Strange News for Thursday Includes: An interview with Michio Kaku; The Vatican & Aliens; More Articles on Alien Life; Kecksburg, PA UFO case; Sweat lodge probe; The Quest for a Lost Army; The Mysterious Trebitsch-Lincoln; Mean People; A Paranormal Find; Monster Hunter Obit… Ancient Mystery: The quest for Cambyses’ lost army — Persian King Cambyses II’s

... I'm so damn serious all the time. Here's your challenge: Figure out how you could possibly interpret the topic areas of this blog to make me believe that I would be interested in the following news release. I know PR firms can exhibit a certain level of desperation in their pursuits of press coverage, but the logic behind my e-mail address being included on this distribution list ...

Yep, you read it right. A middle school in North Carolina is said to be selling test scores to students to try to raise money. Twenty test points will be sold to students for $20, where students can add 10 extra points to each of two tests of their choice. The principal defends that the points would not have enough impact to change the overall grades, while officials of the Department of Public ...

Ideas for fighting the swine flu... The Moldovan Army is issuing garlic and onions to help its soldiers ward off a growing epidemic of swine flu in Eastern Europe. ...The chief medical officer for the Defense Ministry, Col. Sergiu Vasislita, was quoted as saying each soldier would get the equivalent of one small onion and two garlic cloves added to his diet as an immune-system boost.

I don't check my Hotmail account very often any more. They have appallingly bad spam filters and Gmail is preferable in just about every way. I popped in for the first time in about a week last night and found this: <div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <div class="ReadMsgSubject" style="font-family: "Helvetica ...

So I saved several news stories for you folks today, and they all have a similar theme… they’re all a bit weird: - Rom Houben is a Belgian man who was in a horrific car crash in 1983. At the time, doctors guessed that he was in a coma. So they treated him like that for 23 years… only to give him a brain scan in 2006 and find out that his brain was functioning perfectly. It seems ...

The local elections are odd enough. But “Claude Levi-Strauss” is the 4th most popular search on Yahoo? Right between “Dancing With The Stars” and “H1N1 Symptoms”. So I can only conclude that America, while gearing up for a possible deciding game of the Baseball World Series on Wednesday, is watching celebrities dance, while reading “The Raw and the ...

Joyce Reingold at the Shiny Sheet assures us that it’s so: But after a review of 2,000 AP news stories from the past year, it’s official: Florida is the weirdest news state of all. In fact, not only was The Sunshine State the biggest source of strange news, it was the “runaway winner,” according to a press

... amidst all the dark news such as murders, kidnapping, pirates, our soldiers going overseas, and the silly news like the couple who crashed the state dinner at the White House (invitation my butt), I like to read the “strange news” to take me away from the rather depressing stuff. Some of these stories crack me up entirely. Like the guy who ...

Steve Ditko might be most famous for his work on Marvel heroes, including Spider-Man, Hulk and Dr. Strange. But his first professional comics assignments were hard-boiled pulp comics. Brought out before the Comics Code Authority shackled comics into a more child-friendly world, creators like Ditko were turning out monsters and psychological horror, scarier and more