Strange News

A coyote was spotted swimming to Alcatraz and now appears to be thriving. Ecologist Christopher Schell at the University of California Berkeley has been following this saga.

Every time this century that the Catholic Church has elected a new pope, the Seahawks have made it to the Super Bowl.

Savory, sour and earthy tasting honey could be the new normal thanks to a new ingredient. Spotted lanternfly poop. The insects spread along the east coast across could usher in new ways to use honey.

Three elderly Austrian nuns recently fled a nursing home and broke into their former convent. They have rejected an offer to stay in convent if they promise to get off of social media.

Three Austrian nuns leave a retirement home to break into their old convent with local support and an Instagram following.

Three Austrian nuns have left a retirement home to break into their old convent — with local support and an Instagram following.

"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S. But even the artist who coined it struggles to define it.

Haunted car washes have become a national phenomenon, with hundreds of Halloween-themed locations around the country.

It started in the 1960s, when two couples told a harrowing story about being chased by a large flying creature on a rural road. It grew from there — and now 20,000 people come to celebrate Mothman.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.