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Student gets stuck in giant stone vagina in Germany What was meant to be a funny dare turned into an utter embarrassment for an American exchange student, who found himself trapped in a giant stone vagina in Germany. Firefighters had to be called in to deliver the man, head-first, to safety...

Slash Australians’ power bills by beheading a duck at night Sadly the article is nowhere near as interesting... http://theconversation.com/slash-austra ... ight-27234 Z

From here More than a century after it was “lost”, the New Guinea big-eared bat has been discovered by Queensland researchers working in Papua New Guinea’s forests. The critically endangered bat was thought to be extinct, and the discovery shows there is still much to learn about biodiversity...

http://www.realestate.com.au/blog/the-m ... australia/ I have to say I've been to a few of the places mentioned and never felt anything unusual but apparently others have.

From "The Conversation", a longish article on Aboriginal Australia dream time ghosts, monsters and vampires. http://theconversation.com/dreamings-an ... ings-25606

1mm long? I'm not surprised we never found it before. From http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-24/n ... ns/5279626 Scientists from the Queensland Museum have discovered two new species of goblin spiders on the state's Darling Downs. Dr Barbara Baher says her team discovered the Opopaea...

The ten metre high fibreglass "bloody big mango" has been stolen for no apprent reason. From http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensl ... 33c3d.html The 10-metre high Big Mango has gone missing in northern Queensland after an apparent heist overnight. Staff at the Bowen Tourist...

I was looking through www.librarything.com and came across a listing of comedian Jackie Gleason's library at the time of his death. I knew he had interests in UFOlogy but aside from the odd book on entertainment his library consisted of book son "witchcraft, folklore, extrasensory perception...

I too welcome our new giant sea serpent overlords. From http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-12/w ... ky/5255808 A strange S-shaped formation which appeared on weather bureau radar off the West Australian coast was not caused by cloud, the bureau says. The shape was spotted on the weather...

Not overly fortean but it's amazing to think that a bird born at the start of the Great Depression (and whose gender is still undertimined) was until recently in better shape than me. From http://indaily.com.au/news/2014/01/31/w ... es-sa-zoo/ Adelaide | The world’s oldest flamingo has...

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/nationa ... 30ggg.html CSIRO is the "Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation", the Australian Government's agency for Science research. The CSIRO has promised to step up its dragon research program, after a seven-year-old girl wrote...

I wonder if nude hide and seek will ever become an Olympic sport? http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/naked ... 30f96.html The Victorian man who became stuck in a washing machine while naked has put his own spin on the tale, saying his rescue felt similar to being born. Emergency...

Blue Mountains panther spotted again From http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environ ... 2ze1p.html (visit the page for a map of Big Cat sightings in New South Wales) Weeks after the government declared the Blue Mountains big cat file closed, a Sydney father has spoken of a terrifying...

I met an Australian Aboriginal lady from the central desert region recently who talked about the time in the late 1960s that her tribe/clan first met a white person. The tribe had heard stories from other tribes about the mysterious white skinned figures and had wondered what sort of creature...

Oh, dear god. Man nails testicles to Red Square to protest Russian crackdown on rights http://www.theage.com.au/world/man-nail ... 2xah2.html Moscow: A Russian performance artist has been hospitalised after stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in...

I've also seen a headline relating to this story reading "Saint Jones fined for Mad Monday dwarf fire" but I can't seem to find that one on line. http://au.sports.yahoo.com/afl/news/art ... f-on-fire/ St Kilda player Clinton Jones has apologised and will pay a $3000 fine for setting a...

I couldn't find the "Dumb Criminals" thread ... From http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/0 ... tnews.html Dumb and dumber deliver themselves to cops NT NEWS | August 30th, 2013 TWO 'dopes' have been arrested after driving on to a private property being used for training by an...

I have a tradition that the first article I read on my birthday sets the scene for the coming year ahead. Today's my birthday and this is the first article I've read today so I'm not how this bodes for the coming year ...

From http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-11/w ... lt/4623106 A woman from Broken Hill in far west New South Wales has been found guilty of assaulting police with a quiche. Police told the Local Court they approached Franklin Jane Bugmy, 41, in the main street of Broken Hill on August 7 to...

From http://www.indaily.com.au/?iid=75959&sr=0#folio=1 Maggie’s a rarity – and she could be expecting (see article for photo of Magpie Fiddler Ray) THE simplest hook, rod and reel has caught what may be a critically endangered and rare species of fiddler ray not seen for 60 years in the...

From http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/ufo-r ... 2hfve.html Be sure to click on the link to see artist rendition of playground UFO returns to park DateApril 8, 2013 The first time an unidentified flying object was seen in Clayton South, back in April 1966, it sparked mayhem, as...

From the legendary NT News http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/0 ... tnews.html CHARGES against a man who allegedly had sex with a pig named Michael Jackson have been dropped on mental health grounds. The man, 35, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was also charged with aggravated...

From http://www.theage.com.au/national/space ... 2d389.html TWO men who walked away from a car crash near Brisbane's Wivenhoe Dam claimed to be chasing an alien spacecraft when found by police. Police and the driver's insurance company received several sketchy phone calls from the men...

From http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 6553300939 Book details the ghosts of the south including Willunga's Alma Hotel MOVING appliances and an eerie feeling is Melinda McCauley's experience of a ghost that is said to haunt Willunga's Alma Hotel. The hotel's co-owner says she...

