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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...
Podcast: Dawn of the Face Eater
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In a week when the boundaries of humanity’s role in space may have been redefined forever we also got the possible beginning of a zombie outbreak when a naked man was shot dead eating...
ALIEN Anthology Blu-Ray on Sale at Amazon
What better way to support Weird Things and get ready for Prometheus than by watching the original Alien flicks in pristine Blu-Ray quality? This collection includes all four of the series along with extensive behind the scenes features....
SpaceX Signs Up First Customer for World’s Most Powerful Rocket
SpaceX and Intellisat, the world’s largest provider of satellite services, have issued a press release announcing that Intellisat has signed up to be the first customer for SpaceX’s next generation rocket, the Falcon Heavy. The most...
Castelling: The 19th Century’s Answer to Planking
Over the last year or so we’ve seen a lot of news about people “planking”, “owling”, “horsemanning” and the less than stellar introduction of “snailing”. What most people aren’t aware is that things like the above mentioned fads have been...
Rising Water Slowly Swallowing NYC Town
Very quietly and very slowly older neighborhoods and strips are making way not for new highways and public spaces but for the creeping, crawling onslaught of nature. Case in point? A small five-block neighborhood between Brooklyn and...
Revealed: Bodies of the Easter Island Statues
They’re featured in the title of practically every documentary or television show dealing with mysterious places. Their heads have adorned everything from coasters to keychains to books to backyard statuary. Heck, one of them even made it...
Video: Really Freaking Massive Giant Salamanders Making a Comeback!
Across North America various species of adorable little salamanders get ‘oohs’ and ‘awwws’ get talked to like babies. In Japan, home of fun little critters like Godzilla, things are a little different. For a while the giant salamander...
Psychic Pig Now King of the Sports Prediction Barnyard
Not to be outdone by Germany’s cross-eyed possum, Slovakia’s two-headed turtle and the infamous Paul the Octopus, the city of Kiev is adding a pig to the psychic barnyard. Hoping to cash in on the excitement these animals illicit from...
Man Builds Motorcycle from Car, MacGyver-Style
If Elon Musk and MacGyver had a love child its name would be Emile LeRay. Emile had left Morrocco and was going to drive across the Sahara in a specially prepared Citreon. His plans came to a grinding halt when he came across a military...