Category: Weird

Full patent here.

A Vietnam-War-era device for sending “jungle messages”. The name was misleading. It was really an attempt to come up with technology that would allow troops

A fleeting encounter with the afterlife has left one Redditor with a story that challenges our deepest beliefs.

Andy Petro spent his life living with what he saw on the other side after he temporarily drowned while swimming in a Michigan lake in

I’ve never been a smoker, but I can understand the slightly decadent appeal offered by this 1938 ad: It’s great fun… going to bed with

See the Wikipedia page for the Report here.

Tim Friede has made it his life goal to help scientists develop a universal anti-venom by allowing himself to be bitten repeatedly by venomous snakes.

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In a recently granted patent for a “coffin and method for collecting human bones,” Gaoan Wu Liu notes: “there are two main types of funerals:

Charlotte Holmes, from Kansas, was 68 and visiting her cardiologist for a routine check-up when she suddenly took ill and had a near-death experience

Every farmer knows how to rig a scarecrow. But it takes a genius like Alfred O. Nelson of Columbus, Montana, to conceive of a “scarefish”

We’ve previously posted about Lester Barlow who invented the “Glmite Bomb,” which turned out to be a dud. Here’s another one of his ideas —

Royal Air Force pilots who have encountered UFOs fear going public for fear of being grounded and facing a number of grim consequences