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BEFORE you press play on that video (we’re sure some of you just went for it anyway) put down whatever it is you’re eating. This is a ribbon worm called a Gorgonorhynchus. When it senses nearby prey it launches what looks like a root out of
Ripped right out of hundreds of science fiction, comic book and horror stories comes news that a Russian man has decided to be a medical guinea pig or possibly a pioneer…. By having his head removed and attached to another body. Suffering f
Valley of Dolls from Fritz Schumann on Vimeo. There’s something unsettling about a small village in Nagaro, Japan. The village, located about 90 minutes from anything resembling civilization is like something out of a Twilight Zone episode.
Latoya Ammons owns a house in Gary, Indiana where she lives with her three children since 2011. Things were going well until 2012 when it all started getting a little Amityville-like. Large black flies started appearing in the house, her ki
USA Today has posted a story about a mysterious priest who appeared at the site of a car crash where firefighters were having a difficult time removing a girl from the wreckage. After the priest told firefighters not to worry and that she’d
Who hasn’t made fun of old, out-of-sync kung fu movies or Godzilla movies? But what if you woke up one day and that’s how you actually saw/heard the world? That’s currently how only one person ever known to science now hears/sees the world.
Last time we checked Brazil seemed like a place where men really wouldn’t be hard up to find a female companion. We were wrong. Very, very wrong. How wrong? Just…just keep reading. There’s a bidding war going on in Brazil right now over a w
BAM! You’re chillin’ at home in front of the television. BAM! BAM! BAM! You hear some kind of resonating thud from outside. You assume it’s thunder or a neighbor and his anvil. BAM! You’re about to be REAL wrong! BAM! BAM! BAM! You hear thi
Ever leave the house knowing you forgot…something? We’re wondering what it was like when the guy who was supposed to file paperwork for 18 human heads for medical study realized that he’d forgotten to file paperwork for 18 human heads for m
A while back we posted an article about a bakery that looked like a franchise from a Saw film where the creative pastry chef decided to create realistic-looking human body parts from, of all things, bread. Not to be outdone by some pastry c
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! And in true WeirdThings fashion here’s a story to enjoy while you’re waiting for your Turducken to golden its sweet self. Most of you prefer white meat. Some of you prefer dark meat. NYPD officer Gilberto Vall
Because some people just can’t get the job done while locked in a room by themselves with some fun magazines or just some mental photography, some genius in China has developed something to help those people out… The lonely Chinese scientis
The bikini debuted in 1946. It’s gone through a lot of variations. There’s been a monokini, microkini, tankini, trikini, pubikini (yes…it’s a real thing) and the mankini. But only occasionally has the phrase ‘nightmare fuel’ ever been assoc
We’ve seen a LOT of weird things before in the medical field. But THIS? This is a whole new level. Back in 2009 a woman by the name of Shanyna Isom had an asthma attack. No biggie, right? Wrong. Isom experienced an allergic reaction to the
A lot of couples like to get those fun, old-timey pictures taken together. Others like to get romantic looking, holding-hands-in-front-of-a-landscape picture. Then there are the pictures that Haruhiko Kawaguchi are taking of couples which a
Because death and urns with your loved one’s ashes aren’t surrounded by enough creepy stories, a fun company called Cremation Solutions has decided to knock the creep factor over the wall. How? By using a 3D printer to create an amazingly c
Prepare for a new level of weird, people. A while back we reported on a kind of pillow ‘roboty’ thing that would cuddle with you and that your siginificant other could be channeled through. Creepy and a little awkward, right? That’s like a
During a 10 hour surgery, doctors at Mexico City’s La Raza Medical Center removed a 33 pound tumor from 26 pound two-year-old Jesus Gabriel. Gabriel was born with a small, benign lump on his right side that grew faster than he did and exten
Cats. They power the internet. They’re always chasing birds and most of the time they fail at it. Birds. They make a lot of noise and mimic/mock everybody including cats that chase them. They have the advantage of flight. That’s all about t
Over the last year or so we’ve seen a lot of news about people “planking”, “owling”, “horsemanning” and the less than stellar introduction of “snailing”. What most people aren’t aware is that things like the above mentioned fads have been a
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.
