A Bramford Road resident complained to the Ipswich Borough Council that she was intermittently hearing a creepy nursery rhyme playing throughout the night for the past few months. The rapid resp...
As it turns out, we humans aren't the only ones on this earth with a soft spot for the occasional booze-up. Every now and again, seemingly more sensible creatures make the mistake to drink a litt...
Back in 2005, a man by the name of Zaq Landsberg, then a New Yorker, went on eBay and bought himself a couple of acres of land in the state of Utah in the western US, for which he paid precisely ...
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If we're gonna be honest here, we probably should own up to the fact that hamburgers are just about the most delish things ever to come out of a kitchen. Hence, it shouldn't surprise us that a ...
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Just the other day, a homeowner in the township of Hazlet in New Jersey happened to receive several mysterious packages in the mail. Since the packages were addressed to somebody who did not li...
Earlier this week, an actual human leg was stolen from a van parked outside a restaurant in Los Angeles. It was taken while the people entrusted with looking after it were inside the establishmen...
Earlier this month, a woman in Florida happened to spot a mysterious bright sphere hanging about close to the sun, high up in the sky. The woman noticed the odd appearance while filming a sunse...
Vinarna Certovka, a street in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic, might just be the world's absolute narrowest. Mind you, it's so incredibly teeny tiny it doesn't even make sense calling it...
26-year-old Jeffrey Ortega of Deerfield Beach, Florida, hopes he'll soon raise $42,000 (around €37,000) to have his left foot amputated. It was more than a year ago that he started a campaign...
Last weekend, on Saturday, authorities in Santa Barbara, California, received a call about a man who had crashed a wedding and was causing trouble, not letting the happy couple and their guests c...
A couple of years ago, a photo surfaced of a supposedly foot-long (12 inches / 30.5 centimeters) Subway sandwich lying on a table, a ruler atop of it. The photo, posted by one Matt Corby of Austr...
Just the other day, Iraqi journalist Hala Jaber tweeted photos of what appears to be a mountain of hair of no mean size just lying on the ground, razors sticking out of it here and there. While...
This past Monday, a 62-year-old man vanished without a trace while snorkeling with friends in the Blue Spring State Park west of Orange City in Florida. The man, identified as James Okkerse, wa...
2-year-old Matheryn Naovaratpong from Thailand died on January 5 of this year. She was killed by a rare form of brain cancer that, at least for now, medicine cannot cure. Rather than bury her, ...
Last week, on Friday, 26-year-old Luis Orellana-Rivera of Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested by local authorities when he was discovered coming out of a stolen taxi, the keys in his pocket. When qu...
Great white sharks are among the ocean's most majestic inhabitants, there's no denying it. Still, let's be honest here, few of us would ever consider coming anywhere near them. Then again, ther...
Culinary history was made this past Sunday, October 18, when a team of about 60 French and Italian bakers prepared and served the absolute longest baguette the world has ever seen. The gargantu...
Some seriously strange things have happened in China these past few days. So strange they've sparked talks of aliens come from outer space to inspect our planet. For one thing, an alleged float...
This Sunday, October 18, Michel Sapin, France's finance minister, announced the country's absolute biggest drug bust in two years. In a statement, Michel Sapin detailed the discovery of a whopp...
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Authorities in Finland are now in the middle of what might be the absolute weirdest crime-fighting campaign in the history of law enforcement. Without further ado, here's what they're up to: a cr...
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Just the other day, a woman in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged with trespassing and criminal burglary after breaking into one of her neighbor's house. The woman was discovere...
It was in 1776 that the United States of America was born and declared its independence from the British Empire. It's been a few good centuries since then, but as it turns out, there are some who...
56-year-old Ted Richards of Hartcliffe, Bristol, loves and adores his pet parrots, and you can easily tell this just by taking a quick glance at him. He has colored feathers tattooed on his fac...
Recently, law enforcement officers in China at long last tracked down and arrested a drug dealer they had been investigating and trying to locate since back in March. They found him hiding in a...
This Thursday, visitors to Odense Zoo in Denmark got to witness a most gruesome scene as keepers dissected a young lion out in the open for everyone to see. Apparently, they started by removin...
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Just the other day, the lifeless body of a whale was found on a beach near Cliftonville, Kent. It's not clear exactly when it was that the corpse washed ashore, but the whale looks like it's been...
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Earlier this week, a man in Missouri, US, inadvertently set his own car ablaze while trying to put out a fire. Apparently, the man hoped that driving over the flames would somehow miraculously ex...
There was once intelligent life on the Red Planet and these now lost cosmic neighbors of ours were oddly spiritual beings, conspiracy theorists claim. Thus, they say ancient aliens on Mars used...
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Recently, a team of medical experts in China operated on a 7-year-old girl and removed a hairball of no mean size from her stomach. They say the mass measured about 4 inches (10 centimeters). Oth...
Back in last year's October, Sean Mace of Washington nearly died when, while visiting San Francisco and enjoying the wonders of the local Maritime National Historical Park, he had a pine cone fal...