I said a few weeks ago, jokingly, that this was the season in which cryptids come out to play. Boy, as it turns out, the comment I said in gest was more than a little truthful. Another week, another new monster. This time it’s a rubbery, hairless, bloated critter discovered in Panama. Fortunately, locals were […]
Read »Navigation » Unusual Stuff | Videos | Images | Monthly Archives
Freedom Of Speech And “Contempt Of Cop”
Posted 9/16/2009 2:14 pm by Ron HoganUnless you’re in the mood for a protracted court battle, you might want to watch what you say to the police department in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. David Hackbart found that out the hard way. You see, he got cut off in traffic by some jerk, and he expressed that disapproval by flipping the offending party the […]
Read »
WWE CEO Linda McMahon, Future Senator?
Posted 9/16/2009 12:56 pm by Ron HoganShe’s a former member of the Connecticut Board of Education, she’s served on the board of directors at Sacred Heart, and she just resigned as CEO of a million-dollar company she co-founded. Normally, you’d take one look at that resume and you’d say to yourself, “Yeah, she can definitely be a good candidate for political […]
Read »
Buffy The Alligator Slayer
Posted 9/16/2009 12:22 pm by Ron HoganRemember the movie/show Buffy The Vampire Slayer, about a teenage girl who hunted down dangerous supernatural monsters and slayed them? I’m sure you do. Now, I wasn’t a huge fan of the series (but I was of the movie) so I’m not sure what Buffy’s slaying career entailed. I can tell you that she’s not […]
Read »
Super Mario Super Nails
Posted 9/16/2009 8:43 am by Ron HoganYou can do a lot with nails. No, not these nails, fingernails. For example, check out the full-sized image of these Super Mario Brothers-themed fingernails found via Wonderland. For an old-school Nintendo guy like myself, it’s awesome to see some classic Super Mario Brothers 3 graphics back in action, but it does make me wonder […]
Read »
Jack The Ripper’s Real Victims
Posted 9/15/2009 11:33 am by Ron HoganOne of the film world’s favorite villains is the serial killer who stalked London’s impoverished Whitechapel in London between the years of 1888 and 1891. Called Jack the Ripper, he preyed on poor lower-class women, most of whom were working as prostitutes when he picked them up and gave them the slice-and-dice treatment. However, census […]
Read »
Swimming Lessons For Bears
Posted 9/15/2009 9:00 am by Ron HoganBears are pretty awesome, aren’t they? In the wild, they’re one of the most human-like animals because they use their environment, walk on their hind legs, and even fish. However, if you’re dealing with a bear that has been raised in captivity, they didn’t have the mother bear around to teach them important survival skills, […]
Read »
RIP Patrick Swayze
Posted 9/14/2009 11:32 pm by Ron HoganYou know, I’ve always kind of liked Patrick Swayze, despite myself. I mean, between Dirty Dancing and Ghost, I really shouldn’t. But he did make Road House and Red Dawn, two of my all-time favorite movies ever, and he was also in the clinically insane Point Break (one of the best bad movies in history […]
Read »
Tinkle Tinkle Little Star
Posted 9/14/2009 1:39 pm by Ron HoganGorgeous picture, isn’t it? That solid line there is the Space Shuttle Discovery as it orbits Earth, awaiting on final descent permission over the weekend. It landed safely in California, due to bad weather in Florida, but what’s the comet-looking trail behind it? I’ll give you a hint: it’s really gross. That beautiful contrail is […]
Read »
Painting Via Google Street View
Posted 9/14/2009 12:28 pm by Ron HoganPainter Bill Guffey is an artist unlike any other. Not only is he remarkably prolific and successful, having sold 30 to 40 paintings since March 2008, he also works in an unusual style. From his home in rural Cumberland County, Kentucky, he has painted everywhere in the world using only the Street View function in […]
Read »
Snake With A Foot
Posted 9/14/2009 11:19 am by Ron HoganImagine waking up in the middle of the night and seeing a snake. Pretty frightening, right? Well, imagine if you’re Dean Qiongxiu from Suining, China. Not only did the 66-year-old woman find a snake, she found the snake clinging to her wall. Not by its teeth, by its foot. So shocked was she that she […]
Read »
Kanye West Is Incapable Of Politeness
Posted 9/14/2009 8:32 am by Ron HoganSome people need to be kept away from a hot microphone at all costs. One of the prime examples of this is a rapper by the name of Kanye West. Already famous for his anti-George Bush rant during a live telethon designed to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims and his constant hissy-fits at previous […]
Read »
Driving While Pretty
Posted 9/13/2009 11:01 am by Ron HoganPopFi has covered some unusual crimes before, but this is getting a little ridiculous. Dasha, a woman from Washington State, has been pulled over some 30 times by the police in Bellevue, Kirkland, and Seattle. And the reason she’s been pulled over so often? Because, she claims, cops want to flirt with her. That’s […]
Read »
Caster Semenya’s Internal Testes
Posted 9/11/2009 1:26 pm by Ron HoganThe strange, sad tale of South African 800-meter champion Caster Semenya is starting to wind down. After rigorous gender testing by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), it has been determined that Caster Semenya is not really a woman. Nor is she really a man. Caster has internal testes and no ovaries or womb, […]
Read »
09/11/01
Posted 9/11/2009 12:48 pm by Ron HoganSeptember 11, 2001, changed a lot of people’s lives. It didn’t change New York City very much, since things were already headed back to normal the day after, but it changed the lives of a lot of individuals. Specifically, it changed the lives of the families and friends of the 2,996 people who died that […]
