Category Archives: Offbeat News

Oxford Bus Company collected 4,387 lost items in 2025, returning 1,013 pieces to owners, representing about 23% of all found belongings. The British transit company's most unusual discoveries included...

Birch Bay, Washington may have set a new Guinness World Record Thursday after 4,917 people officially entered frigid water during a polar bear dip attempt. Several community groups organized the event...

Medical workers at Grundy County Memorial Hospital in Iowa successfully recovered heirloom wedding rings accidentally thrown away by a patient. Susan Sinnwell realized the day after her hand X-ray tha...

Nearly 80% of designers working on new housing developments report that separate dining rooms have dropped down buyers' priority lists over the past year, according to new research. Instead, builders ...

Susan Erica Avalon, 51, faces second-degree homicide charges after authorities say she killed two former husbands in separate Florida counties within hours. Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells said depu...

Rex the wallaby was safely recovered after escaping from Lots of Love Farm in Williamstown, New Jersey on December 29. The 3-foot-tall marsupial was found the next day in a Walmart parking lot in Glou...

A 55-year-old woman remains missing after disappearing during a group swim Sunday near Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, California. The swimmer was with 17 members of a swim club when she vanished aroun...

Suntory Global Spirits will suspend bourbon production at its James B. Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky for all of 2026. The company calls the shutdown a chance to make "site enhancements" and ad...

Hundreds of people attended a satirical funeral for the penny Saturday at Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial. The event featured actors dressed as Abraham Lincoln carrying a casket where attendees tos...

A popcorn machine caught fire Friday morning at Regal Cinemas 16 on Tiny Town Road in Clarksville, Tennessee, forcing the theater to temporarily close. Clarksville Fire Rescue confirmed the incident o...