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Meet the first pumpkin ever to break the 3,000-pound barrier

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Arizona confirms state’s first New World screwworm case

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CAUGHT ON CAMERA | Deer crashes through police vehicle windshield

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Florida Dad of 2 Drowns Trying to Free a Seagull From His Fishing Line

Cow spotted wandering around Charnock Richard services

Goose found with metal ring around its beak returns to the wild

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More than 120 cats, kittens found in Port St. Lucie home in alleged hoarding situation

Man Decides to Surgically Separate Conjoined Turtles, Then Makes a ‘Devastating’ Discovery (Exclusive)

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Screw-worm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) that has been coloured with fluorescent powder at a breeding program used to study and help control this parasitic insect.

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New World screwworm cases climb to 50, with latest found in New Mexico horse

A127 pigs saved from being shot after Essex community rallies

10 Times Rogue Deer Caused Havoc In 2026, Including Breaking Into A Bank And Destroying A Laundromat

Tech & AI21

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Florida man says a hole he stepped in while his Tesla charged ‘ripped my shoes off,’ and his weren’t the only pair it took

Classic UK dungeon crawl show Knightmare to return as adventure game

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Keeping RAM in personal computers "quite terrible," says OpenAI's Sam Altman

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This DIY Arcade Cabinet Accepts Strange Cuboid Concrete Cartridges

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Mazda Once Tried To Reinvent The Steering Wheel Into A Crazy Rectangle That Had A CRT Screen And A Belt

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Guile cosplay goes with everyone for Halloween at SoraNews24 HQ [Photos]

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Cops using AI to justify stops for "suspicious driving patterns"

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Death Stranding gets a second animation before the first is out

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Arduboy Digital Candle has AI-simulated flame

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Florida Man Blames Self-Driving Cybertruck During DUI Arrest, but Was Tesla Actually Driving?

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Food & Drink14

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Raising Cane’s Sets New Bar For Halloween Celebration, Showcasing Record-Breaking Jack-o’-Lantern In Salem

Needle found in Snickers candy bar after Halloween trick-or-treating in Crystal City

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Gun found in box of candy at KIPP DC elementary school: Officials

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News of the Weird

Waukegan police investigate metal hairpins, wire reportedly found in Halloween candy

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CFB 27 sim predicts winner, score of World's Largest Cocktail Party

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Aldi training next generation of 'bossmen' with toy kebab carts and card readers

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Dive Bartender Takes New Job At New York Restaurant. Then A Customer Orders A Martini She’s Never Heard Of

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A McDonald’s Bag Full of Cash: Nelly Reveals How Taylor Swift Paid Him $50,000

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'Our pub's haunted by ghost of soldier who was gruesomely killed in the chimney'

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World23

Beavers were last spotted around Loch Ness in 1526-27

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Beavers to return to waters around Loch Ness 500 years after last sighting

Flávio Bolsonaro Becomes a Florida Man

Ballon d’Or 2026: Kane, Mbappé and Yamal all declared winners in bizarre official website leak

37 venomous snakes and 55 lizards packed into a suitcase: German airport customs left stunned

Woman immortalized in Pulitzer-winning Vietnam photo is stunned to receive POW bracelet after 53 years

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48-Year-Old Keg of Beer Emerges From Italian Glacier After Disappearing in 1978

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Colton Herta's F1 move delayed by bizarre superlicence error at Mexico City GP

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Can Japan’s Self-Defense Forces legally open fire on a zombie horde?

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Cold Stone is closing its final branch in all of east Japan, but it’s going down singing

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Dumb Crime56

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Woman wearing too much blush shared exciting post about wanting to shoot Trump... hours later she'd sobbed it off her face after being arrested

Texas judge suspended, ordered to undergo psych evaluation after bizarre racial comments to lawyer

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Christa Pike is in critical condition after Tennessee’s failed execution attempt, her lawyers say

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Florida woman accused of wiretapping Patrick Clancy's father during murder trial

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TSA Finds Bizarre Wolverine-Style Weapon in Airport Carry-On: ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’

Florida Man Jumps Through Window to Escape Cops

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Florida man bites police dog, threatens to shoot deputies, sheriff’s office says

Abby Choi's remains found in soup pots with carrots, court hears

Bugatti CEO shares bizarre story of how his Chiron got stolen after a simple oversight

Mom Fights Off Attacker While Her 2 Young Kids Are Home, Then Learns Her Own Fiancé Recruited Him

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Heidi Klum Takes Halloween Dressing To Another Level By Becoming Her Left Hand; See Her Bizarre Costume

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“What are you talking about, man?”: Vivek Ramaswamy’s reaction after being duped into taking picture with Amy Acton supporter shouting “p**ophiles” goes viral

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Florida Man Friday: Finally, a Genuine Man-Bites-Dog Story

I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy

“It Broke My Heart”: Store Employee’s Emotional Confession Moves People As He Calls Out Instagram Prankster

