WEIRD NEWS

Boston's famous Skinny House is on the market for $1.2 million.

Nearly 50 years after skyjacker D.

Help wanted: NASA is looking for people to spend a year pretending they are isolated on Mars.

A sumo wrestler that may have spooked the horses was knocked out of the Olympic equestrian ring, but the course designer is defending his decision to include the lifelike fighter in the first place.

A Florida homeowner gets quite the scare.

Riders say a life-size sumo wrestler positioned next to an obstacle on the Olympic equestrian course may have distracted several horses in qualifying for the individual jumping final.

Scientists have a new idea for how Earth got its oxygen: It’s because the planet slowed down and days got longer.

The FBI is investigating what one commercial airline pilot said might have been an airborne person with a jetpack, high in the busy skies near Los Angeles International Airport.

Officials say a man was injured by a jaguar at a Florida zoo after climbing over a barrier and moving too close to the animal’s enclosure.

A woman who secretly swapped seven pebbles for 4.2 million pounds ($5.7 million) worth of diamonds has been sent to prison for her role in the audacious heist at a luxury jewelry store in London.

London’s latest tourist attraction aimed for the heights.

Lottery officials say a woman in Germany carried a winning ticket in her purse for weeks without realizing it was worth about 33 million euros ($39 million).

Officials in Minnesota say they’re finding more giant goldfish in waterways, prompting a plea to citizens to stop illegally dumping their unwanted fish into ponds and lakes.

An unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for $1.56 million.

Three thousand pairs of false eyelashes have been seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents after officials determined they were illegally imported from China to New Orleans.

A spectator has been escorted from the course at the Scottish Open after taking a club from Rory McIlroy’s bag and taking a few swings with it.

The world's tallest horse has died in Wisconsin.

A San Francisco Bay Area zoo is inoculating its big cats, bears and ferrets against the coronavirus.

Songwriter Diane Warren has stepped in to save a cow that eluded capture for more than a day after a herd escaped from a Southern California slaughterhouse and stampeded through a suburb.

The state that launched the movement to offer millions of dollars in incentives to boost vaccination rates is concluding its program still unable to crack the 50% vaccination threshold.

Pope Francis is usually the star at Vatican gatherings.

Forty cows have escaped a slaughterhouse and ended up in a Los Angeles suburb where one was killed after charging a family.

NASA is teaming up with the maker of Tide to figure out how to do laundry in space.

Two brothers from San Francisco say they have set a record for the longest highline ever walked in both Yosemite National Park and California, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.