Category: Weird and Wild

The Mechanical Turk was one of the wonders of the 18th century: a chess playing robot that defeated chess masters across Europe.

Unsinkable predictions, perfect eclipses, and a prophetic license plate: here are history’s greatest coincidences.

Filming an adaption of one of his favourite books in 2005, director Tim Burton came up with a novel approach: using real squirrels in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Facial Pareidolia is the tendency of humans to see faces in random shapes and objects. It has been observed in other primates, and even in Artificial Intelligence.

The real life inspiration for Nightmare on Elm Street was a mysterious psychological condition, linked to the Cambodian civil war. Its cause is still unknown.

‘Jetpack Man’ has been spotted over LAX international airport several times in the last year. Is it a clever prank, or has someone finally created a real jetpack?

In a firehouse in small town California, is a lightbulb that has burned for 100 years. Known as The Centennial Light, its inventor was a French electronics genius.

Created by stage magicians as a joke, the worst video game ever made has found an unlikely second life, raising funds to help sick children. Welcome, to Desert Bus.

The history of MDMA is long and wild, featuring German scientists, CIA experiments, avant-garde therapy and all night partying.