Strange But True Category
Weird, offbeat and bizarre news from around the world. Funny, strange & odd news stories that make you wince, laugh and fear for humanity.
One-Legged Man Sells His Severed Finger To Save Haunted Train Museum
BUY a finger and save a museum. That’s John Baker’s message. The owner of Bakers Junction Railroad Museum in Smithville, Indiana, needs cash. And he will raise it by selling his own severed finger.
The advert runs:
“YO! It is a real finger key chain. I no it’s real it’s off my right hand. I cut it off working on Bakers Junction Railroad Museum. It can be seen at The Haunted Train fund raiser for Bakers Junction Railroad Museum. I am a 100% disabled Veteran, I cut my finger off with a skill saw when I was cutting over my head standing on one leg, because I only have one leg.”
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Posted: 29th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jack The Lamb Thinks He’s A Dog: Video
JACK The Lamb is billed as the sheep that thinks he’s a dog. Jack lives at Alison Sinstadt’s farm in Market Drayton, Shropshire. Says she in News Today:
“He makes this strange half baa, half woof noise which everyone finds hilarious. Jack doesn’t even recognise sheep as his own kind as he tries to herd them up when he’s in a field with them… He thinks he’s a dog, but he doesn’t eat dog food. He grazes along the canal towpath. He is very much part of the family now. We wouldn’t want him ending up as lamb chops.”
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Posted: 28th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Smuggles 12 Birds In His Pants: Little Peckers Survive
HEAR that humm? A Dutch traveller has been found with a dozen live hummingbirds secreted into the inside of his underwear at Rochambeau airport in Cayenne, French Guiana. French customs officer thought the traveller was acting suspiciously and searched him.
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Posted: 28th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
KKK Sets Up Florida Ice-Cream Parlour: Flakes All Round
TO Ocala, Florida, where the KKK are flogging ice-cream in the sort of herren kinder recruitment drive Adolf Hitler overlooked. The good folks of Ice Cream Family Corner and Sandwiches will one day have an office in every town. Only is that a KKK hood?
The Ocala Star-Banner reports:
Liza Diaz, who manages the store… said an employee at the bank where she does business told her a co-worker was so frightened by the white dollop patrolling the street corner that she called her husband crying and refused to drive through the intersection.
“One (customer) told me, ‘I had to think twice before coming in here because I thought it was KKK,’ ” Diaz said.
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Posted: 27th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dead Woman Wrapped In Morgue’s Plastic Bag Breathes Again
RIP Rosa Celestrino de Assis. That; her in teh mkogue. That’s her in the palstic body bag. That’s her being cuddled by her daughter, Rosangela Celestrino, who tells us:“I went to give my mum one last hug, and I could feel that she was breathing. I screamed out – my mum is alive! And they all looked at me like I was crazy. Not only did I have to go collect my mum from a cold storage drawer at the morgue, but when I got there, I find her still breathing,”
Posted: 27th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Men Who Sent Thousands Of Messages In Bottles Receives Thousands Of Replies
HAROLD Hackett has over ten years set sail over 4,800 messages in bottles from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Every one of his missives asks that the finder replies via more conventional means.
Since 1996 Hackett has received over 3,100 responses.
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Posted: 27th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Heard The One About The Duck With Four Legs? Photos
I Say, I say, I say, Polish farmer Krzystof Makles has a four-legged duck. Says he:
“We found him among a load of other newborn chicks and to be honest I thought he would die bit he got stronger and pulled through and I admired his guts.”
