Archive for November 2024

A Wisconsin man who had been missing since August after going kayaking on Green Lake recently resurfaced to confess to faking his death and moving to Eastern Europe. On August 12, the tranquility of the town of Watertown, Wisconsin, was shattered by the disappearance of Ryan Borgwardt, a 44-year-old husband and father of three. Borgwardt…

Firefighters in England came to the rescue of an “adventurous horse” that ended up stranded in the frigid waters of a canal.

A fluffy Pomeranian is lucky to be alive after miraculously serving a fall from the 12th floor of an apartment building in Cali, Colombia, onto the roof of an adjacent three-storey building. On November 19, a Colombian family experienced moments of terror after realizing that their pet Pomeranian was nowhere to be found in their…

Police set up security cameras at a Japanese school after students’ shoes started disappearing and the culprit was ultimately identified as a furry footwear fan — a weasel.

An engineer conducting an inspection at a 209-year-old Scottish lighthouse discovered a message in a bottle dating back 132 years.

A Belarusian blogger managed to convince dozens of Russian teachers to make and wear tinfoil hats as means of protection against radiation from NATO satellites. Vladislav Bokhan, a Belarussian blogger and activist known for his elaborate pranks, made headlines earlier this month when he released several photos of dozens of Russian teachers wearing tinfoil hats…

A Maryland woman won $100,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket just one month after winning $50,000 from another game.

Animal rescuers in Washington brought a cat back down to earth after the feline spent five days stranded in a tree.

A hungry hawk swooped toward a Connecticut homeowner’s chicken coop and became stuck in the surrounding netting.

A Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy came to the “rescue” of a 10-year-old who called 911 to ask for help with math homework.