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The Virus That Will Turn Us All Into The Walking Dead Zombies! [WeirdThingsTV]
And Now: A Charred Bison Being Chased By A Hungry Bear
No words. [KRTV]
Fruit Eating Kangaroo-Like Chupacabra Haunting Wisconsin
Residents in southeastern Wisconsin have recently been reporting sightings of a nocturnal creature invading their back yards. This photo was snapped by a woman as the creature sat in her back yard on its hind legs eating crab apples. The...
Man Sleepshoots Self
A Colorado man had a rude awakening when he kneecapped himself while sleeping. Sanford Rothman, who lives on Mineola Court in southeastern Boulder, told police he woke up to a “bang” and discovered he was shot in the left knee. He said he...
Great Apes Might Be As Smart As Humans
It looks like we’ve misunderstood how smart great apes. Is this the beginning of the end for us? Great apes might be much more similar to us — and just as smart — than science has led us to believe. A new study will examine the extent to...
Podcast: Room 717
Chatbot Fools Human Judge
Please introduce yourself to Skynet Suzette, the latest winner of the Loebner Prize. The Loebner Prize is a version of the Turing Test where a judge talks to both a computer and a human at the same time for a set interval and then chooses...
Airborne Rabies Would Create Zombie “Rage Virus”
According to the upcoming National Geographic documentary The Truth Behind Zombies, we may be a few mutations or lab experiments away from a full scale zombie apocalypse. If the rabies virus, which can cause violently mad behaviour, was...
100 lbs. Giant Piranha! HOLY CHRIST ON A CRACKER! [Picture Proof]
Jeremy Wade hosts a show on Animal Planet called River Monsters. He caught a goliath tiger fish that he nicknamed a Giant Piranha. [Seedorama]
New Paranormal Investigation Of Titantic Set For Spring 2011
The best place to hunt for ghosts are places where a lot of people tragically died. So really, the question isn’t why 100 paranormal investigators are heading out to look over the sunken wreckage of the Titanic in 2011. It’s what took them...
Ghosts Have Nothing On Rent
Rent has gotten scary enough that 51% of those polled would happily share their house with a ghost if that meant that they could live there for free. In fact, over a quarter of the respondents would be quite satisfied with simply going...
Russian Bears Snacking on Corpses
Due to a harsh food shortage Russian bears have been unable to find enough of their traditional berries, mushrooms, frogs, and fish to keep them going. These hungry bears have taken matters into their own hands and turned to digging up and...
Bees Shame Computers, Travelling Salesmen
A complex mathematical problem known as the Travelling Salesman Problem, and which is known to take a supercomputer days to solve, is effectively being solved by bees in real time. Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London and Royal...
Billionaires Asked To Kick In Cash For One-Way Space Colonization Mission
You know a plan is closer to reality when you start accepting checks for it. With that being said, this is an awesome plan: Pete Worden, the director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, recently hinted that billionaires are being recruited to...
Video Proof Of Time Traveller In 1928 Talking On Cell Phone
This is a clip from “The Circus” a 1928 film by Charlie Chaplin. It shows what looks to be a passerby clutching something to their ear, as one would a cell phone. This has led a few to believe this is proof that a time traveller who has...
Visionary Mollusk, Scourge To Bookies: Paul The Octopus Dies
We spent quite a bit of time during the World Cup discussing Paul the Octopus. The tentacled critter, who from the watery confines of his tank at a German zoo correctly predicted all of his home country’s games as well as the final. He...
Study: Oceans Won’t Singe Our Pathetic Earth With Vile Acid
According to our most recent studies, fears that we are the last generation to see coral reef due to the rising acidification of our waters is unfounded. This has been a fear raised by climate change studies which suggest CO2 concentration...
Podcast: The Unicorn Deception
The Forgotten, Drunken, Voodoo Inspired Attempt To Kill Hitler
It’s 1942 and a portion of the world has united against freedom. The Axis powers, under the command of villainous Adolf Hitler seek to not only continue their unrivaled campaign of genocide but to remake the world in their image. Society...
Secret Of The Ooze: Green Tide Pool Attracts UFO Experts, Marine Biologists
A tide pool in the coastal regions of Oregon is attracting a lot of attention for a few different reasons. Not only is the water a very distinct shade of neon green it also happens to be in the epicenter of an area famous for rampant UFO...