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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...
Heavy Winds Causing Waterfalls To Flow Upwards
Heavy winds near Sydney are pushing these waterfalls right back up the cliff. [Gizmodo]
Podcast: Sweaty Asteroid Of Revenge
The boys are joined by old friend Brett “The Amtrekker” Rounsaville as Justin schemes up the perfect murder plot which comes dangerously close to his interaction with one of his fellow panelists. Andrew dreams of a beautiful future where...
Guatemalan Sinkhole Opens Under Bed
Another sinkhole has opened in Guatemala, right under a woman’s bed. While she was sleeping. The sound of a gateway to hell being opened under her bed is what woke her up. About a million things are terrifying about this. A few feet to the...
The Worst Diseases You Can Get From Caving
Wired has catalogued the worst diseases you can catch underground. They are, in no particular order: Histoplasmosis – also known as Cave Disease or Spelunker’s Lung, is caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum and primarily affects the...
“Sea Monster” Carcass Washes Ashore in Britain
And by sea monster – I mean most likely a whale. ‘It’s like nothing we have ever seen, it almost looks pre-historic,’ he told the Sun. Curled up by the foot of sand dunes was the 30ft-long body of the unidentified animal with head, tail...
New Order Of Insects Discovered
Scientists have announced the discovery of an entire new order of insects that has recently been excavated in South America dating from the Lower Cretaceous period, between 146 and 100 million years ago. Both adults and larval stages of...
Chinese Man Drinks Gasoline Regularly
71-year-old stonecutter / bamboo weaver Chen Dejun drinks gasoline. And he isn’t dead. Apparently, he drinks it because it helps his chest pains from emphysema. Doctors theorize that he must have developed an immunity to gasoline....
Owl Leaves Body Print On Window
That is not a ghost owl. Apparently an owl hit a window so hard that it left a perfect owl print behind. Authorities state the owl survived but that the experience was “uncomfortable”. “This would have been very uncomfortable for the bird...
Loud Boom Rattles North Georgia
Residents near Gainesville, GA have reported loud booms and streaks across the sky. Dobbins Air Force Base said they do not know anything about it, but they are looking into the issue. AccessNorthGa.com received calls between 10:00 and...