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The Mysterious Wooden Stonehenge… Of Cincinnati?
A ceremonial ground designed by a long-gone culture to mark and celebrate the lunar cycles… just over the river from modern-day Kentucky. This year archaeologists began using computer models to analyze Moorehead Circle’s layout and found...
500 Dead Penguins Wash Ashore In Brazil
Maybe it’s the summer time, but weird beach stories are just dominating the news lately. Yesterday we had a couple of Russian jackasses strapping a mule to a parachute for publicity and today we get news that 500 penguins washed ashore in...
Whale!
Real picture. Thanks to Weird Things reader Mike Beam. [Telegraph]
Parasailing Donkey Terrifies Children During Horrific Russian Publicity Stunt
Holy moly. A Russian parasailing outfit wants to advertise their services in a grassroots manner that will naturally generate word of mouth buzz. They attach a donkey to a parachute and let him fly around a beach for 30 minutes. The...
Weapon Maker Marks Successful Military Laser Test With Awesome Quote
Military had a laser. It tried to shoot down a moving drone. It worked. Lasers are awesome. What else is awesome? This quote: Mike Booen of Raytheon gave USA Today the money quote for the day: “The targets came in over the ocean, and it...
Finally, A Fool-Proof Time Travel Strategy!
It’s way smarter than me, but a pack of MIT numberheads got together and figured out how to utilize quantum mechanics to circumvent the dreaded “grandfather paradox” of time travel a.k.a. the travel doing something stupid that causes him...
Man Busted With 18 Monkeys In His Girdle
Awkward. MEXICO CITY — A man with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt was stopped, searched and detained at Mexico City’s international airport after authorities found 18 tiny endangered monkeys in a girdle he was wearing. The Public...
Santeria Advisor Tells Man His Hotel Is Haunted, Graciously Takes Hotel, Evicts Man
Enzo Vincenzi had a poor financial outlook and worse stomach problems. He contacted a Santeria spiritual advisor to help him get his life back on track by cleansing himself of demonic spirits. That didn’t happen. Eventually Pacheco took...
You Ever Wonder What Cat Ancestors Look Like?
Boom. How’s that for a Monday morning? That thing looks like the Yeti of cats. As described by Gadopoder: These little (big) guys are the oldest living relative of modern day cats. The Pallas’s Cat is the oldest living species of a clade...
Video Of The UFO That Closed A Chinese Airport
We reported this when it first happened, but this footage is pretty clear proof that someone weird was going on in the sky over the Xiaoshan Airport earlier this month. Thanks to Weird Things reader Glenn for sending this in.
Help Save An Iconic Piece Of Star Wars
Save the Lars Homestead! Head here for more information.
2 Lemurs Walk Into A Bar…
Awesome. VIENNA (AFP) – Two young ring-tailed lemurs which had escaped from Salzburg zoo five days ago have been recaptured by their keepers in a hotel bar in a nearby village, according to local media reports Friday. The two-year-old...
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...
Lotto Conspiracies, Space Jumpers & Paul The Octopus Begins His Mind Assault [WeirdThingsTV]
Podcast: Alien Prison Riot
Andrew, Brian and Justin lay out their brilliant plan for escaping the evil clutches of alien overlords. They then realize how easily a famous psychological experiment could have gone horribly wrong if the three of them had been selected....
Complete Underwater Volcano Is So Intense
Ohmygod! Complete underwater volcano! All the way! It’s so intense! What does it mean? (begins crying) [Nat Geo]
Can Plants Think?
A Polish plant biologist is suggesting that plants are capable of thought. Plants “remember” information about light, and a certain type of cell transmits that information, much like nerves do in animals. In the study, which has not yet...
Stuntman To Attempt Skydive From Edge Of Space
Not only will Austrian stuntman Felix Baumgartner attempt to redefine the official limitations of which height a human can fall from without dying immediately he also hopes to break the sound barrier on the way down. Starting in the...
We All Live In A Black Hole
Here is one paragraph for you to read: “Accordingly, our own Universe may be the interior of a black hole existing in another universe.” So concludes Nikodem Poplawski at Indiana University in a remarkable paper about the nature of space...
Did Math Professor Crack Lottery Code For Millions?
Joan Ginther came from Bishop, Texas. She earned her doctorate in math from Stanford in the 70’s but in more recent times locals saw her exiting a town convenience store carrying $50 reams of scratch off tickets at a time. Joan Ginter has...