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Great Big Story traveled to San Jose, California to take a tour through the very spooky Winchester Mystery House. The house is an odd legacy of troubled rifle heiress Sarah Winchester, who sought to assuage the ghosts that haunted her by constantly building eccentric additions onto her enormous Queen Anne Style Victorian over the course […]

Elon Musk announced Tesla‘s newest product, a line of solar roof tiles, at a joint event with SolarCity on October 28, 2016 held at Universal Studios, Los Angeles. Musk said the cost of the roofs would be less expensive than traditional options, and cited Tesla’s goal of fighting global climate change. During the event, Musk […]

Douglas Rushkoff, author of the apt societal commentary Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, has delved into the fantastic concepts of mysticism, time travel and war with Aleister & Adolf, a graphic novel illustrated by Michael Avon Oeming and published by Dark Horse Comics. The story imagines famed occultist Aleister Crowley using his specific area […]

In episode 14 of his series for IMDb, host Brandon Hardesty of No Small Parts takes a look at the career of actor Peter Dinklage and his admirable refusal to be typecast into specific roles solely because of his size. Peter’s path to success had a lot to do with his perseverance and avoiding stereotypical […]

In partnership with National Geographic, award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio and director Fisher Stevens have created Before the Flood, a highly important film that addresses the crucial topic of climate change, offering different points of view, experience, concern and solution through riveting interviews different people from around the world. Before the Flood, directed by Fisher Stevens, […]

Mathematician and author Joseph Mazur breaks down the odds of a seemingly impossible coincidence in an insightful interview with Vox contributor Phil Edwards. Edwards explains the story of Anne Parish, a woman from Colorado Springs who found the exact copy of a book she owned as a child while on a trip to Paris. On […]

The ARMOR-X is a mini flexible phone tripod and remote kit designed so users can take stable pictures from otherwise unreachable places. The kit includes the tripod, an adjustable smartphone mount, and a Bluetooth remote. Capture awesome photo and video anywhere with your smartphone thanks to the ARMOR-X Mini Flexible Phone Tripod. It’s easy to […]

Domino artist Lily Hevesh (a.k.a. “Hevesh5“) created a new video where 12,000 dominoes fall over in a spooktacular Halloween themed display. Her “screenlink” domino footage features witches, cauldrons, broomsticks, pumpkins, ghosts, and more. We’ve previously written about Lily’s amazing domino displays. A video posted by Hevesh5 (@hevesh5) on Oct 29, 2016 at 12:14pm PDT A […]

The humorous Seth Everman has created an amusing video where he performs a variety of old school video game music and sounds on a synthesizer in 101 minutes. i just made this video by improvising some stuff that sounded like video game music and it’s honestly a terrible video but thank you so much for […]

Humans Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, and Ryan Reynolds discover a living sample taken from the surface of Mars in the new science fiction thriller Life. The film is set on the International Space Station after the team of astronauts recover the sample from a Mars probe, but the exciting discovery quickly turns dangerous and threatens the lives […]

Aldo Jones has created a weird Halloween themed re-edit of the sneak peek trailer released for Marvel‘s upcoming superhero film, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Fans of Aldo can help support his future work on Patreon. Here is the original trailer for comparison. Related Laughing Squid PostsStar-Lord and Drax Hug It Out in Sneak […]

A normally indoor Simon’s Cat forlornly tried to find his way out of a spooky forest full of many eyes peeking out from the darkness. Luckily, the lost kitty is not alone because everyone can keep a sharp eye on him through interactive 360° video, although he’s frightfully good at hiding. Look out for Simon’s […]

Redditor LordBrandon created a great, ferocious looking Tyrannosaurus rex Halloween costume for his son using foam, paint, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pajamas. I made a model in 3D, then used software to split it apart into a pattern, then I hung the foam on the wall and projected the pattern with a little pico […]

On the October 30th episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver took on the controversial topic of school segregation, noting that not only this troubling practice remained, it’s become more of an issue than ever. The classroom should teach children about the importance of self-esteem not rip it from them… and there could be […]

Cyclist Steve Storey recorded an exciting downhill mountain bike ride using a stabilized GoPro camera for a smooth and beautiful video of his run. Storey said in the video comments that he has spent more than two years working on the line he rides in the video. The video is part of a contest sponsored […]

When their dog Jolene the Golden turned two-years old on October 13, 2016, her humans Ben Mesches and Emily Crisp gave her a Gumby chew toy that very quickly became her absolute take-everywhere favorite. Mesches decided to surprise Jolene again and came out into the living room dressed as a life-sized version of her beloved […]

A term paper assignment launches an existential crisis in the mind of Exurb1a as the deadline approaches. As time runs out he must fight distraction and question the very meaning of life itself, or maybe just end it all. Related Laughing Squid PostsHow to Make an Existential Emergency PhoneA Lincoln Car Commercial Starring Matthew McConaughey […]

