This photo of a UFO over Cornwall is hailed by experts as one of the best ever taken in Britain.
UFO sightings at Cornwall
55-year-old Kelvin Barbery snapped the mystery object on Dec 29 (2007) from a coastal path between Swanpool and Maenporth, near Falmouth.
In a weird twist, Kelvin did not even see the UFO at the time. He thought he was just taking a sea view… but when he loaded the digital camera card on to his computer, the round metallic ‘craft’ was in the centre of the shot, about two miles away. [Thesun]
This news surprisingly didn’t make it big on international papers. Perhaps people are getting bored over pictures, reports, news and videos about UFO sightings, which are often found as fraud in the end.
Personally I do believe that there are other living beings out there… it would be too arrogant to think that human beings are the only intellectual livings in this mass universe.
Loch Ness Monster, nickname Nessie, is one of the most famous mysteries in the world.
The Surgeon’s Photo
The first recorded sighting of this monster at the Scotland’s freshwater lake date back to 565AD… but the Nessie-fever probably started in 1934 when the famous ‘Surgeon’s Photo’ was published and shocked the world. (The photo was however discovered to be a hoax in the 1993, more details at the end of the article)
Since then, numerous sightings have been reported; some with pictures or videos but none of the images captured has shown a clear evidence of the existence of Nessie. Some of the images are hoax, while some could only show that there are some objects on the surface of the water.
Critics believe that lots of the genuine and unclear images are actually showing objects like flock of water-birds, wood logs, boats and natural phenomena. Still, there are large group of believers that are certain about the existence of the Loch Ness Monster.
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Hippocamp (or Hippocampus; Hippokampoi) is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology; which assembled the head and fore-parts of a horse and the serpentine tail of a fish.
In Greek mythology, Hippocamps were the mounts for Poseidon (the god of horses and god of the sea). In ancient folklore, they were believed to be an adult-form of the seahorse we seen today. In fact, Hippocampus is used as the genus (scientific term to categorize various species) for seahorses.
The Romans also believed in the existence of Hippocampus, with Neptune (Roman version of Poseidon) often driving a sea-chariot pulled by hippocamps.
Hippocamps were often used in the artworks and sculptures in Roman’s fountains and public baths; some of these ancient arts can still be seen in famous tourist sites like the Roman Baths in England and the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy.
