Recently I had the privilege of staying overnight at Preston Castle, an old boy’s reform school in Ione, California. It looms above the sleepy little gold rush town, peering down upon the vineyards and scraggly pines with half-shuttered window-eyes and a toothless brick grin. When we arrived the moon was on the rise, nearly full […]
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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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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
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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In the early morning of April 11, 2008, a cable network in Philadelphia’s broadcast of the Vatican’s Good Friday service was unexpectedly interrupted by a thirty second ad for a “Girls Gone Wild” video. There was only one registered complaint.
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When the Lindley family of Porterville, California began work clearing the backyard of their new house, they found a lot more than they had bargained for. What they thought was a small sinkhole was, upon further investigation, an intricately-constructed UNDERGROUND LAIR. The three-room structure had running water, electricity, and tin-lined walls, and officials suspect it
