Retro Weird
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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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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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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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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,…
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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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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Do Not Watch: The Curse of the Creepy Japanese Kleenex Commercial
It’s going to be a fine day. We will have salad. Unless you watch this video, of course. Then, who…
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Bioshock Infinite: Truth from Legend, Fact from Myth
Here I am again, hunched over a laptop in the middle of the night, wondering how it’s already been three…
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YouTube Compression Can Be Creepy
Feast your eyes on this digital abomination: the result of a single video uploaded, downloaded, then re-uploaded to YouTube 1,000…
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Edison’s Talking Dolls Speak Once More
In 1890, Thomas Edison unleashed his infamous talking dolls – the first of their kind, each containing a phonograph with…