Harare – Agovernment minister in Zimbabwe says work has stopped on new reservoirs because workers have been scared off by mermaids, a report has said. According to orangenews.com, Minister of Water Resources Samuel Sipepa Nkomo reportedly told a parliamentary committee that terrified workers were refusing to return to the sites, near the towns of Gokwe [...]
# David Carter, who would have been 45 this January, quit his job and told friends he was moving to New Mexico in late 2007 # His bills and taxes went unpaid for four years before anyone went in the house to start the foreclosure process # Found Carter’s ‘nearly skeletonized’ body on the stairs [...]
You know the economy is really going to bloody hell when ATMs start to pay bank customers with dead rodents, which is exactly what happened to this guy on the right. He got his cash and the dead Mickey on the left. His name is Gholam Hafezi and he was visiting his daughter in Ersboda, [...]
Residents of Coventry have been left mystified after hundreds of apples fell from the sky over their homes. People in the Keresley area of the city said the fruit came raining down at about 19:00 GMT on Monday, hitting passing vehicles. Parish councillor Sandra Camwell said the apple storm lasted a few minutes and was [...]
An Oklahoma Republican is pushing a bill to outlaw the use of human fetuses in food, because, as he says, “there is a potential that there are companies that are using aborted human babies in their research and development of basically enhancing flavor for artificial flavors.” State Sen. Ralph Shortey introduced a bill on Tuesday [...]
An asteroid hurtled past the Earth on Friday in something of a cosmic near-miss, making its closest approach at about 1600 GMT. The asteroid, estimated to be about 11m (36ft) in diameter, was first detected on Wednesday. At its closest, the space rock – named 2012 BX34 – passed within about 60,000km of Earth – [...]
MONTREAL — Quebec police officers have completed their report into the bizarre death of Chantale Lavigne — who was “cooked to death” at a personal development seminar — and investigators are expected to meet with the Quebec prosecutor assigned to the case as early as next week. It will be up to the prosecutor “to [...]
Residents of Koscierzyna, a small Polish town, called in the police and ambulance service to investigate after blood began streaming out from under manhole covers. After bubbling out through holes in the covers, the blood formed a river of red that flowed along a road in the Polish town forming large bloody puddles. An investigation [...]
A woman who refused to leave her toilet for two-and-a-half years has spoken about why she refused to leave. Mee Yan Leong sat down on the bowl in her bathroom on March 25, 2009 and for the next 902 days, that is where she decided to eat and sleep. The 58-year-old claimed she ‘felt a [...]
Five years after Green Bay residents began complaining about mysterious noises inside their home, a consultant says he has tracked the sounds to a refrigerated warehouse located a mile away. The consultant also is recommending that Green Bay consider tougher rules to protect residents from industrial noise pollution. A spokesman for Americold, which operates the [...]