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Batman Busted Snooping Around Michigan
A man dressed up like the crime fighter was busted by police while hanging from the wall of a downtown business. No word yet what he was actually trying to accomplish. In a release, the Petoskey Department of Public Safety said officers...
Podcast: Kevlar Bigfoot Necropants
The boys each have to spend $500,000 in the most bizarre way possible leading to robotic carnage, bullets, Bigfoot, mint juleps and a very special visit from a King of Kings. Brian recoils when explained the concept of Necropants. Andrew...
Mystery Hole Appears In New Jersey
Residents and officials of Bernards, New Jersey are left wondering what created a coffee table sized hole almost 2 feet deep and scattered debris for 100 feet. The police have ruled out explosives, meteorites, and the weather and of course...
Backwards Planets: Reverse Orbits Explained
They call them hot Jupiters. A series of gas giant planets in far off solar systems that appear to circle their star in two very peculiar ways. First, it swings perilously close. Second, a quarter of them seemingly do it backwards compared...
Bigfoot & The Hellhounds: Cryptocreatures Flood Vietnam
Residents of Binh Dong Commune of Binh Son District in Quang Ngai, Vietnam have been overrun. Strange, gigantic footprints in the snow. An otherworldly howl piercing the still of night. The beast, whatever it is, left a grisly calling card...
Fireballs Reported Over Fort Worth
Last week a lightning storm started a chain reaction destroying transformers and leaving 4000 people without power. At least that is the official story; check out the video for three minutes of chain reaction goodness. [dallasnews]...
Horrifying Soviet Tests To Determine If Animals Experience An Afterlife
The Cold War has just begun. The next several decades will be defined by an escalating race of espionage and technological one-upsmanship. You owe it to yourself to give your nation every advantage. That includes investigating the shadowy...
By The Hammer Of Thor! Anti-Matter Found Streaming From Thunderstorms
Positrons. They are all around us. Specifically if you are standing naked in the middle of the thunderstorm taunting the Old God’s to strike you down if they indeed still hold sway over this earthly realm. “Take your sacrifice or wallow in...
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Hello all, Since we debuted Weird Things in 2008 we’ve sought to make this a collection of stories, videos and experiences from a certain perspective. A fascination with everything we don’t know matched with the curiosity to follow the...
Strange Bird Carcass Found In Iran
The carcass of a strange bird said to inhabit a local cave has been found in Iran. What do you think this it could be? The dead body of a strange dinosaur-like bird has been reportedly found near the city of Meshginshahr in the...
The Necropants Of Iceland
I am not even really sure where to start with this one. Apparently, the Holmavik Museum of Scocery and Witchcraft in Iceland contains a gruesome exhibit called the necropants. Let us just cut to the chase – these are pants made from the...
Google Lobbies Nevada For Robot Driver’s Rights
Robots deserve to legally drive in Nevada. Google is fighting for their rights. Will the Silver State agree? Or perpetrate yet another act of human bigotry upon our silicon brothers? The search giant is currently lobbying Nevada to make...
The Alien Who Was Confused For A Drunk Driver
A loud bang shatters the calm of a California morning. Outside, indulging in her ritual cup of coffee and a cigarette, a local mother simply assumes that a neighbor tied one on a little too tight last night. An evening at the bar turned...
Student Discovers Unknown Ice Age Virus In Indiana Cave
Students in the Introduction To Biotechnology (IT220) class at Purdue were instructed for one of their projects to collect soil samples as part of the National Genomics Research Initiative. Most of the students were content to collect...
Fossils Indicate Awesome Battle Between Awesome Prehistoric Sea Monsters
An era before time. An era before aquatic decency. An era of totally bitching ichthyosaur fights! New fossil finds indicate a very violent encounter (most likely) between two ichthyosaurs which left one scarred by deep gouges in the snout....
Did The Moon Reveal A Translucent UFO Over Argentia?
The dusky skies of San Juan, Argentina glowed extra bright on April 25th. Beams of light from the peaking moon, normally soft and gentle, a nudging reminder of the coming night pierced through the air with uncommon veracity. What could...
Scientists Make Computer Schizophrenic
Filed under “Things That Maybe Aren’t That Great”, scientists have figured out how to induce schizophrenic symptoms in a computer. In the test, they were able to overwhelm the computer with so much information that it developed crazy...
Theory Of Alien Life Raining Down On Earth Historically Linked To Meteor Passing
In 2001, a bizarre scarlet rain showered southwest India on-and-off over two months. Many were baffled by the cell structures which gave the droplets its red hue. Some even suggested they might be extra terrestrial. Those people have a...
Podcast: O Positive & Blade Face Blow Their Unicorn Whistles
Andrew would like to clone a Unicorn and comes up with a new way to fund a Space Elevator. Brian and Justin discuss their new lives as undead Special Forces agents. Meanwhile, a mysterious signal from an advanced alien civilization puts...
Tehran: Now Officially The Worst Place In The World To Pull An Ambitious Card Routine
A power struggle between Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has led the latter to arrest many of the former’s top allies on charges of “sorcery.” Several people said to be close to the president...