2024-01-27 15:39
The United States’ religious makeup continues to shift, as nearly a third of Americans now identify as religiously unaffiliated, which could include describing oneself as atheist, agno… Read More
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America is a weird, weird place, so let's chronicle it, at least until we wipe ourselves out through the dumbest means possible.
2024-01-24 20:08
Minor league baseball is a treasure trove of bizarre promotions, and one of the most popular traditions in recent years has become teams rebranding as special, alternate identities for a ser… Read More
2024-01-09 21:08
In the college football world these days, it doesn’t really even matter who plays in the postseason bowl games, which will become even more evident as the playoff format is set to expa… Read More
2024-01-08 20:10
No doubt we’ve all thought about jumping into those giant aquariums at Bass Pro Shops, but rarely have any of us acted on it.
However, one Alabama man finally let his intrusive thou… Read More
2024-01-07 14:53
If you’ve ever been to a Dunkin’ location and visited the bathroom, you know you’re probably putting your life into some sort of jeopardy. The things often seen in there we… Read More
2024-01-03 18:17
Pornhub, a site that hosts video content consisting of… I’m just kidding, I’m not actually going to spend any time explaining what Pornhub is. If you truly don’t kno… Read More
2023-12-23 12:55
The typically unbeatable Harlem Globetrotters are known for winning every game against their longtime rivals (and the only team they regularly play), the Washington Generals. Often committin… Read More
2023-12-19 19:46
Who do we think the first person to confirm she was a grandmother was? It had to be immediately, right? The paramedic ran up to her and said, “How many fingers am I holding up? Close e… Read More
2023-12-19 15:10
Any time a person takes a deep look into U.S. history, that person is bound to find things that will make them squirm. It’s an unpleasant history, and frankly it’s only a moderat… Read More
2023-12-10 14:56
If you’ve been out on the road and seen a Jeep in recent years, you’ve probably noticed the army of rubber ducks on its dashboard. Walking through a parking lot, you might feel a… Read More
2023-12-07 19:24
It would be nice to think that as human-inspired interstellar exploration occurs, we come together as a species, rather than just as a single nation. While there is considerable cooperation… Read More
2023-11-22 19:46
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet tied to the Transcendentalist movement, is famous for immortal lines like “O Captain! My Captain!” Less well-known are his penchant for li… Read More
2023-11-10 20:14
Just about every children’s author wrote their books as an adult. That means the author had a full life of experience, which may include addictions, sex, marriage, divorce, lots of bad… Read More
2023-11-06 21:44
Garth Brooks has released a new album called Time Traveler, which is great news for all fans of Garth Brooks and, well, country music lovers (so long as you don’t believe that tongue-i… Read More
2023-10-30 19:54
“I am vast, I contain multitudes,” goes one oft-quoted line from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman. In the American literary canon, the questions and ideas explored in… Read More
2023-10-25 19:24
Military legends come in all shapes and sizes, dating back as long as records exist. A person with a moderate interest in military history may know about Achilles and Odysseus in the Trojan… Read More
2023-10-20 18:27
Born Ehrich Weiss in 1874, the man who took the stage name Harry Houdini pushed himself to his human limits as one of the most daring escape artists and stunt performers in recorded history… Read More
2023-10-13 19:57
Charles Dickens visited the United States in 1842, partly to see the young nation for himself but also to push for the implementation of international copyright, as Americans were pirating h… Read More
2023-10-02 19:06
If you’re reading this outside the USA – particularly if you’re in, say, Europe – the idea that there are only six major holidays that Americans get off from work is… Read More
2023-09-28 19:17
It was an honest mistake, but it’s still pretty jarring to see a picture of Dracula wearing a Star of David – the symbol of Judaism – medallion necklace on a box of childre… Read More
2023-09-18 18:20
The U.S. defense budget is inching ever closer to the $900 billion mark, and yet, the most powerful military in the world is having trouble locating one stealth fighter jet.
Maybe U.S. m… Read More
2023-09-14 20:06
While it’s easy to assume that getting into the White House to cause trouble is nearly impossible, free tours are still offered to the public. This is a service that has been provided… Read More
2023-09-13 19:07
I love baseball more than pretty much any other sport for the infinite possibilities of weird stories the game can produce – the story of Phil Ozersky, the baseball field at Area 51, B… Read More
2023-09-07 20:02
It’s difficult to overstate how often the phrase “land of opportunity” gets bandied about in regards to the USA. It’s true that the states make up a huge land area, a… Read More
2023-08-28 17:12
There are plenty of valid guesses for the most called-off day of the year by American workers – anytime around Christmas, the day after the Super Bowl, St. Patrick’s Day, the Fri… Read More
2023-08-22 16:29
Benjamin Franklin may be the most famous Founding Father who was never a president. An incomplete list of things named after ol’ Ben include: 24 U.S. counties, two mountain ranges, sev… Read More
2023-08-16 20:21
Sometimes here at AIW there’s a news item that is begging to be written about. Other times we go searching for a topic and spend hours on a Wikipedia-fed goose chase, clicking link aft… Read More
2023-08-11 11:48
Lahaina is a town of about 12,000 people on the western coast of Maui, the second-largest Hawaiian island and a major tourist destination. Much like the rest of the island, Lahaina attracts… Read More
2023-08-10 20:13
In sports, the goal is to always find that edge, to take advantage of any opportunity other teams might be missing.
