WEIRD

In 1836 some boys found a series of little wooden coffins with dolls inside. Was it witchcraft, or a tribute to one of Edinburgh's most gruesome crimes?

Residents of the Canadian border city of Windsor say they're besieged by a persistent noise, but no one can figure out where it's coming from.

Andrew Jackson Davis claimed he could see into space, the afterlife, and other worlds—but not everybody believed him.

Free-roaming swine in the country's Haut-Rhin department are destroying cow pastures used to produce authentic Munster cheese.

In the 1930s, farmers weren't sure why their clothes kept bursting into flames.

Don't even pretend you're working.

From foul-mouthed parrots to prison-breaking cats, these 25 animals are proof that “crime” can sometimes be cuddly.

Different platforms sometimes display the same emoji specification in different ways. An eye roll might come across as petulant or cheerful. A snake might look threatening or adorable.

William the Conquerer was an unlikely king who reigned brutally and met an equally brutal end.

A Rhode Island man tipped the scales with his 2118-pound beauty.

Thanks to the nation's gold refineries, traces of the precious metal flow through the nation's wastewaters.

The birdlike accessory is credited to French doctor Charles de Lorme, who was chief physician to King Louis XIII.