China
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New Cousin to the Velociraptor Discovered in China
Liaoning Province in China is known for the substantial amount of dinosaur fossils that’ve turned up in the dirt there. Over the years everything from insects to fish to plants have been discovered in such detail that even skin textures...
Welder dons Batsuit, builds Batpod becomes Chibatman!
Here in the states we’re all pretty used to Christian Bale as Batman getting in peoples’ faces and barking like he’s trying to carry on a conversation in a dance club. But what if there was a kinder more approachable version of the Dark...
Travel Company Helps Plush Toys See the World
Everyone dreams about traversing the globe and visiting all of those places that are on most of our bucket lists. Unagi Travel is a company that will help your plush animals reach that goal while you live vicariously through video and...
Z Machine – New Robot Rock Band Makes Debut!
Musicians are usually willing to jam with anyone that has some ability at playing an instrument. As we begin walking hand-in-hand with our quickly-becoming-commonplace robotic friends, it only seems natural that musicians and robots would...
Pigeon Racing Attracts ‘New Money’ Millionaires in China
Pigeon racing is quickly becoming a hot place for a new generation of wealthy people in China to drop some cash. In fact it’s attracting drops of cash worth millions. One race can net the winning team’s owner upwards of $80,000. There’s...
Meet the Bagel-Heads! Crazy Body Modification Gets Trendy!
Body modification seemed to root itself into underground culture of the 90s. Since that time we’ve seen our share of modded bods. You’d think that there just wasn’t anything to really mod until low-cost cybernetic parts started popping up...
Possible Chinese Rage Virus? Man Chews Other Man’s Arm Over Subway Seat!
Here in the states, Bath-Salt Zombie activity has gone into a lull as everyone following the gruesome trend keeps a wary eye out for the next crazy-looking person who reeks of ‘Blossoming Garden Jasmine’ and keeps eyeballing your body like...
Latest Chinese Beach Fashion – The Facekini!
The bikini debuted in 1946. It’s gone through a lot of variations. There’s been a monokini, microkini, tankini, trikini, pubikini (yes…it’s a real thing) and the mankini. But only occasionally has the phrase ‘nightmare fuel’ ever been...
Apocalyptic Chic: ‘Ghost Cities’
Like some kind of massive, uber-budgeted, city-wide set of a Ridley Scott film that takes place after the fall of mankind, several cities built by China are almost completely devoid of life. What’s even stranger is that these massive...
Lab Experiment Gone Wrong? Chinese Pig Dog Baffles Chinese Residents
Is this curious pig/dog hybrid creature a runaway from a lab experiment? A new cryptid? A beast of myth and fable? No to the first, probably to the second and hopefully to the third. As it turns out, this little fella is actually a very...
Can You Spot the Tiny Chinese Space Station on the Face of the Sun?
Alright, it’s a little easier when someone puts a tiny circle around it. What you are seeing is China’s Tiangong-1 space station transiting the Sun. This is the handiwork of Astrophotographer Thierry Legault who had to time this perfectly...
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...
Closely Guarded Chinese Secret, Huh? Names Of Chinese “Taikonauts” Accidentally Revealed In Commemorative Memorabilia
After their selection 18 months ago, the names of the crew that will be sent into space by the People’s Republic of China has been kept under wraps. Until someone put their autographs on a commemorative postmarked envelope and accidentally...
Zoo Proves Love Between Sheep, Deer By Posting Mating Photos On Blog
Chinese message boards have lit flame with a romantic controversy filled with taboo, lust and well-lit viewing areas. A sheep and deer have fallen in love at the Yunnan Zoo. When first reported, many reacted skeptically, believing the...
Man Demonstrates Qi Telekinesis On Chinese Television
Chinese television news features a man who claims to move objects and shatter glass using only the power of Qi.
Shanghai’s Haunted Train Station [Weird China]
Chinese native Chunzhenwang reports from Shanghai I don’t like horror movies or ghost stories. My imagination pictures those things, especially at night, which freak me out. But the curiosity never stops me from listening to them. I want...
Is The Mysterious Google Maps Anomaly China’s Area 51?
Pictures of a strange plot of land in China’s western Gansu province could a secret weapons testing facility and if one weapons expert is to be believed, it’s very similar to American installations in Nevada. Including the famed Area 51....
Mirage of Entire City
“Residents in Huanshan City in East China encountered one of the best and most clearest mirage of their city a few weeks ago after a rainfall. Apparently some believed to be a “ghost city” that materialized over the Xin’an River. Yet...
China’s UFO Launching Pyramid
It’s a pyramid. In China. Wait, it gets weirder. It’s on top of a mountain and is not (as far as researchers can tell) a burial tomb for a royal dynasty. In fact, local legend has it that the elevated platform has been used as a UFO...
Hairless Creature Captured, Dubbed “Oriental Yeti”
Hunters in the remote woodlands of the Sichuan province in China caught a small hairless creatures that is said to resemble a bear with a kangaroo tail. The creature has been shipped to Beijing for scientists to examine and DNA test. The...
Chinese Researchers Want YOU To Hunt For Their Bigfoot
Got a hankering to hunt down a Chinese Bigfoot? Your ship has come in, sailor! The Hubei Wild Man Research Association (HWMRA) in China’s Hubei province announced they are recruiting researchers from around the world to join its team in...
Iron Dong
It is what it says. Thank you to Weird Things reader Paul for sending this in.