 ghosts, demons, shadow people, unsolved mysteries, unexplained phenomenon, monsters and more. True stories of the paranormal and supernatural. I'm Darren Marlar, the creator and host of Weird Darkness, where I bring you the dark, creepy and macabre. You can even tell me your own stories for use in future episodes. Get the podcast today for Apple, Android or your favorite podcasting app at WeirdDarkness.com. From DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com, I'm Darren Marlar and this is your Daily Dose of Weird News. Two Delta passengers got a little frisky in their seats during a recent flight from LA to Detroit. The pair, a 28-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman were said to be complete strangers before meeting on the airplane. How are they doing anything in those seats? Most flyers can barely squeeze their butts into one. Last week, the CIA released 470,000 documents from the house where Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 in the interest of transparency. Among other items on his computer, Osama had a copy of the National Geographic Special where in the world is Osama bin Laden. And also a saved YouTube video claiming September 11 was an inside job. Gee, narcissistic much? Studies as Alaska is the most sexually-diseased state in the nation. Now you can go up there and easily catch more than just salmon. The Bank of England is raising its interest rates for the first time in ten years. Ironically, lowering interest in the Bank of England. Thanks to AT&T, you may soon be able to build your own AI-powered app. The Akumos AI Marketplace that launched with open-source non-profit, the Linux Foundation, is currently open for initial access to companies who pay a registration fee. The platform will be released to the public for free in early 2018. Akumos will provide a platform through which developers can select AI capabilities, such as location tracking and facial recognition, and string them together to create apps. Follow that to say your smartphone may soon actually be smart, smarter than you, and possibly take over the world. A poll says 58% of Americans are afraid to discuss their political views. Obviously, none of those people are my Facebook friends. The International Space Station is getting its first new printer in 17 years. Unfortunately, it's a wireless printer and it's really hard to get a decent Wi-Fi signal from Houston up there. Archeologists have found a previously undiscovered secret chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid. It has not yet been confirmed whether or not it's the chamber where Apophis was hiding the Stargate. A nomadic American couple and their two young children were found alive three days after they went missing in an attack by river pirates in Brazil. Police say Adam and Emily Hartow and their daughters, 6-year-old Colette and 3-year-old Sierra, were passengers on a ferry from the Amazon Gateway City of Belém to Makapa that was attacked by pirates last Sunday. Reportedly, the pirates held the crew and passengers hostage for hours and there was no sign of the family after the pirates left. The Hartos were rescued Wednesday by a villager who spotted them floating on a piece of driftwood in the river. Miraculously, they were unharmed, save for a few scratches and insect bites. The family was planning to move back to California later this month so the girls could grow up close to relatives and have a little bit of foundation. Now, of course, foundation's the last thing they'll be getting. It'll be replaced with many years in school of being teased about being robbed by Jack Sparrow and being asked if they'll be dressing up as wenches every Halloween. While we have the first casualty of the new TV season, the CBS comedy Me, Myself and I, which starred Saturday Night Live's Bobby Moynihan, has been yanked from the Monday line-up after just six episodes. Cancelled and that show didn't even star Kevin Spacey. No less than 21 state university of New York students are being charged with hazing to a level that is mind-blowing. It seems they used a rental home near the college campus as their house of horrors for fraternity pledges who were vomited on, doused in urine and forced to eat foods that sickened them. The abuse endured by 10 pledges, a fraternity pie alpha new, is disturbing. The victims told authorities how the fraternity brothers subjected the pledges to repeated paddling on the buttocks and being forced to eat food off the floor. According to court documents, a 19-year-old student told campus police that while being paddled, one of the brothers hit me so hard that my knees buckled and I had to be held up. He also said pledges were forced to drink alcohol and other liquids and eat foods that would make them throw up, including condiments, raw sardines, clam juice and chewing