Wednesday, March 14th at the Museum of the Weird!
Conference starts at 8:00pm
Freakshow starts at 10:30pm
Live on stage in the Weird Theater! featuring:
• Cut Throat Freak Show
• Lizard Man
• Satan John
• Drew Blood & Pickled Punk Sideshow
• Ballyhoo Betty & more!
$15 for the Freakshow
$20 gets you in to the Conference and the Freakshow
Get your pre-sale tickets here now! Space is extremely limited.
We are keeping the store open on limited hours this weekend for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! If you are in town visiting family or friends, bring them on down to see the Museum of the Weird, and take advantage of our extended Christmas Celebration Holiday Sale!
We are offering FREE admission (normally $5) all weekend long if you spend $20 in our gift shop, Lucky Lizard Curios & Gifts. Or just buy a Lucky Lizard or Museum of the Weird t-shirt, and you will also get a FREE admission!
Also, if you spend over $75 in Lucky Lizard Curios & Gifts, you will get an additional 20% off!!! This is the perfect holiday sale for all you last minute shoppers out there, so COME ON DOWN!!!
TODAY ONLY!!!! – Saturday, December 17th!
The Museum of the Weird’s gift shop, LUCKY LIZARD CURIOS & GIFTS, is having a one-day surprise Holiday Sale — 20% off almost everything in the store!*
PLUS ONE FREE ADMISSION to the Museum of the Weird with each $20 purchase!!!!
* Certain restrictions may apply.
Forty years after a man in a suit commandeered a 727 jet and parachuted into the night carrying $200,000, federal investigators may be close to cracking the only unsolved airplane hijacking in U.S. history.
The FBI could soon solve the mystery of DB Cooper, the man sought by authorities since the 1971 hijacking of a Northwest Orient Airlines flight from Portland to Seattle, according to a witness who has been described by the agency as credible,NWCN reports.
Investigators are currently attempting to link fingerprints left behind on the airplane with fingerprints obtained from the toothbrush of a man known as LD Cooper, the uncle of a tipster who contacted authorities with suspicions about her relative earlier this year.
Marla Cooper says her uncle was injured when he arrived at her family’s home in Sisters, Ore. the day after the hijacking, but he blamed his wounds on a car crash.
“I knew he did it, it wasn’t speculation, I was there when he pulled into the driveway,” Marla Cooper told the news station.
LD Cooper died in 1999.
The hijacker bought his ticket under the alias “Dan Cooper,” but news reports misidentified his name as DB Cooper.
The FBI won’t comment on the specifics of the investigation, but Marla Cooper says a lead investigator informed her that the case was winding down.
“Regardless of the findings of the fingerprints, he told me the case was closing because they were certain my uncle did it,” she said, according to told the news station.
The agency recently confirmed that it has started conducting forensic tests on evidence including partial fingerprints that could be linked to the hijacking.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/db-cooper-case-solved_n_1129511.html
8:00pm tonight (Sunday, October 30th), the Museum of the Weird continues our newest weekly event: The Walking Dead Viewing Party!
Each week when there is a new episode of the AMC hit series, The Walking Dead, we will be screening it here at the Museum’s newest addition, the Weird Theater! The theater is located inside the Museum on the second floor*, and all screenings for The Walking Dead will be free with purchase of Museum admission (currently $5.00 per person). The Weird Theater is extremely small, and seating is limited to a maximum of 30 people, so show up early or purchase your tickets in advance in the store or on our website (CLICK HERE!).
We want everyone to come and join us for a good time! We are allowing this event to be a “BYOB” affair, so that adults will be able to enjoy the viewing experience while imbibing their favorite alcoholic beverage. That being said, we ask you to follow a few simple rules:
• Please arrive at least 30 minutes prior to the 8:00pm screening time to enjoy the Museum of the Weird and to ensure seating.
• Anyone bringing in alcoholic beverages will be asked to show their proof of ID. Absolutely no sharing of alcoholic beverages with minors will be tolerated, and will result with the offending parties being ejected from the theater.
• No outside food or drink is allowed EXCEPT for alcoholic beverages in sealed personal containers, including bottled or canned beer, wine coolers, and malt and cider beverages. Non-alcoholic beverages and snacks are available for purchase in our gift shop, Lucky Lizard Curios & Gifts.
• Excessively loud and obnoxious guests will be asked to leave, and forfeit their admission without a refund.
• Anyone who arrives already visibly intoxicated will be denied admission into the Museum.
As long as everyone abides by these rules and respects each other’s viewing experience, we should all have a great time tonight. We look forward to seeing everyone here at the Museum of the Weird tonight by 8pm, and remember to please show up early!
*NOTE: Second floor access is currently limited to use of the stairs, and there is no elevator for wheelchair access at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
This weekend, the Museum of the Weird in Austin, Texas is hosting their very first WEIRD THEATRE SPOOK SHOW for kids! Starting promptly at 11:00am and running through the afternoon, we will be showing a double feature of the Universal horror classics House of Frankenstein and Creature from the Black Lagoon!
