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NASA Considers Moving Space Debris With Lasers
Remember all those pieces of space debris just floating around the Earth with nowhere to go and all day to get there? Remember when we were introduced to the term Zombiesat? Well now NASA is researching new ideas for using lasers to...
Ghost Forces School Closing
A school in India is shuttered after the children of Lady Haleema Begum Urdu School fled in panic last Monday due to supernatural activity and have yet to return. Children have reported random death threats in their notebooks and an...
How Do Humans Respond To Being Touched By A Robot?
Spoiler Alert: Yeah they don’t really seem to like it that much. They like it even less when the robot warns them it is about to touch them ahead of time. [Geekologie]
Man Sues New Hampshire For Right To Dress As Bigfoot In State Park
Back in September of 2009, Jonathan Doyle ran around Monadnock State Park dressed as Bigfoot scaring and amusing hikers while his friends filmed the encounters. He then returned to human form and interviewed the bystanders. The park...
Were Roman Soldiers Victims Of Ancient Chemical Weapon?
No one wants to be the first person to die from anything. No one wants to choke to death while the smoke you’ve just inhaled in your lungs turns to acid. So can you have to be double cheesed off if you were among the Roman soldiers who...
Tattoo Roulette
Landing squarely in the corner of questionable ideas, please introduce yourself to the robotic tattoo machine Auto Ink. Not only is it a robot that gives you a tattoo, but it randomly picks what it will draw as well. Strap in and start it...
Second X-37B Space Plane Launched Into Orbit
The Air Force has launched its second X-37B space plane (X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-2 to you) into orbit for a 270 day mission. The original mission lasted for 224 days before OTV-1 landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in December and...
British UFO Documents Released
Just like the recent release by the New Zealand Military, British officials released nearly 8500 pages of previously classified reports revolving around sightings of unidentified flying objects by the military and members of the public...
Russian Flight Controllers Claim Aliens Use Cat-Like Language
Russian air traffic controllers in Yakutsk, Siberia claim they were buzzed by a high-speed UFO with a female sounding alien who spoke in an strange cat-like language. ‘I kept hearing some female voice, as if a woman was saying mioaw-mioaw...
KRQE Investigates : The Chupacabra
This is actually a pretty good investigative report about the history of the chupacabra including an interview with Ben Radford, managing editor of Skeptical Enquirer and one of the hosts of Monster Talk. “In the last 10 years chupacabra...
Five Creepiest Masks In All Of History
Masks. Sure we’ve seen them used by serial killers and surgeons for years, but what are the absolute five creepiest of human history? Let’s find out. Tibetan Ritual Mask: In a culture big on rituals in general, masks play a huge rule. We...
How P.T. Barnum Ripped Off Another Man’s Giant And Got Away With It
They are represented in myth, legend and even religion for centuries, but what happened to our fascination for giants? While other cryptids bask in our attention, the lumbering behemoths haven’t had a spot in the cultural sunshine in...
Nation Of Islam Confirms Existence Of UFOs
The Nation Of Islam has announced that among the topics discussed during this year’s Saviours’ Day Convention in Chicago will be a panel discussing proof of alien visitation and why global sightings are on the rise. Flying saucers have...
Podcast: Dr. Vellasic’s Pickle Jar Of Doom
The gang debuts the brand new Podcastr webapp for listening to the show. Brian debates the thought process of Ronald Reagan as he confesses his alien invasion fears to Mikhail Gorbachev. Adventure scientists Dr. Herb Vellasic and Viederman...
And Now: Bogdan The Magnetic Boy
I don’t think there is anything I can add to this… [MSNBC]
Neutron Star Displays “Weird Physics”
The Weird Things staff loves all kinds of science, but we hold a special place in our heart for “weird science”, which is exactly what astronomers from the University of Alberta are saying is going on inside the neutron star Cassiopeia A....
Goblin-Built Castle For Sale
In Scotland, 321 acres and the ruins of Yester Castle have hit the market for offers over £450,000. The ruins date back to before 1267 and the only remaining structure is the subterranean Goblin Ha’ or Hobgoblin Ha’ (Goblin Hall)....
Haunted Painting: The Anguished Man
Over at Phantoms and Monsters an interesting and fun tale about a haunted painting has been posted. According to the story, the painting, entitled The Anguished Man, has been in the family for more than 25 years. It was kept in the attic...
The Must-Listen, Super Goofy 1979 Czech Ballad Of Swampthing
Before Alan Moore’s 1987 retelling of the story, came 1979’s Czech ballad of The Swamp Thing. From what we can gather, this meme has been around for a little while but it’s new to us and hopefully a few of you guys. Thanks to Weird Things...
Torn-Out Tongue, Shattered Skull Peppers 1950’s Radioactive Russian Mystery
A few friends go hiking in the Russian wilderness on an early February night in 1959. The Ural Mountain area is desolate, but not unmanageable for these nine veteran hikers. On a larger scale, the Soviet Union continues to ascend in global...