Strange America

New evidence has being found indicating America was populated far earlier than previously thought.The research has suggested that Stone Age Europeans migrated to what is now North America 22,000 years ago. Chief among that evidence is a rediscovered tapered stone blade, first discovered in thewaters of Chesapeake Bay in 1970.

Scientists rejected this idea in 1999, but now an archaeologist at England’s University of Exeter has published work that suggests that this blade may be the key to revealing the migratory path of Europe"s Stone Age ancestors. When the crew of the Virginia scallop trawler Cinmar hauled a mastodon tusk onto the deck in 1970, another oddity dropped out of the net: a dark, tapered stone blade, nearly eight inches long and still sharp.  

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A mysterious bottomless pit in the Pacific Northwest has been the subject of stories for decades.The mere existence of the hole is a matter of much controversy as nobody is sure where it even is. A Native American shaman called Red Elk is said to be one of the only people alive to have ever seen it, he claimed that the hole was "endless" and that strange things would happen whenever he went near it. More recently, Mel Watersspoke to Art Bell on Coast to Coast when he claimed to have come across the mysterious hole.

To determine its depth he lowered several miles worth a fishing line down it but failed to find the bottom."One guy claims that he threw his departed canine down into the hole," he said. "He swears the dog actually came back to him." From Bigfoot to the disappearance of D. B. Cooper, the Pacific Northwest is full of mysteries. Another mysteryburied deep in the hills of eastern Washington keeps resurfacing.  

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With so much weather related destruction this Spring researchers believe it could be the new norm.Wild fires in Texas. Tornadoes in the Southeast. Flooding in the Midwest. While many would like to point to global warming as the culprit of this increase in deadlyweather some researchers believe that seasonal oscillations in weather patterns could be to blame.

It"s been a severe start to the spring season in the United States. Tornadoes have ravaged the southeastern US, flooding threatens much of the Midwest, and wildfires are scorching Texas. But according to researchers, a confluence of seasonal oscillations in weather patterns, rather than climate change, is to blame. And growing populationsmean that grim casualty figures from such events may become the norm.  

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Scientists believe Americans reached Europe over 500 years before Columbus reached America. The research is based on studies of the genetic past of an Icelandic family the results of which suggest that a woman from the Americas reached Iceland almost 1000 years ago. WhenChristopher Columbus paraded his newly discovered American Indians through the streets of Spanish towns at the end of the 15th century, he was not in fact introducing the first native Americans to Europe, according to new research.

 

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