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Video shows a rain curtain splitting a street into two worlds

A video of this weird-looking phenomenon shows a person standing at the razor-thin boundary between clear skies and a rain shower. A distinct curtain of rain advances across the street while the ground around her remains completely dry. As it moves closer and closer, it looks like two worlds colliding. — Read the rest

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I exhumed my dad’s grave and found the buried body belonged to a stranger

Mark Wells has spent decades trying to uncover what exactly happened to his missing father (Picture: SWNS)

For years, Mark Wells believed that he’d been tasked with trying to solve the mystery of how his father died. Instead, he ended up uncovering a different mystery altogether.

The Californian paid for DNA testing on remains that had been buried as his father, Dale Wayne Wells, hoping modern…

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CIA scientist claims crashed UFOs contained four different alien species

The unusual suspects (Picture: Getty/Metro)

For decades now, UFO stories have mostly involved blurry lights in the sky, shaky footage shot on potato phones and men called Del insisting they’d seen something strange from their truck on the drive back from a night spent at their local dive bar.

Slowly but surely, however, the idea of extraterrestrial life visiting Earth has started to become a…

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Vulture vomit is the leading theory for Kentucky's 1876 meat shower

Mrs. Crouch, a farmer's wife in Bath County, Kentucky, was stirring a kettle of soap on her porch around 11 a.m. on March 3, 1876 when chunks of fresh meat began dropping out of a cloudless sky. By her own account, quoted in Wikipedia's writeup of the Kentucky meat shower, the sky was simply snowing meat, and each piece hit the ground with a sharp snap. — Read the rest

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Tiny conspiracy notes keep turning up inside sealed groceries in Pennsylvania

Someone has been folding 2-by-3-inch slips of paper into sealed packages of Lucky Charms, Lindt chocolate, Milk Duds, Tylenol, and Velveeta Skillets, and tying them in plastic bags to trees along Pennsylvania hiking trails. Each slip carries 19 lines of densely printed text, often with one corner shouting a single word like LIES in capitals. — Read the rest

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Caracas has a mysterious black highway goo that has killed 1,800 people

In 1986, road crews repairing 30-year-old pavement on the route between Caracas and its airport spotted a 50-yard smudge of greasy black gunk. It looked like chewed bubble gum, made the road slick as ice, and swelled in hot, wet weather, then shrank when things turned cold and dry. — Read the rest

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Seattle's mystery soda machine vanished in 2018 with a goodbye note

For roughly two decades, a battered 1970s Coca-Cola machine sat on the sidewalk outside Broadway Locksmith on East John Street in Seattle's Capitol Hill, and nobody seemed to own it. Drinks cost 55 cents back in 2002, climbed to 75 cents by 2014, and reached a buck right when Seattle rolled out its sweetened-beverage tax in early 2018. — Read the rest

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1940s miner crafted dentures from toothbrush handles and coyote teeth

This unusual set of dentures was made in the 1940s by a California miner named George Washington Hancock, who couldn't afford conventional dental care. He needed teeth, so he made them. Hancock fashioned the bases himself by heating celluloid toothbrush handles and pressing them into denture-shaped molds. — Read the rest

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Reveal of Bible scrolls from time of Jesus dubbed ‘greatest archaeological discovery ever’

The ancient Dead Sea Scroll fragments dating back to the time of Jesus Christ are to go on display over in Washington, DC (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

The world’s most famous Bible fragments are heading back into the spotlight, with a fresh rotation of the Dead Sea Scrolls going on public display in the US. Offering, as it does, a rare chance to see texts that have shaped religious history up…

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Minnesota Senate candidate convicted for throwing tarantula at tenant

When a basement tenant in Edina, Minnesota, suggested calling pest control for the "large spiders" in the house, her host — Marisa Simonetti, who is currently running for U.S. Senate — did not call pest control. She bought a tarantula.

The tenant, cramming for her bar exam, called 911 twice on June 21, 2024. — Read the rest

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Pope Leo warns ‘tyrants are ravaging the world’ in war of words with Trump

Pope Leo XIV had tried to distance himself from his fued with the US President (Picture: Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP via Getty Images)

Pope Leo ramped up his war of words with President Trump, blasting leaders who spend billions on wars.

The Catholic leader said the world was ‘being ravaged by a handful of tyrants’ during a visit to Cameroon on Thursday.

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