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Two chupacabras shot in Texas
If by chupacabras you mean mangy coyotes......
UFO nut waits for alien intervention
John Ventre, Pennsylvania coordinator for the Mutual UFO Network: "It's an intervention that will take place. They're going to make contact. We weren't ready in the '50s and '60s, but we're ready now....
The Blessing Man of Wapato
This is a lunatic in Wapato, Washington, who gives "blessings" to passing cars....
Fundie granny avoids jail despite refusing to return "obscene" book
It's interesting to note that this woman was hauled off in handcuffs by police for forgetting to return two overdue library books, whereas this batshit crazy, anti-abortion, lunatic, fruitcake, fundam...
The Jesus moth
At Pharyngula....
Bussard fusion research waiting for funding
Cosmic Log: "Researchers have finished the first phase of an unorthodox, low-cost nuclear fusion experiment that has generated a megawatt's worth of buzz on the Internet – and they are now waiti...
Bigfoot Days
For once, it's not a UFO festival. It's a Bigfoot festival instead, starting this weekend with a parade and everything, in Willow Creek, California. More here and here....
The UFO capital of Alabama
That would be the small town of Fyffe (less than 1,000 inhabitants), where a UFO flap apparently happened in 1989. Now, inevitably, the townspeople are having a UFO festival (website here)....
The Fosston Files
Hoaxers were busy in Minnesota a few weeks ago: More on this non-story here and here....
Where to find your future spouse
New Scientist: "You're now more likely to find your true love on the internet than at work or at a party, in the US at least - especially if you're over 45." And when the time comes to be unfaithful t...
Baptist minister in jail for identity theft
One year in jail for Raymond Clayton, Sr., in Pennsylvania: Raymond Clayton Sr., 44, was also ordered to pay more than $28,000 in restitution at his sentencing Wednesday. Clayton is the former pastor...
The heart transplant teen who plotted murder
As a young teenager, Andrew Busskohl in Minnesota got a heart transplant. Five years later, he hatched a plot to murder a stranger at random: Authorities said Andrew Busskohl, 19, carefully planned h...
The horse pamperer
Mercedes Clemens is suing two state agencies in Maryland for preventing her from massaging horses: Clemens' case is being closely watched by those in the animal massage industry, who say business has...
Indian tribes protest firefighting in "sacred" places
Religious beliefs don't get much more insane than this example from last week: "Indian tribes from the Klamath River canyon are worried that the U.S. Forest Service is violating some of their sacred l...
Bigfoot is really an opossum
Belated update on the Bigfoot hoax: The DNA samples from the "Bigfoot corpse" were of course quickly revealed to be nothing of the sort (reported by Reuters)... One of the two samples of DNA said to ...
Mad puppy cloner also wanted for burglary plot
Reported by The Times: The “manacled Mormon” kidnapper who was exposed after cloning her pet pitbull terrier in South Korea is wanted on burglary charges involving a three-legged horse in...
The obscene Karen Fletcher
Karen Fletcher is a 56-year-old recluse living on disability in Donora, Pennsylvania. Believing that she was sexually and physically abused as a child, she wrote about the rape, murder and torture of ...
Bigfoot press conference reveals nothing
The much ballyhooed Bigfoot press conference turned out to be a big bust (and what a shocking surprise that is). It was nothing more than a cheap stunt for con man Tom Biscardi to plug his radio show:...
Mr. Unstable takes a bath in Burger King kitchen sink
As if another reason were needed to avoid fast food restaurants like the plague... What a fucking retarded moron (now looking for a new job)......
Man kept wife and four kids hostage for three years
In Lavonia, Georgia, reported by CNN. The mobile home where the family was kept was "a residence so rank and squalid that it forced a seasoned police investigator to vomit upon entering. Another offic...
Bad forensic science
Forensics fraud and plenty of mistakes, the justice system works... Related posts Australian police to re-examine 7,000 cases after DNA error ...
Obama Nation: Unfit for Publication
Apparently anything can make it to number one on the New York Times best-seller list (as already evidenced by the Da Vinci Code, but never mind that): Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama h...
Waiting for the Bigfoot press conference
Here is ABC News, The Sydney Morning Herald, Technically Incorrect, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Scientific American, CNN and The Daily Telegraph. Related posts Body of Bigfoot found in Georgia...
Chupacabra filmed in Texas
The cryptozoological masturbation fest continues, with the announcement that the chupacabra has been caught on film in Texas last Friday. Here is one of several clips on YouTube: It doesn't get much ...
Body of Bigfoot found
Right... Police officer Matthew Whitton runs a website called Bigfoottracker.com. Apparently needing some publicity, he and a friend of his now claims to have found the body of a dead Bigfoot in the w...
American states ignore online fraud
PC World: "Despite receiving tens of thousands of online fraud complaints from consumers every year, U.S. states bring only a small number of Internet-related cases to court, according to research rel...
SoupNazi's story
Albert Gonzalez was the government informer who also "had a central role in a loosely organized online crime syndicate that obtained tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from nine of the ...
Digital storage is a "mark of the beast"
Reported by the Associated Press: "West Virginia started Friday keeping driver’s license photos out of a computer database for members of a small religious group who believe digital storage is a...
"Relic" stolen from Orthodox church
Reported by the Associated Press: "The pastor of a Greek Orthodox church in Lowell says a silver box containing a 2,000-year-old bone from one of the apostles has been stolen." The ghoulish relic was ...
Cult starved toddler to death because he refused to say "amen"
The cult members also thought the toddler was a "demon," and his mother was sure God was going to raise him from the dead: A toddler whose remains were found inside a suitcase in Philadelphia was sta...