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Behold! New Jersey’s Rainbow Plane
Find it on Google Earth. Thanks to Weird Things reader Darcy!
Could Microscopic Parasites Be Responsible For Transforming Dogs Into Chupacabras?
Most Chupacabra sightings/corpses can be easily identified as mangey, feral dogs who unpredictably roam desolate areas attacking livestock. But why are these dogs being transformed into legendary monsters? We might have an answer! In a...
Fermilab Builds “Holometer” To Prove Your Eyes Are Really 3D Glasses
Is our reality really 2D? Is our concept of third dimensional space really an optical illusion? Are our eyes deceiving us to believe we are anything other than Super Mario sidescrolling through life? Is the above commercial featuring...
Breakthrough Could Lead To Printable Body Armor Tougher Than Kevlar
Israeli researchers have discovered a way to assemble transparent nanospheres that unite to form the stiffest biological material the world has ever seen. This could lead to printable body armor, tougher steel and more bullet-proof...
Zombie Outbreak & Infection: A Mathematical Study
I am not nearly smart enough to take all of this in, but many of your surely are. Several math wizards finally broke down the hard numbers on a zombie outbreak. How fast would it spread? When is it statistically hopeless for survivors? At...
Military Pay $9 Million To Develop Flying Humvee
Finally, jerks of 2024, you know what car you’ll be driving. DARPA has awarded $9 million in contracts to develop a flying war time vehicle that can drop supplies and engaged in limited air to ground combat. [LA Times]
Frightening New Carnivorous Mammal Discovered In Madagascar
New, toothy, endangered mammal discovered in Madagascar. Dreamworks already in talks with John Tuturro to voice to the creature in Madagascar 3: The Undiscovered Country. [Discovery]
Robotic Jetpacks? They’re Real
According to Martin Aircraft, they’ve developed a fully robotic jetpack that can be used to drop supplies to troops or bombs on enemies. It uses regular fuel and can take off from the back of a flat-bed truck. [Fox News]
Did History Vindicate Ruined Pilot’s Incredible Survival Story?
Air Force Lt. David Steeves died in 1965, a liar. According to popular thought, his claim to fame was a hoax at best and treason at worst. He was divorced, slandered and wound up in court suing a publisher who’d once courted him to write a...
The Bear That Mauled HItler [WeirdThingsTV]
Podcast: Rogue Robot Division
Has The Air Force Landed Their Top Secret Space Plane?
Conspiracy nuts, on your mark! The top-secret X-37B space plane has already gone missing once this year (proving the craft to be far more agile than amateur military tech experts predicted) and now it has again disappeared. Many now...
Scots Honor Poland’s Nazi-Bashing Bear Soldier
From the grim depths of World War II shown spires of inspiration bright enough to pierce the darkness. Bravery, honor and humanity rarely seen beyond the bleakest of situations. Among them: Private Wojtek the bear that beat the Nazis....
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...
Seal Species Declared Dead In 1892 Makes Dramatic Return
Russian and American traders could not kill Guadalupe Fur Seals fast enough through the 1890s. Kill, kill, kill, kill, was the order of the day. But try as we might, you can’t keep a good seal down. Although apparently we can lose track of...
Chinese Researchers Want YOU To Hunt For Their Bigfoot
Got a hankering to hunt down a Chinese Bigfoot? Your ship has come in, sailor! The Hubei Wild Man Research Association (HWMRA) in China’s Hubei province announced they are recruiting researchers from around the world to join its team in...
You Can Sponsor The Weird Things Podcast
UPDATE: We are sold out! Thanks to everyone for responding so quickly. We hope you guys like it! Here at Weird Things we pride ourselves on thinking outside the box. If we can find room in our hearts for yetis, UFOs, self-driving cars and...
It Has Begun! Yetis Fighting “War” With Bears In Russia!
You are not ready for this, the coolest battle between animals in the history of recorded civilization. Due to forest fires, Yetis have unnaturally migrated to a new area of Russia. The problem? Local bears haven’t taken to kindly to their...
Would The Pope Baptize An Alien?
According to his chief astronomer? Yes! [Guardian]
Has The Mothman Flown To Germany? [Photo Proof]
A York woman discovered the following image in her photos from Nuremberg, Germany. “I was taking lots of photos to show people where we’d been, but when I got back into the car I noticed there was something on this one,“ said Abbey, who is...