Weird

Utah officials say a possible dropped phone resulted in a typo that overvalued a home for almost $1 billion. And taxpayers may have to pay for the mistake. The Deseret News reports a house built in 1978 in an unincorporated area of the county was recorded in 2019 tax rolls with a value of more than $987 million. That’s an…

A man’s day went down the toilet when her “rolled” up to one of the security checkpoints at Newark Liberty International Airport earlier this week.

Your dream home may be haunted, and in most states, sellers don’t have to say boo about it.

Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 1,000 box turtles that were illegally collected in Oklahoma.

Hungry? Roadkill maybe for dinner.

It seems Florida residents aren’t the only ones making use of their pools to cool off from the heat.

A Hawaii family has won a place with the Guinness World Records for the world’s heaviest avocado.

Talk about snail mail! A Maryland couple recently received a postcard that was mailed in 1960.

When Ryan Dubray was given a $50 bill from his grandparents as he headed off to college in case of emergency, he never dreamed it would be spent at a toll — more than two decades later

The Holmes Beach Police Department says someone found the ear this weekend during the World’s Strongest Man competition that was being held at nearby Manatee Beach, according to NBC affiliate WFLA-TV.

A South Florida man thought he snagged a deal when he paid $9,100 in an online auction for what he thought was a villa. What he got was a 1-foot-by-100-foot strip of land. The land, valued at only $50, starts on a curb and goes under a wall separating two villas in the Spring Lake community and then out to...

Though it looked like the San Diego region was about to be drenched in a soggy downpour, it was actually something sort of magical. A giant swarm of ladybugs making its way across the National Weather Service radar had many scratching their heads Wednesday.

A disgruntled neighbor upset over a controversial Easter display in New Jersey took things into her own hands.

A less than traditional front yard Easter display has divided a New Jersey neighborhood, with some calling it a “disgusting” affront to the holiday.

A bright light over downtown Los Angeles Wednesday night that had people around the city wondering if a meteor or aliens were decending on Southern California turned out to be a stunt by Red Bull Air Force to celebrate the final supermoon of 2019.

A Chanel purse left in a Manhattan subway station held a $10,000 surprise for the man who found it.

Port St. Lucie police say the fast food worker denied the trade and Anthony Andrew Gallagher drove off, only to return again a short time later.

A lucky diner says he happened upon a pearl while eating an oyster dish at a famous New York City restaurant.

A man who illegally demolished a San Francisco house designed by modernist architect Richard Neutra was ordered this week to rebuild it exactly as it was. The city Planning Commission also ordered Ross Johnston to add a sidewalk plaque telling the entire saga of the house’s origins in the 1930s, its demolition and replication.

Authorities are looking for $293,000 in missing cash after an armored truck rained money onto a New Jersey highway Thursday morning, causing two crashes as drivers attempted to collect the cash scattered across several lanes.

Two people are behind bars after allegedly running an illegal dental practice out of a bus in Miami.

A South Florida woman faces an aggravated assault charge after authorities say she passed gas in line at a Dania Beach dollar store and pulled a knife on a man who complained about it.

An “unexpected visitor” on four legs and boasting some serious dexterity handily let itself into a California Highway Patrol facility near Lake Tahoe earlier this month.

What’s more New York than almost sitting on a partially-nude man painted to camouflage into a classic subway cart?

A shocking discovery Thursday at the Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth sorting center now officially tops the list of bizarre donations they have been forced to handle – an albino boa constrictor snake.

Two students at Da Vinci Charter Academy in Davis reportedly gave their classmates cookies baked with human remains a couple of weeks ago.

If you got incessant phone calls last week from a hospital that cares for Hawaiian monk seals, you were butt-dialed.
Or, more specifically, foot-dialed.
By a gecko.

A runner who was struck by a deer during a half marathon in New Jersey still managed to cross the finish line.

A Michigan man curious about a rock he’d used for decades as a doorstop now knows its secret: it’s a meteorite worth $100,000.

A couple got onto a subway train at the start of the evening rush Friday, set up a tent, crawled inside and brazenly began smoking drugs to the shock and disgust of other passengers in the train car, one of whom related the event to News 4 New York over Twitter.

