Category Archives: Offbeat News

A mix-up at a Denmark airport led to a 79-year-old passenger, Lena, boarding the wrong plane and ending up in Italy instead of her intended destination, Germany. Despite holding a ticket for a flight ...

After enduring their fifth car crash in 16 months at the intersection of Monaco Street Parkway and 17th Avenue, a Denver family is considering selling their home of 27 years. The most recent incident ...

Thrill-seekers in Gloucestershire, UK gathered Monday on Cooper's Hill to chase an 8lb wheel of double Gloucester cheese. Dating back to 1826, this annual tradition drew competitors eager to win the s...

Following a night of drinking with friends, Beyhan Mutlu from the city of Inegol, Turkey, went missing in the woods. Concerned for his whereabouts, his wife alerted authorities when they were unable t...

Thousands of chicks that had been abandoned in a postal service truck have now all been adopted, a Delaware shelter reports. An estimated 5,000 chickens, turkeys, and quails were adopted by local fami...

Ex-con Kaheid Ash has been accused of flying a drone over Martin County Institution and dropping contraband into the Florida prison yard. Ash is associated with as many as eight drops of cell phones, ...

A new sporting event is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas next May: The Enhanced Games. The competitive sporting event allows athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs and therapies that are bann...

Norwegian man Johan Helberg was asleep in his Byneset home when his neighbor called to let him know a cargo ship had run aground in his yard. It missed the house by mere meters. "If the ship had hit t...

The High Line in Manhattan is celebrating the city's most common bird: the pigeon. Pigeon Fest will be held from noon to 8 p.m. on June 14th and will include "a pigeon impersonation pageant." There wi...

Svetlana Dali was convicted of stowing away on a Delta flight from New York to Paris last November...without buying a ticket. Dali passed through security by moving through a lane reserved for crew me...