You might have thought screams in graveyards and zombie-like hands emerging from the ground were reserved for the movies, but these real-life accounts of people being buried alive are much scarier than fiction
Fans of food porn Twitter account Rate My Plate couldn't believe their eyes when someone submitted a photo of a classic Full English besmirched with not only gammon, but peas
An American doctor is warning that a mutated strain of bird flu could kill 50% of all humans and would make coronavirus look like child's play - unless we make major changes
Indian police have released a pigeon belonging to a Pakistani fisherman after a probe found that the bird, which had flown across the contentious border between the nuclear-armed nations, was not a spy, two officials said on Friday.
Eyewitnesses reportedly saw one of the monkeys chewing on a sample collection kit at the top of a tree.
Bats in India are dropping dead out of their roosts in the middle of the day with worrying videos emerging of dying animals lying on the hot ground
Paranormal investigators continue to visit the UK’s most haunted sites in the hopes of finally confirming we live among spirits and ghosts – do you believe in ghosts?
From London vampires to haunted children in Staffordshire, the British Isles are home to a huge array of terrifying paranormal entities - if you believe in them
Walibi Holland put the plush bears onto its Untamed coaster, and it looks like they're loving it.
The prosecution did not prove the man intended to intimidate when he messed up a client's, the judge ruled.
Two men snuck into a bedroom with machetes after being hired to carry out a stranger's sexual fantasy of being tied up in his underwear and stroked with a broom, only to discover they had got the wrong address.
The mysterious creature was killed by shepherds after it attacked one of them as well as their livestock. But experts can't decide what the beast actually is and can't analyse it due to its body being too burnt
Jennie Stejna celebrated fighting the infection with an ice, cold brew.
Officers for the Fort Myers Police Department said the doughnuts as well as some blueberry pie-scented spray in a trap did the trick.
This alleged "ghost" or "demon" was spotted on CCTV at the Eagle's Nest hotel in Quincy, Illinois, US, which apparently has been a hotbed of so-called paranormal activity
Michael Jackson is "still alive" according to whacky conspiracy theorists who say they have spotted the Smooth Criminal and Beat It singer moonwalking in a TikTok video
The strange sight was recorded on the same day two annual conferences of the communist party started, leading some conspiracy theorists to bizarrely claim the footage was a sign from the heavens
Young Alessandro Breda kept his cool throughout the nerve-wracking encounter.
Daniel Oster spent $250 on a Sasquatch costume in order to market a house listed at nearly $1 million.
A pigeon suspected of being trained to "spy" by Pakistan has been captured in India along one of the world's most contested borders, Indian officials said.
Reporters covering the coronavirus pandemic remotely have found themselves in some pretty hilarious news bloopers in the process.
Most two-faced cats — known as Janus cats — only live one day.
"Did you change the baby name because of Californian laws ? What is the baby's new name?" a fan wrote, prompting a reply from Grimes.
This white flashing object believed to have been filmed near NORAD military base caused a flurry of excitement on YouTube where it was hailed as a UFO by believers who said it was an "alien ship"
Zoo officials say the 2-month-old Kitoko underwent surgery and may fully recover if he doesn't develop an infection.
As people scramble to avoid catching the coronavirus, before the advent of modern medicine, folk sought out any remedy or 'miracle cure' to alleviate their agonising pain – but, in many cases, the treatment was just as bad as the illness
Saturn the alligator was a resident of the Berlin Zoo until it was destroyed in a bombing raid in WWII.
Residents got a surprise when a statue outside their block of flats in Dublin was unveiled to actually be Jesus, after they'd spent years thinking it was his mother Mary
"We're just having a bit of an earthquake here ..." she said during a live TV interview.
The kitten already has a hidden talent — meowing out of one mouth and eating with the other at the same time.
The kitten already has a hidden talent — meowing out of one mouth and eating with the other at the same time.
Jeremy Wade has spent his career investigating the world's most baffling underwater tales, and says it's not impossible for a large creature to live in the Highlands lake
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Andrew Devlin, a Buddhist exorcist, said he "could have been to shred" by the hulking 6ft 5in man, after he was ominously locked inside the "possessed" victim's home
As the climate warms, scientists expect more and more of the snowy desert to turn bright green.
