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.

Painting a tortoise’s shell may seem harmless, but it is illegal.

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.

Having just had her flight canceled, a Missouri woman’s luck quickly changed when she won $1 million from a Florida Lottery scratch-off ticket.

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.

By the look of the photos, the water was about ankle deep.

Love it or hate it, retailers are now getting in on the hype.

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.

A Michigan man made a striking discovery when he went to demolish his back stairs.

It’s the stuff of nightmares: A Georgia couple found 18 snakes under their bed.

Dutch Queen Maxima has teamed up with a small robot to unveil a steel 3D-printed steel pedestrian bridge over a canal in the heart of Amsterdam’s red light district.

Bangkok parkgoers looking for relief from coronavirus restrictions got a slithering surprise when a python as long as two of the Thai capital’s ubiquitous motorbikes was spotted in one of the city’s most popular green spaces.

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.

The airplane holds hundreds of pounds of water and can drop 35,000 fish in a single flight without reloading.

Police have fined two men who had to be rescued from an Australian forest after they were startled by a deer while nude sunbathing on a beach and became lost.

Fred Flintstone fought the law — and he won.

A long-awaited U.S. government report on UFOs released Friday makes at least one thing clear: The truth is still out there.

An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a cache of gold that he said had been “stolen during the Civil War” while en route to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, and was “now concealed in an underground cave” in northwestern Pennsylvania.

A western Montana couple were able to save a horse from drowning in the Bitterroot River on Father's Day, and may have made a new friend.

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.