http://immortalcount.com/blog A place to uncover the world which often escapes mainstream media outlets, or is relegated to the back page. Sun, 03 May 2009 02:06:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the early 1960's, the U.S.S.R was doing it's level best to push the boundries of it's space program ahead of the United States. The program apparently recruited cosmonauts who ran a very real risk of never returning from their missions. In fact, in some cases it was a certainty ... http://immortalcount.com/blog/2009/04/25/human-ambassador-reaches-interstellar-spacedead/ Another Friday the 13th is upon us. Although there's some debate over the superstition surrounding this unlucky day, The Count has a very strong opinion of it's origin and has asked me to share his point of view on it. A few years ago, an author named Dan Brown released a ... http://immortalcount.com/blog/2009/02/22/friday-the-13th/ 50 Years ago and a day something unusual happened in the Ural Mountains. 5 decades is but a flash for the Count, but for the mortals who visit this website, it is possibly a lifetime. This event was significant enough that the pass on Ortorten Mountain where it happened was ... http://immortalcount.com/blog/2009/02/03/dyatlov-pass/ I would like to apologize for the long delay since our last entry. Our team often gets caught up in the research process and some of our researchers lives move at a slower pace than the rest of humanity, so they don’t always relate well to mankind’s perception of the ... http://immortalcount.com/blog/2009/01/24/abbreviation-of-future-posts-and-our-fortean-nature/ The Count intends on occasion, and this is the first, to take the time to dispatch writings to me that he wishes published on the site. Although he does not have a computer, he understands what they are and how the Internet works. Upon receiving these correspondences I type them ... http://immortalcount.com/blog/2008/11/23/133/ In 1893, legendary Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen was embarking on an expedition north to explore previously unknown territory. He undertook this trip aboard the world's first icebreaker the Fram, which still holds the world record from his trip for northernmost passage by a wooden surface vessel in history. She also ... http://immortalcount.com/blog/2008/10/23/dead-water/ Last October, Eric York, a 37 year old Park Ranger in the Grand Canyon found a deceased Mountain Lioness with no sign of trauma save a bloody nose. Lacking the facilities to do a proper necropsy, he carried the poor beast to his garage where he began one himself. On ... http://immortalcount.com/blog/2008/10/21/where-will-the-next-black-death-come-from/ In what appears to be a continuation of the cascading release of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena files from various governments, the British MoD let several hundred megabytes of documentation fly today. Much of it we already had, and in fact some of it we had to let them borrow as they ... http://immortalcount.com/blog/2008/10/20/collecting-new-data-from-the-mod/ This story has multiple witnesses, and also covers the aforementioned MoD UFO document release. Our team wonders if any of the passengers were interviewed. We're looking into it, but the information will be hard to come by. http://immortalcount.com/blog/2008/10/20/alitalia-passenger-jet-had-near-miss-with-wingless-ufo-in-1991/ This particular story recounts how United States Pilot, Milton Torres, was scrambled to intercept and shoot down an unidentified flying object the size of an aircraft carrier and traveling at over 7,600 Miles Per Hour. The picture is from another event in Barcelona that is unrelated, but was among the ... http://immortalcount.com/blog/2008/10/20/ufouap-reports-released-from-the-british-government/