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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 12 views
A nurse on the pediatric ward, before listening to the little ones chests, would plug the stethoscope into their ears and let them listen to their own hearts.
Illustrations
Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 10 views
Here's a message that will bring you chills. Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and then just put it on a list and said, "I'll pray for them later?" Or has anyone ever called you and said, "I need you to pray for me, I have this need?" A missionary on furlough told this true story while…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 19 views
Go into a telegraph office at any time, and you will see certain needles moving right and left with unceasing click. Electricity is a great mystery, and you cannot see or feel it, but the operator tells you that the electric current is moving along the wire. How does he know? “I know it by the needle.”…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 21 views
When traveling among the Alps in a dense mist, we have seemed to see vast lakes without a shore, crags that appeared like the battlements of heaven, and awful depths that thrilled us with horror. Yet much of that mystery was only caused by the mist. When we journeyed the same way on a bright morning,…
Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 21 views
The truth is something like those stalactite caverns and grottoes that you must enter and see for yourself if you would really know their wonders. If you venture there without light or guide, you would run great risks. But with blazing torch and an instructed leader, your entrance is full of interest.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Rebecca Northfield, writing for “Engineering and Technology” shows how a mystery can be solved through science. She explained one mystery like this: “At California’s Death Valley there are hundreds of trails from large, rough blocks of rock in the aptly named Racetrack Playa. It clearly means the stones…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
After mysterious monoliths appeared in Utah, California, and Romania at the end of 2020, many people naturally assumed a structure that appeared near Fort Worth, Texas was another of the strange signs. Many people feared the monolith might be the work of aliens, but a little research revealed the Texas…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
A visitor to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art helped find a missing piece of the “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” exhibition. While the woman was at the museum, she noticed that the artworks in the Lawrence exhibition looked like a painting she had seen in her neighbor’s apartment. She…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Pam Joy of Skagway Alaska was walking on the beach when she spotted a bottle with a group of washed-up logs, branches, and other debris. Joy opened the bottle and found a message written on a sheet of paper. It said, “Happy New Year 1987!” The message was not signed, and there was no indication where…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Residents of Jackson Mississippi were at a loss to understand when bowls of mashed potatoes began appearing on their cars, porches, and mailboxes. Jordan Lewis said he found a bowl on his windshield when she went got into her car one morning. It was full of potatoes and rainwater, so she threw it away.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
After three years of searching for Malaysia Flight 370, the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau released a final report concluding that authorities are no closer to knowing the reason for the plane’s disappearance that they were when the plane disappeared. The bureau said the 52 days search covered…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
A Massachusetts couple says at first it was fun receiving free mystery packages from Amazon, but now they want them to stop. Mike and Kelly Gallivan said the first the first package arrived in October 2017. Since then, they have continued at a rate of one or two a week. Most contain cheap products such…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Hannah Oliver-Willetts of the United Kingdom was working tirelessly to raise funds in support of her son, Zac, who is suffering from Leukemia. The special treatment, while likely to be successful, is not yet available in the UK and is therefore very expensive. The Hospital contributed by cutting the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Patti Bacchus spends a lot of time combing the beaches in front of her Mayne Island home in British Columbia. Usually, she finds a lot of trash, but occasionally she makes unique finds. One morning, she found a Frisbee, a $20 bill, and an iPhone 7 in a waterproof case. Bacchus said she charged the phone…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Edward and Cheryl Patton finding trash coffee cups in their yard for nearly three years. They tried mounting a camera in a tree in front of their home to catch the person involved. The pictures never provided much information, but the couple’s neighbors got involved and one of them followed a minivan…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
An employee of a North Carolina thrift store found a 146-year-old marriage certificate hidden in the frame of an 1899 print of a painting depicting a small girl and a dog. When she found the certificate Pam Phelps knew she needed to try to locate relatives of the couple. The certificate, dated 1865,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Authorities in eastern Tennessee spent time searching for a tiger in the vicinity of Knoxville. A sheriff’s office spokesperson they received unconfirmed tiger sightings one evening in the eastern part of Knox County, and a deputy dispatched to the area also spotted the animal. They said it quickly disappeared…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
According to Medical News Today, “There are a number of health and lifestyle factors – obesity, smoking, air pollution – that are known to be risk factors for early mortality and receive considerable attention. New research has suggested that social connections should be added to this list, with a study…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Two young boys found a glass bottle on the bank of the Neches River in Beaumont, Texas with a note inside containing a man’s address dated 1989. When the boys tried to contact the man, they discovered the address did not exist. At first, they were puzzled, but a longtime Postal Service employee helped…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Michael Knapinski, 45 was hiking on Washington’s Mount Rainer when he was caught in a Blizzard. Lost in white out conditions, he became unconscious. The next afternoon a helicopter search crew spotted him and flew him to the hospital. In the helicopter they detected a very faint pulse but when they admitted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Just out for a walk, a couple in California discovered a treasure worth more than $10 million. Where did they find the century old gold pieces?, They were buried in eight metal cans on their property. —Jim L. Wilson and Jason Blankenship https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-california-coins/california-couple-finds-10-million-in-buried-treasure-while-walking-dog-idUSBREA1P03M20140226…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Between November 2019 and February 2020, scientists watching the distant star Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetle juice) believed they were observing the beginning of the final days of the red supergiant star. The star dimmed dramatically, and astronomers thought the massive sun was about to explode and become…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
In Everyone’s Favorite Space Cowboy, Din Djarin, is fleeing from a post-imperial attack aimed at seizing from him the precious little asset known as “the Child,” who’s often colloquially referred to as “baby Yoda.” As the Mandalorian and his posse make their way to a secret hideout, they discover his…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Twenty-five-year-old Devin Custalow waited nearly 30 minutes on Valentine’s Day hoping a man she met on the subway in October would show up. Custalow met the man and felt a connection with him, so she created a 20-foot mural asking him to meet her on Valentine’s Day. She was surrounded by friends, family,…