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PopSci: No, You Can’t Fly Straight Through Jupiter
Killjoy Sally Younger at Popular Science says: Despite its gusty reputation as a “gas giant,” Jupiter’s blood-red clouds hide a dense, rocky core that’s perhaps 20 times as massive as Earth. That core blocks any spacecraft’s passage...
Is this the World’s Largest Haunted Place?
What’s cooler than a giant cave? A giant haunted cave. Mammoth cave, one of the largest cave systems in the world is filled with all kinds of lore. Some say it’s the largest haunted place in the world. Prairie Ghosts has collected several...
Live blogging a Sea Serpent Investigation in 1855!
Sea Monsters are awesome. What’s even more awesome than that? Live blogging your investigation of said sea monster in 1855! How is that even possible? In 1855 the New York Times was on the cutting edge of tech journalism utilizing...
Why are Six of the 10 Oldest People on the Planet Americans?
With the current debate over nationalized health care a lot of facts and figures are flying fast and loose. It seems like for every point of view there’s a data set to support it. In the discussion of what the ideal system should be two...
Parachuting from Space
Ever wonder what it looks like to see a spacecraft land in the middle of a field? Wonder no more. NASA has posted a great Flickr set of photos showing the return to earth of Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté and Commander Gennady...
USGS: Giant Snakes are Invading the U.S.!
Apparently it’s snake week here at Weird Things, previously we reported on researchers discovering the stomping grounds of the largest snake ever, Titanboa. Now comes some fun news from the U.S. Geological Survey: We’re being invaded by...
‘I Met a Zombie’
There’s no shortage of explanations for the demise of the newspaper industry. Could one more be the complete lack of face to face confrontation with paranormal creatures like zombies? We at Weird Things lament the days when a brassy gal...
Have German Scientists Found the “X” Gene?
German researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have discovered a gene mutation in certain individuals that seems to give them enhanced mental abilities. …people graced with this genotype showed more activity in the...
Scientists Discover the Lair of the World’s Largest Snake (extinct)
Science Daily reports that a Smithsonian research team has uncovered the first megafossils of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world’s biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 million years ago at temperatures 3-5 C warmer than in...
How to Fake Spirit Photography on the iPhone
What’s better than a photo? A photo of a ghost. What’s even better than that? Capturing that photo on a friend’s iPhone. Of course the problem is, ghosts are never very cooperative and not likely to show themselves on demand. That’s why...
Did Bigfoot Hunters Find His Nest?
Mike from the Bigfoot Discovery Project explains on his latest YouTube video an investigation into a recent sighting. Did Bigfoot make the nest they found? Or was it a homeless person?
US Funds $10 Million for Quantum Levitation
The US Defense department has green-lit a two-year $10 million dollar program to look for practical applications of the Casimir Effect. This is a quantum of effect with potential in everything from energy to levitation. It’s the quantum...
Experimental Evidence Supports Hypnosis
According to Science News, hypnosis is gaining new found respect in the laboratory as experiments indicate that hypnotic suggestions actually have a measurable effect on parts of the brain. In one experiment, suggestion of a paralyzed hand...
The Labrador Sea Monster
Hans Rollman, professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, writing for the Telegram has shared some details about Newfoundland sea monster lore. The best part? These are amphibious man eaters! A sea creature of...
Video of Mystery UFO Spotted over Moscow
Check out this video that’s eerily remiscent of the 1980’s TV series V and District 9 (if the aliens spaceships were made from vaporous ice crystals and not actual technology…). The Sun has an article here on it: Mystery UFO halo in clouds...
Mayan Elder: Enough with this 2012 Nonsense
As the Hollywood and occult hype machines spin into overdrive about the proposed end of the world on December 21st, 2012, at least one person who may or may not know something about it says it’s all bunk. According to an AP story, Chile...
Giant Insect Causes Missile Truck Crash
Mark your calendars. August 31st, 2009 may have been the day the insects got the upper hand in their war against mankind. Reportedly, a truck driver for the Minot Air Force Base 91st Missile Wing lost control of his vehicle when a “large...
Show Us Your Weird!
Remember that time you went to take a photo and when you looked at it your iMac screen mysteriously shown through your body as if you were an ephemeral spirit because deep down your souls are intertwined? I do. Got a weird photo? Send it...
Ghost Hunting on Flickr
Want to see something spooky? Click on these slideshows and see some various ghost photos on Flickr. The spirit photographs of William Hope Vintage Spirit Photography Seances Got a spooky photo or video you want to share? Upload it to...
Drive Fast for Science
According to ScienceDaily it turns out those ugly yellow splotches of bug guts on your car can serve science. They use the bug guts to to do DNA sequencing to determine species distribution and other information. To gather genetic...