Friday 12 October 2012

Machete-wielding man on bicycle crashes girl’s birthday party; steals beer


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Man cooking squirrel for lunch sparks fire that destroys eight apartments


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Giant Eyeball Discovered on Florida Beach


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Genetic Material Has a 521-Year Half-Life


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Thursday 11 October 2012

Weird A-Z. G is for The Glozel Mystery

The Glozel Mystery - (In 1924)

Emile Fradin, a 17 year old farmer's son from le Glozel, a small hamlet in Franc, stumbled upon one of the most contentious archaeological discoveries ever. On freeing the foot of a cow from a hole while he was ploughing, he and his father uncovered an oval brick -lined pit, containing a human skull and carved bones, carved pebbles, pots and clay tablets with mysterious symbols.


Dr Antonin Morlet (1882-1965), an amateur archaeologist, began more extensive excavations and concluded that it was a unique Neolithic site. He immediately published his findings, but was called a charlatan, as his finds resembled no known Neolithic remains. The teenager Fradin was denounced as a forger, and there was a police raid on the family farm. 


Emile Fradin counter-attacked citing defamation of character, and he and his father set up a museum in a farm outbuilding to display more than 2000 objects from le Champ des Morts (the Field of the Dead). Five decades later , scientists decided to test the ceramics from the site with the newly developed thermo-luminescence dating technique. The ceramics did not date from the 1920's, nor from Neolithic times, but from the Late Iron Age/Gallo-Roman periods (c.200 BCE to 400 CE). Over the next two decades it was discovered the oval pit seemed to be a 12th - 13th century glass kiln, and there had also been early postmedieval activity involving human burial.


Carbon-14 dating now showed that some carved bones were of medieval date, c.1100 - 1300. the finds which are firmly dated by thermo-luminescence contain no single object typical of the well-documented cultures of that region and period. Were it not for the scientific dating undertaken in the mid -1970's onwards, many would have dismissed the site as a hoax.







Toddler 'intoxicated' after being served whiskey at Frankie and Benny's


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Giant fish-eating spiders reintroduced to British countryside


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Tiger bites off boy's arm at Indian zoo


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Bill shock: customer charged $14,766,481,895,641,556.00


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Very sleepy spaghetti babies are viral video hit

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Astronomers discover a diamond bigger than Earth!


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Bedford couple unwittingly grow cannabis


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Mars rover finds shiny object on planet's surface


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US military's plans for flying saucers explained in declassified documents



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Weird Cover Wednesday - Spiderman Theme Tune Covered by The Ramones



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Florida governor gives out sex number instead of one for meningitis


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The man with a 13 inch tail



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The 12 Weirdest Apps Ever Made


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Monday 8 October 2012

2 Weeks until the costume contest ends!



There is just TWO WEEKS to go before our official Halloween Costume Competition ends!

Here is a recap on the rules:

1) Send a picture of you in your costume to theweirdnewsdaily@gmail.com (the sc
arier the better but remember to include your name in the email!)

2) The picture must include a sign saying 'I love The Weird News Daily' somewhere (held preferably)

3) One entry per person

The closing date will be the 20th of October at which point I will post up all submissions into an album here for our readers to vote for their favourite!

There will be a prize for the winner who will be announced on Wednesday 31st October!

Has the Code of The Zodiac Killer Been Cracked?


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Mystery Boom Rattles New Jersey Community



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Sasquatch sighting by Nunavik berry pickers


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Professor Walter Tschinkel makes a Molten cast of an Ant Colony



Thanks to reader 'Glyn Glyn' over on our Facebook community

'Lion' on the loose in Bedford: big cat sightings reported


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Austrian daredevil walks across French canyon with no safety rope


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