Category Archives: Offbeat News

Fruity Pebbles will trade free cereal boxes for handfuls of rocks during its nationwide "Pebbles Pay Tour" at four Walmart locations. The promotional campaign requires customers to bring small pebbles...

Police in British Columbia arrested a man Friday morning after he drove a child-sized pink Barbie Jeep on busy city streets. Police began receiving calls around 9 a.m. about the toy vehicle creating t...

Police in Schwabach, Bavaria, solved a case of late-night doorbell disturbances after discovering the culprit was a slug. Apartment residents called authorities when their doorbells repeatedly rang du...

Nine people sustained minor injuries Friday when a section of ceiling collapsed at an IHOP restaurant in Brooklyn's Flatlands neighborhood. The New York City Fire Department responded to the incident ...

David Rush set a new Guinness World Record while aboard the Disney Wonder cruise ship in the North Atlantic Ocean. The serial record-breaker, who holds more than 181 concurrent Guinness World Records ...

The Burrillville, Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired the 2013 horror film The Conjuring will be auctioned on Halloween. JJ Manning Auctioneers states: "This antique farmhouse that has become famous ...

A 36-year-old California woman was rescued Saturday morning after spending nearly 18 hours lost in Michigan's Pigeon River State Forest during a YouTube survival contest. The contestant left base camp...

A new Banksy artwork showing a judge striking a fallen protester was quickly censored at London's Royal Courts of Justice. The anonymous artist confirmed the mural on Instagram Monday after court guar...

Christine McDonald, owner of Rushing River Apiaries in Terrace, B.C., faced thousands of desperate bees invading her indoor shop late last month. The "robber bees" entered through cracks in an old bay...

Beniamin Bucur, 40, was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly residing in a crawl space beneath a Clackamas apartment building without permission. Deputies responded around 11pm after a witness saw a...