Africa
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African Tick Smuggles Itself Into US Inside Scientist’s Nose!
Shel Silverstein once had a poem about a snail that lived in your nose and would bite your finger off. Maybe he was inspired by something that’s been going on in Africa that nobody’s ever paid much attention to…until now… A US...
Giant Snails Invade Florida!
It wasn’t too long ago that North America’s Hellmouth of a state was calling for people to go out into the wild and bag/kill as many giant pythons as they possibly could. Now that that’s yesterday’s Nature versus Humankind battle is over,...
Apocalyptic Chic: ‘Ghost Cities’
Like some kind of massive, uber-budgeted, city-wide set of a Ridley Scott film that takes place after the fall of mankind, several cities built by China are almost completely devoid of life. What’s even stranger is that these massive...
Black Magic Spell Causes Cheating Wife’s Lover to Become Stuck Inside Her
There are a lot of bad ways an affair with your friend’s wife can end. Some, like death or violent maiming, could be a little more permanent. But few are weirder than what went down in Kenya last week. A man cheating with his friends wife...
Hartebeest Takes Out Biker
Red Hartebeest: 1 – Biker: 0. That looked pretty deliberate on the Hartebeest’s part. Also looks very painful. [Deadspin]
Underwater Teen Satanist School Girls Terrorizing Africa
If you think American schools have problems, take a look at Botswana: Schools in Botswana are infested with devil worshippers … Operating more like drug-dealers, they get instructions from up the rungs of the ladder of Satanism. And...
Mysterious “Bearded” Antelope Found In Africa
On the left, the mysterious “bearded” antelope photographed in Kenya. On the right, Editor of this site Justin Robert Young. Weird Things officially has no comment. [MSNBC]
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...
Swaziland National Soccer Stadium Riddled With Magic Amulets
Muti is the Zulu word for lucky charms used in traditional tribal rituals. Swaziland soccer players often use them to curry the favor of the gods and increase their team’s chances of winning. At Somhlolo National Stadium, the football...