The 10 Strangest, Most Terrifying Creatures Ever Found

<h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name">Eerie Monster on Deer Cam in Berwick, Louisiana</span></strong></strong></h2><b>The Hype:</b><br />On December 10, 2010 NBC 33 reported a picture that an anonymous hunter had found on his deer cam after coming back to his destroyed camp in Berwick, Louisiana. It was reported in news outlets around the world, illustrating the fact that if it's printed somewhere in "letters", local TV news will pick up news of the biblical apocalypse being here. The hunting picture shows a thin, gangly, fast-moving, seemingly nocturnal creature that can most likely swallow your soul with one backwards-sounding howl.<br /><br />What's really the creepiest part of this whole thing is how powerful and mobile the creature looks.<br /><br /><center><img height="300" src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u1.jpg" width="400" /><br /></center><b></b><br /><b>Reality:</b><br />The mystery hasn't completely been solved although many believe it is a photoshopped hoax. <br /><br />Two different companies tried to exploit this by saying the creature is part of their viral marketing campaign. The first was a report for J.J. Abram's <i>Super 8</i>, which is due out in June of this year. Movieweb.com linked the creature to the film because in a video, Cameron Marie Saunders, who worked on <i>Super 8</i>, she talks about running into a "zombie" and having to cry in the scene. There was no further evidence that the creature was part of <i>Super 8's</i> viral marketing campaign.<br /><br />Then Playstation claimed that the creature was a Grim from their <i>Resistance 3</i> game and part of the marketing campaign. Insomniac Games posted an update to their Twitter that read "Whoops...looks like one got out. If you see a Grim on the loose...please return to Insomniac Games," which further convinced people that the truth had finally been revealed. This, of course, also isn't true because if Playstation/Insomniac Games had actually been behind this, they wouldn't have made the image so sad. I mean, the poor guy's missing a few eyes. <br /><br />This is what a "grim" looks like:<br /><br /><center><img src="http://playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/GRIM-Resistance-2.jpg" /></center><br /><h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name">Montauk Monster Washes Up On A New York Beach</span></strong></strong></h2><b>Hype:</b><br />The story goes that local youths just found it and then photographed it, then sold it to papers (yay humanity!) Now, this happened near Plum Island Animal Disease Center which brought up theories about the government doing weird experiments. Its dinosaur beak was pointed out along with the speculation that it could be a previously undiscovered prehistoric mammal. <br /><br />Other possible identifications of the creature included a dog and a turtle without its shell (but turtles don't have teeth).<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u3.jpg" /></center><br /><br />It's also apparently not a demon dog who only serves the great and powerful Zuul...<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u4.jpg" /></center><br /><br /><b>Reality:</b><br />Larry Penny, the East Hampton Natural Resources Director, along with other experts, confirmed it was nothing more than a decomposing raccoon carcass, which matched dental and skeletal points but was missing its upper jaw.<br /><br />Since the case of the Montauk Monster was solved, other carcasses have been found in the same area. A website called montauk-monster.com is dedicated to following up on these cases with photographs and insists that the similarities between all of the beasts means they are coming from Plum Island.<br /><br /><h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name">Alien Baby Drowned by a Farmer in Metepec, Mexico</span></strong></strong></h2><b>Hype:</b><br />On May 11, 2007 Mario Moreno Lopez (who is in no way related to AC Slater but is actually a farmer in Metepec, Mexico) found this creature in the steel trap he had put out for his rats meaning that Mr. Lopez is used to some pretty serious f*cking rats. <br /><br />He had to drown it three times in order to kill it (which really just means he only drowned it once, doesn't it?) The creature is tiny (the farmer described as being 70 cm. long) and has an elongated head, which led to the possibility of it being an alien baby with a high level of intelligence. Skeptics stayed closer to home, calling the creature a reptile or skinned squirrel monkey to explain its tail and spine, and large head and eyes. <br /><br />Mario Moreno Lopez mysteriously died in a car fire (the fire was at an unusually high temperature for a normal fire) some time after having drowned the creature, leading UFO enthusiasts to believe that the alien baby's guardians had sought revenge against Lopez, which also begs the question: where the h**l were they when it was stuck in a rat trap? <br /><br />Supposedly there have been many reports of UFO sightings and mysterious crop circles in Metepec, which could just mean the locals are superstitiously making up stories and producing images and carcasses that the Weekly World News would KILL for or that an actual alien baby was left behind. <br /><br />No loving little kids, no Reese's Pieces, just huge traps and slow, unsuccessful drowning. <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u6.jpg" /><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u7.jpg" /></center><br /><br /><b>Reality:</b><br />Mexican UFO specialist Jaime Maussan was the first to discover the story, buy the corpse off Moreno for $32,000 and say it was not a hoax, which further convinces skeptics that the so-called alien baby had been a scheme.The alien baby was investigated by History Channel's MonsterQuest. <br /><br />The Metepec creature has so far stumped scientists, who found that its teeth are not rooted like human teeth. To disprove the initial possibility that the creature was a skinned monkey, forensic scientists found that the creature still had a unique kind of tissue and had not been tampered with.