Weird News World

I am sure we have all swivelled across the office on our chair when the boss isn’t looking, while some of us may have undertaken a challenge to see who can get across the floor first on our office chair on particularly quiet days. So, it is no surprise that someone has taken this tomfoolery [...]

One of the most messed up world records has been set this year after American Darren Taylor broke the shallow diving record. For the uninitiated this is the act of jumping from a great height into not very much water. Depending on your childhood this may immediately make you think of Dumbo. Anyhow, the facts [...]

Some stories really do not need explaining as you can see the outcome of this one as soon as we star, but for the sake of clarity, here we go. An Indonesian politician renowned for opposing pornography has been forced to resign after being caught watching adult matter in, of all places, parliament. Arfinto was [...]

An 11-year-old boy from India has lived with being known as the Werewolf Boy for all of his life as his condition baffles medical experts. Pruthviraj Pati from the Indian district of Sangli near Bombay suffers from hypertrichosis and is said to be one of only 50 people in the world with the condition. He [...]

Landlords often moan about enduring nightmare tenants, but few have as much ground to complain as one homeowner in Malaysia, who found his entire house has been stolen. As Zuria Ali, 30, went to collect rent from his double storey wooden house he found some scattered wood and 24 concrete pillars that had been holding [...]

The Chinese are famous for eating just about anything, but the emergence of a new delicacy is shocking even for them. In Zhejiang province, eastern China, the new way to enjoy a boiled is to boil it in ten-year-old boys’ urine. Why? Nobody has explain that yet. Chef Lu Ming said: “The urine is gathered [...]

It is amazing what you can find your sofa, as well as under the cushions of course, but the amazement usually entails money, long-lost keys and unfortunately decomposed food. So, imagine the reaction of a woman in Brazil who found an alligator behind her sofa and to make matters worse her three-year-old son was tapping [...]

We love weird art (clearly) and our new favourite weird artist is Erwin Wurm from Austria. Wurm, 56, has developed a reputation for creating poses of himself or others in weird situations, while he has also developed some exceptionally weird, yet amazing, sculptures. Wurm placed this upside home on the MUMOK museum in Vienna, which [...]

Of all the modes of transport you could be on when being faced by a leopard a bike is probably at the bottom of the wish list. However, 32-year-old South African farm worker, Pieta Ncube, managed to use his bike to save his life after being pounced on by the big cat as he took [...]

A girl from China has been crowned as having the most digits (fingers and toes) out of any of the six billion people on this planet. lLei Yadi Min from Yangon in China is the proud holder of seven toes in each foot and six fingers on each hand, leaving her with a whopping 26 [...]