tobacco. Another pledge told authorities that during Hell Week last February, the pledges were made to get down on the floor in a Plank position while some frat members vomited on the students and others tossed cups of urine on them. College officials have suspended the fraternity as authorities continue their investigation. Not surprisingly, all the students charged have pleaded not guilty, including a 21-year-old frat president, Evan Florek. So go ahead, let your son join a fraternity. What could possibly go wrong? Real Housewives star Theresa Geodesi called Sophia Vergara a witch with a capital B at a photo shoot, saying she expected her to be nice because she is an immigrant. Are we sure she's a real housewife? I mean, I have a hard time believing anybody this naive and stupid has the word real tacked on to them. According to babynamewizard.com, the name Sophia, and all its other variants, is the most popular name globally, with its topping the list of popular girls' names in eight countries. Besides founder, Laura Wattenberg assessed data from 48 countries and found that Sophia is currently the most popular name for a baby girl in Mexico, Russia, Chile, Estonia, Slovakia, Argentina, Italy and Switzerland. Plus it comes in second or third place in a further 20 regions. Man, who knew Sophia Loren was so influential for today's millennials, huh? In Austria, lamp posts have been covered with airbags to stop smartphone zombies from running into them. Maybe instead of autonomous cars, we should create autonomous roller skates so we don't have to worry about these brainless bozos bashing their skulls in the light poles and wandering into traffic. JFK assassination documents say an informant told the CIA that Adolf Hitler was living in Colombia in the 1950s under the name Adolf Schrittelmeier. If that's true, it's not much of an improvement on the last name, let me really, Adolf Schrittelmeier? Really? You might as well go with Burger Meister Meister Burger. American cell phone users are giving two thumbs up to texting over talking. A recent study reveals 83% of adults in the U.S. own a cell phone, 73% text, and 31% of them would rather send and receive written notes than chat. The average adult in the U.S. sends or receives 41.5 messages per day, while those ages 18-24 handle 109 daily, which adds up to about 3,200 texts per month. In the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life project, 31% of all cell phone users would rather be contacted with a text. 53% say it depends on the situation, and more than half of the heavy-texters, those who exchange more than 50 texts a day, would rather receive a written message than a voice-cell phone call. Sometimes with a phone conversation you say something that you did not mean to, while with a text you have a chance to pause, points out University of Miami health economist Michael French, who believes new technology and young folks are leading the way to changing forms of communication. Man, it ain't that the truth. Now you have to be able to fluently speak emoji or the under-21 crowd will have no idea what you're saying. A 19-year-old man shot himself while holding up a Chicago hot dog stand. Where did he shoot himself? In the hot dog. Officer Karma on the job. If you ever wanted to smash technology, well, here's your chance. Tom Daly, founder of the Wrecking Club, says Wrecking Club is just a place to get some stress out. It's a place where you can come to, but simply, break a bunch of stuff. Do it online is considered a club. You do that at home, that's considered domestic violence. Tennessee Special Vehicles has revealed what aims to be the first 300-mile-per-hour street legal production car, the Venom F5, yours for a paltry $1.6 million. Just keep in mind, though, that because the car is street legal and can go 300 miles per hour, that does not mean that it is street legal to drive 300 miles per hour. Once you take speed limits at the consideration, a Toyota Prius is just as street legal. The McRib is back. That's why I have set up my own GoFundMe page. Cities around the United States have been falling over themselves, pitching themselves to Amazon as candidates for its second headquarters. But Little Rock, Arkansas, they took a unique approach. Its response was gracious and clever, but fundamentally different than all the others. The Little Rock Regional Chamber, responsible for business development in town, placed a full-page ad in the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, styled as a breakup letter, gently explaining to Amazon why it would never work out between them. Quote, in the end, the point of this effort was to position Little Rock as a city ripe for economic development for business growth as well as an expansion. Quote, The materials pointed to a new website, LoveLittleRock.org. Okay, so they wrote a