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Russian WW II Tomb Raiders Spooked by Nazi Ghosts
From the always reliable Pravda we get strange accounts of “black archeologists” (tomb raiders) who encountered some strange phenomena digging up World War II era graves In 1997, a group of six people headed to Luban in the Leningradsky...
The Almost Alien Abduction
The following report from over 100 years ago purports to be the first documented encounter between man and alien. It seems the aliens made a gross misjudgment in how much carry-on baggage they were allowed and were unable to take a human...
Weirdest Holiday In The World
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We Find The Weirdest Holiday In The World… Today At 5:30 EST
Sure, it’s only a week after Halloween and Christmas decorations are already up. Thanksgiving is sulking the corner, softly weeping at the lack of attention. So please, let’s all get together and cheer it up by highlighting the Weirdest...
The Five Best Songs About Diseases & Infections Ever
With flu season mounting, handshakes get risky, hugs spell out trouble and kisses become spit-smeared invitations to 103-degree, snot-slathered winter formals hosted by your lungs. Every person you love is looking more and more like a...
Podcast: No Sign of Intelligent Life
Antimatter in Lightning
According to ScienceNews, lightning isn’t just for powering your time traveling Delorean. Using the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, scientists were able to detect the signature of the production of anti-matter particles in gamma ray...
Space Wants to Kill Us
In Michael Crichton’s 1969 novel Andromeda Strain (and subsequent film and recent TV mini-series) the premise is about an extra-terrestrial microorganism that threatens to wipe humanity off the planet through truly horrific blood clotting....
Weirdest Thing In The World: Canned Food
The lost episode of WeirdThings.com live show from teh WKD on Vimeo. Many thanks to t2t2 for capturing this when all else failed.
Weirdest Thing In The World Chat Is Back With Canned Foods!
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time of year. Halloween has passed and those in need require your kindness. So please, gather what you can and help us donate the Weirdest Canned Foods In The World. Here are the ground rules: •...
Podcast: Invisible Paleo Fight Club
Ultimate Shrinkage: The Tale Of The Disappearing Junk
It’s All in Your Heads – Mass Hysteria, Rampant Psychosomaticism and Contagious Hypochondria. Monday, how a town danced themselves to death. Today: Honey, I Shrunk the Dong – The Todger Inversion Delusion In the “Seinfeld” episode where a...
Meet Your New Implant Technology
Want to know how our robot overlords are going to implant our circuitry? Silk. From Popular Science: …in the quest to make our bodies ever more bionic, researchers have now developed implantable silicon-silk electronics that almost...
Carl Sagan Day
Want to meet up with some of the folks behind Weird Things? Plan on being in South Florida on Saturday? Want to pay your respect to Carl Sagan? Meet James Randi, Phil Plait and others? Then meet us at Carl Sagan day at Broward College this...
Mars Needs Bacteria
In an interesting experiment to see how well terrestrial bacteria might survive on Mars, a group built their own Mars simulator. From UniverseToday.com: A team led by Giuseppe Galletta of the Department of Astronomy at the University of...
Giant Jellyfish Capsize Japanese Fishing Vessel
The crew of the Diasan Shinsho-maru were plunged into the ocean off the coast of Japan when they tried to haul in their net filled dozens of giant jellyfish. Each of the jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg and waters around Japan have been...
Tsavo Lions Only Ate 35 People and not 135
After thorough forensic analysis of the remains of the lions featured in the film Ghosts in the Darkness (based in part on the book The Man-eaters of Tsavo – which I kid you not, was bedtime reading in my household growing up), researchers...
Seance Wrap-up
The WeirdThings.com Houdini Seance!
Thanks to everyone who helped make this a reality including David Nott, Barry & Stuart, Michael Shermer, Phil Plait, Penn Jillette, Teller and David Copperfield. Very special thanks to Brandon of the JREF for making sure this happened and,...
Weirdest Thing In The World Chat: Houdini Pregame
We are still unsure of the exact details on where but on the Weirdest Thing in the World chat today at 5:30 p.m. we are going to announce the official final line-up of celebrity word donors for our big Halloween Houdini Seance. Other than...