<br /><br /><h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name">The Blue Hill Horror in Cerro Azul, Panama</span></strong></strong></h2><b>Hype:</b><br />Around September 17, 2009, four adolescents playing in Cerro Azul, Panama claimed they saw the rubbery E.T. look-alike run out of a cave. According to them, it started chasing them, so they threw rocks at it until it was dead (yay humanity!) They then pushed its body into the water. <br /><br />The UK tabloids called it Gollum (the creature from the Lord of the Rings) because it was living in a cave. While other papers just gave it the name "The Blue Hill Horror" because that'll make a better original SyFy movie title than "That Thing That Looks Like If E.T. and Gollum From Lord of the Rings Had a Baby Somehow".<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u8.jpg" /><br /></center><b>Reality:</b><br />Scientists found that the adolescents' tale was false because the sloth had been decomposing before that day. Its long decomposition in the river had removed its hair and given it its bloated and rubbery skin. It was a dead sloth, which now makes this sad instead of mysterious and awesome.<br /><br /><h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name">Alien Corpse in Thai Ceremony</span></strong></strong></h2><div class="blather clear"> <b>Hype:</b><br />A series of images depicting a ceremony for an alien-looking creature held by Thai villagers in 2007, complete with incense and baby powder, resurfaced in 2010 through social networks. Speculators suggested it was anything from an alien with its large, globe-like head and gray skin to a satyr with its tiny hooves and tail.<br /><br />A satyr:<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u9.jpg" /></center> <br /><br />A debate over the nature of the ceremony also took place with some believing it to be a respectful funeral rite for the creature, treating it as a human. This idea came from the apparent grief on the villager's faces. Who knows, maybe they just ran out of baby powder and there wasn't enough for everyone. Others said the ceremony was performed to dispel themselves from the evil surrounding the creature. There were even some who said the Thai villagers were worshipping the creature as a deity.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u10.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u11.jpg" /></center><br /><br /><a href="http://forgetomori.com/2007/criptozoology/alien-corpse-in-thailand/">Click here to see the rest of the pictures of the ceremony</a><br /><br /><b>Science:</b><br />Apparently it's a cow. Many guessed that the creature was a deformed cow, a fact that the villagers may have known all along, but it was so terrifyingly humanoid that a proper ceremony was given to it because h**l, nobody's gonna eat that. Speculators point to the rising number of weird births of animals around the globe, going as far as suggesting that aliens are conducting experiments on animals and are creating weird creature hybrids that will one day take over the earth and eat us all (that last part isn't true... for now.)<br /><strong><strong><span class="name"><br /></span></strong></strong></div><h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name">Tiny Humanoid Found in Chile</span></strong></strong></h2><br /><b>Hype:</b><br />While vacationing with his family in Concepcion, Chile, Julio Carreno found a tiny humanoid creature measuring 7.2 centimeters in a bush on October 1, 2002. The creature, which has a large human-like head was alive and opened its eyes before dying eight days later. It had fingernails and slanted eyes. Its originally pinkish color turned darker and the corpse stayed warm before quickly mummifying itself. The family suggested that maybe this had occurred because they were keeping it in a first aid kit box in the refrigerator -- just where you keep most dead humanoid creatures, next to the ham.<br /><br />Several rumors spread about the story, such as people saying that the creature had made telepathic contact with the mother of the family. Others said the being had stood up but the family denied that this had happened. Speculation of the creature's identification included the possibility of it being a wild cat's fetus or an alien. <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u12.jpg" /></center><br /><br /><b>Science:</b><br />The corpse was studied by veterinarians in Santiago, who are still divided over the creature's identity. They confirmed that the creature was neither a fetus nor the remains of a feline. Some matched the creature's physical characteristics to a mouse opossum, a common animal in Chile. Others disagreed because the creature did not have the small, pointed teeth or tail of a mouse opossum and its head was double the size of one.<br /><br /><h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name">Chupacabra Sightings in Texas</span></strong></strong></h2><b>Hype:</b><br />The creature people have called the Bigfoot of Latin America has been sighted several times in Puerto Rico and the U.S, particularly in Texas. The legend behind the creature is that it kills livestock and drinks their blood. The name chupacabra literally means "goat sucker."<br /><br />Chupacabra, when first discovered in the mid 90s, was supposed to look like some of these pictures:<br /><br /><center><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju5cwT5oblwrY-0t31VAkSowV3Ddo7QrtRfqVj_Vg5bXXba8StqtE9ROYkbZGljHNlzJyYTmA9RReFgVu2ztNkniLS1r4_b0_DwJQrAcvzMHiDLnRP87FYFYRarHq5FbW_5mDJWfZeG4o/s400/chupacabra02.