Omgomgomg… THE 2016 WOWIE AWARDS ARE PRACTICALLY UPON US! Do you feel the excitement building? Between now and December 5, we are nominating the best of the best in social media – our favorite bloggers, instagrammers, podcasts, twitterers, snap chatters, and YouTubers. This week, we announce nominees for BEST PODCAST.Check it out:

9) Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revisionist History”

10) Thom Powers’ “Pure Non Fiction” 
Nominees for Best YouTuber:

1. Hey Qween
2. Stephanie Brite
3. Lacey Noel
4. Dianne Brill
5. Tom Goss
6. Vanity Venom
7. Neil McNeil
8. Watts the Safeword (Amp & Bolt)
9. Novympia
10. Arend Richard

Nominees for Best Twitter:

1. Jeffree Star – cosmetics mogul, international beauty, and social media master
2. Alec Mapa – comedian, gay dad, and TV personality
3. Jackie Beat – drag legend and famously prickly comedienne
4. Hari Nef – former fashion it-girl turned Transparent actress
5. Michelangelo Signorilli – Sirius radio personality, long-time LGBT activist, and HuffPo editor
6. Daniel Franzese – star of ABC’s breakout hit Conviction
7. Lil Poundcake – social media woman of mystery
8. Zoey Tur – trans reporter and activist
9. Bryan Safi – Emmy-award winning writer, actor, host, and comedian
10. Johnny Weir – ice skating fashion plate

And, before that, we had the nominees for Best Instagram:

1. Qwerkout – a daily compendium of the world’s most fabulous queens
2. BCallaBCalla – brilliant drag designer
3. Ryan Burke – revolutionary clubkid/makeup artist
4. Matthew Camp – go-go boy turned artist and perfume mogul
5. Nico Tortorella  – hunky goofball and “sexually fluid” actor
6. Laith Ashley – stunning trans fitness model and reality star
7. Cheddar Gorgeous – Manchester queen with looks to look for
8. Susanne Bartsch  – legendary party promoter and style avatar
9. Amanda Lepore – Beyooooond iconic muse and eternally fabulous socialite
10. Peggy Noland – superb LA painter/artist/fashion designer

Voting starts December 5th! Winners will be announced December 12!

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My latest obsession: TBS’s Search Party. While everybody was counting down their Gilmore Girls clock (trust me, I was too), I set aside five hours (because I’m awesome) to binge the entirety (there are ten thirty minute episodes) of the new who-dunnit series and I can’t get enough of it. Here’s the ten things I loved from the new series!

Check it out:

10) Jeffery Self

Self plays the on-and-off again boo, Marc, to Elliot – the narcissistic boyfriend played deliciously by John Early. Each time he falls for Elliot’s tricks again, we couldn’t help but want to take him away, cuddle, and spoon him with a new beau. We couldn’t be more proud of our friend of WOW!

9) The Artwork

In true Nancy Drew style, all the brilliant artwork is done by SlumberBean.

8) Rosie Perez

Perez plays Lorraine, a stranger that Dory (Alia Shawkat) meets in a moment of happenstance and she too, has seen Chantal. When things start to climax though, is Lorraine to be trusted or dusted?

7) Ron Livingston

You know, he’s that guy from Office Space. And he was totally Burger from SATC back in the day. There’s something endearingly perfect/disgusting about he and Dory’s love affair (sorry, spoiler alert!), and you kind of can’t blame her for hooking up with this sleuth-seeking daddy.

6) Brandon Michael Hall


Meredith Hagner described him as a “walking crush,” and that’s the most uncanny way to describe MBH. As Dory’s ex, Julian, the only thing you’ll disagree about his character arch, is that you’ll wish he had a bigger role and was in more of the show!

5) Christine Taylor

Living legend Christine Taylor is known for her comedy chops. Who could ever forget her iconic take on Marcia Brady in the Brady Bunch movies…

AND in Dodgeball with her “threw up in my mouth a little bit,” bit?!

