Jan 4 2011

First thousands of birds, now thousands of fish?

Should I be worried? I’m beginning to wonder.

OK.

Admittedly I was joking just yesterday about the 1,000′s of birds falling from the sky in Arkansas lending to some sort of ‘end of the world’ scenario.

Now, adding THIS to the mix…

Thousands of dead fish have turned up in an Arkansas river just days after 3,000 birds mysteriously dropped dead from the sky, but authorities say the deaths are not related. [Come on, would they TELL us if they were? Pffft. Doubtful.]

An estimated 100,000 dead drum fish are floating along a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River and washing up on the river’s banks near the town of Ozark in the northwestern part of the state.

The dead fish were discovered just after 3,000 red-wing blackbirds fell from the sky in the town of Beebe, [no]more than 100 miles from the site of the dead fish. Officials, who tripled the early estimates of the number of dead birds, said the bird deaths may have been caused by lightning or by stress from fireworks and said they were unrelated to the fish kill. [Of COURSE they did.] [Read More]

I am not a big fan of ’end of the world’ scenarios and mostly think they are full of garbage, but one must admit, this is bothersome.

Especially after I read THIS and it got me thinking…

Archaeologists trying to unravel why ancient southwestern Illinois city suddenly ended

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — Archaeologists who have uncovered the remains of a prehistoric city beneath what is now East St. Louis are trying to unravel why that ancient city was abandoned while another one just to the east managed to survive two more centuries.

Archaeologists believe Native Americans abandoned the city of roughly 3,000 or more people around the year 1200. That’s 200 years before a bigger settlement at nearby Cahokia Mounds ended inexplicably. [Read More]

Admittedly Illinois City is NOT this area of Arkansas, but I tell you if the archaeologists digging around in IL find the remains of thousands of dead birds and fish? I am going to jump on my crazy train here and say that YES someone is going to need to man-up and tell those living in Arkansas’ new Valley of the Dead to get the heck OUT OF THERE!

Wow.

These two articles merged together in my head brought on some pretty apocalyptic thoughts…

I hate when that happens. My imagination on a GOOD day in way more than enough to contend with, thank you. No crazy fuel is needed.

Now I need to go rinse out my brain…

I’m thinking bleach.

Cause just…

Yikes.

6 comments on “First thousands of birds, now thousands of fish?”

aftladybug

January 4, 2011 @ 1:35 am

Oops oops oops
You can laugh at me but I thing there is darkness in the name Beebe . When I first time saw the name regardless of what happened I fell little chilly . This name is bad ,bad omen . Bruhahaha
I am serious actually . They said that was 12 loud explosions before the birds started to fall down and psst It is connected with dead fish . What about some secret extreme frecvency bomb that only birds and fish can be killed with . Little experiment just in time for hysteria about 2012 , little thing to show us what is in store for next 2 years .
Have to say I enjoy the mystery and all the bad stuff that could follow . I am sick , I know .
- anguishedrepose
  
  January 4, 2011 @ 1:41 am
  
  Definitely connected. Yes, I suppose it could be that, but no matter WHAT it is I think its a fascinating story that keeps building the ‘scary’ tone as we head into 2012 for SURE. Good stuff indeed. And you are sick, my friend, you are no more sick than I…I think its fairly awesome.
  
  Well, ok. Maybe not for the birds or fish. *laughs*
  - aftladybug
    
    January 4, 2011 @ 1:51 am
    
    “laughs”
    
    We are tad sick and crazy but fairly awesome .
    The best darkness buddies that the deep dark abyss could produce.
    I forgot but my mom remanded me that she used to tell me that I was darker then pitch black night .
    Never understood why .
    I thought I was Mary Sunshine
  - anguishedrepose
    
    January 4, 2011 @ 2:05 am
    
    Fairly awesome? It’s true.
Jno Roper

January 4, 2011 @ 2:05 pm

Think things like this should be looked at very carefully. But the weather that weekend in that area could have done in the birds. Fish dying off is a semi-regular event. Have seen it along the cost and in various lakes. (fresh and salt water)
- anguishedrepose
  
  January 5, 2011 @ 12:33 am
  
  Personally, I think its a magnetic thing that is causing the compass in both fish and birds to get messed up, but that’s just me. Only thing that makes sense because as more and MORE cases happen, it takes the first random event from being RANDOM into a whole new territory of purposeful functionality though the exact “What the heck!?” is still in question.

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4 May--I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count, directing him to secure the best place on the coach for me; but on making inquiries as to details he seemed somewhat reticent, and pretended that he could not understand my German.

This could not be true, because up to then he had understood it perfectly; at least, he answered my questions exactly as if he did.

He and his wife, the old lady who had received me, looked at each other in a frightened sort of way. He mumbled out that the money had been sent in a letter, and that was all he knew. When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife crossed themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply refused to speak further. It was so near the time of starting that I had no time to ask anyone else, for it was all very mysterious and not by any means comforting.

Just before I was leaving, the old lady came up to my room and said in a hysterical way: "Must you go? Oh! Young Herr, must you go?" She was in such an excited state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what German she knew, and mixed it all up with some other language which I did not know at all. I was just able to follow her by asking many questions. When I told her that I must go at once, and that I was engaged on important business, she asked again:

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"It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to?" She was in such evident distress that I tried to comfort her, but without effect. Finally, she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting.

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I tried to raise her up, and said, as gravely as I could, that I thanked her, but my duty was imperative, and that I must go.

She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me.

I did not know what to do, for, as an English Churchman, I have been taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous, and yet it seemed so ungracious to refuse an old lady meaning so well and in such a state of mind.

She saw, I suppose, the doubt in my face, for she put the rosary round my neck and said, "For your mother's sake," and went out of the room.

I am writing up this part of the diary whilst I am waiting for the coach, which is, of course, late; and the crucifix is still round my neck.

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

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