PHOTO OF THE MONTH
Ghost Nurse
This month's photo is one of my personal favorites and one of the best ghost photos I've ever seen. Taken by GrimmAcres' good friend, Beck, of Corpus Christi Paranormal during the course of an investigation, this photo shows what looks eerily like a ghostly woman in a white dress. Given the location of the photograph (an abandoned hospital), the apparition has been dubbed "The Nurse". Look closely and you can very clearly make out her facial features. She appears to be looking directly at the camera.
WEIRD SITE OF THE MONTH
Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature:
This site proves a little-known scientific fact--biologists do, in fact, have a sense of humor. It's not clear if this sense of humor is innate or just blossomed from hours spent alone in the lab, but either way this site is pretty damned funny. Behold the wonderful punny names bestowed on certain hapless creatures, such as Abra cadabra (clam), Carmenelectra shechisme (fossilized moth), and my personal favorite, Apopyllus now for a species of spider.
WEIRD SITE OF THE MONTH II
SubservientChicken.com
I just cannot resist adding this site to the column this month. It certainly qualifies as weird. Command a subservient man-sized chicken dressed in lingerie (complete with garter belt!) to do almost anything. He'll do it. And if he won't do it, you'll most likely get a "Shame on you" shake of his bony chicken wing in your face, which is almost as fun anyway. Weirdest thing about this site is the fact that it is produced by Burger King, the same people who are responsible for the hilarious "There's some buns left in the bag, wanna lick 'em?" TV commercial.
ABSOLUTELY INSANE EBAY AUCTION
Country Music Wax Museum
For the ummm, reasonable, price of $112,100.00, (I have no idea if that's a reasonable price or not, haven't had much chance to check prices of entire museums of freaky wax figures), you can be the proud owner of the entire Country Music Wax museum. The collection includes life-size wax replicas of such country music notables as Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and even Grandpa Jones from the show, Hee-Haw. Oddly enough (and this auction can't get much odder), some of the figures come without the clothing they are pictured in. I hesitate to think why someone would want to keep a rhinestone-studded white jump suit, for example, but apparently some of the figures come au natural. Which leads me to wonder if the figures are anatomically correct. Let's hope not.
Take a long, slow look at this entire page, and make sure you see the close-up of Minnie Pearl's laughing face, which looks like something that might haunt H.R. Giger's nightmares.
Some of the figures look astonishingly life-like (check out Grandpa Jones who looks like he's about to offer you a swig out of his whiskey jug) but some of them look as if someone slapped a wig and a man's suit on a female mannequin dug out of the dumpster behind the local Walmart.
Biggest, scariest spider ever
Technically, I suppose this isn't actually a spider but more a member of the scorpion family, but it's spidery enough to send me running out of the room screaming in sheer terror like a little girl if I ever came upon one.
I knew it was the beginning of new trend...
About a year ago, a woman hit a man, drove home and parked her car in the garage with the man's lifeless body stuck to her car's grille. A few weeks later, a similar accident occurred and I predicted it was the start of a "hit a person and continue to drive normally as if you didn't know what had happened like a complete dumbass" trend. According the above link, it appears I was correct. The trend continues. I will now make a new prediction that the human race is becoming dumber in general.
Some days you just can't win for losing
Girl dumps guy. Guy becomes depressed and attempts suicide by throwing himself into a tiger cage, hoping to be eaten alive ("I'll show HER!"). Tigers distracted by chickens and guy is rescued and lives to tell the tale of the day he couldn't do anything right.
Ooops!
Woman sues hospital after finding a pair of 6.7 inch long scissors that were left inside her abdomen after surgery. These weren't like tiny little nail clipper sized scissors, folks, these were huge use-as-a-deadly-weapon-in-a-bad-horror-movie scissors. Further confirms my above theory that humans are getting stupider.
Warning: If you are going to huff butane...
Be sure you've eaten first. Austrian man combats his butane-induced munchies by frying up a nice, crispy batch of his own toes. He made a toe sandwich and even offered a bite to the paramedics who rescued him, remarking that toes tasted like... chicken. What else?
"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice TAMALE"
Tamale chef goes completely nuts, kills a man and may have possibly made him into tamales. Authorities aren't sure if it's chicken or beef in the tamales they found next to the man's dead body. I'm assuming that the police did not do the infamous "lick the tip of the finger dipped in the suspicious substance" taste test. Wow, one more cannibalistic lunatic story and we'll have another trend!
Writing bad poetry will kill you!
Or at least shorten your life span, according to this study, which found that poets typically live shorter lives than non-poets. I wonder if all that sappy love poetry written by my boyfriend in 8th grade counts against him? And how is this measured, a year for every bad poem? 3 months for limericks? And what about haiku?
Dog raises a child...
Who seemed to be perfectly content and healthy left in the care of his grandmother's dog all day long while she was at work. Then the welfare authorities stepped in and the child died while in their care. One would assume that the welfare system would take better care of a child than a dog would, but one would be wrong.
Lava Jesus
Image of Jesus forms in the wax of a lava lamp. I guess He was tired of making appearances on tortillas and fireplaces.
Ooooh, shiny!
Weird cloud formation over France. So far, no one's claimed to have taken a photo of angels, or heaven or God himself when this cloud appeared but I'm sure it won't be long...
Unique the cow
Unique the cow is...Unique. What else would you name a cow born with two mouths and three eyes?
"Dude, you're going to hell!"
Or you will if you vote "Yes" on the referendum to reunite the island of Cypress, according to a local Cyprus bishop who does not approve the reunification. Some have called him a "firebrand" with strongly held beliefs. Maybe "firebrand" means "bat-shit insane" in Greek?
Speaking of 'bat-shit insane'
Inventive man bucks the conventional trend of having his dog fetch a ball or stick and instead has his dog fetch an axe.
Otters on a toad-killing rampage
Tired of their bad publicity, or lack of any publicity at all (when's the last time you saw an otter featured in the news?), British otters resort to drastic measures to gain attention. Mutilating toads and frogs.
Coolest story you'll read all week
Well, it's the coolest news story I'VE read all week. Postcard arrives at its destination almost a century after it was sent. In near-mint condition. No one has any explanation for how it ended up in the post office 82 years after it was postmarked.
