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World’s Greatest Con’s season 2 finale is out today. How was the process of building this season compared to season 1? Plus, a discussion on the crowd-funding campaign for Brandon Sanderson’s surprise novel series. Send your project questio
Podcasts Take A Holiday!
We did something different this week! Andrew, Justin, and Brian got together in Demeo, a co-op VR tabletop RPG. Spells and tempers flare in this group videogame. See the entire stream here in video: In Demeo, each player picks a class and t
AT: Call It!
Listener Ken overworks his projects and asks for advice on simplifying and saying when enough is enough. Check out Andrew’s new tool for podcasters, PodcastLink.com. Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “Afte
WT: Birds Didn’t Start the Fire
A new vector in fire-starting. A grotesque moral and ethical dilemma from a century ago. The 5 second rule of infectious disease. With Weird Things producer Bryce Castillo. Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird T
First FAA-Approved Drone Delivery Isn’t Amazon – It’s a Medical Supply Delivery to People in Need
Drone delivery services have faced a LOT of set backs, legal issues and red tape. But now all of that seems to be slowly melting away and all the starting parameters and legislation should be ironed out with in the year. Recently the FAA ha
After Things: Work Versus Trophy
Podcast: Goblin Rock
Goblins terrorize Africa in the most rockin’ way possible. Anthrax is loose, how could this happen! Chick Pox lollipops are all the rage. Who were the first Americans? Why are we tribal? It’s all explained in a new Weird Things podcast. &nb
Podcast: Star Chimps
Did we just invent a warp drive? The boys discover the oldest civilizational site on Earth while contemplating the possibility of a new home for humanity beyond the stars. Also: chimpanzee fossils and much more! Try out the br
Cupcake Toothpaste and Fried Chicken Candles – Food Stuff You Can’t Eat But Want to
The nation’s alleged problem with obesity is probably going to continue getting worse because of stuff like this: Kathy Werking (who’s also creating a mint julep-scented candle) has formulated a candle that, according to its description, wi
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Get The Avengers for your Blu-Ray, DVD, iPhone, iPad, etc. for just $29.99!
Get your copy of the Avengers yet? If not, why are you waiting? Right now on Amazon you can get a digital copy that will play on your iPhone or iPad (and available also as a stream for your Apple TV), the Blu-Ray, the 3D Blu-Ray, a DVD copy
Nigerian Woman Gives Birth to Horse-Baby!
Right up there with Geena Davis’ nightmare of giving birth to Jeff Goldblum’s little baby ‘Brundlefly’ comes a story about a woman giving birth… To a horse. During a program about prophecy, a female member of the Worshippers of the World Li
Weird Things Podcast Recording 8/20/12
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Aliens are Watching Doctor Who and They Like It!
About 50 years ago about 90 stations around the world had the capacity to transmit TV signals with enough power to reach Interstellar Space. In many ways the only evidence of our presence as a civilization in this galaxy is all the televisi
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Crime scene photo? Nope. Latest bath-salt/synthetic marijuana zombie attack victim? Nope. Bad timing with the Enterprise’s transporter? uh…Nope. This awesome piece of ugly mimicry is all-natural, folks. It’s a fungus. Called the Auricularia
Happy Father’s Day from Weird Things!
For all of our WeirdThings fathers. A male seahorse…doing something you don’t have to…giving birth. You’re welcome. Happy Father’s Day [YouTube]
Plant Bitchslaps Meals Before Killing Them
Carnivorous plants are as sneaky as they are creepy. What they lack in speed, they make up for in shady tactics to attract and snag prey. The standard ‘Pitcher Plant’, shaped like something you’d pour Evil Nectar-flavored Kool-Aid from, dra
Kickstarter Pulls Tentacle Fetish Card Game, Fans Ensare Censorship Kerfuffle
Tentacle Bento, a MUCH spicier niche game than Magic: The Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh, made its way onto the crowd-funding project site, Kickstarter. Within one week, Tentacle Bento rocketed past its $13,000 goal by over $17,000! The game’s objec
WeirdThings Podcast Live with Justin Robert Young, Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt
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Our Favorite Take Away From SpaceX on 60 Minutes
Elon Musk got his close-up beauty shot last night on CBS’ venerable newsmagazine 60 Minutes. His company SpaceX was the subject. Here was our favorite impression. The biggest geeks about SpaceX work at SpaceX. Every employee interviewed sha
MythBusters Fight Back After Penn & Teller Invade Their Turf
So Penn & Teller create their own show on the Discovery Channel debating the legitimacy of various claims. Now, Jamie and Adam of MythBusters fame are invading P&T’s turf with a live stage show. See how these things escalate? The pair begin
Found Item Kinetic Sculpture Rides Real Bike
Andrew Smith was commissioned by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not to create this moving sculpture constructed from found items including railroad lanterns and an old bicycle. Really amazing looking piece of art. [YouTube]
Amazing TARDIS DVD Closet
Okay, it’s not bigger on the inside but this TARDIS themed door to a DVD closet is the coolest DIY project you’ll see today. Thanks to Steven Lauren on G+ for tipping us off to it. Find a few more pictures AFTER THE JUMP… [TheRPS]
UFO Spotted During Trick Or Treating = Best Halloween EVAR!!!
What I wouldn’t give to be in this car. A Missouri mom was taking her children out trick or treating when she saw what looked to be an unidentified flying object. She followed the craft around for well over an hour with her excited kids coo
Science Fact: Men Are Funnier Than Women
Men are funnier than women, according to a new study out of UC San Diego. But only barely, a scientist quickly added realizing he still has to go home to his wife. And men mostly found other men funny which accounts for the slight advantage
Insane Slow-Motion Sky Diving
Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.
Amazing Kreskin Knew The Rapture Wasn’t Coming Because He Didn’t Predict It
Here is world famous mentalist The Amazing Kreskin on why he wasn’t sweating all the Rapture talk by Harold Camping one week ago: “I immediately checked my predictions for this year, and finding nothing regarding such, went on with my life.
Let’s Start A Osama Bin Laden Hoax!
Pull over, that black hole is too fat
Weighing in at over 6 billion times the mass of our solar system, astronomers have found the most massive black hole yet at the center of galaxy M87. Three times large than Pluto’s orbit, it’s very, very big. Not to be outdone, chubby lovin
Could A Stolen Yeti Paw, Skull Come Home For Christmas? [WeirdThingsTV]
Listen to the WeirdThings Podcast gang talk about this story as well!
Smoking Chimp Discovered In Lebanon, Deported To Brazil
If you were discovered in Beirut, as the center of attention making everyone around you laugh it up only to be found by some new friends who insist you travel with them to Brazil, you might think yourself a pretty lucky jet setter. If you a
Microchip In Retina Gives Sight To Blinded
The beautiful dream of a bionic eye has come one step closer to mainstream reality when three blind patient regained sight after having a microchip implanted in their retina. This method is revolutionary as it doesn’t rely on a camera to tr
Peruvian Pilot Recounts Insane 1980 Dogfight With UFO
On April, 11 1980 a Peruvian pilot came across a UFO. They locked into combat and this is what followed: When the Peruvian Sukhoi was already near the UFO, the object made a sudden stop, violating the laws of inertia. The fighter-bomber fle
The Mystery Of The Lake Travis Photo Monster
This picture was taken in 2007 by a college biology professor simply trying to test the flash during a research project near Lake Travis, TX. The professor and his student wrapped up their business near the creepy lake and left. It was only
Canadian Sewer Workers Happen Upon Gigantic Dinosaur Tooth
A work crew in Edmonton found a huge dinosaur bone while working in a sewer tunnel. What’s amazing is not necessarily the discovery, but the cavalier attitude held by the museum official the crew turned the fossil over to. Museum officials
Mapping Out The Evolutionary Path Necessary To Create A Dragon
You want dragon? Here is how you’d make one with revisionist evolution… [Pop Sci]
Octopus Found With Sub-Zero Venom
File this under “Things We Didn’t Know Were Super Cool Until We Heard It Was Real”: HONG KONG (Reuters) – Researchers have discovered four new species of octopus in Antarctica with venom that works at sub-zero temperatures. They hope to ana
Science Hard At Work On Inception Technology As We Speak
The official Weird Things review of Inception? See it. Now. Stop reading. You back? How awesome was that movie? I know! Remember that part when (REDACTED FOR SPOILERS)? So awesome. Anyhow, here is where science is in terms of making all tha
British Royal Navy Clarifies Position On Sea Monsters
There is no official folder sitting in a dusty basement file room marked “Sea Monsters: CLASSIFIED” containing a hundred years worth of reports from parchment to dot matrix print outs about krakens, giants squid and God knows what else lurk
Science Proves Armageddon Correct! [WeirdThingsTV]
Scientists Chemically Alter Developing Fish Brains So They Resemble Other Species
A breakthrough in how we understand brain development has led a group of researchers to totally change a developing fish brain into one that looks like another species of fish… In another part of the study, the team wanted to see if they co
Maya Plumbing = Oldest Pressurized Water In New World
The Maya people were forerunners on a lot of concepts. You can add piping pressurized water all over the place to that list. A water feature found in the Maya city of Palenque, Mexico, is the earliest known example of engineered water press
Slave Leia Metal Bikini Invade Phoenix Suns Dance Team
Who needs context? [@xmasape]
Space Wants to Kill Us
In Michael Crichton’s 1969 novel Andromeda Strain (and subsequent film and recent TV mini-series) the premise is about an extra-terrestrial microorganism that threatens to wipe humanity off the planet through truly horrific blood clotting.