As Gail, the UWS resident whom employs Dory to well, hang out with her?, is incredibly hilarious and you’ll kind of wish she was your boss.

4) Parker Posey

When the ethereal goddess Parker Posey shows up on screen, I squealed. I mean, who DOESN’T love her?! As the cool-as-a-cucumber art shop owner slash possible cult leader (?), you’re gonna die when you watch her in this because whatever Parker touches, turns to gold.

3) John Early

If you haven’t watched him in the Wet Hot American Summer reboot, you really should. It’s hard to introduce John Early, because he’s “literally the funniest guy on the planet.” If you read my interview with him (which you can brain cram here) you’ll fall in love with him too. He really is a stand out in this great new series.

2) Alia Shawkat

We LOVE Alia Shawkat so it was obvious we were ecstatic when we found out she was co-producing and leading this ensemble cast in Search Party. She’s as captivating to watch as Dory is to finding Chantal.

1) Meredith Hagner

For me, the standout performer was newcomer Meredith Hagner. She was stylish, HILARIOUS, and vulnerable to boot. Check out this scene that managed to make me ugly cry and laugh at the same time:

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People magazine asked designer/director/style arbiter Tom Ford what fashion trend he absolutely abhors.

“I wouldn’t be caught dead in flip-flops,” Ford shares. “I hate flip-flops on men unless you have the world’s most perfect feet, and then only at a beach resort, never in the city. I think this trend for men in sandals in the city drives me crazy, or on a plane. When you’re on a plane and someone gets on in flip-flops, it’s very strange.”

Instead, he said, he prefers boots.  “It’s the Texan in me.”

Other questions involved his favorite movie? The Women, of course.

“Every homosexual, everybody knows that film,” he says. “By the way, homosexual culture as you and I know it is dying out.”

And his his last meal?

“It would definitely probably, I don’t know, be something boring like salmon but also have Hostess Donettes around the outside of the plate.”

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Last summer, the murder of Florida couple Michelle Mishcon and John Stevens III by frat-boy Austin Harrouff sent shockwaves across the nation, after it was reported that he beat and stabbed them before eating the flesh off Stevens’ fac. So many unanswered questions. Chief among them: what caused there seemingly average 20-something to go off the rails like that? Bath salts? The new “$5 Insanity” street drug, Flakka?

Neither, as it turns out.

Via Daily Mail:

Toxicology results are adding more mystery to the case of a Florida State University frat boy who murdered a random couple and ate the male victim’s face. On Wednesday, the FBI revealed that the 19-year-old did NOT have either bath salts or flakka in his system when he carried out the attack three months ago. The two substances have been associated with similar ‘zombie-like’ attacks and are both illegal in Florida.

Harouff’s attorney said in a statement that there were several drugs in his system that were ‘medically introduced to him’ at the hospital, where he was treated after the incident. There were also minimal levels of THC in his system, the active ingredient in marijuana.

The FBI’s lab found that there was alcohol in his system, but it’s unclear what kind.

‘Harrouff may have ingested solvents or some other toxic solution when he was in the couple’s garage, liquids which could have contained alcohol and which shed light on Harrouff’s severe medical injuries, including damage to his esophagus and internal organs,’ said King.

Investigators released an extensive list of Harrouff’s internet searches in the weeks before the killings, which included ‘I think I’m going crazy am I?’, ‘marijuana withdrawal’, ‘hearing things in my sleep’ and ‘signs of steroids’. More bizarre searches included terms like ‘positive hypnosis’, ‘how to sell your soul to the devil’, ‘obsessive thoughts about examining life’ and other subjects ranging from the creation of the world to the Illuminati.

His personal writings dating back to 2013 were also made public, revealing Harrouff had been bullied and felt anxious, depressed and angry.

Harrouff’s attorney Nellie King, said on Wednesday: ‘Austin is struggling with severe mental illness and the judicial process will bear all of this out in due time.’
While she did not specify the 19-year-old’s condition, his father Wade Harrouff previously said in an interview that he believes his son suffers from schizophrenia, which he says runs in his family.

