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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...
Black Smoke(r) Discovered
A remote controlled vehicle has discovered the deepest hydrothermal underwater vent on record 3.1 miles deep in the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean. Entitled “black smokers” the vents pump a black, iron sulfide compound into the ocean. The...
Podcast: Genocidal omnivores
Weird Things Vs. The Undead: Oscar Picks Official Ballot
UPDATE: Thanks to all who watched the livestream and helped keep score on Twitter. For the first time in this contest’s storied history we reached a dramatic tie when Hurt Locker took home best picture. 12-12. An uneasy stalemate exists...
Want To Be Terrified By The Sound Of Any Animal? Beware The Skinwalker
In European legends, the bite of the werewolf involuntarily turns a hapless victim into a fuzzy-wuzzy killing machine. In American pop culture, zombies prey on the flesh of living innocents who then become skulking face gnawers themselves....
Podcast: The Apocalypse Will Be Clothing Optional
Andrew, Brian and Justin answer some listener scenarios. After revealing Brian’s deep-seated desire that the world go pantless post apocalypse, we find out how shockingly willing Brian is to switch teams and genders without actually being...
Podcast: Monkey Man Begins
Is this what’s left of the Lost City of El Dorado?
Deep in the Amazon researchers are exploring the remnants of a city that dates back to 200 AD. Little is known about the inhabitants and some speculate that this could have been the source of the rumors of El Dorado. Click through for the...
Experts figure out how much time left before robot uprising
The always provocative h+ magazine surveyed the experts at the Artificial General Intelligence Conference to get a grasp of when they though machines would get really smart. The results are very interesting: While the median guess is the...
Newton’s Balls! Teleporting Energy a Possibility!
Researcher Masahiro Hotta at Tohoku University has developed a framework by which it could be possible to teleport energy vast distances. The implications for this are pretty amazing. Could we use this to power deep space missions?...
Largest Snake Ate Crocs for Food
What’s more awesome than a giant ancient crocodile? A really giant snake that ate it for lunch. A 60-million-year-old relative of crocodiles described recently by University of Florida researchers in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
Weird Things Book Club: Redneck Fireworks Massacre
A list of recommended reading and viewing from Andrew Mayne, Brian Brushwood and Justin Robert Young as mentioned in the episode Redneck Fireworks Massacre. Moon Ayn Rand’s FOUNTAINHEAD Star Wars The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One (TV...