Weird World 2024: Week 6

Weird world weekend! My favorite part of the week. A year later, Flaco the owl’s escape from the Central Park Zoo remains a mystery Under cover of darkness a year ago Friday, someone breached a waist-high fence and slipped into the Central Park Zoo. Once inside, they cut a hole through a steel mesh cage,

Weird World 3 2024

Welcome to the weekend!Time for my favorite part of the news week, weird world!It was definitely easier to find odd news this week. A cluster of lost cities in Ecuadorian Amazon that lasted 1,000 years has been mapped Recent mapping by laser-sensor technology revealed those sites to be part of a dense network of settlements

Weird World 2, 2024

It was rough finding weird world headlines this week. I don’t know if everyone is hunkering down for blizzards and icy cold temps, or if everyone is still broke and tired from the holidays, but, there isn’t a lot of weird to report. I’ll do my best though. First, the back up info for the

Weird World 1, 2024

Who is excited about the first weird world weekend of 2024?I am!I love gathering these stories and making the pictures for them. I spend FAR too much time on it, but my hope is maybe your older elementary school kids are seeing the pictures, and want to know what it’s about, then you have the

Weird World, Last one for 2023!

Of course I looked it up to double check before I shared. This is true! Answers to 25 big questions about the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree #23 “The tree goes from providing Christmas joy to providing housing. When the tree is taken down, it is laid in Rockefeller Plaza to be cut up and taken

Weird World Weekend- Christmas 2023

There are some interesting stories this week, mostly involving animals that live in water. But, here is a story to back up the photo. Newfies Help Bring Trees To Cars At Pennsylvania Farm’s Newfoundland Christmas Tree Pull Now, on to the rest of the news. Canadian researcher cracks 135-year-old ‘unsolvable’ code The pure depth of

Weird World December 15, 2023

I promise you, nobody wants you to make this. The “Not quiet news” I found this week. Let’s start off with some weird holiday news. Unique ways Americans celebrate the holidays, from skiing Santas to Festivus feats And across the country, many people will be celebrating with less conventional — but no less beloved —

Weird World Weekend: Welcome to December 2023

My favorite work day, weird world weekend. The storied that aren’t quite news. Headlines to make you say “Wait, what?” Thieves steal 12 French bulldogs worth $100,000 from pet store “The shop’s owner, Andres Avalos, told KTLA that the 12 dogs are worth a combined $100,000, but he is more worried about the dogs’ safety

Weird World: November 2023, 20-25

Weird world weekend! I collect these stories all week for a bit of fun on the weekends.  Let’s start with the main image. I did look up the toad museum and it does exist, in Thailand. Click here to learn more. The Studio Behind Chicken Run Is Running Out of Clay “Aardman Animations, the studio behind films

Weird World November 2023, week 2

Human skull found for sale in Florida thrift store’s Halloween section “A thrift store in Fort Myers, Florida, learned it was selling an unusual item when one of its shoppers noticed that one of the skulls in the Halloween section was actually real, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. The shopper, an anthropologist of