Hidden in Plain Sight: Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Abandoned or underused spaces often go unnoticed in the Delaware Valley. The Pennhurst Asylum is one of those places, usually only drawing attention around Halloween with tales not based in fact. The truth behind those walls tells a much different story.

Teen checks pool noodle on Southwest flight, video goes viral

Sydney Fowls flew from Ohio to Tampa and decided to see if she could check a pool noodle on her Southwest flight. Sure enough, the college student looked out the window and watched baggage handlers loading her pool noodle onto the plane. Her video quickly went viral.

Oreo offers free cookies to aliens

Oreo has decided to make an offering to any extraterrestrial creatures visiting this planet.

Spilled liquid fabric softener prompts hazmat situation on California highway

“The truck was deemed safe, extra soft, wrinkle free,” California Highway Patrol posted after responding to a hazmat situation of spilled liquid fabric softener

Barron County pursuit: Cow blockade ends in arrest of driver

When the Barron County Sheriff's Department and Barron Police Department were involved in a pursuit, they likely did not expect to get help from some dairy cows.

Attracted to taxidermy, mountain lion shatters window to enter San Bruno home

Now that you've digested that headline, San Bruno police issued a press release about a mountain lion who apparently broke through a glass window to enter a home. 

Body of missing man found inside dinosaur statue

A father and son discovered the body after noticing a rank smell emanating from the dinosaur statue.

Car crashes through bedroom, narrowly missing sleeping homeowners

Authorities said it was a miracle no one was hurt after a car crashed into a bedroom and caught fire as a couple slept 10 feet away Sunday morning in Missouri.

California school locked down when stapler mistaken for gun

Officers responding to a report of a possibly armed person at a suburban Sacramento high school discovered it was a student with a stapler.

Hundreds in Alameda line up for blooming ‘corpse flower’

“I grabbed my wagon, went down to my greenhouse, put it in with the help of a friend of mine, dragged it down here to this abandoned building and people just started showing up,” said nursery owner Solomon Leyva.

Report on government knowledge of UFOs to be turned over to Senate June 1

The truth is out there, and the Senate is prepared to see a compiled detailing of what military and other government agencies believe to be the truth about decades of sightings.

Woman wakes up to blood dripping on her from apartment ceiling fan

The woman awoke after she felt something dripping on her body. She assumed it was raining outside and thought a leak had sprung from the apartment above hers. She was horrified to find that the dripping liquid was blood. (Warning, graphic photos in this story may be distressing.)

Man fraudulently obtained federal coronavirus relief funds to buy alpaca farm, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors say the owner of a Massachusetts pizza parlor lied about the number of employees he had to fraudulently obtain more than $660,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds, then used some of the money to buy an alpaca farm in Vermont.

4-year-old inadvertently buys over $2,600 worth of Spongebob popsicles on Amazon

Little did 4-year-old Noah Bryant know, 51 cases of Spongebob popsicles would make their way to his aunt’s house after he attempted to purchase a box of the treats shaped like his favorite character.

Woman from Mali, who expected 7 babies, gives birth to 9

Mali’s Ministry of Health says a Malian woman has given birth to nine babies after only expecting seven.