Read »
Try The Hoki Fish Sandwich
Posted 9/10/2009 4:51 pm by Ron HoganLike so many fish, it’s spectacularly ugly. Not as ugly as the barreleyes or Frankenfish, but still pretty ugly. However, unlike the barreleyes, the hoki or blue grenadier, a fish found off the waters of New Zealand, is delicious. In fact, you’ve probably eaten it several times in you life. Namely, if you’ve ever chowed […]
Read »
UFO Pterodactyls In Argentina
Posted 9/10/2009 1:05 pm by Ron HoganApparently this is the time of year in which all manner of cryptids come out to play. First Nessie was caught by Google Maps, then someone poisoned a chupacabra in Texas, a few days ago a Bigfoot was spotted in Kentucky, and now there’s an odd-looking unidentified flying object (UFO) that has been spotted in […]
Read »
Carrier Pigeons Are Faster Than The Internet
Posted 9/10/2009 12:02 pm by Ron HoganI think we’ve all had an experience where, thanks to some congestion on the Internet, that we’ve said something akin to, “Well, I could probably walk the file over there faster than this.” Odds are, if you have South African ISP Telkom, that you are right. Unlimited IT, an information technology company, found that out […]
Read »
Own A Real T-Rex
Posted 9/09/2009 12:19 pm by Ron HoganI don’t know of any kid who hasn’t wanted to own their own dinosaur. I mean, kids love giant extinct animals! I know, when I was a wee lad, that I loved learning all about dinosaurs and then discarding all that education to have them maul through squadrons of GI Joes on a Godzilla-like rampage. […]
Read »
The Bigfoot Of Kentucky
Posted 9/09/2009 5:00 am by Ron HoganKenny Mahoney has a problem. It seems that his garden keeps getting ruined by animals. So he put out a motion sensor and video camera. The usual culprits abound; rabbits, birds, and deer have all had their way with the food. However, there is one unusual animal found in Mr. Mahoney’s garden in Fairdale, Kentucky. […]
Read »
Man Donates 40 Gallons Of Blood
Posted 9/08/2009 12:29 pm by Ron HoganAl Fischer is a hero. It’s not due to his job (he’s a print shop operator) or because he did some random act of heroism like save a child from a cougar. No, Al is a hero in a way in which pretty much anyone can be a hero: he donates blood. Not just once […]
Read »
A Gypsy Life Examined
Posted 9/08/2009 11:33 am by Ron HoganRoxy Freeman is an unusual example of a college student. Not only is she a nontraditional student (meaning one over the age of 25), she also has had no formal schooling. For her entire life, Roxy has bounced from campground to campground, living in the traditional Gypsy lifestyle. Haven’t you always kind of wondered […]
Read »
MDA, Labor Day, And Telethons
Posted 9/07/2009 1:35 pm by Ron HoganAs you might have figured out by now, I’m kind of an insomniac. I think all those posts about coffee gave it away. Either way, you know it now. Last night, at about 4 AM, I couldn’t sleep. So what did I turn to? The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, now in its 43rd year of […]
Read »
David Bowie Spider Not From Mars
Posted 9/07/2009 11:26 am by Ron HoganIt must be hard to be Peter Jaeger. He’s a hardworking spider specialist who has identified over 200 new species of spiders over the past decade. That seems pretty noteworthy, doesn’t it? Finding 200 new species of anything should be impressive, but it’s not. Why? Because it’s spiders. So what does Mr. Jaeger do to […]
Read »
Research Says Talking To Women Make Men Dumber
Posted 9/04/2009 12:16 pm by Ron HoganIt’s a pretty common phenomenon. One so common, in fact, I’m surprised anyone thought to study it. A man spends some time talking to a beautiful woman and instantly becomes less intelligent. Long the source of jokes for comedians and movies and the like, what was once thought to be simple awkwardness or distractedness is […]
Read »
Wal-Martians Spotted And Catalogued
Posted 9/03/2009 12:45 pm by Ron HoganEveryone has been to Wal-Mart at some point in their life. I don’t care how rich you might be, or how much you might claim to loathe the store, we’ve all had to go into Wal-Mart and we’ve all seen something crazy. From life-long legacy mullets to people slapping the children of strangers, there’s always […]
Read »
Crying Glacier Weeps For Environment
Posted 9/03/2009 9:48 am by Ron HoganIt’s only natural for humans to anthropomorphize animals. We want our furry friends to be like us, and we don’t like the idea that something that cuddly and with that much personality doesn’t have a human-like soul. However, why do humans persist in seeing faces where there isn’t really a face, like in the above […]
Read »
Baby Duck Pool Rescue
Posted 9/02/2009 3:03 pm by Ron HoganThis is quite possibly the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen. Seriously; even cuter than Monifa the baby hippo. There’s nothing cuter than a baby duckling, and the ingenious way that these little ducks get saved from the peril of a heated baby pool they just quite can’t flap their wings hard enough to get […]
Read »
Mighty Morphin Mixed Martial Artist
Posted 9/02/2009 6:30 am by Ron HoganIt must be tough to be an actor. It’s so easy to get typecast; if you can throw a good kick or punch, you’re stuck being a martial artist and can only do action movies. However, sometimes it is possible to cross over. Take actor Jason David Frank, for instance. Best known as one of […]
Read »
Doodurls: Abstract, Distract(ed) Art
Posted 9/02/2009 5:30 am by Ron HoganEveryone does it. You’re on the phone, in class, or in a meeting and your mind just kind of wanders. You’ve got pens handy, you’ve got boring notes, so you’re probably going to doodle. I know I’m a doodler, especially on the phone. However, I’ve got nothing on the people you’ll find over at Doodurl. […]
Read »