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100 Year Old Woman Growing A Horn On Head
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...
Evangelicals Find “Noah’s Ark” In Turkey
The hunt for the most infamous floating zoo may have come to an end, if you ask a team of Chinese and Turkish evalgleicals who claim they’ve found the remains of Noah’s Ark. The remains of Noah’s Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a...
Indian Military Investigating Holy Man Claiming 70 Years Fast
In an effort to make a super soldier, the Indian military has turned to a holy man who claims to have not eaten in over 70 years since he was blessed by a goddess. India’s Defense Research Development Organization thinks it may have found...
Jaw Of Likely Awesome New Winged Dinosaur Found
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the best lede ever written for a news story. An ancient reptile with a 9-foot wingspan was soaring over the sea in what is now North Texas some 95 million years ago when – plop – it fell into the...
New Discovery Helps Prove That Earth Sucked Until Asteroid Brought Water
A thin film of water ice and organic material has been identified on an asteroid by a NASA telescope. This bolsters the theory that an asteroid brought both crucial elements for life to Earth. “It now appears that when the asteroids and...
Top Secret Hypersonic Air Force Glider Goes Missing Minutes After First Test Flight
In case you were tired of running down all the conspiracy angles for the Air Forces’ new X-37B shuttle, here is a fresh new piece of AF intrigue for you to chew on. The Air Force’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2—designed to attack...
The Smell Of Rotting Flesh? Oh, That’s Just The Blooming “Corpse Flower”
Flower, for my dearest? A rare behemoth flower — dubbed the “corpse flower” for its rotting-meat smell — is set to bloom at Western Illinois University this week. It’s one of a small group of these flowers that have bloomed in cultivation...
Study: Facial Hair Creates Less Intelligible Speech
Study gave test subjects fake mustaches and wicked amish beards to see how much visual speech recognition was affected. Investigating the interference of facial hair with visual speech intelligibility poses the problem of accurately...
1907 Newspaper Report Of California Sea Monster
Headline: SEA SERPENT NEARS SHORE DISPORTS IN SURF AT OCEAN PARK STAYS BEYOND RANGE OF RIFLE SHOTS “The first thing which attracted my attention was when a huge head bobbed up above the surface of the water,” said Mr. Franklyn last night....
Despite Best Efforts, Exposed Breasts Fail To Trigger Massive Earthquake
Cleric said boobs cause earthquake. Boobs tried to do just that. Boobs failed. Hooray science!
Chemists & Biologists Unite To Crack Bacterial Defense Code
Could be the path to besting bacteria like E.Coli. High five! [Science Daily]
Gigantic Asphalt Domes Found Off Coast Of California
See nature? This is what happens when you leave your oil laying around the ocean floor of 35,000 years! California scientists found two massive asphalt domes on the sea floor, most likely the result of oil deposits made thousands of years...
Amazing, Nightmare-Inducing Pictures Of Insects Waking Up In Morning Dew
Good morning to you too! Bugs. Dew. Camera. Many more where this came from. Hello Monday. Thanks to Weird Things reader Marty. [Daily Mail]
Stephen Hawking Warns Us Of Impending Alien Invasion Threat
Stephen Hawking is a world renown thinker and a one of a kind personality. Now, he’s also the guy who can flop the “told ya so” card when we are enslaved by a nomadic race of aliens. “We only have to look at ourselves to see how...
Underwater Freak Show! Creatures So Bizarre They Hide In The Ocean Depths!
[National Geographic via Boing Boing]
Just In Case Anyone Gets Any Wild Ideas…
[Oddly Specific via pharyngula]
Lost Boys Meet CHUD In The Columbian Sewers
Thomas Morton of VBS.com takes the sewers of Bogota, Columbia where he experiences the lives of children living a subterranean life style fleeing the police, getting high on crack and trying to forget that they are waist deep in feces....
A Worldwide Hunt For Oddities Summarized In One Video
Pretty self-explanatory. Big ups to Atlas Obscura!
Women Ready Attempt To Spur Earthquake With Boobs
We reported a few days ago an edict laid down by an Iranian cleric claiming immodestly dressed women were a contributing factor for earthquakes. Specifically intimating that ladies hoeing it up this year has been the root cause of the high...
2-Headed Lizard!
Apparently, the larger head has attacked the smaller one. Sleep with one eye open, smaller head. [BBC via BoingBoing]