In the case of the Jacksonville Jaguars, they are getting a leg up on… Read More
2023-08-04 18:24
The doomsday clock has inched closer to midnight for Kmart, once a retail behemoth. Now, with the closure of New Jersey’s last Kmart location, there are only two Kmarts left in the con… Read More
2023-08-02 17:43
Unusual deaths have been recorded for about as long as people have been recording things. For example, in 3200 B.C. the Egyptian pharaoh Menes was allegedly carried off and eaten by a hippop… Read More
2023-07-28 11:12
Groom Lake, Nevada is a salt flat in the Southern Nevada desert that is more commonly known as the spot next to the airfield of Area 51, an area of legendary UFO and alien-related conspiraci… Read More
2023-07-27 00:35
Overshadowing even the apparent admission of the government hoarding alien corpses that took place earlier in the day, Mitch McConnell inexplicably froze during the introductory remarks of h… Read More
2023-07-26 11:47
Americans of a certain age may remember the Martin Scorcese street-violence film Gangs of New York. Without reviewing the movie (I’m a fan), it centers on Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill… Read More
2023-07-25 19:25
When you hear the term “ghost town,” what comes to mind?
The Old West, or perhaps settlements that once sat upon abundant resources – oil or mining, for example –… Read More
2023-07-21 19:16
At first glance, Jason Aldean’s song “Try That in a Small Town” sounds like any other pop country song these days. It hits all the same notes of small-town pride and bravad… Read More
2023-07-19 20:11
The beginning of July is home to a wonderful holiday celebrated by millions of Americans each and every year. No, we’re not talking about the Fourth of July; we’re talking about… Read More
2023-07-18 16:56
Skinwalker Ranch, Sherman Ranch, UFO Ranch – all of these are the same place, the most-studied paranormal hotspot on the planet (investigated by paranormal researchers and celebrities… Read More
2023-07-13 16:16
It’s no secret that we here at America Is Weird get a kick out of anomalies. We also like a good tale of geography. With that in mind, here is a small sampling of American geographic a… Read More
2023-07-12 19:18
Leslie Van Houten, a member of the infamous Manson family responsible for at least nine murders in 1969 (and, honestly, possibly more throughout the 1960s), has been released from a Californ… Read More
2023-07-10 15:58
Iowa – home of more pigs than humans and that glorious black dirt – could soon also be the home of a world-record number of pencils.
Aaron Bartholmey has been collecting woode… Read More
2023-07-07 17:37
Capital punishment in the United States has a long, complicated, and gruesome history, and, well, its methods had to start somewhere.
In the case of the electric chair, Martha Place was… Read More
2023-07-05 19:39
There was… quite a bit happening in 2016, so you’d be forgiven for not remembering the rash of clown sightings that took place that year.
But it’s true: Amid one of the… Read More
2023-07-01 11:54
Imagine yourself landing in a little area of the country in 1853 that was soon to become the little town of Conrad, Iowa and the first thing of note was the rich, fertile black soil that wou… Read More
2023-06-27 13:58
When revisiting bygone eras in American pop culture, we often use TV shows as a touchstone: The I Love Lucy days, the M*A*S*H days, the Simpsons (when they were stil… Read More
2023-06-23 15:33
You just really can’t make this stuff up. Wendy Rush, the wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who was one of the five people who perished in the Titan submersible attempting to tour t… Read More
2023-06-21 16:27
Recently, a pod of orcas was seen off the New England coast, just 40 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
For the scientists studying these whales, it was a once-in-a-lifetime “… Read More
2023-06-20 20:51
The chances of being bitten by a shark in Hawaii are less than one in a million (the same probably goes for humpback whale enthusiasts in the area), but a Netflix docuseries crew nearly defi… Read More
2023-06-17 13:24
When you donate your body to science, you probably expect it to go toward some good cause, not for your skull to end up sitting on a shelf in a store somewhere.
