Residents of Aberdeen, Scotland, were left wondering if they had been
visited by aliens after waking up on Monday to find hundreds of
mysterious markings on nearby grass land.
However, the council later came forward to say it is behind the circles.
An Aberdeen City Council spokeswoman said: “The marks are not alien crop circles.
They are preparatory work for planting trees as part of the £500,000 Seaton Backies project
A pub's owner is requesting the return of a ghost, after its famous specter was captured by a Chinese artist.
Lu Pingyuan claims to have captured the ghost of James Stanley, the
seventh Earl of Derby, who is said to haunt the Ye Olde Man and Scythe,
in Churchgate, Bolton, Greater Manchester.
A sealed metal canister supposedly containing the spirit went on
display this month at the Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, unbeknown
to the pub’s owner, Richard Greenwood, after the artist became
captivated by the story and traveled from Shanghai to Bolton to catch
the ghost.
And after discovering that the town’s oldest pub is now missing its favorite phantom, Mr Greenwood is determined to have it returned to its
rightful home.
In a letter to Mr Lu, he said: “I would have liked to have been privy to
your actions and indeed to the exhibition before the ghost of James
Stanley was taken out of Bolton, his ties to the town and to Ye Olde Man
and Scythe run very deeply.
“I feel very strongly that James Stanley’s ghost should remain in Bolton
and at Ye Olde Man and Scythe to preserve the natural order of things.
That said I do believe that your exhibition should travel and be seen by
many people around the world and I would like to contribute to this as
long as at the end of your exhibition it returns home.”
Mr Greenwood has offered to donate the chair that the Earl sat at for
his last meal to the exhibition, on the agreement that both it and the
ghost are returned at the end of the tour.
It is thought that the Royalist commander spent his last few hours at
the pub before being executed outside the premises for his part in the
Bolton massacre of 1644.
Mr Lu came across his story after seeing CCTV footage that emerged in
2014, which appeared to show a ghoulish presence at one end of the bar.
The artist, who claims he followed the ghost into the pub’s bathroom before performing an incantation to trap it, said: “I was totally captivated by the legend, that the ghost remained in the human world long after his decapitation.
“I wish him to exist and be treated as a real artwork and to present him
around the globe, getting respect and tribute from people everywhere.
I told his ghost about my proposal the second time I visited this place
and James Stanley agreed that I can put him into a jar in order to
exhibit him in galleries and museums alike.
Therefore, in this way, he became a piece of art. I consider my
exhibition at CFCCA to be the beginning of his worldwide trip. After
this exhibition, I plan to prepare for the next one in 2017.
My original thought is that after the world tour of exhibitions, I will
discuss with him and ask him whether he would prefer to stay like this,
as a piece of art, or go back to the Ye Olde Man and Scythe.”
50-year-old Timothy Baker of Yorkville, Illinois, has been arrested and
charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass to property.
Police say a man arrested for marijuana possession inside public housing in Hoboken, New Jersey, was High.
High was also charged with aggravated assault, as well as trespassing on
public housing property, Cruz said.
Officers responded at 5am to a report of an assault inside a third-floor
apartment in a building operated by the Hoboken Housing Authority, Cruz
said.
For England, the New World beckoned
as more than a vast store of natural resources, Isenberg argues. It was
also a place to dispose of the dregs of its own society. In the late
16th century, the geographer Richard Hakluyt argued that America could
serve as a giant workhouse where the “fry [young children] of wandering
beggars that grow up idly and hurtfully and burdenous to the Realm,
might be unladen and better bred up.” The exportable poor, he wrote,
were the “offals of our people.” In 1619, King James I was so fed up
with vagrant boys milling around his Newmarket palace that he asked the
Virginia Company to ship them overseas. Three years later, John
Donne—yes, that John Donne—wrote about the colony of Virginia as if it
were England’s spleen and liver, Isenberg writes, draining the “ill
humors of the body … to breed good bloud.” Thus it was, she goes on,
that the early settlers included so many “roguish highwaymen, mean
vagrants, Irish rebels, known whores, and an assortment of convicts,”
including one Elizabeth “Little Bess” Armstrong, sent to Virginia for
stealing two spoons.
Police investigating reports that 500 cows have been stolen from a farm
in Ashburton, New Zealand, say they probably happened in multiple thefts
over a period of time.