breakup letter in order to get somebody interested in them. Man, no wonder I was single all the way through school. I was doing it wrong. I should have been telling girls I don't want to go out with them so they would become infatuated with me. Today is voting day around the United States. A recent poll reveals that more than 80% of Americans favor major changes in the way elections are conducted. Change number one, better candidates. The Ford Motor Company has developed a robotic butt. Ford uses the robot to test its car seats and it can simulate 10 years of use in just three weeks. And if that doesn't work out, there are already Kardashians lining up to use it on themselves. Surgeons in India removed 639 nails from a patient's intestines. And if your mom keeps telling you to stop biting your nails, now you know why. Elena Burkova, a Russian porn star, says she's going to run against Putin in the next election there. That's assuming she is still alive by then. O.J. Simpson's house in Las Vegas was reportedly a hot spot for trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Although, I do feel it was a bit inappropriate for him to pass out small red-stained gloves. They say Hong Kong residents have an average living space of 50 square feet, that's smaller than the average jail cell. But they do get to live under a totalitarian communist regime, so you know what all balances out. Stephen Colbert axed a pre-recorded interview with Jeremy Piven on Friday because of those pending sexual harassment allegations. I'm coming to the conclusion there is nobody working in show business that is not a sexual deviant. An 81-year-old man in the German town of Bretton reported finding an unexploded bomb from World War II in his home garden. Police and the bomb squad showed up only to find out that the alleged bomb was nothing more than a large zucchini. But you can give the guy a break. The police themselves even conceded that the nearly 16-inch squash really did look very much like a bomb. Ohio police are on the lookout for a man who pulled up to a McDonald's at 3.30 in the morning, ordered a Nag McMuffin, was told that they were all out, and then pulled a gun. I will never understand stories like this. Sure, you're disappointed they don't have what you're looking for, but how does pulling a gun change the inventory if what's in the McDonald's walk-in cooler? Strippers in New York City have gone on strike, saying bartenders and club owners are discriminating against them. Alright, look, ladies, if you're demanding respect, you might want to start by not taking all of your clothes off for money. There is a lot of controversy in the Netherlands right now about a new television show called Rape or Not. Shia, I wonder what's so controversial about it? Sears has announced that in addition to the 250 Sears and Kmart stores it's already scheduled to close, it's closing an additional 45 Kmart and 18 Sears locations. This is crazy. Somebody should buy one of those stores and convert it into either a radio shack or a blockbuster video. CBS is going to bring back the Twilight Zone, but only on their all-access streaming service. Twitter says that one of their employees inadvertently deactivated President Trump's account. On the very last day, that employee was going to work there. Apparently, Twitter's definition of inadvertent is a lot different than mine. A woman in Polk City, Florida was arrested for DUI last week. She was caught drunk driving a horse. That hardly seems fair. After all, it was the horse doing all of the driving. According to the laws of physics, the universe should have annihilated itself as soon as it came into existence. Earlier this year, scientists for the first time developed a way to measure antimatter, a discovery they hoped would enable future researchers to solve the mystery of how the universe survived. All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist, says Christina Smora, author of the CERN study. Or here's an idea, how about you just give in and admit that God must have done it and then move on? NBA on TNT analyst Charles Barkley doesn't believe that vegetarianism is a thing. On a recent broadcast, the basketball hall of fame are told Ernie Johnson, there's no such thing as a vegetarian. Nobody doesn't like meat, Ernie. Okay, so Charles Barkley doesn't think vegetarians are real. A few months ago, Shaquille O'Neal said he believes the earth is flat. I thought head injuries were mostly a football thing. Sewer workers in London finally broke up that 140-ton blockage. It stretched farther than two football fields. It was the biggest breakup in London since One Direction. Oscar-winning actor and author Tom Hanks used a Texas Book Festival appearance to help a couple get engaged. Hanks was in Austin Saturday speaking to hundreds of listeners about his new book, Uncommon