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North American Sources

Canoe Network Cnews Weird News
Oddness with a Canuck twist (with archives, to boot).
CNN's Offbeat News
Plus Offbeat Images and Offbeat Video.
Fark.com
Gathering weird news since February 12, 1999.
News Of The Weird
From Chuck Shepherd's syndicated column.
PR Bop
An attempt to catalog those weird and wonderful things called Press Releases.
The Smoking Gun
Bringing you exclusive documents obtained from government and law enforcement agencies.
Sploid
A news site with a tabloid mentality. From Gawker Media.
Topix Offbeat News
Continually updated from over 10,000 sources around the net.
Urban Legends Reference Pages
News articles and web sites of interest to Urban Legend readers.
Yahoo's Odd News
Weird news, Oddly Enough articles and other unusual events from Yahoo!

From the United Kingdom

Fortean Times - Breaking News
The world of strange phenomena.

Wonders From Down Under

Big News Network - Weird News
Incorporated in Bahrain but operating out of Australia.
Stuff - Oddstuff
From New Zealand's leading news website.

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