His mother Mina Harrouff also told investigators her son had been acting strangely in the week leading up to the brutal attack.

He called himself an ‘animal’, made comments about being immortal, and watched ‘self hypnosis videos’ on the computer in his bedroom, Mina said.

Harrouff’s sister Haley even recorded his odd behavior and played an audiotape for detectives of her brother saying: ‘All this pain and sorrow because I solve all problems people have’ and ‘I’ve become almost immortal, I have to die one day.’

His odd behavior also led her to lock her bedroom door at night, according to an affidavit.
Undated court documents released this week also included Harrouf’s writings, with passages like: ‘You say my big heart’s gonna kill me one day, my head roller coasting with these drugs in my brain. So why do it anyways? Why do it anyways?’

He also wrote: ‘Do you know what it feels like to be so afraid to speak? Becoming a bully ‘cause all the bullies bullied me.

‘[Expletive] man, I just wanted to be accepted. The anxiety I feel inside feels like I internally bleed.’

Harrouff’s parents issued a statement days afterward expressing condolences to the Stevens family and apologies to neighbor Jeff Fisher, who was stabbed while trying to rescue the couple.  He told deputies: ‘Help me, I ate something bad… Humans’ He then spit out a piece of flesh, court documents show. He begged deputies to kill him after they pulled him off Stevens, according to the records.

‘Shoot me now, I deserve to die,’ Harrouff said.

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Are you a movie buff? Do you find yourself reciting rom com quotes to yourself in the mirror? Have you ever blurred the lines between reality and fiction? WOWlebrity, Adam Bronstein – whom stars and directs this cute romantic comedy – has been a story producer on RDR for several seasons, Big Freedia and various other wonderful WoW shows, can now add star and director to his resume for his new film My Movie Girl. The movie is now available for streaming and purchase on Amazon.

Check it out:

Everything Adam knows about love, he learned from the movies. Unfortunately, Adam is no Cary Grant, and the closest he’s come to experiencing true romance is one drunken night with his unrequited love, Kate. But that evening was not exactly An Affair to Remember, so he casts himself and Kate in a movie recreation of their one night, hoping for a better ending. It’s a total flop, and Adam is forced to cast a new Kate when she no longer wants any part of her part. But re-casting Kate leads to an ending that even Adam never saw coming, in this playful comedy about love, movies, and how our love of movies affects how we love. 

You can stream or purchase the film here.

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What a pal. What a noble, big-hearted guy. Where, I ask you, were friends like this when I was struggling to come out?

Younger star Nico Tortorella told New York magazine that he once charitably hooked up with a male friend in high school to help him come to terms with his sexuality.

“This is going to sound fucked, but I knew that he was really struggling. And I was like, Look, if I hook up with him, maybe it will make things easier for him,” Tortorella remembers. “We hooked up.”

There was no ass play at all. It was just dick-to-mouth here,” revealed Tortorella. “He was shaken up about it and I was like, ‘It’s fine. What happened last night doesn’t make you the person that you are. Why are you putting so much weight on it?’ And when that happened, I was like, ’Oh, I’m thinking about this differently than everyone else is thinking about it.’”

Nico, of course, famously identifies as “sexually fluid” – although that might subject to change.

“The more I’m having these conversations, the more comfortable I am identifying as bisexual,” he told New York.

“I’ve been so hesitant about using the word for so long, because it does have a negative connotation in our generation. People fought for so long for that ‘B’ in LGBT, and I refuse to be the person that’s going to throw that away because I think I have a more colorful word.

(via NewNowNext)

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In this all-new episode of UNHhhh,  Katya Zamolodchikova and Trixie Mattel talk about their childhood. And not Contact.

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If you’re a fan of obnoxious, ancient foul-mouthed drag queens and you live in the UK, I have JUST the show for you! Lady Bunny is taking her HILARIOUS show Trans-Jester to England after performing for six months at the Stonewall Inn!

