World Weird News
Weird news from throughout the world. Stuff that makes you hmmmmm... or sometimes ewwwww!
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Sharing your house with the “others”
From time to time people will talk to me about dealing with spirit activity in their homes. My first question is always what they want. Banishment is not always the answer. If a spirit is malevolent and disruptive getting it to move on may be the only choice. In many cases, though, co-habitation with a spirit makes perfect sense. It can merely be a matter of expressing your authority and laying down some rules, such as no disruptions after 11:00 pm. When you establish a respectful relationship with spirits, they can be a guardian of your home, better than any watchdog. Could you live with a ghost in your home?…
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Terrifying “dragon” discovered in Australia
In a startling discovery, PhD Candidate, Tim Richards, from the University of Queensland in Australia, analyzed the fossil of a jaw, discovered on Wanamara Country, near Richmond in North West Queensland. It is the largest specimen of flying reptile ever discovered in Australia. This truly “terrible lizard” would have been a frightening predator, taking advantage of its air power and thirty-foot wingspan to annihilate ground-bound creatures. In this video, researchers take us behind the scenes on the discovery and implications of this amazing beast. See more about these gigantic flying dinosaurs in this clip from National Geographic. Read the full story of this discovery in the original article below. Researchers…
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Hard to know who to root for
According to Anxiety House, Arachnophobia, fear of spiders, and Ophidiophobia,fear of snakes, are the two most common phobias. So, when you have a case of spider vs. serpent, who do you root for? It is said that Australia is the land where everything in nature wants to kill you. One such example is the Redback spider Latrodectus hasselti-Australian Redback Spider. Photo by Don Horne. (CC-BY-4.0) This feisty little spider has a body about the size of an m&m candy, but is venomous enough to kill a snake. The article cited below gives more detail about how snakes are captured and killed in this tiny spider’s web. If you have a…
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Dowsing on the rise in California
Coast to Coast AM reports that due to the drought in California, that many are turning to dowsing to find water. Dowsing is using the motion of tools such as a Y-shaped stick, L-shaped rods, or pendulums, to find information. In the case of the “water witches,” dowsing is used to find the right locations to dig wells. Traditionally, the dowser will wander the property with a Y-shaped stick and, when they approach the right spot, the stick will dip down, as if attracted to the spot. Dowsing can be used for other purposes as well. Pendulum dowsing is used to find lost objects, answer questions and even connect with…
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Is it me, or is it hot in here?
Current weather conditions bring back the memory of this day in 1929. The June 1, 1929 issue of the British newspaper, “The Sphere,” featured this photo with an eloquent caption. Journalists just don’t seem to have the same sense of poetry today.
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Florida Man, how we’ve missed you!
Between disease control and civil unrest it has been harder to keep up with the exploits of Florida Man. However, a quick search does not disappoint. Florida Man is alive, well, and up to no good. An Associated Press article dated May 29, 2020, reports that Miramar, Florida police were searching for a 21-year-old naked man who broke into a South Florida high school and spent almost 24 hours vandalizing the building. Here is the photo they released on Twitter, seeking to identify the culprit. Security cameras caught a man trashing Miramar High School. The photo was successful, and police identified Matthew Crandall. Video showed Crandall broke into the school…
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When lightning strikes twice… or three or four times
Here is the strange tale of William Yeldell Cosper, born 1844 and died 1919. His grave lies in Childersburg, Talladega County, Alabama, but it has not been a peaceful rest. In 1919, Cosper was standing on his front porch during a storm and was struck by lightning. Miraculously he survived, even though he was pushing 75. He was convalescing some time after the incident when lightning struck him again, inside the house! The second strike was fatal. He was mourned and buried in the Childersburg Cemetery and left to rest in peace. However, several years later his headstone was struck by lightning and destroyed. The family had the stone replaced.…
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The Vrillon Incident, 1977
(Header photo by Light Guru/YouTube) Today marks an unusual anniversary. Saturday, November 26, 1977, people were watching the 5 o’clock news broadcast on England’s Southern TV. Andrew Gardner was steadfastly presenting the news of the day in the sensible, soothing tones of journalistic assurance. Suddenly, the picture began to distort and another voice broke into the broadcast, a strange, alien voice with a message for humanity. Here is what viewers saw. The voice is difficult to understand, so here is a transcript. “This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you. For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies.…
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water
What's worse than swimming with sharks in the water? How about Texas tarantulas!
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Cemetery Unappreciative of Family’s Halloween Spirit
Those who follow my World Weird News are people with a darker sense of humor. You carry Halloween in your hearts. You share jokes about crazy things that you’d like to have happen at your funeral to create confusion and wonder. So, you would completely appreciate Christina Wohle. Wohle’s son, Cole, died at the age of 18 after a rodeo, not from event injuries, but from a heart attack. It is a difficult and tragic life event. However, Cole was a spirited man, with a darker sense of humor. To honor him, they put Halloween decorations on his grave. The cemetery keeps taking them down. The claim is that the…
