Apr 23rd, 2013 at 2:00PM:
There may be a Bigfoot crawling around the underbrush of Texas. According to the breathless narrator in this video, these two photos were taken by Lupe Mendoza, who spotted a strange creature when it spooked a herd of cattle. Apparently some gutted hogs were found nearby, so Bigfoot may have been feeding.
Actually it may be a Skunk Ape, the Deep South version of Bigfoot that prowls around ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Shocking Video Of A Texas Bigfoot! (Or Maybe Not)
Apr 23rd, 2013 at 2:00PM:
There may be a Bigfoot crawling around the underbrush of Texas. According to the breathless narrator in this video, these two photos were taken by Lupe Mendoza, who spotted a strange creature when it spooked a herd of cattle. Apparently some gutted hogs were found nearby, so Bigfoot may have been feeding.
Actually it may be a Skunk Ape, the Deep South version of Bigfoot that prowls around ...Wrestle A Shark, Become A Hero And Get Fired
Mar 14th, 2013 at 4:00PM:
Back in January we showed this amazing video of a man wrestling a shark on a beach in Queensland, Australia.
Paul Marshallsea, 62, became an Internet sensation when he pulled the 2-meter-long dusky shark away from swimmers. Unfortunately for him, fame came at a price.
Marshallsea has been fired from his job as a project coordinator at the Pant and Dowlais Boys and Girls Club in Wales. In a ...Kiiking: Estonia's Extreme Swing Set
Mar 14th, 2013 at 11:30AM:
Remember when we were kids playing on the swing set and we'd try to swing so high that we'd fly over the top bar and come down the other side? No, I never made it either. But in Estonia, they've taken a childhood dream and made it an extreme sport.
It's called kiiking. Using a special swing with steel arms instead of chains, the kiiker stands on the swing and pumps back and forth until he or ...
Naughty Bilingual Sign In Tallinn Airport, Estonia
Feb 17th, 2013 at 2:00PM:
I think I'm going to like Estonia ...
This country of 1.3 million people only has a little more than 900,000 people who speak Estonian as their native language yet they're confident enough with their national tongue to make a bilingual joke right as you enter the airport in the capital city of Tallinn.
Language was politics in the old Soviet republics, and for the long decades during which ...Yeti Resort Being Built In Siberia
Jan 28th, 2013 at 12:00PM: The Seregesh ski resort in Siberia has a new marketing plan. The Siberian Times reports that it's building a Yeti park.
Belief in the Yeti is common in Siberia, where it's called the "Big Man." Hunters often report seeing them and regional governor Aman Tuleyev has offered one million rubles ($33,000) to anyone who can bag one. No takers yet, which makes one wonder about the reliability (and ...Ten Random Observations About Iraq
Dec 10th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
While traveling in Iraq I noticed some interesting things that didn't fit into any of the articles in my series. Some of these observations may be obvious to those more familiar with the country, but odd first impressions are one of the fun things about travel!
1. The traffic police have these cool kiosks that imitate their uniform. Looks like this guy left his tie at home.
2. Spongebob ...Crazy Video: Wild Arabic Dancing In Texas
Oct 5th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
Arab culture has an image problem. Most outsiders think they don't have any fun. As one acquaintance informed me, "Arabs are a dour lot."
He'd never actually hung out with any Arabs. Anyone who has can tell you that they do have a sense of fun, as this video shows. Uploader noxalicious tells us this was filmed in Cafe Layal in Houston, Texas. This guy gets so into the music that he ends up on ...
Whatever Happened To The Lake Conway Monster?
Sep 11th, 2012 at 2:00PM: Could a reservoir in Arkansas be the favorite watering hole of a southern Bigfoot? Maybe it once was, but it doesn't seem to be anymore.
When I was a kid in the 1970s, I loved tramping through the woods, and so of course I loved hearing about monsters lurking in the woods. I vaguely remember a rash of sightings of a big, hairy monster in the woods of Arkansas. It had several names, the most ...Police Hunt For Lion In English Countryside (And Fail To Find One)
Aug 27th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
A mysterious beast stalks the fields of Essex, England.
Over the weekend local police received calls from a number of eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen a lion in the fields near the village of St. Osyth. One person even snapped a predictably blurry and inconclusive picture of the beast. I'm not a wildlife expert but it looks like a house cat to me.
Police took the sightings seriously ...Does Nessie's Norwegian Cousin Lurk In Europe's Deepest lake?
