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Amazing Kreskin Opens Supernatural Dating Site – Predicts It Will Take Dating to a New Dimension
In a move only he could’ve seen coming…you know….because he’s who he is…the Amazing Kreskin has opened the gates on a new dating site… A site for “enthusiasts of the paranormal, the unexplained, the mystical, the implausible…” While we’re...
Toe Cheese – It’s What’s For Dinner
Nope. We know what you’re wishing and your hopes are wrong. That’s not an old rice cake that someone dropped under the couch six months ago. It’s not a urinal cake either…because even that wouldn’t be as bad. It’s exactly what your brain...
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...
Papa New Guinea Cannibal Cult Caught
Almost 30 people have been arrested during a dawn raid on what’s believed to be a cannibal cult in Papua New Guinea. Members range from a 13-year-old boy to a teacher in his 50s. Two men are still on the run. The group has killed at least...
Sorcery and Witchcraft Punishable By Beheading
At first this headline sounded like a joke. This kind of treatment doesn’t still happen ala the Salem witch trials, does it? It apparently and disturbingly does. Muree bin Ali Issa al-Asiri was executed several days ago in Saudi Arabia for...
Castelling: The 19th Century’s Answer to Planking
Over the last year or so we’ve seen a lot of news about people “planking”, “owling”, “horsemanning” and the less than stellar introduction of “snailing”. What most people aren’t aware is that things like the above mentioned fads have been...
How Local Merchants Kept The Jersey Devil Alive
Following a horrified statewide fascination with the Jersey Devil that peaked in 1909 with a week of non-stop sightings, general panic and even a statement from the Philadelphia Zoo theorizing that the devil was actually a kangaroo fitted...
Spring Heeled Jack: A Fire-Breathing Terror For 19th-Century London
Weird Things Culture Researcher Matt Finaly takes a weekly look into the social, political and cultural climates of a populace at the time it was affected by a legendary paranormal, extraterrestrial or cryptid phenomenon. It appears on...
Weird Week: Dover Demon, David Berkowitz, Chatty Ghosts, Lonely Bigfoot Hunters
Previously, this week, on Weird Things. • A few tips for the novice Bigfoot hunter. • Could the Son of Sam, a UFO investigating Air Force base and the birth of popular science fiction have helped create the Dover Demon? •...
Call New Element Kryptonite!
Super-heavy element 112 is now on the scene, more than ten years since it’s creation at the Center for Heavy Ion Research in Germany. And it needs a name. Internet sensation Professor Richard Wiseman believes it should be called...
Woman Forced to Hire Witch Doctor Over Curse
Jennifer Madrigal in Ogden, Utah filed a complaint to local police claiming another woman had cursed her. Allegedly during a dispute about food stamps, the offending party cursed the Utah woman that she would be hit by a car. According to...