WEIRD NEWS

A possible new Amazon Alexa feature is either great or creepy.

An Australian grandfather attacked by a kangaroo in his front yard has shared how he managed to escape serious injury.

A couple from India is taking legal action against their son and daughter-in-law for staying childless.

You would think this story happened in Florida, but it didn’t.

A Connecticut man is safe, but his mother-in-law's car is destroyed after a unique run-in with a bear over the weekend.

You want fries with that reno?

An Oklahoma City couple had planned to get hitched in Vegas except their connecting flight out of Dallas got canceled.

A woman who accidentally dropped her cellphone into the hole of an outhouse in a national forest and fell in while trying to retrieve it had to be rescued by firefighters in Washington state.

It's a stunt that you might not even believe will be real until you see it live.

An Illinois man inhaled a drill bit during a routine dental visit — and then ended up at the hospital, where doctors removed it with a rare medical procedure.

The future is here.

A Southern California man is accused of smuggling more than 1,700 reptiles — including baby crocodiles and Mexican beaded lizards — into the U.S. since 2016.

Mike Tyson’s latest cannabis edible has a tongue-in-cheek reference to another body part.

A New Zealand couple who believed they had dug up the world’s largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams turned to mash after Guinness World Records wrote to say that scientific testing had found it wasn’t, in fact, a potato after all.

Authorities say a man who tried to slither past U.S. border agents in California had 52 lizards and snakes hidden in his clothing.

A 70-year-old woman with a history of slipping past security at airports around the U.S. and sneaking onto flights has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for trespassing at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in 2019.

A bird from Central and South America has been spotted in the United States for the very first time.

While it can sound like something out of a horror movie, in Australia the transition from late summer to fall can trigger what is known to the locals as spider season. It’s kind of like our lovebug or mosquito season but is a little different.

After a year-long jam, a mammoth Israeli strawberry is entering the record books.

Authorities say a man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a fossilized dinosaur claw valued at $25,000 from an Arizona vendor last month and then trying to resell it.

A candidate for the metro council in Louisville, Kentucky, stands accused of trying to kill a candidate for mayor.

No, this didn't happen in Florida as you'd expect.

A wild crocodile with a used motorcycle tire stuck around its neck for six years has finally been freed by an Indonesian bird catcher.

Prosecutors in Brussels say two people suspected of growing cannabis have been arrested this week in a Brussels apartment that contained a more unusual find: tarantulas, scorpions and bearded dragons.

It’s a scary story for parents.

A Pennsylvania woman thought she brought in a dog wandering in the cold and now, wildlife experts are working to figure out what exactly the animal is.

U_S_ officials say the CIA believes it's unlikely that Russia or another foreign adversary is using microwaves or other forms of directed energy to attack hundreds of American diplomats and intelligence officers who attribute their brain injuries and other symptoms to what's come to be known as “Havana syndrome.”.

For anyone who's ever wanted to fill their home with the smell of chicken noodle soup without having to actually make it, Campbell's has you covered.

South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung isn’t bald.

A German shepherd named Tinsley successfully led New Hampshire state police to the site of its owner’s rollover crash.

Just after storms moved through Texarkana last week, the skies opened up again and rained fish for a few minutes.

Many people hoped 2021 would be the year things got back to normal in this world.

Hungry squirrels are forcing a downtown St. Paul park to scale back its Christmas lights display.

Spin bikes and fast food are two things you wouldn’t think go together.

A Roman Catholic diocese in Sicily has apologized to outraged parents after its bishop told a group of children that Santa Claus doesn’t exist.

A former deep-sea treasure hunter is preparing to mark his sixth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins.

If you're not necessarily in the holiday spirit, there may be a getaway for you.

The list of 2021's most mispronounced words is out, and they're a mouthful.

Scientists in Chile have found the fossils of a strange new dinosaur species.

German police are looking for witnesses after burglars broke through the wall of a toy store to steal dozens of Lego sets.

An Alabama woman who says she was falsely arrested for shoplifting at a Walmart and then threatened by the company after her case was dismissed has been awarded $2.1 million in damages.

Dozens of customers who stopped for a drink at Britain’s highest pub are getting a longer stay than they bargained for after the building was cut off by a blizzard.

Authorities are trying to figure out how hundreds of FedEx packages ended up dumped in the woods in Alabama.

Move over pecan pie, a new dessert wants a place at your Thanksgiving table.

There are plenty of taxi services to choose from these days, but a British man has cornered the market when it comes to "heavy" lifts.

An attraction opening Tuesday gives thrill-seekers a unique perspective on New York City from almost 1,300 feet up.

Two California couples gave birth to each others’ babies after a mix-up at a fertility clinic and spent months raising children that weren’t theirs before swapping the infants.

Instead of a message in a bottle, it was the decals on a trash can that tell the story of a 3,500-mile voyage, from South Carolina to Ireland.

Santa may have fewer eyes in homes this Christmas season after a judge — jokingly — banned the Elf on the Shelf.

A look at how DST came to be and the historical debates that came with it.

CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. One Virginia family made a strange discovery over the weekend after they thought they had picked up two bags of trash from the road. The Schantz family was on a drive Saturday afternoon, weaving through back country Central Virginia roads, when they came across some goats and pre-made storage sheds. Little did the family know, they were driving around for hours with nearly a million dollars in cold cash. "They found out that they'd been riding around all day with almost a million dollars in the truck," Caroline County Sheriff's Office Major Scott Moser said. "To have someone so honest and to give that million dollars back is exceptional on their part, Moser said.