Weekly News Round-up 8/29/12

A man dressed a Bigfoot was hit by a car in Montana. His friends say he was trying to hoak a sighting. You can read about it here.

Hundreds of racing pigeons have gone missing in an area being called a pigeon Bermuda Triangle. The article is here.

Architects are running a contest to design zombie proof housing. Check it out here!

Weekly News Round-up 6/6/12

ACB News posted a video taken in Idaho that some believe may be of a bigfoot. You can see it here.

Scientists have discovered a sea creature shaped like the Batman symbol-and have no idea what it is. The video is here.

A zombie race is being held in  Lincolnshire. Might be a good idea to practice with all the weird zombie-related news stories popping up lately.

Weekly News Round-up 1/1/12

Two guys claimed to have found a skull that resembles a thylacine in Tasmania. Monster Tracker has the full article here.

Io9.comj posted an article about early plans to turn George Washington into a zombie. Yeah, it's as weird as it sounds. You can read it here.

Gather News posted a video of a bird being struck by a strange flying orb.

People in the town of Battleford (and other places) have being hearing strange sounds. Some people believe it may be static noise but no one seems to know for sure. You can read about it here.

Creature Feature: Zombies!

Right now zombies are everywhere. Or at least it feels like it. TV,movies, the radio, books… you just can’t seem to escape them. They are slowly taking over, just as zombies should. So what’s our great fascination with these things? Essentially, they’re just hungry humans. Hungry humans that want to eat other humans. So why is everyone so obsessed with them?

Honestly, I think part of the appeal is that we know we are superior to them. You can’t help but watch a zombie movie without planning some sort of brilliant escape or zombie attack plan. For the most part, they are easy to kill. Who doesn’t like an easy target when you’re holding a rifle (or bow, or flame thrower?)  It’s fun to try and outsmart a monster and zombies aren’t too difficult to outsmart.

They also give us an easy way to excuse otherwise gratuitous violence. I had to chop his head of or he would have eaten me mentality is totally acceptable. And fun.

Zombies make us feel fast, because they are soo slow. They make us feel smart because they are so unintelligent. And they make us feel good because they are so bad.