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://www.2samachar.us/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/76e09a26c5cabra2.jpg.jpg" /><br /><img src="http://www.oftm.com/chupamex.jpg" /></center><br /><br />The Elmendorf Beast, or the real Chupacabra, was a twenty-pound dog or coyote-like creature that was shot and killed in August 2004 by farmer Devin McAnally in Elmendorf, Texas after having mauled 34 chickens. The creature had no hair and blue-graying skin. Its DNA was sent to UC Davis, where scientists concluded it was a coyote with mange. <br /><br />In Cuero, Texas in August 2007 Phylis Canion found the carcasses of three coyote-like creatures similar to the Elmendorf Beast. She took pictures of the corpses and froze one of their heads. She connected the beasts to the Chupacabra legend because thirty of her chickens had bled out in the past few years without being eaten or carried away. DNA testing determined that the animal was a hybrid wolf/coyote with mange. <br /><br /><center><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u14.jpg" /><br /></center><br /><br />In September, 2009 CNN reported on a taxidermist in Blanco County who had preserved the body of a coyote-like creature that people were calling a chupacabra. The creature had been poisoned after being discovered in a barn and its body was later given to the taxidermist Jerry Ayer.<br /><br /><b>Science:</b><br />University of Michigan scientists believe that the origin of the chupacabra legend began with these very, very diseased coyotes. Its ability to suck chickens and goats dry, though, remains unexplained.<br /><br /><h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name"></span></strong></strong></h2><h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name">Alabama Boy Kills Giant Boar</span></strong></strong></h2><b>Hype:</b><br />On May 3, 2007, an 11-year-old named Jamison Stone shot a huge boar, which weighed 1,051 pounds and measured nine feet four inches, with a .50 caliber pistol near Delta, Alabama. This meant Stone had shot himself a pig bigger than Hogzilla, the famed boar that had been killed in Georgia in 2004.<br /><br />Stone, who killed his first deer at age 5 was hunting with his dad Mike Stone on the day he killed the boar. He had to shoot the boar eight times and chased it for three hours. When the pig finally went down, trees had to be cut down to get it out of the woods. The father and son had the boar's head mounted to keep as a prize and made around 500 to 700 pounds of sausage from it. <br /><br />"It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big," Stone told the Associated Press. He was later offered a small part in a horror movie based on Hogzilla.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u15.jpg" /><br /></center><b>Science:</b><br />Stone wasn't able to enjoy his fame (his dad even put up a website called monsterpig.com for him) for long before he received death threats for having led the boar to suffer a long and painful death as he repeatedly wounded him. 800 people signed a petition world-wide advocating for the boy's prosecution on charges of animal cruelty. Skeptics believe the whole story was a hoax and the boar was really a farm animal fattened up to make a sensational story, which even I'm particularly skeptical of myself. Mostly because, <a href="http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/06/08/update-giant-hog-hoax-exposed/">according to this website</a>, it was an obvious Photoshop job. Charges were never pressed because too much time had elapsed from the day of the crime before an investigation was conducted.<br /><br /><h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name">Oriental Yeti Trapped By Hunters in China</span></strong></strong></h2><b>Hype:</b><br />In April 2010 a group of hunters trapped a hairless possum-like mammal that was described as looking like a bear with a tail like a kangaroo and making distressed cat noises. The creature became a media sensation, being dubbed the "Oriental Yeti." According to legend, the Yeti was a bear-like figure that towered well over the height of men. This creature was only two feet long... <br /><br /><center><img alt="" src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u16.jpg" title="Hosted by imgur.com" /></center><br /><br /><b>Science:</b><br />Bigfoot researcher Loren Coleman dismissed the Yeti speculations as "media madness." "If the Asian press starts using the word "yeti" for every unidentified animal it's going to muddy the waters of cryptozoology," said Coleman. He believed the creature was a palm civet with a serious case of mange. The beast was shipped to Beijing for DNA testing but the results were never released in the media.<br /><br /><h2 class="node clear width75"><strong><strong><span class="name">Crab-like Creatures Found in a Trench in Russia</span></strong></strong></h2><b>Hype:</b><br />Crabs have been called the cockroaches of the sea and this creature frighteningly makes that saying quite literal. These creatures, which were found in an abandoned foundation pit in Chelyabinsk, Russia, have a hard shell, several stacked appendages and a tail poking out of their shell. People hypothesized that the creatures were huge triops, horseshoe crabs, a facehugger from <i>Alien</i>, or trilobites, which were extinct even before the dinosaurs lived.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img2.ranker.com/user_node_img/6397/1000127053/full/terrifying-creatures-photo-u17.jpg" /></center><br /><b>Science:</b><br />Apparently, the crustaceans were an absolutely amazing species that are 200 million years old and have somehow not evolved at all for that amount of time. Apparently, they are perfect, so take notes fellas. These triops are not actually as large as purported, but they do exist and are basically always around.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">( <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-10-strangest-most-terrifying-creatures-ever-found/ivana-wynn?page=2&format=BLOG&sortby=&sortdir=">Link</a> )</div>

