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Jules Verne Invented Podcasting & 3 Other Eerie References To Modern Tech In Victorian Sci Fi
Back in the Victorian era, steam engines were on the bleeding edge and electricity seemed magical and revolutionary. In those times it seemed that all could be solved by technology and in many ways this was true. Inventors like Edison,...
Get The Book That Inspired Brian Brushwood’s Scam School For Only .99!
SPONSORED POST Brian Brushwood of the Weird Things podcast wants you to get drunk. For free. And he will show you how to do it step by step in this.99 eBook Cheats, Cons, Swindles and Tricks: 57 Ways To Scam A Free Drink. In fact, it’s the...
Torment: A Novel of Dark Terror [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail “Could she murder the others to save the...
Get Andrew Mayne’s The Grendel’s Shadow For Only .99
SPONSORED POST Gritty science fiction/western comes to life when T.R. Westwood is called to hunt down a mysterious creature murdering villagers on the outskirts of a world technology forgot. Andrew Mayne’s first novella The Grendel’s...
The Long, Strange, Repetitive History Of Number Stations
We’ve talked about them on the Weird Things podcast and they ended every episode of Weird Things TV, but if you’re curious about the history of number stations (the creepy repetitive voices, transmitted on low power radio that repeat the...
Orange Goo Attacks Alaska Town
It creeps, silently. The orange goo off the coast of the remote Alaskan town of Kivalina is a mystery that could turn ugly. Not only do residents have no idea what the substance is, if it turns out to be harmful to the fishing, hunting or...
Deadly Intent [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail “The girl laid her hand on the table, palm...
Don’t Kill Hitler! & 4 Other Helpful Tips To Avoid Time Travel Paradoxes
Time travel has been a staple of science fiction since its inception. As early as 1895 HG Wells, arguably the father of modern SciFi, wrote about time travel and its implications in “The Time Machine”. Now a days we get at least one time...
Podcast: All Drug Olympics
Brian wonders if a bizarre method to get high is real or fake when the boys get word of a new FBI directive. Andrew reveals just how cheaply we can get to Mars and how the budgets of several legitimately terrible movies could help us get...
Freakshow [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail Ever wonder what it is like to be a girl...
Fillipino Dwarves Seek Funds To Build Real Life Shire
Being a dwarf in Manila can be a rough life. Many desk jobs have height restrictions, leaving an underclass of little people who find gigs singing, wrestling or stripping for tourist dollars. But one bold pioneer seeks to build a refuge...
And Now: A Fire-Breathing Robot Pony
Enough said. [Geekologie]
In 1970 Chile Attempted To Control Their Entire Economy With An iPhone
It is the dawning of the computer age and anything is possible. Computations are reduced to milliseconds, data which previously required warehouses and staffs for maintenance can now be stored and sorted with ease and in Santiago, Chile a...
Man Cured Of Hearing His Own Eyeballs Roll
Stephen Mabbutt was diagnosed with superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS), which is a rare condition where sounds inside the body become very loud. Aside from hearing his own eyeballs roll in his head, he could hear his own heart...
Why Is The Tardis Bigger On The Inside?
To the uninitiated the Tardis is just a blue box with the warm, friendly, and official looking sign “Police Call Box” emblazoned, in lights, on all sides. To the fan, The Tardis is short for “Time and Relative Dimension in Space” and its...
Frantic Japanese Girl Creates Bizarre Combination Of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Willy Wonka’s Factory
In general, we find “isn’t Japan weird” items well.. a little 90’s. Sure, they are weird. But it’s pretty well worn territory and when Vlad Putin is giving straight faced interviews about Wood Goblins and Yetis we feel the most fertile...
Alpha Rising [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail Alpha Rising is a well-written story using...
Dead Man Comes Back To Life, Almost Shot For Being A Ghost
An 80-year-old South African man was reported dead by his family and taken to the morgue where the undertaker checked his vitals and verified the death. The body was then locked up in a morgue fridge for 21 hours when he suddenly woke up...
Splish-Splash! Largest Water Reservoir In Universe Discovered
Thirsty? Astronomers have discovered a reservoir containing 140 trillion times the amount of water in all the Earth’s oceans, making it the largest mass of water ever detected in the universe. “The environment around this quasar is unique...
Swamp Monster Threatens New Zealand Railway Project
An Auckland, New Zealand railway tunnel project is on hold pending discussions that it will anger and destroy the home of Horotiu. When angered, these mythical creatures will attack humans, and in fact they are believed by some to be...