The Exploding Whale of Florence: Oregon’s Most Explosive Blunder of 1970
— March 16, 2026On a chilly November morning in 1970, a 45-foot, eight-ton sperm whale washed ashore…
The brown tree snake does not belong on the island of Guam, but somehow it ended up there during World War II. Man has proven himself a pretty able, if unwitting, transporter of various living things over the years. Perhaps it’s the brown snake’s way of getting back at humans for bringing them to the island, and since snake experts have not figured out why they do what they do, we think our theory is as good as any. What’s so baffling is the snake’s habit of attacking and biting babies and children as they lay in their beds. The snake does not eat people and isn’t big enough to do that even if it wanted to. It seems hell-bent on just biting for the sake of biting. Sounds like a bunch of pissed off snakes to us!
On a chilly November morning in 1970, a 45-foot, eight-ton sperm whale washed ashore…
In the rolling hills of Bath County, Kentucky, an ordinary spring day in 1876…
On the morning of June 30, 1908, at approximately 7:17 a.m. local time, a…
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