Posted: 25th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Rude Hand Gestures Of The World: How To Offend Foreigners In Photos
ROMANA Lefevre ‘s book Rude Hand Gestures of the World will ensure that travelling football fans manage to hit the right notes. Here’s a gallery of how to offend – and to avoid offending – while overseas…
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Posted: 25th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
When Cat Burning Was Fun In Gay Paris
HAVE you seen Wikipedia’s entry on cat-burning:
Cat burning was a form of zoosadistic entertainment in 17th century Paris, France. In this form of entertainment, people would gather dozens of cats in a net and hoist them high into the air from a special bundle onto a bonfire. According to Norman Davies[1], the assembled people “shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized.”[2]
“It was the custom to burn a basket, barrel, or sack full of live cats, which was hung from a tall mast in the midst of the bonfire; sometimes a fox was burned. The people collected the embers and ashes of the fire and took them home, believing that they brought good luck. The French kings often witnessed these spectacles and even lit the bonfire with their own hands. In 1648 Louis XIV, crowned with a wreath of roses and carrying a bunch of roses in his hand, kindled the fire, danced at it and partook of the banquet afterwards in the town hall. But this was the last occasion when a monarch presided at the midsummer bonfire in Paris. At Metz midsummer fires were lighted with great pomp on the esplanade, and a dozen cats, enclosed in wicker cages, were burned alive in them, to the amusement of the people. Similarly at Gap, in the department of the Hautes-Alpes, cats used to be roasted over the midsummer bonfire.”[3]
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Posted: 24th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
How Did Michael Faherty Die? The Story Of Spontaneous Combustion
MICHAEL Faherty, 76, is the first person in Ireland to die of of spontaneous human combustion. His body was found at his home in Galway on 22 December 2010. He was found lying face down near an open fire in his living room.
The house around him was intact. No other item was burned. The ceiling above him and the floor beneath him was scorched. Police found no accelerant. There were no signs of foul play.
Dr Kieran McLoughlin, the West Galway coroner, ruled that Mr Faherty had been consumed by spontaneous combustion. He said:
“This fire was thoroughly investigated and I’m left with the conclusion that this fits into the category of spontaneous human combustion, for which there is no adequate explanation.”
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Posted: 24th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Who Is The Gloucester Claw? Boy Scratched In Bizarre Wolverine Attack
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Posted: 24th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Hitman Carlos Roberto de Jesus Falls In Love With Women He Was Hired To Murder
TO Brazilian, where, alleged, hired gun Carlos Roberto de Jesus has been paid $500 to murder Iranildes Aguiar Araujo. The client, one Maria Nilza Simoes, suspected her husband was shagging Iranildes. Carlos Roberto de Jesus will not fail her – unless he falls in love with his would-be victim. Which he does.
Will he kill her? No. The lovebirds fake her death. They buy two bottles of tomato ketchup. She lies on the ground with a machete under her armpit. Her mouth is taped closed. Her hands are tied. Carlos Roberto de Jesus takes a photograph and sends it to his client. Job done.
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Posted: 23rd, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nicholas Cage’s Hair Is Proof That Vampires Exist: Photos
NICHOLAS Cage has been outed by an eBay user named Jack Mord, an “antique image dealer” who has a photo from 1870 of man who looks like the slack-jawed actor.
Indeed, the seller of the photograph says Cage is so much like the man in the picture he must be the one and same, sensibly concluding that the actor is a vampire who can life forever.
Ingenioulsy Cage has poo-pooed the truth by pretending to lose his hair by skilled and painful plucking. But eventually Cage tired of this routine and left his flowing lock to return.
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Posted: 23rd, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Dumpling Eating Contest Winner Drops Dead
IVAN Mendal is dead. But he died a local hero.
The 77-year-old Ukrainian, from Tokmak in the southeastern Zaporizhya region, won a dumpling eating contest. He ate 10 dumplings in one miunute. For his efforts he was awarded a one-litre jar of sour cream.
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Posted: 22nd, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Kenya Believe It? Fire Truck Runs Out Water And Catches Fire In Downtown Kiambu
NTV Kenya reports from a residential buliding in Kiambu caught fire. Fire! But have not fear, the Keystone Kiambu fire Brigade are on the scene. They have special hats! Special jackets! Special shoes! And no water to put out the fire that has spread to their engine…
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Posted: 22nd, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mug Shot Of The Day: Man Tucks Ears Into Face Holes
MUG Shot Of The Day reaches us from Michigan. The perp has been arrested for marijuana possession and “furnishing: alcohol to a minor. He has tucked his ears into his face holes.
