3AM Finds
Weird stories, cursed commercials, lost broadcasts, robot bands, and other things that show up when the rest of the world is asleep.
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Two Ghost Stories Recorded On A Brown Wax Cylinder
Here’s a wax cylinder recording circa 1908, straight from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive (and shared on YouTube by The…
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Sine-Wave Speech Sounds Like Nonsense…Until It Doesn’t
This stuff makes my head hurt. Sine-Wave speech or synthesis was first developed in the 1970s by Philip Rubin at…
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The Third Place: David Lynch’s Surreal PS2 Ad
Welcome to the Third Place. Did you know David Lynch directed a commercial for PlayStation back in the year 2000?…
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3D Face Animations From 1974 Are A Touch Unsettling
Well that’s a bit haunting. 1974 was apparently a time of strange floating heads reciting poetry, but back then this…
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Surreal Footage of the Macy’s Christmas Parade, 1927
From the depths of the University of South Carolina’s digital library comes this rip in spacetime, showing us footage of…
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A Furby Prepared With Ground Turkey And Duck Sauce, 2006
Do you ever go out for Black Friday? If you had a time machine, you could jet back to 1998…
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Strange Inventions: The Anti-Earthquake Bed
Here’s a video of an anti-earthquake (or seismic safety) bed, a Russian invention from 2015. Its majestic 3D recreations let…
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When Frogs Flew In 1997
The year is 1997. The first DVD players have just released in the U.S., Tamagotchis are flying off store shelves,…
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Starlink Satellites Once Again Confused For UFOs – Or Santa Claus?
December 3, 2021. A trail of lights across the night sky of Illinois. Could it be Santa Claus? No, it’s…
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Did A 1953 Book Predict Elon Musk’s Connection to Mars?
Business Insider shares this peculiar Twitter vignette that unraveled not too long ago: A user named Tobi Li replied to…
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25 Days of Mold Turning Jell-O Into an Alien Landscape
Are you a fan of spores, molds, and fungus? I knew it. Here’s a timelapse video of mold growing on…
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Santa Sightings: Do Sleigh Bells Signal A Visit From Old St. Nick?
You’ve heard the stories. Tales whispered under full moonlight of an old jolly man in a bright red suit, who…
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Arecibo Telescope Collapses After Weeks Of Uncertainty
The Arecibo Observatory’s radio telescope finally crumbled on December 1, 2020, and the event was captured on camera. The telescope’s…
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The Curious Case Of June O’Brien’s Possessed Toaster
If you had in your possession a demonic toaster, but it made pretty good toast, would you keep it? That…
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Disney Shows Off New Animatronic With Human-Like Eyes
Disney Research is always up to some weird stuff when it comes to robotics and animatronics. Here, they show off…