It is not known exactly when they began disappearing, as their absence
was only noticed recently.
| 1303 | The War of Vespers in Sicily ends with an agreement between Charles of Valois, who invaded the country, and Frederick, the ruler of Sicily. | |
| 1756 | The British at Fort William Henry, New York, surrender to Louis Montcalm of France. | |
| 1802 | Captain Meriwether Lewis leaves Pittsburgh to meet up with Captain William Clark and begin their trek to the Pacific Ocean. | |
| 1864 | At the Democratic convention in Chicago, General George B. McClellan is nominated for president. | |
| 1919 | The Communist Labor Party is founded in Chicago, with the motto, “Workers of the world unite!” | |
| 1928 | Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera opens in Berlin. | |
| 1940 | Joseph Avenol steps down as Secretary-General of the League of Nations. | |
| 1942 | The British army under General Bernard Law Montgomery defeats Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Battle of Alam Halfa in Egypt. | |
| 1944 | The British Eighth Army penetrates the German Gothic Line in Italy. | |
| 1949 | Six of the 16 surviving Union veterans of the Civil War attend the last-ever encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Indianapolis, Indiana. | |
| 1951 | The 1st Marine Division begins its attack on Bloody Ridge in Korea. The four-day battle results in 2,700 Marine casualties. | |
| 1961 | A concrete wall replaces the barbed wire fence that separates East and West Germany, it will be called the Berlin wall. | |
| 1965 | US Congress creates Department of Housing & Urban Development. | |
| 1968 | The Dasht-e Bayaz 7.3 earthquake in NE Iran completely destroys five villages and severely damages six others. | |
| 1970 | Lonnie McLucas convicted of torturing and murdering fellow Black Panther Party member Alex Rackley in the first of the New Haven Black Panther Trials. | |
| 1980 | Polish government forced to sign Gdansk Agreement allowing creation of the trade union Solidarity. | |
| 1985 | Police capture Richard Ramirez, dubbed the “Night Stalker” for a string of gruesome murders that stretched from Mission Viejo to San Francisco, Cal. | |
| 1986 | A Russian cargo ship collides with cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov, killing 398. | |
| 1987 | Longest mine strike in South Africa’s history ends, after 11 people were killed, 500 injured and 400 arrested. | |
| 1990 | East and West Germany sign the Treaty of Unification (Einigungsvertrag) to join their legal and political systems. | |
| 1990 | Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become first father and son to play on same team simultaneously in professional baseball (Seattle Mariners). | |
| 1994 | Last Russian troops leave Estonia and Latvia. | |
| 1994 | The Irish Republican Army (IRA) announces a “complete cessation of military operations,” opening the way to a political settlement in Ireland for the first time in a quarter of a century. | |
| 1997 | Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a Paris car crash along with her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul while fleeing paparazzi. | |
| 1997 | New York Yankees retire Don Mattingly’s #23 (first baseman, coach, manager). | |
| 2006 | Edvard Munch’s famed painting The Scream recovered by Norwegian police. The artwork had been stolen on Aug. 22, 2004. |
A man accused of breaking into two businesses in Racine, Wisconsin, in
late July allegedly left a shirt with his name ironed into it at one of
the crime scenes.
On July 28, Racine police officers were dispatched to the Port of Call
liquor store on a report of a burglary.
A police officer in Buffalo, New York, saved a choking man’s life by
performing the Heimlich maneuver, but after the man coughed up a bag of
cocaine, he arrested him.
Police in Queensland, Australia, went to great lengths to catch an
alleged armed criminal on the Gold Coast, chasing him down in a
teenager's dinghy and finally capturing him with a gaff hook.
A woman has described the moment she came face-to-face with the
notorious werewolf Old Stinker.
Jemma Waller, an animal rescue worker, was driving through the East
Riding of Yorkshire village of Halsham when she believes she saw the
legendary creature. The 24-year-old said the beast looked like a big dog
"with a human face".
Ms Waller was with two friends at the time of the sighting. She said:
"We were driving down this country lane on our way to get some pizza and
my friend in the back seat said that he had seen a fox.
In one report from the 1960s, a lorry driver said a creature had tried
to smash its way through his windscreen as he drove along a remote Wolds
road.
Last month, Hull City Council officially confirmed it has no written policy on dealing with werewolves after
a resident submitted a freedom of information request.
Wayne Carr asked if a risk assessment had been "undertaken on Barmston
Drain with regards to werewolves".
The council replied by saying it had no written policy on werewolves, no
record of werewolf-related risk assessments and no secret stock of
silver bullets locked away in a Guildhall cupboard.
A village in Jharkhand, India, has been abandoned by its residents due to a hoax ghost threat. 
