When it comes to cults, wherever they spring up in the world, one thing is for sure, and it’s that they never end well. Since the apocalyptic finale of WW2 that featured two nuclear explosions, the island nation of Japan has been rather docile. That is until you read about the story of Shoko Asahara,…
You read that right, dear reader, the country that lost the most in its fight against Nazism, by complete accident, memorialized a Nazi on a sculpture in Tobolsk back in 2015. How the hell could that happen? It’s one thing to memorialize maybe someone who you later learn to have held Nazi views, but no!…
In the glorious, normal year that was 2019 in niche corners of the internet, such as Reddit, Facebook groups, and 4chan, a movement began. The movement was called the Boogaloo. From its initial beginnings as an internet movement and the subject of memes, nobody expected them to actually take physical form. But as the George…
“I Don’t Like Mondays:” Mondays. You hate ’em, right? While most of us despise going back to the grind, it’s an unpleasantry that most just deal with from the time they are in grade school up until they retire from their jobs. And while most often contemplate a variety of sick scenarios where they take…
When you think of Dracula, there are a few things that probably come to mind. A man with a hypnotic gaze. Slicked back black hair. A thick European accent that seems to beckon one towards them. What you are thinking of is the performance of the late, great Béla Lugosi, the quintessential face of Dracula…
As Mark Twain said, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t,” and this is one of those instances. As long as there have been politicians and political parties, there have always been myriad fringe and frivolous politicians and parties ranging with goals ranging from…
At Weird World Wire we like nothing better than people who stick it to the man and Dan Tito Davis certainly did that. A fugitive from US law from 1994 to 2007 he is famously the only US national to be renditioned to the US from Venezuela. After 10 years in the slammer, he is…
Mike Tyson, from New York, is one of the legendary boxers of all time. He holds the record for the youngest-ever winner of the heavyweight WBC, WBA and IBF titles. He is also a sex offender by law, having been convicted of rape in 1992 and serving three years in jail. In jail, he converted…