Director, Warwick Thornton and producer, Kath Shelper are in pre-production for a new project for ABC Television based around Indigenous ghost stories and encounters with the after-life. Stories that are poignant and relevant to Indigenous issues is what they're after – and the blacker the...

http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/30/ufo- ... bridgetown UFO photographed over Bridgetown Mon 30 Apr 2012 By Gerry Georgatos Global/InternationalPerthAustraliaWestern AustraliaUFO sightingPerthGerry Georgatos In recent times the Blackwood region has become a hotspot for UFO sightings and...

Motorists spot lion near Darwin crossing the Stuart Highway From the Herald Sun http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-n ... 6187748355 AUTHORITIES in Darwin are on the lookout for a feral lioness, after three reports of a big cat being spotted crossing the Stuart Highway. The sightings...

In my job as a journalist I was recently in the Torres Strait of Australia (a remote area located between mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea) and interviewed the Bishop of the Torres Strait. I’m not religious so this may not be out of the ordinary but the Bishop made the statement that...

"Women flash at library" http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/enterta ... 1mc03.html Sadly, it's only about a fashion show. Z

Man hires prostitute that 'turned into donkey' overnight From http://www.emirates247.com/offbeat/craz ... 6-1.425495 It may have been the work of a genie or a sorcerer or just that a Zimbabwean man is off his rocker, for he claims in court that he had hired a prostitute who during the night...

Now you've got us in breathless anticipation.

From the Central Telegraph (Australia) http://www.centraltelegraph.com.au/stor ... k-deeming/ Did Jack the Ripper live in Rocky? Adam Wratten | 21st February 2011 Sue Smith’s journey through The Morning Bulletin’s archives of the past 150 years has unearthed some fascinating...

Bakery robber may be Melbourne's dumbest criminal From http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/victori ... 1absf.html A bumbling would-be robber who broke into a Frankston bakery only to discover himself trapped in a locked store room may well be Melbourne's dumbest criminal. The young man was...

Do you think his comments will hold water?

Weird headlines - Bath to speak at CTC hearing Sorry, I couldn't find the appropriate weird headline forum to post this in so here is: "Bath to speak at CTC hearing" http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/1 ... tnews.html Z

Editorial on Yowie Found this editorial in the Newcastle (Australia) Herald about yowie sightings in the Newcastle region. http://www.theherald.com.au/blogs/jeff- ... 12445.aspx In search of yowies The yowie is a concoction of raconteurs and sensationalists, right? The idea that huge...

Sorry, I didn't make it clear Unaipon was writing in the 1920s, when Lemuria was thought to be more than merely hypothetical. I thought the interesting point was that it was a widespread belief among Australian Aboriginal tribes (Unaipon was Ngarrindjeri, from the southern part of Australia)...

"Semen proceeds to bushfire relief" From the 6 April 2009 edition of the Bairnsdale Advertiser, comes an uplifting tale of the Sykes family donating the proceeds from the sale of a semen package from their new stud bull Talbabla Valiant to the Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund. Bravo to a Mr...

In his book "Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines", David Unaipon (an Aboriginal man of the Ngarrindjeri nation) wrote that Aboriginal traditions state that Aboriginals were forced to migrate to Australia from Lemuria to avoid harrassment from the Praid arna Prodda, a plague of huge and...

While researching something completely different, I cam across the following: From The Brisbane Courier, 8 February 1896, p. 5 Like all great Fortean stories, it leaves more questions than answers. I don't suppose anyone has heard this Walter Johnson and whether he ever came out of this...

From http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008 ... 369236.htm New South Wales Premier Nathan Rees says rumours that a leopard inhabits bushland on Sydney's outskirts cannot be dismissed, because the safety of children could be at risk. Talk of panthers or leopards in the Blue Mountains and...

From http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 90,00.html STUDENTS at the Numbulwar Community Education Centre on the remote east Arnhem Land coast were removed yesterday after a traditional owner cursed the school, the medical centre, the council offices, the credit union and the shop...

Tongue named as halfback for Cowboys clash Tongue named as halfback for Cowboys clash http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008 ... 346979.htm

The following is certainly not a new news story but one I found while researching a different topic. It dates from 29 December 1900 and from a New Zealand newspaper that unbelievably I have not noted down and forgotten. Anyhoo, the article: The White Death - A Frozen Fog of Which Indians are...

Performing some research I stumbled upon the following article in the 6 January edition of the Adelaide Advertiser: "Strange Coincidence in Crash Landing" Arriving by air to visit their newly widowed mother, two brothers named Greeff were pitched out of the aircraft in which they were...

Missing woman's 'demolished' house reappears From The Age December 21, 2007 Cold-case detectives will travel to Bendigo today to investigate fresh leads in the 21-year-old mystery of missing Melbourne woman Marlene McDonald. The Reservoir house Mrs McDonald was living in at the time...

So why did this elderly woman travel 50 kilometres out of her way for no apparent reason, only to be set on fire? Zane From The Melbourne Age link Mystery surrounds murdered woman Mark Russell March 11, 2007 FIVE months on, homicide detectives remain puzzled as to why murdered...

(This thread is, for the moment, just a conglomeration of old ones. Once I've gathered all the stuff from the forum, I'll look to start splitting again and merging between the two thylacine threads. It will take a while, but in the meantime the vast majority of our thylacine stuff will be in one...

From link February 6, 2007 - 2:13PM A 76-year-old woman from southern Thailand has been reunited with her family after taking the wrong bus 25 years ago. Jaeyaena Beuraheng, a Malay-speaking resident of Narathiwat province in Thailand's deep-south, got on a bus which took her to...

From the Korea Times 26-27 August, p.3 "Masseur Jobs to be Exclusive for Blind" Lawmakers are discussing a new law to allow only the visually impaired to work as masseurs, despite the Constitutional Court's ruling in May that denied the constitutionality of such exclusive rights. The...