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Posted: 21st, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Metal-Munching OAP Almost Dies Eating Bicycle Pedal
“IT was a wake-up call for me. Since then, I just haven’t had the same desire to munch metal. After 20 years of eating everything, I’ve realised my digestive system is not as strong as it used to be, so I’ve decided to retire.”
So says Branko Crnogorac, 80, of Apatin, Serbia, who has been eating metal, light-bulb, vinyl records and plates for 60 years. He’s changed his diet following an incident with a bicycle pedal a friend had dared him to eat.
“I almost died. I needed emergency surgery. At the same time, doctors found two kilogrammes of assorted ironware in my stomach, including two gold rings.”
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Posted: 21st, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Blackburn Sign Tells Drives To Go 40mph In 30mph Zone
SIGN of The Day goes to Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council brains’ trust which has apologised for the “genuine mistake” in Sandy Lane, Blackburn, as the road approaches Pleasington. The road marking say 40mph, the sign says 30mph.
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Posted: 20th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
UFO As Big As A Car Hunts Down Australian Driver
LOCAL News Story of The Day takes us to the Norther Territories in Australia. There a local man is “shaken after an encounter with a UFO south of Tennant Creek“.
Says the man waho want to be known a Aiden:
“About an hour after I had set off I looked in my side mirror and noticed a light behind me. I thought ‘geez, they must be driving fast’ as I was doing 120km/hour. When I looked again after a few minutes the light was really bright but it was in the bloody sky.”
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Posted: 20th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Burglars Throw Birthday Party, Use Dental Floss And Wash Dog In Man’s Home
“THERE was dog hair everywhere so I was like, ‘Somebody done wash the dog in my house!’ I just couldn’t believe it,” says Roderick Ward, of Newton County, Atlanta. In his kitchen, he found a birthday cake.
“They had brushed their teeth with the new toothbrush travel kit that I had with dental floss and everything and combed their hair.”
He called the police.
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Posted: 20th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Breast Slapping In Thailand Is Good For Your Cleavage
TO Thailand, where Khemmikka Na Songkhla’s “breast-slapping” will make your breasts grow. (Just ask Tarzan.) Also, she does “buttock-slapping” to tighten up your bum, and face slapping for EastEnders sound effects and firmer chins.
The 44-year-old beautician better known as “Khunying Tobnom” is knocking them bandy:
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Posted: 19th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Armed Thief Returns To Get Jacket He Lost In Shop Raid
MUG Shot of The Day features the face of Anthony Gorman. The 21 attempted to rob Michael Singh’s shop in Longsight, Manchester. He was armed with a gun. He barks:
“Put the f****** money in the bag or I’ll shoot you.”
He failed when Mr Singh fought back. Mr Singh grabs the gun.
Gorman ran off. He then retuedn to the shop to ask for his jacket back. He;s droped it int eh scuffle and what with it costing him £200, he didn’t want to lose it.
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Posted: 18th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Philadelphia Burglars Deny Stealing The Lion
TO Philadelphia, where 19-year-old lovers Harley Rose Gifford and Britney Singleton, have admitted burgling 29 homes.
The women acted in daylight hours. They stole, allegedly: iPods, jewellery, toys, electronics, sneakers, makeup, purses, toiletries, household items, about $23,000 in currency, a hookah pipe and marijuana, a 55-inch flat screen television – and no lion. They did not steal the lion they claim to have encountered in one house.
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Posted: 17th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sussex Donkey Painted To Look Like A Zebra
THE donkey at the Sussex Horse Rescue Trust centre in Hempstead Lane, Uckfield, is sporting a black and white coat of paint.
A spokeswoman for the trust says the people who spray painted the creature are “cruel”.
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Posted: 17th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Predatory Toe-Sucker Strikes Again
TO Conway, Arkansas, where a phantom toe-sucker is at large.
Says police spokeswoman LaTresha Woodruff:
“We want him off the streets.”
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Posted: 17th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
