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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...
THIS MONDAY! Weird Things Hunts The Night Creeper LIVE!
It has been sighted by workers walking through the parking lot. Loud shriek, fast movement, short stature. It has been seen late at night prowling around the area by others. What is the Night Creeper? Some believe it is the spirit of a...
British Royal Navy Clarifies Position On Sea Monsters
There is no official folder sitting in a dusty basement file room marked “Sea Monsters: CLASSIFIED” containing a hundred years worth of reports from parchment to dot matrix print outs about krakens, giants squid and God knows what else...
Cursed Bulgarian Phone Number Discontinued After Last 3 Owners Died Suddenly
So you get a new phone. It has a new number. You email all your friends with the new info. Then you find out the last person who had this number died suddenly in a hail of gunfire and the dude before him croaked the same way. Oh, the the...
“Crazy Bird” Terrifies Palm Beach Dog Walkers
My bet is on pterodactyl. [io9]
Is A Massive Star About To Collapse, Fry Us All?
Phil Plait dissects a recent rumor about the Betelgeuse star. The short version of the rumor? The star is going to go all supernova in weeks or months (not years or hundreds of years) and the brightness could affect crops and cause...
Lake Monster Biting Indiana Children
It’s lurking underneath the surface, waiting for little legs rubbery with summer excitement to come across it’s path. It’s the Hardy Lake Monster. [CNN]
Turtle Boy Loses His Shell
Father Believes Forrest Spirits Lured His Daughter Back To Jungle She Grew Up In
Here is the story thus far: A little girl disappears into the Cambodian jungle in 1989 where she presumably learned the Bear Necessities for the next 18 years. In 2007 she was discovered and reunited with her family. But things weren’t all...
Turtle Boy Gets Surgery
A young Chinese boy who was born with a thick patch of skin on his back had a surgery to remove the reason he’s earned the nickname “Turtle Boy” by school bullies. [News.Com.Au]
Understanding Human’s Innate Time Travel Ability
We travel back and forth through time. We are time travelers. So much so we don’t even realize it. Nor do we realize that we are slightly leaning awkwardly while remembering the past or pondering the future. The ability to mentally meander...
Oregon Rock Identified As Meteorite At State Fair
So you find a totally sweet cone-shaped rock but can’t shake the idea that it’s somehow special. Where to do you go to get clarity on what the geological oddity really is? If you are Oregon couple Donald and Debbie Wesson you haul it down...