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Ultimate Shrinkage: The Tale Of The Disappearing Junk
It’s All in Your Heads – Mass Hysteria, Rampant Psychosomaticism and Contagious Hypochondria. Monday, how a town danced themselves to death. Today: Honey, I Shrunk the Dong – The Todger Inversion Delusion In the “Seinfeld” episode where a...
Meet Your New Implant Technology
Want to know how our robot overlords are going to implant our circuitry? Silk. From Popular Science: …in the quest to make our bodies ever more bionic, researchers have now developed implantable silicon-silk electronics that almost...
Carl Sagan Day
Want to meet up with some of the folks behind Weird Things? Plan on being in South Florida on Saturday? Want to pay your respect to Carl Sagan? Meet James Randi, Phil Plait and others? Then meet us at Carl Sagan day at Broward College this...
Mars Needs Bacteria
In an interesting experiment to see how well terrestrial bacteria might survive on Mars, a group built their own Mars simulator. From UniverseToday.com: A team led by Giuseppe Galletta of the Department of Astronomy at the University of...
Giant Jellyfish Capsize Japanese Fishing Vessel
The crew of the Diasan Shinsho-maru were plunged into the ocean off the coast of Japan when they tried to haul in their net filled dozens of giant jellyfish. Each of the jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg and waters around Japan have been...
Tsavo Lions Only Ate 35 People and not 135
After thorough forensic analysis of the remains of the lions featured in the film Ghosts in the Darkness (based in part on the book The Man-eaters of Tsavo – which I kid you not, was bedtime reading in my household growing up), researchers...
Seance Wrap-up
The WeirdThings.com Houdini Seance!
Thanks to everyone who helped make this a reality including David Nott, Barry & Stuart, Michael Shermer, Phil Plait, Penn Jillette, Teller and David Copperfield. Very special thanks to Brandon of the JREF for making sure this happened and,...
Weirdest Thing In The World Chat: Houdini Pregame
We are still unsure of the exact details on where but on the Weirdest Thing in the World chat today at 5:30 p.m. we are going to announce the official final line-up of celebrity word donors for our big Halloween Houdini Seance. Other than...
Penn & Teller, Michael Shermer, David Nott Among Those Helping Us Contact Houdini
Before Houdini’s death, he famously gave his wife a code word. This was to prevent mediums and psychics from coming to her door, breathlessly confirming that they had spoken with Harry after his passing. With the word, she could...
Ask Weird Things!
We’re planning our next podcast and we want you to be a part of it. What weird thing do you want the “brain trust” to discuss? Just post it in the comments.
Do Orbs Contain Secret Images?
The problem with orbs (besides trying not to take a photo with them in a dusty home) is that once you accept the scientific explanation, they become quite boring. Although they’re readily explained by basic physics and can be easily...
Explore a Haunted Necropolis Right Now!
Thanks to the wonder of Microsoft’s Synth technology, we can explore haunted cities of the dead from the safety of your own home and avoid any avenging mummy unpleasantness. Check out this Synth of the Necropolis of Saqqara, an Egyptian...
The Houdini Seance Live on the Internet
This Halloween, The James Randi Educational Foundation and WeirdThings.com present a never-before-attempted experiment. In front of a live internet audience, a group of prominent skeptics and magicians will try to make contact with the...
No Weirdest Thing In The World Chat Today
We regret to inform you that we are shelving the Weirdest Thing in the World live chat today. Justin Robert Young’s voice is currently listed as “day to day.” Next week, we will do a double special edition of the chat as the big lead in...
Invisibility Ray or Magic Trick?
According to an article from the October 1936 issue of Modern Mechanix, invisibility wasn’t just a possibility, it was a reality. The author credulously reports a description of an invisibility ray, but states emphatically that, “This is...
Is There a Lost Race of Ape-Men?
In the Michael Crichton book Congo and movie by the same name, he describes a race of super-apes almost on par with man in intelligence. Like much of Crichton’s work, he based this on science speculation. For thousands of years there have...
Weird Things podcast: Selling Our Souls
Welcome to the Weird Things podcast featuring Andrew Mayne, Brian Brushwood and Justin Robert Young. In this episode we discuss giant snakes, selling your soul to the devil, uploading your memory, a vampire named James Brown and Justin and...
Join Us For The Quest for Houdini!
This Halloween Weird Things and the James Randi Educational Foundation will try to make contact with the ghost of Houdini! Details to follow… iTricks.com Magic News, Magic Videos and Podcasts » Blog Archive » This Halloween: Mayne,...
Skeleton Lake
Travelet.com has this fun tourist destination known as Rookund in the Himalayas. It’s a lake filled with skeletons: Roopkund is better off known as “The skeleton lake” due to the presence of an enormous grave that holds about 300 to 600...