Weird

The Bajau people’s centuries-old ability to stay underwater for extraordinary lengths of time has been traced to a genetic mutation that enlarged their spleens, but the same Western contact that helped scientists document the adaptation now threatens to erase the…

A Missouri foster mother accused of trading a teenage girl for a monkey will serve no prison time after a judge suspended her seven-year sentence and placed her on probation. Brenda Deutsch, 70, received the sentence for child endangerment in…

A man in a “very convincing” Bigfoot costume triggered a police investigation in a tiny Maine tourist town after frantic 911 callers reported a Sasquatch sighting on the first day of school. Officer William Smith tracked down the furry figure…

Corie Walsh’s attorney has spoken out after the Illinois mother was charged with murdering her two-year-old son. Walsh, 40, of Frankfort, Ill., a suburb southwest of Chicago, was discovered in a bloody bathtub with self-inflicted knife wounds after her neighbor…

Steve Irwin’s widow Terri has recalled the moment she first laid eyes on the Crocodile Hunter while a crocodile was actively trying to attack him. Terri, who was visiting from Eugene, Oregon, had arrived at Australia Zoo just two days…

Diplo has once again walked miles through the mud to escape Burning Man after rain turned the Nevada desert festival into a slog. The DJ, 47, posted clips to his Instagram account showing himself trudging six miles through soaked terrain…

Dominic Auricchio, 13, says the Virgin Mary appeared in his bedroom months before doctors canceled his brain surgery. The Westfield, New Jersey, eighth-grader had already felt called to the priesthood since age 4, when he says God spoke to him…

Donald Trump stepped off Air Force One with a darker head of hair than Washington has seen in years. The president, 79, arrived Friday evening at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey for a weekend getaway sporting an…

Rep. Tom Suozzi has condemned the ongoing occupation of a vacant Queens property by an accused repeat squatter who neighbors say has terrorized their tree-lined Bayside block for more than two years. “This is an awful situation,” Suozzi said Eyewitness…

Brighton Denevan, 34, has revealed himself as the creator of massive sand artworks that have been materializing overnight along a Bay Area shoreline. The Santa Cruz native moved to the East Bay this spring and spent months hunting for the…

Ashlyn Mercier is speaking out about shattering stereotypes as she competes for the Miss America crown. The Westborough, Massachusetts, police officer, who is also the first cop ever named Miss Massachusetts, said that women in law enforcement defy any single…

Maria Consuelo Cordoba has been approved for euthanasia after more than 80 surgeries failed to repair the damage from her husband’s acid attack. Cordoba, 58, told Colombian television that her husband concealed the acid inside a liquor bottle before throwing…

Nadia Garcia Gomez has launched a petition demanding arrests after a dolphin calf was allegedly beaten to death on a Ceuta beach. Garcia Gomez, a local resident, announced the campaign in a social media post on Wednesday, September 2, describing…

Sonia Marquez, 52, pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple felony counts after allegedly locking two young girls in a dog cage as punishment. The Los Angeles woman was arrested Wednesday in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood following a daring escape by…

Nathaniel Michael Carrasco, 22, was arrested by San Antonio police after Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude flagged his alleged threats to attack a neighboring elementary school and alerted federal authorities. The FBI’s National Threat Operations Section notified San Antonio police on…

Dawn Light, 56, is speaking out through her attorney after pleading not guilty to aggravated intimidation of a juror at Lindsay Clancy’s trial. Light, a retired nurse from Massachusetts, was arrested Tuesday afternoon after allegedly filming jurors as they left…