The 10 Strangest, Most Terrifying Creatures Ever Found

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10 Strangest Fish in The World

<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="Title2" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1. SunFish</b></span></div><div class="Title2" style="text-align: center;">The sunfish is a very unique creature and one that you have probably never seen or heard of before unless you’re particularly nerdy about your David Attenborough documentaries. Consider this: the sunfish is the heaviest bony fish in the world. This strange fish lives in tropical and temperate areas and it lives on a diet consisting mostly of jellyfish. It is also considered a delicacy among many Asian cultures, but the sale of sunfish flesh is forbidden in the European Union.<br /><img alt="fish" class="aligncenter" src="http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-strangest-fish/fish.jpg" title="fish photo" /><span id="more-6015"></span><br /><div class="Title2"> </div><div class="Title2"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2. Frogfish</b></span></div>This unique fish definitely fits its name. It looks a cross between a fish and a frog… or at least a fish and another extremely ugly fish. These creatures have developed leg like fins that allow them to scurry across the ocean floor. They can also change colors if needed to blend into a coral reef and escape becoming some predator’s lunch. They also have a unique lure that comes out of the forehead and attracts their own dinner. Apparently this design has worked out well for it: the frogfish is not a single species; there are 45 different species of frogfish each with their own unique attributes.<br /><img alt="frogfish" class="aligncenter" src="http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-strangest-fish/frogfish.jpg" title="frogfish photo" /><br /><div id="Title_box"> </div><div class="Title2"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. Barreleye</b></span></div>Now this fish, perhaps more than all the others, looks like something you might see on another planet. And not one of those bogus Star Trek planets where things are pretty much the same except for pointy ears. The fish has a head that is made of very transparent scales and eyes that are almost always pointed upward and are protected by green orb-like lenses. Yes, it can look out through the top of its own head. This fish was found off the deep sea of Monterey California and was photographed alive for the first time in 2004. This fish is only six centimeters in diameter and the world has known of its existence since 1939 but it was only seen mangled in the nets of fishermen.<br /><img alt="barreleye" class="aligncenter" src="http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-strangest-fish/barreleye.jpg" title="barreleye photo" /><br /><div class="Title2"> </div><div class="Title2"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>4. Chimaera</b></span></div>This fish may not have the strangest appearance on this list but it is still very strange and unique. It’s also known as a ghostshark because the shark is its closest relative but it actually branched off from sharks more than 400 million years ago. That makes it pretty much a phylogenic orphan. One of the things that make chimeras different from sharks is that they have retractable sexual appendages on their forehead. Jealous? Though they have remained pretty much the same since the age of the dinosaurs, today their numbers are dwindling and they can now only be found in deep water.<br /><img alt="chimaera" class="aligncenter" src="http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-strangest-fish/chimaera.jpg" title="chimaera photo" /><br /><div class="Title2"> </div><div class="Title2"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>5. JellyNose Fish</b></span></div>Conversely, there are few fish on this list that look as bizarre as this one. This fish is incredibly rare with only about dozen known jellynose species which means that sightings of this bizarre fish are incredibly rare. They are found off the coast of most continents at a depth of around 1,300 – 2,300 feet. They can grow up to six feet long and they have mostly gelatinous bodies with very little muscle.<br /><img alt="nose" class="aligncenter" src="http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-strangest-fish/nose.jpg" title="nose photo" /><br /><div class="Title2"> </div><div class="Title2"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>6. Leafy Sea Dragon</b></span></div>Despite its name this fish is not about to scare anyone. Rather, this little fella is truly beautiful and awe-inspiring even if it never grows more than a foot long. This fish is a relative of seahorses and gets its name from the fact that it has a number of appendages that, you guessed it, look like leaves. These appendages cause the leafy sea dragon to blend in with seaweed and it can even change its color to blend in. Leafy sea dragons eat shrimp and small fish that presumably never see them coming.<br /><img alt="dragon" class="aligncenter" src="http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-strangest-fish/dragon.jpg" title="dragon photo" /><br /><div class="Title2"> </div><div class="Title2"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>7. ViperFish</b></span></div>This is a fish that you would not like to come across because, whether or not it means you any harm, it is just terrifying to look at. This fish is very predatory and it actually uses a light producing organ on the end of its fin to attract its prey of small fish (and possibly ill placed toes). Then it uses its large teeth to immobilize its prey. These teeth are so large that the viperfish would be unable to close its mouth if it were not able to curve them behind its head.<br /><img alt="viper" class="aligncenter" src="http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-strangest-fish/viper.jpg" title="viper photo" /><br /><div class="Title2"> </div><div class="Title2"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>8. Blobfish</b></span></div>This unique and somewhat disgusting looking fish is rarely seen by humans. The reason for this is that it lives at a depth where the pressure is several dozen times higher than the pressure at sea level. This makes it very difficult for humans to visit or even survive. The blob fish is basically a gelatinous mass with a density that is only slightly less than water. This gives in buoyancy that allows it to float just above the sea floor without expending energy to swim.<br /><img alt="blobfish" class="aligncenter" src="http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-strangest-fish/blobfish.jpg" title="blobfish photo" /><br /><div class="Title2"> </div><div class="Title2"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>9. Hairy Angler</b></span></div>This fish was actually discovered by a documentary film crew working for the BBC to create The Blue Planet. It lives 3,300 feet below the surface of the ocean, which makes this fish appear invisible because it has red skin because the red light cannot penetrate that far below the surface. The male and female have a very unique relationship because the male becomes something of a parasite to the female. The male will attach itself to her flesh and gradually fuse with her bloodstream.<br /><img alt="angler" class="aligncenter" src="http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-strangest-fish/angler.png" title="angler photo" /><br /><div class="Title2"> </div><div class="Title2"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>10. Paedocypris progenetica</b></span></div>The world’s smallest fish, and it lives in Indonesian swamp water so acidic scientists had thought it uninhabitable. It is only a matter of time before they start coming for us on land.<br />This is by no means an all inclusive list of the bizarre fish that have been discovered and there is no telling what fish are waiting to be discovered far below the ocean depths… or in the swamp… or who knows where else.<br /><img alt="progenetica" class="aligncenter" src="http://media.weirdworm.com/img/life/10-strangest-fish/progenetica.jpg" title="progenetica photo" /><br /><br />( <a href="http://www.weirdworm.com/10-strangest-fish/">Link</a> )<br /> </div>

