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The Weird Files
by Melanie Billings

January 2005 Edition


 Photo of the month: Dog and fawn Here's a weird yet heartwarming photo for you. I thought you might need to see something like this after all the horrible images we've been seeing on the news the last few weeks.

Site of the month: This is a collection of photographs by a member of the AAEVP (American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomenon) and demonstrates a whole new aspect of ITC--capturing otherworldly images in reflective surfaces.

Absolutely Insane EBay Auction of the Month: Here's the latest craze to sweep eBay Snowballs from Texas, where it hasn't snowed in over 100 years. There are several snowball auctions currently being held and some are going for up to $1000, which is just baffling. But what I find most baffling is how someone would actually find a snowball to bid on--are there really people out there in the world typing the words "snowball" into the eBay search engine? Are there snowball collectors? This raises far more questions than it answers.


Really want to live in your own little world? If you've got a few million dollars lying around, you could be the proud owner of a 1.3 acre giant glass terrarium in Arizona, which is hopefully Pauly Shore-free.

Unidentified flaming object Oh my God! It's a UFO! And it's flaming! It's going to crash and we're all going to di...oh, wait, it's just a flaming plastic bag. Never mind!

The perfect gift for the raging alcoholic in your life Modern Drunkard Magazine. Brought to you by the same people who published "We're a bunch of drunk dumbasses" magazine.

This is why you should always listen to that little voice in the back of your mind A woman's premonitions about a flood saves her entire family from the tsunami.

Roadkill is good for something In this case, it's art, or at least that's what the creators of this exhibit want you to call it. Yeah, art.

Museum theft goes unnoticed for over 20 years 2,500 items were finally noticed to be missing. Apparently, they don't do much dusting over at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Ice Age politics? Oetzi the Iceman, the infamous preserved corpse found encased in ice, was a shaman and most likely murdered by rivals to knock him out of his place of power in his prehistoric tribe. That's a much more interesting theory than what I assumed happened to him--getting conked on the head by a piece of falling ice.

Conspiracy theorists are really falling down on the job It took them more than a week to decide that the tsunami was either a govermental conspiracy to cover up the testing of new weapons or aliens correcting the earth's rotation. Either theory works but I prefer the alien one because that's a lot more fun to imagine. "How many times do I have to tell you? Stop that. Don't make me come down there and correct your world's planetary rotation myself!"

Skunk Ape goes Hollywood! Florida man is filming a full-length movie about the elusive Skunk Ape. His movie includes several eye-witness interviews, including one with a Skunk Ape tracker who has been tracking the creature for 40 years. I'm confused--if someone has tracked the skunk ape for 40 years and still has no evidence, wouldn't that disprove its existance?

Giant Blue M & M sexually attacks a woman in Wales I really, really wish I'd made that headline up. But nope, I didn't. If I HAD, the giant M & M would have been green.

Crying Elephants save dozens of tourists from the tsunami This story is absolutely incredible.

Adam and Eve and...Dino New museum soon to open in Kentucky centers around the theory that humans and dinosaurs co-existed. Yes, dinosaurs, otherwise known as what Jimmy Fallon accurately calls "Jesus Horses". I think the collective IQ of the world will drop a few points when this museum opens.


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