Here are the stories which are true but really odd...

January 5, 2023

Author Fakes Suicide And Returns Two Years Later. Was It All a Marketing Ploy? (entrepreneur.com) 21:13


‘Office Space’ Inspired Engineer’s Theft Scheme, Police Say (nyti.ms) 19:16


Foot found in Yellowstone hot pool last Aug. 16, but case is still murky (apnews.com) 17:01


Mystery of ancient dots and stripes on Europe's caves is solved (yahoo.com) 15:46


Patients wrongly told they've got cancer in SMS snafu (theregister.com) 14:26


Hong Kong to lift year-long ban on hamster imports (bbc.com) 14:09


Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery (bbc.co.uk) 11:58


Former Colorado funeral home owner sentenced to 20 years for selling body parts (yahoo.com) 08:12


Edward Norton Learns He’s Related to Real-Life Pocahontas, His 12th Great Grandmother (yahoo.com) 07:43


Downtown Miami condo residents upset over yelling from inmates at adjacent jail (local10.com) 06:31


Innocent Man Arrested In Another Facial Recognition Failure (theinsaneapp.com) 05:59


FBI says two men attacked Washington's electric grid in order to commit a robbery (npr.org) 05:11


Marilyn Manson Sex Assault Lawsuit Dismissed By Default (rollingstone.com) 04:40