Rick Padden of Loveland, Colorado has written a play about a famous hoax from his own town: The Great Loveland Potato Hoax. It’ll be on stage at Loveland’s Rialto Theater. The Loveland Potato Hoax took place in 1895. It involved…
On April 13, 1986, at 5:15 AM, Douglas Arling of Warwick, Rhode Island went out to the chicken coop in his yard and checked on his 9-year-old Araconda chicken. To his astonishment, he found she had laid a massive egg…
In the late 1970’s The Circle of Gold was all the rage. It was a pyramid scheme touting the possibility of turning a mere $100 investment into a cool $200,000 and it swept through the fashionable homes of Washington like…
What is the best evidence of time travel? Rumours that a time traveller by the name of Alexandria Alexis travelled back to the Victoria Era only to go missing on New Year’s Eve 1899 have been popular on the Internet…
The story of the Cardiff Giant Hoax. In 1869, trickster George Hull masterminded one of the 19th century’s most sensational hoaxes: the discovery of a 10-foot-tall giant. George Hill had an argument with a minister about whether or…
Retired Glasgow-born actor Arthur Furguson was a terrific salesperson. However, like many other such people, he was unaware of his talent until one inspiring day when the perfect opportunity presented itself to him. His moment happened in Trafalgar Square, one…
Haunted House 1129 Ridge Avenue looked like your average, ordinary house. Of course, as we all know, ordinary houses often have something else going on beneath. For this house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that something was a ghost story. The…
Crop Circles Whenever a mysterious crop circle would appear in large fields in Great Britain, extra-terrestrial enthusiasts across the country would go wild with curiosity. With claims of them being messages from aliens, which were widely disputed, in 1991 two…
Henricus (Han) Antonius van Meegeren was born in Deventer in the Netherlands in 1889. He began studying architecture but gave that up to become an artist. My paintings will become original Vermeers once more. I produced them not for money…
On April 23rd, 2013, the Associated Press tweeted out the following: “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured.” The tweet, which went up at approximately 1:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, had an immediate impact on…
The Fox sisters were three sisters from New York, Leah, Margaret (also called Maggie) and Kate (also called Catherine). The two younger sisters used “rappings” to convince their much older sister and others that they were communicating with spirits. Their…
We take a look back at the archives of the Weekly World News and the strange New York stories: GIANT TURTLES In 1997, The New York uncovered a nest of giant turtles in the New York sewer system capable of…
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