Bizarre – Page 30 – Museum of the Weird

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Guest Blogger

PLANET OF THE APES IS A REAL POSSIBILITY!

I already feel like this life we’re in is a giant movie anyways, this is just further proof we need to stop everything, chill out and relax.

Dailymail.co.uk writes:

It sounds like something from a Hollywood science fiction film: a race that is half human, half ape.

But leading scientists are today demanding tough new rules to prevent the nightmare scenario becoming a reality.

In a hard-hitting report, they warn that research is close to pushing ‘ethical boundaries’ and that extreme attempts to give laboratory animals human attributes must be banned.

Professor Martin Bobrow, a medical geneticist at Cambridge University and co-author of the report, said society needed to set rules before scientists began experiments that the public would find unacceptable.

He added: ‘We are trying to get this out in the open before anything has happened.’

Read more at dailymail.co.uk

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Guest Blogger

THE FUTURE IS HERE! A FLYING SPHERE IS REALITY!

It’s only a matter of time until this technology is applied to a vehicle that can seat a human being!

Dailymail.co.uk writes:

Its Japanese developers call it the ‘Futuristic Circular Flying Object’ and it’s designed to go where humans can’t.

The radio-controlled sphere, roughly the size of a basketball, was built for search and rescue operations, specifically to fly in and out of buildings weakened by earthquakes or other natural disasters.

The device uses its onboard camera to transmit live images of whatever it sees.

Fumiyuki Sato, at the Japanese Defense Ministry’s Technical Research and Development Institute, invented and built the vehicle for roughly 110,000 yen (£865 / $1,390) with parts purchased off the shelf at consumer electronics stores.

He said: ‘Because of its spherical shape, it can land in various positions and tumble to move around the ground.’

It zips through the air, glides smoothly around corners, and negotiates staircases with ease, all the while emitting a soft hum.

Read more at dailymail.co.uk

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Guest Blogger

SKIER JUMPS OFF 250FT CLIFF, ON PURPOSE!

Now, I’ve done a few extreme sports in my time but this is on a whole other level. This dude jumps off the craziest cliffs he can find only to land in a pile of snow, that’s it! How crazy?!

Dailymial.co.uk writes:

This is the moment a professional skier defied death – plummeting 250 foot down a cliff edge to seemingly land on his head.

Amazingly Jamie Pierre walked away from the intentional stunt without so much as a scratch after being dug out of the six foot ‘bomb hole’ by his photographer.

Mr Pierre, a professional skier, revealed the secret behind his apparently suicidal stunt.

He said: ‘Although it looks like I landed on my head, I actually landed on my back.

‘I was bent at the waist and landed how a stuntman would land on an air bag.’

MOTW-072811-Skier — Snow joke: This time-lapse photo shows Jamie Pierre's world record-breaking, death-defying 250ft descent where he survives even after apparently landing on his head

Read more at dailymail.co.uk

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Guest Blogger

“AMITYVILLE HORROR” HOUSE UP FOR SALE

For a cool 1.35 million you can live in a super creepy and haunted house! How fun!

Dailymail.co.uk writes:

It is a piece of American cinema history known to horror buffs across the globe.

And now the haunted house from 1978’s ‘The Amityville Horror’ movie is up for sale.

The 10-room colonial-style structure at 18 Brooks road in Toms River was built in the 1920s and is listed for $1.35 million.

For the movie, a superstructure was built around the outside to make it look like the home in Amityville, New York, whose owners claimed was possessed by evil spirits.

Read more at dailymail.co.uk

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Guest Blogger

WORLD RECORD FOR MOST FINGERS AND TOES!

As much as we see and hear of weirds things from the past, here’s something from right now.

Huffingtonpost.com writes:

Count’em up. This young man born with 34 fingers and toes set a Guinness World Record for most digits.

Akshat Saxena had seven fingers on each hand and 10 toes on each foot when he was born in India in 2010, a Guinness spokeswoman told The Huffington Post.

“I was so happy to see my baby as it was our first child,” his mother Amrita Saxena told NDTV. “But later, when I saw his fingers, I was shocked and surprised.”

Doctors recently amputated the excess appendages in a series of surgeries and now Saxena has the typical five digits per limb, the Guinness spokeswoman said.

This prodigious polydactyl wasn’t born with thumbs, but doctors planned to create them with pieces of the extra figners, The Hindustan Times reported.

Read more @ huffingtonpost.com

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Guest Blogger

MALNOURISHED MONKEY MISTAKEN FOR ALIEN!

What would you do if this thing was stealing your fruit?

Dailymail.co.uk writes:

This ape made a monkey of Chinese villagers who feared it was a visitor from another world.

Locals panicked when Mao Xiping, a housewife from the village of Gezhai, in Henan province, central China, found the scraggy simian stealing cucumbers from her flat.

She thought it was a harmless rabbit, until she noticed it had an ‘alien face’ and her neighbours agreed it was like nothing they had ever seen before.

ATLANTIS FOUND OFF OF THE COAST OF SPAIN!

Maybe, we can finally get some answers to all those questions we’ve been asking for so long. Who lived there? What was the cities purpose? What caused it and it’s people to disappear and was the entire thing a giant spaceship that just one day took off into space?

MSNBC writes:

Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago, in mud flats in southern Spain.

“This is the power of tsunamis,” head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters.

“It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that’s pretty much what we’re talking about,” said Freund, a professor at the University of Hartford who led an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis.

To solve the age-old mystery, the team analyzed satellite imagery of a suspected submerged city just north of Cadiz, Spain. There, buried in the vast marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, they believe that they pinpointed the ancient, multiringed dominion known as Atlantis.

WORLDS FIRST STREET-LEGAL BATMOBILE!

How has this only now just happened and when will we get a mass producton of these? I will put a down payment on one of these bad boys right now!

dailymail.co.uk writes:

It’s a car that would make any man proud, including Batman.

An aspiring racing driver and Batman fanatic has created the world’s first road-legal jet turbine powered Batmobile – which can reach speeds of 180mph.

Casey Putsch spent five months painstakingly piecing together the amazing replica car using everything from aerospace materials to polycarbonate.

But his favourite feature on the incredible bat car is a military spec turbine engine used in a drone helicopter by the Navy to drop torpedoes on enemy submarines.

UFO IS FOUND USING GOOGLE EARTH!

Wow, someone just stumbled upon this image of a UFO over Cape Town, Africa using Google Earth! What else haven’t we found out there, maybe monsters in the oceans?

I know what I’m doing this evening.

Unexplained-mysteries.com writes:

It isn’t clear what the object is or if it is a genuine image, further analysis suggests a second UFO may be present in the upper left however it isn’t as clear. Has Google caught something unexplained with its cameras or is there a more down to earth explanation ?

MAN RISES FROM THE DEAD

In Victorian times, people were terrified of being buried alive. Elaborate devices were designed (and sold) to help alert people if a soul was unfortunate enough to wake up buried in their coffin. Fortunately, medical technology has advanced so that we we have a number of ways to detect life. The days of someone being accidentally buried alive are behind us… or are they?

In Eastern Cape, South Africa, a man woke up to find himself on the cold, steel of an examining table. His family took him to the private mortuary when they could not wake him on a Saturday and presumed him dead. He had been there for 24 hours when he frightened the attendants, asking to be let out of the chilly room.

The gentleman was taken to hospital and did not need further treatment. The South African medical community urges families to consult with a doctor before presuming that someone is dead.

Read the full story at the BBC Web site.