10 Strangest Fish in The World

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Top 10 Strangest Lego Creations

<h3 style="text-align: center;">10. Lego iPod Case</h3><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/lego_ipod.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> This interesting BrixPod Classic iPod Shuffle case gives your Shuffle the appearance of a full-sized iPod made of Lego bricks. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">9. Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/han_lego.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Nathan Sawaya used over 10,000 Lego pieces and spent 3 months making this "Han Solo in Carbonite" masterpiece. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">8. Lego Volvo XC90</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/volvo_lego.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Built by Lego Master Model Builders, this Volvo XC90 is the official car of Legoland California. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">7. Lego NES Case</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/lego_nes_case.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> If Nintendo came out with a Lego NES case, this would be it. Everything is 100% Lego - power/reset buttons, controller ports, LED light cover, and even the vents up top. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">6. Lego Harpsichord</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/lego_harpsichord.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> This Harpsichord was constructed entirely from Lego parts (over 100,000!), including keyboard, jacks, jack rack, jack rail, plectra, soundboard, bridge, hitch pins, tuning pins, wrestplank, nut, case, legs, lid, lid stick, and music stand. It has a range of 61 notes and weighs 150 lb. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">5. Lego Pinhole Camera</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techeblog.com/files/lego_pinhole_camera.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> This person took a Polaroid 95a, stripped it down, and than reassembled the camera with all Lego parts. Like a real mechanical 35mm camera, it includes a manual crank which takes 23 clicks to advance one frame. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">4. Lego Knitting Machine</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techeblog.com/files/lego_knitting.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Rarely do we come accross something so interesting yet odd, take a look at this fully functional knitting machine made entirely out of Lego pieces. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">3. Lego Difference Engine</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/lego_difference_engine.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> One of the most imaginative Lego creations ever. Made by Andy Carroll, this difference engine is able to solve mathematical problems (2nd/3rd-order polynomials) and calculate the answers to 3 or 4 digits. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">2. Lego Air Conditioner</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techepics.com/files/lego_air_conditioner.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Behold, a functional Lego replica of Carrier's latest air conditioner, complete with valves, compressor, and working fan.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span> </div><h3 style="text-align: center;">1. Lego Pinball Machine</h3><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.techeblog.com/files/lego_pin.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Created by Lego fanatics Gerrit Bronsveld and Martijn Boogaarts of the Netherlands, this fully functional pinball machine was made using over 20,000 of these colorful blocks. The Lego Pinball Machine features an operational coin slot, rotation bumpers, auto kickback, 5-digit mechanical display (for points), 13 RCX Mindstorms computers, and even a ramp. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">( <a href="http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-lego-creations">Link</a> )</span> </span></div>

Top 10 Strangest Lego Creations

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Top 10 Strangest Foods From Around the World

