Weird News

And you just thought that a reason NOT to live in Minnesota was that it was cold all the time. Well, how about "ice tsunamis?" Actually, I don't know if that should be plural because I don't know if this has ever happened before. But it's happening now.

Suddenly, urban legends of western Kentucky are popping up all over the place. I just happened upon that feature about the Sheepsquatch on Sunday afternoon, and now the Goatman is rearing ITS literally ugly head.

I realize it's hard to get past that name--"sheepsquatch"--but bear with me. That's part of American folklore. You see something you've never seen before and you give it a name.

Apparently, meth can make a person crave carpet lint. Authorities in Louisville, Kentucky say that over the weekend they arrested 50-year-old Jeffery Wagner for partaking in a carpet lint buffet in the shoe department of the Burlington Coat Factory.

I've only ever purchased one thing on Ebay--a horror anthology TV series called Ghost Story that ran for one season when I was a kid--and have largely forgotten about it ever since.

Suppose you're walking through Wal-mart or Target one day. Maybe you're just killing time, so you're just browsing. Then someone approaches you and says something like, "That'll be five dollars please."

My sister showed me five toys and asked me to pick the two I thought looked most realistic. I chose the toy hand grenade and the toy knife/grenade/watch set. And she set those aside.

Europe exports music, art and culture trends to America. The U.S. exports…doughnuts. Traffic police in Scotland were called in to relieve a massive snarl during the opening of the country's first Krispy Kreme store, whose drive-thru window caused mile-long jams...

Everyone who plays the lottery has their own fantasy of what they'd do first if they won. Two brothers from Wichita, Kan. celebrated their big lottery win by buying meth and weed, which resulted in them accidentally blowing-up their house and getting arrested...

I never would have imagined, in my lifetime, seeing anything like this. Of course, that's not the first time I've said that and it probably won't be the last. It's like something out of a sci-fi/disaster movie.

Kentucky is the home to a great shade of awesomeness that can be found in everything from literature, sports, buckets of chicken - right down to Derby style mojitos and brown liquor. And while there are so many things about Kentucky that are kick ass –a couple of loyal Kentuckians say that attitude does not apply when it comes to the state’s slogan “Unbridled Spirit...

Saturday was a dream day for yours truly. It was cold outside. I had nothing on my plate. So I vegged out in front of the TV and watched college basketball all day.