Carl Sagan Day
Want to meet up with some of the folks behind Weird Things? Plan on being in South Florida on Saturday? Want to pay your respect to Carl Sagan? Meet James Randi, Phil Plait and others? Then meet us at Carl Sagan day at Broward College this
Weirdest Thing In The World Chat: Houdini Pregame
We are still unsure of the exact details on where but on the Weirdest Thing in the World chat today at 5:30 p.m. we are going to announce the official final line-up of celebrity word donors for our big Halloween Houdini Seance. Other than t
Head Of A Fox, Wings Of A Bat: The Weirdest Thing In The Sky
The Indian Flying Fox Bat has the largest recorded wingspan in the world, sometimes stretching up to two meters. It was selected as the Weirdest Thing In The Sky during our Tinychat competition last week. Stay tuned for this week’s category
Was Kennedy Advised By Little Green Men?
Penn Bullock reports: George Adamski is one of the original, pioneering Ufologists. In 1946, while watching a meteor shower (when lights tend to streak through the night sky), Adamski and his friends noticed a cluster of lights in formation
Bizarre New York Pet Shop
Check out this video of British graffiti artist Banksy’s latest New York exploit. The shop keeper actor is a great touch. Here’s a link to the official site for the shop: Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grille This is the highest quality vid
Mysterious Sicilian Boiling Hot Floor
The Fiandaca family called firefighters to their home in Sicily yesterday as temperatures emanating from the floors of their home reached boiling point. According to Maria Fiandaca, the floors had been heating up all week and suddenly becam
Weirdthings Investigates: Coral Castle Update!
Acclaimed paranormal investigator Alison Smith, has agreed to join our merry band of ‘Weird Thugs’ as we take on Coral Castle this Saturday, May 9. That’s right, a real, live woman at a paranormal investigation, who would have thunk it? Rea
Fir Tree Found Growing in Russian Man’s Lung
When we were little kids, we all asked the question: If I swallow a seed, will it sprout and start growing inside my stomach? Only to be reassured by our parents that no such thing could ever happen. No one ever thought to ask about inhalin
Hidden Planet
A previously overlooked planet has been found hiding in an 11 year old Hubble Telescope image. Using new techniques that more accurately gauge the distribution of scattered light given off by close stars, patches that appeared as blank spac
Buddha and Jesus: Both Ukrainian
According to Dr. Valery Bebik, a professor and deputy principal at Ukraine University: ”It is quite possible that Buddha belonged to the Scythian nation of Budins that lived on the territory of Ancient Ukraine during the first or the second
Housing Developers Find Megalithic Stones
Sarsen Stones, like the ones pictured above in Avebury, have been found in an unlikely place. A housing development project in Swindon, UK, has unearthed what appear to be sarsen stones. If they do turn out to be the real deal then this is
Druid: The Other White Meat
When you think stone henge cannibalism isn't the first thing that comes to mind. But according to a new National Geographic News article the Druids may have ritualistically and zealously practiced cannibalism. This shouldn't come as a major
Mystery Cat on the prowl in Poland
A big cat, caught on tape, has been attacking livestock in Poland, freaking out local farmers and residents. Poland doesn't have much in the way of big cat populations, so a mystified group from the Krakau Zoo took hair samples from dead an
Believers In Life After Death Cling To Life
Polls suggest that 95 percent of the population of the United States believe they will survive their own death. I can’t help wondering how many people who claim such belief really, in their heart of hearts, hold it. If they were truly since
Excavation Begins on Ancient Underwater Settlement
Ok, it didn’t start underwater….The ancient artificial harbor at Limantepe in Turkey is believed to have been submerged during a massive earthquake in 700 BC. The section of the settlement being excavated is a whopping one kilometer beneath
Nazi Aliens?
This aerial photograph, taken above a forest in Brandenburg, Germany could be the first evidence we have that Hitler and his chronies were just the first wave in a coming Nazi alien invasion….or it could just be a long forgotten Swastika sy
New Yeti Expedition Kicks Off in Siberia
photo credit: Jeremy Burgin Prompted by reports of human like creatures near a Siberian cave, a team of investigators lead by Igor Burtsev from the International Center for Hominology is heading out to the tundra to see what they can see: T
Dragon Attack!
photo credit: Scubabix A man was attacked and mauled to death by two Komodo Dragons in Indonesia today. Attacks on humans are usually rare but they’ve become more frequent in recent years, prompting us at weirdthings.com to ask, are the Kom
Feng Shui Experts: Hold Off On US Investment
Hong Kong based Feng Shui consultant Alion Yeo had 170 investors, all worth millions, come to her seminar to ask questions about finance and the economy. And from a reply he gave to a question asked from the audience, it's not looking good
Ten Dimensions in Ten Minutes
This video over at tenthdimension.com blew our minds when we first saw it. It is a lucid and concise guide to visualizing ten dimensional string theory from our humble four dimensional perspective. Mind boggling stuff. Stile sartoriale angi
Strange Structure on the Moon
A moon anomaly enthusiast over at paranormalnews.com has uncovered what he believes to be a “strange structure” in the Copernicus Crater on the moon’s surface. It’s definitely a strange something, but what we can’t say, we’re not astronomer
First Bigfoot Handprint Found?
photo credit: iwantamonkey The Bigfoot Enthusiast Group: Elusive Primates of North America (EPNA) claims that they have found a primate like Handprint on Sand Mountain in Alabama. The discovering group from the Alabama Chapter of the EPNA c
Abraham Lincoln Carried Secret Message in his Pocket Watch
Lincoln carried around a clandestine message inscribed on the inside of his pocket watch that he didn’t even know about. Under the advice of the great grandson of the watchmaker who supposedly made the mark, the curators at the Smithsonian
Protesters Demand Exorcism
photo credit: Thomas Hawk I’ve heard of workers striking for better wages and better hours, but never workers striking for a demon free workplace. Indian and Sri Lankan factory workers in Jordan have done just that. Claiming that the Jordan
New Device Makes Ghostbusters Obsolete!
This new device may put ghostbusters and exorcists everywhere out of business. Our friends at randi.org have posted an article about a Thai company’s claim that they have invented an in-house “Ghost Repeller”. The Trisaksri Ghost Repellent
The Truth Behind Lost's Moving Island
photo credit: Aaron Escobar™ Can an island really move like the island(s) on Lost? Short answer yes. Maybe not through a donkey wheel in the bottom of a well, but an island can definitely move around. The not so technical term is a “floatin
Is Canada's Creationist Science Minister So Strange?
Gary Goodyear, Canada’s Minister for Science and Technology, has caused quite a stir in the last few days by refusing to answer questions about whether or not he believes in evolution. Bloggers are up in arms condemning the former chiroprac
One Horned Mystery Creature found on beach in Trinidad and Tobago
The latest news from cryptozoology.com links to an article from a local Trinidad newspaper. Apparently a one horned beast washed ashore on the island of Cedros and excited locals claimed that it was anything from a Narwhal to a Unicorn. The
Kim Jong-Charlie and the Candy Factory
“EXCELLENT! Finally, my plan to bring joy to the children of the world using gumdrop guided missiles can come to fruition!” This photo makes us happier than a despot in a candy store. Pictured above is North Korea’s fearless leader Kim Jong
A Sea Monster with Nothing to Hide
No, it’s not Casper the friendly ghostfish. The Barreleye fish is an elusive deep sea creature. Until recently scientists didn’t know that it had a bizarre translucent head, then the beast was observed alive and caught on camera.