The WEIRD THEATRE SPOOK SHOW is a brand new weekly event at the Museum of the Weird aimed towards kids and family-friendly fare (with an emphasis on weird, of course)! Every Saturday afternoon, we will be showing a good old-fashioned matinee of classic monster movies, adventure films, and science fiction and fantasy masterpieces from yesteryear! The best thing is, admission to the WEIRD THEATRE SPOOK SHOW is FREE with purchase of a regular ticket to the Museum of the Weird (currently $5 for adults and $3 for kids under 8). Since seating in the Weird Theater is very limited, we recommend reserving your tickets here.
http://www.luckylizard.net/catalog.php?item=599&catid=Tickets
… so we have asked our resident “Texas mojo man”, Doc Ravencraft, so help get to the bottom of things. This Halloween weekend, Doc will be performing a series of old-time séances to try to contact the spirit (or spirits) that are roaming the Museum’s corridors.
Would you like to take part? Well you can! Doc Ravencraft is reserving a very select few seats for guests who would like to attend and take part in contacting the spirits here. You can get more info and reserve your seat here.
8:00pm tonight (Sunday, October 23rd), the Museum of the Weird is launching our newest weekly event: The Walking Dead Viewing Party!
Each week when there is a new episode of the AMC hit series, The Walking Dead, we will be screening it here at the Museum’s newest addition, the Weird Theater! The theater is located inside the Museum on the second floor*, and all screenings for The Walking Dead will be free with purchase of Museum admission (currently $5.00 per person). The Weird Theater is extremely small, and seating is limited to a maximum of 30 people, so show up early or purchase your tickets in advance in the store or on our website (CLICK HERE!).
We want everyone to come and join us for a good time! We are allowing this event to be a “BYOB” affair, so that adults will be able to enjoy the viewing experience while imbibing their favorite alcoholic beverage. That being said, we are laying down a few ground rules:
• Please arrive at least 30 minutes prior to the 8:00pm screening time to enjoy the Museum of the Weird and to ensure seating. Once the program begins at 8:00pm, so as not to disrupt the viewing experience we will not be allowing any more entrances into the theater. So please show up early!
• Anyone bringing in alcoholic beverages will be asked to show their proof of ID. Absolutely no sharing of alcoholic beverages with minors will be tolerated, and will result with the offending parties being ejected from the theater.
• No outside food or drink is allowed EXCEPT for alcoholic beverages in sealed personal containers, including bottled or canned beer, wine coolers, and malt and cider beverages. Non-alcoholic beverages and snacks are available for purchase in our gift shop, Lucky Lizard Curios & Gifts.
• Excessively loud and obnoxious guests will be asked to leave, and forfeit their admission without a refund.
• Anyone who arrives already visibly intoxicated will be denied admission into the Museum, period.
As long as everyone abides by these rules and respects each other’s viewing experience, we should all have a great time tonight, and if it’s successful we will host this every week! So we look forward to seeing everyone here at the Museum of the Weird tonight by 8pm, and remember to please show up early!
*NOTE: Second floor access is currently limited to use of the stairs, and there is no elevator for wheelchair access at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Folks, we couldn’t make these stories up if we tried.
DALLAS – A man used a frozen armadillo to attack a 57-year old Pleasant Grove woman, Dallas police said.
The incident happened on Sept. 29 in an apartment complex parking lot.
According to investigators, the altercation occurred when the suspect was selling the carcass to the victim, who planned to eat the animal.
The pair apparently began arguing over the price of the item when the man twice threw the armadillo at the woman.
The animal first struck the woman in the leg and then in her chest.
She was reportedly bruised by the attack.
Detectives have been unable to find the man, who could face assault charges.
Teetering along a crumbling walkway more than 330ft high, a group of intrepid climbers carefully inch their way across what has been dubbed the most dangerous path in the world.
And they’re not alone. Adrenaline-junkies have been flocking to southern Spain to experience the 110-year-old El Caminito Del Rey before work begins to refurbish it next year.
Companies have now begun offering unofficial tours after a video of a walker tackling the hair-raising trail went viral on YouTube.
And you don’t need to be an experienced climber either, the only requirements are that walkers should be at least twelve years old and have a good head for heights.
The trail, also known as the King’s Pathway, was originally built in 1905 for workers to travel between two hydroelectric power plants but was closed-off in 2000 after two walkers fell to their deaths.
It snakes its way along cliff edges high up in El Chorro Gorge, thirty miles from Malaga.
Much of the one-metre-wide walkway is crumbing away with rusting supports, gaping holes, no handrails and sections that have completely fallen down.
A makeshift wire has now been attached to the rock face which walkers and climbers can clip themselves on to in order to have some degree of security – but many still prefer not to use any safety equipment at all.
Work is now due to start on an 8.3 million project to make the pathway safe again and attract more tourists to the area.