Type, some stories, and then suddenly Hanks just told the crowd that he was bored from taking their questions. He wanted to ask a question himself. He then pulled out a piece of paper and said that a man in the crowd, Ryan McFarling, had a question for a woman named Nikki Young. Hanks said the question was, Nikki, will you marry me? Well, the couple went on stage. McFarling got down on one knee, gave Young the ring. Hanks then hugged the newly engaged woman and offered his best wishes to the couple. This would have been a better story, if the guy's name had been Wilson. Wilson! Wilson! A judge in Hawaii has set in State Defendant to write at least 140 nice things about his ex-girlfriend after he violated a protection order and began repeatedly harassing her by phone and text. So, Judge Rhonda Lu told Mr. Darren Young that for every nasty thing you said about her, you're going to say a nice thing and no repeating words. Wow, is this even possible? I really like myself and I probably couldn't come up with maybe more than a dozen nice things to say. The bicycle-riding woman who was photographed flipping off President Trump's motorcade in Virginia recently has been fired from her job because of the flipping of the bird. She tried justifying her actions, saying that she was calling the president number one, but nobody was buying it. Well, you've known him as Sean Combs, P. Diddy, Puff Daddy. Well, now he's changing his name yet again to Love, aka Brother Love. How long before this guy pulls a prince on us and just changes his name to an unpronounceable symbol? Up in Canada, Patrick Mays wrote on his Facebook page, If you know someone who's lost a house, let me know. And he wasn't kidding. Seems he was driving past a section of his property near Pilot Butt, Saskatchewan, when he noticed, because it was hard not to notice, a grey house on a trailer just parked in the middle of a field that Mays rents to a local farmer. While he assumed this was a temporary thing and that the owner would be retrieving it shortly, but four days later, he turned to Facebook for help with the mystery. Then he heard from Brenda Robertson who said, That's my house. She went on to explain that there had been a few issues in the delivery of her new house from neighboring Manitoba. Though the home had reached Saskatchewan, Robertson was told that it had to be taken back across province lines in order to have permits reissued. So it's quite a surprise to see my house on your land, she said. But the good news is everything is getting cleared up and the house should be off of Mays' property on Thursday, though he did joke that he might be able to keep it, you know, under Finder's Keeper's laws. Ellen Barken reportedly scared away a burglar inside her home. Then again, that plastic surgery scares away everybody. Kroger grocery stores are going to start carrying clothing items, be looking for Kulots in the freezer section. And now for the real fans, there is Walking Dead Wine, three different blends named after fan-favorite characters Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, and Negan. You know what, name a deep red wine after Lucille and then you'll get me interested. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is recovering from five broken ribs after being attacked by a guy who tackled him while he mowed his lawn on Friday. It is shocking news. I mean, who knew a senator would be willing to mow their own lawn? A ride in a Maserati to a movie theater sounds like a great night out on the town. It wasn't, though, for a Georgia man who's accused of stealing, said Maserati, and driving it to a showing of the movie Blade Runner 2049. Police spotted the stolen vehicle parked outside the theater and stuck around until the thief came out of the movie. Okay, if you're going to steal a car and park it in public, you might want a Jack one that's a bit less conspicuous. Florida State University has banned all fraternities and sororities following the death of a student after a house party last Friday. Well then, that should completely stop college students from partying and drinking. I mean, after all, you can't do that unless you're in a fraternity, right? Starbucks has opened its first bakery in Seattle. Can the $10 Grande No Gluten Double Frosting Cinnamon Roll be far behind? I speak Starbuckian, can you tell? Chicago is quickly approaching its 600th homicide this year. That would be the first time since 2003. So, um, congratulations? Being an adult in the real world is hard. Maybe that is what a young hippopotamus discovered in her two minutes outside of Ramat Gan safari in central Israel. According to UPI, the female hippo escaped the zoo on Wednesday evening, casually strolling out of an open gate only to return on her own accord through the same gate two minutes later. It's the exact same thing that