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Lucasfilm Trying To Kill Real-Life Lightsaber! Don’t Let Them! [WeirdThingsTV]
Stunning! Paul The Octopus Spurns Germany, Picks Victorious Spain
Undefeated. Undisputed. Unequaled. Paul The Octopus wins again.
Chinese Scientists Want To Shoot A Diamond In Crystal Methane To Create Nuclear Power, Awesomeness
Shooting a diamond bullet at anything might be the most Bowie badass thing ever conceived of, but if, as Chinese scientists are now theorizing it can also create nuclear power then we have a new favorite source of alternative energy....
Odd Moon Light Created By Dust Fountains
As long as we’ve been circling the darn rock, astronauts have been baffled by the glow surrounding the moon during sunrises and sunsets. A new theory posits that overactive electrons are vomiting lunar dust off the surface and creating...
The Japanese City Humanity Abandoned
A Japanese coal city abandoned in 1974 has been officially off-limits for anyone looking to explore the slowly decaying buildings that once was home to thousands. That did not stop this brave explorer and his trusty guide who not only...
Podcast: Zos Braining Zos
Justin Robert Young recounts his harrowing ordeal in the Forest with a Million Eyes. Brian, Andrew and Justin then step into the treacherous mental playground of a loyal listener and reveal their most deep-seated primal motivations when...
Neanderthal Males Want To Know If You Have Your Tickets? To The Gun Show!
Skeletal remains of a primitive Neanderthals shows the males of the species were hormonally jacked and wielded “Popeye”-esqe arms. Project leader Maria Mednikova told Discovery News that Neanderthal males hunted in the “extreme,” helping...
Psychic Animal Arms Race Begins! We Need Your Help! [WeirdThingsTV]
Psychic German Octopus Again Picks Home Team, Argentina Counters With Sooth Sayer Dolphin
We’ve covered the antics of the zoo at Oberhausen, Germany before. To recap, they’ve forced all of their animals to make predictions on German national World Cup games. The most accurate is Paul, an octopus who has correctly predicted...
Free Tibet (From Evolutionary Restrictions)!
The fastest case of human evolution is credited to the Tibetan people who have evolved the ability to live in high altitudes without mountain sickness when compared to the Han Chinese. Congrats! [New York Times]
Lightning Kills African Soccer Team, Curse Suspected
If we are going to live in a world where lightning kills a soccer team whilst leaving their opponents unharmed, why can’t it happen in Portland? Or Stockholm? Or London? You know, somewhere where the buzz the next day would be about lapses...
Attacked in the Forest with a Million Eyes
Tracking down rumors of a “Spider Forest” in our own South Florida backyard, Weird Things editor Justin Robert Young and myself found ourselves ambushed whereupon Mr. Young was savagely attacked by a spider. With Mr. Young locked in mortal...
Iron Dong
It is what it says. Thank you to Weird Things reader Paul for sending this in.
How To Create A Lake Monster Hoax In 3 Steps! [WeirdThingsTV]
New Fossils Confirm The Most Badass Whale To Ever Live
Peruvian researchers have pieced together the remains of what could have been the ultimate whale killing machine. Introducing Leviathan melvillei… A team of researchers recovered 75% of the animal’s skull, complete with large fragments of...
A Look At Florida’s Skunkape Research HQ
According to the YouTube information this is an excerpt from a Florida PBS documentary, Escape to Dreamland: The Story of the Tamiami Trail. Thanks to Weird Things correspondent Mary for sending this in.
Podcast: Destroyer of Worlds
Find out which of the three used to wear a Spider-Man costume under his clothes and which ones just wore ladies underwear. Listen to them describe their plans to capture a sea beast, fight alligators and find proof of Son of Hogzilla....
Demon Cat!
Proof Of The Wildmen Who Fought Griffins For Gold
Russian legends tell of a breed of homonids who were excellent herders, tough as (the yet to be invented) nails and most importantly made a sport of fighting Griffins for caches of gold. It now appears that we have biological proof of...
Shape Shifting Matter No Longer Just A Beautiful Dream
Sick of using all sorts of different shapes of things only for the purpose they were initially designed for? Step right up to the bold new future named programmable matter! To make them self-folding, computer scientist Daniela Rus at MIT...