The burgeoning hipster city has hundreds of ursine residents. By Cara Giaimo.

AN Alcester pensioner was surprised to discover the bowl he had been using as a bird bath was actually a rare, almost complete, 2,000 year old… By Liz Sharpe. (Oct. 10, 2016)

Happy early Halloween. By Juliet Bennett Rylah.

Workers clearing a roadway after a series of storms unleashed havoc after unwittingly dumping dirt on a special rock that has its own name in Icelandic folklore. By Katie Rogers. (Sept. 27, 2016)

One population of the world’s smallest crocodile has moved underground where they pluck bats off the walls – and corrosive droppings change their skin colour. By Josh Gabbatiss.

Madonna composition at National Trust’s Haddo House was spotted by a historian making a BBC TV series. By Dalya Alberge.

White House defers to FBI. Stephen King hits ‘hysteria.’ By Ben Guarino.

Bigfoot has been a recognizable creature that has lived on through many generations, yet has remained elusive in its sightings. Even with its long history of detection, there is still no scientific data to prove that Bigfoot actually exists, perhaps he is a figment of our imaginations? Or is he?

Give this “Stranger Peaks” mix a listen. By Sammy Nickalls.

Birds were spotted on radar inside the eye of Hurricane Hermine.

Opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin and former colleagues who have fallen from favor seem to be dying at an unusual rate. Russia-watchers believe the deaths are not random.

An outbreak of chronic hiccups in teens in Danvers, Massachusetts, site of the Salem Witch Trials, spurred a big investigation. Health officials suspected the culprit was a group psychological phenomenon, but kept that out of the final report. By Dan Vergano.

It is thought cells from a miscarried sibling were absorbed by the man while he was in the womb. By Shehab Khan. (Oct. 24, 2015)

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Gold medals and drama are all very well, but what about the strange little details that marked out the Rio Olympics?

The tiny infant was born with the membranes completely intact in extremely rare occurrence - but it's said to be a good omen for babies

Some of the world’s largest, oldest fish live in Oregon. Why anyone would want to vandalize them, even abduct them, takes explaining. By Adrian Shirk.

When the esteemed Dr James Barry died in 1865, an examination of his body revealed that he was a woman, Margaret Bulkley, who had disguised herself to practise medicine, says Robert Hume.

Bernhardt Wichmann III, a Korean War veteran, possessed little except a big heart, and he spread kindness up and down his street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. By N. R. Kleinfield. (July 29, 2016)

Botanists may have some "rational" theories, but don't let science lure you into a false sense of security.