A Canadian company says it wants to open a so-called robot brothel in Houston, but it’s getting pushback from officials and community groups.

A raccoon busted pawing through a woman’s bathroom cabinet was subjected not to a mugshot — but to a selfie.

A St. Louis man is the new tenant of a tiny apartment with a unique layout — the kitchen and bathroom are in the same place. Yep. The toilet, bathtub, oven and sink are all in one room. The 200-square-foot (18.5-sq. meter) apartment is in St. Louis’ tony Central West End. The ad and photo for the $525-per-month apartment appeared...

Fire officials in Delaware say a man they pulled from a sewer system told rescuers he’d spent at least a day stuck underground.

Fed up with dog poop being left around, board members at a Maryland condominium complex are now relying on DNA samples to police unscooped feces.

Police in Memphis say a man stole his date’s car and drove it to a date with another woman. Police say a woman reported her car stolen after Kelton Griffin went to her house to take her on a date. WMC-TV reports that Griffin stopped at a gas station and asked the woman to get him some cigars. A police...

A Massachusetts man has done the unthinkable and won a total of nine $100,000 grand prizes on tickets he purchased for Monday night’s Mass Cash drawing. Robert Lundstedt of Brockton played the same numbers on nine lottery tickets. “I wasn’t too surprise,” he joked to NBC10 Boston in an exclusive interview.

Mark Hough had barely taken a sip of his Friday afternoon margarita when he heard twigs snapping and leaves rustling in his lush Altadena, California, backyard.

Guards at a Florida jail are taking on an unusual duty. They’re monitoring the bathroom habits of an inmate charged with stealing and swallowing diamond earrings.

A South Texas man says he was cleaning the bathroom at his home when his 6-year-old son alerted him.

A New Jersey realty company says that one of its advertisements lost during Superstorm Sandy in 2012 has been found washed up on a French beach.

In a real-life case of “Failure to Launch,” an upstate New York judge Tuesday ordered a 30-year-old man to move out of his parents’ house after they went to court to have him ejected.

Cops in one Ohio town got an usual 911 call over the weekend. It was from a man who said he was walking home from an Amtrak station.

A Florida man who allegedly slapped the water near a group of mating manatees has found himself being slapped with a harassment charge.

What was first thought to be a potential disaster turned out to be a peculiar discovery.

Two pelicans earned degrees in party crashing when they swooped down on Pepperdine University’s graduation ceremony Friday and dived into the crowd, adding an unexpected twist to the pomp and circumstance.

Punxsutawney Phil is on the loose, and local authorities are looking for any credible leads to track him down after winter continued past his prediction.

Soon we’ll be able to order a pickle-flavored slush thanks to Sonic.

Some people are offering an interesting tip to protect car owners from thieves busting into vehicles in San Francisco.

A Maine woman who prepared a salad says she realized after a couple of bites her fork was stuck in a 3-inch lizard, minus the tail.

Brawls have broken out in French supermarkets as shoppers scramble to get their hands on discounted pots of chocolate and hazelnut spread. Chaotic scenes were filmed in several supermarkets across the country operated by the Intermarche chain, which offered massive discounts on pots of Nutella.

Residents of the rural town of Scotland, Connecticut, are becoming lords and ladies in the United Kingdom country of the same name.

A Guinness World Record-breaking serving of green bean casserole was served at Macy’s Herald Square Thursday, tipping the scales at 637 pounds a week ahead of Thanksgiving.

Police say a central Wyoming man they arrested for public intoxication claimed he had traveled back in time to warn of an alien invasion. The man told police he was only able to time travel because aliens filled his body with alcohol. He noted that he was supposed to be transported to the year 2018, not this year.

Maine lobsterman Alex Todd has hauled in blue lobsters and even some lobsters that were half blue, or half orange. But he says those don’t compare on the scale of weirdness to the translucent crustacean that he recently pulled up in a trap.

A man was getting busy in more ways than one when he stole a trailer from a pool company in Cooper City worth at least $1,200.

The public intrigue is real. And this Brooklyn dad relishes the mystique.