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Podcast: Zombie Nazis In Space
Before the big SpaceX announcement, the boys debate their relative excitement levels while Brian levies accusations of bigotry against NASA. Andrew questions the merit of a claim that the Chupacabra was inspired by the alien in Species and...
Elon Musk Says Falcon 9 Heavy Rocket Could Successfully Go To Mars And Back
Elon Musk’s Space X promised a big announcement today and it was the unveiling of the Falcon Heavy. The short list of features: it can put 100,000 – 120,000 lbs. in orbit, has the thrust capacity of 15 Boeing 747s combined, is 30% the cost...
Onlookers Cripple Town In Gridlock To Observe Dead Pig Floating Under Bridge
How boring is it to live in Bridgewater, Ireland? So boring that when you see what you think might be a dead body, or a turtle, or (as it turned out ultimately) the head of a pig floating below a town bridge it becomes a communal event to...
First Person Zombie Folk Rock… Yeah… It’s Awesome
With apologies to John Coulton, there really isn’t much work being done in the niche genre of rock music from the perspective of a zombie. Enter Aaron Stoquert, an NYC folk singer/songwriter whose five-track EP Run For Your Life does just...
New Clip From Brit/Kid/Alien Invasion Flick “Attack The Block”
Here is a flick you’ll probably hear a lot more about once it gets US distribution. Attack The Block is like Goonies if the Goonies kids lived in the projects and then aliens attacked. And were British. It opens in the UK May 13th and...
Sammy Hagar Vividly Describes His Own Alien Abduction, UFO Sighting
While speaking to MTV’s The Hive, Sammy Hagar describes in detail how a band of aliens experimented on him while he slept: How is that crazy? I wasn’t there, I don’t know what happened to you. Remember the story in the book, where I have a...
Are We Descended From Martians?
If one day, in a shiny future filled with hope and promise science and engineering finally succeeds in putting the feet of a human on Mars, we could just be returning home. That is the theory of one MIT research team which aims to...
New Species: Two New Freshwater Stingrays Identified
An entire new genus has been identified with the discovery of two barb-free freshwater stingrays fished out of a river deep in the Amazon near Iquitos, Peru. Heliotrygon gomesi and Heliotrygon rosai can grow up to 1/2 a meter long and have...
Internet Stressing World Supply of Exorcists
According to statements released during a recent conference on the phenomenon of Satanism at Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome, there has been a surge in requests for exorcists which correlates with the rise of the Internet....
SpaceX – “Something Big Is Coming”
SpaceX is promising something big April 5th, but isn’t saying much else. The announcement probably has to do with Falcon Heavy rockets, but I am excited to see what this is all about. [Gizmodo]
Did Mars Suffer From A Natural Nuclear Explosion?
Mars is the bomb. Or rather, may have been bombed. But not by rogue Martians or those weenusmunchers from Venus. No, it was totally natural. This explosion wiped out all life on the planet and left it a wasteland of red sand. At least,...
UK Municipality Creates CHUD Hysteria To Warn Residents About Flushing Diapers
The northwest English town of Cumbria has a mysterious bipedal creature in the sewers. It may or may not be dangerous, but it does bear a resemblance to the infamous CHUD creatures from the 1984 horror film. Or at least that’s what the...
Chicken Undergoes Natural Sex Change
Gertie the hen is now Gerry the cockerel. Well… we don’t know if they call him Gerry but this chicken certainly did have a sex change. Which is apparently normal amongst some chickens. The first sign that something was afoot with Gertie...
Is The Starchild Skull Proof Aliens Landed In America 900 Years Ago? [WeirdThingsTV]
Ukranian Bigfoot Footage: Legit Or Hoax?
The publisher of this site, Andrew Mayne, once told me his take on the early films of action director John Woo. Sure, the fighting is insane and the plot is pretty hard nosed but since the film is subtitled, how does any English speaker...
When Eagle Rays Fly
A family vacationing in the Florida Keys had a surprise encounter with a leaping eagle ray that left one of them pinned under the animal for over four minutes. The 200-lb ray landed right in the boat on top of Jenny Hausch and pinned her...
Can You Find A Pre-1990 Chupacabra Reference? You Just Won $250!
We mentioned Benjamin Radford’s new book Tracking The Chupacabra both on the blog and in our YouTube series but now the man has put his money where his mouth is. To briefly recap: Radford makes two major claims via his book research....
UFO Buzzs Oslo Airport, Causes Delays
A pilot got a very good glimpse at what are some are calling a UFO over Norway. What is known is that the airborne item flew at about 8,000 feet and caused delays at the Oslo International Airport last Thursday. Here is the pilot’s...
A Rifle/Machete Slingshot
Although this is barely within our news coverage area, we thought bringing you footage of this amazing machete slingshot/rifle hybrid would prove that this beautiful dream is indeed science fact. Favorite moments in video: • The sound...
Podcast: 15,000 Year Death Wish Will Rule The Day
Andrew is very excited that his first science fiction book The Grendel’s Shadow is released. Brian favorably compares the human race to ants and wonders aloud if we will survive an unknowable cosmic disaster. After having his curiosity...