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New Paranormal Investigation Of Titantic Set For Spring 2011
The best place to hunt for ghosts are places where a lot of people tragically died. So really, the question isn’t why 100 paranormal investigators are heading out to look over the sunken wreckage of the Titanic in 2011. It’s what took them...
Ghosts Have Nothing On Rent
Rent has gotten scary enough that 51% of those polled would happily share their house with a ghost if that meant that they could live there for free. In fact, over a quarter of the respondents would be quite satisfied with simply going...
Russian Bears Snacking on Corpses
Due to a harsh food shortage Russian bears have been unable to find enough of their traditional berries, mushrooms, frogs, and fish to keep them going. These hungry bears have taken matters into their own hands and turned to digging up and...
Bees Shame Computers, Travelling Salesmen
A complex mathematical problem known as the Travelling Salesman Problem, and which is known to take a supercomputer days to solve, is effectively being solved by bees in real time. Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London and Royal...
Billionaires Asked To Kick In Cash For One-Way Space Colonization Mission
You know a plan is closer to reality when you start accepting checks for it. With that being said, this is an awesome plan: Pete Worden, the director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, recently hinted that billionaires are being recruited to...
Video Proof Of Time Traveller In 1928 Talking On Cell Phone
This is a clip from “The Circus” a 1928 film by Charlie Chaplin. It shows what looks to be a passerby clutching something to their ear, as one would a cell phone. This has led a few to believe this is proof that a time traveller who has...
Visionary Mollusk, Scourge To Bookies: Paul The Octopus Dies
We spent quite a bit of time during the World Cup discussing Paul the Octopus. The tentacled critter, who from the watery confines of his tank at a German zoo correctly predicted all of his home country’s games as well as the final. He...
Study: Oceans Won’t Singe Our Pathetic Earth With Vile Acid
According to our most recent studies, fears that we are the last generation to see coral reef due to the rising acidification of our waters is unfounded. This has been a fear raised by climate change studies which suggest CO2 concentration...
Podcast: The Unicorn Deception
The Forgotten, Drunken, Voodoo Inspired Attempt To Kill Hitler
It’s 1942 and a portion of the world has united against freedom. The Axis powers, under the command of villainous Adolf Hitler seek to not only continue their unrivaled campaign of genocide but to remake the world in their image. Society...
Secret Of The Ooze: Green Tide Pool Attracts UFO Experts, Marine Biologists
A tide pool in the coastal regions of Oregon is attracting a lot of attention for a few different reasons. Not only is the water a very distinct shade of neon green it also happens to be in the epicenter of an area famous for rampant UFO...
Behold! New Jersey’s Rainbow Plane
Find it on Google Earth. Thanks to Weird Things reader Darcy!
Could Microscopic Parasites Be Responsible For Transforming Dogs Into Chupacabras?
Most Chupacabra sightings/corpses can be easily identified as mangey, feral dogs who unpredictably roam desolate areas attacking livestock. But why are these dogs being transformed into legendary monsters? We might have an answer! In a...
Fermilab Builds “Holometer” To Prove Your Eyes Are Really 3D Glasses
Is our reality really 2D? Is our concept of third dimensional space really an optical illusion? Are our eyes deceiving us to believe we are anything other than Super Mario sidescrolling through life? Is the above commercial featuring...
Breakthrough Could Lead To Printable Body Armor Tougher Than Kevlar
Israeli researchers have discovered a way to assemble transparent nanospheres that unite to form the stiffest biological material the world has ever seen. This could lead to printable body armor, tougher steel and more bullet-proof...
Zombie Outbreak & Infection: A Mathematical Study
I am not nearly smart enough to take all of this in, but many of your surely are. Several math wizards finally broke down the hard numbers on a zombie outbreak. How fast would it spread? When is it statistically hopeless for survivors? At...
Military Pay $9 Million To Develop Flying Humvee
Finally, jerks of 2024, you know what car you’ll be driving. DARPA has awarded $9 million in contracts to develop a flying war time vehicle that can drop supplies and engaged in limited air to ground combat. [LA Times]
Frightening New Carnivorous Mammal Discovered In Madagascar
New, toothy, endangered mammal discovered in Madagascar. Dreamworks already in talks with John Tuturro to voice to the creature in Madagascar 3: The Undiscovered Country. [Discovery]
Robotic Jetpacks? They’re Real
According to Martin Aircraft, they’ve developed a fully robotic jetpack that can be used to drop supplies to troops or bombs on enemies. It uses regular fuel and can take off from the back of a flat-bed truck. [Fox News]
Did History Vindicate Ruined Pilot’s Incredible Survival Story?
Air Force Lt. David Steeves died in 1965, a liar. According to popular thought, his claim to fame was a hoax at best and treason at worst. He was divorced, slandered and wound up in court suing a publisher who’d once courted him to write a...