They say one man's trash is another man's treasure. The same could be said about food: one man's nightmare may just be another man's delicacy. From cow's tongue and pig's snout to chicken's feet, from fried worms and frog's legs to sautéed snails, the list of weird stuff we eat is endless (and often quite tasty). If you've been indulging lately and need a reason to diet, take a read, you may just lose that appetite. Here is the list of the ten strangest foods from around the world.<br /><br /><strong>10. Fried - brain sandwiches</strong><br /><img alt="Fried - brain-sandwiches" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/brain%20sandwich.jpg" title="Fried - brain sandwiches" /> <br />Long before the era of Mad-Cow Disease, a sandwich made from fried calves' brain, thinly sliced on white bread was a common item on the menus in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The sandwich is still available in the Ohio River Valley, where the brains are now heavily battered and served on hamburger buns. In El Salvador and Mexico beef brains, lovingly called sesos in Spanish, are used in tacos and burritos. The brains have a mushy texture and very little flavor on their own so the addition of copious amounts of hot sauce definitely helps.<br /><br /><strong>9. Haggis</strong><br /><img alt="Haggis" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Haggis.jpg" title="Haggis" /> <br />A traditional Scottish dish, haggis is made with the minced heart, liver and lung of a sheep mixed with onion, spices, oatmeal, salt and stock, and boiled in the sheep's stomach for a few hours. Larousse Gastronomique, a popular encyclopedia of gastronomic delights, claims that haggis has "an excellent nutty texture and delicious savory flavor." Haggis is available year-round in Scottish supermarkets and made with an artificial casing rather than a sheep’s stomach. In fact some are sold in cans to be heated in a microwave before eating. Similar dishes can be found in other European countries with goat, pork or beef used instead of sheep.<br /><br /><strong>8. Bugs</strong><br /><img alt="Bugs" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Bugs.jpg" title="Bugs" /> <br />The practice of eating insects for food is called entomophagy and is fairly common in many parts of the world, with the exceptions of Europe and North America (though bugs are apparently a favorite with the television show "Fear Factor"). It is not uncommon to find vendors selling fried grasshoppers, crickets, scorpions, spiders and worms on the streets of Bangkok, Thailand. Insects are high in protein and apparently consist of important fatty acids and vitamins. In fact flour from drying and grinding up mealworm can be and is often used to make chocolate chip cookies. So next time you think there is a fly in your soup, it may actually just be part of the presentation.<br /><br /><strong>7. Rocky Mountain Oysters</strong><br /><img alt="Rocky-Mountain-Oysters" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Rocky-Mountain-Oysters.jpg" title="Rocky Mountain Oysters" /> <br />What is so strange about oysters? Probably the fact that they're not the kind you find at the bottom of the ocean, but rather a fancy name given to deep-fried testicles of a buffalo, bull or boar. Rocky Mountain oysters (also called Prairie Oysters) are well-known and regularly enjoyed, in certain parts of the United States and Canada, generally where cattle ranching is prevalent. The testicles are peeled, boiled, rolled in a flour mixture, and fried, then generally served with a nice cocktail sauce.<br /><br /><strong>6. Stuffed Camel</strong><br /><img alt="Stuffed-Camel" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Stuffed-Camel.jpg" title="Stuffed Camel" /> <br />The recipe for a whole stuffed camel kind of reads like a bad joke, with ingredients that include one whole camel, one whole lamb and 20 whole chickens. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the recipe as the largest item on any menu in the world, conveniently leaving out any concrete examples of this dish actually being eaten. Legend has it that that a whole stuffed camel is a traditional Bedouin dish seemingly prepared like a Russian Stacking Doll, where a camel is stuffed with a whole lamb, the lamb stuffed with the chickens and the chickens stuffed with eggs and rice. The entire concoction is then barbecued until cooked and served. Fact or fiction, the shear amount of food created by this dish makes it deserving of a place on the list.<br /><strong><br /></strong><strong>5. Hakarl</strong><br /><img alt="Hakarl" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Hakarl.jpg" title="Hakarl" /> <br />Anthony Bourdain, known for eating some of the strangest foods in the world, claims that hakarl is the most disgusting thing he has ever eaten. Made by gutting a Greenland or Basking shark and then fermenting it for two to four months, hakarl is an Icelandic food that reeks with the smell of ammonia. It is available all year round in Icelandic stores and often served in cubes on toothpicks.<br /><br /><strong>4. Fugu</strong><br /><img alt="Fugu" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Fugu.jpg" title="Fugu" /> <br />Fugu is the Japanese word for the poisonous puffer fish, filled with enough of the poison tetrodotoxin to be lethal. Only specially-trained chefs, who undergo two to three years of training and have passed an official test, can prepare the fish. Some chefs will choose to leave a minute amount of poison in the fish to cause a tingling sensation on the tongue and lips as fugu can be quite bland. Perhaps the fuss of fugu is more in surviving the experience than the actual taste of the deadly fish.<br /><br /><strong>3. Casu Marzu</strong><br /><img alt="Casu-Marzu" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Casu-Marzu.jpg" title="Casu Marzu" /> <br />Found in the city of Sardinia in Italy, casu marzu is a cheese that is home to live insect larvae. These larvae are deliberately added to the cheese to promote a level of fermentation that is close to decomposition, at which point the cheese’s fats are broken down. The tiny, translucent worms can jump up to half a foot if disturbed, which explains why some people prefer to brush off the insects before enjoying a spoonful of the pungent cheese.<br /><br /><strong>2. Sannakji</strong><br /><img alt="Sannakji" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Sannakji.jpg" title="Sannakji" /> <br />With sashimi and sushi readily available the world over, eating raw seafood is no longer considered a dining adventure. The Korean delicacy sannakji however, is something quite different, as the seafood isn't quite dead. Live baby octopus are sliced up and seasoned with sesame oil. The tentacles are still squirming when this dish is served and, if not chewed carefully, the tiny suction cups can stick to the mouth and throat. This is not a dish for the fainthearted.<br /><br /><strong>1. Balut</strong><br /><img alt="Balut" border="0" src="http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Interesting/Strangest-Foods/Balut.jpg" title="Balut" /> <br />Balut seems to be on every "strange food" list, usually at the top, and for good reason. Though no longer wriggling on the plate like the live octopus in Korea, the fertilized duck or chicken egg with a nearly-developed embryo that is boiled and eaten in the shell is easily one of the strangest foods in the world. Balut is very common in the Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam and usually sold by street vendors. It is said balut tastes like egg and duck (or chicken), which is essentially what it is. It is surprising to many that a food that appears so bizarre—often the with the bird's features clearly developed--can taste so banal. In the end, apparently everything does indeed, just taste like chicken. (<a href="http://www.moolf.com/interesting/top-ten-strangest-foods-from-around-the-world.html">Link</a>)