Dave Hax demonstrates how carve a spooky pumpkin that features a visible brain and green slime oozing out of its mouth in his crafty Halloween tutorial. Related Laughing Squid PostsHow To Carve a Pumpkin Using a HandgunHow To Carve A Pumpkin Using A GunNick Douglas Shows You How to Carve a Pumpkin for Halloween

NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory put their skills to use for their fifth-annual high-tech pumpkin carving contest. The engineers select their pumpkin the day before the contest for measurements and planning, but cannot begin work on the pumpkin itself until the day of the contest when they have just one hour to complete […]

Redditor Renz2LK used scrap pieces of EVA foam to create an awesome Optimus Prime Halloween costume for his cute son that actually transforms. Renz2LK also shared evening footage of the lights functioning on the clever Transformers costume. Created my son’s costume using scrap pieces of EVA foam. Total build time: 6 hours (spread over 2 […]

The Slow Mo Guys, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy, filmed themselves waxing their legs in graphic 28,000fps slow motion. The hairs resemble weird tentacles leaping from the waves of a violent skin ocean as they are pulled out by the waxing strip. The slow motion captured the delayed reaction humans have to pain, as Gruchy even […]

Makeup artist Alexys Fleming of Madeyewlook used her amazing set of skills to paint Jesse Wellens of PrankvsPrank from to head to toe and made him look like Marvel‘s shiny comic book superhero, Silver Surfer. Jesse then jumped on a silver electric surfboard and cruised through the streets of New York City to show off […]

A compilation of Saturday Night Live sketches celebrating Halloween over the years. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Hilarious SNL Skit That Juxtaposes Beginning of Evening Intentions With End of Night RealitiesJourney to the End of the Night: Halloween San Francisco 2009Fright Night, A Rhythmix Cultural Works Fundraiser

With Halloween just a few days away, KJ of Creative Lighting Displays has created an encore of his incredible light show in Riverside, California featuring the classic AC/DC song “Highway to Hell”. Just like his amazing show set to “Time Warp”, this show featured anthropomorphic lights that moved in perfect synch with the amazing vocals […]

The Laughing Squid store is currently featuring a set of cookie/egg molds shaped like a silly skull and a wide-eyed owl. The molds are dishwasher and food safe, are very easy to use and fun all year round . Whether you’re baking cookies for Halloween or spicing up breakfast for your kiddos, these molds will […]

PBS Idea Channel host Mike Rugnetta gives an argument for how and why millennials ruin everything. His video also explains the concept of generations, and mentions a video in which Adam Conover explains why the idea of generations is a fallacy. For the sake of the argument, Rugnetta accepts the idea of generations and proposes […]

An adorable little chipmunk named Duil played as silly game of peek-a-boo as he sat inside an empty brown snack bag being held open by his very patient human who seems to love and spoil him very much. ???????? pic.twitter.com/YsrOcgOfcD — ????? (@duil_chipmunk) August 14, 2016 ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/nCE1CIDJxX — ????? (@duil_chipmunk) September 7, 2016 via […]

VINEBOX is a curated wine-by-the glass sampler service that offers monthly delivery of three limited-production varietals on a on a subscription basis. This affords members the opportunity to learn what they like without having the expense or commitment of a full bottle. The Laughing Squid store is currently offering a discounted rate on one month […]

Young Hedy makes some bold choices in pursuit of infinite wishes after she finds a genie’s lamp in her attic in a sketch by TomSka. Hedy has a genie-ous plan. Related Laughing Squid PostsBioShock InfiniteAn Honest Movie Trailer for the Disney Film ‘Aladdin’Talented 80-Year Old Japanese Craftsman Wants to Keep Making Toys Until He’s 200 […]

Real Engineering explains how super tall buildings like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Tapei 101 in Taiwan use things like vortex shedding and mass dampers to cancel out the incredible forces working on them and achieve such great heights. This month I was visiting my parents living in Dubai and I took the […]

Magic Wheelchair is a really beautiful non-profit that helps to build amazingly, elaborate Halloween costumes for children in wheelchairs by organizing volunteers within communities, helping families apply for costumes and providing ideas for “epic costumes“, all free of charge. Magic Wheelchair was started by parents Ryan and Lana Weimer, whose sons Keaton and Bryce both […]

In a mind-blowing timelapse video, German artist Stefan Pabst creates a 3D optical illusion drawing of a creepy clown from the annual Halloween Horror Nights event at Universal Studios. A photo posted by Stefan Pabst (@3dpainterpabst) on Oct 28, 2016 at 9:24am PDT A photo posted by Stefan Pabst (@3dpainterpabst) on Oct 28, 2016 at […]

Ellimacs SFX has released a gruesome zombie Halloween special effects tutorial on how to make it look like your guts and intestines are ripped out for everyone to see. The full tutorial is available to view on the Ellimacs SFX website. We previously wrote about their Demogorgon and Twisty the Clown tutorials. Gory stuff just […]

