Spooky quicks April 2025

The last month has been busy for me, and so I didn't update much on She Wolf Night blog as I wanted to. Still I plan to post this ready for the new month. There is a number of things to mention here on Spooky quicks April though. 

There have been numerous sightings of blue spirals in the sky appearing over Europe on 24th March 2025. While the mass media and Met Office have "explained" it off as leftover fuel from a Space X rocket launch. The rocket launched in Florida, at 1.48 pm ET (Eastern Time Zone). This was about 6.48pm BST (British Standard Time). It took until 8pm for the mysterious glowing blue spiral to appear in the sky above Wales.  

There's talk about a hidden underground city beneath the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. While the idea of a lost hidden city is very exciting, it's caused much arguments about it among scientists. Researchers from Scotland and Italy used a radar technology that found these buildings. After making the discovery, it was described as structures hundreds of feet below the ground. However many others have not liked it and this includes archaeologist Zahi Hawass who is described as a type of real life Indiana Jones. 

Monsters now, sightings of the legendary Mokele-mbembe have increased. The Mokele-mbembe is a strange unknown creature that resembles a dinosaur with a long neck. Often seen in the forests of the Congo Basin, while a plant eater, the monster has been blamed for killing people. 

Bigfoot has been accused of photobombing a weather forecast news report! This happened in Fayette County in Pennsylvania. The National Weather Service was there to make a story about storm damage when Bigfoot appeared in the background, observing. A local man was clearing leaves and caught the attention of Bigfoot, which was all captured on camera. Some sceptics believe the Bigfoot entity was really "garden decoration" but that was not in the garden but further away in the woods!

For the story on photobombing Bigfoot visit Fox Weather article Here.

By the way, Wolf likes to drink caramel latte and watch "Emmerdale" on Tv... LOL No not really! Happy April Fool's Day!

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Hell Kettles

There are three mysterious ponds in a marshy piece of open land near Croft-on-Tees, England. It's freshwater fed by springs and is estimated to be 20 feet deep. They might've appeared there during the Middle Ages. These ponds were mentioned in the Brompton's Chronicle, written in 1328, describing it as making an incredible show at Christmas.

"The ground rose up so high with such vehemence that it was equal to the highest tops of the mountains, and towered above the lofty pinnacles of the churches, and at that height remained from the ninth hour of the day even to sunset. But at sunset it fell with so horrible a crash, that it terrified all who saw that heap, and heard the noise of its fall, whence many died from that fear; for the earth swallowed it up, and caused in the same place a very deep pit." 

(This is the English translation from Latin that it was originally written). Some suggest that what happened back then were collapsed coal pits. People living around the location have often called them kettles of Hell and Devil's Kettles. It's also believed that tormented angry spirits were living inside them. Many claimed to have heard screams and shouting coming from within the kettles. 

Even after the Age of Reason, people found the kettles unsettling. During the Victorian era, the water in the kettles were "boiling" hot! It was written that there was foam also in the water, accompanied by eerie sounds that were like human screams. Found to be haunted, the gothic Victorians connected the kettles with ghosts. The temperature of the water changes from hot to cold, and followed by a smell of sulphur. 

The kettles formed in a horrific way back in 1179 when the ground rose up at a towering height and then fell down with a thunderous loud crash that made some die of heart attacks. Theories about what this was range from collapsing pits to natural breakup of a gypsum and mudstone landslide. To me it sounds like a natural geyser that erupted due to an amount of pressure. If it were then it's the only recorded natural geyser to have happened in that part of the UK. 

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Kuma Lisa

Kuma Lisa is a naughty vixen and is known as a trickster character. She's a sister, daughter, princess and a godmother. She's referred to as Godmother Lisa and goes by another name Lisa Petrikeyevna. Kuma Lisa appears in a load of stories found in myths around Eastern Europe in many Slavic countries. 

She likes to play pranks and one of her victims is the honest wolf Kumcho Vulcho, who is opposite her and keeps suffering from her tricks. The stories are about her thinking of ways to get up to mischief in order to get what she wants. Interestingly, she might be a shapeshifter as she's got human traits and this includes physically looking like a woman but sometimes she's a fox.   

A well known story is about Kuma Lisa and the vineyard. She becomes hungry looking at juicy grapes dangling from vines growing behind a big tall fence. She manages to squeeze through a small gap in the fence, and then she eats a load of grape greedily. When she's had enough and wants to leave, she's not able to squeeze through the gap. So she lets some time pass so that she loses a lot of weight and can escape. By the time she leaves, she's hungry again and muses: "I was hungry when I got in, and I am hungry when I have to go out."

Kuma Lisa also enjoys stealing chickens from a farmer that she likes messing with on purpose. Kuma Lisa also likes teasing a hedgehog. She tricked him into thinking she was sick and weak. The hedgehog felt sorry for her and took her to see a rabbit who was a healer. Then Kuma Lisa killed and ate the rabbit after pretending to be ill. She didn't have any remorse and has often made others miserable. Kuma Lisa has many similar traits to the Kitsune fox women of Japan and China. 

Read "Sister Fox and Brother Wolf" story at Poems For Kids.  

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Worm moon

March is a time when the full moon is called Worm Moon. This is because the appearance of earthworms above the soil is a sign that Spring is on the way and Winter is leaving. The worm moon is also the last full moon of Winter but the first full moon of Spring. Spring is coming.

Other names for March full moon include Lenten Moon, Wind Moon, Plough Moon, Chaste Moon, Death Moon, Crow Moon, Snow Crust Moon, Sap Moon and Sugar Moon. What's more special about this year's moon is that there's going to be full lunar eclipse on 13th and 14th of March. This will also be a significant "blood moon". This month's moon will be in Virgo, which is said to be about healing and creative energy.  

Also it's worth mentioning  that the sun will be making an interesting show. Across the northern hemisphere will be a visible solar partial eclipse on 29th March 2025. It will be seen from North America and Europe. The sun will be in Pisces and this will mean a symbolic time of dreaming and magic. 

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