Bigfoot in North Carolina? The legend, the sightings and ties to a WNC costume shop

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Trump makes ‘weird noises’ during South Carolina, Iowa rallies; social media users baffled by ‘eugh’ sound

Review: PRIMETIME Is an Over-the-Top Ride Fueled by Robert Pattinson’s Bizarre Chris Hansen

Ed Perkins’ new documentary explores ‘very profound and tragic consequences’ of Clown Panic

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World’s Largest Pop-Up Book Debuts in Los Angeles, Plus Close Calls Caught on Camera

Space & Science54

In 2022, an 800-gram pink rock was found in the Sahara Desert; NASA-funded researchers have now confirmed it came from Mars more than 4.1 billion years ago and preserves signs of the planet's ancient

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Mysterious object in the sky of Ohio, pilots photograph an unusual body that did not appear on radar

An Italian Farmer Found Some Unknown Seeds in His Attic and, With Nothing to Lose, Planted Them. The Result Was Almost Biblical

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A Planet-Sized Moon? Astronomers Find a Strange System That Defies Classification

New dinosaur species Infernogallus jamesi identified as first known

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This skeleton was found in China in 2004. Scientist finally know what it is

4,000-Year-Old Dog Paw Prints Found at Tavşanlı Höyük in Türkiye

Man's life turns into 'horror movie' after creepy discovery in attic

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Man ‘Started Freaking Out’ When He Discovered $1 Million Lottery Ticket Was in His Pocket for Months

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A New York cemetery is home to one of the largest bee populations ever discovered, and they all live in the ground

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Government & Politics14

A Timeline of Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump's MAGA Alliance

6 years of marriage, 12 children: BJP cites bizarre voter records to defend SIR

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Pete Hegseth and Markwayne Mullin offer bizarre explanation for Trump's arch

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Chester County government headquarters went on lock down after suspicious substance found on ballot [UPDATED]

Woman in burka escorted out of Florida public meeting about expanding local mosque after she took to podium and played Islamic call to prayer

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Luxury liner with secret military past set to surpass ex-US Navy carrier as world’s largest artificial diving reef

America's Vice President says the Antichrist may be walking among us. Witchcraft and the occult are ever more fashionable. In our godless era, renowned historian A.N. WILSON asks: Are we plunging into

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The Education Department Has Started Posting Weird Far-Right Fan Fiction Memes

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Nigel Farage’s excuse for missing the budget because somebody swiped his seat reservation sent shares in chinny reckon through the roof

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Haunted Rooms investigates Ravalli County Courthouse

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Bizarre Medicine9

Scientists discover a bacterial defense so strange they thought it was broken

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'I died after wasp sting and saw things that we are not meant to see on Earth'

Zoo Welcomes New Capybara Triplets Weeks After Unexpected Love Triangle Drama

“I Have Never Heard Of ‘Rope Spoilage Bacteria’”: Woman Buys Ritz Crackers. Then She Breaks Them Open

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Education Department posts doctored image showing its HQ as Spirit Halloween

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North Carolina Chili’s customers ordered margaritas only to be left with chemical burns in a bizarre unlabeled-container mix-up

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Sumbul Touqeer Khan’s JhaadPhoonk Brings A Pregnant Woman Face To Face With A Terrifying Mystery

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Police K-9 named Rocco eats several rocks, undergoes surgery

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Woman claims husband poisoned her and she saw her sister in heaven

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Guatemalan chefs prepare over 4,000 lb of meat and veggies for the largest fiambre salad

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“He has a great a”: Trump’s bizarre TikTok video praising Jon Husted’s “powerful a” hands, arms and shoulders goes viral

The great pumpkin war: Inside Britain’s bizarre world of record-breaking giant pumpkins

The Protests Over Liberty Mutual’s Weird Mascot Are A Reminder How Weird The Car Insurance Marketing World Is

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Barcelona handed bizarre punishment for 'tapping up' Julian Alvarez

Packers Coach Matt LaFleur Had Weird “Dry Humping” Moment With Josh Jacobs That Was Caught On Live TV [VIDEO]

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East Carolina player hurt in bizarre collision with ref: ‘Can’t say I’ve seen that before’

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Florida football games deliver OT thriller, bizarre chain gang stoppage

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Group Goes To Major League Baseball Game. Then They Get Caught Leaving Plates Of Shrimp Under Their Seat

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Multiple-Time PGA Tour Winners Involved In Bizarre Rules Incident After Playing Wrong Golf Balls At Mexico Open

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Everything Else60

Family’s creeptastic Halloween house returns for its 20th year

Baby doll, pants and shoe among strange sewer finds

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Detective Boomrah to make live storytelling debut at HorrorCon 2026

Jennifer Aniston confused by director's NSFW bullying claim: 'So bizarre'

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Star Wars Actor Reveals Shocking Real-Life Encounter With His Strangest Fan

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The Paulding Light in Michigan That Locals Still Can’t Explain

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1897 report tells of ‘spooks’ at Breconshire farmhouse

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Are ghosts changing appearances? Analysis of 2.000 testimonies reveals what people report most often

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I Stayed in a Haunted Airbnb Near Death Valley. Here’s What I Heard.

