THIS Strange and Terrifying Island Is So Full Of Deadly Predators That Almost Every Human Who Arrives Doesn’t Make It Out Alive!
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Many people dream of one day living on their own private tropical island and it’s easy to see why. They imagine long stretches of sandy beach, gorgeous sunsets, and beautiful blue ocean vistas for as far as the eye can see all to themselves. As dreamy and ideal as it all seems, there is one deserted island off the coast of South America that no one would ever want to live on.
The nightmare of an island is called Ilha da Queimada Grande, but it’s more popularly referred to as “Snake Island” because it’s filled with hundreds of thousands of snakes. In fact, the island happens to be the only home in the world to one of the most venomous snakes on Earth, the golden lancehead pit viper (Bothrops insularis). The particular species of golden lancehead pit viper that’s found on the island has venom that is so toxic to humans that even if a person is administered anti-venom immediately after being bitten, they’d probably still die anyways. If they survive the odds and lived, they’d probably wish that they hadn’t because the venom causes muscle necrosis, liver failure, brain hemorrhaging, blistering flesh, and other horribly painful symptoms.
Other than the deadly pit vipers, there are many other types of snakes on the island, the most common being dispas albifrons which are nonvenomous and found throughout coastal Brazil. They eat mainly snails while the primary prey for the rest of the snakes on the island is birds. Competition is extremely tight however, as it’s estimated that there are between 1 and 5 snakes per square meter on the island, which is about 10.8 square feet, yikes!
Over the years many tales have emerged about how snake island came to be, and one popular theory is that pirates brought the snakes over to guard the treasures they buried there. The scientific explanation is that the snakes were trapped on the island after sea levels began to rise and cut them off from the mainland. Either way, the snakes have managed to thrive on their island home and since it is protected by Brazil and closed to the public, they will continue to. People are strictly prohibited from venturing onto it and only the Brazilian Navy, carefully chosen scientists, and select researchers are allowed for conservation purposes.
In the past, people who did try and land on the island have met early deaths. There was a fisherman who went ashore to get some bananas, he apparently did not know about the snakes and got bit, only to make it back to his boat where he soon died. A more well-known story happened in the early 1900s when there was a lighthouse on the island. The lighthouse keeper lived there with his family until snakes invaded their home and killed them all. When people came to rescue them, they too got bit by the snakes and died.
It’s stories like these and the clear and present danger that the golden lancehead pit vipers present that have made snake island one of the most dangerous and deadly places on Earth. Even though t may look like a tropical paradise from afar, it should be avoided like the plague!
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Her Doctors Thought She Had a Brain Tumor. But When The Surgeons Open Her Up They Discover Something Terrifying!
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Rachel Palma, a 42 year old woman living in Middletown, New York, had just gotten married and was looking forward to starting a new chapter with the man she loved. While most everything in her life was going smoothly, she started to notice some strange things going on with her health. Rachel seemed to be having trouble remembering things that she shouldn’t have been struggling with. She couldn’t think of words to communicate with and recalled one incident where she showed up to work without her uniform, even though she’d been working at the same place for the past five years.
In addition to memory problems, she was also losing her motor skills and would suddenly drop things, such a coffee cup, seemingly out of the blue. It only got worse as she began hallucinating, having horrible nightmares and insomnia, and by January 2018 she was struggling to make sense of text messages and emails. Her confusion had resulted in a number of scary episodes and despite having gone to the emergency room several times, she was no closer to getting any answers as to why she was acting like this.
After reaching out to specialists at Mount Sinai Hospital and explaining the strange symptoms she was experiencing they immediately ordered an MRI. The brain scans revealed a marble-sized lesion on her left frontal lobe which led doctors to believe she had a potentially cancerous malignant brain tumor. Rachel was shocked and saddened by the news that she might have such an aggressive type of life threatening cancer but vowed to do whatever she could to fight it. After a biopsy, doctors found that the tumors contrast had changed and because of this surgery was required.
Dr. Jonathan Rasouli, the chief neurosurgery resident at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, helped treat Rachel and performed her brain surgery. What he found was completely unexpected and strange, it was not a brain tumor at all, instead he removed an odd looking encapsulated mass that could best be described as resembling a quail egg. According to Dr. Rasouli, he and other surgeons in the room were shocked and surprised at what they’d found. They had no idea what it was, so they placed it under a microscope to examine it further.
