Utility workers in Mozimba, Acapulco were excavating deep into a roadway when the uncovered what appeared to be a significant archaeological find. They had unearthed a bizarre-looking statue that quickly… Read the rest of the article: Ancient statue of extraterrestrial was unfortunately neither
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David Pescovitz A helicopter team rescued a man who drove his car off a 200 foot cliff on the coast of Sonoma County, California. Apparently his car automatically alerted emergency responders that… Read the rest of the article: Man rescued after driving car off 200 foot cliff
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David Pescovitz A bull was wandering on a beach in Baja California Sur in northwest Mexico. One woman, rather than run like hell, apparently fed the bull to make friends with it.… Read the rest of the article: Woman messes with bull on a beach, gets the horns (video)
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David Pescovitz When Etienne Constable of Seaside, California isn't using his boat to go fishing, he parks it in his driveway. He's been doing that for about four years. Out of the… Read the rest of the article: Man ordered to hide old boat parked on driveway responds with brilliant revenge prank
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David Pescovitz In 1960 during the early days of the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence, theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson wrote an article titled "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation" for… Read the rest of the article: Strange starlight patterns could be evidence of alien technology, according to two new scientific studies
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David Pescovitz The Vatican has issued tighter rules on assessing whether a strange phenomena is supernatural or not. While "miracles" like weeping statues and apparitions of Jesus and Mary, they've become more… Read the rest of the article: Vatican toughens up its official filters on what passes as supernatural
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David Pescovitz Yesterday in Oakland, California, police arrested a woman, age 51, for allegedly stealing a taco truck. She had driven the truck clear across town by the time police spotted the… Read the rest of the article: Police locate stolen taco truck, find thief inside chowing down
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David Pescovitz Perhaps it wasn't brown hair dye leaking from Rudy Giuliani's head that time but rather coffee. The disgraced, bankrupt, and likely-disbarred lawyer has launched Rudy Coffee. "I've moved at a… Read the rest of the article: Rudy Giuliani launches coffee brand including "Enjoying Life" variety
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David Pescovitz Below is a magnificent video of a rare deep-sea hooked squid, Taningia danae, caught on camera at 1km down in the North Pacific's Samoan Passage. Researchers from the University of… Read the rest of the article: Rare and magnificent deep-sea squid caught on camera (video)
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David Pescovitz Harris Wolobah, a 10th grader from Worcester, Massachusetts, died in September after eating a Paqui Carolina Reaper ultra-spicy tortilla chip. He was participating in the company's "One Chip Challenge" marketing… Read the rest of the article: Teenager died from eating an absurdly spicy tortilla chip
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David Pescovitz "Has it been proved that the Earth is round?" Slovakian government official Lukáš Machala of the country's culture ministry asked a TV reporter. "Have you been into outer space? No,… Read the rest of the article: "Has it been proved that the Earth is round?" asks European government official
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David Pescovitz Superior Judge Craig J. Bobay of Allen County, Indiana has ruled that tacos and burritos "are Mexican-style sandwiches." The ruling follows a legal dispute at a Fort Wayne strip mall… Read the rest of the article: Indiana judge rules that tacos and burritos are sandwiches
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David Pescovitz A road construction crew working in the small town of Granville Township, Ohio spotted a full trash bag and set it aside to be brought to the dump. A few… Read the rest of the article: "Dismembered legs" found roadside identified as something else entirely
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David Pescovitz Early this month, someone found more than $20,000 stashed inside the bathroom of the Avalon Theater, a cultural arts center in the small town of Marysville, Ohio. Then, a week… Read the rest of the article: More than $30,000 found stashed in public toilets
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David Pescovitz In Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker's commencement speech at Benedictine College, he attempted to discourage graduating women from pursuing a career and lean into homemaking. He congratulated those who are… Read the rest of the article: Women should be homemakers and other sexist, anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice stupidity in NFL dunce's commencement speech (video)
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David Pescovitz The Schreiberling Limited Edition 1969 is a very expensive fountain pen that film director Wes Anderson designed for Montblanc. The project was part of a promotional campaign Anderson and Roman Coppola… Read the rest of the article: Wes Anderson designed a very expensive fountain pen
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David Pescovitz Now you can dive into the event horizon—a black hole's point of no return—without, y'know, being spaghettified. (Seriously, that's what it's called!) NASA created a supercomputer visualization of the plunge… Read the rest of the article: Experience plunging into a black hole without being spaghettified (NASA video)
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David Pescovitz Why did the goblin cross the road? Because it was running away from the trolls. A security camera at a farm in Monterrey, Mexico captured this creepy creature running across… Read the rest of the article: Freaky goblin caught on video scurrying across road
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David Pescovitz Plants do whisper to one another, not through sound but through a delicate haze of airborne compounds. This invisible language of the leaves has intrigued scientists since the 1980s, leading… Read the rest of the article: Video of plant talking to its neighbor
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David Pescovitz Elephants are highly intelligent, almost as smart as dolphins. Now, animal behaviorists from the University of Vienna, the University of Portsmouth, Elephant CREW, Jafuta Reserve, and the University of St… Read the rest of the article: Elephants greet each other by "saying hello" and gesturing