 Invented in the 1980s by amateur chemist Maurice

Ward, Starlite was a material that could supposedly

withstand a nuclear blast
 The complex plastic reportedly contained “up to 21
organic polymers and copolymers, and small quantities
of ceramics
 In demonstrations, eggs protected with a Starlite
coating remained raw in the 2,200 F (1.200 C) flame of a
blowtorch and in the other tests, the material defined
18,000 F (10,000 C) laser blast, 3 times the sublimation
point of diamond
 It was remarkable lightweight, released no toxic fumes,
and could be formulated as a liquid, paste, or molded
solid
 Although Starlite drew the interest of governments and
multi-national corporations ward failed to
commercialize the invention Refusing to reliquish a
controlling interest in the mystery formula until it
vanished with his death in 2011
 In the late 1970s, auto mechanic Tom Ogle unveiled a
device that allegedly increased auto fuel efficiency over
100 mpg (42 km/L)
 The black box did away with a traditional fuel pump
and carburattor in favor of a high pressure vaporized
fuel injection
 His upgrade required a reinforced gas tank and heating
coils, as pulling vapor from the liquid fuel rendered it
ice cold
 Ogle demonstrated his prototype to reporters by
driving 200 miles (322 km) from Deming to El Paso,
Texas on 2 gallons (7.5 L) of gas
 Oil companies reportedly approached Ogle with
million-dollar offers to never build another machine,
but Ogle refused to sell
 Ogle had dreams to design and sell his own car, but he
was shot by an unidentified assailant in 1981 before
suspiciously dying of an accidental overdose later that
same year
 Pellegrino Erentti was a Roman Catholic Bendictine priest
known as the most famous exorcist on Venice, Italy
 In the 1950s, Erentti claimed to have invented a time viewer
called “Chronovisor” that allowed viewing events from the
past
 Erentti held a degree in quantum physics and waws
allegedly assisted by scientists such as Enrico Fermi and
Warnher von Braun
 The chronovisor was described as a cabinet with a series of
mysterious controls that could decode past electromagnetic
radiation
 Using the machine, Erentti said he had observed and
photographed Christ’s crucifixion an assertion he recanted
in confession
 Yet, just prior to Erentti’s death, a fellow priest claimed he
learned the Vatican had ordered a functional chronovisor
destroyed and that Erentti’s confession was falsely
concerned forever hide the technology away from
“ungodly” hands
 The Teleforce was a “charged particle beam” weapon
developed by Nikola Tesla in the 1930s based on the
Van de Graaf generator.
 Tesla claimed that his “death ray” could bring down a
fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles
(322 km)
 He reportedly carried out successful scaled tests of a
weapon, but its true mode of action remains unknown
some speculate it may have been a laser or a photo-
railgun
 Negotiations for technology were conducted several
world powers, but Tesla refused to provide blueprints
 Wary of his superweapon’s “power to end all war”
landing in the wrong hands, Tesla kept the schematic
“all in his mind”
 The soviet Union was rumored to have tested a stage of
the device, but the full design disappeared with Tesla’s
death in 1943
 In the late 1990s, Dutch inventor Romke Jan Bernhard
Sloot claimed to have developed a revolutionary form
of data “compression
 The Sloot Digital Coding System was said have been
able to compress an entire multi GB movie to the size of
8 kb.
 Sloot’s invention allegedly allowed him to play 16
movies simultaneously from a 64 kb chip without
reading from a hard drive
 Upon demonstrating the idea to philips executives in
1999, Sloot was told he was about to be “the richest man
on Earth”
 However, two days before the source code was going to
be handed over, Sloot was found dead in his garden of a
heart attack
 His decoding algorithm was never recovered and it was
revealed that someone had also tampered with the
demonstration chip