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Couple Captures Ghost in Photo on Alcatraz
A couple from Birmingham, England were visiting the infamous Alcatraz in San Francisco when something strange caught their attention. “Whilst doing an audio-tour of the place, I casually stopped to take a snap of the empty visitation block...
New Extreme Sport – Full Contact Skydiving
Most people won’t ever go skydiving because the idea of tossing yourself from a plan at the ground is terrifying to those people. For those people, the added notion that someone is going to beat them senseless on the way down is even more...
Podcast: Star Chimps
Did we just invent a warp drive? The boys discover the oldest civilizational site on Earth while contemplating the possibility of a new home for humanity beyond the stars. Also: chimpanzee fossils and much more! Try out the...
Podcast: Magic Captain Musk and his sweet sweet ride
Elon Musk has a spaceship that he would like to show you and he’s done it like every one does awesome stuff: failing his face off. Learn the tricks of the trade with Brian and Andrew while Justin takes the week off in Hawaii. ...
Podcast: Solar Road to Nowhere
Podcast: Simulated Torture
Andrew prepares to get dragged through a lake of blood. But he might not be alone. The largest dinosaur ever ID’d. This giant mammal will blow your brain off your head. The amazing Fritz Zwicky explains the universe. A new board member...
Podcast: Baffling Boy Swallowing Holes
Sinkholes are swallowing boys! UFOs are attacking the Taliban! Correlation will never be the same after you realize what the marriage rate in Arkansas is causing. It’s all part of a new Weird Things! Try out the brand new PODCASTR player,...
Paranormal Activity Star Claims She’s Had Sex…with a Ghost!
Natasha Blasick, an actress from Paranormal Activity 2, is claiming she’s shacked up with a being from the afterlife. Nope. Really. This isn’t tabloid fodder, kids. It’s right up there in that video. Straight from the horse’s mouth. What’s...
Hiker Shoots Video of Lone Figure – Possible Bigfoot
A video shot almost two years ago by hikers and recently posted to YouTube is rapidly going viral as the usual debate of another poor quality video-sighting of an alleged Bigfoot hits the internet. This time everybody’s favorite cryptid is...
Book’s Pages Make Contaminated Water Drinkable
Using nanotechnology, a chemist has created an incredible book that straddles the line between magic and science. [DesignBoom]
Chimpanzee Builds Fire and Roasts Marshmallows – Casually Signals End of Human Dominance
With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes just around the corner, this couldn’t be a more timely reminder of how things can change. Remember how dramatic of a moment it was when Caesar from Rise of the Planet of the Apes stands up and yells...
Drowning Simulator Teaches Players a Lesson
If you asked around what peoples’ greatest fears are there’s a good chance that one or two would pop up more than the others… Fear of deep water and the fear of drowning. Thanks to the ‘magic’ that’s the internet and a company trying to...
Mysterious Figure Caught on Camera During Game!
Video of a weird figure quickly traveling through the stands during a game at the Hernando Siles Stadium in La Paz, Bolivia has hit the internet in the last couple of days. Quickly going viral, the clip has split viewers. Some, like many...
Town of Dolls is Just as Eerie as You Think It Is!
Valley of Dolls from Fritz Schumann on Vimeo. There’s something unsettling about a small village in Nagaro, Japan. The village, located about 90 minutes from anything resembling civilization is like something out of a Twilight Zone...
World’s Smallest Magazine Cover Sets Record – Blows Minds!
To help demonstrate a a new nano-scale technology, a group of scientists at IBM have recreated a Kids’ NatGeo magazine cover… So small that it would take 2,000 of them to cover a single grain of sand. Just keep staring blankly straight...
Podcast: Space Roar
Terrifying Insects Back From Edge of Extinction
There are a LOT of animals being saved from extinction…rhinos, cheetahs, snow leopards, etc,. Most of them are regal or furry or cute or just plain huggable. The Weta Punga are not ANY of those things. Weta Punga literally means “God of...
Strange Floating Sphere Records Us as it Wanders
Created by a couple of artists who were interested in the ‘unobserved’ moments of sound that go on in places like stairwells, hallways and, unfortunately for commuters witnessing the bizarre sight of this freaking thing, subways. Filled...
Podcast: The G Word
Chupacabra captured but is it what we think it is? Blue Origin mysteries revealed? Can they get us to space? Another Goblin outbreak sweeps Africa and only the Weird Things gang can solve it. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player,...
Disney Develops Robotic ‘Pixelbots’
Disney is continually developing things that will make us hand over a substantial amount of cash to play in their parks. Recently the Disney Research Hub’s YouTube Channel dropped a video showing something called PixelBots. As...