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Disney Star Calls Out A Surprisingly Bizarre Pattern In Her Recent Movies

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CantBeNews: strange-but-true news from 495 outlets, grouped by story

Meet the first pumpkin ever to break the 3,000-pound barrier

Animals51

Arizona confirms state’s first New World screwworm case

CAUGHT ON CAMERA | Deer crashes through police vehicle windshield

Florida Dad of 2 Drowns Trying to Free a Seagull From His Fishing Line

Cow spotted wandering around Charnock Richard services

Goose found with metal ring around its beak returns to the wild

More than 120 cats, kittens found in Port St. Lucie home in alleged hoarding situation

Man Decides to Surgically Separate Conjoined Turtles, Then Makes a ‘Devastating’ Discovery (Exclusive)

New World screwworm cases climb to 50, with latest found in New Mexico horse

A127 pigs saved from being shot after Essex community rallies

10 Times Rogue Deer Caused Havoc In 2026, Including Breaking Into A Bank And Destroying A Laundromat

‘I just saw this furry brown bottom disappear!’ In search of Samba – the fearless fugitive capybara

‘It’s Trailer Park Chemistry.’ A Hybrid Bighorn Sheep Is on the Lam and That Could Be Bad News for Wild Herds

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos Pull Off Record-Breaking Number of Halloween Costumes in One Hour—Including Spider-Man and Lady Gaga

Tech & AI21

Florida man says a hole he stepped in while his Tesla charged ‘ripped my shoes off,’ and his weren’t the only pair it took

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave’s leaked endings are extremely weird

Food & Drink14

Raising Cane’s Sets New Bar For Halloween Celebration, Showcasing Record-Breaking Jack-o’-Lantern In Salem

Needle found in Snickers candy bar after Halloween trick-or-treating in Crystal City

Gun found in box of candy at KIPP DC elementary school: Officials

News of the Weird

World23

Beavers to return to waters around Loch Ness 500 years after last sighting

Flávio Bolsonaro Becomes a Florida Man

Ballon d’Or 2026: Kane, Mbappé and Yamal all declared winners in bizarre official website leak

37 venomous snakes and 55 lizards packed into a suitcase: German airport customs left stunned

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Dumb Crime56

Woman wearing too much blush shared exciting post about wanting to shoot Trump... hours later she'd sobbed it off her face after being arrested

Texas judge suspended, ordered to undergo psych evaluation after bizarre racial comments to lawyer

Christa Pike is in critical condition after Tennessee’s failed execution attempt, her lawyers say

Florida woman accused of wiretapping Patrick Clancy's father during murder trial

TSA Finds Bizarre Wolverine-Style Weapon in Airport Carry-On: ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’

Florida Man Jumps Through Window to Escape Cops

Florida man bites police dog, threatens to shoot deputies, sheriff’s office says

Abby Choi's remains found in soup pots with carrots, court hears

Bugatti CEO shares bizarre story of how his Chiron got stolen after a simple oversight

Mom Fights Off Attacker While Her 2 Young Kids Are Home, Then Learns Her Own Fiancé Recruited Him

Florida man shoots and kills roommates over arguments about ice-cream, police say

Florida Woman Tries To Buy Taco Bell With Tampons, Mistakes Police Officer for Bank Employee Before DUI Arrest, Cops Say

Florida Man Fleeing Traffic Stop Rams Patrol Car, Water Pipe, and Building, Cops Say

A Russian woman arrested for leaving her four children home alone during a Las Vegas trip has filed for divorce.

Florida Man Accused of Horrific Murder Tells Judge He Will Plead Guilty for a Sandwich and Soft Drink

Man arrested after pickleball dispute involving slow cooker

United States: Ohio Man Convicted for Lying About His Involvement in the Rwandan Genocide

Ohio man arrested after allegedly activating stun gun Salem

Man Faces Burglary Rap For 3 AM Cosplay As Popeyes Drive-Thru Worker

Judge to hear from city inspectors on South Chicago Chapel funeral home where 55 decomposing bodies were found

Squabble over squirrel in Ohio leads to man being arrested

Mom disappeared hours after appearing on The People’s Court. Her ex is accused of her murder 15 years later

Florida Woman Shoots Boyfriend’s Suspected Lover to ‘Make a Point’ About Cheating

A Florida man faced up to 5 years in prison for fleeing police — until his Tesla's camera acquitted him two years later

Florida Man Allegedly Stole $58,000 Worth Of Copper From Cell Towers Across Jacksonville