Category: "The Daily Weird"

Pair-a-eidolia: The Sole of Jesus

People see the strangest things in the most unlikely places. From the Dutchess of Cambridge on a Jelly Belly to varicose veins that spell, we see what we want to see; and it seems a whole lot of people want to see Jesus. He is everywhere, after all. Even on Walmart receipts, apparently. But where [...]

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UFO Contact On The Rise In Ireland

It would seem that UFO sightings are on the rise in the emerald isle, at least according to the UFO Research Association of Ireland. Reports of UFO incidences have been on the increase over the past 3 years by a whopping 70%, says the URAI. In the year 2011 alone there was a reported 59 [...]

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Video of Captured Bigfoot Surfaces In Local Russian News Broadcast

Bigfoot enthusiasts received an extra special gift this Christmas, when word came out that a Russian hunter had not only found a Sasquatch alive, but that he had managed to capture it. The intriguing claim couldn’t have come at a better time, considering the big let-down Squatch hunters received when the BBC released it’s DNA [...]

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Paranormal Problems Plague Police

Police officers in Wales spent a shocking 240 hours this year on inquires into the strange and the supernatural due to the Freedom of Information Act. Turns out the officers are required to spend 18 hours of research into every strange subject when information or questions are requested by the public. Some of those questions [...]

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“Yeti” Finger Rediscovered, DNA Tests Show Human Origin

Guarded by monks for many years, only to languish in obscurity in the archives of  the UK’s Huntarian Museum, the supposed finger of a Yeti has been rediscovered, the results of it’s latest tests were released this morning. Deep in the Himalayas, hidden high in the mountain ranges, lies the Pangboche Buddhist monastery, a site [...]

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Adam Curtis Looks at the Evolution of Paranormal Reality Television

Long before Most Haunted, or even the original Ghost Hunters from which the TAPS series took it’s name (yes, believe it or not, Ghost Hunters is a remake), there was a show on the BBC called Ghostwatch. Airing on Halloween of 1992, Ghostwatch was, without a doubt, the start of the modern obsession with paranormal [...]

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Scientists Imply Shroud of Turin Created By Supernatural Event

Italian scientist are claiming a supernatural event may have caused the image on the shroud of Turin, the robe some believe to have been the garment Jesus was buried in after the crucifixion. By scorching similar material with an ultra-violet laser, the team was able to create a similar design. They believe this disproves at [...]

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Paranormal “Shapeshifter” Blamed in Child’s Death

A couple in the Phillipino city of Talisay have stumped authorities and investigators with the accusations that a “paranormal creature” killed their newborn child. Last week, the grandparents of John Edison Malacay began to notice red marks scattered across the floor of their 18 year old daughter Kimberly’s house, a discovery that they simply attributed [...]

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