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23 stories match
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Elephant Takes Own Portrait on Thai Island; Copyright Left Unclaimed
A student's banana offering in 2015 yielded what he called the first-ever 'Elfie,' and a ruling that no human owns it.
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Portraitist Built Landscapes on His Table From Cork, Coal and Broccoli
Thomas Gainsborough, short on time for outdoor sketching, reportedly staged miniature scenery to paint by candlelight.
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Second Emu in Days Taken Into Custody on Streets of Santa Cruz
Authorities round up a wandering bird just days after a separate emu incident in the same California city.
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Earhart 'Wreckage' on Pacific Isle Proves to Be a Stand of Large Trees
Expedition to Nikumaroro reports the so-called Taraia Object, spotted in satellite imagery, was not the aviator's lost aircraft after all.
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Artificial Songstress Announces Pregnancy, Departs Artificial Girl Group
Fans of China's BabyQueen debate the paternity of a fictional child after member Mity posts a maternity-leave notice to Weibo.
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Paris Chapel Built Atop Old Cemetery to Atone for the Killing of a King
The Chapel of Expiation, raised over the Madeleine Cemetery, has outlived the monarchy it honored and still draws an annual Mass.
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Times Index Compiler Found to Have Filed Headlines Instead of Subjects
A mystified reader's letter in 1890 revealed that Samuel Palmer's index entries were often little more than the newspaper's own captions.
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Number 2172 Dogs Edgar Logan From Taxi Door to Pink Telephone
A 1978 radio drama, reissued in a five-hour retro broadcast, follows a man who cannot escape one figure.
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NASA Chief Keeps an Open Mind on Alien Life, Eyes 'Sputnik Moment' on Strange Skies
Administrator Jared Isaacman says NASA has a seat at the table on UAP reports, while the Pentagon releases further declassified files.
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Tesla Roadster Said to Drive Up Ramp, Turn Upside-Down, Land Hovering
Elon Musk tells a Texas audience the new rocket-assisted car will reach 60 mph in 0.81 seconds and begin production in 2028.
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Buenos Aires Sparrows Taught Lost Songs From Hand-Drawn Notes of the 1960s
Scientists used decades-old annotations and a computer to coax a dwindling bird population back into song, according to Futility Closet.
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Unseen Hand Pelts Village Rooftops With Stones Nightly; Police Patrols and Youth Vigil Fail
Residents of an Andhra Pradesh village say stones have rained on their homes after dark for nearly a week, with no culprit found.
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British Psychic Foresees 'Attempted Attack' on Presidential Aircraft in 2027
Craig Hamilton-Parker, who styles himself the 'Prophet of Doom', says a dream vision showed something launched at Air Force One amid 'radioactive dust'.
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World Pumpkin Record Falls Twice in a Week as Rhode Island Grower Tops Hampshire Twins
Ron Wallace's 1,431.5 kg squash, weighed on Saturday, ends a reign by two British brothers that lasted only seven days.
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Tarot Reader's Missing Cards Reappear in Plain Sight, Then a Third Goes Astray
A professional reader writes that two cards lost for two weeks turned up beneath a bag of hair curlers, and that a third briefly vanished mid-reading.
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Reading Workshop Found to Rest Atop Four-Level Railway Dug by Hand Over Two Decades
A civil engineer and his six children excavated tunnels more than 15 metres deep beneath a Tilehurst property, now bound for auction.
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Western Alliance Captain Circles Mars, Finds Canals and Iron Ore but No Ruins
A Weird Darkness podcast episode dramatizes a fictional expedition in which a glory-minded commander is told by a young civilian expert that the red planet's straight channels prove something.
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Conjoined Soviet Twins, a Voice in the Dark and a Stone-Throwing Yowie Fill One Podcast Hour
Weird Darkness devotes an episode to Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, a child's warning to cover her feet, and two old Australian accounts of rock-hurling creatures.
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Washington Man Takes Commissions to Deliver the Dead's Final Words, Secrets and Pranks
Joshua Weaver, 43, says clients pay him to carry out posthumous requests ranging from tender thanks to confessions of infidelity.
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Hand Acts of Its Own Accord, Doctors Have Reported for Over a Century
A podcast episode pairs alien hand syndrome with a Arizona abduction, shadow figures and an Australian stone-throwing poltergeist.
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Jack Nicholson Clip on Hidden Aliens Said to Have 'Aged Amazingly Well'
A Reddit user on r/HighStrangeness says the actor's remarks echo what people are claiming online today.
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Leaning Klondike Cabin Taken Apart, Numbered Log by Log, and Put Back Together
Dawson City's Gold Rush Cabin, on record by 1900, survived the collapse of the boom town and a near-collapse of its own, and now takes overnight guests.
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Russian Girl Said She Saw Inside the Human Body; Laboratory Was Unconvinced
A Reddit post revisits Natasha Demkina of Saransk, whose claimed "medical vision" drew tabloids, doctors and skeptics in 2004.
