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In the 2,800-person village of Shingō in Japan's Aomori prefecture, you can visit a tourist attraction that earns almost doodlysquat fanfare despite its world-shattering theological ramifications. I am, of course, talking about the grave of Jesus Christ. What, you didn't know that Jesus escaped crucifixion and emigrated to northern Japan to become a rice farmer?

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What if someone from the future popped up in our timeline and started answering questions from people on internet message boards? That's exactly what John Titor did in the late 1990s. Claiming he was sent from the future on a mission to retrieve an antique computer, he talked with thousands of people online and told stories of futuristic life in 2036. Many of his tales warned of imminent disaster for the world, but he said he couldn't help. More »
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Necrotizing fasciitis-infected bananas have been the boogeyman of potassium lovers and people who enjoy checking their email unmolested by chain letters for over a decade. Now, rumors of flesh-eating bananas are resurging in Mozambique, where an email hoax is bedeviling plantain superfans. The email's spurious medical warning advises readers to avoid bananas for three weeks, reports AFP: More »
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A three-acre abandoned lot in Seattle promises to be the site of a Seussian new urban development. According to an official-looking sign posted at the site of a former Vitamilk Dairy plant, an epic ball pit will be moving into the neighborhood. More »
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Every new promise of futuristic technology brings with it the hucksters, the swindlers, and the merely confused. More »
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Over the last several days, YouTube has gone absolutely bonkers over footage of an alien corpse found in the Russian village of Kamensk. Sadly, this body has more in common with a chicken nugget than ET. More »
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There's an exquisite je ne sais quoi when local news correspondents plumb the depths of the paranormal. We've seen them investigate chemtrails, wandering mummies, and mysterious skulls, but this report about Roswell's astrocacti may just be the zenith of anti-news. More »
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If you've been scanning the internet this weekend, chances are you've seen that particular Fox News story about alien bacterial fossils being discovered on meteorites. The findings in the Fox story were published in the Journal of Cosmology, which is less of an academic website and more like watching laser Jethro Tull at your local planetarium. More »
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For this candid camera stunt on Spanish television, a disheveled little girl stood in a hotel corridor and waited for guests to walk by (and wig out). More »
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The Kickapoo Indian Dream Book was a mail-order catalog from the 1800s that sold quack cures for ailments like dyspepsia and tapeworm. The best part of this pamphlet was the poetically absurd dream taxonomy, which warned readers about sinister bacon. More »
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Nancy Marks, a psychic from Lafayette, Colorado, was arrested for fraud after telling clients their "money [was] evil" and that she'd take their cursed cash so "the money would suffer" instead. Marks made at least $290,000 using this scam. More »
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A parody site created back in the 1990s claims there's a giant underwater city within "the crystal clear waters of the Minnesota River." And people have been visiting from as far away as Texas to discover the Atlantis of Minnesota. More »
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Have you dreamed about this man comforting or befriending you over the past two years? Then you are one of thousands across the world who have dreamed "this man." Now they have set up a website to describe their experiences. More »
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That bizarre trailer for a new series about a supermodel-spy-superhero-cyborg-actress named Scarlet, that we featured a while back, turned out to be a marketing hoax just as everybody had suspected. It's a stealth marketing campaign for a new TV set from Korea's LG Electronics, with a red back panel. I'm actually kind of sad, since I'd let myself hope the red-eyed killer diva might be real, mostly due to veteran director David Nutter's very public involvement. It would have been better than Bionic Woman, anyway. [Wall Street Journal, via Wes] More »
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