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6-Story Jesus Statue Struck By Lightning, Burns To Ground
Well now… The “King of Kings” statue, one of southwest Ohio’s most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati. The lightning strike set the statue...
Mexican UFO Sighting! [WeirdThingsTV]
Unidentified White Arrowhead Spotted Repeatedly Over Mexican Air Space
The premiere site for paranormal sightings in Latin America, Inexplicata, prints this tale from a Mexican pilot. Word around the hangers is a white arrowhead has been eye balled a few times by different flight crews. “Dear Ana Luisa – My...
Dolphin Says Relax
Dolphins emit a calming noise that notifies all other dolphins to chill out when dolphin emotions run high and a dolphin fight is about to break out… dolphin-sytle. The burst-pulsed sounds are used “to avoid physical aggression in...
The Man Who Survived 10 Shots From A Mexican Firing Squad [Weirdest Survival Stories]
Everyday this week… Brett Rounsaville brings us the Weirdest Survival Stories ever told. Wenseslao Moguel is the guy you never want to run into at a cocktail party…and not just because of his hideous, gag inducing face. In fact, he plays a...
Rum Advertisement Gives Cheat Sheet On Kraken Anatomy
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Local Man Blames Animal Mutilations On UFOs
Sheep are being brutally murdered in the United Kingdom country side. Who’s to blame? Psychotics? Hellfire ritualists? Revenge-driven sheep? In one man’s opinion, it’s proof of UFO visitation. In rural Britain, dead sheep are being found...
Who’s Killing All The Babysitters? [WeirdThingsTV]
Fortune Telling Legalized In Maryland
A Maryland court has struck down a county law that barred fortune telling as a violation of free speech. Just as I foresaw in the espers of time! Judge Clayton Greene Jr., who wrote the court’s opinion, concluded that while fortune-tellers...
Roaches Prefer To Eat Together, Like A Family
Add communal to the list of adjectives used to describe roaches. New studies show that the disgusting insects will choose to eat together even if other options present themselves. Cockroaches prefer dining as a group it seems. New research...
Spanish Researchers Have Video Proof Of Elves, Sprites
Sure, it’s a weather phenomenon and not mystical mischief makers of lore. Still, pretty cool. [Science Daily]
Your Cats Are Trying To Kill You [WeirdThingsTV]
Were Legendary Japanese Race Dwarves, Pygmies Or Hobbits?
Legend tells of an intensely insular, physically tiny race that lived in the north of Japan thousands of years ago before humans settled there. Brent Swancer of Cryptomundo takes a fascinating look at who they were and why they might be...
A Brief History Of Insane, Murdering Alleged Time Travelers
Why is it that time travelers always so sloppy? Whenever you hear of someone in the news evoking the time travel defense, it’s always for bad stuff like accidental deaths, murders or elaborate plots to kill someone who eventually ruins the...
Weird Things Live: Hunting the Night Creeper
Weird Things Live: Hunting the Night Creeper from Andrew Mayne on Vimeo. Last Monday night in front of a live internet audience we set out to solve the mystery of the Night Creeper. Ghost? Frogman? Or something else? Although we’re pretty...
Good Morning Mr. Sun! New Solar Storms Could Destroy Our Economy
The sun has awoken from his slumber and you will feel his wrath upon your global positioning satellites and financial services. Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, explains what it’s all about: “The sun is waking up from...
Teaser For Weird Things Hunts The Night Creeper
Weird Things: Night Creeper intro from Andrew Mayne on Vimeo. Tonight. 9 p.m. EDT. LIVE. Right here on the front page.
Scientist To Drill Deep Into Antarctic Glacier For Life, Haven’t Seen The Thing [WeirdThingsTV]
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Scientists Defy John Carpenter, Drill Deep Into Antarctic Ice
Scientists want to drill deep into Antarctic ice to find life forms that haven’t been exposed to the environment in millions of years. Kurt Russell is not amused. [Science Daily]
On the trail of the Night Creeper
As we prepare for tomorrow’s live hunt for what is known as the “Night Creeper”, we thought we’d share with you some photos from a recent reconnaissance of the area. Our first nighttime recon resulted in Justin and I getting stopped by the...