Exotic Supersolid Washing Machine
Time for a little weird physics. What makes supersolids weird? Well according to sciencedaily.com “a supersolid, is an exotic state of matter that behaves simultaneously as a solid and a friction-free superfluid.” This means that supersolid
NASA Airbrush Conspiracy?
Something is amiss on Mars once again. The people over at paranormalnews.com spotted what appears to be shoddy airbrushing in a NASA photo taken of Hale’s Crater, and they’re shouting conspiracy. The nifty graphic above is supposed to expos
A Real Life Fairy Tale Murder
Most of us see fairies as the most harmless of folklore. The Cottingley Fairy hoax perpetrated by Elsie Wright in 1916 comes to mind. What’s the harm? Stories to do with fairies are most often adorable tales of dainty little creatures doing
Aliens…or Angels?
You’ve heard of extraterrestrials, you’ve heard of angels, now comes….wait for it….Extraterrestrial Angels. The UFOlogists over at alienresistance.org argue the biblical evidence for aliens and explore the crossover between alien encounters
Weird Geography: Does this look like a nation to you?
According to Wikipedia” “Micronations are entities that resemble independent nations or states but which are unrecognized by world governments or major international organizations.” The Platform in the picture above is actually the Nation o
The Golden Fountain of Youth
We are pleased to announce that the 5th World Congress on Urotherapy is coming up in November, 2009! For those of you not in the uriknow, Urotherapy or Urine Therapy is an alternative medicine that uses human and other animal urine as treat
Ghost Visions in Europe
Awesome evil magic duo Barry and Stuart sent me a link to this clip from the Sun. Apparently some kid caught a ghost on his camera phone…look familiar? Look at the fun you too can have with Ghost Vision! Available here for only $15?????????
Jim Steinmeyer releases book on Charles Fort
Magic inventor and legend Jim Steinmeyer has finally released his book on supernaturalist Charles Fort. I’ve just ordered my copy from Amazon and look forward to reading it. Link Solubili dall’acqua effetti collaterali cialis kamagra oral j
Are the Phoenix Mystery Lights the work of a potential Arsonist?
It would appear the recent night time light show that reminded some of Close Encounters of the Third kind may have been the work of a man with some balloons and road flares. Way to go genius. Real UFO fakers use light sticks… Link Embargo,
Why teenagers make bad Popes
Gambling, incest, whorehouses, invoking the devil and Jupiter, our modern day troublemaking celebrities have nothing on Popes of a bygone age. Check out this account of the teenaged Pope John XII (elected at 18, pope from 955 – 964). FYI, h
Is this the call of Cthulhu?
In the summer of 1997 NOAA recorded a mysterious sound in the ocean on several hydrophones. The sound was capable of being heard for over 5000 km. There was no known source. Its audio profile matched that of a biological (a living creature)
Secrets of the Komodo dragon bite
Researchers have come to a conclusion as to why the Komodo dragon’s bite is a lot worse than it should be for a mouth of that size. Besides the infectious diseases they carry in their mouths and the 60 little daggers of teeth, the real powe
Is the Grand Canyon hiding an ancient Egyptian civilization?
A 1909 edition of the Phoenix Gazette describes the discovery by the Smithsonian Institute of a mammoth cave system with the remnants of a civilization numbering 50,000 people. Granaries, tombs and even idols reminiscent of Buddha were alle
Bizarro version of Disneyland
Exactly whose dream is Nara Dreamland in Japan? The now closed park has its own princess castle, Matterhorn ride, Jungle Cruise and many other eerily similar versions of famous Disney attractions. It's also got a building covered in swastik
Does your city have a secret subway system beneath your feet?
Cincinnati does. A journey to the center of the earth (beneath Cincinnati) The official story from the man Flickr photos
Disney UFO?
Flickr member meshmar2 took this interesting photo of what would appear to be an unidentified flying object at Walt Disney World’s Epcot….until he went ahead and identified it for us (thanks killjoy!). Link Essas doenças têm A pílula rosa –
Is this the face of the man who killed Bigfoot?
American hero, frontiersman and all around awesome cultural icon Daniel Boone liked to tell tall tales. One of his tallest was his claim that he once shot and killed a 10 foot hairy creature he referred to as a “yahoo”. Skeptical Inquirer t
Know your Yowies
The word “Yowie” was also apparently a slang term for the Orang-utan in Victorian England.