Still perplexed by what they’d removed from Rachel’s brain, the surgeons decided to cut it open and were astonished to find that the mass held a baby tapeworm inside it! She had been suffering from neurocysticercosis, a parasitic disease people get from ingesting microscopic eggs from a tapeworm found in pork. The eggs hatch inside the body and the larvae can end up travelling to the to muscles, skin, eyes, and even brain where they form cysts. In Rachel’s case, the tapeworm ended up settling in her brain near the speech center, which is what led to her symptoms.
While most people would be freaked out about having a parasite living in their brain, Rachel was happy and relieved because she didn’t have a tumor or brain cancer. The parasitic disease could be treated more easily than cancer and after a round of antibiotics she was declared parasite-free. The question remains as to how she contracted the tapeworm in the first place because she hadn’t eaten undercooked meat or travelled outside the US. Despite not knowing this, Rachel says she “stopped asking questions and started celebrating and making the most out of life.” In the end, she chose not to dwell on the scary experience she went through and is instead looking forward to the future.
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Rare Lunar Eclipse During Capricorn: Prepare For a Huge Energy Shift On July 16-17 2019
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There will be a Lunar Eclipse on July 16-17 2019. The eclipse will be visible for those in Australia, Africa, South America, most of Europe, and Asia so sky gazers across the world can look up to watch it, weather permitting. Also don’t worry if you aren’t in one of these areas, we will be streaming it live on Sun Gazing as long as weather permits. This is going to be totally awesome. During the eclipse the moon will appear to be cast in subtle, silvery darkness, as the Earth’s shadow falls upon it.
Lunar eclipses occur when the sun, Earth, and moon all line up in that respective order. As the moon passes behind our planet and enters into the Earth’s umbra, its shadow, the resulting alignment causes the shadow to fall upon the moon, making it noticeably appear a few shades darker. Lunar eclipses are always so magical and we are all in for quite the treat!
From a historical perspective, the full moon in July is traditionally known as the Full Buck Moon. However, what is even more interesting are the astrological implications of this month’s Full Buck Moon and Lunar Eclipse taking place in Capricorn. The celestial events usher in a time for changes and new beginnings and the resulting shift in energy will have a profound impact on people’s lives. So while this month’s beautiful eclipse may be fleeting, in the weeks and months ahead you will end up feeling its effects in a very meaningful way!
Even though each and every one of us will experience a personal change, which may be slight or life-altering, here are the more significant ways in which this lunar eclipse may affect us: Many of us will find a renewed sense of purpose and direction within ourselves, the type of which has been lacking in our lives lately. Eclipses are always times of powerful change and this one is highlighted by the fact that it occurs in Capricorn.
As such, Capricorns are driven, hard workers and have a never give up mentality. They are perceptive, grounded, sensitive, practical and disciplined. When these traits of a Capricorn are combined with this new sense of purpose, expect a lot of people to finally take back control of their lives and futures. There will be lots of change coming in the next few weeks to months. So strap on your seat belts and get ready to launch.
On a related level, many of us will also begin to stop caring so much about what other people think of us and the decisions we make. We will let go and simply trust in the path we are choosing to push forward on. Where in the past we’d be held back by opinions and judgments coming from others, such things will no longer have any negative or preventative effects on us. With the shift in energy comes a shift in our thinking and we’ll start deciding things on our own, for ourselves.
Some people will be more confident and conscious of their choices. Whether it be a major life decision or a seemingly inconsequential one, they will go with their gut feelings and stick with whatever it is they decide. This will be due in part to a major re-focus in our self-awareness and a more balanced, internal centering that we will turn inwards on ourselves. As a result, we’ll be entering a much happier and more enlightened phase of our lives.
A lot of us will find that things are finally coming to an end and are being completed. This is a very broad and general effect lunar eclipses always seem to usher in, and as such the sense of finality may appear in essentially any area of our lives. It may manifest as a relationship that has finally burned itself out and now you can move on from it, or perhaps you’ll wrap up a project that you’ve been working on for ages. Regardless of where these endings occur, they will mark the last of things which are over and done with! It always feels good to say goodbye and now you can move on to bigger and better things!
Those are just a few of the stronger effects that the Full Buck Moon Lunar Eclipse may have on any one of us. Overall, the lunar events mark the beginning of a number of transformations that we will each go through in the year ahead, and it has only just gotten started!
