Scientists are puzzled by 5,000-year-old bear bones found on the Unalaska and Amaknak Islands in the Aleutians, Alaska. The ancient bones have been a decades-old mystery due to the fact that bears have never lived on those islands.
After the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced an Oct. 4 test of its emergency alert system, conspiracy theorists began spreading false rumors that the alert, which is sent to phones, radios and TVs, would activate particles in the COVID-19 vaccine that enable the government to track and control people. Let’s look at...
Hi everyone. I’m happy to present the weekly roundup of news stories that are a bit weird, maybe scary, but par for the course in these strange times. So let’s get going. This week: flamingos in Wisconsin, another alligator fatality, a secretive church is buying out a town, AI continues to generate chaos, and more.
Hi everyone! Thanks for joining me for another fun-filled episode of the Weekly Weird News. I’m on the road this week so apologies if the writeups are a little shorter than usual. Welcome to new subscribers! As usual, I have a number of animals stories this week and a few weather related anomalies. Let’s go!
Dawson City, Yukon, resident David Beaudoin was hiking through Tombstone Territorial Park recently when he spotted something unusual. It looks like an old battery, but Beaudoin has some other ideas.
Some bereaved folks today are turning to a lesser-known way to hold their loved ones close—by turning their cremated remains into a diamond that they can treasure, and perhaps wear as jewelry.
One researcher hypothesizes that experiments carried out by NASA's Viking landers in 1976 could have inadvertently killed microbes living in Martian rocks. Other experts are skeptical.
Lots of weird, scary and bizarre stuff in this week's edition of WWN. Buckle up, it's a roller coaster - animal thiefs, more alligators, thrift shop surprises, deadly snack food, and, suddenly, gnomes.
In the nearly 50 collected meat samples, the team found 88 percent of the samples were above Germany’s regulatory limits for radioactive cesium in food.
Astonishingly, the Indian state of Odisha was struck by a staggering 61,000 lightning strikes in a span of approximately two hours, media reports said, quoting the data from the state authority. The strikes particularly hit the capital region on Saturday (2 September). The city of Bhubaneswar and its surrounding areas bore the...
There is a sudden increase in aggressive raccoon attacks in Portland this August as well as an increase in overdose deaths. Hmmmmm. Here is a video of a Portland man fighting a raccoon with a wooden pallet, where the raccoon seems unafraid...