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The World is Weirder Than You Think... or Cities of Gold

09:31 / 04.06.03

found this old clipping-

"FILM TEAM RESCUED IN AMAZON TELLS OF GOLD IN PRE-INCAN CITY
Guardian Monday November 10th 1997
Three members of a documentary film team trapped for a month in Peru's amazon rainforest say they have found a pre-Incan stone city and chunks of gold ore hidden for centuries under the dense jungle.
The rescued Belgian ornithologist Jean de Coninck said the city, 360 miles north of Lima, was "larger and more imposing" than the nearby pre-Incan citadel ruins of Gran Pajaten, which date back to 200BC.
He said the expedition found quantities of gold ore near the ruins. "It's a city built on slabs of stone...we have kept a record of what we found and we know the exact location of the mounds."
He and two Peruvian scientists- the ornithologist Segundo Rivadeneyra and the entomologist Mario Callegari- were found weak and dehydrated on Thursday by rescuers. Survivors say a fourth person, Marcial Huaman, was dragged away by the rain-swollen Abiseo river.
Expedition members said they lived on butterflies and a 10ft snake after their food ran out."

Next time you're feeling bored and like the world is a dull place, remember the world really is weird, and really crazy shit actually happens all the time.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

13:05 / 04.06.03

Fuck that, anyone can find a lost Incan city. Did they find the flying machine shaped like a bird? We're not being told the truth here people!

13:06 / 04.06.03

I love the thought of an entomologist eating butterflies "This is the lesser speckled amazon showstopper, really rare" *Chomp* "...and a bit peppery."
Anyone else got any real life weirdness stranger than fiction to report? I feel like life is pretty dull right now, I need weirdness!

13:18 / 04.06.03

read the kink threads.

...i'm kidding!

13:24 / 04.06.03

If only he had been an Entenmannologist.

unheimlich manoeuvre

13:40 / 04.06.03

Mysterious Cities of Gold was a great series, but not that weird really.

City of God (Cidade de Deus) is a weird true story but you probably already know that.

Did you here about the Iraqi who lived behind a wall for twenty
years?

13:45 / 04.06.03

I was so sure that programme was called 'Children of the Sun'. I am really weirded out now.

14:11 / 04.06.03

Mysterious Cities of Gold was a great series, but not that weird really.

Well as a six year old I thought it was pretty damn weird..

14:14 / 04.06.03

Anyone here know all the lyrics? Apart from 'AAAAAA-AAAAAA-AAA-AAA-AAAAA, someday we will find/the ci-itieee-s of goooold'
I know it had Mendoza in it, but fuck if I know what it was actually called.

14:29 / 04.06.03

That link is great, ta unheimlich! Now I know why it made so little sense- the BBC cut the shit out of it, and never showed the two episodes where they found the cities of gold! Bastards!

Our Lady of The Two Towers

15:12 / 04.06.03

'Children of the Sun' was the theme music. Something along the lines of: 'Children of the sun, dum-de dum-de dum-de-dum...' Not a patch on 'Ullyyyyyyyseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, nooneelsecandothethingsyoudo'...

Actually, the first time round they did show the entire series. The second time round, they jumped from when they have just found the alien city in the mountain to the last episode. Which of course was the time when I started watching from the first, very normal, episode. Fuckers.

16:47 / 04.06.03

'Children of the sun, someday soon you're gonna find, that your destiny, holds the secret, holds the key... do-do-do-do-do, ahh-aah-aah, do-do-do-do-do, cities of gold...'

IIRC.

Morlock - groupie for hire

17:13 / 04.06.03

Zounds!

Lyrics!

18:16 / 04.06.03

"One for all and all for one, Muskerhounds are always ready"

Damn straight!

20:27 / 04.06.03

(said in big boomy voice)
'Mortals! You defy the Gods? I sentence you to travel among unknown stars. Until you find the Kingdom of Hades, your bodies will stay as lifeless as stone.'

Lazlo Woodbine [some call me Laz]

21:54 / 04.06.03

"Children of the sun, something new has just begun.......?

Difficult to remember the rest, I was only ikkle.
But i do remember the giant eagle thing.

Lazlo Woodbine [some call me Laz]

21:55 / 04.06.03

"Children of the sun, something new has just begun.......?

Difficult to remember the rest, I was only ikkle.
But i do remember the giant eagle thing.

Lazlo Woodbine [some call me Laz]

21:58 / 04.06.03

Sorry wasn't really paying attention to the fact the lyrics are in that link, then like the fool that i am posted the reply twice (i give myself a Joey).

22:10 / 04.06.03

I knew Indiana Jones was real!!!!!!!! So there!

unheimlich manoeuvre

23:01 / 04.06.03

quote by MatterArising
(said in big boomy voice)
'Mortals! You defy the Gods? I sentence you to travel among unknown stars. Until you find the Kingdom of Hades, your bodies will stay as lifeless as stone.'

Ulysses 31 was outstanding/stupendous/amazing. It is another excellent French/Japanese collaboration. Does anyone now if there were any other joint works from those two countries?

The Knights Templar Boogie Machine

23:41 / 04.06.03

hey, quantum, i agree, next time coronation street is on just read some latest anthropological research or some crytozoology or summin'...
shows eastenders up for the mundane televisual shit eating ghost entity that it really is...

As for ulyssess 31, fucking magic.....

10:41 / 05.06.03

Ulysses31, Muskahounds, none of us ever went out on a saturday morning did we? And rightly so I might add, what out there can compare to telemachus meeting sisyphus in the 31st century! Rocks, baby