Duclod Man
I do like a good weirdo. And they don't get much weirder than Duclod Man. Enjoy.
The Duclod Man was the title given to a man, identified as Robert W. McEwen, who over two decades generated mystery and speculation by sending out dozens of unusual anonymous letters to college students and posting writings on internet pages. The letters, internet writings, and library bathroom graffiti, included the word "duclod" (ostensibly a portmanteau of dual and closeted, or a bisexual person who hides his or her sexuality from both gay and straight people.) The activity occurred over three decades, until his identity was discovered in 2007 by Sarah Aswell, a journalist writing for The Advocate. In her investigative articles, she calls the duclod man "Richard". [...read more]
Bimini Road
An underwater rock formation, but the question is - was it man-made and if so, by whom?
Pretty, isn't it?
The Bimini Road, sometimes called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater rock formation near North Bimini island in the Bahamas. The Road consists of a -long northeast-southwest linear feature composed of roughly rectangular to subrectangular limestone blocks. [...read more]
Hollow Earth
Not to be confused with my close personal friends at Tales of the Hollow Earth - this is literally the theory that the Earth is hollow and has all kinds of whacky stuff in it.
Actual proof
The Hollow Earth hypothesis proposes that the planet Earth is either entirely hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. The hypothesis has been shown to be wrong by observational evidence, as well as by the modern understanding of planet formation; the scientific community has dismissed the notion since at least the late 18th century.
The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as the premise for subterranean fiction, a subgenre of adventure fiction. It is also featured in some present-day pseudoscientific and conspiracy theories. [...read more]
Watseka Wonder
Spiritual possession eh? What a laugh. Although perhaps not for this particular 14 year old girl.
Lurancy Vennum - also a Swedish metal band
Watseka Wonder is the name given to the alleged spiritual possession of fourteen-year-old Lurancy Vennum of Watseka, Illinois in the late 19th century. [...read more]
John Murray Spear
This is just excellent. Attempting to make an electric messiah was just the tip of the craziness iceberg for this clergyman/cult leader.
Like a creepy Les Dawson
John Murray Spear (September 16, 1804 – October 5, 1887) was an American Spiritualist clergyman who is most notable for his attempts to construct an electrically powered Messiah which he referred to as the "New Motive Power". [...read more]
Jon-Erik Beckjord
Excellent whackjobbery here - a cryptozoologist who believed Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster were interdimensional aliens. Who knows, maybe he's right?
Seen here with his invention "the world's thinnest tape recorder"
Jon-Erik Beckjord (April 26, 1939 – June 22, 2008) was a San Francisco-based paranormal investigator and photographer known for his far-reaching ideas regarding such phenomena as UFOs, crop circles, the Loch Ness Monster, and his specialty, Bigfoot, which he believed to be an extradimensional ghost-like entity that lives in mountains, forests, and even farmers' fields. Because of his speculation that creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot may be interdimensional aliens, he was considered a fringe theorist, not only by skeptics, but also by the vast majority of his fellow cryptozoologists. [...read more]
Matrioshka brain
This is one of those entries I'd love to sum up glibly, but it's probably easier for you to neck a handful of drugs and go at it yourself.
Here's a picture of one, if that helps
A matrioshka brain is a hypothetical megastructure proposed by Robert Bradbury, based on the Dyson sphere, of immense computational capacity. It is an example of a Class B stellar engine, employing the entire energy output of a star to drive computer systems. This concept derives its name from Russian Matrioshka dolls. [...read more]
Project Habakkuk
"Hey guys, let's make a massive boat out of ice and sawdust!" - you've got to love British ingenuity/insanity.
In case you didn't know what water and sawdust looked like
Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies; see below) was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice), for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.
The idea came from Geoffrey Pyke who worked for Combined Operations Headquarters. [...read more]
Fordlândia
Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer, tried to set up a town in the Amazon rainforest. How do you think that went for him? Thanks to Michael Smith for this one.
Looks inviting
Pulgasari
When Kim Jong-Il kidnaps you and tells you to direct a Godzilla ripoff, then you jolly well do it.
Looks good, right?
Pulgasari is a North Korean feature film produced in 1985, a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla series. It was produced by South Korean director Shin Sang-ok, who had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, son of the then-ruling Kim Il-sung. The script was written by Martin Solibakke, which was praised by Kim Il-sung himself.
Teruyoshi Nakano and the staff from Japan's Toho studios, the creators of Godzilla, participated in creating the film's special effects. Kenpachiro Satsuma – the stunt performer who played Godzilla from 1984 to 1995 – portrayed Pulgasari, and when the Godzilla remake was released in Japan in 1998, he was quoted as saying he preferred Pulgasari to the American Godzilla.[1]
Pulgasari is a 1985 North Korean fantasy action film directed by Shin Sang-ok and Chong Gon Jo. The film, a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla series, was produced by the South Korean Shin, who had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, son of the then-ruling Kim Il-sung.
Kim was a lifelong admirer of the director and Kaiju-like films, and kidnapped the latter and his wife, famous actress Choi Eun-hee, with the specific purpose of making fantasy/propaganda films for the North Korean government. [...read more]
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