I also believe in pepperoni. Unsure about ghosts. I'm kind of like vlady in that I recognize the unexplained, but believe it will eventually be explained.

Not sure I buy his electric impulse theory. Mainly because I've never heard of a "first orgasm after 20 years in the pen" or an "I just won the lottery" ghost.

vladykins @ 28/3/2017 11:39

Dr. Herm @ 28/3/2017 12:36 Maybe when the angel statue was first designed, the head and the wings were put on seperately, thus when someone made it fall those parts naturally came clean off? Unfortunately no- its pretty clear that it was molded all at one time. There were some larger rocks in the concrete and they were shorn in half- one half in the wing and the other in the body, or one half in the head/neck and the other in the body. I wish I had a picture to show; it's the weirdest thing.

Years of freezing and thawing?

vladykins @ 28/3/2017 13:28

But you (Ape) are far more an expert on properties of concrete than I am (given your profession), so maybe you can help explain. The rocks inside were actually decent sized: from gravel to about 1/2 to an inch in size.

I'm more an expert on steel, but the cracks in the concrete could be 100% unnoticeable. It is naturally porous, and any pores that happen to line up will eventually become a crack. I do know that without steel reinforcement, concrete doesn't bear even gravity loads for long.

The rocks breaking in half are kind of a stumper, but I think it would depend on the type of rock and its properties compared to the concrete.

The timing is also odd, as normally concrete cracks degenerate slowly. It could be that the conrete was hairlined years before and the rocks were the only thing bearing the load before they finally broke due to a sudden temperature drop?

The other, and most likely, possibility would be that it was broken and patched back together at the factory. Then sold to poor suckers at full price. Was it bare concrete or painted?

Another fun option is that a ghost lopped them off with some kind of badass ghost sword.

Just guessing here, but it's kind of fun.