How could a 5-acre glacial lake in Chile’s southern Andes disappear in the span of 2 months? Park rangers at Bernardo O’Higgins National Park report that in March the lake was there, but in May they found a 100-feet crater there instead. Interestingly enough, several large pieces of ice that used to float atop the water are still there, just lying on the ground. At first I thought the same thing the experts did — that the water must have escaped through cracks into underground fissures, but there have been no earthquakes in the area lately at all, so why would cracks suddenly appear?

Geologists and other experts will be arriving in the area, which is 1,250 miles southeast of Santiago, in the next few days to investigate. Now this is something I definitely want to follow. A true mystery! Of glacial proportions! (sorry, I couldn’t resist LOL) Seriously, though, this is one weird phenomenon!

Chile, Andes Mountains, Glacial Lake Disappears

I was actually shocked when I read the news report about the man pictured below. Quite honestly, I thought stuff like that only happened in the movies! Well okay, I guess I knew it could happen in real life, but very, very rarely. I totally never expected to be reading about it happening to someone almost in my own back yard. I’m finished rambling - keep reading!

DENVER — A man who doesn’t know who he is talked publicly Friday afternoon in hopes that someone will recognize him.

John Doe was found with massive head injuries on the 16th Street Mall. He’s recovered enough to talk but has been diagnosed with amnesia.

“If anybody recognizes me, knows who I am, please let somebody know,” the man pleaded.

Police said he doesn’t remember anything and doesn’t know how he received his head injuries. Investigators said that his story is legitimate.

The man said he remembers waking up outside on Sept. 10 and needing help.

“Things started for me — it was just outside the World Trade Center downtown. I remember picking myself up off the ground. I don’t know if I was half-sitting or half-laying on the ground, and realizing that I didn’t know where I was or who I was,” the man said.

He said he asked for help from people around him, but people thought he was an intoxicated homeless person.

Police said he was nicely dressed and well-manicured when he was found, so he’s not likely a transient. At the news conference, he wore the yellow cap, blue sweater, white tennis shoes, a silver and black watch, and a gold ring which he was found in, with hopes that someone would recognize the items.

Investigators ran his fingerprints, but nothing came up because the man has no record locally or nationally, police said.

The man, whom doctors are calling “Al,” was put under hypnosis and said from that session, he thinks he lost his family in an accident.

“One of the things that has come out of the hypnosis and the sodium amytal is that I did have a wife and two kids and they were killed back in April. They were hit by a drunk driver and they were all killed,” he said.

Police are searching records across the country to see if he is linked to any drunken-driving cases but said that what came out of the hynosis is only a theory — not fact.

“Al” said it’s very lonely not knowing who he is or how he is connected to the world. He admits that his story may make for a good movie but it’s not a good life.

If you know who he is or where he is from, call Denver police at 720-913-6910.

Isn’t that crazy? Geez, I really feel sorry for the guy. Especially if it’s true about his family dying. Quite the mystery, isn’t it. I hope the police can find out who he is and what, exactly, happened to him. Well, as the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction!

See the new design I put up? Yeah, well, I put it up last night — actually it was early this morning, like 2:30 a.m. I had decided that since I couldn’t fix the problem with the popup comments with that last design, I’d just change it. And change it I did. Then I went to bed. It was about 3:00 a.m.

Fast forward to about 11:00 a.m. –

I fire up the ol’ puter and open my browser, only to be greeted by the OLD design. I was like, “huh?? what the heck??”. So I log in to MT and my templates and index pages, only to find the OLD code and CSS! I was totally confused! I sat here wondering if I had dreamed making those changes. I had even written a new post, and it wasn’t there, either! oooooWEEEEEooooo! So I’m thinkin’, “okay, the ghost sat down here last night after I went to bed and undid everything I had done”, right? Could be. But it’s more likely that it was a server-side glitch. But I think I’ll stick with the ghost theory; it’s much more fun. ;)

ANYway, about this design. Now that I’m finished doing it ALL OVER AGAIN, I’ll tell you about it. ;) I was looking through some of my old graphics last night, and saw this one. I made it a long time ago, and had titled it “Healing Light”. When I look at it, I feel that she is sad, but the healing light of heaven is shining down upon her. I realized, when looking at it last night, that that is where I am in my life right now; sad and in need of some heavenly light. I decided immediately that I had to use it here. I hope you like it.