World’s Strangest

Is it true that most people are introduced to gargoyles through a certain Disney film these days?  If so, then perhaps a trip through the various types of gargoyle may not go amiss.  Each one has a message to deliver and while that may be getting mislaid over the course of the centuries, the truth [...]

I am fascinated by how technologically savvy these cyber-outlaws are.  If I had the ability to crack into restricted and top secret sites to see the information that is available on them I would be tempted to dabble in hacking as well. There are many types of hackers out there. The more traditional ones hack in [...]

People go to garage sales and estate sales all the time.  Some get really lucky.  Here’s a few stories of people who had something they thought was worthless but turned out to be worth millions of dollars. A British farmer lost a hammer in one of his fields one day. Rather than going to spend a [...]

Yemen has been in the news a great deal recently and if the media is to be believed then it is a hotbed of terrorist training camps and munitions trading.  However there are many people who could not -if asked- name the capital city of this republic on the Arabian Gulf.  What is exceptional about [...]

Everybody knows who Manson, Koresh, and Jones are.  These are a few cult leaders that didn’t reach the same level in the media.  But their behavior and actions were equally disturbing. Pictured is Wayne Bent (or Michael Travesser), who founded the Lord of our Righteousness Church. Wayne, now calling himself Michael Travesser, decided that October 31, [...]

I remember my favorite books from when I was a kid, and none of them covered such wide-ranging topics as these.  See some of the strangest, funniest, and most disturbing children’s books ever. I remember reading The House That Jack Built. I loved it. This book takes that same rhyming style and turns it into a ghetto-fabulous tale [...]

The United Kingdom went meerkat crazy in the latter part of 2009, thanks to a viral advertising campaign which really had nothing to do with the animals.  Here is a look at the world of the meerkat with some pretty cool facts about (seemingly) everyone’s favorite mongoose.  Oh, the pics are really cute too. Meerkats always [...]

[YouTube - Link] Some of you may remember the wonderful Leave Me Alone Box. Now you can make your very own, with step-by-step directions from Instructables. Link  From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by SaskView.

A selection of ice caves from around the world, from the largest in Germany to arguably the weirdest in California (well, it would be, wouldn’t it?).  One of the strange facts about some of these caves is that the ice does not melt in the summer, but it does in the winter.  Size, of course, is [...]

[YouTube - Link] Take 3,074 paint chips in 36 colours, a few glue guns and a bit of elbow grease. And what do you get? A cool mural, that’s what. Oh, and glue all over your clothes.  From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by spav.