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Bears Invading Cars
Do you check your car carefully for bears before you get in? If your car appears to have a bear in it, don’t wait around to see if the bear finds a way out of your car. Bears kill and eat people. Not often, but it happens. A North Carolina couple captured photos of their […]
Posted in: Strange
Three Fingered Alien Mummy?
July 11, 2017
This is either an interesting work of art, an ancient mutant human, or an alien. UFO fans are going bonkers over a video of a tiny, three-fingered humanoid found in Peru – claiming it might be proof that aliens once lived on our planet. But others claim it could just be a crude fake – […]
Mystery: Artificial eyelashes appear, but no kinkajou
July 10, 2017
This morning I woke up, rolled over, and found what appears to be a woman’s artificial eyelash(es) in my bed. Weird, eh? Do objects ever just appear out of thin air? I think quantum theory says that it is possible. It is more likely, however, that I acquired it unknowingly at the music video shoot […]
Posted in: Cryptozoology, Strange
Don’t sleep outside: Teen wakes to crunching sound of bear biting his head
July 10, 2017
This is a crazy story. Dylan looks in amazingly good shape for having his skull bitten by a bear and for being dragged 10 feet by his head. He gets an official Badass of Camping award from me for successfully fighting off an attacking bear bare handed. A teen staffer at a Colorado camp fought […]
Piglet with monkey’s face / Holoprosencephaly / Homer’s Cyclops,
July 8, 2017
From past True Strange posts, enjoy this piglet, a curious biological anomaly. I’m surprised anyone today would try to deny a common DNA source of all life on earth. In addition to what we know about genes resulting in physical traits, it is visually obvious that animals fall into genetic groupings. Curious locals flocked to […]
British man wanted to press charges against bacon eating cat
July 8, 2017
People are strange, when cats eat bacon. Women seem wicked, letting them so. 🎶 The ridiculous caller wanted the emergency services to take action against both his partner and her pet for the bacon burglary. During the recording, the call handler can be heard asking the man what he wants police to do. The man […]
Survive the Top Human Threat: Artificial Super Intelligence
July 8, 2017
What most threatens humankind? The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, you may be surprised to learn, puts Artificial Intelligence at the top of the list. (Sample video lecture) 10 THREATS TO MANKIND Artificial intelligence Bio-hacking Killer robots Nuclear war Climate change Asteroid impact Loss of reality Food shortage Particle accelerator Tyrannical ruler Link […]
Avoid Spam: Temporary Phone Numbers
July 6, 2017
This is potentially very useful for those who value their time and privacy. Many places make you give a phone number and they send you a text code to verify you. Then they later sell your phone number or get hacked and you get fake and spam calls, or someone hacks your phone or steals […]
Posted in: Technology
Do All Raccoons Ride Alligators?
July 5, 2017
A common logic error many make is wrongly assuming that one example of something is proof that it is widespread and common. Generalizing is something we do naturally because it saves time and helps us understand the world. It is also at the root of some human problems such as prejudice and xenophobia, however. Richard […]
Star Trek Continues, Great Free Shows
July 5, 2017
The original Star Trek series with Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. “Bones” McCoy and “Beam me up” Scotty was a five year mission cancelled after only three years, but you may not know that the original series was continued by fans who made the episodes the original series should have made. Once you get over […]
Posted in: Science Fiction
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July 4, 2017
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Posted in: Strange
A Roman War Tool Still Influences the World
July 3, 2017
You may have heard the quotes, “Truth is the first casualty of war,” or “The winner of a war rewrites history,” but few know we still today experience a history rewrite by Romans who won an ancient war. If independent historical religious researchers are correct, the Flavian emperors of Rome left behind not just language, pottery, […]
Invented: Urine Power that Kills Bacteria
July 2, 2017
Here are two practical ideas implemented in one human waste processing system: Researchers have developed a system which can generate electricity from urine — enough to charge a mobile phone — and also kill bacteria harmful to humans, an advance that could be harnessed to treat wastewater. In this process, wastewater flows through a series […]
Posted in: Alt Energy, Technology
Strange Food Warning: Human Placenta Pills
July 2, 2017
For various reasons some new mothers eat their own placenta. New mothers, if you have passed an infection to your child at birth and opt to later eat your placenta in pill form, don’t use the company an Oregon woman used; the pills seem to have sickened her new child with strep bacteria. This unusual […]
Birds Play a Drum for Love
June 28, 2017
Birds are not all a capella performers when it comes to musically wooing a mate. A male Australian bird has been observed to fashion a drumstick and play a rhythm on a tree while his potential mate watches and judges. Palm cockatoos from northern Australia modify sticks and pods and use them to drum regular […]
Secret Plan to Clone Salvador Dalí?
June 27, 2017
They say it’s about a paternity case, but the genetic material to soon be collected might be secretly used to clone the long dead surrealist painter. In a surreal turn, a judge in Madrid ordered that Salvador Dalí’s body — interred for nearly three decades — be exhumed after a 61-year-old Spanish woman claimed the […]
Reuters Oddly
- Winning toilet paper gowns offered to brides-in-need
- Cambodia widow sees dead husband in five-month-old calf
- Swedish train to be named Trainy McTrainface in tribute to Boaty
- Hyenas spark admiration, not fear, in Ethiopia's Harar city
- Metamorphosis: Philadelphia street horrified as cockroaches invade
- Cheesemaker kicks up a stink over vanishing prize-winning cheddar
- Police helicopter crew recorded couple having sex, British court told
- River roll call as 'swan upping' gets under way on Britain's Thames
- Slovenian comic's parody has Merkel dancing with 'zombie' refugees
- Baboon causes power cut in Zambian tourist town
Disclose (alien/ufo/disinfo)
- Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans
- When Will We Discover Advanced Alien Life?
- Project Sun Streak, The Secret CIA Project To Create Psychic Spies
- Project MK-Ultra: Secret Docs About Disturbing CIA Mind Control Experiments Released
- The real story of Jesus Christ and the Bible
- UFOs Compilation 1970 to 1980
- After 2,000 Years, Something Unbelievable Happened In Jerusalem
- Project Grill Flame & Stargate: CIA Funded Remote Viewing and ESP Experiments
- 'Demon goat' terrifies locals in Argentina
- Russia Unveils 'Fully Automated Combat Module' That Can Identify Targets On Its Own
UPI odd news
- SF man's ventriloquist dummy stolen in mugging
- North Carolina animal shelter seeks owner of 30-pound cat
- Black bear charges at onlooker's car in Alberta
- Horse enthusiastically scratches buttocks on pickup truck
- Snake sizzles, knocks out power to 22,000 in Florida
- Deer 'trying to free his friend' breaks into taxidermy shop
- Traveler perplexed by telephone pole sticking up from road
- Crabs scuttle for freedom at airport baggage claim
- Stiff drink: Coffee recalled due to Viagra-like ingredient
- Mystery monkey attacks Texas teen and grandpa in pickup truck
CBS strange
- Ex-Miss Kentucky USA accused smuggling drugs into jail
- Frozen pork falls from the sky at 4 a.m. and lands on family's home
- Halle Berry chugs whiskey on stage at Comic-Con
- Boy trips, falls and discovers million-year-old fossil
- Man captures rare blue lobster, donates it to science
- "Absolutely" one of a kind: The story behind the lunar sample bag going up for auction
- Shrinking glacier reveals bodies of couple missing 75 years
- Security robot ends up in Washington, D.C., fountain
- Winnie the Pooh censored in China after President Xi Jinping comparisons
- Garth Brooks offers to pay for honeymoon for fan couple
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