Category: Bizarre
School Children Dress Up Dead Possums in Bizarre Competition
Fund-raising school competitions usually involve cake baking and sporting events, but at one particular school in New Zealand it’s all about dressing dead possums in funny outfits for a bizarre best dressed furry animal contest. Looking at the photos taken at the Uruti School, on New Zealand’s North Island, you’d think this was a taxidermy competition, [...]
The Death-Defying Aerial Stunts of 1920s Barnstormers
A group of stuntmen and stuntwomen who, during the 1920s, repeatedly risked their lives in a quest for thrills and entertainment; and, at the end of the day, to earn a living. Photo: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives There’s always someone who will find a creative way to make money off new [...]
The Mutter Museum of Human Pathology
Photo: istolethetv Medical and pathological exhibitions draw reactions from visitors, ranging from cool, sad or disturbed to disgusted at the taste of the display. However, with exhibitions like Body Worlds breaking all visitor records and popular TV serials like CSI popularizing forensic science, we seem to have come to terms with the facts of [...]
Beer Bottles Created Using Recycled Roadkill
Photo: Dave Branfield / Brewdog Yup, you are seeing right! Above we have a squirrel made immortal! Certainly not, through the ingestion of alcohol, but through taxidermy art – built around a beer with a beast of an alcoholic content: 55%! This is Brewdog Brewery’s roadkill beer, a 765-dollar beer served in the bodies [...]
The Most Traumatic Mating in the Animal Kingdom
When the terms “sex” “mating” or “copulation” are mentioned, those various images and thoughts that flash through our minds are often pleasant and exciting. Unfortunately, for one animal the word ‘pleasant’ is definitely not the case, and in fact the poor female experiences the most traumatic insemination known. The ill-fated victim is the common bedbug [...]
History’s Most Famous Siamese Twins
We occasionally say that a couple are so close that they seem ‘joined at the hip’ – metaphorically speaking, obviously. But imagine this were a reality. (In fact, think about how the term might have developed.) Imagine if a person came from an egg that started to separate into identical twins but got stuck (or, [...]
Creepy Abandoned Veterinary School in Anderlecht
The building’s forbidding Neo-Renaissance facade alone might be enough to stop some visitors, and once inside, creepy deserted corridors and a crumbling lecture theater beckon. That’s not the half of it though. Descend into the bowels of this place, and the horrors really begin. “The head of a calf joined with the leg of a [...]
Vintage Posters from When Driving alone was nearly a Crime
During the war as Uncle Albert from “Only fools and horses” said, driving alone was considered almost a crime. As Peter Maass said: “If we become less reliant on oil–which means becoming more conservation-minded and efficient, as well as developing renewable energy on a broader scale than is already underway–we will not feel a need [...]
Scariest Mummies in the World
There’s certainly something scary on the subject of mummies, however simultaneously they’re extremely interesting as well. These conserved human (and animal) bodies have lasted for years, sometimes even millennium, providing a tantalizing view into how our ancestors must have looked and lived. As such, they have been looked for by archaeologists and displayed in museums [...]
Awesome Vintage Posters on Wasting Food
Over at NRDC Switchboard, Dana Gunders writes Dear Government: Food Waste is a Matter of Urgency. Please Take It Seriously. It’s a significant post about a subject that is often ignored: that well over 40% of food in North America is wasted. Worldwide, almost a third of all food is lost to poor harvesting, lousy [...]
Stones Moving Mysteriously Across the Surface
Racetrack Playa is a dried out lake bed located 3,608 ft above sea level in Death Valley National Park, California. The playa is known as after the “racetracks” left by stones that strangely skid across its surface. credit: Rebecca Jackrel The Racetrack is mainly covered with hexagonal saucers of dried mud, left after a [...]
Prehistoric Creatures still Walking the Earth
From a 220-million year old shrimp to a 130 million year old frog find out which modern species have a gift for survival. These prehistoric creatures still exist and walk the earth. Purple Frog Photo via Impact Lab Purple frogs live underground, getting out just to mate during monsoon season, and they eat termites, [...]
Whale Shark Steals Fish from the Net
Conservation International has published a fantastic video on its Youtube channel. It shows a lovely whale shark stealing from a fishing net and enjoying the small fish that spill out. The whale shark is currently categorized as endangered species on the IUCN Red List. They can be found in all tropical and warm-temperate seas.
