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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...
Want To Be Taken More Serious? Get Heavier, Harder
Our primate brains seem to equate seriousness with touching heavier or harder objects. For example, a resume on thick stock will be taken more serious than something printed off on fax paper. Think I’m kidding? Would someone with a...
Germans Forcing Octopus To Make Psychic Sports Predictions! [WeirdThingsTV]
Dismissed Study Alleging Proof Of Martian Life On Earth Finds New Support
In 1996 a team of NASA scientists published a study saying the they’d found signs of life on a Martian meteorite that crashed to Earth in 1984. They were summarily dismissed by many. 14 years later, as science has caught up, their findings...
Crazy German Zoo Forces Shockingly Accurate Sports Predictions From Octopus
From his aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany an octopus named Paul has predicted a win for the home team over England this weekend in Knockout Round World Cup play. Paul has been forced to predict national soccer matches regularly and so far...
X-Rated X-Rays!
Japanese monitor maker Eizo released a pin-up calendar of provocative x-ray images. The company says they used computer graphics instead of real models.
7th Grade Class Makes Mars Discovery, Punks NASA, Higher Education, Your Mom [WeirdThingsTV]
Real Time Brain Scans Accurately Predict Your Decisions Before You Act On Them
New, real-time brain scan accurately predicted 2/3rds of study respondents would make a decision even if they told the administrator they would do the opposite. Could revolutionize advertising, education and determining if bartender at...
7th Graders Pwns Geological Surveyors By Finding Unknown Mars Cave Opening
I believe that children are the future, give them pictures of Mars and let them find the caves. A heretofore unidentified Martian cave opening was found by a group of 7th graders. It was completely unrecorded by our official geological...
A Look At The Southern Lights… From Space!
It’s either that or we’ve begun principal photography on the long-awaited Ghost Busters spin off Slimer Goes To Space. [Daily Mail via NASA]
How First-World Bias If Not General Racism Created The Artwork Of Atlantis
German explorer Leo Frobenius came to West Africa and made a startling discovery. Gorgeous statues cast in exquisite bronze. So intricate, so beautiful, they so could not be the work of the locals. No, of course not. They simply had to be...
Jet Pack! Jet Pack! Jet Pack! First Commercial Jet Pack On Sale Next Year!
UPDATED: with test footage thanks to @LHymas on Twitter. Aw hell yeah. The Jetpack achieves with 30 minutes of flight time and is fueled by regular premium gasoline, though you will undoubtedly earn some disbelieving stares at the petrol...