Odd

Just before Independence Day, the corner of Polk and Cedar in downtown San Francisco, California, suffered a vandalism act that weighed 20 pounds. The New York Post reported that the street corner had 20 pounds of excrement that was believed to be human dumped on the sidewalk. A clear bag was used to hold the […]

Today, in a freak accident with an unsheathed sword, a young man died due to a stab wound to his groin. Emergency personnel were unable, despite valiant efforts, to stop the bleeding from the self-inflicted wound. This Virginia man impaled himself, reports the New York Post. The 28-year-old victim’s name has not been released to […]

A California woman cheated death earlier this week when she was stung over 200 times by a swarm of up to 80,000 bees, in an attack that was so intense that several firefighters who had tried to assist the woman ended up injured. According to Newsweek, the incident took place on Monday morning when the […]

Police in a small Wyoming town made an odd discovery this week: a little pot growing in some big pots downtown. Officers in the city of Powell discovered that someone had planted marijuana plants in the three of the city’s decorative 100-gallon flower pots that line downtown streets. The pots were originally filled with marigolds […]

Usually, real-life crimes inspire CSI episodes, but it seems that the end of a Florida man’s life imitated art, not the other way around. Authorities have finally closed the case of a Ballen Isles Country Club, Florida, resident, who died under mysterious circumstances. According to the Daily Mail, it was originally thought that 71-year-old Alan […]

Trees growing in the middle of the road don’t make for a great driving experience, but then, neither do potholes. Some residents in one Texas town decided to make a point in protest of the terrible disrepair of their streets. According to an MRC TV report, people in Port Arthur, Texas, took to the streets […]

Southwest English beaches have become the spot for seagulls to hang out on for a gulls’ night out. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reports that they are being inundated with calls from concerned citizens after discovering disoriented birds. According to Journal Times, the seagulls appear to have botulism, a bacterial […]

Some people need the loud buzz of an alarm clock to wake them up in the morning. Others prefer a loved one or a precious pet help them rise and shine each day. And many people like to hear their favorite tunes first thing in the a.m. to help them start the day on a […]

One would be quite terrified to wake up to strange noises coming from the first floor of their house. Many horrible thoughts would pop into a person’s head, most of which involve someone evil invading their private space, such as a burglar, murderer, or rapist. A woman in North West London’s Harrow section experienced this […]

When he worked for the British Ministry of Defense, Nick Pope got to work with unidentified flying objects up close and personally, and he came to one conclusion in his line of work: UFOs are real. In an exclusive interview for The Sun, Pope said that he not only knows for a fact that UFOs […]

In a truly bizarre and heart-wrenching incident, people in India preferred to take selfies with three road accident victims instead of giving them first aid or taking them to the hospital, leading to their deaths, Times of India reports. The incident took place in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, where three concrete factory laborers […]

The man with the official, world record-holding longest fingernails has finally cut them off, after 66 years, Huffington Post is reporting. Shridhar Chillal, 82, of Pune, India, decided that now was as good a time as any to get rid of the nails that he’d been growing since he was a teenager. At his advanced […]

A Florida man is currently facing charges after smearing human poop on food in the supermarket. According to Click Orlando, Edwin Pierce — the Florida man in question — is a 31-year-old resident of Melbourne, Florida. Identified as homeless in his most recent booking, Pierce previously lived in a home in the area, according to […]

A married woman and her secret lover are dead after police say the pair had sex in a closed garage that had a running car inside and succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning. The incident happened this week in New Jersey, with reports saying that 39-year-old Tameka Hargrave was having sex with a 56-year-old mechanic. As […]

It’s a relatively new craze that people pay to complete — breaking out of an escape room. That wasn’t the case for one man who thought it would be a great idea to instead break in, but that’s exactly what Rye Daniel Wardlaw is accused of doing, reports WREG. The problem? Once he broke in, […]

One New Orleans family chose to honor their deceased loved one’s life by dressing him up in his favorite attire and placing him in the setting he was most comfortable in during his wake. Renard Joseph Matthews was shot in the head and killed on June 25 as he was taking his new dog for […]

Losing a loved one is one of the most painful things a person can experience, but apparently to a company like PayPal, it is so much worse than that — it’s putting you in breach of their rules and they’ll come after you, reports BBC News. It all started when PayPal contacted Lindsay Durdle, who […]

