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Man Claims Obama Teleported to Mars as a Teenager, White House Denies
And so was birthed, the Mars-er. In a shocking new revelation surely set to explode into the national conversation as our 2012 election draws closer, a man has claimed that a 19-year-old Barack Obama teleported to Mars twice as part of a...
Video: This is Why You Don’t Fire Your Homemade Cannon Next to the House
Don’t do it. Seriously. Move that cannon out to the field. What are you doing? If you light that… oh well. Thanks to Weird Things reader Mark Sissons for this. [Live Leak]
What Inspired Birds to Slam Into Homes, Alfred Hitchcock to Make a Movie About It?
You may not know that the 1963 Hitchcock masterpiece The Birds was inspired by real events. But two years prior, a swarm of the normally docile Sooty Shearwaters which rarely come to shore at all, began slamming into houses inexplicably....
Hitler Ronald McDonald Lives at a Mall in Bangkok
Weird Things reader Robin sends us this picture from a mall in Bangkok. It looks like an art installation. But is also attached to a t-shirt shop. Which conveniently sells shirts of Hitler Ronald McDonald. Pretty bizarre.
Hybrid Shark Located in Australian Waters
The world’s first hybrid shark was discovered off the coast of Australia containing both common and Australian black tip DNA, with up to 20% percent of the population sampled being hybrids. Scientist speculate that the hybridization...
A Beebe New Year Tradition: Dead Blackbirds Raining From The Sky
Once again the town of Beebe, Arkansas is cleaning up dead blackbirds around New Years and the police are banning fireworks. “It’s just got to be a pain in my career,” Beebe Police Chief Wayne Ballew said. Prior to this New Year’s Eve,...
It’s 2012! The Year a Rogue Planet Crashes Into Earth and Kills Us All
As we count down the final days of 2011, it’s high time we moved into serious put up or shut up time for the 2012 prophecies. Our favorite to watch out for (literally) is the promise that a planet Nibiru will crash into Earth, ending...
Vintage iBook Ad Demonstrates Telekinetic Powers
This iBook commercial from the very early Return of Jobs era for Apple demonstrates something very rare for Mac products. Not the telekinetic ability to move physical objects with a mouse or empty your garbage with a click of your OS9 drop...
Video Footage of Female Yeti Captured in Russia [Yeti Watch]
A female Yeti has finally been captured in the Republic of Ingushetia. The creature was spotting killing a sheep, before dragging it into the woods and eating it. Authorities found the beast and captured it. “I tell you what. The animal...
And Now… the Horrifying Christmas Krampus Parade
We previously discussed the Krampus here. In short, he’s a demon equivalent to Santa Claus who kidnaps naughty children on Christmas Eve, takes them to his lair and eats them. Here they are on parade. Hide ya wife. Hide ya kids. Thanks to...
17th Precient Pilot Uses Copious Magi-babble to Cast the Spell of Boring [Review]
17th Precinct from ddt73 on Vimeo. io9 has posted the un-picked up pilot for Ronald D. Moore’s magician cop NBC pilot 17th Precient. We will post the embed here for as long as it stays up but should you not catch it, don’t worry. 17th...
Five Characters that Must Be Offered at New Sci Fi Brothel
A new brothel is set to open in 2012 offering patrons the ability to make deep contact with Science Fiction beauties. It is the brainchild of Dennis Hof, the owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, most prominently featured in the HBO series...
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Podcast: Serial Killer Christmas Card
Andrew catalogues some of the forgotten heroes of Christmas including trolls, elves, Oden and a midnight menace so scary the Pope had to take action against them. Bonnie The Invisible Wife tuns the tables on Mayne, inventing a bone...
Behold! The Universal Guide to Sex Faces
A Spanish researcher has released the results of a study seeking to codify the faces made during sex. 100 volunteers recording their mugs during some kind of sexual event which ended in completion. The faces were reviewed for similarities...
“2012 Apocalypse Prophecy is Nonsense” Says Guy Who Prophecized Apocalypse in 2011
Harold Camping, who famously predicted the rapture twice in 2011, has retired from his role as host on the Christian station Family Radio Network and from doomsday predictions in general. An aide says Camping will make no proclamations for...
Deadly Lizard Captured in San Diego, Probably Not a Comic Con Publicity Stunt
In what would go down as the earliest Comic-Con publicity stunt in support of 2012’s new film Amazing Spider-man, a venomous lizard was captured in San Diego. The 2-foot-long lizard, native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, is...
How to Make a Dino-Chicken
Source:LiveScience Although we are pretty sure he’s been talking about this concept for far longer than a year, Jack Horner’s idea to create dinosaurs from chickens is listed among the most “wacky but serious” ideas of 2011 by Live...
And Now, a 1982 Book Written by a Woman Claiming to Be from Venus
Her name is Vivenus. She is from Venus. She looks human. She wrote a book in 1982. She plays guitar. And all she wants you to do is open your heart and experience love an joy instead of letting word police clip your wings. Also, she...
Hopefully, You Were Not Visited by Santa’s Demon Equivalent this Christmas
As many of us reconstitute ourselves after surviving the Christmas weekend, everyone can count ourselves lucky that we didn’t get a visit from the Krampus. This Germanic folklore creature is the raging, punitive ying to the sobering,...