Bizarre

15 October 2021

Pandemic has fuelled interest in ghosts

The coronavirus pandemic has sparked interest in ghosts and the afterlife. Psychology experts have said that Britain is becoming more obsessed with the paranormal due to the amount of death experience ...

14 October 2021

Council blasted for 'pointless' cycle lane

A council has been criticised for introducing the UK's "most pointless cycle lane". Nottinghamshire County Council have installed the 10-foot lane on a roundabout in the town of Stapleford but it ...

14 October 2021

Woman can't help eating sponges

A woman has been forced to stop buying sponges for her house - as she can't resist eating them. Claire Louise Owen, from North Wales, started chewing sponges when she was ...

14 October 2021

Woman petrified after finding snake in her toilet

A woman was left terrified when she discovered a snake in her toilet. Laura Tranter went to use the toilet in the early hours of Saturday (09.10.21) morning when she saw ...

14 October 2021

Huge wine factory discovered in Israel

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a large wine factory dating back over 1,000 years. The complex has been discovered in the town of Yavne and includes five wine presses, warehouses and ...

13 October 2021

Man breaks record for Coca-Cola can collection

A Canadian man has earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for his collection of 11,308 different Coca-Cola cans. Gary Feng claimed the record for the largest collection ...

13 October 2021

Penguins can recognise faces as quickly as humans

Penguins can recognise faces as fast as humans can. A new study has found that the flightless birds can form mental images of their friends, a skill that was previously thought ...

13 October 2021

Police find sharks swimming around pool in Sussex house

Police found sharks swimming around a Christmas Tree in a person's living room. Officers from Sussex Police were called out to a house in Haywards Heath to deal with a disturbance ...

13 October 2021

Brits forgot holiday pals

More than a quarter of Brits have forgotten to take their travel companion on holiday with them. A hapless 53% of people surveyed confessed that in the past 18 months, they’ve ...
12 October 2021

Man hoping to set pub crawl record

A man is aiming to set the world record for the most pubs visited in 24 hours. Matt Ellis, from Cambridgeshire, drank in 51 bars over the course of a day ...

12 October 2021

Man obsessed with 1990s dedicated home to decade

A man obsessed with the 1990s lives in a house dedicated to the decade. Jack Walters, 23, has spent £5,000 on clothes and gadgets from the 90s to install in his ...

12 October 2021

Radio signals in space could hint at alien life

Weak radio signals in space could indicate the existence of aliens. The sounds, which have been detected by the world's most powerful telescope, appear to be from hidden planets. Astronomers picked up ...

12 October 2021

Cavemen smoked both cigarettes and weed

Cavemen puffed away on cigarettes and weed, scientists have claimed. It was previously thought that humans did not smoke until the Ancient Greeks lived 2,500 years ago but charred tobacco seeds ...

11 October 2021

Speed demon breaks record for fastest lawnmower

A speed demon has broken the Guinness World Record for building the world's fastest lawnmower. Tony Edwards hit 143mph on a race track before later proving that his machine could trim ...

11 October 2021

Wizard rages after council stop paying his salary

A council in New Zealand will stop paying a wizard his annual salary. The wizard has been paid $16,000 by Christchurch City Council for the past 23 years but the authorities ...

11 October 2021

Robot policemen patrol Singapore's streets

Robot policemen have been patrolling the streets of Singapore. The cyborgs - named Xavier - are equipped with seven cameras that allow them to detect "undesirable social behaviour" and groups who ...

11 October 2021

Teenage music favourites will be remembered in later years

Songs first heard as a teenager are the most likely to be remembered in later years. New research has found that tunes that become favourites between the ages of 13 and ...

8 October 2021

Anti-flatulence bedding filters away fart smells

A new anti-flatulence bedding filters away bad smells to improve people's experience. Shreddies - the brand behind anti-flatulence underwear - have announced the innovative bedding that contains carbon panels that trap ...

8 October 2021

Woman unaware she was pregnant gives birth minutes after stomach ache

A woman who didn't know she was pregnant gave birth just eight minutes after suffering from stomach pain. Tilda Kantala, from Finland, woke up in June with a "small burning pain" ...

8 October 2021

Beatles fan collects photos of the band drinking tea

A Beatles fan has spent years collecting hundreds of photographs of the Fab Four drinking tea. Huw Spink has trawled through thousands of images of the music legends to compile his ...

8 October 2021

Fat Bear Week winner crowned in Alaska

A rotund brown bear named 480 Otis has claimed the title in Alaska's Fat Bear Week. The annual event is organised by Katmai National Park in the US state and calls ...

7 October 2021

Uri Geller blames aliens for Facebook outage

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp were brought down earlier this week by aliens, Uri Geller has claimed. The TV psychic believes that extraterrestrials were responsible for the social media giants going offline ...

7 October 2021

Man calls police after finding bones in a wall

A man contacted police after finding bones stashed behind the wall in his house. TikTok user Francis Chuckie Raven shared a video in which he revealed that he had discovered some ...

7 October 2021

Woman pulls out 11 teeth as she couldn't find dentist

A woman yanked out 11 of her own teeth as she was unable to find a dentist. Danielle Watts suffered severe gum disease after her old practice closed in 2015 but ...