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Perfectly Healthy Two-Headed Turtle Born in Texas Zoo!
The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has become the home to a tiny and oddly adorable two-headed turtle. According to the zoo the little critter is doing really well, totally healthy and following its mother around just like its other little...
Giant Snake Opens Doors – Steps Into Your Nightmares!
Watch as this door opens up and something spills straight out of this closet and into your nightmares. This is Julius and yes…this thing DID learn to open even round doorknobs. So you’re really not safe anywhere. Julius passed away in 2012...
Ancient Egyptian Statuette Mysteriously Starts Doing 180s in Museum
Something weird is going on concerning a 10-inch statue of Neb-Sanu that is on display at the Manchester Museum. This small statue is turning around…by itself. During the course of the day Neb-Sanu’s little statue decides it’s done being...
Pigeon Racing Attracts ‘New Money’ Millionaires in China
Pigeon racing is quickly becoming a hot place for a new generation of wealthy people in China to drop some cash. In fact it’s attracting drops of cash worth millions. One race can net the winning team’s owner upwards of $80,000. There’s...
Flying Bike Lifts Off in Russia!
Because the daily commute in Russia isn’t already the equivalent of driving through a demolition derby on the way to work, several Czech scientists have come together with a Czech bicycle manufacturer to create the next hellish level of...
‘Clone Factory’ Prints Eerily Realistic 3D Dolls of YOU!
Akhibara, Japan is the place to go to get just about anything you want in life…even if that anything includes wanting a creepy doll-like clone of yourself. Recently a company called “Clone Factory” opened which now allows you to not only...
Amateur Photographer Claims to Have Captured UFO in Photo!
In a case of ‘this is why we can’t take you seriously’, an amateur photographer snapped a couple photos of something that’s currently got the UFO and ‘rod community’ (leave jokes below…we know they’re coming) buzzing. And by buzzing we...
Man’s Frozen Body Makes Seven Trips in the Wheel Well of Russian Airbus!
Since Russia is like the overseas equivalent of Florida, news that typically comes out of there is usually skewed toward the weird. After finding blood splattered near the wheel well of an Airbus passenger plane, authorities moved on to...
NASA Developing Printed Food for Astronauts!
3D printng is the ‘it’ thing right now. It seems like nothing can’t be printed. We can print plastic toys, metal parts and even cell tissues using additive manufacturing. So what’s next? Food…3D-printed food. A Texas company is partnering...
Podcast: Pizza for Death?
Brian, Justin and Bonnie discuss the brand new Kickstarter by Planetary Resources which seeks to put a publicly available telescope in space. And take selfies amongst the stars. Will Brian make the decision to allow commercial drones in...
Podcast: Sweet, Suffocating Wave of Death
After a hiatus, Brian and Justin return with Bonnie The Invisible Wife for a new episode of Weird Things. Brian is dead and Bonnie is charged with building a monument for her late husband, will she build something so garish it is rejected...
Microsoft’s Illumi-Room Is Baby-Step To Holodeck
There’s really not much to talk about here with a bunch of words. They’ll just get in the way of you pressing play and smiling like a little kid as your brain sort of automatically speculates on the possibilities of this in peoples’ homes....
Budweiser Cup Allows Drunken, Awkward Friend Requests via ‘Clinking’
Someone at Budweiser had apparently just read about Virgin America’s in-cabin, passenger-to-passenger texting service, knocked back a couple bottles and decided that the giant beer-hive should also get in on the act of making social...
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,...
Podcast: My Own Private Vigilante Botnet
Brian and Justin are brought to the gates of a mysterious cavern. Is it the literal gate to hell? How far would Andrew go for science? We discover the horrifying outer limits. What would you do with your own vigilante botnet? It’s all part...
Your Monitor Smells – Because Science Is Creating Monitors that Produce Scents!
Recently a group of Japanese scientists at the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference in Orlando, Florida have unveiled the latest incarnation of… (sad, loungy drumroll please) Smell-O-Vision! That’s right. Scientists have been working hard at...
Lo! The Ancient One Cthulhu Walks Among Us!
Researchers have found the tentacled god Cthulhu at last he shall walk the earth and consume us all. By earth we mean the gut of termites and by consume we mean engage in a symbiotic relationship. Oh, and this Cthulhu as described in the...
Double Complete Yeti Sighting
What’s better than Yeti tracks in the snow? Video of a Yeti. What’s better than a Yeti? Two Yetis! What’s better than that???? A mama yeti and her child filmed by some 12 year old Russian kid. To top it all off, a Russian scientist has...
Podcast: The Mystery of Monkey Island
Two southerners are getting checks each year from the government for $865 a year. The explanation might break your brain. Andrew explains his current obsession with the real life Monkey Island. Also, his hunt to prove that it not only...
Vatican to Place <strike>Medieval Fake</strike> Holy Relic on TV for Easter
As one of his last acts as pope, retired Pope Benedict decreed that Italians should be given a special look into the Turin Cathedral and the Shroud it’s known for. Sealed inside it’s climate controlled case, viewers will get a glimpse of...