Lady Bunny’s Trans-Jester will be at the Soho Theatre in London from February 14 – February 25, 2017 every night at 9:30. Please be mindful that because of Bunny’s foul mouth, this show is for ages 16 and above.

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If you’ve ever wondered what sort of sophisticated, technologically advanced waste management astronauts use in outer space – well, the answer may surprise you. It’s a diaper. Yes, during launches, landings, or in case of emergencies, space travelers must wear an uncomfortable space diaper. It’s only a temporary solution, though, as keeping the waste so close to the skin for longer than a few hours can lead to infection, and even sepsis.

So NASA has recently come up with contest to help deal with the issue of space poop.

The newly launched Space Poop Challenge give anyone the chance to submit their ideas and designs for an alternative to the space diaper until December 20, for the chance to win up to $30,000.

Via Oddity Central:

There are a few things applicants must take into consideration when designing their systems. In the case of cabin depressurization or other contingencies, astronauts could be forced to spend a long time in their space suits, so the proposed system has to be able to handle human waste without the use of hands for up to 144 hours. Also, since crew member will have less than 60 minutes to get into and seal their spacesuit, the solution to the Space Poop Challenge needs to take no more than five minutes to integrate into the space suit. The system will also have to be light, and to be able to handle human waste at 3 to 4 Gs — the typical G-forces astronauts handle during a launch into Earth orbit. And lastly, the system has to be designed for the unique conditions of space, where solids, fluids, and gases float in microgravity and don’t mix the way they do on Earth.

“I can tell you that space flight is not always glamorous, and people need to go to the bathroom even in a spacecraft,” astronaut Richard Mastracchio says in a promotional video for the Space Poop Challenge. “How is this waste treated such that it does not harm the astronaut or even kill them? … This is the problem we are asking you to help us with.”

The deadline for submitting ideas for the Space Poop Challenge is December 20th, and the winners will be announced in January. For all the guidelines and rules, check out the official Space Poop Challenge page. (Top photo via Oddity Central)

Astronaut Richard Mastracchio on Space Poop Challenge from HeroX on Vimeo.

Competition to source a system that routes and collects human waste away from the body, hands-free, for fully suited astronauts.

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Bill Nye has been schooling us since the 90’s. And his latest project with Big Think only celebrates his wisdom more! In his PSA “Can We Stop Telling Women What To Do With Their Bodies,” he addresses the problem head on: religion and how we can’t let it guide our decisions. Ultimately, he says it should be a women’s choice and we can’t back you up more here at World of Wonder Productions.

Check it out:

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Directors and WOW Co-Founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato brought the film version of the acclaimed one-person British show “Every Brilliant Thing” to life for HBO. This past month, the film had it’s world premiere at DOC NYC week in the Big Apple and bottom line: The amusing and poignant theater piece is lovingly recorded in this film slated for broadcast on HBO later this year. 

Check out the Hollywood Reporter’s review:

HBO slating its premiere of Every Brilliant Thing for the holiday season makes perfect sense. The film, which recently received its world premiere at DOC NYC, features the one-man show performed by British comedian Jonny Donahoe about a young boy who devises the titular list to cheer up his mother who’s attempted suicide. A wise and witty examination of crippling depression and the effect it has on family members, the uplifting piece provides a perfect antidote for the holiday blues.

Directed and produced by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures), the film showcases footage shot during three performances over two days at off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre, where the show ran for 16 weeks beginning in late 2015.

In the play written by Duncan Macmillan, the charismatic and funny Donahoe (who is given a writing credit) narrates the story of a seven-year-old boy who creates the list that begins with typical childlike entries such as “water fights” and “staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV.” As the unnamed narrator gets older, attends university, falls in love and gets married, the list, which eventually swells to nearly a million entries, includes such offbeat things as “peeing in the sea and nobody knows,” “the smell of old books” and “Christopher Walken’s hair.” Meanwhile, the narrator discovers, much to his heartbreak, that the list and his best intentions are not enough to prevent tragedy.

