Category: News of the Weird

Lead Story About two dozen committed Christians arrived at Cherokee Lodge, a nudist resort near Crossville, Tennessee, in June for a semiannual retreat called the Christian Nudist Convocation. According to […]

Lead Story In the Pacific archipelago nation of Vanuatu, the government’s drive to develop a Western-style financial system has created difficulties for citizens living in isolated villages, who typically use […]

Lead Story The crazy-mouse race heats up: In July researchers at Johns Hopkins announced that they had become the first to genetically engineer mice that suffer from a mild form […]

Lead Story At a hearing last month in children’s court in Perth, Australia, a 12-year-old girl was sentenced to two months’ detention for an incident in which she stole a […]

Lead Story Shortly after moving into a Vancouver condominium apartment in June, Miles Nurse and Jennifer Plomt discovered that (a) the unit was infested with bats and (b) British Columbia […]

Lead Story Security camera footage taken one May afternoon at the Union Station mall in Kansas City revealed that a small boy had wandered away from his mother, noticed an […]

Lead Story After ten years of trying, Roger Tullgren of Hassleholm, Sweden, recently succeeded in having his consuming interest in heavy-metal music officially classified as a disability. According to June […]

Lead Story The UK’s Daily Mail reported in June on zoologist Brady Barr and a recent documentary shoot for National Geographic in which he infiltrated a colony of Tanzanian crocodiles […]

Lead Story With small vineyards in the Languedoc region of southern France struggling to compete with cheaper imported wine, a group of extremist winemakers known as the Crav issued a […]

Lead Story When 20-year-old Andres Vasquez of Verona, Kentucky, called 911 late one night in May, he told the dispatcher he was trapped beneath a car someone had thrown on […]

Lead Story Among the positions cited in Popular Science’s “Worst Jobs in Science” list for 2007, from the magazine’s July issue: whale-feces researcher (guided by trained dogs, teams locate floating […]

Lead Story The Anchorage Daily News reported in May on new efforts to minimize contact between grizzly bears and the thousands of visitors who fish Alaska’s Russian River each summer. […]

Lead Story Der Spiegel reported in May on objectophilia, or sexual and romantic attraction to specific inanimate objects. A 41-year-old objectophile identified as Joachim A.–who said he began his first […]

Lead Story The New York Times and the Associated Press reported in April on surgical procedures in which doctors avoid making major incisions by instead accessing the inside of the […]

Lead Story In January 39-year-old Ronald Dotson of Detroit was sentenced to 18 months in prison for an October incident in which police reportedly found him trying to break into […]