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Boy Inhabited by Ghost of Deceased Soldier?

A four-year-old Virginian boy is being inhabited by the spirit of a deceased soldier tragically killed in a bombing. His mother states that he’s talking about things that a boy his age wouldn’t know anything about. In a moment straight out...

ghost / Past Life / Possession

Podcast: Weird Things HQ

Andrew has a suggestion for a new Weird Things HQ. One man says his Anaconda don’t want none unless it’s a Discovery Channel special, hon. Planets go rogue! AND THEN a massive spoiler-tastic convo about Interstellar.   Try out the...

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Double Rainbow Causes Fishermen To See Ghosts

Two fishermen in Wisconsin have come forward to say they’ve captured something strange in a series of photographs they took of an always-magical (and probably portals to other dimensions) double rainbow. After getting home and examining...

Apparition / ghost / Weird

Paranormal Investigator Stabs Self in Murder House

Back in 1912, a little house in Iowa became a grisly crime scene where 8 people (6 of them were children). They were all beaten and stabbed to death and to this day, no one has found out who the murderer was. Over the last couple of...

ghost / Ghost Hunting / Haunting

VR Interface Allows You to ‘Touch’ Holograms!

Like an elaborate version of the famous Pepper’s Ghost effect where a projection appears to interact with a real world person, this incredible floating haptic interface will absolutely blow your mind… Because unlike Pepper’s Ghost? You’re...

Danger Room / Future / Holodeck

Help make Weird Things Awesomer!!!

Hey guys! Brian Brushwood, Justin Robert Young and Andrew Mayne are launching a Patreon campaign to support our Weird Things podcast. If you’re not familiar with Patreon, it’s kind of a Kickstarter for episodic content....

Awesome

Podcast: Highway to the Fusion Zone

The boys marvel over Elon’s D. Will autonomous car lanes be the next HOV? When will the majority of the cars on the road be driver-less? Will we see a fusion reactor in five years?   Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring...

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Mysterious Clowns Make Nightly Appearances in Small California Town!

In a small town in California called Wasco something odd has quietly started appearing… Clowns. You’d read that and think, “That’s great! My kids LOVE clowns!” Then you’d hear the more of the story and say, “They only come out at night?”...

Clowns / Creepy / Weird

Wander Aimlessly in the Desert via Google Camel

As Google continues to document every crevice of our world with a camera so armchair world travelers can sit at home in their underwear and globe-trot, they’re realizing that a car with a first-gen Imperial Probe Droid mounted on its roof...

Google / Google Earth / Technology

Podcast: Lynxes and Minxes, OH MY!

Poo talk! What are all those eyes looking back at you in the middle of the night? What is the cutest possible animal we could genetically engineer? Which animals are ready to become domesticated? Also: Lemur/Lemus… ANDREW MAYNE NEW YORK...

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Podcast: Grand Theft Ghoul

Andrew and Justin discuss the curious case of\Ghost Robber. Debate the likelihood of the new iPhones ushering in an era of Apple Virtual Reality. Andrew admits he’s looking forward to writing on his new Apple Watch. The boys look forward...

Podcast

Welder dons Batsuit, builds Batpod becomes Chibatman!

Here in the states we’re all pretty used to Christian Bale as Batman getting in peoples’ faces and barking like he’s trying to carry on a conversation in a dance club. But what if there was a kinder more approachable version of the Dark...

Batman / China / Comics

Because Florida sits on a Hellmouth…<br>The Mantis Shrimp

Florida rides a double-edged sword. On one side people proclaim it’s a great place to vacation. On the other side are the people who live there who are completely aware of the fact that it’s just wet sand covering a giant Hellmouth....

Alien / Animals / Florida

Meet Pepper – Adorable Robot Face of Our Demise

Created as a joint effort between SoftBank and French robotics company Aldebaran, Pepper a preciously adorable robot, was unveiled recently in stores throughout Tokyo. The humans behind Pepper are hoping that everyone will want him to join...

AI / Android / Japan