UPI Odd News Minute

Ben Hooper is still on vacation, so we're bringing out another classic episode from our archives, and this time it's "probably" spooky. For these stories and some more recent news, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

Ben Hooper is on vacation, so please enjoy this episode you may or may not remember from our archive (it was a while ago). Please do not be alarmed by the subdued tone of Ben's voice in this one, he hadn't started Lexapro yet. For these stories, and theactual up-to-date news, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include a website offering to pay $1,000 to someone who has never seen a "Star Wars" movie, an alligator on an Air Force base, a lime green puppy born in Florida and a family of ducklings who wandered into a Marriott Hotel. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

The UPI Odd News Minute is rounding up five of the best stories featuring goats, including tales of hoofed heroes escaping danger, climbing to new heights and not being ashamed to ask for "help." For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

An alligator is rescued after being stuck in a drainage pipe for six months, a poodle is extracted from beneath the kitchen floor of a home and a British man breaks a world record by running a mile through the water at a swimming pool. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

A 9-year-old British boy wins Europe's largest seagull-imitation contest and a dog shuts down the Legacy Tunnel in Brisbane, Australia, on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com.

Australian doctors urge snake bite victims to stop bringing the offending serpents with them to the hospital, a Nigerian chess master fights through food poisoning to break a world record and a dog is found 17 days after escaping at a Melbourne airport on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include farmers using Axe body spray to cub aggression in rams, a pair of vultures that got drunk off fermented fruit, a stowaway snake on a Japanese bullet train and an update to the story of the mysterious object that crashed through the roof of a Naples, Fla., home. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

A British couple's divorce is prematurely finalized due to a clerical error in a computer system and a Maine gun store employs an abandoned calf on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

An elephant escapes from a traveling circus in a Montana city and Uber reveals the weirdest items left behind in ride-share cars during the past year on today's UPI Odd News Minute. No, I don't know what a "fart sensor" is, please stop asking. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

A loose lemur is spotted outside a bar in Texas, archaeologists in Belgium find a 100-year-old British train car underground and Australia's largest pumpkin becomes a boat on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

A hippopotamus escapes into a suburb of Cape Town in South Africa, a home repair project in Michigan leads to the discovery of a time capsule from 1915 and David Rush defies death with his latest Guinness World Record on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include the finalists in Nationwide's "Wacky Pet Names" contest, Florida's Beer Can Island being put up for sale, a library book that was 105 years overdue and a very special spectator of Monday's solar eclipse. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

A Kansas bakery owner asks customers to check their cookies for the $4,000 diamond from her ring, a two-story house floats across the San Francisco Bay and a cat is rescued after being trapped in his owner's London chimney for two days on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

An escaped horse visits the platform at a Sydney train station, a landscaping crew finds a Civil War cannonball in the back yard of a Virginia home and an Alberta grandmother holds the plank position for over 4 hours on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com.

Police called to a Scottish train station on a report of an armed man find a Star Wars Stormtrooper wielding a plastic blaster, an escaped mountain goat gets stranded on the ledge of an overpass bridge in Missouri and 309 suns keep shining during the eclipse in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

A herd of alpacas block traffic on a British highway, a Spanish city's most unusual lost and found items from taxi cabs include a fencing foil and a baby bear is rescued from Minnesota traffic on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

The UPI Odd News Minute presents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly round-up of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make it into this week's podcasts. This week's stories include a California man's discovery of three live grenades in his garage, a series of sculptures irking hikers at an Arkansas state park, a missing dog found more than 2,000 miles from home and a duck who recently celebrated her 17th birthday. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

The mayor of an Italian island offers free goats to anyone who can catch them, an Oregon truck crash releases 77,000 salmon into the wrong body of water and an escaped cow causes traffic chaos in Utah on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.

Happy first birthday to the UPI Odd News Minute! Today's stories include the identification of mysterious streaks of light in the night sky over California, a missing snake being found on a rooftop one year later and a territorial turkey's run-in with an umbrella-wielding school principal. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News.