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From Yahoo News

Spiders create giant web

Thu Aug 30, 7:02 AM ET
WILLS POINT, Texas - Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.

Officials at Lake Tawakoni State Park say the massive mosquito trap is a big attraction for some visitors, while others won't go anywhere near it.

"At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said Donna Garde, superintendent of the park about 45 miles east of Dallas. "Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes that it's turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."

Spider experts say the web may have been constructed by social cobweb spiders, which work together, or could be the result of a mass dispersal in which the arachnids spin webs to spread out from one another.

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One step at a time.

Communal Spiders have been predicted by scientists to farm the last surviving mammals on the planet. The scientists, working with the Discovery channel, suggest that these arachnids will be silver.

Mmm... Silver...spiders.

Could they be...

MALTHARIANS?

*Insert Evil Laugh here*

Something weird

Ok, so this is one for the books...

So here I was, today, working on the back bedroom. I cleared it out of all the furniture and the books off the shelves in preparation for having it painted. The process took most of the morning since I wasn't in any great hurry and it has been hot all day.

Finding a place to put all of the books on the shelves was difficult because most of my boxes are already full with other stuff so I had to go searching through the attic for a box or something. This basically meant that I took the books off by the shelf and not all at once. Had I removed them em mass I might have noticed the strange pattern of soot on the wall.

The soot came from an oil lamp that I used to burn beside my bed when it was in the far corner. For some reason one night, the oil burned sooty (which was odd since it normally doesn't) and I quickly put the flame out but the soot had gotten into the grain of the wall and would take some serious scrubbing to be removed. I didn't know, at the time, that the soot had crawled up and behind the first set of bookshelves - until today.

I didn't notice that there was a face there until I walked back into the room to grab one of the last things. I paused and snickered for a moment as I looked at it. I even remember muttering,

"Oh, great - I've got a spooky face. I wonder if I could sell it on Ebay?"

And then I looked at it more closely and grabbed a shot of it with my camera. When I upped the contrast (to the left), the image of the face became more apparent; vividly so.

I saw the nose and the eye as well as an open and what appears to be a fanged mouth with the line of the old shelf something like the line of the chest muscles of a male figure. The image wasn't exactly apparent with this copy so I then switched it over to a black and white and that's when it really pops off of the wall.

So the image of a "devil" appearing on my wall isn't what really got me thinking. What was interesting was that the face appeared on the wall behind the shelf where I kept my own journals.

A devil behind the book.

Interesting, yes?

-T

Fever Weirdness

Ok...

Anyone who knows me has seen me make my "Freudian Prophecies". It became so common in the past few years that people actually gave it a name.

Sometimes, out of the blue, I'll say one thing but mean to say another; just like a Freudian Slip. However, those things that slip out often turn out to be true or to come true.

Either I'll say something like, "When your daughter comes to visit, you two can work on the house" and mean to say "When your friends come to visit, you can work on the house."

I know what I meant to say but it comes out weird. Sure enough, within a week of me telling that person (a friend named Misha), her daughter contacted her out of the blue and asked to visit for 2 weeks that summer - a few months away from my prediction.

Well, some other times, when I'm ill, I'll have even weirder premonitions.

When I get sick I get a fever; every time. When I get a fever I normally get dizzy and want to just sleep my way back to recovery. However, when I'm fighting the fever I go through random periods of chills and sweats while asleep. This makes for some very funky dreams.

Just like the Freudian Prophecies, the fevered dreams tend to come true too.

This past Sunday, while curled up and fighting the fever - I kept having a dream of blood-covered books. Granted, I was watching "The Stand" on scifi all day - so I didn't take it too seriously.

Em found me on Yahoo this morning and, knowing that I was in a fevered state yesterday, asked me what I saw. So I told her.

I didn't think much of it so I went to class and then left campus to grab some food and head home.

Now here's where it gets weird.

When I got home, my best friend, Chris, called me to see if I had heard about the shootings at Virginia Tech.

I hadn't.

The shootings started while I was in class and there was some initial footage of blood-splattered books since the shooter went into a lecture hall.

Freaky.

-T