This is a video demonstration and explanation of Matt Pritchard’s ‘The Phantom Queen’, the winner of 2021’s Best Illusion Of The Year Contest. In the illusion, a queen chess piece is visible in the mirror of a chess board, but not on the chess board. How does it work? SPOILER:

Note: Make sure the video’s volume is on. Working similarly to the one previously developed by DAKD Jung, this is a video of a ferrofluid visualizer built by Redditor Sergey Kuznetsov featuring a magnetic solution suspended in a clear liquid that “dances” to music as a magnet behind it is

This is a video from TikTok user Desiree Baker showing the view her New York City Airbnb advertised on the site (a beautiful NYC skyline), and then the actual view — the patio dining area of a restaurant, complete with a table for two right against the window! Apparently the

Because this world is probably the strangest place you’ll ever visit, this is a video of someone in Hangzhou, China lowering a mitten crab (named because of their furry claws) down on a rope to retrieve a shirt that fell from their balcony while drying. That’s pretty wild. “Quick —

Aliens: they are among us. Case in point, this footage of a transparent-headed deep sea barreleye (Macropinna microstoma, aka spook fish) captured by the unmanned rover Ventana as researchers searched for jellyfish. According to scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, they’ve logged over 5,600 dives and over 27,600

These are a couple videos of TikTok user julianobayd picking up a blue dragon sea slug he spotted in the waters off Australia’s east coast. The blue dragon, shockingly not actually a dragon but a nudibranch (shell-less mollusk), is highly venomous due to preying on the also venomous Portuguese Man

Because Mother Nature is easily one of the freakiest women you’ll ever have the pleasure of meeting, this is a video of an octopus using its tentacles to run across the ocean floor, presumably to meet up with SpongeBob and Patrick for some deep sea hi-jinks. AND it’s running backwards.

This is a video of Paul Bunyan’s regular-sized brother Saul cutting down a tree and that tree gushing water from the cut as a result of the tree rotting and collecting water above. That water — it sure looks like Willy Wonka’s chocolate river, doesn’t it? I just wanna taste