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Weird, Strange and Offbeat News
This is True® "... is a weekly syndicated newspaper column by Colorado humorist Randy Cassingham. True reports on bizarre-but-true news items from legitimate newspapers from around the world (never "tabloids"). Each story ends with commentary by Randy -- a tagline which is humorous, ironic or opinionated. An online pioneer, True has been publishing online weekly since June 1994. You too can have such true stories of human weirdness sent to you once each week by e-mail for free...."
Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird "... the weekly syndicated column (founded 1988) that is the most widely-read U.S. newspaper feature on current bizarreness--indeed, the gold standard of weird-news reporting, appearing in about 250 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada...."
Sideshow World "... dedicated to preserving the past while promoting the future of sideshow for fans and performers alike...."
Sideshow Ephemera Gallery "... In these galleries one will find items from artist James G. Mundie's personal collection of sideshow and circus artifacts. These items include pitchcard photographs and other items that freakshow performers sold on the midway to supplement their income. Other items represented here include rare newspaper advertisements and other promotional materials. Where possible, James Mundie
has included biographical and historical information about the people and objects depicted...." Contains photos of conjoined twins... bearded ladies... giants...
" According to a Roadside America article, The Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia promises — and delivers — an afternoon of esoteric and incredible sights. The sophisticated, high-ceilinged gallery that houses this collection of medical monstrosities helps us rationalize our interest in it. Designed for perusal by present and future members of a dignified overpaid profession, the museum is two floors of dark wood-trimmed display cases and a library-like stateliness. Shouts of "Will ya look at this MONSTER BABY?" are entirely inappropriate." Here are just a few highlights:
Soap Woman: the body of a woman who died of Yellow Fever sometime in the 19th century and was buried in soil with certain chemical properties that turned her into soap!
a plaster cast of Chang and Eng AND their actual attached livers
Chevalier Jackson Collection of objects swallowed and removed
Brains of murderers and epileptics
The Secret Tumor of Grover Cleveland
The Thorax of John Wilkes Booth
A giant colon
Large collection of baby deformities.
Skeletons of a giant and a midget
"Brain Of A Murderer" - John Wilson hanged in Norristown, PA
Longitudinal slices of the head, showing brain, etc.
Skull Collections, including the Muniz collection of trephinated (holes cut in them)"
Three freak, pre-natal babies in jars (given to Mrs. Way by the town doctor)
Large, pickled tumors retrieved from the local hospital (the biggest weighs ten pounds and fills a ten-gallon aquarium)
A one-eyed fetal pig, a two-headed kitten, a harelipped dog, and mummified squirrels
Several snakes killed by Mrs. Way; one stuffed, swallowing a wooden egg, another made into a necktie
A dress worn by a local 700-pound woman (she died in bed and had to be craned out the window)
An unspent Civil War shell
A ten-inch-wide ball of string (saved by Mrs. Way)
A German WWI half-boot (looks like it was amputated along with the foot)
30,000 buttons (collected by Mrs. Way)
A flea bride and groom (may be viewed with a magnifying glass)
Hideous ingrown toenails and cataracts
Jars of Mrs. Way's home canned products (now well over 30 years old), including one blob labeled "chicken fat." The museum sells souvenir cookbooks.
Museum of Questionable Medical Devices "Devious Displays of Quackery, Fraud, Deceit and Deception -- the largest collection of medical chicanery and mayhem ever assembled under one roof!"
Kooks Museum"Learn ALL ABOUT the Kooks Museum, why it exists and how to begin your career in innovative, interdisciplinary fields such as crackpotology and kookology or in archaic, obsolete fields such as phrenology, electro-alchemy and psychoosmology."
Warriors advance in bizarre fashion (The Plain Dealer) Columbus -- A bizarre call led to an even more bizarre ending and the Walsh Jesuit faithful will forever maintain that justice was served in the end on Thursday.
Closer to Truth TV show brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate the fundamental issues of our times.
Laura Lee "... Our scientific age is the anomaly here, and we have yet to get it right. And so I’m drawn to the indigenous worldview, and to wisdom traditions the world over. It’s a rich tapestry that the human family has woven over the centuries, and I find it comforting to plug in, through the spoken word, and beyond – appreciating art and artifacts, music, dance, ceremony, and Nature..."
Truth Seeker TV: hosted by Jimi Petulla, this is an all new Reality Show that dares to go where other shows fear to tread
Dr. Demento "... nationally renowned for his weekly two-hour radio festival of mad music
and crazy comedy heard on radio stations coast to coast. It's a
free-wheeling unpredictable mix of music and comedy. The Doctor plays
new funny songs sent in by amateur and professional singers and
comedians...."
Chateau Bizarre"... Chateau Bizarre has been dazzling readers with street fashion and unusual finds, reviewed from tiny neighborhood stores, co-ops, family businesses, festival vendors, one-person operations, crafting collectives, and other independents all over the planet. We are frequently the first place the world hears about a spectacular new designer or an irresistible boutique making its debut. Notorious for showcasing small business at its strangest, the Chateau is devoid of overexposed couture, boring celebrities, and common strip-mall crap; we prefer to surround ourselves with the imaginative and extraordinary...."
ROBERT RIPLEY - The original INDIANA JONES who traveled the globe collecting the Bizarre and the Unbelievable!
"Ripley gathered a collection of so many amazing things - from real shrunken human heads, to art made of unusual items (did you ever see DaVinci’s Mona Lisa made completely out of toast?), to genuine instruments of torture used during Medieval times – that not even 25 worldwide museums can hold them all! Each one of theRipley’s Believe It or Not! museums is a unique experience, where you will find things so extraordinary, so shocking, you’ll wonder how they could possibly be true. But they are! We, like Robert Ripley himself once did, comb the globe for the people with the craziest talents, weird collections, and facts so outrageous, we can hardly believe them! That’s why we pride ourselves on being the authority on the strange and unusual!"
Parascopeprovides links to all sorts of strange inexplicable phenomena.
Strange MagazineTM takes an objective, level-headed approach to strange phenomena. New material never published in the print magazine, plus features from back issues of
the print mag.
Weird Links
The Anomalist Index of Weird Stuff "We are not believers. We are not skeptics. We are writers, investigators, and scientists looking for the truth--whatever that may be. And though we are not without preconceptions, we will try to be upfront about them."
"We are interested in investigating all layers of reality with a particular fondness for those subjects lying on the shadowy margins of the scientific world. At times we may even be critical of science, for its ostrich-like stance in the presence of the mountain of anomalies it tends to disregard, but we are by no means anti-science. On the contrary, we would argue that no subject should be beyond the realm of science."
"We wish to open the doors and place a crowbar across the transom. And through these doors will come a parade of the neglected, the unexplained, the unexpected, the extraordinary, and, of course, the damned."
Truth Seeker TV
ROBERT RIPLEY - The original INDIANA JONES who traveled the globe collecting the Bizarre and the Unbelievable!