The Empire of the Odd

We do  get the most fascinating mail here at the Odd Empire. This one was from one of our associates who thought we might be interested. At first we didn’t think much, we see letters like this all the time. But this one (remember it was not sent to the Odd Empire but to someone else) had some of MY [...]

n case you haven’t heard — and c’mon, do you live in some underground cavern with Morlocks and C.H.U.D.S.? — my new TV show “Phil Plait’s Bad Universe” premieres this Sunday night August 29, at 10:00 p.m. on the Discovery Channel (check your local listings; for me it’s on at 8:00). This first episode is [...]

Jack Horkheimer; well who the heck is that? Jack Horkheimer AKA “The Star Hustler, if you’ve ever watched PBS until sign off you would have seen him just before the playing of the national anthem and all of that white noise. This saddens the Odd Emperor, he was a fixture in my house during the 1970s and even the [...]

Telegraph View: The law has established a climate within which pettiness flourishes to the detriment of any common sense. A councillor faces suspension for dismissing Scientology as “stupid”; another is convicted of racial harassment for calling a colleague a coconut; a householder is made to feel like a racist for objecting to a gipsy site [...]

“An unidentified flying object (UFO) disrupted air traffic over Zhejiang’s provincial capital Hangzhou late on Wednesday [July 7], the municipal government said on Thursday. Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm, and some flights were rerouted … A source with knowledge of the matter, however, told China Daily on [...]

American atheists lined up to be “de-baptized” in a ritual using a hair dryer, according to a report Friday on U.S. late-night news program “Nightline.” Leading atheist Edwin Kagin blasted his fellow non-believers with the hair dryer to symbolically dry up the holy water sprinkled on their heads in days past. The styling tool was emblazoned [...]

I just had to do that!

I suppose this is a good time to announce this.  The Odd Empire has been going through  a few changes in the last couple of months. We are reorganizing with the goal of expanding out coverage of the strange and bizarre webpage as well as the people who put them up.  GP has stepped down as managing editor [...]

ere’s what I don’t understand about the alien civilizations that send spacecraft to Earth and abduct people in their sleep to subject them to mysterious experiments back on board the Mothership: Why don’t they just read about it on the Internet? We’re posting genomic data about human beings and other organisms right there on the [...]

Scientists try to explain near-death experiences. There are those who believe that science will eventually explain everything—including our enduring belief in heaven. The thesis here is very simple: heaven is not a real place, or even a process or a supernatural event. It’s something that happens in your brain as you die. I first encountered [...]