Before the show begins, Donahue hands out pieces of paper to various audience members who are later prompted to announce entries from the list. Others are called upon to play different characters, including a veterinarian who euthanizes the narrator’s dog, a schoolteacher wielding a sock puppet and the narrator’s father and girlfriend. While the fun of the audience participation is necessarily lessened by the distancing effect of video, the filmmakers, with the aid of Jason Blum’s expert editing, do an excellent job of conveying the participants’ good-natured cooperation. The affable Donahue, whose delight in performing the piece is infectious, manipulates his charges in masterful fashion.

Like the directors’ similar handling of Carrie Fisher’s one-woman show Wishful Drinking, Every Brilliant Thing is a straightforward filming of the stage show, with only the occasional gauzy flashback and use of black and white providing cinematic effects. But little embellishment is needed for this simultaneously funny and poignant piece that points out, “If you live a long life and get to the end of it without once feeling depressed, you probably haven’t been paying attention.”

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Lady Gaga wears a color-blocked (literally… it’s block of color) fur coat as arrives at the Grand Palais in Paris for the Victoria’s Secret fashion show (where she is set to perform with Bruno Mars). Not sure how many muppets had to die for her to look this chic, but it’s really something. (Courtesy of Hedi Slimane’s final collection for Saint Laurent, and retails for about $16,000).

Pushing padded shoulders to the limit, FW16 goes for a decidedly couture look with an exciting ‘80s influence. Oversized bow detailing to the waist and OTT fur in shocking shades? Kitsch never came off so cool. (via Mytheresa)

(Photos: Pacific Coast News)

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Rather exciting GIFs, pics, and video of the cheeky young lads from the SHU rugby team in the locker room showers. Fresh from the release of the their nude calendar and ‘Making of’ film, the boys strip off again, this time for an awesome Mannequin Challenge. Enjoy!

But – be warned – NSFW! NSFW! NSFW!

Calendar and Making of film are available at: shurugbyshop.co.uk (via cocktailsandcocktalk)

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Since yesterday when Trey Speegle told you about the crazy lady who spent 45-minutes ranting about being discriminated against in a Michael’s in Chicago, we’ve found out her name, AND a new video has surfaced of her ranting to the staff of a Peet’s Coffee!

The lady, who has been apparently identified by social media users, is Jennifer Boyle. Rawstory says:

Boyle’s now-deleted LinkedIn profile shows she attended DePaul University and worked as a ‎human resources business partner at Sinai Health System, but the company said on Facebook that she had stopped working there prior to the Michael’s incident.

A commenter on the Chicagoist website claims to have worked with Boyle, who the writer claims was “batsh*t, racist, crazy.”

“She is just as nuts in person as this video depicts,” writes the commenter, Youth_Twitter. “From a legal perspective, I am not sure what I am or am not allowed to say; but I will leave it at this. EVERYONE was happy when they found out she was no longer welcome back.”

It’s not clear when or why Boyle stopped working for Sinai Health System, or whether she is currently employed elsewhere.

“When I worked at Sinai, I was her conduit for all of her mental anguish. On my last day, I warned everyone that was at my going away outing to be careful around her and that she was mentally unstable. After I left, she unleashed on everyone within the department. Even though “I told you so feels good for a moment, this is unprecedented.”

And this isn’t even the first time that Jennifer has flown off the handle on innocent employees. Here she is at reeking havoc at a Peet’s Coffee this summer in Chicago. And this time it sounds like she’s trying to come for the gays!

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Oh, Lapo. At it again, I see. Back in 2005, the flamboyantly dressed Fiat heir (and grandson of Gianni Agnelli) was found with a transgender prostitute in Turin, Italy, nearly dead from an OD on heroin and cocaine. That was QUITE the society scandal, if you recall. He picked himself up, though, dusted himself off, and went on to become the rather respectable designer and founder of Garage Italia Customs, which customizes luxury cars and private airplanes for high-end clientele.

Well.

This week, after a weekend-long drug binge, the 39-year-old playboy was taken into custody for faking his own kidnapping.

