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Gigantic Asphalt Domes Found Off Coast Of California
See nature? This is what happens when you leave your oil laying around the ocean floor of 35,000 years! California scientists found two massive asphalt domes on the sea floor, most likely the result of oil deposits made thousands of years...
Amazing, Nightmare-Inducing Pictures Of Insects Waking Up In Morning Dew
Good morning to you too! Bugs. Dew. Camera. Many more where this came from. Hello Monday. Thanks to Weird Things reader Marty. [Daily Mail]
Stephen Hawking Warns Us Of Impending Alien Invasion Threat
Stephen Hawking is a world renown thinker and a one of a kind personality. Now, he’s also the guy who can flop the “told ya so” card when we are enslaved by a nomadic race of aliens. “We only have to look at ourselves to see how...
Underwater Freak Show! Creatures So Bizarre They Hide In The Ocean Depths!
[National Geographic via Boing Boing]
Just In Case Anyone Gets Any Wild Ideas…
[Oddly Specific via pharyngula]
Lost Boys Meet CHUD In The Columbian Sewers
Thomas Morton of VBS.com takes the sewers of Bogota, Columbia where he experiences the lives of children living a subterranean life style fleeing the police, getting high on crack and trying to forget that they are waist deep in feces....
A Worldwide Hunt For Oddities Summarized In One Video
Pretty self-explanatory. Big ups to Atlas Obscura!
Women Ready Attempt To Spur Earthquake With Boobs
We reported a few days ago an edict laid down by an Iranian cleric claiming immodestly dressed women were a contributing factor for earthquakes. Specifically intimating that ladies hoeing it up this year has been the root cause of the high...
2-Headed Lizard!
Apparently, the larger head has attacked the smaller one. Sleep with one eye open, smaller head. [BBC via BoingBoing]
A Compelling Argument For Blue Laws, Protection Against Satan [Newspaper Archives]
HEADLINE: Wilmington blue laws help block Satan’s progress Wilmington Morning Star: Friday May 18th, 1984 [Google News Archives]
Sasquatch Unjustly Co-Opted By Hand-Wringing Earth Day Propoganda
Cryptomundo is rightly ticked off by the name dropping of Sasquatch on the new “Adventure’s of Bobby Bigfoot” website designed to teach kids about sustainability and green living. See, we leave a carbon footprint, Bigfoot has a big...
Military Throws Hat Over The Wall For Flying Car
Want to know one way to not get blown up by Improvised Explosive Devices? Fly around in a totally sweet flying car! The Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has cleared the Transformer (TX) program for takeoff. If it flies, by 2015...
When Is A Sheep-Pig Not a Sheep-Pig?
When the cuddly little bugger is not actually a hybrid between the two animals but rather an (adorably) hairy version of a regular ol’ hog. That hasn’t stopped some media outlets from referring to the beast as a half-breed between the two...
Yup, Humans Totally Banged Neanderthals
Talk about a morning after… You roll over and realize that exhilarating night of grunting, running and grunting had led to you totally doing it with a Neanderthal. What scandal! What ever will the neighbors think? Archaic humans such as...
Sadly, Your Brain Is Going To Remain Lazy No Matter How Hard You Train It
From Scientific American. The largest trial to date of “brain-training” computer games suggests that people who use the software to boost their mental skills are likely to be disappointed. The study, a collaboration between British...
Top Secret Air Force Space Plane Launches, Conspiracy Theorists Start Your Engines!
A space plane designed to demonstrate the sustainability of a reusable, military-operated vehicle designed to orbit the earth will launch soon from Cape Canaveral, Florida. What happens after that is not of your GD business. But whether...
Pine Trees, Calls To Satan, Salesman: 10 Sure Fire Olde Tyme Wart Cures
Walk it Off – an abridged compendium of ye olde folk remedies and archaic antidotes culled from UCLA’s Archive of American Folk Medicine Today’s ailment: WARTS Old MacDonald had a Wart Fetish You will need: 1 Farmer Instructions: Have...
Pravda Covers The Icelandic Volcano The Only Way It Knows How
[Pravda]
Australians Say They’ve Spotted Crop Circle Equivalent In Weather Radar
Even good old fashioned crop circles are getting totally pwned in the digital age. Corn-stopping shapes are totally old and busted, mysterious digital radar patterns are the new hotness in Australia. THEY are the digital-age equivalent of...
Bob Saget Is On The Hunt For Bigfoot
Bob Saget is shooting a new show for A&E entitled Strange Days where he hunts down the strangest elements of our society, including Bigfoot, which was the episode he was shooting last week. “Bob Saget’s Strange Days” delves into weird,...