A 13-year-old boy from Heilongjiang Province in north China was recently hospitalized for a rather unusual, and painful reason — to remove a USB phone cable he had reportedly stuck in his penis out of curiosity. According to a report from the Daily Mail, the teenager, who was merely identified as Duoduo, removed the head […]

San Francisco’s poop problem is costing it a lot of money. The city has been dealing with an epidemic of dirty streets filled with feces and syringes, one that is now putting a major source of revenue in jeopardy. As NBC Bay Area reported, the city’s trouble with its homeless population and dirty residents is […]

Jack Tickle, whose Bell Township farm stretches into a wooden swath, has known about the red oak for decades. He discovered it as a teenager and, in the approximately 65 years since then, has often visited it. “I like to just go and look at that tree,” he told Tribune-Review. Tom McQuaide, a forester that […]

Siberia is an interesting place even at the best of times, and while gold bars, platinum, and diamonds did fall from the sky on one occasion, no one has ever seen anything like the blood rain that poured from the heavens on July 3. Last Tuesday, in the town of Norilsk, locals spotted bright red […]

Miami-Dade Police are on the hook for $19,934, plus over $3,000 more in legal fees that they owe to local stripper, Lizmixell Batista. They don’t owe for a wild party or anything that exciting, they owe for a traffic stop gone wrong. It was one of those stops where the cops do almost everything wrong […]

A Pennsylvania couple thought they were saving the world from an alien invasion, but instead ended up in jail. In Clinton County, state troopers say a couple got high on bath salts and then had a “bad trip” that led them to believe fireflies in the night sky were actually green lasers from aliens who […]

Former Boston Red Sox Pitcher Curt Schilling has come out as one of the “enlightened,” with full support for an interpretation of a conspiracy theory that paints President Donald Trump as the hero the world needs. For those who don’t scour internet forums and Twitter looking for conspiracy theories, QAnon is probably something that is […]

According to the Daily Beast, poop is one of the most popular forms of biofuel, with waste powering everything from trucks to street lamps to cooktops and heaters around the globe. How did human fecal matter become the potential solution to powering the world? Sewage is approaching crisis level in the heartland, and The Atlantic […]

According to BBC News, a South African woman who was in a car accident that claimed the lives of two others was taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province, late Sunday afternoon. Said to have “no sign of life” by the ambulance company, the woman was placed in a refrigerated compartment, but was later discovered […]

A woman from Mt. Clemens, Michigan, was charged with assault and intent to maim, which is a 10-year felony, after she allegedly bit part of a man’s ear off at a Chinese restaurant. According to authorities, on Thursday, June 28, at around 9:40 p.m., 24-year-old Jade Anderson went to the China 1 Restaurant in Mt. […]

If his claim is accurate, then it wasn’t much of a time warp at all. But paranormal researcher Joshua Warren believes that he did detect such a phenomenon taking place outside of Las Vegas, supposedly serving as the first proof that time can slow down. According to Newsweek, Warren claims to have noticed time slow […]

Mary Alice Pitts Moore was finally laid to rest three years after her family thought that they had buried her. Her family is suing First Family Funeral Home, located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, for letting her body decompose in a locked, unrefrigerated room. According to Associated Press, Moore’s embalmed body was found on a cloth-covered […]

A moment of pure joy turned to tragedy when a Brazilian fan celebrating her team’s World Cup win accidentally fell onto a wine glass and suffered a fatal injury. The bizarre incident took place this week after Brazil’s win over Serbia in the group round of the World Cup. Tamra Maiochi jumped for joy as […]

Kayla Speer just wanted to do something nice for her long-distance boyfriend, but instead ended up dumping him. The 23-year-old said she wanted to send a surprise food order to her boyfriend, who said he was busy studying for finals. As the Daily Mail reported, Kayla decided to send a sandwich from Jimmy John’s, but […]

A Wisconsin man who intended on filming upskirt videos of unsuspecting women received instant karma when his shoe camera exploded. According to Gizmodo, the man actually turned himself in to the authorities after his perverted plan went up in flames. The story of the would-be voyeur whose justice was served hot was shared on the […]

A former NASA physics professor has made an explosive claim: UFOs are real, and governments all over the world have been covering it up for years. Kevin Knuth, who once belonged on the faculty of SUNY Albany, made his claims in the Daily Mail. He said that he first recognized that UFOs are real in […]

A Christian “prophet” is predicting that the Blood Moon that will occur in July will signal the end times, The Express is reporting. That prophet has predicted the end of the world multiple times before, however, and he’s always been wrong (or has he?). Paul Begley is an American Christian preacher who is all about […]

