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Sinking horse rescued from Colorado bog
Firefighters in Colorado teamed up with local residents to rescue a horse that wandered into a bog and started to sink.
Sinking horse rescued from Colorado bog
Firefighters in Colorado teamed up with local residents to rescue a horse that wandered into a bog and started to sink.
The bear grabs, then eats, a small bag of five-cent gummy bears
In April 2018, the underwater photographer Ryo Minemizu watched as a creature the size of a ladybug bobbed around 50 feet underwater off the shores of Okinawa, Japan. The thing resembled a jellyfish, a yolk-like center with trailing, wispy tentacles. Minemizu posted photos of the creature to social ...
The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet the test is still being used to bring murder charges — and get convictions.
It's a hot one. This edition is chock-full of strange news stories - record heat, drought, strange animal discoveries, weird crimes, many mysteries.
Weekly Weird Newsletter - a collection of stories from these strange times.
They heard it, felt it, and a couple of people even said a "loud boom" rattled their homes in West Valley, but an explanation on a cause for the boom was a bust
Deputies from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department got dangerously close to the bull to cut it free from the tangle on Sept. 1.
Weather patterns, badly timed rain and the lit windows of the Lakeside Center building blamed for the carnage.
Weather patterns, badly timed rain and the lit windows of the Lakeside Center building blamed for the carnage.
After the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced an Oct. 4 test of its emergency alert system, conspiracy theorists began spreading false rumors that the alert, which is sent to phones, radios and TVs, would activate particles in the COVID-19 vaccine that enable the government to track and co...
Hi everyone. I’m happy to present the weekly roundup of news stories that are a bit weird, maybe scary, but par for the course in these strange times. So let’s get going. This week: flamingos in Wisconsin, another alligator fatality, a secretive church is buying out a town, AI continues to generate ...
They can last a while in there. I used my shop vac for spotted lantern flies. They didn't die.
"Those girls should be full of life and extra spicy. I anxiously await your unboxing video," read a message directed at the thief.
Whoever stole the shop vac is in for a very big surprise.
Lingering drought conditions have kept the Mississippi River at abnormally low levels and significantly weakened its flow, allowing salt water to creep in.
No one else heard it so, doesn't tick the boxes.
Atlas of Mysterious Fairy Circles Shows They're More Widespread Than We Thought
Five flamingos that showed up in Wisconsin to wade along a Lake Michigan beach attracted a big crowd of onlookers eager to see the unusual visitors venturing far from their usual tropical setting.
Hi everyone! Thanks for joining me for another fun-filled episode of the Weekly Weird News. I’m on the road this week so apologies if the writeups are a little shorter than usual. Welcome to new subscribers! As usual, I have a number of animals stories this week and a few weather related anomalies. ...
When something goes bump in the night: A loud sound, the house started shaking and the roof is damaged with no explanation in a north Phoenix home.
The homeowner said the damage happened just after it felt like an earthquake shook the house.
Fake information shakes down social media. It's been a very busy week!
It's not "finders keepers". In this case, the owner was identifiable. There are laws in most states that require you report found valuables or cash and make an effort to find the owner. It's at least a misdemeanor if you don't.
Cult of Personality.
This was not a new photo, as noted. The photo was apparently with the Centre for Fortean Zoology and they determined it was NOT genuine.
We should remember that it's a mistake to judge other cultures by our 21st century Western standards. Education is the key to stopping it. Humans have terrible trouble attributing bad outcomes to chance; we need to blame someone. Witch accusations remain a social problem in several places worldwide.
Jetpacks? Puh-leeze. Don't they read the real news!? L.A. Jetpack man was probably a balloon https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59167345
The molecule has been found in space, but that doesn't mean it couldn't also have formed on earth pretty easily. This article has not been peer reviewed so, I don't think it boosts the idea of panspermia very much.
Ha. I thought the same thing. Dogs don’t like “spa day”.
This is a rural area, the houses are very far apart. He was aiming for it, but hit a drainage ditch and became airborne. If he hit the ground floor, it could have been tragic rather than just so bizarre.
The state wants to ban all mention of gender and sexuality in schools because they don’t think children need to learn about that (even though that’s real life). Sexual and gender issues are a necessary part of the AP psych curriculum, therefore, teachers cannot teach the complete course without facing legal ramifications. The state has failed to clarify this so nothing has been resolved.
It really is infantilizing kids of high school age to make them deliberately ignorant (and therefore reject) people who have different preferences. It’s horrific and is doomed to fail. The real world has a way of catching up.
I looked at the webpage for the event and it looks very much like a tourist draw. Nothing they are doing has any scientific merit. Honestly, believers need to give up trying to find a singular nonexistent monster. That loch has been searched thoroughly.
This looks new. Needs a lot of work. I looked at the earthquake lights and ball lightning pages and I would have to spend days updating it. That’s the trouble with unknown things, there is a lot that has been tried already that might be relevant towards an explanation but we’re not there yet.
well, yeah. That's what the article says. It's always good to read the link.
Good to know! That also makes sense.
(It would be helpful if you could take off the URL link from the entire paragraph, though. It's hard to read this way.)
Actually 1000 is a good number for a sample. It narrows your margin of error to around 3%. If it is truly randomly selected people. But that's the hard part. How you sample skews the results. For example, sampling via land line random phone numbers means you get much older people. Sampling on college campuses means younger, etc.
I'm on Bluesky. It's vapid. Boring. I forget about it, check it once a week and nothing happens except people make a huge deal about cancelling someone. Not worth the hype at all.
OOPS! My bad. When I added the photo for the post, it deleted the news link. Now fixed. Video is available at the link. Sorry.
I’ll take whales jumping over whales dying any day.