Knox Brewer was "magnet fishing" at a South Carolina lake when he caught a waterlogged lockbox containing debris-covered jewelry, credit cards, and a checkbook.
A woman was fascinated to see the sky lighting up in a pink colour in one particular area when she was driving in Niagara county and the clip has since been shared widely by UFO hunters
After a van theft went wrong, the suspect made their escape – but they managed to leave their phone and driving licence behind, which led to some social media hijinks
Don't mess with this crowned crane.
The chance discovery of a black hole so close to our own solar system very nearly happened in 2004, but for the death of an astronomer in a freak car accident – until now. And there could be 100 million more out there...and some even closer
NASA's Project Artemis is recruiting people who can live in isolation in a Russian test facility for 8 months to research the stress of a real long-term mission in space
Scientists have reported getting so high on the nitrous oxide emitted by penguin poo that it actually made them ill.
Video footage of an event on a Texas beach showed maskless people twerking, drinking and standing way too close together.
Footage has been released of what is thought to be the last images of the extinct Tasmanian tiger.
Footage has been released of what is thought to be the last images of the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger.
FC Seoul said it meant "to add some fun in the no-spectator match," but ended up apologizing.
Eagle-eyed conspiracy theorists noticed dozens of strange objects flashing past the International Space Station on the live feed, with differing opinions on what caused the sight
A man in the Netherlands has some pretty unusual new neighbors and they spend most of the day staring at each other.
A man in the Netherlands has some pretty unusual new neighbors and they spend most of the day staring at each other.
Researchers in Florida have rediscovered an "ultra-rare" metallic blue bee that hadn't been spotted in years — so long that experts weren't sure it still existed.
One suspected melon-head has been charged. The other is being sought.
As the debate over how and when the Premier League should return rages on, a club in South Korea have shown the dangers of playing behind closed doors.
A creepy looking worm was accidentally hooked at Zavoj Lake in Serbia and went viral on social media after the stunned fisherman shared the video of his catch online
Australian police on Monday charged a German student with breaking into a Sydney museum as security footage showed him allegedly taking selfies next to dinosaur exhibits.
A young family were left stunned and amazed when a white disk hovered over their house in Burnley earlier this month – with the surprising footage going viral online
A young family were left stunned and amazed when a white disk hovered over their house in Burnley earlier this month – with the surprising footage going viral online
An experiment in the frozen wastes of Antarctica has revealed evidence of a universe born in the same Big Bang as ours – but with rules of physics that are completely the opposite
The uploader says she played with a Ouija board in her attic five years ago and has been hearing creepy sounds coming there ever since. Her video has since received hundreds of upvotes on Reddit where viewers offered a range of explanations
EXCLUSIVE: Exorcist and Buddhist priest Paul Devlin says "negative energy" brought on by the coronavirus pandemic is a "breeding ground for demons" which can lead to possession
The blood flowed into one of Israel's only freshwater rivers with concerned locals concerned about the pollution. One witness said "it looks like the plague of blood in Egypt"
The unique flavour "tastes like tear gas" and "feels difficult to breathe at first, it’s really pungent and irritating, it makes me want to drink a lot of water immediately," reveals a customer
The bizarre find also included animal blood and brains, some items of lingerie, and a sock. Police have no idea who dumped the sex toy out in the middle of nowhere, or why
Kevin Day worked as the Operations Specialist Senior Chief on the USS Princeton and was one of the first to notice the strange object on radar, before directing pilots to intercept it
Three men claimed to have practised the rituals to pass time during the lockdown. They told the doctors their bodies were in pain and that they were sons of Satan but police believe they were under the influence of drugs
The normally baking hot northern Indian city of Delhi was hit with heavy hailstones today in a storm so ferocious that "end of the world" conspiracies were triggered
A member of the public called 999 callers because they feared the mystery swordsman would launch an attack with the three-foot weapon.
A fleet of 'UFOs' were filmed flying above St George in Utah near Nellis Air Force Base with some claiming the mysterious video is evidence that aliens exist and visit Earth
WARNING: NSFW - contains explicit, adult material. If you thought some of the stories and headlines thrown up by the coronavirus pandemic were inconceivable, you need to see these yarns from years gone by
The so-called truth-seeker – known for making outlandish claims – believes a Google Earth anomaly is actually the doorway to a world underneath the ground of an uninhabited Indonesian island
New details have been released about encounters between US navy aircraft and "unidentified aerial phenomena" after the Pentagon declassified three videos last month.