But if you’ve had a… Read More
2023-06-16 16:46
If you were to see this headline ten years ago – hell, a year ago – you might think this is the least newsworthy item of all time.
But in today’s culture war climate, t… Read More
2023-06-13 19:50
Our family likes to essentially throw a dart at Airbnb listings to pick where we travel next. This exercise recently took us to Massanutten, Virginia, home to the Massanutten Resort, and jus… Read More
2023-06-11 13:56
President John F. Kennedy was one of the key driving forces behind the United States’ entry into the space race and its ultimate conclusion, in which the U.S. landed on the moon in the… Read More
2023-06-09 21:00
Americans are beyond lucky to have their national parks. With 424 national park sites that span more than 84 million acres, we are afforded the priceless opportunity to experience the splend… Read More
2023-06-08 18:59
American sports are a pretty insane landscape: Billions of dollars in contracts, advertising, licensing, and more, coupled with the inherent incentives to ignore systemic problems (like conc… Read More
2023-06-07 15:41
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running as a Democrat in the 2024 presidential field and actually polling fairly well at the moment. But there’s very little, if anything, in his beliefs that… Read More
2023-06-06 15:25
I’ll just get this out of the way now: We don’t care enough about space these days (though maybe that will change with the Artemis missions). Back in the 60s and into the early 7… Read More
2023-06-05 18:04
Ever wonder what happens to all the lost luggage in the United States?
If you’ve ever had the unfortunate experience of having had an airline lose your luggage, or if you’ve f… Read More
2023-06-02 14:36
Americans born between about 1975 and 1995 will unquestionably remember the Beanie Babies crazy of the late 1990s. It was everywhere – those cute little plush toys were even prominent… Read More
2023-05-31 20:13
If your dream of playing professional sports has come and gone, maybe we can help keep the flame alive with competitive cherry pit spitting. One of the biggest events in this arena was the I… Read More
2023-05-23 13:35
June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte’s retreat at Waterloo, signaled the end of his empire and the beginning of his exile. But Napoleon wasn’t the only Bonaparte on the throne at th… Read More
2023-05-18 20:46
Public art is a societal good. Studies show that there is a correlation between public art and safer streets, reduced mental stress on residents, and increased tourism. And while art is pure… Read More
2023-05-11 18:53
The United States of America is a misleading name because there are more than just states. You undoubtedly know that Washington D.C. is not a state, and most of you likely know that Puerto R… Read More
2023-05-09 20:10
When you think of Mother’s Day, what comes to mind? Is it breakfast in bed, doing your chores without being asked, or perhaps a homemade card that expresses all your feelings abou… Read More
2023-05-08 22:28
I’ve heard of creepypasta, but this is ridiculous.
Sorry.
Anyway, the country has been captivated by a mystery taking place in the New Jersey woods, where literally hundreds of p… Read More
2023-05-02 17:19
The death of Osama bin Laden was a surreal moment in American history.
He was one of the main architects of 9/11, a well-known terrorist to the government for many years before, and the… Read More
2023-04-30 11:23
The thought of allowing students to go hungry at school is unconscionable for any normal human being, but it’s something our government is quite adept at; ignoring child hunger is one… Read More
2023-04-24 19:37
As someone who grew up in the Midwest, Hawaii used to hold a certain amount of mystique. As an adult who has visited the state, it’s hard to wrap your head around how strange it is tha… Read More
2023-04-20 19:52
March and April 2023 were celebrated as the 111th bloom of Japanese varieties of cherry trees across our nation’s capital city, with an estimated 1.5 million tourists flocking to the a… Read More
2023-04-13 19:18
California Senator Dianne Feinstein’s memory and health are failing her. That’s not meant to be a slight or an attack against her – she’s 89 years old. That’s t… Read More
2023-04-12 20:00
There’s a good chance every American is at least somewhat familiar with Thomas Edison. The prolific inventor had an incredible influence on modern life, even as we know it now, inventi… Read More
2023-04-05 18:01
I am a recent convert into the Costco cult. I never quite knew the magic of buying in bulk, especially not at a level of quality that I typically see at Costco (end paid promotion).
And e… Read More
2023-04-03 19:19
We have previously written about the haphazard and wildly unsuccessful expansion efforts the Canadian Football League put in place to reach US audiences in the 1990s.
The short version i… Read More
2023-03-30 12:45
Remember the war over in Ukraine? That one with Russia that was a big deal back in March of 2022?
Guess what – it’s still going on!
