Category: News of the Weird

Special Edition: All Recurring Themes In April, after nine-year-old Jesse Courtney of Albany, Oregon, had complained for a few days of discomfort and a faint popping noise in his left […]

Lead Story Frank Martinez, a 40-year-old exterminator and apparently a big New York Mets fan, was thrown out of Shea Stadium and charged with reckless endangerment after he allegedly shone […]

Lead Story In February the Associated Press reported on 54-year-old Mexico City cabdriver Manuel Quiroz and his dream of being recognized as the world’s greatest eater of raw chili peppers. […]

Lead Story In March, following what was said to be the largest investigation of prostitution ever conducted in Orange County, authorities arrested five men and one woman who they say […]

Lead Story In March a German animal-rights group called attention to a Spanish gun sport in which weeks-old quail are fired from a cannon into the air as targets. Noting […]

Lead Story Mozart, an iguana at an aquarium in Antwerp, Belgium, developed a persistent erection following a January mating session, and after a week of unsuccessful remedy attempts (cold water, […]

Lead Story The latest from where the sun don’t shine: Fadhel al-Maliki, a 35-year-old Iraqi national living in New Jersey, was detained at LAX in March after security personnel found […]

Lead Story In January Rebecca O’Flaherty, a doctoral candidate in entomology at the University of California at Davis, mounted an exhibition of “maggot art” at the Capital Athletic Club in […]

Lead Story Karl Szmolinsky, a 67-year-old retired farmer from Eberswalde, Germany, made international news in January for his role in a plan by North Korea to combat its food shortages […]

Lead Story In February in Hamilton, Ontario, a 15-year-old boy was rescued after spending two hours in subzero cold dangling upside down eight feet off the ground in his underwear. […]

Lead Story Each February highland Indians in Bolivia converge on the town of Sacaca for the centuries-old ritual of Tinku, a day of drinking, dancing, and largely unrestrained fistfights. There […]

Lead Story A National Geographic documentary on British TV in January shed light on a little-known arena of the cold war: the head-transplant race. Soviet transplant pioneer Vladimir Demikhov stunned […]

Lead Story Notorious for a 2000 installation that gave people the opportunity to switch on a blender containing a live goldfish, Chilean-Danish artist Marco Evaristti celebrated the January opening of […]

Lead Story Beef from Wagyu cattle, originally bred in Japan, has long been considered by chefs and gourmets to be the finest in the world. Now, according to a January […]

Lead Story The Washington Post reported in January on Jennalee Ryan and her company in San Antonio, Texas, which recruits healthy, well-educated egg and sperm donors, creates embryos, and sells […]