Weekly World News - Other Stories

Other Stories

• Marisa DeMatha, a Texas pool player with a mouth so large she can stuff it with multiple billiard balls.

• The chaos cloud, an enormous dustcloud in outer space, that is on its way to destroy the Earth in 2014.

• A fossilized tornado found underground.

• Bigfoot had stolen a Race Car during a race, earning the name BigLEADfoot!

• Raw sewage being sold as hamburger meat in Japan.

• A Dutch biography of Hans Christian Andersen which alleges that Andersen hated children and frequently dined on human flesh.

• In May 2001, the WWN had a cover story which stated they had photographs of Timothy McVeigh after he had been executed. The problem with those claims was that McVeigh had just received a temporary stay of execution, and he was not killed until June 11, 2001.

• The WWN once reported the story of a cruel surgeon who re-attached a pair of conjoined twins (the actual article referred to them as "Siamese" twins), after they failed to pay their medical bill for the initial surgical separation he performed.

• Christer Hilding, a Swedish baby who died after drinking household ammonia, whose parents had his remains freeze-dried by a taxidermist. When the couple died in a boating accident, his remains were bought for $10 in a garage sale.

• Another popular story involved a cannibal food critic, who rated the people he had eaten, based on their nationalities. For example, he didn't like Mexican or Chinese people as food, because they were "too spicy." Germans, on the other hand, were fattening and "greasy" while the one American he had eaten was rated highly for "taste, texture, and appearance."

• The latest purported discoveries from the RMS Titanic were often featured on the Weekly World News's front cover, particularly in its later years. Examples of objects being found onboard were puppies, live babies, and the remains of gay lovers still in embrace.

• Australia being attacked by "Kangorus"(a parody of Godzilla, name spoof of Anguirus).

• In late 2010, WWN ran a satirical story, written by Frank Lake, indicating that the Los Angeles Police Department intended to purchase 10,000 jet packs, at a total cost of one billion dollars. This story was later reported as fact by the Fox & Friends morning news show.

• In early 2011, it claimed that Facebook would shut down in March 2011. The story was confirmed to be a hoax.
• In 2012, it claimed again that Facebook will shut down in March 2012. And again the story was confirmed to be a hoax with an official reply from Facebook to the technology blog Mashable which reads, "The answer is no, so please help us put an end to this silliness. We didn't get the memo about shutting down and there's lots to do, so we'll just keep cranking away like always."