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Posted on December 2, 2011 by Guest Blogger

WORLDS LARGEST INSECT FOUND JUST YESTERDAY!

This newly discovered and not-so-little weta bug being fed a carrot like a pet! photo courtesy of The Sun.

Everytime you think you’ve seen all the crazy bugs out there and finally decide that they aren’t so scary, THIS guy comes along!

The Sun writes:

AN EXPLORER has found the biggest insect ever on record – so large it can scoff a carrot.

She’s called a Weta Bug and has a huge wing span of SEVEN inches and weighs as much as three mice.

Former park ranger Mark Moffett, 55, discovered the cricket-like creature up a tree on New Zealand’s Little Barrier Island.

He spent two days searching for the creepy crawly which were thought to be extinct after Europeans brought rats to the island many years ago.

American Mark, 53, said: “Three of us walked the trails of this small island for two nights scanning the vegetation for a giant weta.

“We spent many hours with no luck finding any at all, before we saw her up in a tree.

“The giant weta is the largest insect in the world, and this is the biggest one ever found.

See more images and read more at thesun.co.uk

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Guest Blogger

BORN W/ OUT BACK LEGS, PIG WALKS ON FRONT LEGS!

This pig born without front legs is learning to walk on his front ones.

Here’s another great example of where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Seeing animals with birth defects isn’t uncommon in the world of mass breeding of animals, and this little guy definitely did not get the worst of it. Here at the Museum of the Weird we have a few of the rarer kind on display like our siamese piglets, cyclops pig, 2-headed calf and chicken as well as a slew of other freaks of nature.

You should come check them out!

Here’s video of this awesome pig doing his thing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=621AyBKLUow#!

The Huffington Post writes:

This pig won’t let the world bring him down.

According to the video’s Youtube description (as translated by Google Translate), this hog was reportedly born in July without any hind legs, but nonetheless learned to walk.

Nearby Chinese villagers call it “strong pig.” And we think it’s fair to say he is quite athletic, as he carries all 66 pounds of his own body weight over its head.

But is his talent enough to keep him from becoming bacon? We don’t know for sure, but we definitely hope so. If Charlotte could save Wilbur, handstands better be able to save this little guy.

It’s also necessary to note that though this video was uploaded just a few days ago, there’s always a chance this video is old, or possibly not even real. While it can’t be confirmed either way, it’s still a sight to see.

Read more at huffingtonpost.com

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Guest Blogger

ALIENS…GOING FOR THE GOLD?

If you are familiar with the theory of aliens visiting earth and creating humans to mine gold for them to save their dying planet, you’re in for a treat.

A UFO convention in South Africa has released to the media that they know this theory to be a fact, and have evidence to back it up, supposedly.

The Huffington Post writes:

If humanity wants to understand the greed in a man or woman’s heart, he might want to look to the stars . . . and the little green men who might be living on them.

Aliens — much like humans — have been plundering the planet for gold for thousands of years, according to the organizer of South Africa’s first UFO Science and Consciousness Conference, held in Johannesburg last week.

“There’s a battle for Earth by some interesting dark forces,” conference organizer Michael Tellinger told News 24. “All the governments in the world are puppets and instruments to implement the will of a small group of individuals. The royal political bloodline goes back thousand of years.”

Read more at huffingtonpost.com

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Guest Blogger

MEET THE WORLD’S SMALLEST 2-HEADED TURTLE!

Meet Teeny & Tiny, possibly the world's smallest 2-headed turtle.

Now these guys are just adorable!

Looks like the Venice Beach Freakshow has got themselves another awesome curiosity!

We have a few of these kinds of oddities of nature of our own here in Austin, Tx at The Museum Of The Weird.

The Huffington Post writes:

Good things come in small packages — if you happen to be a collector of two-headed animals.

Todd Ray, who runs the Venice Beach Freakshow in Los Angeles, which features a variety of two-headed creatures as well as a five-legged dog, now believes his latest addition to his multi-headed menagerie is the biggest … and the smallest.

The creature in question is a two-headed razorback musk turtle that is about six months old and the size of a nickel.

One head of the two-headed turtle is named “Teeny” and the other is “Tiny” and Ray says both sides are “adorable.”

They may also be record breakers.

“I believe they are the smallest two-headed turtles ever,” Ray said, adding that he has owned many two-headed turtles over the years and never seen any as tiny as Teeny and Tiny.

Read more at huffingtonpost.com

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Guest Blogger

NEW LASER WILL ‘BOIL THE FABRIC OF SPACE’!

If you thought the world was going to end with the activation of the Large Hadron Collider, it ain’t over yet!

There’s something bigger and much badder come in the future.

The Daily Mail writes:

A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain.

The major scientific project will follow in the footsteps of the Large Hadron Collider and will answer questions about the universe.

The laser will be capable of producing a beam of light so intense that it will be similar to the light the earth receives from the sun but focused on a speck smaller than a pin prick.

Scientists say it will be so powerful they will be able to boil the very fabric of space and create a vacuum.

A vacuum fizzles with mysterious particles that come in and out of existence but the phenomenon happens so fast that no-one has ever actually been able to prove it.

