Someone I met told me about this bizarre jewelry shop he went to once in NYC 15 years ago and I want to know what shop it was and if it still exists.
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posted by MaryDellamorte
on Jan 17, 2013 -
6 answers
So when I was little I was the weird kid who mixed up food in weird and non-intuitive ways that grossed out many of my peers, but many of those combinations, discovered through largely blind trial and error, turned out to work really well - What are ones that you've discovered?
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posted by Blasdelb
on Nov 2, 2012 -
132 answers
The dark months are approaching: it's late October and it's time to be scared, but not by your typical Halloween spooks and haunts. Help me discover all that's disconcerting and downright disquieting online (and possibly off).
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posted by item
on Oct 24, 2012 -
26 answers
I'm looking for a novel that strikes a tone between the strange and the intimate/everyday. I've been watching a lot of Fringe lately and I've been in the mood for a book that provides characters interacting with Lovecraftian, Lynchian, or Cronenbergian horrors while the characters themselves remain (or attempt to remain) relatable and slice of life.
posted by sendai sleep master
on Oct 12, 2012 -
56 answers
I am interested in learning more about the idea of radical clothing as symbolic communication, and thinking about how that works today. Thus, I am looking for the most fantastic examples of communicative garments. For example, garments made from recycled materials, that might up, that are in unusual shapes, and so forth. I have found some of these already, but I don't really know what they mean--other than being novelties. Are there unusual garments that you think about a lot? What do you think they mean? Any leads would be most appreciated. If you would like to recommend books or movies about this sort of thing, that would be welcome too.
posted by mortaddams
on Sep 29, 2012 -
14 answers
I remember a strange phenonenon that occurred a few times when I was a child. Voices accompanied with an odd "telescoping" of my vision. A few years ago I read a description of this, but my search powers are failing me. Ring a bell with anyone?
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posted by zardoz
on Aug 14, 2012 -
12 answers
Someone gave out my name and phone number in a potentially creepy chatroom. What do should I do to protect myself?
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posted by Ommcc
on Aug 7, 2012 -
8 answers
The guy I am dating has unusual tendencies, is this a part of his ADD? Or his quirkiness? How should I approach the subject?
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posted by Chelsaroo650
on Feb 13, 2012 -
75 answers
I found a large, fast, and strange looking bug in our living room (
one,
two), and I'm unsure as to what type it is. It has a large "stinger" on it's bottom, with very long legs. Do you know what type it is?
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posted by jwmollman
on Dec 15, 2011 -
9 answers
I recently saw a video that makes me want to create a playlist of unusual/surreal Christmas music. That is to say, odd pairings or covers of classic Christmas songs. I have a small set of criteria inside. What do you got?
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posted by mrzer0
on Nov 18, 2011 -
45 answers
My mother had an unsettling experience at her home this evening between 5 and 5:30 p.m. Does this person who came to her door sound like a scammer or a criminal?
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 14, 2011 -
25 answers
I live in Los Angeles and have been noticing something strange hanging from some telephone lines throughout the city. I have been asking everyone I know if they know what it is, and have searched the Internet for an answer, but I still can't figure out what it is, or why it's hanging everywhere. It looks like a robber holding a money bag.
Here's a picture I took with my phone. Anyone know?
posted by RUPure
on Aug 17, 2011 -
15 answers
Help me find the title of a 1970s-era movie I saw on Sci-Fi Channel in the late 90s/early 2000s. It was several short stories strung together, all very strange but not quite "horror" or "sci-fi".
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posted by knile
on Mar 4, 2011 -
4 answers
Updated for Spring 2011: Please recommend your most oblique, sideways, unsettling, and unusual dance music.
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posted by mykescipark
on Feb 18, 2011 -
4 answers
A man sitting on a park bench notices something odd. A police officer drives up to a stop sign at an intersection of two streets in a residential section of a medium-sized college town. The police car stops at the stop sign, then moves forward, clears the intersection and, once on the other side, stops again, opens his car door, waits a few seconds, closes the door, and moves on. A few minutes later a different police officer approaches the intersection from the other direction. This time the police officer stops at the intersection, opens the car door, waits a few seconds, closes the door, then moves through the intersection and drives off. The person on the park bench notices this occurring throughout the morning, day, and night. The pattern is the same but the players change. Different police officers routinely drive down a particular street. They routinely stop on the north side of an intersection only, but in either lane. Sometimes they will stay parked/idle for up to a minute. Whenever they decide to move from their fixed position, they open the driver's side car door, wait a few seconds, close the door, and move on. What's going on?
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates
on Feb 8, 2011 -
19 answers
Suggest to me some creepy, scary, spooky stuff to read/watch/play with online. Not neccessarily Halloweeny stuff.
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posted by FunkyHelix
on Oct 22, 2010 -
23 answers
Not really worried, more just curious about my cat and how she's been drinking water...she dips her paw and then licks the water from it, repeatedly.
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posted by nevercalm
on Nov 9, 2009 -
38 answers
Inspired by
this question and
this comment, I'm curious to know about other things of this nature. Occurances that, to an outsider, seem completely crazy but are common in daily life in certain places in the world.
posted by MaryDellamorte
on Jul 9, 2009 -
169 answers
A mysterious gray film/residue is appearing on all of the plastic in my apartment. What is going on?
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posted by prefpara
on Feb 17, 2009 -
21 answers
Potentially gross question about two cats that like the taste of human flesh.
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posted by Mutant
on Nov 13, 2008 -
27 answers
I like singers with strange voices. I don't like novelty songs (e.g. Betty Boop) and I don't like "songs" that are so avant-garde that they're basically noise (e.g. someone screaming into a microphone). So I'm not looking for strange music. I'm looking for traditional (melodic) music sung by singers with non-traditional singing voices. Examples of what I like:
Joanna Newsom,
Leon Redbone,
Screamin' Jay Hawkins,
Elaine Stritch.
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posted by grumblebee
on Jun 22, 2008 -
106 answers
Defining Upstate New York as "anything within the state further north than Westchester," what documented bizarre historical events - large or small - have transpired in Upstate New York since the late 19th century or so?
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posted by Sticherbeast
on Feb 11, 2008 -
20 answers
Some weekend this January or maybe February my boyfriend and I will be making our way from our home in Philly to Stroudsburg, PA to partake in some indoor go-karting activities (as a belated Xmas gift for him), and to get the hell out of town to a destination other than relatives.
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posted by killerinsideme
on Jan 3, 2008 -
4 answers
Help identify a strange and creepy children's song from my past that seems ungoogleable.
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posted by trinarian
on Nov 3, 2007 -
22 answers
How can I stop my cat from eating everything he finds that is smaller than his head?
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posted by jesirose
on Oct 1, 2007 -
14 answers
I just started dating this woman. She is 36 year old and has coeliac disease (although I don't think that is related to this question). A strange vibrating noise comes from her.
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posted by Jesco
on Aug 20, 2007 -
16 answers
I look out the window while working. Lately, I've seen some strange behavior: people park, get out and circle the cement pig nearby, and they get back in their car.
What are they doing?
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posted by Monday
on Aug 10, 2007 -
16 answers