Top 10 Strangest Foods From Around the World

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The 21 Strangest Conspiracy Theories

<div class="photo photomain"> <div class="img"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="The 21 Strangest Conspiracy Theories" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/conspiracy/story/in-the-shadows/strangest-tips/ufo-573x382.jpg" /></a></div><div class="caption"><br /></div></div><h2>The 21 Best</h2><div class="cpabody"> Here at the Conspiracy section of truTV.com, we like to be at the cutting edge of what theories are out there.<br />One way we do that is with our Tipline, wherein we encourage you, the public, to submit conspiracy theories you think we should investigate. While we aren't able to follow up on every tip (and where does on start with a theory that says simply "JFK was murdered," for example?), we do get many interesting ones that we wish we could explore further. These, we feel, are the best of the best.<br />Although they have been edited for length and content, each tip retains the original intent of the submission from a real reader. As always, keep the suggestions coming, and remember that the only dumb question is the one that isn't asked.<br /><b>21. </b><strong><b>J.</b> Edgar Hoover created a hit squad made up entirely of homosexuals</strong> "to assassinate JFK." "If, after the 'hit,' the street clothes were changed to "flamboyant/gayish" attire, would those people have been detained/questioned as any "normal/regular" looking individual on the street that day, or would they have been ignored as "homosexuals" that couldn't possibly have committed such a horrendous act?"<br /><strong>20.</strong> <strong>The lottery is rigged.</strong> "The jackpots go up and up, with no winners. People get lottery fever. Millions nationwide are willing to wait in a line just like the ones for bread in the former Soviet Union for the pipe dream of striking it rich."<br /><strong>19.</strong> <strong>We already have cures for cancer</strong> but the government "runs people out of the country" once they know the cure. "I did a year and a half of research myself. Cancer etc can be cured and prevented. It has been proven."<br /><span class="photo photoleft"><span class="img"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="Conan O'Brien redhead alien" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/conspiracy/story/in-the-shadows/strangest-tips/conan-573x382.jpg" /></a></span><span class="caption"> </span></span><br /><span class="photo photoleft"><span class="caption"><br /></span></span><br /><strong>18.</strong> <strong>Redheads are the offspring of aliens</strong>. "Why do they all look similar??"<br /><strong>17.</strong> "<strong>Sono Bono was murdered</strong> [on the ski slope] because he was going to run for President."<br /><strong>16.</strong> <strong>There is a concentration camp under the Denver International Airport</strong>. It has an 8 level underground military base, a gas chamber... and it's rumored that there is genetic experiments taking place. The base at Deluce, New Mexico, meanwhile, houses alien spacecraft and aliens who are conducting genetic expirements on humans and animals. There is a ton of info ! if you look at D.U.M.B.S. on the internet."<br /><strong>15. Fox News broadcasts invisible signals that affect your sense of smell</strong>. “Fox News Chammel --- though it might not be the only one --- has a peculiar sensory 'flavor' to me (affecting my sinuses), which leads me to believe that some parallel, inaudile/invisible signals are being broadcast with the audiovisual that's consciously perceived by the viewers." Insert joke about how you're allergic to Sean Hannity's tan here. "We need to know IF Fox News is using mind control, and what specifically its purpose would be.”<br /><strong>14. Obama was groomed to be the first Muslim President by Gaddafi</strong>. “[Obama] will do things for the Muslim Brotherhood and since they do not like Israel (Jews) Obama wants to make sure this country falls. This will help Libya.”<br /><strong>13.</strong> One reader has suspicions about the Nicole Brown Simpson murder case. Only he doesn’t even mention OJ or evidence from months of trials: “<strong>Kato Kaelin</strong> is the only one who had the opportunity to act. Nicole’s sister said something about him being involved in drugs. And the cop and limo driver said he was acting odd that day.” Kato Kaelin acting odd? That’s all you’ve got? Well, we aren’t exactly going to indict a guy for acting like a weirdo, otherwise we’d have to round up every nerd alive.