Category: Weird News & Blog
Stuff to read, watch, and look at that I mention in the podcast and radio show, as well as stuff that I haven’t mentioned! Online articles, stories, videos, photos, and other strangeness, along with my own personal entries with thoughts, opinions and observations about various topics.
Britain’s Most Haunted Hotel? Schooner Hotel Has at Least 60 Ghosts
Dating back to the 1600s when it was a coaching inn, the Schooner Hotel in Alnmouth, England, hosted numerous vagabonds, smugglers, and even murderers. With several reports of family massacres, suicides, and murders, the building certainly has a long and dark history. With many thousands of paranormal claims and at least 60 ghosts allegedly roaming around the halls and rooms, it’s not surprising that the Schooner Hotel has been referred to as the most haunted hotel in all of Britain.
NASA sought advice from priests on impact of alien contact
The space agency reportedly enlisted religious experts to help predict how the world would react.
Zoologist Fired For Believing In Loch Ness Monster
New documents have revealed the truth behind the sacking of Dr Denys Tucker from London’s Natural History Museum.
Cloudy With a Chance of Raining Fish
Residents of the Texas town couldn’t believe their eyes when actual fish started to fall from the heavens.
Man sues psychic over ex-girlfriend’s ‘curse’
A man in the US is suing a psychic who he claims had failed to remove a curse put on his marriage by a witch.
A Journey To Mars Might Give You Dementia, Study Shows
New research suggests that astronauts traveling to and on Mars can get large brain lesions and can cause dementia.
Doctors Remove Over 1 Kilogram of Metal Nails And Screws From Man’s Stomach
Surgeons at a hospital in Lithuania spent over three hours saving the life of a man who, for some reason, had swallowed more than a kilogram of metallic objects…
Overdue book returned to Scottish library after 73 years
A Scottish library said officials were stunned to open a package that arrived in the mail and find an overdue book that had been checked out 73 years earlier.
Please don’t call the Squid Game phone number.
From The Ghost in My Machine: When Squid Game debuted on Netflix earlier in September, no one really expected it to become as popular as it has. Its extreme popularity took most people by surprise. And you know what also took people by surprise? The fact that folks actually started calling the Squid Game phone number, thinking that maybe it might be real.
Artist steals money, calls theft ‘work of art’
Danish artist Jens Haaning declared his theft of the money was itself a work of art he had entitled “Take the Money and Run.”
Samsung Engineers Are Going To Copy The Brain And Transfer Data To The Drive
With successful experiments on “copying” brains, it will be necessary to transfer the data array of nerve cells to a storage device. Scientists explain that both solid-state media and ordinary flash cards can act as a drive.