News of the Weird

Strange but true - the world's weirdest news

By Emma Kae - 10th May 2001 - Back to News

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Founded 1988, News of the Weird is the longest running, most widely read bizarre-but-all-true news feature in the United States. With the expansion into the global market that is the Internet, News of the Weird contains some of the most extraordinary tales you will ever read.

Log on to the website to read the latest online News of the Weird column, Backstage News (featuring reader mail and commentary), and breaking weird news taken weekly from newspapers around the world. previous seven days. And you can

Is there a particular story you would like to hunt down? Search the News of the Weird text database, with content dating back to 1993. For a random selection you can sign up and have unedited, unexpurgated columns delivered to you by e-mail every week.

For the curious, there is a Frequently Asked Questions section, and for the bold and knowledgeable there is a section to send in your own strange stories.

To find proof that true stories are weirder than made-up stories (and that includes The Cat In The Hat) click here to visit