The ghost of Marilyn Monroe (and dark conspiracies surrounding her death)

Today is Marilyn Monroe’s birthday.  Had she lived the tragic star would have been 82 today.

But some people claim that Marilyn still makes herself known in ghostly form.

And she remains a popular target for trance mediums.

Leave the poor woman alone!

Monroe died in 1962. The cause of death was “acute barbiturate poisoning” and it was ruled a suicide.

But dark rumours still surround Monroe’s death.  Some people believe she was actually murdered and the tragic star’s death is sometimes even linked to the alleged Kennedy assassination conspiracy.

Whatever the truth, lets remember her in her prime and anyone interested in the weird wide world would do well to remember the occasional truth in this quote from Ms Monroe herself:

“It’s all make believe, isn’t it?”

True Conspiracies

True Conspiracies? That’s a contradiction in terms, right? Like True Urban Legends?

Well, thanks to Cracked you can learn all about 7 conspiracies that actually, really happened.

Some, like the infamous Tuskegee experiments, are truly tragic and make me weep for the human race.

Diana’s death no accident no according to “Celtic Lady”

A report in the Edmonton Journal describes how Rosemary McArthur, a professional psychic who works under the name “The Celtic Lady”. Diana’s death was not and accident. McArthur met Diana in 1993 and shortly afterwards fell ill and had a premonition including the word “Paris”.

Read the full article for more detailed account of McArthur’s visions.

I had a strange experience the day before Diana died. And although I’m sure there was nothing supernatural about it, I wouldn’t be surprised if the person I was speaking to thought otherwise.

My sister and I were travelling down the East Coast of America and were in Washington DC. We took one to trolley bus tours but found ourselves with a broken down bus, at Washington Cathedral on a day when everything was shut for refurbishment. Waiting for the replacement bus, we got chatting to a lovely lady from the South who started asking us about the Royal Family, especially Diana and her relationship with Dodi Al Fayed.

“What do you think of Diana and Dodi?”

My Mum and I had talked about it and she had said it would all end in tears. Not because of any arranged assassination but because it was a rich playboy and a woman who seemed quite vulnerable.

So I repeated that: “Oh, it will all end in tears!”

Less than 24 hours later, Diana was dead.

I wonder if that woman remembered our conversation. A young English woman who told her Diana and Dodi’s affair would end tragically…..

Spooky!

(Via Supernatural News)

Cake or Biscuit?

Another micro-mystery.  When does a cake become a biscuit (cookie)? Or a biscuit become a cake?

Tax laws say that regular biscuits and cakes are exempt from VAT, but as soon as a biscuit gets covered in chocolate it is subject to VAT.

But, there are some cakey-biscuits/biscuity-cakes that are hard to classify.

In 1991 the makers of Jaffa cakes established in court that they were cakes not biscuits. (The good people at Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down explain that particular case here)

Now Marks and Spencer have successfully challenged the classification of their teacakes as biscuits.  The European Court has ruled that yes they are cakes. And the UK Treasury faces a whopping bill of around £3.5 million…

No word on whether the decision hinged on the old saying that a biscuit goes soggy when stale but a cake goes dry.

Right, I’m off to M&S to buy a packet of teacakes (and I don’t even like biscuits that much).

Could the whole thing have been a ploy to plant subliminal messages into the British public’s mind that they really, really wanted a teacake? Not to mention all the news channels and newspapers that yesterday had to go out and buy packets to film and photograph.

(Via Metro)