Spotted at a Kroger. [@ITJanitor]
“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series o
Strange things are washing up on the beach in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England. Any ideas as to what it could be? [The Occultist]
Ladies and gentleman, the Tailless Whip Scorpion otherwise known as the Whip Spider which is actually neither a scorpion nor spider. Discuss… [Nat Geo]
Is it Music Monday up in this piece or what? This little ditty comes from Weird Things reader Joatmon who worked with band The Indoorfins to sing about the Tiktaalik, a fish that walked on its fins. Read all about this awesome creature here
The random opening could be related to an oil well abandoned in 1950 that’s close to the home. The only silver lining now is if the opening leads to a Goonies-style adventure. But it probably won’t. Unless it does. [KTLA]
How did folks describe UFO phenomenon before we had the science fiction constructs to fill in the blanks of interstellar travelers from deep space? Probably a lot like 12-year-old George Campbell of Sherman, Texas in 1898. “Last night papa
Maybe it’s the summer time, but weird beach stories are just dominating the news lately. Yesterday we had a couple of Russian jackasses strapping a mule to a parachute for publicity and today we get news that 500 penguins washed ashore in B
Real picture. Thanks to Weird Things reader Mike Beam. [Telegraph]
Boom. How’s that for a Monday morning? That thing looks like the Yeti of cats. As described by Gadopoder: These little (big) guys are the oldest living relative of modern day cats. The Pallas’s Cat is the oldest living species of a clade of
So you’re a cute little monkey, scampering about the Amazon. For the sake of this discussion, your name is Joe. All of a sudden you hear someone yell, “Hey Joe! Nice haircut!” You look around, but don’t see anyone. What anonymous stranger i
Well now… The “King of Kings” statue, one of southwest Ohio’s most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati. The lightning strike set the statue ab
Weird Things Live: Hunting the Night Creeper from Andrew Mayne on Vimeo. Last Monday night in front of a live internet audience we set out to solve the mystery of the Night Creeper. Ghost? Frogman? Or something else? Although we’re pretty s
A young Chinese boy who was born with a thick patch of skin on his back had a surgery to remove the reason he’s earned the nickname “Turtle Boy” by school bullies. [News.Com.Au]
Hundred-year-old woman grows horn in forehead. The horn began growing on the left side of the forehead of Zhang Ruifang last year. Now it measures 5-6 centimeters long but the elderly woman feels no pain in the horn. Thanks to WT fan Brian
[National Geographic via Boing Boing]
Pretty self-explanatory. Big ups to Atlas Obscura!
Travelet.com has this fun tourist destination known as Rookund in the Himalayas. It’s a lake filled with skeletons: Roopkund is better off known as “The skeleton lake” due to the presence of an enormous grave that holds about 300 to 600 ske
Mark your calendars. August 31st, 2009 may have been the day the insects got the upper hand in their war against mankind. Reportedly, a truck driver for the Minot Air Force Base 91st Missile Wing lost control of his vehicle when a “large in
Wither the reputation of poor Catherine O’Leary. A muckraking hack thinks it’d make a great read to libel your name by insinuating a cow under your control kicked a lantern, which ignited the surrounding hay, which torched the barn which st
From New Scientist comes research that sleep is even weirder than we thought. Microsleep, hallucinations and sleepwalking murder are just some of the symptoms… EARLIER this year, a puzzling report appeared in the journal Sleep Medicine. It
Special thanks to Sky News’ Viewers’ Editor Paul Bromley. We writes, what looks to be a pretty awesome blog.
In this column, we look at two pop-cultural interpretations of ubiquitous Weird legends as portrayed by two narrative television programs… like how That ‘70s Show’s Donna and CSI: Miami’s Horatio Crane were both created by their respective
After much speculation the bio blob spotting floating off the coast of Alaska has been identified as common marine algae. Here’s the official wording: “We got the results back from the lab today,” said Ed Meggert of the Alaska Department of
Please follow the cues for this YouTube playlist throughout the post. In the sewers of North Carolina lies a strange creature. Pulsating and wiggling in the first video on this playlist. Could it be of alien origin? CHUD? A metaphor of a ch
Elmo doesn’t really love you, in fact, he wants to kill you. Or so found out a Florida two-year old named James when his talking Elmo doll started making death threats. Elmo was behaving well enough, until one day the adorable toddler’s mot