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There’s a Fresh Geyser Mystery in Stranger With Metal Detector Yellowstone

Rescues Heirloom Ring It’s unclear why the Steamboat Geyser had a record year

It’s the tallest active geyser on the planet— with an emphasis on “active.” From 2015 to 2017, it didn’t erupt at all. There was another largely quiet period from 1911 to 1961, but in 2018 it logged a record-setting A Massachusetts woman’s diamond 32 eruptions, a feat it has crushed this year wedding ring, a family heirloom, is with 47 eruptions, per the US Geological back on her finger after a man with a Survey. Why? Good question, and one that metal detector responded to her social hasn’t been answered. It’s one on a long media plea for help and found it at the list of geyser mysteries, in fact. The geybottom of the ocean. Francesca Teal told ser-research field is a thin one, and as Yelthe Boston Globe that she was tossing lowstone National Park’s hydrologist exa football with her husband this month plained the area beneath Steamboat hasn’t at North Beach in Hampton, New been mapped. However, seismic sensors Hampshire, when the ring that once there have revealed that the geyser’s water belonged to her great-grandmother source may sit as deep as 130 feet. slipped off her finger. They couldn’t find the ring in the water after hours of searching, the 29-year-old said. Teal posted about the ordeal on Facebook and asked anyone who might frequent the beach with a metal detector to be on the lookout. Her post was shared thousands of times and got the attention of a man named Lou Asci. Asci, 60 put on a wetsuit and headlamp and went into the water searching for the ring with his metal detector. The Most other geysers seem to be fueled by first two days he went looking, he had shallower reserves; deeper equals warmno luck. er, so that could be a factor in Steamboat’s ability to propel water to heights of more “I wanted to go back and give it one than 300 feet. Michael Poland with the last shot,” he told the newspaper. That’s USGS earlier this year said it’s possible that when he found the ring buried beneath increased snowfall in Yellowstone of late the sandy ocean floor. He sent Teal a has led to more groundwater to fuel the picture, writing in a message: “Please geyser. What scientists are saying is that tell me this is the ring so I can finally get there’s no link between the increased activoff this beach.”ity and any potential looming eruption of

Yellowstone’s supervolcano. “Yellowstone Asci returned the ring to Teal’s home, has an incredible geyser system that is unand her husband got on one knee to related to magmatic activity—other than place it back on her finger. “I have been the magmatic system basically providing so overwhelmed by the kindness of heat,” tweeted one volcanologist. USA Tostrangers this past week,” Teal wrote on day noted that the Waimangu Geyser in Facebook. “It has been so amazing to New Zealand has managed to shoot wawitness humanity in this positive way & ter taller than Steamboat has, but it’s been has brought so much faith to myself & others.”

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Whitey Bulger’s Alleged Killers Knew He Was Coming

Once he was transferred to a prison in West Virginia, mobster-turned-informant Whitey Bulger apparently didn’t have a chance. The reason? Other inmates in the Hazelton facility knew he was coming in advance, even though his identity was supposed to have been kept under wraps, reported NBC news. “We’re getting ready to get another shortly after 6am and bludgeoned the higher profile person here tonight,” 89-year-old to death. McKinnon alleHazelton inmate Sean McKinnon gedly sat at a nearby table and acted as told his mother in a phone call the lookout. All three now face charges inafternoon of Oct. 29. 2018. McKin- cluding conspiracy to kill Bulger. Bulnon’s mother warned her son to stay ger’s death has been viewed as a huge away from Bulger, according to the failure of the federal prison system, transcript prosecutors read from in and the new revelation that inmates federal court. “Ah, I can’t,” McKin- knew Bulger’s identity ahead of time non replied. only adds to that. The court proceeding filled in one more grisly detail: Prosecutors say the very next morning, two inmates with mob ties Prosecutors say the killers admitted -Fotios ”Freddy” Geas and Paul using a ”belt with a lock attached” for DeCologero entered Bulger’s cell the fatal beating. Shop In RI 5