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Air Force Officers Speak Out About UFO Sightings Near Nuclear Missles
According to some retired Air Force officers, UFOs have a habit of hovering over military bases and shutting down nuclear missiles. Although they concede that the objects may not have been alien in origin, according to them, their memories...
Podcast: Cocaine Fueled Zombie Hysteria
2 New Dinosaurs Found In “Lost Continent” (A.K.A. Utah)
You may in your lifetime have thought Utah a bit odd, it’s okay, I’m writing this from Florida we all have our quirks. But if you thought the Beehive State was weird before, imagine when these two were farting around: Two remarkable new...
The Pope Put A Corpse On Trial [WeirdThingsTV]
The Ape That Taught The World To Sing
A new species of buffed-cheeked gibbon with a very distinctive call was identified by German researchers. Not only does this have implications on the heavily endangered gibbon in general, but the ape song could be the precursor to human...
By The Way, The Parting Of The Red Sea Could Have Really Happened
Okay, there is still no evidence that it actually happened but now science can explain a scenario in which the biblical parting of the Red Sea could have gone down. You know, without the power of a all-knowing God and stuff: A strong east...
Spider-man Strength Webbing Found In Wild
According to researchers, this stuff is the strong enough to swing-patrol the streets of New York City and durable enough to slam the Green Goblin into a midtown high rise, glider and all. [Nat Geo]
A Musical Tribute To The Fish That Walked
Is it Music Monday up in this piece or what? This little ditty comes from Weird Things reader Joatmon who worked with band The Indoorfins to sing about the Tiktaalik, a fish that walked on its fins. Read all about this awesome creature...
New Species Could Be Elephant Or Shrew
Elephant? Or shrew? Shrelephant? Elephew? The mystery rages on in wild Kenya. [Live Science]
BATMAN Is The Soldier Of The Future
We’ve long been a proponent of geek cultures vast importance over other pop culture products for one reason: geeks make things. Geeks see Star Trek communicators and build cell phones to look like them. Geeks see Star Wars light sabers and...
Kirk Cameron Eaten By Crocoduck! [WeirdThingsTV]
Huge thanks to vlogger Ashley Paramore for helping me out with this clip. We talk a little more in-depth about Crocoduck on her channel here. Follow her @HealthyAddict on Twitter.
Fossil Of Terrifyingly Toothy Bird Found
The figure of pure terror you see before you is not the mascot of an arena league football team. Rather, it’s the artist rendering of an ancient seabird which once roamed modern-day Chile. Fossils of the creature were recently discovered...
Botched Burial At Sea Inspires Murder Investigation
Daniel Scott Lasky final wish was to be buried at sea. Unfortunately he accidentally set of a murder investigation when those hired to lay him to rest in a watery grave did not properly weigh down his corpse. …Lasky’s body resurfaced...
Do NOT Watch This Video If You’re Afraid Of Heights
A POV trip for a engineer working on a 1,768 foot high transmission tower. Thanks to Weird Things reader Alan for passing this along.
The Ol’ Snake Living In The Wall Trick
Here’s one to tell the kids. BELL GARDENS — A family in Bell Gardens has kicked out an unexpected house guest — a snake that bit a sleeping boy and was apparently living inside the walls. The shocking find was reported just after midnight...
Mysterious “Bearded” Antelope Found In Africa
On the left, the mysterious “bearded” antelope photographed in Kenya. On the right, Editor of this site Justin Robert Young. Weird Things officially has no comment. [MSNBC]
How Admiral Ackbar Almost Became The Mascot Of Ole Miss
ESPN put together a well-done summary of how Admiral Ackbar of Star Wars fame almost came to replace the long-deposed Colonel Reb as mascot for The University of Mississippi.
Your Best Cryptozoological Lede Of The Year Is…
William Allen Barnes is a man on a mission. His journey to find and track the creature known as Bigfoot (although he is loathe to use that particular term) began on a fateful night camping in California. But his story, begins with the best...
NASA Contemplates System To Chuck Shuttles Into Space Horizontally
Launching gigantic shuttles into orbit (although awesome) is costly. So what if we just threw that bad boy as hard as we could like a paper airplane and then fitted it with some super sweet rockets to blast that sucker into the cosmos? An...
Dude Sticking Entire Hand Into Liquid Nitrogen!!!! [Video]
Pretty hardcore. Granted, the publisher of this site, Andrew Mayne has been known to gargle the stuff but this is awesome just the same. Get way more detail on why this works at the man’s blog, including one of the most bad assed pictures...