Supporters of the NC Dinos can't attend games in person so they sent life-sized cut-outs in their place.
The British Museum holds ancient artefacts from across the globe, many of which were plundered from their original homelands by posho adventurers
The "extremely rare" reptile has been adopted by the Virginia Living Museum after it was found in the wild by a member of the public, and is now something of an internet star
The "extremely rare" reptile has been adopted by the Virginia Living Museum after it was found in the wild by a member of the public, and is now something of an internet star
A rare daytime sighting of the elusive nocturnal feline doesn't disappoint.
A teenager was caught driving 191 mph in his father's car on a highway in Ontario, more than triple the speed limit. CBSN's Elaine Quijano reports.
"This is the fastest speed that I've ever heard of," a police officer said.
Edward Niño Hernández of Colombia was first declared the shortest mobile male in 2010, only to lose the title to two others.
A lot of mistakes have been made when it comes to distinguishing between male and female dinosaurs, new research suggests.
A court-ordered psychological evaluation determined David Ostrom is not insane but merely angry over their child custody arrangement.
The young female figure, wearing a low-cut top and apparently rising from the floor, has baffled staff at the Old Devon Farmhouse exhibit in Torquay after being spotted
Multiple sightings of a strange snake-like UFO have been reported from California over the past few months, with the latest coming last week above the city of Salinas in Monterey County
A strip club in Portland, Oregon, has found a novel way to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
EXCLUSIVE: Leah Dennison and her partner found the dead body of this bizarre sea creature on Brighton beach while having their daily exercise during the coronavirus lockdown
A dog walker has photographed paw prints that he says could be from from a big cat – possibly a lynx or a puma – that is roaming the countryside and killing deer
The remote-controlled, four-legged machine warns parkgoers, “For your own safety and for those around you, please stand at least one metre apart. Thank you.”
The strange marking around the baby bird's mouth has left viewers stunned as they tried to figure out the alien-like creature
The European Space Agency said Friday that urea, the main organic compound in urine, would make the mixture for a “lunar concrete” more malleable before it hardens into its sturdy final form.
A man who says he works as a Buddhist exorcist said a woman he treated was possessed by a demon that left her physically changed with "pointy teeth" and hair like "barbed wire"
As Thailand's capital cautiously reopens many restaurants shuttered over coronavirus fears, the feline "employees" of the Caturday Cafe are back at work.
As Thailand's capital cautiously reopens many restaurants shuttered over coronavirus fears, the feline "employees" of the Caturday Cafe are back at work.
People on Twitter pointed out that the supercar joyride shows Adrian Zamarripa that crime does pay.
The internet went ape watching a money rip open the bank machine outside a Delhi branch of the State Bank of India.
The calf was born as coronavirus killed thousands around the world last month but the goat, dubbed Janus after the two-faced Roman god, has died
A massive black hole, four times the size of the Sun has recently been discovered by researchers who say it can even been seen with the naked eye on clear nights
Nicole Doctor was walking her dogs when she spotted the creepy-looking bug "squirming around violently" on the ground – an expert says the insect didn't have long to live
Nicole Doctor was walking her dogs when she spotted the creepy-looking bug "squirming around violently" on the ground – an expert says the insect didn't have long to live
A trooper stopping a car with a suspected "impaired driver" on a U.S. highway on Monday was bemused to find a 5-year-old in the driver's seat, the Utah Highway Patrol tweeted.
A trooper stopping a car with a suspected "impaired driver" on a U.S. highway on Monday was bemused to find a 5-year-old in the driver's seat, the Utah Highway Patrol tweeted.
The couple were arrested trying to enter Sweden with a cache of weapons that included crossbows, a plugged rifle and three firearms that fire tear gas, Swedish Customs officers have claimed
The couple were arrested trying to enter Sweden with a cache of weapons that included crossbows, a plugged rifle and three firearms that fire tear gas, Swedish Customs officers have claimed