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A sheriff’s office in Washington state revealed last week that it received a strange call from an aspiring Bigfoot hunter. The Stevens County Sheriff’s Office kept the caller’s identity concealed when it posted to Facebook about the incident on Mar. 19. While the exact transcript of the call was not shared, the office publicized a staff member’s notes from the …

A non-venomous, two-headed snake’s statewide journey has come to a halt after the reptile underwent major surgery this month. Tiger-Lily, the rare western rat snake with two heads, was set to leave the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Powder Valley Nature Center on March 18 until a team member discovered that Tiger-Lily had an “emerging health condition,” according to a …

A South Carolina alligator was found with a strange object on its head – and wildlife experts in Georgia were called to get to the bottom of it. The University of Georgia Coastal Ecology Lab made a Facebook post about the 11-foot-long alligator, which has been named King Arthur, on Monday. The lab explained that it was recently contacted about …

In a post that’s gone viral — with over 6,300 reactions and nearly 4,000 comments in a matter of hours on Sunday — a woman on Reddit asked other people for their help in solving a personal dilemma. She titled her post, “AITA for rejecting the worst name ever for our offspring?” “So, my husband (38M) and I (36F) are …

Washington, D.C., is set to lose over 100 of its iconic cherry trees next year, including one lovingly referred to as “Stumpy.” The trees will be removed as part of a multiyear restoration of the Tidal Basin, one that has been “long overdue,” the Associated Press noted. In the summer of 2024, work will begin to replace the Tidal Basin’s …

A Reddit user who says she was given a “curfew” by her college roommate received reassurance from other people on Reddit that she should not have to abide by these rules because she’s an adult and can do what she wishes. “I’m a freshman in college living in a dorm and got a randomly assigned roommate. We live very different …

European researchers recently discovered several ancient shipwrecks in Greek waters, some of which date back thousands of years. The shipwrecks were discovered in the waters surrounding the island of Kasos, the Greek Ministry of Culture, a government department that preserves the country’s cultural heritage and promotes the arts, announced on March 13. The survey was completed in October 2023. In …

One man’s trash may be another man’s treasure — but sometimes that treasure turns out to be a gown designed by none other than Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal dressmaker. Kansas Michalke, a content creator and mom of two in Austin, Texas, said she always had a knack for finding hidden gems while thrifting. “[My family] was not well off in any …

A library book due nearly 37 years ago was recently returned to a library in northern Colorado, the High Plains Library District announced in a Facebook post on Monday, March 18. “This book, ‘Psychedelics’ by Bernard Aaronson, was due back May 30th, 1987,” the High Plains Library District said in the post. “It was returned to Riverside Library and Cultural …

Residents and schoolkids in Mexico City helped squads of police in a long-winded pursuit of a wolf loose in one of the city’s neighborhoods, authorities said. Citizens and police officers chased the animal on foot and on motorbikes in the north-side neighborhood, before the medium-sized wolf finally was cornered “with the help of neighbors,” the city police department said late …