Anyone wanting to look younger and feel better attending the Car Free Day festival in Vancouver, Canada, had the opportunity to buy a new, odd elixir touting several health benefits. For a mere $28 ($38 CAD), visitors to the event could purchase bottled Hot Dog Water. The unusual beverage promised drinkers relief from inflammation, improvement […]

A homeless Belgian couple found €300,000 (around $350,000) in an abandoned building, generously shared the money with friends and people who had helped them in the past, and now they’re on trial for money laundering, The Guardian reports. The pair, whose names have not been fully disclosed to the public – they’re named only as […]

A single Wendy’s location in Catoosa, Oklahoma is bringing about a public relations nightmare for The Wendy’s Company after employees shared videos of rodents infiltrating the restaurant’s consumable inventory. The video, as reported by WCVB out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, shows what appears to be mice or rats crawling around inside a bag of hamburger buns. […]

A young fellow in England died of self-inflicted stab wounds while trying to demonstrate a supposedly “stab-proof” vest he was wearing, The Independent is reporting. Everybody who knew Jordan Easton loved him, say his family and neighbors. Indeed, he was a popular character in the estate (what the British call a public housing project) where […]

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover has recently released a new batch of photos taken from its current location in the Martian Gale Crater. The images were posted online by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which designed and built the Mars rover and is now managing the robot’s mission on the Red Planet. The snapshots […]

Kate Boyle thought she’d have some fun with friends when she picked up a six-pack of Not See Cola. Then she realized that what she was actually buying was Nazi Cola. According to the Idaho Statesman, Boyle only realized the nature of the offending drink when she got it home and sounded it out. “Wait, […]

A Colorado teenager is facing prison time for defacing a fragile national monument in pursuit of a poorly-thought-out “promposal,” KDVR-TV (Denver) is reporting. Every spring, the media runs stories of so-called “promposals” – that is, a portmanteau of the words “prom” and “proposal.” Sometimes, they’re cute beyond words; other times, they’re brave, such as when […]

You’ve heard of the Luck o’ The Irish, now get ready to read about the Luck o’ The French: workers preparing to demolish a derelict house found a pot of gold — a literal pot of gold — in the cellar of the home, and it’s likely worth well over a hundred grand, ABC News […]

The image may not be as racy as virtually everything else on the website, but Burlington County, New Jersey, resident Edward Kelly is suing the owners of Pornhub for using his photo for advertisements run on the adult entertainment site. According to a report from NJ.com, Kelly filed a civil lawsuit against Mindgeek USA, Inc., […]

A woman with severe arachnophobia had no idea how to deal with a large spider in her home, so she decided to call in a hit man — a delivery driver from KFC who she had kill the eight-legged invader. The incident happened this week in England, where college student Demi Sweeney came across a […]

Some people say dogs are man’s best friend, but for one Florida man, his BFF is a Capuchin monkey who didn’t want to part with him — even as he was being arrested. Cody Blake Hesson was caught by the Pasco Sheriff’s Office in Holiday, Florida, on Friday for reportedly driving a stolen car, according […]

Some reboots are worth doing — a new millennial version of the Kama Sutra has been released, and its artist says that she’s illustrated it to focus on female pleasure, rather than the focus on the male pleasure that the original text indulged in. The Daily Mail is reporting that the new edition of the […]

Kathleen Dehmlow was, apparently, not very well-loved by her family. The Minnesota woman died May 31, and if her obituary is any indication, very few people are sad to see her gone. As USA Today reports, Ms. Dehmlow’s obituary, published in the Redwood Falls Gazette, starts off the way most of these things do: biographical […]

Michael Rotondo probably wishes you’d never heard of him. Until a few weeks ago, the 30-year-old man was an anonymous fellow (other news sources are less charitable, calling him a “bum” or a “deadbeat”) living rent-free in his parents’ home, and doing whatever it is he did all day. But then he became the subject […]

Poopsicles – that is, frozen chunks of human poop and other nastiness that comes from airplane toilets and then fall to the ground – are a real thing, researchers say. And a Canadian woman can verify that for you, as she found that out the hard way last month. From the Inquisitr’s “Things You’d Rather […]

Body odor is no laughing matter — especially on an airplane. Passengers on a Transavia flight found this out the hard way after one stinky individual made his fellow fliers vomit and faint, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. The Boeing 737 departed Schiphol airport in the Netherlands on Tuesday night, heading toward […]