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Dead Sea Scroll Mystery Solved?
National Geogrphic has some really interesting historical findings on where the Dead Sea Scrolls might have originated. Also: And on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion, archaeologists recently discovered and deciphered a two-thousand-year-old cup with...
300 Gators Freaking Out!
Low water level + tons of snacks = 300 Gators freaking the hell out in a random Georgia canal while a fisherman slowly cuts through them on his way to fish. [CNN]
Man Devoured Alive By Maggots While Partner Sleeps Next To HIm
Remember the 1995 Sandra Bullock romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping? This story is nothing like that. Paramedics in Vienna had a shock when they answered a call – and found a man “eaten alive” by maggots. Ambulance crew were called...
Divers Explore Mayan Hellmouths
Who’s got two thumbs and wants to get all up in some sacred Mayan pools once believed to be portals to the underworld where offerings were dropped down to appease the evil forces waiting below? These guys! Steering clear of crocodiles and...
New Crater Suggests Our Looming Death From Above Could Be Larger, Harder
A research team in Egypt has identified a “fresh” crater thought to be formed by a crashed iron meteor, could mean incoming space rocks would hit earth in bigger chunks than we once suspected. The Italian-Egyptian team that found the...
Weird Things Book Club: Dawkins Sees A Double Rainbow
Justin Robert Young: Issac Asimov’s Foundation (Foundation Novels) Brian Brushwood: Peter F. Hamilton’s The Reality Dysfunction (The Night’s Dawn) Andrew Mayne: Matthew Ridley’s The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Karen...
Octopus Found With Sub-Zero Venom
File this under “Things We Didn’t Know Were Super Cool Until We Heard It Was Real”: HONG KONG (Reuters) – Researchers have discovered four new species of octopus in Antarctica with venom that works at sub-zero temperatures. They hope to...
Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank
Darth Vader robbed a bank in Long Island. Don’t you know it’s hard out here for a Sith? Hustle & Force. Point Bespin. I’ll stop now. Thanks to Weird Things friends Katy and Lawrence for making sure this came our way. [Daily Mail]
How we plan to protect you from all the wicked evil demonic ghosts we’re going to capture
So Justin Robert Young and I have been scoping out murder scenes, ancient burial grounds and sites of all out massacres in research for our Weird Things Live project (where we investigate paranormal phenomena in front of a live internet...
Our Best Defense Against Chinese UFOs Revealed! [WeirdThingsTV]
Podcast: Dawkins sees a Double Rainbow
Special guest Dr. Karen Stollznow helps the gang plan a heist for a sacred Yeti paw. Brian and Justin get enormous glee from watching Andrew get corrected. The ethics of eating canned whale meat is debated. We also find out how ready and...
The Mysterious Wooden Stonehenge… Of Cincinnati?
A ceremonial ground designed by a long-gone culture to mark and celebrate the lunar cycles… just over the river from modern-day Kentucky. This year archaeologists began using computer models to analyze Moorehead Circle’s layout and found...
500 Dead Penguins Wash Ashore In Brazil
Maybe it’s the summer time, but weird beach stories are just dominating the news lately. Yesterday we had a couple of Russian jackasses strapping a mule to a parachute for publicity and today we get news that 500 penguins washed ashore in...
Whale!
Real picture. Thanks to Weird Things reader Mike Beam. [Telegraph]
Parasailing Donkey Terrifies Children During Horrific Russian Publicity Stunt
Holy moly. A Russian parasailing outfit wants to advertise their services in a grassroots manner that will naturally generate word of mouth buzz. They attach a donkey to a parachute and let him fly around a beach for 30 minutes. The...
Weapon Maker Marks Successful Military Laser Test With Awesome Quote
Military had a laser. It tried to shoot down a moving drone. It worked. Lasers are awesome. What else is awesome? This quote: Mike Booen of Raytheon gave USA Today the money quote for the day: “The targets came in over the ocean, and it...
Finally, A Fool-Proof Time Travel Strategy!
It’s way smarter than me, but a pack of MIT numberheads got together and figured out how to utilize quantum mechanics to circumvent the dreaded “grandfather paradox” of time travel a.k.a. the travel doing something stupid that causes him...
Man Busted With 18 Monkeys In His Girdle
Awkward. MEXICO CITY — A man with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt was stopped, searched and detained at Mexico City’s international airport after authorities found 18 tiny endangered monkeys in a girdle he was wearing. The Public...
Santeria Advisor Tells Man His Hotel Is Haunted, Graciously Takes Hotel, Evicts Man
Enzo Vincenzi had a poor financial outlook and worse stomach problems. He contacted a Santeria spiritual advisor to help him get his life back on track by cleansing himself of demonic spirits. That didn’t happen. Eventually Pacheco took...
You Ever Wonder What Cat Ancestors Look Like?
Boom. How’s that for a Monday morning? That thing looks like the Yeti of cats. As described by Gadopoder: These little (big) guys are the oldest living relative of modern day cats. The Pallas’s Cat is the oldest living species of a clade...