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Our Ancestor Killed the Last Yeti Alive
Over 10,000 years ago a creature stalked the Tibetan landscape. 10 foot tall, weighing in at over 1,200 pounds, this lumbering herbivore moved like a massive version of a modern Orangutan. His name was Gigantopithecus and his species is a...
Found Item Kinetic Sculpture Rides Real Bike
Andrew Smith was commissioned by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not to create this moving sculpture constructed from found items including railroad lanterns and an old bicycle. Really amazing looking piece of art. [YouTube]
South Korean Soldiers Go Bug Nuts Insane for K-Pop Girl Band
South Korean military men find themselves all in a lather when female pop stars Girl’s Generation surprise them for an impromptu concert. We don’t have any information on where this took place, but you can’t deny that’s a toe tapper of a...
Bigfoot Tracker Claims License To Kill Bigfoot Granted From Canadian Government
Georgia-Bigfoot-body-in-a-freezer hoaxer and the “best Bigfoot tracker in the world”, Rick Dyer claims he received permission from the Canadian government to kill a Bigfoot and bring it back to America. Dyer says his team has permission to...
Hide Ya Wife, Hide Ya Kids: Oily Man Returns to Malaysia
One of the more gruesome crypto creatures made a frightening return to Malaysia over the holidays. The Oily Man (Orang Minyak) is a supernatural creature covered in black grease that crawls into the homes of families and rapes virgin...
Sasquatch Sounds “Like a Woman Being Murdered in the Woods”
Animal Planet series Finding Sasquatch gives us this web exclusive comparing various Bigfoot Calls. Our favorite it the one that might actually have been a real woman being murdered in the woods only it was incorrectly classified as a...
NASA Wants YOU to Help Track Space Junk With Your iPhone
Listen folks, let’s face facts. Space stuff is trying to get all up in our atmosphere all the time. Most of it burns up on the way in but some actually makes it to the surface of our precious Earth. It would be really nice if we knew more...
The Future of Wheelchairs? Awesome Exoskeletons
The future is now. Amazing exoskeletons will be sold to consumers with spinal cord injuries for training, under doctor supervision for now, how to walk upright with the help of the device. Your job is to balance your upper body, shifting...
Chinese Billionaire Dies in Poisoned Cat Stew Murder Plot
Don’t try the cat meat hot pot while eating with Agriculture official Huang Guang. That’s what Chinese lumber billionaire Long Liyuan found out the hard way after he was allegedly poisoned. Long died in the hospital a few days later and...
Man Claims Obama Teleported to Mars as a Teenager, White House Denies
And so was birthed, the Mars-er. In a shocking new revelation surely set to explode into the national conversation as our 2012 election draws closer, a man has claimed that a 19-year-old Barack Obama teleported to Mars twice as part of a...
Video: This is Why You Don’t Fire Your Homemade Cannon Next to the House
Don’t do it. Seriously. Move that cannon out to the field. What are you doing? If you light that… oh well. Thanks to Weird Things reader Mark Sissons for this. [Live Leak]
What Inspired Birds to Slam Into Homes, Alfred Hitchcock to Make a Movie About It?
You may not know that the 1963 Hitchcock masterpiece The Birds was inspired by real events. But two years prior, a swarm of the normally docile Sooty Shearwaters which rarely come to shore at all, began slamming into houses inexplicably....
Hitler Ronald McDonald Lives at a Mall in Bangkok
Weird Things reader Robin sends us this picture from a mall in Bangkok. It looks like an art installation. But is also attached to a t-shirt shop. Which conveniently sells shirts of Hitler Ronald McDonald. Pretty bizarre.
Hybrid Shark Located in Australian Waters
The world’s first hybrid shark was discovered off the coast of Australia containing both common and Australian black tip DNA, with up to 20% percent of the population sampled being hybrids. Scientist speculate that the hybridization...
A Beebe New Year Tradition: Dead Blackbirds Raining From The Sky
Once again the town of Beebe, Arkansas is cleaning up dead blackbirds around New Years and the police are banning fireworks. “It’s just got to be a pain in my career,” Beebe Police Chief Wayne Ballew said. Prior to this New Year’s Eve,...
It’s 2012! The Year a Rogue Planet Crashes Into Earth and Kills Us All
As we count down the final days of 2011, it’s high time we moved into serious put up or shut up time for the 2012 prophecies. Our favorite to watch out for (literally) is the promise that a planet Nibiru will crash into Earth, ending...
Vintage iBook Ad Demonstrates Telekinetic Powers
This iBook commercial from the very early Return of Jobs era for Apple demonstrates something very rare for Mac products. Not the telekinetic ability to move physical objects with a mouse or empty your garbage with a click of your OS9 drop...
Video Footage of Female Yeti Captured in Russia [Yeti Watch]
A female Yeti has finally been captured in the Republic of Ingushetia. The creature was spotting killing a sheep, before dragging it into the woods and eating it. Authorities found the beast and captured it. “I tell you what. The animal...
And Now… the Horrifying Christmas Krampus Parade
We previously discussed the Krampus here. In short, he’s a demon equivalent to Santa Claus who kidnaps naughty children on Christmas Eve, takes them to his lair and eats them. Here they are on parade. Hide ya wife. Hide ya kids. Thanks to...
17th Precient Pilot Uses Copious Magi-babble to Cast the Spell of Boring [Review]
17th Precinct from ddt73 on Vimeo. io9 has posted the un-picked up pilot for Ronald D. Moore’s magician cop NBC pilot 17th Precient. We will post the embed here for as long as it stays up but should you not catch it, don’t worry. 17th...