happens when college snowflakes graduate, step out into the real world, and then realize nothing has prepared them for the real world. Comcast users experienced internet shutdowns on Monday due to a network configuration error. If it makes you feel any better, they had to put themselves on hold and listen to warbly music for 45 minutes before it was fixed. Over in Russia, 21-year-old Bariska Kiprianovich had quite a remarkable life. He was able to speak within months of being born, and he could read and write by the age of two. Too bad he's crazy. He now claims that he is a Martian who was reborn on Earth. His parents claim that he has spoken about alien civilizations since he was a young boy, despite them never teaching him about the matter. He also claims he has visited Earth while working as a pilot on Mars and that they had close connections to ancient Egyptians. In fact, he made a prediction that life on Earth is going to change significantly when the Great Sphinx of Giza is unlocked using a mechanism behind its ear. His mother believes she knew he was special from the age of just a couple of weeks when he was able to hold his own head up unassisted. She also said that he was able to read newspaper headlines by the age of one. He could draw at the age of two, and by two and a half he could paint. Of course, all the alien conspiracy theorists are just eating this up. The Zion Illinois Police Department was dispatched recently to rescue a chunky raccoon from a sewer grate. On their Facebook page, the police wrote, It seems this little guy has been eating a little too well and got caught in the sewer grate. Either that or he was getting pulled into the sewer by that creepy clown dude from It. Le Parisien is now open in Paris. It's the city's first all-nude restaurant. Yikes, you gotta feel sorry for the guy working the deep fryer at that place. A 24-year-old Kansas City man is facing federal gun and drug charges. While being questioned, Sean Sykes Jr. denied knowing anything about the guns or drugs. In his report about the interview, the detective wrote that when asked about his address, Mr. Sykes leaned to one side of his chair and released a loud fart. So now he's being charged with biological warfare. A new study claims that sleep deprivation actually causes your brain cells to not fire properly. Broccoli! Kevin Spacey is checked into the same rehab center where Harvey Weinstein is currently receiving treatment. Afterwards, they plan to bunk in separate rooms over at Roman Polanski's place. Meanwhile, there's apparently a petition circulating to save the series' House of Cards by replacing Kevin Spacey in the lead with Kevin James. And Lee Remini can be the first lady, and they can move the White House over to a White Castle in Queens. Michael Arega of Dallas, Texas decided to visit the White House in Washington, D.C. Well, actually, he said he went to the nation's capital to kill all white police at the White House. The Secret Service arrested him after receiving an alert from the Montgomery County, Maryland Police Department to be on the lookout for Arega. He was found on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue near Lafayette Park. A Facebook profile that appears to be Aregas shows him checked in at the White House on Monday and also includes posts with statements such as, Now I am going to there to White House make sure kill all white police. I remove the power of darkness from USA in the powerful name of Jesus Christ. Put him on jail Donald J. Trump in May I.T. name of Jesus Christ. Arega was not carrying any weapons when he was arrested, but he was charged with making felony threats. I hope he was also charged with murdering proper spelling and grammar. Finnish Game Studio Next Games has announced it's going to launch a new augmented reality smartphone game in the coming months based on AMC Network's hit TV show Walking Dead. Kind of like Pokemon Go, but with zombies. Well, what could possibly go wrong? It's the movie moment that has sparked debate for over two decades. Could Rose have saved Jack on that Titanic door? Well, now a group of Australian schoolgirls say the answer is yes, and they've got proof. You remember the ending, right? Rose and Jack are forced into the freezing North Atlantic Sea, and Rose clamors onto a floating door. But there's only room for one, and Jack tragically sacrifices himself so Rose can survive. Well, 10th graders Abigail Wicks, Kristi Zang and Julia Domano from Westminster School in Adelaide used a math formula to show that they could have both survived if they'd put their lifejackets under the floating door. This would have supported the wood and the pair could have floated to safety. Wicks, 15 years old, said, We looked at how buoyant the door would have been and how that would have changed if there were people on top of