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The legend of outlaw Billy the Kid, aka William Bonney, says that after killing a sheriff in the 1870s, he was shot and killed by Pat Garrett in 1881. But if that’s the case, how come Ollie Roberts, of Hico, Texas, claimed to be The Kid until his death in 1950?

Homer Overton says that Garrett and the man who later became known as Roberts teamed up to shoot an anonymous drunk?Garrett to get credit for killing The Kid, and Billy to stay alive. They shot him in the face, while he was passed out in the street, so he couldn’t be identified.
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We know that microscopic particles from soot and other pollutants can enter our lungs and can also cause heart attacks. But now it’s been discovered that even smaller particles from air pollution can reach our brains. What harm this may cause is unknown, but they could be related to the alarming increase in brain tumors in recent years.
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The U.S. Geological Service and the media have been super-conservative with their warnings about the Yellowstone supervolcano. But evidence is accumulating that the park is in big trouble because the vast volcanic region beneath its surface could be on a fast track to eruption. One source says, “The American people are not being told that the explosion of this ‘super volcano’ could happen at any moment. When Yellowstone does blow, some geologists predict that every living thing within six hundred miles is likely to die.” The Idaho Observer reports that recent eruptions, 200 degree ground temperatures, bulging magma and 84 degree water temperatures are worrying scientists who are studying the area.read more

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Researcher Richard Wiseman studies how to be lucky. He says lucky charms do work, but only because people believe in them. Some people believe in them so much, they use voo doo to try to influence the outcomes of trials.

Rachel Williams writes in the Pennsylvania News that Wiseman found that carrying a luck charm had no effect on whether or not people chose winning lottery numbers, despite the fact that 30% of the people he tested thought their luck had improved. At the end of the study, 70% said they’d continue to carry the lucky charm with them.
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