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Was The Wisconsin Fireball The Same Kind That Started The Chicago Fire?
Panicked cheeseheads across the Quad Cities area of Wisconsin reported seeing a massive fireball light up the night sky on Wednesday. But, was the brilliant streaking light, thought to be caused by a meteor shower, just a repeat of another...
Has Radio Astronomy Discovered The Coming Of Galactus?
Who needs The Watcher? According to radio astronomers at the University of Manchester, a “baffling new object” in a nearby galaxy is unlike anything they’ve seen before. But those who know better sure recognize that color scheme, that...
Your Flight Has Been Delayed Due To Volcanic Activity
From CNN: European countries shut their airspace one after the other Thursday as a cloud of volcanic ash wafted over from Iceland and posed a danger to flights. Airspace over the United Kingdom was due to be closed for six hours from...
3 Monster Stories, 2 From Movies, 1 Reported By Real People: Can YOU Find The Fiend?
Below are descriptions of three grotesque monsters. Two of them are merely the fictional creations of popular artists; one is a creature that has actually been reported. Can you Find the Fiend? a.) Said to prowl the dry air above the...
Behold! The T-Rex Of Leeches!
What has sharp teeth, is the size of a pinkie finger and slides up the noses of Peruvians? Tyrannobdella rex! The Tyrant Leech King! The beast has teeth five-times larger than other leeches and has most recently been found in the noses of...
Maria Bello Lists Cryptozoology Among Common Interests With New Fiance
Cryptomundo tells the beautiful love story of actress Maria Bello (you might remember her from THAT scene in A History Of Violence) and her new fiance Bryn Mooser, one that was cemented by a mutual interest in the search for cryptids....
Werner Herzog To Direct 3D Documentary On Cave Paintings
Release all the Krakens you want. One of popular cinema’s most notorious nuts, Werner Herzog took a 3D camera into a cave and is planning doing a documentary about the paintings he saw. [Guardian via Boing Boing]
Professor Wants Students To Major In UFO Studies
Do you want to study UFOs through college? Niagra County Community College just became your number one application. The studing of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena from space should be a legitimate university subject, an American...
Magazine In 1910 Envisioned Horrific Attacks By Giant Insects
The above picture is from a 1910 issue of The Strand Magazine in a feature entitled “If Insects Were Bigger.” In a pre-World War society, I can empathize that this could be seen as humanity’s biggest threat. Click AFTER THE JUMP for a...
New Astronomy Technology Hunts For Alien Life, Our Very Origins
As per Popular Science: Until recently, radio astronomers have concentrated almost exclusively on the high-energy radiation streaming in towards Earth from exotic stellar bodies like pulsars, quasars, and super-massive black holes. But...
Jack Kirby’s Secret Plan To Stop The 2012 Apocalypse
As chronicled in yesterday’s New York Times a new wealth of heroes conceived by one of the fathers of modern comics, Jack Kirby, have been unveiled by California animation company whom he worked for later in his career. The firm that owns...
Why Did 400 Scottish Youths Arm Themselves With Knives To Hunt A Vampire?
You, me and the rest of the school. Run home, grab any knife you can and meet at the cemetery. We are looking for someone seven feet tall with iron teeth. He already kidnapped and ate two kids, so be careful. Let’s go kill us a vampire. Or...
Is Your Snoring Really Annoying Or Is The Person Complaining It Just A Prissy Putz?
Fat Cat Snoring – Click here for more free videos According to a study by the Human Speech Research Laboratory: Both. [Improbable Research]
Sheep + Meth + Taser = Science!
Here on Weird Things, we’ve talked quite a bit about the strange history of animal (and human) experimentation for the benefit of medical science. But it would be silly to suggest that there aren’t strange trails that persist to this day....
Slave Leia Metal Bikini Invade Phoenix Suns Dance Team
Who needs context? [@xmasape]
Can Increased Cryptid Sightings Be Blamed On Global Warming?
Many mistaken cryptids are actually just fugly animals with a bad case of the mange. So what does that have to do with our planet’s current case of global warming driving and increase in sightings of potential Yetis, Bigfoots and...
How Do You Hide A 6-Foot, Colored Lizard From Modern Science For 150 Years?
Western scientists have officially catalogued animals on the islands of the Phillipines for over a century and a half and yet, a 6-foot-long, gold flecked, colored lizard just happened to escape their attention. Until last summer. Rumors...
Do Toads Predict Earthquakes?
What with all the earthquake news recently, it might be time to start stocking up on toads. This from The BBC. Common toads appear to be able to sense an impending earthquake and will flee their colony days before the seismic activity...
Report: 1 In 5 Adults Believes Aliens Are On Earth Disguised As Humans
From The Telegraph: The poll questioned 23,000 adults in 22 countries and found that more than 40 per cent of people from India and China believe that alien life exists with a human facade on this planet. European respondents in the survey...
Tips On Chupacabra Sightings: Four Legs Equals Not The Cryptid You’re Looking For
Cryptomundo is rightly frustrated by new Chupacabra images floating around. The mangy creatures pictured all walk on four legs. Here is the one item long cheat sheet for any potential cryptid hunters: if the beast does not walk on two...