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The Horrifying Truth Of How 300 People Spontaneously Died Next To An Indian Lake
If Skeleton Lake is a spooky name, the story behind it is downright terrifying. The short prologue, a British officer in 1942 happened upon roughly 300 skeletons surrounding a lake in Roopkund, India. But how could this many people...
BBC Documents Voodoo Ceremony
It may not be what you think, but it is an honest to goodness voodoo ceremony just south of Weird Things HQ. [BBC]
Podcast: Super-Awesome Juice
Why Do We As A Culture Hand Our Children’s Teeth To A Strange Freak Fairy?
Each week, Weird Things’ own Matt Finley breaks down one of the oddest elements of our culture in a feature we call Monster Of The Week. This week we focus on the Tooth Fairy, come back Wednesday and Friday for more! More than just the...
The Cat That Talked, Fought For Your Right To Free Speech
In a list compiling the most famous talking animals, we are introduced to Blackie the Cat, a novelty act in the 1980s in which the titular feline would meow “I love you” and “I want my mama.” However, after the bright lights of variety...
No Matter How Gross We Are, We Likely Won’t Contaminate Mars
There has long been a school of thought that bacteria from Earth could contaminate possible life on Mars should be take a man made trip to the Red Planet. However, a new study out of the University of Central Florida says no matter how...
Sunken Islands Found In The Caribbean
Could it be Atlantis? Lost’s mystery island in the sideways universe? Either way, there are some sunken islands at the bottom of the Caribbean Ocean. During their six weeks in the waters north of Venezuela and west of the Antilles, the...
Who Is Invited To The Ultimate Screening Of Planet Of The Apes?
One movie. Five people, living or dead, at the screening. Who and why? Today’s screening: “Planet of the Apes” Embraced as an indispensible entry in America’s sci-fi film canon, Franklin Schaffner’s 1968 “Planet of the Apes” told the story...
Primate’s Janky Teeth Defy Classification
A newly discovered African primate who lived 37 million years ago, is baffling researchers who can’t seem to classify it among any known family tree. The biggest mystery? The primate’s weird teeth. “It comes as a bit of a shock to find a...
Magnetically Induced Hallucinations, And You
What is Transcranial magnetic stimulation? Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an extraordinary technique pioneered by neuroscientists to explore the workings of the brain. The idea is to place a human in a rapidly changing magnetic...
Dan Aykroyd Explains Why 9/11 Ruined Our Relationship With Law Breaking Aliens
Larry King’s ratings are in the toilet and he’s going through a very public divorce in which his child’s baseball coach has admitted to spending time in King’s estranged wife’s dugout. So how does he keep it together? Invite on Dan Aykroyd...
The Center Of The Earth Is Crystal
Science may now confirm what the dude screaming on Venice Beach has theorized for years. The center of the Earth is made of crystal. The outer core is composed mostly of liquid iron. The inner core is solid ball about 750 miles in...
Russian Man Claims He Rescued Yeti From Freezing River
So awesome. KEMEROVO, April 29 (Itar-Tass)? A resident of the village Senzaskie Kichi, Kemerovo Region, hunter Afanasy Kiskorov, claims that he rescued a Yeti during a spring flood on the mountainous river of Kabyrza. His actions were...
Scottish Police Believed In Loch Ness Monster, Conspired To Protect It
Newly released government documents confirm that Scottish police believed there was a strange, beautiful creature in the Highlands lake of Loch Ness, and no one was going to kill it on their watch. The files from the National Archive of...
Penn State Using Acoustic Scientists To Optimize Drunken Screaming For Their Benefit
College football is a loud sport and in a game as verbally-dependent as football if a visiting team can’t relay their plays effectively or make last minute adjustments, it can be huge advantage for a home team. So it is no surprise that...
Chilean Earthquakes Create Massive Influx Of Ghost Sightings
The string of earthquake in Chile not only inspired an outpouring of foreign aide and worldwide attention, it’s also been the impetus for a ton of recently-minted ghosts to rattle around the areas in which they died. Shadows cross the...
Pentagon Releases Details On LSD, Mind Control Experiments
Not exactly Men Who Stare At Goats, but here is some recently FOIA’d info about how the Pentagon oversaw experiments into forced narcotics dosing and mind control, all in an effort to get an edge on the godless communists in the Cold War....
New Study Classifies Colossal Squid As Pretty Lazy
The myth of the colossal squid as a fearsome aggressive predator has been sunk… Measuring longer than a school bus and sporting tentacles covered in razor-sharp hooks, the colossal squid is the stuff of nightmares. However, new research...
A Quick Summation Of Timothy Leary’s Stance On UFOs
UFOs? Horse apples! At least according to Timothy Leary. In case you are unaware of the outspoke academic and LSD poster boy’s theory on contact with alien life, here it is: Leary felt that intelligent life exists throughout infinite...
Did 80s Interdimensional Visitors Use The Classifieds To Communicate With Each Other?
Let’s assume we live a universe of infinite dimensions. Let’s also assume that in one of those dimensions, we are aware of the this fact and have found a way to burrow a path another, concurrent dimension. Finally, let us assume it is 1985...