From NewNowNext:

He was allegedly holed up with a male escort in New York public housing, binging on alcohol and cocaine. When the money ran out, he reportedly called relatives and told them a woman was holding him hostage. He insisted he “would be hurt” if they didn’t pay a $10,000 ransom.

His family informed the NYPD about the “kidnapping” and, after investigating, authorities charged Elkann with filing a false police report. He was released from custody but ordered to appear before a criminal court for arraignment.

Gotta admire the man’s commitment toiling the high life.

(via New York Times)

(bottom three pics: Pacific Coast News)

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For most of us, we spent Thanksgiving weekend binging Netflix’s Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life and have loads of feelings about the reboot. I’ll admit, I’m halfway through Summer (I‘m trying to pace it out because it really stuck a chord with my heartstrings revisiting Stars Hollow again). No matter how you spin it, can we ALL agree: Rory Gilmore is a nightmare! 

Two Januaries ago, our very own Jake Thompson posted a video from his popular web series Fashion Week Vs. Fashion Life asking if you’re a Lorelai or a Rory. More than ever, it feels appropriate to share again.

Check it out and find out which Gilmore you’re more likely to become (or already are!)

So WOWers, which are you?

Even before the reboot – I ALWAYS related more to Emily Lorelai!

OR did you relate more to Rory? It’s OK. Be honest.

I’m not even finished with the bulk of the new reboot and Rory is almost unfathomable!

Watch more Fashion Week Vs. Fashion Life as Season 3 is currently in production!

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Gurrrl…WHERE YOU BEEN Meshell Ndegeocello?!?! Ever since the neo-soul singer/songwriter made a huge entrée onto the music scene in the early 90s with her debut album Plantation Lullabies, featuring hit single If That’s Your Boyfriend (He Wasn’t Last Night), and her duet with John Cougar Mellencamp on cover track Wild Night, she’s pretty much been DL. Now she’s back in the spotlight, providing the theme song Nova for the Oprah Winfrey produced show Queen Sugar…and her latest Off-Broadway show Can I Get a Witness? The Gospel of James Baldwin– a new theatrical music and art work commissioned by Harlem Stage.

Structured as an African-American church service, and directed by Charlotte Brathwaite, the work features sermons and original musical compositions by Ndegeocello, Reagon and Hicks, original poetry by Chin and testimony by Thompson. The piece gives audiences the timely opportunity to engage in critical investigations on race and power in America today, guided by the work of James Baldwin.

Meshell Ndegeocello:

Can I Get a Witness? The Gospel of James Baldwin is inspired by Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and the following Baldwin quote: “From my point of view, no label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and indeed no religion is more important than the human being”. The Fire Next Time has been a guide and a lesson, on what happened to my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents and those before them. It has been a tool in understanding the condition and experience of people of color all over the globe. It has been an essential text in understanding myself. It is a testament to what is often unspoken, misunderstood and painful to hear, it has revealed truths that needed acknowledgment and illumination. I am trying to explore how we manufacture ideas, faith and belief systems. I am also interested in investigating how once one realizes the fallacies of constructs such as race, religion, ethics, politics and the media, how do these moments change us?”

Performances will take place December 7–10 at 7:30pm, and Dec 10 & 11 at 2pm. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at harlemstage.org; 212.281.9240 ext. 19/20. Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 150 Convent Avenue at W. 135th St in Manhattan.

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Yes, we have completely turned into BuzzFeed here at the WOW Report. We’ve complied a treasure trove of celebrity look-a-like babies – from Jamie Oliver and Chris Farley to Jay Z and Gordon Ramsey – check them out below.

Gordon Ramsey

Wallace Shawn

John Legend

Prince George

Jay Z

Vladimir Putin

Mrs Doubtfire

Jamie Oliver

Patton Oswald

Kevin from The Office

Chris Farley

Simon Pegg

Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Bill Mahr

The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

(via Bored Panda)

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China’s first astronaut Yang Liwei spoke about the strange noises he heard while aboard the Shenzhen 5 spaceship during a 21 hour mission in 2003. “It was the the sound of a ‘hammer hitting an iron bucket'” he says.

