A Montana woman was able to fend off a 200-pound black bear using the nearest object on her kitchen counter–a zucchini from her garden! When the woman’s 12-year-old collie was attacked by the bear just after midnight on the 22nd of September, her instincts were to reach for the nearest weapon. She went to her […]
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What better way to celebrate the Equinox and the Full Moon than a nice moonlit drive to a ghost town? Hauntingly beautiful both during the day and at night, Bodie California was once the second biggest city in all of California. More than 8,000 feet above sea level high in the Sierra Nevada mountain range,
I was reading in the paper today about the climber from Maine who went missing in Canada twenty-one years ago.William Holland had been hiking on Snow Dome Mountain in the Canadian Rockies when he slipped and fell. His body was found this month by a pair of hikers. The body had been preserved in glacial
Marrying a rock. Or your pillow, like that guy in South Korea. Tomorrow I am attending a wedding and I can’t help but have bridal bizarre on my mind. And wedding day tragedies. I mean, sorry to be a bummer on the eve of your beachy wedding, but did you hear the story of the
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I was putting away some of the books I used to research my most recent book Beyond Bizarre when I came upon this article neatly folded among the pages of Troy Taylor’s Haunted Graveyards. I had included this story in The Book of the Bizarre, but it is certainly worthy of repeating. From an AP
Today on my way to work I passed a fruit stand teeming with beautiful bananas, and it got me to thinking about this silly story from my latest book, Beyond Bizarre. When, in 1967, the small newspaper the Berkeley Barb published a satirical story claiming that smoking banana peels can get you high, nobody thought
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In South Korea, scientists have successfully cloned four beagles that glow red under ultraviolet light. During the day, the beagles appear normal, although their nails and abdomen are a red color. When placed under ultraviolet light, the beagle glows like a ruby. The scientist believe that by successfully inserting genes with a specific trait (glowing)
In London, archaeologists have unearthed a Roman glass bowl–a millefiori dish (a thousand flowers) with a mosaic of hundreds of blue petals with white borders. This dish is believed to be from around the 2nd to the 3rd century, A.D. It is a unique find in the Western Roman Empire, discovered in what is believed
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Your grandmother and mother did it, and perhaps your wife and sister do it too. A woman’s bra is one of the safest depositories for valuables, and in April of this year, a woman in the northeast Brazilian city of Salvador was saved from death by a wad of cash she had stuffed in her
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