A family out for a nice day target shooting with shotguns is disturbed by a helicopter that won’t go away. Oh, and yeah, the helicopter is probably chasing Bigfoot.
“My husband and I took our kids target shooting. A helicopter was over our heads the entire time annoying us. We thought at first they were curious of why and what we were shooting. Later when we watched the video we noticed something that looked like bigfoot running in the trees. We assume now the helicopter was hunting the bigfoot. Scary!”
Apparently the devil has hit the skids because, according to one man, he has been staying at a Days Inn just north of Seattle. Claiming that Satan was sharing his hotel room (and probably not going halfsies) a month long resident of the hotel set the room on fire. The fire department was called in Friday when smoke began billowing out of his room and they were able to confine the damage to six rooms. According to hotel staff, the man had repeatedly called them the “anti-Christ” and “spawns of Satan.” I am not sure how using fire against Satan works out as a valid strategy, but hey, I guess you need to use the tools you have. No word yet on whether hotel staff was able to relocate Satan to a new room.
The man told police that he set the room on fire because Satan was in there, according to the affidavit. He reportedly said he wanted to protect “the good people” by setting the fire.
Remember all those pieces of space debris just floating around the Earth with nowhere to go and all day to get there? Remember when we were introduced to the term Zombiesat? Well now NASA is researching new ideas for using lasers to prevent space debris from colliding and making even more space debris. Unlike previous plans that involved military grade lasers for vaporizing debris, this new idea focuses on using commercially available industrial lasers to slightly move debris pieces that are about to impact. While this will not work on the biggest pieces of debris, it is estimated that it could eliminate up to half of all collisions.
“There’s not a lot of argument that this is going to screw us if we don’t do something,” said NASA engineer Creon Levit. “Right now it’s at the tipping point… and it just keeps getting worse.”
A school in India is shuttered after the children of Lady Haleema Begum Urdu School fled in panic last Monday due to supernatural activity and have yet to return. Children have reported random death threats in their notebooks and an egg-shaped ghost coming out of the blackboard. The children have told their parents that they are too scared to return. Brilliant!
“Parvika Khan, the teacher who was conducting an Urdu class for Class 5 last Monday, asked a boy to read the text on the blackboard. But the boy said the blackboard was blank, and ran away screaming that he saw an “egg-shaped ghost” coming out of the blackboard.”
Spoiler Alert: Yeah they don’t really seem to like it that much. They like it even less when the robot warns them it is about to touch them ahead of time.
Back in September of 2009, Jonathan Doyle ran around Monadnock State Park dressed as Bigfoot scaring and amusing hikers while his friends filmed the encounters. He then returned to human form and interviewed the bystanders. The park rangers did not appreciate this stunt and when Doyle returned later that month for a follow up, he was barred from filming. And now Doyle is suing:
Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Jonathan Doyle is suing the state, arguing that the requirement to pay $100 for a special use permit 30 days in advance and get a $2 million insurance bond violates his free speech rights.
Doyle’s attorneys say no one complained to the state park service after Doyle first dressed as Bigfoot, ran around the rocky top of Mount Monadnock, returned to human form and interviewed bystanders about what they saw Sept. 6, 2009.
Landing squarely in the corner of questionable ideas, please introduce yourself to the robotic tattoo machine Auto Ink. Not only is it a robot that gives you a tattoo, but it randomly picks what it will draw as well. Strap in and start it up and it will randomly chooses a religion and its corresponding symbol to brand you with.
Auto Ink is a three axis numerically controlled sculpture. Once the main switch is triggered, the operator is assigned a religion and its corresponding symbol is tattooed onto the person’s arm. The operator does not have control over the assigned symbol. It is assigned either randomly or through divine intervention, depending on your personal beliefs.
The Air Force has launched its second X-37B space plane (X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-2 to you) into orbit for a 270 day mission. The original mission lasted for 224 days before OTV-1 landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in December and managed to shake observers by changing orbit more than a few times. The Air Force won’t say what they are up to, but the Chinese and Russians are skeptical.
While the Air Force has said the space plane is designed to stay in orbit for 270 days, it hasn’t said much about the overall mission. It has said only that the vehicle provides a way to test new technologies in outer space, such as satellite sensors and other components.
Just like the recent release by the New Zealand Military, British officials released nearly 8500 pages of previously classified reports revolving around sightings of unidentified flying objects by the military and members of the public dating back to the 1950s through 2005. You can download the files here.
Russian air traffic controllers in Yakutsk, Siberia claim they were buzzed by a high-speed UFO with a female sounding alien who spoke in an strange cat-like language. ‘I kept hearing some female voice, as if a woman was saying mioaw-mioaw all the time,’ he told the pilot of a passing Aeroflot flight. The video below is in Russian, but is reportedly of air traffic controllers discussing the incident.
This is actually a pretty good investigative report about the history of the chupacabra including an interview with Ben Radford, managing editor of Skeptical Enquirer and one of the hosts of Monster Talk.
“In the last 10 years chupacabra just means anything weird,” Radford said. “It means some dead animal of some sort that we can’t identify.”
My favorite part is at the very end when the main news anchor ends the segment by saying, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Chupacabra.” I am not sure he was paying attention.
The Weird Things staff loves all kinds of science, but we hold a special place in our heart for “weird science”, which is exactly what astronomers from the University of Alberta are saying is going on inside the neutron star Cassiopeia A. Astronomer Craig Heinke’s team has found that this neutron star contains a core of superfluid, a friction-less liquid that could seemingly defy the laws of gravity. The astronomers started researching the star after a sudden temperature drop and they determined that the temperature drop was due to the fact that its core transformed into a superfluid and is venting heat in the process.
“If you could put some of this superfluid in a jar it would flow up the walls of the container and over the edge,” said Heinke.
In Scotland, 321 acres and the ruins of Yester Castle have hit the market for offers over £450,000. The ruins date back to before 1267 and the only remaining structure is the subterranean Goblin Ha’ or Hobgoblin Ha’ (Goblin Hall). According to legend, the castle was built by Sir Hugo de Giffard, a wizard and necromancer. Old Hugo decided to build a castle and made a pact with the devil in exchange for an army of hobgoblins who helped build it.
Over at Phantoms and Monsters an interesting and fun tale about a haunted painting has been posted. According to the story, the painting, entitled The Anguished Man, has been in the family for more than 25 years. It was kept in the attic until recently and the artist apparently committed suicide after making this painting. Oh – and the oil paint was mixed using the artists own blood.
There are reports of strange noises, dark figures, and fitful sleep. You can watch the entire video series with more detailed information here, including when the so-called former skeptic owner decides to ramp things up by moving the painting into his bedroom. If nothing else, it is a fantastic tale.
While kayaking on Lake Windermer in the UK, Tom Pickles snapped a photograph with his cell phone of what it being referred to as the “English Loch Ness Monster”.
Mr Pickles said he saw an animal the size of three cars speed past him on the lake and watched it for about 20 seconds.
“Its skin was like a seal’s but it’s shape was completely abnormal – it’s not like any animal I’ve ever seen before.”
The creature is known by local residents as “Bownessie” and this is the eighth reported sighting in the last five years.
