Unbearable squatter roars “like a lion with a hiss on top;” rabid raccoon turns on rescuer; zoo’s oldest resident dies at 141 (or so).
Toddler gets head stuck in toilet seat; weed store to give away a spendy Birkin bag; iguanas are falling and joro spiders are “ballooning.”
“Sandwich Guy” gets verdict on assault case; woman on drunken rampage made three tacos during burglary, police said.
Sea otters are stealing surfboards again; AI picks winning Powerball numbers; pastor on prayer tour accused of setting church shed on fire.
Eeyore the dog “practically dragged” deputy to a woman who had fallen while walking him; escaped prisoner tried to hitch a ride in the nude.
Ghost ship found after 140 years; live World War II artillery shell found in garage cleanup; record for Yogi Berra; and some cat tales.
Humpty Dumpty didn’t fall; he was ripped from his perch. Squirrels aren’t political; it just seems as if they are. Nudists are chafed.
Turtle smuggling in bras and pants; bat flies into woman’s mouth; man lets deadly snake bite him 200 times; far from Farfrompoopen Road.
It’s been weird out there: Breast milk-like ice cream “like mom used to make”; X-Files-esque sighting in the sky; older than dirt.
Revolutionary War history unearthed; ‘Chuck E. Cheese’ arrested; massive lizard, worms swimming in circles and fighting foxes, oh my!
All is not as it seems with teddy bear “patched together flesh.” Elmo’s reputation was impugned with hacker’s antisemitic, racist screed.
Bear finally free of “cone of shame”; alligator checks into a motel; tons of Burmese pythons removed; animals know more than you may think.
Airline steward dances naked at 1 mile high; Sir-hiss-a-lot finds legal home; weeks-long bug sex party starts. Also: “Bueller? Bueller?”
This happened when Florida man’s wife began singing ‘Click Click Boom’ as he showered; Chicago classic “baptized in gravy” in nod to pope.
There's not one but TWO Farfrompoopen Roads in America.
Want that snake margarita on the rocks? “Pooper” arrested; man busted for having three wives; seal keeps the beat better than most people.
Get your fix of weird.
Someone is stealing manhole covers and no one knows why; a woman, 74, survives 3 days in freezing woods; a jilted jobseeker’s “crime spray.”
A $12 painting may be a Renoir; $770,000 in diamonds in man’s poop returned to Tiffany; couger and panther babies in Michigan and Florida.
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Four-year-old calls 911 on mom for “being bad”; thieves steal $1,600 in deoderant; people go bananas on Long Island; green ice mystifies.
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The father of a toddler born with the computer-generated name of Unakite Thirteen Hotel while in foster care fights for her legal existence.
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Man clocked driving 130 mph offer “purr-fect” excuse; beat goes on for rescue pup; daycare accused of serving raw chicken and sour milk.
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A fawn wanders for days with its head stuck in a cheeseball jug; a diary has circulated among women in 30 states; cicadas will be back.
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The only thing that would’ve made the story of a woman who lived in a sign more perfect is if she’d taped a $6.2 million banana to the wall.
Mastodon fossil reveals Ice Age clues. A bear shot by a hunter falls on another and kills him. What is going on with California’s squirrels?
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Santa gets stuck on the side of a tall building; irate over “lemon,” man crashes car through dealership door hours after buying it.
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Fall River, Massachusetts, police said they rescued a man who hid from them in a chimney and arrested another person “with less theatrics.”
![‘Santa-Antics’: MA Man Fleeing Police Gets Stuck In Chimney [Video]](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/users/790386/20241212/010311/styles/patch_image/public/fall-river-ma-police-body-cam___12124922951.jpg)
Third “doomsday fish” beached in California; squirrel sparked Clark Griswold moment in Illinois; snakes liberated on road to Pennsylvania.
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Car flies into home’s second story; tiny horse goes shopping; fake bear claws up cars; cloned ferret gives birth; Bigfoot has been sighted.
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The saga of the Bed-Stuy pop-up fishpond has ended swimmingly. Some people are marrying their AI sweethearts. Do baked potatoes scurry?
We take a glib look at how to pull off a costume based on stuff that really happened but that people may not believe. Because Halloween.
An ugly duckling story with a twist; lost cat sets off on 900-mile journey home; people want to sleep in candy corn beds and suites.
Passel of opossums, fentanyl found in illegally parked car; Taylor Swift is everywhere in a corn maze; robbery attempt goes horribly wrong.
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Reptile hitchhiking “most Florida thing ever”; oh my darling, Clementine is free; little piggy goes to Hollywood; “The Shark” foiled again.
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It was so hot a tourist melted his feet; “rooftop ninja” lived in a sign for a year; dude has eaten 34,000 Big Macs since 1973; much more.
Another Pennsylvania groundhog gains fame as a live prize in claw machine; celery that wasn’t celery and candy that wasn’t candy.
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Dragonfly swarms terrify, delight beachgoers; stay in Polly Pocket’s compact house; auction price as eye-popping as Princess Leia’s bikini.
![1-Ton Asphalt Roller Joyride; RFK Jr.’s Bear [Weird News & Oddities]](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/shutterstock/790386/20240809/120415/styles/patch_image/public/shutterstock-1442625251___08235704979.jpg)
An Amazon delivery contained a dirty diaper; it stinks for the third-party sellers, too. A giant inflatable IUD tours the country.
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What do Texas Roadhouse and Wawa have in common? Gardener has a nose for swallowtail butterflies. And Yosemite, we have a poop problem.
![Bottoms Up: Margarita, Funnel And Woman’s Bum [Weird News & Oddities]](https://patch.com/img/cdn20/users/790386/20240712/040205/styles/patch_image/public/image000000___12155728780.jpg)
A rare hoodwinker sunfish that washed up on Oregon’s north coast drew curious onlookers, and a Goodwill store discovered a snake’s hot take.
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