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Minority Dissent: How Wired Missed the Precogged Future that Wasn’t
Wired magazine is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Steven Spielberg film MINORITY REPORT in an article that talks about the secret summit where technologists were invited to imagine the world of 2080 (revised to 2050 for the...
Japanese Scientists Grow Crude Liver in a Dish!
Something straight out of a science fiction story is becoming a reality in Yokohama, Japan right now: regenerative organs. There have been tons of attempts, theories and even a small handful of groundbreaking work concerning regenerating...
Noob Hypnotist’s Show Goes Wrong
Like a padawan who just learned about the force, 20 year-old newbie hypnotist, Maxime Nadeau was hired to put on a year-end show for the all-girl College du Sacre-Coeur in Sherbooke, Quebec. People were having a great time, the show went...
Lame ‘Causeway Cannibal’ Copycat Attack
Zombie-like activity keeps rearing its ugly, face-biting head. Once again the Sunshine State is reporting another flesh-biting incident. This one, however, is just a faux zombie inspired by the ‘Causeway Cannibal’ case in Miami from a...
Podcast: Big Things Have Weird Beginnings
The three amigos are reunited yet again in this thrilling episode of the podcast. Justin is rightly ridiculed for refusing to lower his expectations for the already far overachieving Voyager probe. Andrew and Brian debate the feasibility...
Adele Song Wakes Girl from Coma?
Seven-year-old Charlotte Neve was in a coma. A brain hemorrhage and several horrific strokes due to an aneurysm brought on by a rare disease no one knew she had put her there. Doctors told her mother, Leila Neve, saying goodbye was the...
Soldiers Scale Walls With Vacuum
Grappling hooks are so 1985. Check out this thing. Looking a LOT like some kind of steampunk version of Spiderman’s climbing apparatus circa 1944, the vacuum-powered gear in this video was developed by students at Utah State University for...
Black Plague Victim in Oregon!
Black Plague. Wiped out over a third of Europe back in the day. Everyone’s happy it’s gone and we’ve all moved on to live happy lives without any more talk of this contagion nick-named ‘Black Death’…or have we? About a week ago, in Oregon,...
Man Uses Eyes To Tweet Request to Die
“Hello world. I am tony nicklinson, I have locked-in syndrome and this is my first ever tweet.” With the exception of a mention of something called ‘locked-in syndrome’ this isn’t a ground-breaking or particularly interesting tweet, right?...
Teens, Guided by Teacher, Cut Themselves to Release Demons.
Because Florida isn’t already weird enough now that they’ve added bath salt-created, face-eating zombies to the list, a literacy teacher at Lealman and Asian Neighborhood Family Center in St. Petersburg has been jailed for performing what...
Weird Things Podcast recording 6.18.12
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Squid Impregnates Woman’s Mouth!
Where do you begin this. Let’s get some science stuff out of the way first. Spermatophores. Your brain’s already spinning with possibilites because of the word ‘sperm’. Spermatophores are like little cups of sperm complete with a timer...
Strange Object Buried In Ice: Recovery Begins!
One year ago Swedish Ocean Explorer Team (Ocean X), using sonar, came across something buried under the ice in the Baltic Sea. Tons of hopeful theories have been tossed around as to what it may be. Ufo? Sunken ship? Arctic Stonehenge? No...
Pictures! Horrifying New Critters Found Deep in New Zealand Oceans!
New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research recently led an exploration of the Kermadec Ridge. Reaching depths of up to 4,100 feet and spanning 3,800 square miles that included everything from continental slopes and...
Possible UFO activity on the freeway?
Twitter began buzzing that something straight out of a UFO conspiracy film was taking place late at night on a freeway in Washington D.C. Pictures were being uploaded and retweeted of a large flatbed truck, a military-looking escort and...
High School Students Spot Bigfoot in Idaho.
Bigfoot slipped up earlier this year and may have been caught on video by a group of High School students and then apparently either forgot his crutches or hop-scotched away since we keeping being shown the same footprint over and over....
Happy Father’s Day from Weird Things!
For all of our WeirdThings fathers. A male seahorse…doing something you don’t have to…giving birth. You’re welcome. Happy Father’s Day [YouTube]
Plant Bitchslaps Meals Before Killing Them
Carnivorous plants are as sneaky as they are creepy. What they lack in speed, they make up for in shady tactics to attract and snag prey. The standard ‘Pitcher Plant’, shaped like something you’d pour Evil Nectar-flavored Kool-Aid from,...
Australian Bigfoot Leaves Fresh Tracks
Bigfoot news is ripe now that Animal Planet’s “Finding Bigfoot” is reinvigorating the hunt for the apparent ninja-trained mysterious icon of cryptozoology. On the other side of the world from Idaho’s recent sighting, comes reports of...
Forest Boy Still Unclaimed (UPDATE: Total Hoax)
UPDATE: Yeah, this one is malarkey. The boy was identified as a Dutch runaway. None of his story was true. In a last attempt at trying to identify a mysterious young man that wandered from the woods in Berlin, police have decided to...