It is hoped the Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility would allow scientists to prove the particles are real by pulling the vacuum fabric apart.

Scientists even believe it might help them to prove whether other dimensions actually exist.

PROOF OF GHOSTS FROM EINSTEIN?

Looks like Einstein had a few tricks up his old sleeve.

Live Science writes:

Every night, amateur ghost-hunting groups across the country head out into abandoned warehouses, old buildings and cemeteries to look for ghosts. They often bring along electronic equipment that they believe helps them locate ghostly energy.

Despite years of efforts by ghost hunters on TV and in real life, we still do not have good proof that ghosts are real. Many ghost hunters believe that strong support for the existence of ghosts can be found in modern physics. Specifically, that Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientific minds of all time, offered a scientific basis for the reality of ghosts.

A recent Google search turned up nearly 8 million results suggesting a link between ghosts and Einstein’s work covering the conservation of energy. This assertion is repeated by many top experts in the field. For example, ghost researcher John Kachuba, in his book “Ghosthunters” (2007, New Page Books), writes, “Einstein proved that all the energy of the universe is constant and that it can neither be created nor destroyed. … So what happens to that energy when we die? If it cannot be destroyed, it must then, according to Dr. Einstein, be transformed into another form of energy. What is that new energy? … Could we call that new creation a ghost?”

FOOTAGE OF CANADA’S OWN “NESSY”, THE OGOPOGO?!

Recent footage from Lake Okanagan in British Columbia has stirred up some fun in the media recently.

Global BC writes:

Note: CHBC News regrets the attribution to Richard Huls that he saw the Ogopogo, rather Huls claims to have seen an object in the water and does not know what it was.

The video of a possible Ogopogo sighting in Okanagan Lake has caught the eye of international media.

Two weeks ago, West Kelowna resident Richard Huls said he captured video of something in the water.

“It proves something is down there. Whether it’s Ogopogo or not, it is a different story but there is something at least down there,” Huls said.

“It was not a wave, just a darker colour. The size and the fact that they were not parallel with the waves made me think it had to be something else,” he said.

BOY SAVED FROM WOLVES BY…MEGADETH?

Who knew that heavy metal band Megadeth had the power to save lives…from wolves?!

Forget pepper spray, when you are surrounded by wolves in Norway ready to feast, just play a little metal over your phones speaker and show them the power of shredding!

That’s what this little boy did, and it saved his life!

(warning: playing music over your speaker phones is NOT gauranteed to stop wolves from attacking you, just saying.)

Bizarre News writes:

A 13-year-old Norwegian boy avoided being attacked by wolves by playing a heavy metal song on his mobile phone, RIAN reports.

The incident took place in the central Norwegian municipality of Rakkestad. Four wolves, who appeared before the boy when he was returning home from school, were scared away by the noise coming from the boy’s mobile phone, the Russian website said.

The song that saved the boy’s life was by thrash metal band Megadeth.

The boy said he had been told that in order to avoid being attacked by wolves one should not run away from them but attack them.

PARAGLIDER COLLIDES W/ EAGLE!

This is definitely one of the most insane things I’ve seen in a while!

Watch this incredible video of a paraglider in the Himalaya’s getting an eagle tangled in his ‘chute, free-falling for a bit then crash landing WITH the eagle into a dangerous looking set of trees and smacking the ground rather hard after crashing through them.

The Huffington Post writes:

Nothing could have prepared this paraglider for what he was about to encounter in mid air, but his level of expertise certainly helped him survive.

Vladimir Tsar’kov was gliding over the Indian Himalayas on Oct. 17 when two birds headed toward him and one got tangled in his cables (0:29 in video). After deploying his emergency parachute, the Russian sportsman was able to reach the ground safely and helped free the bird.

The nearly 10-minute rescue mission proved successful after the eagle flew away from scene without injury, the Telegraph reports.

Read more at huffingtonpost.com

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Guest Blogger

UFO BROADCASTED LIVE BY NFL!

One frame of the live broadcast from a recent NFL game.

Who would’ve thought that aliens are football fans?

Apparently, they are, and it seems they have gotten themselves the best seats in the house, ones that fly around incredibly fast and can travel through space and time!

How much would a season pass for one of those go for? Anybody?

Here's proof that it couldn't possibly be a bug, like some critics say. You can see clearly it is in the distance and travels BEHIND the cathedral tower hundreds of meters away!

AOL writes:

For many football fans who watched the New Orleans Saints rout the Indianapolis Colts on Oct. 23, the most unusual thing about the game was the lopsided final score of 62-7.

But for UFO aficionados and paranormal experts who tuned in, they may have seen something in the sky that was even more out-of-the-ordinary than the tossing of more touchdowns vs. incompletions.

As NBC’s cameras returned from a commercial break and focused on the historic, triple-steepled St. Louis Cathedral in the city nicknamed the Big Easy, a couple of lit objects seemed to streak across the darkening sky — and they’ve yet to be definitively identified.

Viewed in real-time, it’s hard to see much more than something flashing across the screen. But a frame-by-frame scrutiny of the video reveals a rod-shaped object topped with brightly lit dots.