Weird

The Great Smog of London cast the city into darkness.

What caused some of these ominous events still remains a total mystery.

‘Kryptos’ has intrigued amateur and professional cryptographers alike.

The CIA's encrypted art sculpture has puzzled cryptographers for decades. The man with the answers is finally ready to clue them in.

Colorado residents are spotting rabbits with bizarre horn-like growths.

In 2009, the world was captivated by a little boy seemingly trapped in a runaway aircraft. As a new Netflix documentary reveals, the truth was a lot stranger.

There's a big wide world beyond common molds and mushrooms—and some of it is very strange.

Villa Baviera was originally a Germany colony known as Colonia Dignidad.

Inspiring to imagine but nightmarish to live in, these failed communes have become cautionary tales in hubris and ego.

From the long legs of the jerboa to basically everything about the duck-billed platypus, evolution has taken some weird turns.

Discover some of history's most hilarious—and unforgettable—controversies that were caused by farts, including regime changes in Ancient Egypt and more.

Who would have thought a woodpecker could be so destructive.

A territorial woodpecker has broken dozens of car mirrors in a bizarre springtime rampage.

The road through the Guyanese jungle leading to the Jonestown compound.

Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana in 1978 to investigate reports of American cult leader Jim Jones holding hundreds of his followers captive. Ryan didn't make it out of Jonestown alive.

The cause of death in these mysterious cases has, at one time or another, been reported as spontaneous human combustion—but there was often a more realistic explanation.

The pickle menu was originally conceived as an April Fool’s joke, but now it’s very real.

The toothpaste brand Hismile and KFC teamed up for a toothpaste that allegedly tastes like the original recipe. Would you brush with it?

Dead whales were once thought to have health benefits.

In 1890s Australia, chronic pain sufferers flocked to a cure: a rotting whale corpse.

Everyone loves a good April Fools’ prank—unless it results in armed law enforcement surrounding your home.

Did your state make the list of state most likely to endure an extraterrestrial encounter?

From valuable paintings to dirty underwear, there’s no telling what could be lurking behind the sheetrock.

It’s 123 years old. Oh, and it’s still edible.

King Henry with Cardinal Wolsey, circa 1528.

Discover how King Henry VIII and other members of the Tudor nobility handled going to the bathroom in the mid-1500s. (Spoiler: There was velvet involved, but it still wasn’t pretty.)