half truth as the NASA officials are good at studying the movement of the planet

The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide at a modest 75-power magnification.

Snake with clawed foot in China

A weird and bizarre snake was found in china, unlike a usual snake, this snake has a clawed foot!! A snake with a single clawed foot has been discovered in China, according to reports.

Dean Qiongxiu, 66, said she discovered the reptile clinging to the wall of her bedroom with its talons in the middle of the night.

"I woke up and heard a strange scratching sound. I turned on the light and saw this monster working its way along the wall using his claw," said Mrs Duan of Suining, southwest China.

Mrs Duan said she was so scared she grabbed a shoe and beat the snake to death before preserving its body in a bottle of alcohol. Wow.. could she make it into a snake syrup?

The snake – 16 inches long and the thickness of a little finger – is now being studied at the Life Sciences Department at China's West Normal University in Nanchang.

Snake expert Long Shuai said: "It is truly shocking but we won't know the cause until we've conducted an autopsy." If you interest in snake don't forget to check out this World's Biggest Snake ever on our previous post.

A more common mutation among snakes is the growth of a second head, which occurs in a similar way to the formation of Siamese twins in humans.

Such animals are often caught and preserved as lucky tokens but have very little chance of surviving in the wild anyway, especially as the heads have a tendency to attack each other.






Source : Telegraph

Mystical Katja Dolls from Russia

Still remember about the scary island of the dolls or the creepy toys which is posted before in Crazy World? we have another creepy doll stories here about Katja Doll from Russia.

Katja name was made in 1730 from one of the tsar mistress, it was told that the mistress was pregnant, like the other mistress dreams, this tsar mistress hope that she will gave birth a boy for the king, but unfortunately the mistress birth a defect girl baby. Then these baby was burned alive.

After these incident, the mother of a poor baby made a doll with the baby ash mixed with a porcelain and ceramics.

It was said that this Dolls are kept from generation to generation in Russia, and closely guarded. Allegedly because the doll can bring a curse, from newborn babies who suffer a fire burned.

There's a mystical stories about these dolls, it was said that if you stare at this dolls more than 20 seconds the curse katja dolls will blink. and if the dolls blink at you that means that there will be something bad happens to you. do you have enough brave to stare at this dolls more than 20 seconds??

Previously someone sell this dolls on ebay but his current thread was closed by ebay because ebay reported that there's so many weird incidents happen due to this mystical katja dolls.