The stone money of Yap
There is a small island named Yap in the Pacific Ocean. The island and its inhabitants are popularly known for a unique type of artifacts – stone money.
Weird
Discover here stories from the weird, odd and unusual things. Sometimes creepy, sometimes tragic, but all that’s very interesting.
Mysterious ancient manuscript with human skin cover resurfaces in Kazakhstan after years of silence!
An ancient Latin manuscript in Kazakhstan, with a cover made of human skin is shrouded in mystery.
Incredibly preserved dinosaur embryo found inside fossilized egg
Scientists in Ganzhou City, China’s southern Jiangxi Province, have discovered a breakthrough discovery. They discovered the bones of a dinosaur, which was sitting on its nest of petrified eggs. The…
The Green Children of Woolpit: A 12th century mystery that still baffles historians
The Green Children of Woolpit is a legendary tale that dates back to the 12th century and recounts the story of two children who appeared on the edge of a…
Junko Furuta: She was raped, tortured and murdered in her 40 days of terrible ordeal!
Junko Furuta, a Japanese teenage girl who was kidnapped on November 25, 1988, and was gang-raped and tortured for 40 days until she died on January 4th of 1989 at…
16 eerie coincidences that you won’t believe are true!
A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances that have no apparent causal connection with one another. Most of us have experienced some sort of coincidence in our…
48-million-year-old fossil of mysterious snake with an infrared vision
A fossil snake with the rare ability to see in infrared light was discovered in the Messel Pit, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Germany. Paleontologists shed light on the early evolution of snakes and their sensory capabilities.
Aqrabuamelu – the mysterious scorpion men of Babylon
A fierce warrior with the body of a human and the tail of a scorpion, who guards the gate of underworld.
The Florida Squallies: Do these pig people really live in Florida?
According to local legends, at the East of Naples, Florida, on the edge of the Everglades lives a group of people called the 'Squallies.' They are said to be short, human-like creatures with a pig-like snout.
World’s rarest textile is made from the silk of one million spiders
The golden cape, made from the silk of more than a million female Golden Orb Weaver spiders collected in the highlands of Madagascar exhibited at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
