The printer is working, no one else is in the room, but the print-out is nowhere to be found…
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Too high to sit on, too small to do anything else with, so why are they there?
Subtle spookiness in Shinjuku isn’t promoting anything except fear in all who notice it.
The money wasn’t meant for him, but the intended recipient has no clue who the woman is either.
A surprise message left in the walls of a home leads to a widespread search for the previous homeowners.
After spotting a suspicious stranger in Shinjuku, Mr. Sato is connected with someone he’d never have expected.
Twitter wants you to help find the people taken in these beautiful black-and-white photos from Japan’s past.
Japanese Twitter users weigh in with their thoughts on the bizarre print and the fate of the frog who made it.
The internet’s full of weird stuff. Usually, it’s really out-there, kooky, insane, bizarre-o weird stuff, but every now and then something comes along which is weird in a baffling way. Take this video of a cat poking some cotton swabs around as if trying to arrange them in a particular way. It was favourited 1.5 thousand times on Twitter, yet nobody commented on it, possibly because no one knows what to make of it.
What is the purpose of the video? Is the cat some kind of feline savant? Is there some deep, philosophical meaning behind the placement of the cotton buds? See if you can work it out…
Alien conspiracy theories have been with humankind for as long as we’ve looked up at the sky and thought “Holy crap, what is all that?!” Of course, we’ve answered a large part of that question, but the unknown and not-quite-totally-explained still account for vast swathes of the world around us, like “dark energy,” calculus, and what’s really in McNuggets.
And while scientists are hard at work answering our questions, we’re sorry to say we’re not really helping. Here’s one more thing to add to the list of the unexplained: Strange lights spotted in the sky over Tokyo!
Police in Sakai City, Osaka are currently investigating a 46-year-old man found hanged in an public housing complex apartment that wasn’t his. The actual owner, a 21-year-old man, has since disappeared. This strange story all started when the young tenant received a phone call from an unidentified man speaking in a Tokyo area dialect that said “someone is dead in your room.”
Having ruled out Colonel Mustard with a candlestick in the dining room (thanks Hasbro), Osaka prefectural police at the city’s Taisho station are trying to figure out who made off with national flags from two of the district’s elementary schools on April 16.
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