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The Case of Sir Thomas Grantham’s Monster
Imagine you were far away from home and you found a monster. Not a metaphor, but a genuine, grotesque oddity. What would you do with it? I have in my possession a copy of Modern Reports: Or Select Cases, Adjudged In The Courts Of King’s...
Cell Phone Company Builds Massive Gravity Marimba To Sell New Phone
Make no mistake: this is an intricate, delicate work of art no matter if it’s a commercial or not. A Japanese telco built a massive wooden gravity marimba operated by a single ball through a gorgeous woodland area. The moral of the story?...
Navy Test Fires Solid-State Laser
Researchers mounted the Maritime Laser Demonstrator, a solid-state laser, aboard the USS Paul Foster, a decommissioned destroyer. Off the central California coast near San Nicholas Island on Wednesday, the laser fired a 15-kilowatt beam at...
New California Nightcrawler Video
Back in 2008 a stick-figure creature got busted creeping around Fresno backyards and was dubbed The Nightcrawler. Recently, new footage near Fresno shows two creatures that are very similar. Check out the videos below. The kind of look...
Man Transmits Bug Disease During Sex [WeirdThingsTV]
Physicists Discover New Subatomic Particle? Maybe.
Physicists have just announced the discovery of something that falls outside the current understanding of particle physics. While zipping particles through Fermilab’s Tevatron collider they noticed that things were getting weird. While...
Three Possible Conspiracies To Explain Government Shut Down
It is very likely a combination of pre-2012 posturing by the White House and a fiscal hardline amongst the Republican party could cause our United States government to shut down this weekend. This is disappointing and annoying. The silver...
Rocky Vs. Mech Decided In New Music Video
The amazing music video for Alex Metric & Steve Angelo’s new tune Open Your Eyes finds us visiting a man who looks not unlike a young Rocky Balboa working over bums in the Philly underground boxing scene. However, instead of Apollo Creed...
“Are Computer Viruses Taking Over The World?”
SPONSORED POST Are computer viruses trying to take us over? Are they just the devolution of some kind of alien technology that’s trying to communicate with us through insipid mischief? Or are they evil alien viruses and trying to distract...
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,...