Strange Times

No one seems to know exactly what they are or where they came from, just that they are a nuisance.

A bright red waterfall isn’t something you’d expect to see on the icy landscape of Antarctica, but that’s exactly what’s pouring out from the foot of Taylor Glacier. A team of scientists now claims to have solved the long-standing mystery behind the crimson waters of Antarctica’s Blood Falls.

It's a compelling theory, considering Simpsons writer Mike Reiss has traveled to view the Titanic with OceanGate before, but the facts don't add up if you dig deeper.

A 42-year-old man's severe abdominal pain leads to a surprising positive pregnancy test, a shocking diagnosis, and many medical questions.

An explosion that rocked a forest in central Poland on Sunday evening could have been caused by World War II explosives, police told PAP on Monday.

The currents of air that wrap around our planet are becoming unrecognizable to climate scientists.

Researchers hope to gain insights into the intersection of artificial intelligence and human behavior by analyzing how bots—software programs that perform automated tasks on the internet—help spread conspiracies about earthquakes.

The Campi Flegrei volcano in southern Italy has become weaker and more prone to rupturing, according to a new study by researchers at UCL and Italy’s National Research Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).

Hi everyone. Welcome to another whirlwind week of wacky news. There is wild weather and some conspiracies about recent news items. But I’ll start out with an update to the orca story I blurbed in the 26 May 2023 edition of WWN. Dangerous orca behavior spreading

The small town of Elko in rural northeastern Nevada is being invaded by a swarm of blood-red crickets. The unwelcome visitors began to emerge around late May and early June. Nevada's entomologist says the cannibalistic critters won't stay long, but frustrated residents can't wait to see them go. They've tried using brooms, leaf...

Mountain snow in a Utah county is turning shades of red, pink and orange due to what experts said is a phenomenon called watermelon snow caused by algae.

Pictures of Baphomet statues on sale at the Christian craft store vent Viral on Facebook as some called for a boycott....

In this view of a vortex near Jupiter’s north pole, NASA’s Juno mission observed the glow from a bolt of lightning.

[G]ame wardens in West Texas get several calls each year reporting “chupacabra” sightings. Bradley, Director and Curator of Mammals at Texas Tech’s Natural Science Laboratory, said these occurrences are even more common in these areas because coyotes are so prevalent in that part of the state.

People are seeing various explainable things (like planets) but they are framed in terms of pop culture UFO talk.

A 76-year-old woman who had been declared dead and surprised her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive care.

A pattern of orcas attacking boats off Western Europe has officials concerned and animal behavior experts wondering: why?

Random guesses are "seal" but one expert interviewed says it's a long-dead dolphin....

Explanation: computer generated images

Explanation: unknown

Victims recount being put into a trance by strangers who convince them to hand over their valuables in return for help ‘to turn their fate around’, police said.

Previously, similar smoke rings were spotted in Sentosa in 2022 and 2017, according to local media reports.

Hunters in South Florida caught the largest Burmese python ever measured, and the lengthy beast is being examined at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples....