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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...

Andrew Mayne / Ghost Hunting

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?

Bigfoot

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...

Science

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...

Science

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...

Animal Attack / Weird Animals

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...

Aliens / Science / UFO

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...

Ancient Civilizations / Archeology

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...

Animals / Bizarre / Weird Animals

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...

Andrew Mayne / Feature stories / Flickr Weird

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...

Ghost Hunting

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...

Science

Forget Augmented Reality – We Want Terminator Vision

Excitement over augmented reality applications for the iPhone and other devices is certainly justified to an extent. But let’s not forget the original augmented reality baring device as imagine by James Cameron, the Terminator T-800. What...

Robots

Weirdest Thing In The World Live Chat! Dinosaurs!

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Weirdest Thing In The World

CSI Cairo

It took 2,500 years but investigators finally cracked the case of out what killed an Egyptian woman. What makes this particularly interesting is how recent DNA extraction techniques made it possible to extract fragments of tuberculosis...

Archeology / Disease

Is this Atlantis and Did its Demise Cause a Massive Tsunami?

Researchers now speculate that an island chain once inhabited by the Minoan’s may have been a much larger island that was wiped out in a volcanic eruption that sent tidal waves as far as Israel. Speculation has abounded as to whether the...

Ancient Civilizations

President’s Science Advisor: Beware the Coming Ice Age!

Technically John P. Holdren wasn’t the science advisor when he made his dire predictions of an Ice Age and Ice Age powered super tidal waves bringing destruction upon us all in 1971. He was just trying to make sense of the data at hand...

Politics / Science

Meteor Shower Caused The Great Chicago Fire

Wither the reputation of poor Catherine O’Leary. A muckraking hack thinks it’d make a great read to libel your name by insinuating a cow under your control kicked a lantern, which ignited the surrounding hay, which torched the barn which...

Bizarre / Meteor

Ever Wondered Who Bloody Mary Really Was?

Bloody Mary is the Monster of the Week! Matt Finley explained some of the ghastly woman’s other talents on Monday. Wednesday he explained exactly why you’ve been hoodwinked into calling her out all these years.. With all the varying verbal...

Monster Of The Week

Weirdest Thing In The World: Dinosaurs

Today’s Weird Things chat will one day be discovered by a team of overexcited, yet likely emotionally repressed, academics wearing khaki shorts. Hold on to your butts, we’re looking for the Weirdest Dinosaur in the World. Here are the...

Dino watch / Weirdest Thing In The World

Was Blue Stonehenge a crematorium?

The recent discovery of another megalithic site near Stonehenge has added yet another layer to the mystery. The presence of “Blue Stonehenge” approximately a mile away suggests that it was part of a larger scheme. What these stone age land...

Ancient Civilizations