In Arkansas, 4000 beautiful red-winged blackbirds began dying on January 1.

No people were injured as motionless bird bodies plummeted to cold suburban lawns for reasons unknown.

The news is dreary without a doubt, but slightly less so if you imagine the birds are far away now, their tiny souls soaring to new and stranger heights, their every wing flapping furiously against the face of God.

Just to spite the Grim Reaper in 2011: Let’s live like we mean it. The angels have all the wings they need.

Happy New Year.

03-01-2011 1:00 pm by Joshua Gee

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A new discovery in Madagascar: Stretching as wide as 82 feet, the web of the Darwin’s bark spider is not only the biggest web in the world, it’s also the strongest.

Witness the extremely icky pics if you feel you must.

Congratulations, Darwin’s bark spider of Madagascar. You are scary. Point taken.

05-10-2010 3:00 am by Joshua Gee

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For just over one million dollars, you can own one of the most feared houses in all of suburbia. Located on sunny Ocean Avenue in Long Island, New York, the house in question was once occupied by the Lutz family, who described a variety of eerie goings-on in the book The Amityville Horror (which was later adapted into more than a few movies).

Oh, yeah. And before that, a gentleman murdered his family there.

Behold the actual real estate ad.

If YOU had a million dollars, would you choose a house with an (alleged) haunted history? Or would you prefer something a little less horrific?

28-05-2010 3:27 pm by Joshua Gee

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“Do you have ESP or a sixth sense? Are you clairvoyant? Are you a medium? Are you psychic?”

If so, MTV wants YOU, but only if you’re between the ages of 16 – 25 (and really drunk all the time, if their other programs are any indication).

But you already knew all of that, didn’t you, Psychic Friends?

11-03-2010 1:21 am by Joshua Gee

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[UPDATE] In my call-to-action at the bottom of this article, I am referring only to the hundreds of files released by the British National Archives. That is to say, if you find anything good HERE, then by all means, post about it below. Sorry for any confusion, Alien Seekers! – J.G.

[ORIGINAL_POST] Not to be outdone by this week’s release of ALIENS VS PREDATOR (x360/PS3), the British National Archives just declassified its fifth collection of government files about UFO sightings. Call it the latest installment of “Aliens Vs Humans.”

Like the previous collections, there is much to be ooh-ed and aah-ed at here, especially if you are a fan of hastily drawn primary evidence from alleged UFO witnesses or official-looking letters with tantalizingly blacked-out details.

Eyes to the skies files, people. If you find anything good, post about it below.

19-02-2010 1:21 pm by Joshua Gee

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A decades-old mystery might have ended last night, yet we are none the wiser for it. Who is the shadowy figure who shows up at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave every year? And why did he (or she, or they, or it) not appear last night?

19-01-2010 12:22 pm by Joshua Gee

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