‘A non-causalsituation I have met in space is a knock that appeared from time to time,’ he told Xinhua recalling the experience. It neither came from outside nor inside the spaceship, but sounded like someone is knocking the body of the spaceship just as knocking an iron bucket with a wooden hammer’.

The sound made Liwei very nervous, but he moved around the ship and closer to the porthole to see if he could find its origin. But nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary inside and outside of the craft.

Following the 21 hour flight, Liwei returned home and tried to mimic the noises he heard with instruments – hoping the space agency’s technicians could solve the puzzle. However, no one has yet to determine what could have caused such a noise and Liwei has not heard it since returning to Earth.

Those aboard the Shenzhou 6 and Shenzhou 7 have also reported hearing a strange banging noise.

Obviously, we are NOT alone.

Daily Mail commenters blame “aliens playing knock-and-run,” “Chinese delivery men,” and (more likely) “heat and cold expansion contraction.”

Other strange astronaut sightings (via The Chive)

• NASA astronaut Story Musgrave claims to have seen eel-like tubes swim through space on two separate occasions. Most dismiss his claims and say he just saw space junk, but Musgrave stands by his story and says that the white eel had its own propulsion technique.
• Leroy Chiao was commander of the International Space Station in 2005, and while he was on a spacewalk he saw white lights aligned in an upside-down check formation zoom right past him. Some say boat spotlights could have been to blame, but Chiao was 230 miles above Earth at the time. As a result, Chiao has said, “I’m skeptical of claims that we’ve been visited by aliens from another planet or other dimension, but I don’t rule it out 100 percent.”
• According to “Aliens and Man: A Synopsis of Facts and Beliefs,” Neil Armstrong reportedly sent a secret message to NASA saying “These babies were huge, sir! Enormous! Oh, God! You wouldn’t believe it! … I’m telling you there are other space-craft out here … lined up on the far side of the crater’s edge! … They’re on the moon watching us!”
  Armstrong never said much about his space experience and never confirmed nor denied the truth behind this rumor. But still… did he see a UFO parking lot?
• Alternate space theorist Richard C. Hoagland thinks Alan Bean (4th person to walk on the moon) saw glass domes from an ancient alien civilization on the moon. Bean has described space as looking like “black, patent leather shoes” from the moon. Hoagland has stated, “Space should be velvet-black. It should be inky-black. It should be infinity, unending, deep, endless black. It shouldn’t be shiny.” Going off that, Hoagland says Bean was actually seeing space through the reflection of a glass dome.
• Major General Vladimir Kovalyonok described an object he saw while manning Salyut VI space station in 1981:
  “When I was working… I saw something strange in a porthole one day. The object was the size of a finger. I was surprised to see it was an orbiting object. It was hard to determine the size and the speed of an object in space. That is why I can not say exactly, which size it actually was. [My partner Viktor] Savinykh prepared to take a picture of it, but the UFO suddenly exploded. Only clouds of smoke were left. The object split into two interconnected pieces. It was reminiscent of a dumb-bell. I reported about it to the Mission Control immediately.”

And never forget the eerie “moon music” heard by the astronauts of Apollo 10:

NASA astronauts in orbit around the moon in 1969 heard a whistling sound described as “outer-spacy,” “weird,” and “eerie.”

Recordings of the strange sounds are featured on the Science Channel show “NASA’s Unexplained Files.”

The sounds were discussed in a conversation between Apollo 10 astronauts Eugene Cernan and John Young as their craft flew around the far side of the moon, CNN said.

Though the Apollo 10 audio and transcripts were not officially classified, there was “no way to get them to the public before the Internet,” the NASA History Office clarified Monday morning on Twitter. The flight crew heard the sounds while on the dark side of the moon and while out of radio contact with NASA ground control, according to a report from the E.W. Scripps National Desk.

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