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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...
Science Tells Us When Shark Attacks Will Happen
We now know when sharks are most likely to tear us apart. Shark attacks are most likely to occur on Sunday in less than 6 feet of water during a new moon, a new study finds. And there’s good reason: That’s when a lot of surfers are in the...
Tropical Storm Ravages Central Amer… HOLY SMOKES LOOK AT THAT SINKHOLE!
There are over 115 reported dead in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador after a tropical storm ravaged the region. But this photo of a sinkhole that opened up in Guatemala City has to be among the most insane things we’ve ever seen. [CNN]
Science Proves Armageddon Correct! [WeirdThingsTV]
Scientists Solve 40-Year Old Martian Ice Cap Mystery
If you had “strange but undeniable resulting pattern caused by a million years of whipping from Martian wind” in the What With The Bizarre Shape Of The Mars Ice Cap pool, please collect your winnings. According to a new NASA study, the...
Were The Earliest Human Species Cannibals?
A new finding suggests the earliest known human species swung from trees had the tools to make fire and was likely fond of eating other hominins. Yummo. The H. gautengensis fossils were found alongside basic stone tools and evidence of the...
When Science Met Awesome: Our Last Defense Against Asteroids? Nuclear Weapons!
The brilliant Phil Plait once penned an epic disemboweling of the film Armageddon which in turn morphed into a hilarious live talk that I was lucky enough to see in person. But it looks like at least one epic of the Michael Bay tour de...
Do You Want To Buy The Amityville Horror House? [WeirdThingsTV]
Eat Raw Crayfish, Get Incredibly Rare Parasitic Worm
First the never ending oil slick and now a rare parasitic lung worm has been linked to raw crayfish. Will America ever regain trust in cajon cuisine? These particular infections were all linked to folks consuming the shellfish from the...
Video Gamers Can Control Their Dreams
Video games, they are not just for recruiting The Last Starfighter anymore. They can also aide in controlling your dreams, according to science! That ability to shape the alternate reality of dream worlds might not match mind-bending...