Mourners at a funeral in Zimbabwe were stunned when the dead man woke up as they filed by his coffin, state media reported today. Brighton Dama Zanthe, 34, was being laid to rest inside a coffin last Monday after he apparently died at his home following a long illness. The transport worker’s grieving family covered his body with blankets and [...]

Police in north Yorkshire are appealing for witnesses following a suspected assault by a woman dressed as the Incredible Hulk. “Police hunt Incredible Hulk,” a statement issued by the force said. A 17-year-old girl suffered a black eye and other facial bruising in an attack outside McDonalds restaurant in Blake Street, York at around 3am on Friday, the statement added. [...]

Did an alien creature just land on Earth? Did a bolt of electricity blast some poor squirrel inside out? Just what in god’s name is that thing?  Those are just a few of the questions asked after a streak of lightning struck a man’s front yard this weekend, blowing a hole in the ground and revealing a Lovecraftian monstrosity smoking in [...]

A college crew team was out rowing on the Hudson River in New York when their coach noticed something odd bobbing in the water: a giant head. It “looked like something out of a futuristic dystopian movie,” Marist College crew coach Matt Lavin told Newsday. “I thought it was Lady Liberty’s head.”… Image credit: Matt Lavin/Marist College

“Why waste a good finger?” was apparently the thought process behind one British man’s decision to cook and eat his digit after losing it in an accident. Dave Playpenz lost one of his fingers after a motorcycle accident. After surgeons removed the blackened digit from Dave’s hand, his first thought was apparently “I wonder what that would taste like?”  He [...]

Talk about being pig-headed! This newborn piglet may prove to be twice as stubborn as its siblings as it has not one, but two heads. The little pig saw the light of day in a village in Jiujiang, east China’s Jiangxi province and has two snouts, two ears and a shared eye. Unfortunately a local vet who examined the rare [...]

A man accused of stealing an articulated lorry says he was being chased by zombies when he lost control and crashed, injuring seven people. Jerimiah Hartline told police in California that dead people were clinging onto the lorry, local news website Temecula Patch reported.  The 19-year-old claimed he had swerved across the road in an attempt to shake off the [...]

A mystery of sorts has unfolded in the backyard of one of our viewers in Eden. It happened Friday evening as Peggy Gervase was looking out from the deck of her home at a nearby pond. She spotted what appeared to be a series of concentric circles that had opened in the snow covering the pond. It almost resembled the [...]

When a fisherman caught a bull shark recently off the Florida Keys, he came across an unlikely surprise: One of the shark’s live fetuses had two heads. The fisherman kept the odd specimen, and shared it with scientists, who described it in a study published online today (March 25) in the Journal of Fish Biology. It’s one of the very [...]

You could call it a divine sign: a Saugus man said he couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw Jesus Christ on a drop cloth at his home. “My heart went a million miles an hour. I was hyperventilating,” said Brian Krantz. From a distance, it’s a paint splattered drop cloth. But take a closer look… “A crown or a halo. [...]