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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...
Andrew Mayne LIVE Online Magic Lecture Saturday
SPONSORED POST If you could ask ONE question to one of the world’s most creative magicians, what would it be? If you’ve never been to a magic lecture, there’s never been a better time. Saturday June 16th at 7:00pm, we’re live-streaming...
Walking Dead Fan Favorite Returning to Show Almost Completely Makes Up for Season 2 [Opinion]
A fan favorite character is returning to the Walking Dead in the currently shooting third season. In the interest of spoilers, we will move the discussion and uncensored photo AFTER THE JUMP…
More Terracotta Warriors Discovered in Xi’an Dig-Site
The terracotta warriors of the Xi’an archaeology dig in north-west China have become icons of the dynasties of long ago. More than 8,000 of these warriors have been excavated over the years and just yesterday more were unearthed. The...
Clothing Made From Wine
A scientist, a winemaker and a fashion designer walk into a bar… No. Really. They all walk into a bar. The totally not funny but awesome punchline is something called Micro’be’. During a recent exploration of possible future fabrics and...
Human Ancestor Had Shark Head
Go ahead and take a gander back through the lineage of human history and you’re going to find some real nightmare fuel. One such grotesquerie? How about a human ancestor with a shark head. This now-extinct fish was among the first to split...
Podcast: The Moral Molecule
Brian and Andrew are joined by special guest Dr. Paul Zak, author of the new book The Moral Molecule. They discuss how much of the body needs to be replaced by machine parts before you are no longer considered human. Also, the likelihood...
Woman Publishes Fake Obituary for Brother to Play Hooky from Work
Who says people don’t read newspapers anymore? A Colorado woman lied to her employer when she told them she needed time off because her brother recently died. An icky, if not uncommon, crime. But she went too far when she tried to pad the...
A Vibrant, Beautiful Death for a Deadly Sea Creature
While it sounds like the last half of a Harry Potter book title, the Fire Urchin isn’t quite as fun. Fire Urchins, which are found off the coast of Maui, Hawaii, get their name not from their typically blazing colorations but from the...
Hell Gets a Theme Park!
Theme park. Fun, right? You probably just flash-backed to some awesome memories of going to a theme park with friends and family and having a really good time. You might start humming ‘It’s a Small World’. Well knock it off. There’s a...