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Zombie Attacks Continue!
Every time we laugh about a zombie apocalypse another incident bites our lips right off our smiles and reminds us that we should probably stop laughing and start grabbing shovels. This time around what began as a domestic disturbance call...
440 lb. Corpse Proves Too Fatty, Sets Crematorium Ablaze
Ever grill during the summer? Ever notice how much more the flames rage when they hit a nice piece of fat? It’s no different for human beings. A crematorium in Austria caught fire recently not because of an arsonist, not because of some...
African Lake Turns Hot Pink, Is Super, Thanks For Asking
While not quite a fashionable ‘Apocalyptic Red’ color, Lake Retba in Senegal, West Africa does something flamboyantly cool… it turns pink… like awesome strawberry-milk pink. Lake Retba and the Dead Sea were given those names because it...
Insane, Hand Carved Alien Guitar!
With Prometheus landing in practically every cinema this weekend and all the renewed interest in the franchise, it’s not surprising that THIS thing popped up. Gig Goldstein, the artist behind this piece of work, took up carving about 12...
Man Applies Aerosol Sunscreen, Catches Fire in Front of Grill
How many times when you were a kid did you have to listen to some grown-up telling you, “You better put on sunscreen or you’re gonna get burned out there.” Now you have some ammunition explaining why you shouldn’t be smothering your body...
Podcast: Nothing Is Certain Except Death And Tanning
Spiro and The Fudge are back on the case! This time they have to solve a mystery involving a dead murderer who might have been killed by a vigilante. Will they be able to crack the grisly case? Or will Spiro be too busy full body tanning...
Suspected Vampire Skeletons Recovered in Bulgaria
How do you stop a dead man from becoming a vampire? Well, if you lived in Bulgaria during the Middle Ages the easy way to prevent it is to hammer an iron rod through the heart of every corpse before you lay them to their final rest. Two...
Most Morbid Piggy Bank Ever!
Automata have been around for a couple of centuries now. Most of the time they’re enjoyably amazing pieces of craftsmanship that cause people to smile. There’s been a chess-playing automata, an acrobatic automata that does a trapeze act...
Video: Dead Cat Gets Second Life as Helicopter
Cats. They power the internet. They’re always chasing birds and most of the time they fail at it. Birds. They make a lot of noise and mimic/mock everybody including cats that chase them. They have the advantage of flight. That’s all about...
Recovery of Amelia Earhart’s Alleged Anti-Freckle Cream Triggers New Search
On July 2, 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan set out in Earhart’s plane, the Electra, to circumnavigate the world at the equator…and vanished. Their disappearance has been mentioned in everything from historical...
Crap! Nature Evolves Wasp with Scorpion Tail
During an early WeirdThings podcast, Brian and Justin were put into one of Andrew’s scenarios involving ‘flying’ snakes in Russia. Neither of them were happy with the idea of snakes launching themselves from trees onto their prey. Here’s...
Fire Rainbows!
Rainbow? Lame. Double Rainbow? It had its time and people sang its praises. Fire Rainbow? You have our attention. A naturally occuring optical phenomenon, the ‘fire rainbow’ or what’s called a circumhorizontal arc is something that...
Video: The Navy Invented a Flying Segway in 1955
Along with the jet packs we were supposed to be sporting by now and the hover cars easing our commute was the military’s Flying Platform. In 1955 a film was shot showing one of the airborne Seqway-like contraptions in operation. Originally...
Robot/Chemical Rehab Teaches Paralyzed Rat to Walk Again
In an amazing scientific feat, a paralyzed rat was taught to walk again. First, Courtine and colleagues injected the rats with a chemical cocktail that binds to dopamine, adrenaline and serotonin receptors on the spinal cord’s neurons....
Life in the Sewers of Colombia
Over the last several decades, small pockets of people have begun taking up residence on the fringes of society. Almost three generations of ‘mole people’ live beneath the city of New York. A floating island of lashed together debris is...
Is a Space Plague Killing Scores of Antelope in Kazakhstan?
In my country there is problem. And that problem is dead antelope. Three major die-offs of the antelope population have occurred in the past three years due to mysterious causes. In fact, each death boom happened almost exactly one year...
A Digest of Flesh Eating Stories Proving the Zombie Apocalypse is Here
Remember how we were all joking a couple of days about that crazy incident that resembled a zombie attack in Miami? Remember all the fun conversations about prepping your boomsticks and role-playing what you’d do if the zombie apocalypse...
EXCLUSIVE: SpaceX Dragon Splashdown Pic!
Now we know what secret cargo SpaceX had included…
Welcome Home Dragon!
Nothing kicks off a summer of fun like the first commercial space craft hitting the waves. Minutes ago, SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, ending a historic trip from GD space to the International Space Station....
Teens Cleanse ‘Haunted’ Hospital with Fire!
A derelict, abandoned hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has attracted hundreds of rookie ghost hunters for years. Riyadh’s Iraq Hospital, a now abandoned building which treated Gulf War soldiers beginning in 1991 has become the focal point...