Odd headlines, improbable events, and local stories that escaped into the wider world.
A huge Steller sea lion briefly appeared at San Francisco’s Pier 39, inspired comparisons to internet-famous Chonkers and disappeared by the next day.
A mountain lion spotted in a city park tree appears to have quietly left while officials watched the area with lights and thermal-imaging drones.
A large deer wandered into a St. Johns County home, holed up in a bathroom and later jumped into the backyard pool before deputies guided it out.
Indonesia's Anak Krakatau eruption disrupted about 1,500 flights, closed schools and stopped fishing as ash climbed to roughly 50,000 feet.
A tropical kinkajou was found hiding behind a trash can outside a North Texas business with paws burned by hot concrete. Nobody initially knew whether it was a monkey or a tiny kangaroo.
A real positron-source milestone for CERN’s proposed Future Circular Collider has revived familiar portal and Mandela Effect theories. Here is the science—and the internet séance around it.
Weeks after leaving prison for killing a Lake Eola swan, an Orlando man was arrested after an alleged pipe-wielding vandalism spree at Arby’s, Dunkin’ and an ATM.
After three attacks in two days near Centerra Park, Lebanon police are hunting an aggressive animal believed to be a gray fox or fisher—and possibly rabid.
Young people across Latin America are turning the online idea of collecting “aura” into playful public costume and dance competitions.
Google says its U.S. map display now follows the federal government’s new name, while users elsewhere continue to see Lake Ontario.
A Dutch testing network says pills shaped like Donald Trump contain a dangerous concentration of slow-acting PMMA.
A tractor-trailer loaded with the equivalent of more than 50,000 cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon disappeared from a California yard.
Come back when the internet does something embarrassing again. It won’t be long.