<br /><strong>12.</strong> There is <strong>a conspiracy between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico</strong> to become one country. “I heard and see on the internet that this is in the makings is it or not? if so what would happen to the Consitution of Independce?”<br /><span class="photo photoleft"><span class="img"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/"><img alt="JFK Jackie O Dallas 1963" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/conspiracy/story/in-the-shadows/strangest-tips/jfk-573x382.jpg" /></a></span><span class="caption"> </span></span><br /><span class="photo photoleft"><span class="caption"><br /></span></span><br /><strong>11. The number on the back of your social security card</strong> is a World Bank account number. At the bank, “there is a form that you can fill out to get that money back from the government, but the story goes if you do that you become marked as a target for death.”<br /><strong>10. Garbage.</strong> Where are we putting all our “waist”? “What do they do out their? where are they putting their waist? i hope jesse can get to the bottom of this.”<br /><strong>9.</strong> <strong>Dentists are putting small microwave-type things in your teeth</strong>. “Dentist are putting small mircowave type things in your teeth! This help's to give you Heart Burn which in turn puts Doctor's in business and Drug companies selling Heart Burn med's. NEVER HAVE YOU SEEN THIS ONE COMING.”<br /><strong>8. Strange rain</strong>. “i saw a show about a little town of 700 people, Military planes/jets were flying overhead for about a week, then it started raining, but it wasnt rain...... it was clear goo. Tests were done on the goo and it was determend that it had human white blood cells and some kind of animal nucleus in the cells, and almost everyone in the town got 'Flue like symtoms', and several pets that came in comtact with it died. it 'rained' 6 times.”<br /><strong>7. STDs are a government plot</strong>. “Is the government making STA's or STD's to kill people to make population numbers smaller and to make money from medicine & condoms?”<br /><strong>6. Damn those Jesuits</strong>. “When will you attack the puppet master (The Jesuits). Until then , I smell your fear of Man.”<br /><strong>5. Star wars</strong>. “jesse we need you to figure out what is going on in the sky. i swear theres a war out in space. i have a woke up to some pretty werid stuff a night, and i have seen these things flying in the air with no sound. what is going on governor”<br /><strong>4. U.S. government workers are actually shapeshifters</strong>. “are their really US officials who are aliens dressed as humans. i mean i have eyewitnessed a news castor blinking very fast then his eyes went completely black then back to normal. so are aliens really walking amongst us now to monitor us”<br /><strong>3. The Anti-Christ is among us, and he is not writing South Park</strong>. “The Anti-Christ is setting into motion a world government where everyone must have a chip in their hands. [Law enforcement] will scan you to see if you have the chip, and if you don't, you will be arrested for going against the government. It is in Revelations that no man will be able to buy or sell without this chip or the mark of the beast.”<br /><strong>2. Microsoft Kinect</strong> has fine print saying the company is not responsible for any surveillance done through it by the US government.<br /><strong>1.</strong> The <strong>truTV.com</strong> website registration form is… a conspiracy. “I HAVE REGISTERED TWICE!!!!ONE WITH TRUTV AT THE TOP WHERE IT SAYS SIGN IN AND ONCE WHERE IT SAYS LOG IN,I AM BOTH SIGNED IN TO TRUTV AT THE TOP AND LOGGED IN TO WHERE IT SAYS VBULLITEN AT THE BOTTOM ,SO IM DUALLY REGISTERED AND SIGNED IN BUT THIS PEICE OF S*** SITE SAYS I CANT POST OR REPLY TO ANTHING !!!!WTF!!!!!”<br /><br />(<a href="http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/in-the-shadows/strangest-tips/bizarre-paranoid-ideas.html">Link</a>) <br /></div>

The 21 Strangest Conspiracy Theories

The 21 Best Here at the Conspiracy section of truTV.com, we like to be at the cutting edge of what theories are out there. One way we ...

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