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Everyone Thought THIS Dog Was Guarding Her Humans Gravesite. But Then This Rescuer Discovers an Unthinkable Secret!
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A little while back animal lovers across the internet were moved by a sweet photo that went viral. The picture was from Serbia and depicted a german shepherd lying at a grave. Many thought it looked like the dog was grieving for his deceased master. However, something about the photo was not quite how it appeared.
Science has confirmed that dogs can actually feel love for you as they have the intellect equivalent similar to a two-year-old. Since dogs can love, is it possible that the dog was truly mourning? Possibly. There are certainly examples of dogs doing the same thing in history. One animal rescuer was not fully convinced.
Vesna Mihaljoski investigated the grave. Upon arriving, she confirmed that the dog was still at the grave. She looked closer. First, she noticed that the dog was actually in a hole that it had dug beneath the grave. Second, she was actually cuddling a litter of puppies.
The real reason that the dog refused to leave the grave was now clear. She had dug a den to protect her puppies. Luckily, Mihaljoski decided to adopt the mother and her pups. It turns out that the dog wasn’t mourning at all. With that discovery, the story turned from a tragic one into a happy one!
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She Uncovers An Ancient Relic On Her Lawn. But She Picks It Up and Realizes It’s Moving!
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You never know what you might find when you go digging for buried treasure. Some people have made some truly amazing discoveries over the years and even struck it rich unearthing priceless artifacts. There are many areas known for possibly having buried treasure and hidden relics, and one such place is a town called Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire, England. It was once a Roman settlement and was the location of a historic market, as well as being an evacuation center for British people over the years.
One of the town’s residents, Lynne Garner, owned a sizeable piece of property and from time to time she and her husband would look around for buried treasure. One day they had been digging near a rockpile in the back garden when she spotted something unique looking among the stones. It was a dark brown lump and upon closer inspection they realized it was a tiny little hedgehog!
Hedgehogs are common in the area, but the one they found was not normal looking, which is what threw them off at first. Instead of having a body covered in spines, he was mostly bald and exposed. They rushed him to the local vet, A120 Veterinary Surgery, where doctors diagnosed him as having alopecia. They explained that it had likely been brought on by trauma the poor little guy had suffered in childhood and that a normal hedgehog would usually have around 5,000 spines. The stress from whatever he’d been through caused him to lose his spines and that left him extremely vulnerable to predators and the elements.
Now that Lynne knew what the little animal’s problem was, she set out to help him heal. Thankfully she is a seasoned wildlife rehabilitator, so she brought him back to her center and named him Derek. Other than his spine issue, Derek also had an infected wound on his back from a suspected bird attack. After she treated the wound Lynne needed to find him a temporary home where he could relax, roam freely, and stay warm. It also needed to be escape-proof and a woman named Monique had the perfect spot, her heated and enclosed greenhouse. That would be Derek’s home for the next couple of months or until he’d recovered enough to make it on his own outside.
Besides special living accommodations, Derek also received oil treatments and probiotics to boost his health. Soon his spines had started to grow back and he was much more active and happier. In fact, he managed to re-grow almost all his spines instead of just some as is common in most cases of alopecia! In the end, his swift recovery was nothing short of a miracle and while he may not ever be an outdoor hedgehog, he’ll always have a home with Lynne.
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A Huge Storm Took Down This Tree. He Cuts Into It But Seconds Later The Unthinkable Occurs!
We’ve all had to deal with down trees, whether they are on the road and we can’t get past, or in our backyard. Removing trees can be quite an ordeal and should only be done by trained professionals. In the following clip, it looks like a tree has toppled over in a backyard, destroyed a trampoline, and left a huge clean up job!
The guy in this video seems like he is skilled with a chainsaw. He seemed to be doing a great job at clearing the fallen tree. Until he forgot about the laws of physics. Because he removed all the branches, the tree trunk is not heavy enough to balance against the mass of the root.
Suddenly something unexpected occurs, the magic tree comes back to life and everyone gets a good laugh out of it. Luckily nobody was injured. This could’ve potentially been a very dangerous situation.
If you do need to clear a tree from your property, make sure you know what you are doing. If not call a professional just to be on the safe side. Enjoy the following clip of this magic tree!
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