Aug 16th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
Hornindalsvatnet in Norway is Europe's deepest lake. So deep, in fact, that's it's never been properly explored. Nobody is even sure exactly how deep it is, with the official depth of 514 meters (1,686 feet) being challenged.
Now it appears the unexplored waters may hold a creature unknown to science. A photo has been published in the local newspaper Fjordingen showing what appears to be a ...Gadling Blogger Snaps Photo Of Nessie (Not Really)
Aug 6th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
On my recent trip to Scotland, I took this shocking photo of a strange creature out in the water. Is it Nessie?
Well, no, it isn't. I won't tell you what it is, except that the truth is hidden in one of the answers to the poll below. Vote for your most likely candidate and I'll post the SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT MY NESSIE PHOTO a week from now.
Sorry for shouting, I got carried away.
While I ...Bureau Of Land Management Gives Advice On Finding Bigfoot
Jul 11th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
Last week we reported on how the U.S. National Ocean Service publicly denied the existence of mermaids in response to a joke documentary on Animal Planet.
Meanwhile, another federal agency has taken a different course. The Bureau of Land Management in Oregon & Washington has released this video titled "Bigfoot and the BLM." In it, people, who I assume to be BLM staff, are asked about ...
The Most Modern Hotel In The World ... In 1908
Jul 7th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
Here's a fun little silent film from way back in 1908 called "The Electric Hotel." At that time technological progress was all the rage, new inventions seemed to pop up every day and electricity was just becoming commonplace. In this film we see how the hotels of the future will look. The amazing invention of electricity will shine your shoes, undress your wife and unpack your luggage. It all ...
Video: How To Make Crop Circles
Jun 16th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
Spring has sprung, crops are growing, and it's time once again for everyone's favorite landscape art – crop circles!
The year is already starting off well with some lovely examples in England, Italy and other countries. Numbers will increase in the summer as crops grow and provide a better palette. Crop Circle Connector keeps a running tally so you can see what's up in the world of ...
Vampire Skeleton On Display In Bulgaria
Jun 16th, 2012 at 10:00AM: Last week we brought you the story that archaeologists had discovered two vampire graves in Bulgaria. Now one of those skeletons, complete with an iron spike through his chest, is going on display at the National History Museum in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.
The medieval skeleton will be revealed to the public this Saturday. No word yet on how long it will be on view.
Museum head Prof. ...Vampire Graves Dug Up In Bulgaria
Jun 6th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered two vampire graves in the city of Sozopol on the Black Sea. The burials, which are about 700 years old, were each held down with a massive iron stake through the chest. One vampire was buried in the apse of a church – a spot usually reserved for aristocrats – and showed evidence of multiple stab wounds.
Bozhidar Dimitrov, head of the ...Dull And Boring: Two Weird Town Names That Go Great Together
Jun 5th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
What's life like in a boring town? What's life like in a dull one? Now a proposed trans-Atlantic collaboration aims to answer this important question.
Boring, Oregon, and Dull, Scotland, want to become sister communities. Local promoters say their towns are neither dull nor boring, and they should play on their weird town names to get more tourism.
One Boring website says the Oregon town ...Demolition Derby In The United Kingdom: A Little Bit Different
Jun 3rd, 2012 at 12:00PM:
Traveling through Europe you'll notice that many things are just a little bit different from the United States. Like the Royale with Cheese (actually the Cheese Royal, Tarantino got it wrong), Europe has many slightly different takes on American icons.
Demolition derby, for example is huge in the United Kingdom, but it's called banger racing. Cars race around a track while smashing into each ...
Where's The Pied Piper Of Hamelin When You Need Him?
May 28th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
Everyone knows the tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, in which the German town was plagued by rats and hired the Pied Piper to take them all away. The Pied Piper led them into the nearby river and drowned them, and then demanded his fee. The city government decided not to pay him, citing budget cuts and the need to curb deficit spending. The piper then piped all the children away. This was a big ...The Sex Toy Vending Machines Of Spain
May 24th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
You've probably heard of the vending machines in Japan that sell used panties supposedly worn by schoolgirls. It appears Japan isn't alone in having sexual vending machines in public places. Not far from my home in Santander, on Spain's northern coast, I came across this innocuous-looking little cubbyhole. Its vending machines offer hot food, soda and snacks 24 hours a day.
It's in between a ...
