World’s Strangest

The iconic image we associate with the movie Jaws was painted by Roger Kastel. who has a few other blockbusters movie poster credits. Kastel was assigned the job of making the shark on the novel’s cover more realistic for the paperback version. To research his new assignment, Kastel went to the Museum of Natural History, whose [...]

On March 26, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson participated in a talk on “Cosmic Quandaries” in St. Petersburg, Florida. The talk was wide-ranging and lengthy (a little over an hour with NDT himself), but one clip caught my eye: a twelve-minute segment in which the good doctor presents us with some pretty Deep Thoughts [...]

Here is a tip to any adulterous men and women out there. If you are going to cheat on your spouse, make sure you post the evidence of such on any social networking websites. One attorney in St. Petersburg, Florida says 90 percent of her divorce cases involve Facebook! “You get a little bit of everything [...]

On December 12, 1531, the Virgin Mary, the story goes, appeared on the cloak of a peasant named Juan Diego. Today, the image that appeared on the cloak is popularly known as the Virgin of Guadalupe. That may have been one of the earliest stories of a vision of Jesus or Mary appearing in a [...]

Lorie and Ryan Davenport are camped out in front of Best Buy in St. Petersburg, Florida, so they will be first in line for the Black Friday sale a full week from today. They switch off heir duties with another couple, and say they are saving places for ten people altogether, but this might tend [...]

Neil Alan Smith, 48, was a dishwasher at a Crab Shack in St. Petersburg, Florida. When he was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver, the St. Petersburg Times reported the story. An online commenter to the story responded: A man who is working as a dishwasher at the Crab Shack at the age of 48 [...]