Oddities, Weird Stuff, Strange Things in Our World.
After getting injured during a hike, a Phoenix area woman needed to be airlifted to safety. However, the rescue did not go as planned. “Sometimes when we bring the helicopter up from the ground, [the basket] will start to spin,” Chef pilot Paul Apolinar of the Phoenix Police Department’s Air Support Unit said. “We have …
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This python may have bitten off more than he could chew, or in this case, swallow… Man Versus Python Mr. Ben Nyaumbe got in quite the fight with a 13ft python, in Kenya, 2009. He said the he “stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body …
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What do a car, dog, ax, and chicken coop have in common? In this case, a naked Florida man. This man was said to have stole a car, killed a dog and maybe some chickens, and chased a man down with an ax. For his grand finale, he was found naked in a chicken coop. …
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84 year old New Hampshire man, Roy Syvertson, sat down in his living room to use his iPad, as he usual does. On the 23rd, Syvertson said that nothing seemed out of the ordinary, until an hour later, when he went to close his iPad. “I always do the same thing,” he said. “I just open …
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Have you ever wanted to get in a wrestling match with a bear? Well here are two stories to convince you otherwise. 73-year-old Sonny Pumphery Takes On A Black Bear Mr. Pumphery was cleaning up leaves last fall (November 7, to be exact) when he came across a mother bear escorting her two cubs. He …
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Ever heard the expression, “to run around like a chicken with its head cut off”? Well, this rooster took that to a whole new level… Mike, The Miracle Chicken The poor rooster, Miracle Mike, was living on a farm happily in 1945, until after five months when he was put on the chopping block. Loyd …
People In Ohio Woke Up To A Surprise. When they ran the water, it came out hot pink, almost “like cotton candy,” as news reporters from WSAZ said in their report. After initially being told not to drink the odd colored liquid, it has now been announced that it is safe. While it is, …
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Have you ever asked yourself why you have to wear clothes, but the dogs and cats didn’t? G. Clifford Prout Jr. did. The Man On A Mission in 1959, G. Clifford Prout Jr. was a man on a mission, the mission of clothing animals. He brought animal clothing on NBC’s Today Show, to showcase …
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Have you ever wanted to know that you’d leave behind a legacy to remember? Well, Michel Lotito left an amazing legacy, one you’d need an entire plane to carry it in… Michel Lotito Michel Lotito was born on June 15, 1950, and he died on June 25, 2007. He developed something unusual when Monsieur …
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Did you know that you can buy a styrofoam cake? Because you can. Some people want the “look” of a cake, but not the actual cake. This can happen for weddings or other celebratory events. When mom, Marsy Flores, ordered a cake from Walmart, she wanted the cake with frosting, a graduation theme, and moist, …
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