that. The team also considered the door's buoyancy would have been affected by the salt content in the water. The students presented their theory at the National Maths Talent Quest and won an award for their work. But Director James Cameron, he is not impressed and he's a bit of a party pooper on this. Speaking to the Daily Beast, he said, Okay, so let's really play that out. You're Jack, you're in water that's 28 degrees and your brain is starting to get hypothermia. You now go take off your life vest, take hers off, swim underneath this thing, attach it in some way that it won't just wash out two minutes later, which means you're underwater tying this thing on in 28-degree water and that's going to take you 5-10 minutes. So by the time you come back up, you're already dead. A Cambridge University study claims that sheep are able to recognize human faces. Which sheep were not sure since they all look alike? Johnny Depp has had five properties in Los Angeles go into foreclosure. Apparently, Pirate's loot just doesn't go as far as it used to. About 10,000 Americans have alien abduction insurance. So if you get abducted and the aliens give you a medical exam, what's the copay for that? Police in Minnesota say a man walked into a donut shop as it was about to close and handed a clerk a note stating that he had a gun and a bomb. The man's note said that he would use both if he didn't get cash. The man then grabbed what he thought was a paper bag full of cash and fled. Turns out he stole a bag of donuts. You know, with their love of donuts, police should not take too long to track this guy down. 24-7 Wall Street has named Montana as the state where drivers are least likely to be in a car accident. Which makes sense. It's Montana, the nearest other driver over a mile and a half away. Donterious Williams is a 21-year-old black man from Kansas and he called police to report somebody had sprayed racist graffiti on his car. Racial slurs like Go Home, Date Your Own Kind, and Die were found by the Riley County police spray-painted on his vehicle. The good news is they have the person who did it in custody and he has confessed. The bad news is it's Donterious Williams. Yep, the guy did it himself, claiming it was just a Halloween prank. Never mind the fact that Halloween was almost two weeks ago. Sportscaster Bob Costas says that the future of football is bleak because of all the head injuries. The spokesman for the players responded, true not to that. An ethical debate is breaking out over some experiments where human brain tissue is being injected into the brains of mice. It's already causing issues because every night the mice try to take over the world. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,300-year-old gym. Man, you want to talk about some pretty ripe sweat towels? Someone took an even closer look at Vincent Van Gogh's painting, Olive Trees, and found a grasshopper embedded into the actual painting. It's the only thing that actually did look real in Vincent Van Gogh's paintings. Here's a wild ride from Canada, see if you can keep up with this. Edmonton Police say it began around 9.30 am when a woman, her six-week-old infant and her father were all kidnapped from their home and forced into a vehicle. The father, who was in the trunk, escaped while the vehicle was moving shortly before the woman and infant were also able to flee. Uninjured, all three were picked up by a man in a truck. Then the suspect's vehicle plowed into the back of that truck and wound up in a ditch 17 minutes after the kidnapping took place. Federal police then found a man, two women and two female youths inside the crashed suspect's white BMW and oh yeah, they were all naked. A video from the scene reportedly shows officers surrounding the vehicle before a nude man is led away. We should also mention it was 17 degrees outside at the time. All five naked individuals were taken to a hospital. The youths have since been released from custody while the adults, who police say they knew their alleged victims, have been charged with kidnapping and resisting arrest. Police have not disclosed a motive but believe drugs and alcohol may have been involved. Yep, that would be my guess. Get the Daily Dose of Weird News podcast for Apple or Android at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com And please leave a review on iTunes if you liked the show. I'm Darren Marlar and I'll see you next time, Weirdos. Ghosts, demons, shadow people, unsolved mysteries, unexplained phenomenon, monsters and more. True stories of the paranormal and supernatural. I'm Darren Marlar, the creator and host of Weird Darkness where I bring you the dark, creepy and macabre. You can even tell me your own stories for use in future episodes. Get the podcast today for Apple, Android or your favorite podcasting app at WeirdDarkness.com.