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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults

Explorations of the paranormal with your paranormal investigator Sylvia Shults.

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2024/04/22

Globally, spiders eat twice as much meat as humans do each year — 800 million tons of insects compared to humans’ 400 million tons of meat and fish. (from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: Beyond the Bizarre)

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2024/04/15

Every Titanic fan has heard the theory that the sailors in the crow’s nest didn’t have binoculars, which is why they didn’t see the iceberg until it was far too late to avoid hitting it. The commonly held rumor is that the binoculars were left behind in Southhampton — but this isn’t true. The binoculars … Continue reading Today I Learned …

Now I’m A Multi-Award Winning Author…

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2024/04/10

… because I recently found out that the wildly popular Gone On Vacation just won first place in the Best Books Awards for Spring 2024! Check it out! K thx bye! https://bookshop.org/p/books/gone-on-vacation-sylvia-shults/20456275?ean=9781958589021

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2024/04/08

Prince Yogi Ram, a Hindu astrologer from Lakewood, NJ, was killed in Cincinnati Ohio when a train hit his car on April 9, 1959. Strewn around the tracks were copies of his book Astrological Forecast, which said April 9 was an “unlucky day.” The astrologer’s fellow mystics had warned him that 5 was a deadly … Continue reading Today I Learned …

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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/04/01

White-faced capuchin monkeys greet each other by sticking their fingers up each other’s noses. (from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: Beyond the Bizarre)

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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/03/25

A 25-ton humpback whale appeared to protect American marine biologist Nan Hauser from a 15-foot long tiger shark while she was swimming off the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. As the shark circled, the huge whale lifted Hauser right up out of the water with its head, then shielded her with its pectoral fin … Continue reading Today I Learned…

Lights Out #111: Hellfire Caves

Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/03/21

Ready for another episode of Lights Out? Great, me too! Pretend you’re a wealthy English lord in the middle of the 18th century. You’ve just gotten back from a Grand Tour of the Continent, and you want to keep the party going. How do you do that? You start up a not-so-secret club, and you … Continue reading Lights Out #111: Hellfire Caves

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2024/03/18

Convicted Missouri deer poacher David Berry Jr. was ordered to watch the Disney movie Bambi at least once a month during his year-long jail sentence. (from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: Beyond the Bizarre)

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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/03/11

When Roland Hendel and his family were forced to flee their Sonoma County, CA, home to escape the wildfires that devastated the area in October 2017, they had to leave behind their dog, Odin, who refused to be parted from the family’s eight goats that he guards from coyotes and mountain lions at night. The … Continue reading Today I Learned …

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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/03/04

A cliff near Gulu, Guizhou Province, China, is said to “lay” mysterious egg-shaped stones every thirty years. Part of Mount Gandeng, Chan Da Ya — Mandarin for “egg-producing cliff” — is 20 feet high and 65 feet wide. It has an uneven surface, and every three decades, erosion causes each hollow to emit an oval-shaped, … Continue reading Today I Learned …

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2024/02/26

Defying odds of one in 2.1 million, a baby girl was born on Leap Day just like her father. Ivan Rebollar Cortez was born on February 29, 1988, and daughter Camila entered the world on February 29, 2020, just as her 32-year-old father was celebrating his eighth leap-year birthday. (from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: … Continue reading Today I Learned…

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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/02/19

It is estimated that 24,568 gallons — equal to 195,419 pints — of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the United Kingdom alone. (from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: Beyond the Bizarre)

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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/02/12

A calf born at James McAuley’s farm in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on Valentine’s Day 2020 had a perfectly shaped heart pattern on her forehead. Her owners named her Be My Valentine. (from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: Out of the Box)

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2024/02/05

There is a church in Brazil that is made out of wine. Brazil’s Vale de Vinhedos (Valley of Vineyards) was settled in the late 1800s by Italian immigrants, who grew grapes and made wine just as they had done in their native country. In 1904, construction began on Capela Nossa Senhora das Neves, or the … Continue reading Today I Learned …

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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/01/29

A woman in Sweden who lost her wedding ring found it sixteen years later — around a carrot that was growing in her garden. She lost it while cooking Christmas dinner in 1995. She looked everywhere, and even had the kitchen floor pulled up. While gardening in 2012, she was digging carrots, and there was … Continue reading Today I Learned …

A New Lights Out Is Coming Your Way!

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2024/01/27

Curl up in a comfy chair, brew yourself a cuppa, and let me take you to London just after the Blitz. Lights Out #110: Stairway to Heaven. On March 3, 1943, tragedy struck in London, at the Bethnal Green Tube station. People on their way down to the station to seek shelter from a air … Continue reading A New Lights Out Is Coming Your Way!

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2024/01/22

McDonald’s introduced its drive-thru service for the convenience of the military. The first McDonald’s drive-thru was installed in a restaurant in Sierra Vista, AZ, near the Fort Huachuca military base. Military rules forbade the soldiers from wearing uniforms in public, and they weren’t about to change into civilian clothes just to run out to grab … Continue reading Today I Learned …

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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/01/15

Every military working dog holds the rank of noncommissioned officer (NCO). Also, a military working dog is always one rank higher than its handler. Some say the custom was implemented to prevent handlers from mistreating their dogs. (Reader’s Digest, October 2023)

Return to Haunted Chronicles

Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/01/11

Did you have a good time listening to the Haunted Chronicles podcast I posted last week? I hope so — I had a great time chatting with Michelle. Here’s another fun conversation we had, this time about haunted zoos, museums, and amusement parks. (And it is thanks to Michelle that there will be a second … Continue reading Return to Haunted Chronicles

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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults ·

2024/01/08

Ever wonder where the game “rock, paper, scissors” came from? You know the one: “Scissors beat paper: after all they can cut the paper to shreds. Rock beats scissors: after all it can blunt the scissors. And finally paper beats rock because, well, just because.” But why should this be? “The calm assertion of paper’s … Continue reading Today I Learned …

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