Weird News

The deadly rabies virus has been detected following fox attack in Saratoga Springs.

I must have watched this one minute clip at least a 30 times - and perhaps there's an underworld inferno waiting for more somewhere -  but I cannot stop laughing at this. When I was a kid, our family spent many summers on this very boardwalk, riding rides at this very pier.  In...

If you see this insect in New York, you are asked to report it immediately.

It has been decided! The name of this insect is offensive and must be changed!

Five boaters were rescued Sunday morning after colliding with a whale off coast of Long Island.

Hundreds of Songbirds around the United States are dying mysteriously. Could this spread to New York? Scientists are baffled.

Please allow me first and foremost to bring to your attention that the gentleman who owns this miniature pig who went missing is named Carl Burnham.  Burn-ham!  You can't make this stuff up.  Anyway, I digress.  This isn't a story about swine irony, it's a story about a man who was feeling quite 'so…

Averaging only 1 inch in length, this rare and endangered species can be found in New York if you look close enough.

I love that Whitehall, New York is the self-proclaimed "Bigfoot Capital of the Northeast."  I love even more that the small town in Washington County officially adopted the hairy mythological beast as their official animal.  Residents have embraced it and so have out-of-towners who come to…

The world's largest treasure has nearly 3,000 hidden treasures throughout the Capital Region. Here is how to find them.

Summer is finally here and families all over the Capital Region have either planned their summer trips or soon will be. If an upcoming trip has you traveling through New York State, you may see road signs or your GPS alerting that you're nearing a place called Donald J...

Seth Breedlove is a popular documentarian who searches high and low, from coast to coast trying to learn as much about the urban legends, ghost stories, and monster myths.  Here in Upstate New York, Bigfoot is a bit of a thing and a topic that has - at the very least -  piqued our curiosit…