SafariSeat is an all terrain wheelchair designed for people in developing countries. The design is being released freely as an open source toolkit, and the chair itself can be constructed cheaply from bicycle parts. SafariSeat’s designer Janna Frederick Stone Deeble is raising money through Kickstarter to distribute the open source toolkit and to produce the […]

Adoring parents Richard Blakeley and Lindsay Kaplan wanted to make their son Max’s first birthday and first Halloween very special, so they dressed up as Wild Things from Max’s favorite book and marched along the route of the Hocus Pocus Parade in Beacon, New York where all sorts of people said hello to the character […]

Bethesda released a fantastic movie quality live action trailer for Dishonored 2, a sequel to the popular 2012 video game Dishonored developed by Arkane Studios. The trailer features assassins Emily Kaldwin and Corvo Attano taking on robots, using superpowers, and flashing their fighting skills all over Karnaca. Dishonored 2 is currently available to pre-order for […]

The Internet Archive has launched GifCities, an animated GIF search engine that has indexed over 4,500,000 animated GIFs saved from the defunct GeoCities. Geocities was an early web hosting service, started in 1994 and acquired by Yahoo in 1999, with which users could create their own custom websites. The platform hosted over 38 million user-built […]

The trailer for the upcoming, highly anticipated fourth series (season) of Sherlock strongly hints at the impending danger closing in on the eponymous character and all those around him. This includes the detective’s oft-reviled brother Mycroft, whom the normally accommodating Mrs. Hudson calls a “reptile”. Series 4 premieres on BBC One and on PBS (U.S.) […]

While pursuing a little zebra-tailed lizard while on location in the Sonoran Desert, the persistent Coyote Peterson of Brave Wilderness encountered a grove of prickly pear cacti that were sporting ripe, purple fruits on top. Peterson very carefully cut the fruit from the plant, unlaced his shoes, removed one of his socks and demonstrated how […]

Andy Jones of AgeOwns Photography enjoyed the historical period horror film, The Witch, so much that he made a great PLAYMOBIL playset based on the movie. The entire collection of photos are available to view on the MillionairePlayboy website and Flickr. Here is the original movie trailer for The Witch. Thanks David Klass! Related Laughing […]

In the spirit of Halloween, a herd of elephants at the ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK were given a yummy seasonal treat of big round pumpkins that were grown especially for them. The giant pachyderms gleefully smashed the orange gourds with their enormous feet in order to get at the meaty insides, while […]

Burger King disguised one of their locations in Queens, New York as the ghost of McDonald’s for a Halloween prank. The restaurant was covered in sheets and the sign read “BOOOOO! Just kidding. We still flame grill our burgers. HAPPY HALLOWEEN” This Halloween Burger King dressed up in the scariest costume imaginable. screenshot via Scariest […]

New York filmmakers Efraim Klein and Matt Silverman of Free Dad Videos have created “Link-or-Treat: A Legend of Zelda Halloween,” a wonderful video featuring Matt’s adorable 3-year-old daughter Amelia who gets dressed up as Link and engages in an epic Legend of Zelda themed Halloween adventure. They also released a behind the scenes look at […]

John Atkinson created a handy Horror Movie Plot Generator for Halloween on latest Wrong Hands comic. Related Laughing Squid PostsMovie Plot GeneratorThe Geography of Horror, An Interactive Map of Famous Horror Movie LocationsDutch Horror Film ‘App’ Uses Audience Phones to Enhance the Plot

MacRumors recaps everything announced at the Apple Apple MacBook Pro event in under 4 minutes. Related Laughing Squid PostsA Recap of Everything Announced at the Apple iPhone 7 Event in Under 5 MinutesApple Unveils iPad Mini, iPad 4, new iMac and 13″ MacBook ProApple Announces New 13 and 15-Inch MacBook Pros, Will Release OS X […]

Campers Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon tried to sing “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette without waking up their counselor (A.D. Miles) on The Tonight Show. During Timberlake’s appearance, he and Fallon also played “Best Friends Challenge” where they had to guess how the other would answer questions. During the challenge they had to guess what song the […]

Online novelty retailer Archie McPhee has just released a set of vinyl finger puppets shaped like tiny duck feet. They would look quacktastic walking next to their quirky finger puppets shaped like human hands. Duck Feet are the finger puppets for the person who wishes their hand was a duck. This set of two appealing […]

Filmmaker Abe Forman-Greenwald teamed up with Super Deluxe to capture footage of the design process behind artist Landon Meier‘s creepy hyper-realistic baby masks. A video posted by Super Deluxe (@superdeluxe) on Oct 21, 2016 at 10:13am PDT Related Laughing Squid PostsCreepy Life-Like Baby Masks Create Alarming Adult BabiesPrank Has People Helping Crying Baby That is […]

A video posted by Niall T Kelly (@niall_t_kelly) on Oct 21, 2016 at 12:28pm PDT A man fell on his face while trying to climb a mountain in a virtual reality demo at what appears to be a Microsoft Store. The fall was captured by Niall T Kelly. via Geekologie Related Laughing Squid PostsWeb Worker […]