That’s right, the conflict is Uk… Read More
2023-03-27 17:22
Henry Ford’s legacy is enormous. With the Ford Motor Company still hugely relevant today, it’s hard to overstate how influential he was in the early 1900s. Here in the 21st centu… Read More
2023-03-25 12:12
Humans have an inherent desire to find patterns. In a large-scale sense, scientists as renowned as Neil deGrasse Tyson believe that “humans’ pattern recognition skills determined… Read More
2023-03-24 20:04
Florida’s at it again. You know, the state shaped like America’s flaccid wiener whose top relative search on Pornhub in 2022 was “BBC” (big black cock)? That’s… Read More
2023-03-22 17:11
You might just call it an urban legend, but there are many people out there who are convinced that Doveland, Wisconsin was a real town. And not only was it a real place, but it allegedly van… Read More
2023-03-21 17:25
People are complicated. While in our hearts we know that it’s true, it can be a lot of fun to find people who really ride the line when it comes to defining a legacy. One of the more i… Read More
2023-03-17 11:38
Here’s a tax-related question you’ve probably never considered but now can’t seem to get out of your head: What would happen if you wanted to be a little cheeky and stick i… Read More
2023-03-15 16:03
SunnyD, the beloved drink that’s “superficially related to orange juice” has launched a vodka seltzer. Because… why not?
Their announcement weaponizes the phrase… Read More
2023-03-14 19:33
YouGov recently asked people to guess the percentage of American adults who belong to 43 different minority groups, among other characteristics. The poll was… interesting, to say the… Read More
2023-03-12 11:02
The audience reach of an NFL game is staggering in the United States. This is particularly crazy when the postseason comes around: More Americans watched this year’s Super Bowl than vo… Read More
2023-03-10 12:35
Those Funko Pop! vinyl figurines have become ubiquitous in stores over the past few years, and now they’re about to be ubiquitous at a landfill near you.
The company – dealing… Read More
2023-03-08 12:18
The American tax system is opaque by design. Tax companies like TurboTax and H&R Block spend millions of dollars lobbying to prevent a world with free, easy-to-understand tax filing beca… Read More
2023-03-07 20:20
Blimps, zeppelins, dirigibles, airships. While there are slight differences in what might define these things, most people have a pretty good idea of what they look like and what they do. Th… Read More
2023-03-05 20:25
Much of North America is a hotbed for Bigfoot sightings – and no state is safe from encounters with this massive, mysterious creature. But by following the map of reported sightings, y… Read More
2023-03-03 21:25
The “Rocky Steps” in Philadelphia – the 72 stone steps leading to the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art – have been iconic ever since Rocky was released in 1… Read More
2023-03-03 18:34
In the 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson was under immense pressures. Not only was he thrust into the presidency after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, but he was facing a war in Viet… Read More
2023-03-02 20:34
Ken Griffey Jr. is one of the greatest baseball players of all time, there’s no question about that. He hit 630 career home runs, was a 13-time All-Star, seven-time Silver Slugger, and… Read More
2023-03-01 21:38
Fast food chains are always trying to reinvent themselves, desperately trying to carve out another sliver of market share.
That often results in some level of shock value to get people to… Read More
2023-02-28 16:59
Before we even get into the Chen Tao UFO cult, as it is affectionately known, I would like to express my concerns about upstate New York. This writer has driven through the area a few times… Read More
2023-02-27 19:10
“Oh no, that tickles!”
In the late ‘90s, America was tickled red by one of the most sought-after toys of its era. Like the Beanie Baby hype, kids and adults alike were e… Read More
2023-02-24 18:15
They Ty-ed the knot. Then they tore off the heart-shaped tags.
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a viral photo of two divorcees sorting through dozens of Beanie Babies lit… Read More
2023-02-24 13:19
Here are the five reasons that the Hadrosaurus Statue in Haddonfield, NJ is giving humanity the side-eye, not including the fact that its eyes always rested on either side of its head becaus… Read More
2023-02-22 19:15
Walking is a near-essential part of the human experience. It’s our primary mode of transport, obviously, but it’s also a hugely important part of our well-being. You can see this… Read More
2023-02-21 16:13
There’s a national shortage of Adderall right now, and it’s not great!
Over six months ago, early signs of Adderall supply shortages began popping up with no resolution since… Read More
2023-02-19 15:37
Military conflicts take a lot of forms. If we look at the United States’ military history, we see incidents like Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania, or the insistence on owners… Read More
2023-02-17 17:31
With a number of train derailments making national news recently, you might be wondering just how many derailments there are in the United States each year. The answer is… a lot.
W… Read More
2023-02-15 21:17
The United States has been inundated with mysterious, unidentified objects in recent weeks. First, things were set off in early February by a Chinese spy balloon that made its way across the… Read More
2023-02-15 12:27
In September of 2022, America’s increasingly fascist Republican party took a break from inciting bomb threats to children’s hospitals so they could attack a Black woman for being… Read More
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