Weird

Booth may have toured the country as a mummy.

The ‘Misery’ star’s grandfather believed that Lincoln’s assassin lived another 40 years after he was supposedly killed by the government in late April 1865. His proof? The mummified corpse he kept in his garage.

Harold (second from left) grasps the arrow that is apparently in his eye.

The exact number is hotly debated—but there are dozens.

The hole is authentic, but it likely didn’t come from a rat.

Was it a rat? Probably not.

How many people need to see the same UFO for it to be “real”?

Talk about a historic find.

It’s hard to defend yourself when you’re dead.

The allegedly cursed ghost town of Bodie, California.

From ruined castles in Europe to a pebbled beach in Thailand, these supposedly hexed global destinations carry warnings for all who dare to visit them.

Cheating accusations are afoot at the WSSC.

Modified stones were discovered during a recent tournament, rocking the sport to its core.

Some believe that tuning our music to 432 Hz rather than 440 will make it sound better—and make us feel better. What gives?

Bigfoot can’t be in the crosshairs here.

Skamania County isn’t the only place to have outlawed the killing of undiscovered creatures—but why does anyone feel it’s necessary in the first place?

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.