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Watch A Cloud Dance With Electric Fields
Apparently there is a valid meteorological explanation for this, but it is still pretty freaky. [TDG]
IBM Can Simulate An Entire Cat Brain
For those of us who’ve been whispering appointments, reminders and murder confessions to our phones for the past two weeks it won’t take much convincing to tell you that AI is already here in a major way. But what about the true simulation...
Proof: UFOs Filmed Behind Massive Crucifix
Notoriously screwy Pittsburgh suburb Fayette County has found what they believe is proof of two UFOs zipping around a massive crucifix and one man caught it on video. [96.1 Morning Freak Show]
Shane Goes Back To School [The Walking Dead Dissection]
One little girl missing in a woodland area littered with zombies. Her mother is on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Another of her rescue party is barely hanging on to the will to live. These are three of the major problems we barely deal...
How To Tell A Psychopathic Murderer Just By Listening To Them
We’ve all been there. You are almost positive that a friend, neighbor or even family member is a psychopathic murderer. But how to be sure? Well wait no longer! Researchers based out of Cornell have concluded that there are tell-tale signs...
Do Our Brain Hemispheres Communicate With Electromagnetic Fields?
Are we moving closer to proving that electromagnetic fields help our brain hemispheres communicate? Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have made a puzzling finding: people born without a corpus callosum...
Video Proof: Brazilian Man Finds Alien Corpse In Woods
Jose Luis is 44 years old with four kids. He doesn’t drink or do drugs. He found an alien corpse in the woods of Brazil and took a video of it. He’s since been pressured to take it off YouTube but the folks at UFO Casebook have reposted it...
Could Japanese Earthquakes Have Aggravated Hoards Of Flying Cryptids?
The Japanese earthquakes and resulting tsunamis dominated the news in early 2011 bringing horrifying picture of destruction and tragic loss of life. But in the rebuilding phase, a strange side effect emerged. Survivors of the disaster...
Did We Just Find A Microchip In Napoleon’s Skull?
We might be on the verge or radically shifting the meaning of the term Napoleon complex from “small man who’s a really big jerk” to “person in afflicted by an alien microchip in their head.” Dr. Dubois made the amazing find while studying...
The Slab [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail 1066 Oleander Place seems a typical tract...
Parasite Empowers Nebbish Wasps To Be Zombie Queens
The social hierarchy of a wasp is pretty rigid. But what if a snide little parasite made you a deal. You could live the life of a queen, no foraging for anyone but yourself, living off the fat of the land. All you have to do is become...
Science Fact: Men Are Funnier Than Women
Men are funnier than women, according to a new study out of UC San Diego. But only barely, a scientist quickly added realizing he still has to go home to his wife. And men mostly found other men funny which accounts for the slight...
Cyclops Shark Has It’s Eye On You
Cyclops Shark! Sharks have moved into a new level of nightmare fuel! Earlier this year fisher Enrique Lucero León legally caught a pregnant dusky shark near Cerralvo Island (see map) in the Gulf of California. When León cut open his catch,...
What Lies Ahead? Church Slaughters, Lost Reminders, Best Show On TV [Walking Dead Recap]
There is a breath of fresh air, a unique buoyancy, to viewing a television series where you trust the storyteller. Gone is the nagging sense of second guessing or internal apologizing for obvious flaws because you so want to love the...
Podcast: The Great Shark Versus Octopus War
Andrew geeks out about the new Space X launches and proposes the first ever Weird Things meet-up. Brian descends into the jungle to find a furry, bipedal creature. Justin plays referee as the rest of the crew argue with each other on which...
Hard Days Knight [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail “Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to...
The Walking Dead Television Series Is Superior To The Comic Series [Opinion]
Walking Dead mastermind Robert Kirkman has famously said his most popular franchise was borne from wondering what happens after a zombie movie. Typically, a zombie outbreak story begins with a relatable reality, add zombies, initial crisis...
Zombie Extras Injured On Resident Evil Set Horrify Paramedics
While filming the fifth installment of the Resident Evil franchise 16 zombie extras fell from a platform. Emergency responders, who were unaware of the costumes, were taken aback when brought to the pile of mangled faces, discolored skin...
Is Your Itchy DVR Fast Forward Finger A Box Office Oracle?
Interesting find on Deadline today suggesting that Box Office success can be directly predicted by your impatience while watching a DVR’d episode of Fringe. More specifically, commercials for movies that are fast forwarded more often tend...
Hartebeest Takes Out Biker
Red Hartebeest: 1 – Biker: 0. That looked pretty deliberate on the Hartebeest’s part. Also looks very painful. [Deadspin]