SIGNS AND WONDERS
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
—Luke 21:11
5673 Strange Reappearance OF TV Program
A strange picture appeared on English television screens in September 1953. Many viewers reported seeing the call-letters of KLEE-TV in Houston, Texas.
But the biggest surprise came when British broadcasting engineers contacted KLEE in Houston and were told that the station had not been on the air since 1950. Apparently, the English TV viewers had seen old pictures that had been plucked out of space.
Where had those pictures been for three years? Why did it appear only in England and how did it get back from wherever it had been?
5674 First Mirage Ever Shot
Owing chiefly to the widespread impression that a mirage could not be photographed because it is an optical illusion, the first actual photograph of one, as far as is known, was not made until 1929. Before that time, the many published pictures of mirages were drawings, some of which appeared to be photographs because they were cleverly superimposed on the upper half of real photographs.
—Freling Foster
5675 Hoofprints In Snow
One of the strangest unsolved mysteries on record was created by the peculiar hoofprints in the snow discovered in Devonshire, England, on the morning of February 9, 1855.
These impressions were oval, about the size of a donkey’s hoof and preceded each other eight inches apart in a direct line as though the animal had been imitating a tightrope walker. The uninterrupted track covered a distance of 98 miles, passed through 15 towns and crossed a river.
Stranger still, in several cases, it ran up to the side of a house or barn, over the roof and continued on the other side. When scientists stated that no living creature ever left such prints, it was rumored they had been made by the devil himself and, consequently, many superstitious persons were afraid for months to go outdoors after dark.
—Selected
5676 Sounds Under The Garden
The Gardens of Les Rochers were once the residence of Madame de Sevigne, the French epistolary writer. In the center of the broad gravel walk leading to the mansion, there is a particular spot where, if two persons stand about ten or twelve yards apart, a low and almost inaudible whisper is responded to by myriads of voices that seem to start from the very earth beneath, as though the very pebbles spoke, the sentence being repeated with a swift and hissing sound like the whirl of small rifle shot through the air. No solution of the mystery has ever been discovered, though the earth has been dug up to considerable depth.
5677 Cloud With A Name
Although most clouds are constantly moving, there are a few that appear so regularly over certain lands and remain stationary for such long periods that they have been given individual names. One example is a large and low formation that appears at certain times of the year over the Rock of Gibraltar and does not move for as long as twelve days. Because it is created by moist winds from the eastern Mediterranean, this cloud has long been known as “The Levant.”
5678 Toynbee On Miracles
Miracles happen today. They are history-making, earth-shaking events, which change whole courses of history and the fates of nations. Arnold Toynbee says that believing in miracles is a basic necessity of mankind: “The fundamental need of our world today is a rebirth of belief in the supernatural. If this rebirth is not forthcoming from the more progressive creators of our mechanical culture, it may come from the “backward” peoples like the natives of Africa and Asia, to those who have not yet become victims of the proud materialism of the Great Powers.”
See also: Heavenly Phenomenon ; Second Coming ; U.F.O. ; Joel 2:30; Matt. 24:24. Mark 13:25. Luke 21:25. Rev. 12:1.