Print me a part
In an article the other day we talked about a tragic story where parts of remains were confiscated by the state. While that battle is being waged we discover an area where technology is creating body...
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Death by selfie
Recently, Russia released a pamphlet advising people about the deadly consequences of taking selfies. Apparently, the carelessness of people trying to capture themselves for social-media posterity has...
View ArticleWhat happened over Rendelsham Forest?
In a recent article we referenced statements by former Canadian Defense Minister, Paul Hellyer, about his belief that we were being visited by beings from other planets and that the US government was...
View ArticleFlame on—spontaneous human combustion
A recent rash of news articles has focused on the strange case of the nine-day-old child of Karna Perumal, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Rajeswari from T. Parangini in Villuppuram district of...
View ArticleUnusual safety animals in Cambodia
We’ve all seen stories of animals that have been trained to help humans. We’ve heard of carrier pigeons, rescue dogs, and medical service animals. Now, meet the bomb-sniffing rat. Pouch rats in...
View ArticleRobber disgraces rodents everywhere
Yesterday, we talked about the heroic bomb-sniffing rats of Cambodia and how rats are being used as other kinds of service animals. We also talked about how some of these unconventional service animals...
View ArticleNosferatu director’s head stolen!
Truth is often stranger than fiction. A July 14th article of German news site Spiegel:Online, (original German or Google translation) reports that the skull of director, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau...
View ArticleJoliet the haunted doll
People who have never had a paranormal experience cannot imagine it. Employees who were not in the Museum of the Weird when we experienced most of our own activity don’t fully understand the confusion,...
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The real Annabelle
Ed Warren poses with Annabelle, the haunted doll Yesterday we told you about Joliet the haunted doll. She is not the most terrifying story we found. In fact, there are many, many reports of haunted...
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Ouija does it…
Three talking boards await clearing by Doc Saul Ravencraft. As I give tours to visitors at the Museum of the Weird I tell them about my role in making sure that everything our owner, Steve, brings to...
View ArticleIs this a sign?
A swarm of locusts heading from Texas to Oklahoma was so large that it was detected on Doppler RADAR. In the Bible book of Exodus, chapter 10, Egypt is struck by a plague of locusts as Moses demands...
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Vampire flowers had willing donor
In 1963 a man named Ralph Farrar was diagnosed with a disease called Hemochromatosis. The result was that his blood had too much iron. The treatment at the time—which is still recommended today—is...
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Loch Ness monster hunter not giving up
After nearly a quarter of a century, Steve Feltham is still on the hunt for Nessie, the mysterious creature reported to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. A July 16 article in The Times...
View ArticleBuried alive in Brazil
You may have seen a recent story repeated from dailybuzz.com with titles like “Woman Buried Alive, Funeral Goers Hear Screams From The Grave.” Snopes declares this story to be false, and is is honestly...
View ArticleArtist creates bizarre crocheted skeletal remains
We have some bizarre art for sale at the Lucky Lizard. But we also have to tip our hats to people who create amazingly bizarre works. Caitlin T. McCormack is one such artist. Using string, Caitlin...
View ArticleMusic of the trees
People talk about harmony in nature. Artist and engineer, Bartholomaus Traubeck, took this quite literally with his unusual creation that turns the rings on a tree into music. The device looks very...
View ArticleArmadillo armor works
You may have heard reports of the Texas man injured by a ricochet while shooting an armadillo. Some outlets reported that the bullet actually ricocheted off of the hard armor of the creature, but this...
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Tickets please
Poster in the London Underground takes a no-nonsense view of ghosts. Screen readers refer to this text. I admit, I’m fond of the British. They generally have an admirable calm and dignity that is worth...
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Open wide
What in the world is going on here? Is this woman the subject of a bizarre experiment? Is this a sort of torture? Is this man using a robot to extract something from her throat? This is actually an...
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Beginning at the end
Couple celebrate their wedding in the family funeral home. We look forward to the day when an especially weird couple chooses to tie the knot at the Museum of the Weird. (We can totally make that...
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