Until I was about ten years old i lived in a two story house, near the beach. the bottom story was just a large garage/storage space. and the top story of our house was where I lived with my family.
Every night I would settle into my bed which was a futon resting directly on the floor. when I would put my ear on the pillow I would hear a low hum, reverberating in my head like a large diesel ingine idling below my house. Every night I would hear this sound, though it never truly frightened me I remember it was always mysterious. especially because my parents were not able to her this low frequency hum that plagues my bedtime.
We moved out of the house in September 2001. when we returned to the home town where I had heard the hum as a child, I happened upon a yahoo news item. It was an article about several universal unexplainable phenomenons. One of the phenomenons was something called "the Taos Hum" or "the Hum". it is a low frequency sound that is heard by some people, it is unexplained and is a global mystery. I recognized that the Taos hum was what I had heard in my childhood. My mouth went dry.

From The London Times:

Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were 1 for cars ($1.40), 5 for buses (about $7).

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.

The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility. The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee.. The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or France or Italy .... is a man who'd apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day -- for 25 years.

Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars ...... and no one even knows his name.

Read on for the top five most bizarre but true stories recently reported around Australia.

Water Buffalo Takes the Plunge!
Earlier this month, a Howard Springs man finished mowing his lawn and noticed a water buffalo casually strolling up the driveway. Karl Stowers was stunned as he watched it jump in his pool and swim. Mr. Stowers yelled at it to no avail and then lured the beast out of the pool with food. It proceeded to run across his freshly mowed lawn and roll around in a mud puddle. The buffalo may be the same one spotted strolling around in the yards of other Howard Springs’ residents.

Love Soars to New Heights!
A few days after Christmas, a North Cairns police officer heard voices from above and spotted two people climbing down a crane access ladder over a construction site. Elisha Walker and Nigel Meighan were each recently released on a good behaviour bond after they plead guilty to the stunt. Mr. Meighan told the magistrate it was just a silly thing he and Walker thought up when they saw the crane, and they had not considered the consequences since they were drunk at the time.

Praying Mantis Becomes a Video Star!
A Brisbane couple, Maria and Rod Thompson, has captured amazing video of a praying mantis chasing a computer mouse cursor around the screen. Mrs. Thompson said the mantis was seen in the home before, and one night it poked its head over the computer as her husband was checking email. When the mouse was bumped, the praying mantis surprised them by leaping at the cursor. This began a twenty-minute game, and the couple filmed the unusual spectacle that can now be seen on YouTube.

Truck Driver Gets Stuck on the Phone!
43-year-old Darwin truck driver, Gye Gardner, broke his mobile phone's headset and repaired it with superglue. His boss called before it dried, and it stuck to his ear. He said he usually kept the headset in his ear most of the day, and friends even jokingly suggested that he leave it stuck and plug his ear into the power point at night to charge the headset. Gardner scraped the earpiece from his ear but several pieces of skin were left stuck to the headset. He said removing it was painful, but it did not hurt as much as his pride!

Man is all Thumbs!
Semi-retired gun salesperson and firearms inspector, Geoff McLaren, now has his thumb replaced by his left big toe after his thumb was blown off in a recent workplace accident. Surgeons at Sydney Hospital performed the delicate microsurgery. McClaren says he loves to wear sandals, so a missing toe may cramp his style just a bit!

There are always strange stories to be told and you can find these bits of wonderfully strange news on BigPond News!

If you could go to Shanghai for a vacation, buy two or more of these cars, one for your wife and one for yourself, and one for each of your kids, have them shipped to Canada and still spend less money than if you bought a car in Canada. Getting the car(s) into USA, still an ordeal.

This is not a toy, not a concept car. It is a newly developed single seat car in highly aerodynamic tear-shape road-proven real car. It is ready to be launched as a single-seater for sale in Shanghai in 2010 for a mere RMB 4,000 (US$600)!

Interested? Wait till you learn that it will cruise at 100-120 Km/Hr with an unbelievable 0.99litre/100Km (258 miles/gallon)!

Impressed? Totally, after you have read all the details below about the hi-tech and space-age material input into this car!

The Most Economic Car in the World will be on sale next year.
Better than Electric Car - 258 miles/gallon: IPO 2010 in Shanghai.
This is a single seated car, From conception to production: 3 years and the company is headquartered in Hamburg , Germany.
Will be selling for 4000 yuan, equivalent to US$600.
Gas tank capacity = 1.7 gallons
Speed = 62 - 74.6 Miles/hour
Fuel efficiency = 258 miles/gallon
Travel distance with a full tank = 404 miles

This is absolutely amazing...

The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations.

Very interesting video of magic tricks.

When I was 15 I had an experience that would stay with me forver. I was adopted at 10 and the thought of pleasing my new family was overwhelming. I tried out for the highschool softball team and while running to try outs tripped over my own cleats injuring my arm, I diddn't make the cut.
The thought of letting my new parents down was so harsh and devistating I went home and finished off a bottle of Jack and a bottle of Kaluha. The next thing I remember is my dog licking the vomit out of my mouth ( he probably saved my life) I was choking on my on bile. From then I stood next to myself watching everything that happened. My mother called the paramedics and I remember watching as she was slapping me in the face screaming for me to wake up and them putting me on the stretcher and following it to the ambulance. Sitting next to myself in the ambulance was strange I can recall everything the medic had said to me, "I'm sure you have pretty eyes why dont you open them for me?" but I remember exactly what he looks like. When I got to the hospital I was in an alcoholic coma. At the same time I could say there was something different then just a coma, I had a choice. Keep standing there or something I dont think I really can explain.
I dont talk about it with anyone because I'm not sure they would understand. But I'll never forget that "calm" that I felt, it was absolutely warm and beatiful.

Absolutely amazing goat acrobat with a monkey on its back doing other tricks.

Researchers say that the first letter of your name could indicate how long you will live. The study, led by academics at Wayne State University in Detroit, in the United States of America revealed that people whose first name began with A lived longer by 10 years those whose initial was D.

They claim it stems from school grades, where A spells success and D failure. People whose name starts with D are mor likely to have low self-esteem,which is linked to cancer and other illnesses.

They had shorter lives those whose names began with E to Z. "This study suggests names have more of an impact than we've ever given them credit for,'' the Daily Star quoted Dr. David Holmes, from the Manchester Metropolitan University, as saying.