Something Offbeat

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What’s the deeper story behind that weird headline you forwarded to your friends or shared at the watercooler? We ask questions to gain grounded insight into the stranger news of the week.

Episodes

How to become the mayor of Hell, plus a new search or Amelia Earhart, jumping worms and the restaurant rescuer

OFFBITES: A bike ride around the world and the death of the U.S. penny

OFFBITES: A Philly fans museum and a documentary about the Bills Mafia

Wild sports fans, a world-wide bike tour and the long, slow death of the U.S. penny

OFFBITES: Why the George Lucas museum is in LA, plus a new species of cat discovered in Bolivia

OFFBITES: Houdini's death still holds secrets a century later, and the case of a missing body

Were we wrong about Houdini's death? Plus a missing body, the George Lucas museum and a new species of cat

OFFBITES: Unruly passengers disrupt flights and a dog helps find the cause of narcolepsy

OFFBITES: How much ball bouncing is too much? Can AI make you the perfect perfume? Let's find out

Ball bouncing controversy, AI perfume, unruly passengers and a dog helps find cause of narcolepsy

OFFBITES: How Target carts are tracking shoppers and the mysteries of dark matter

OFFBITES: Ancient teeth, Nic Cage's Malibu sinkhole and 'Paul is Dead' revisited

Mastodon teeth, Nic Cage's sinkhole, the 'Paul is Dead' rumor, Target surveillance and dark matter mysteries

OFFBITES: Secret worlds under the marina and in Charlotte's web, a kangaroo on the loose and llama costume contest

OFFBITES: Cops allegedly kill a baby donkey and all you need to know about the spotted lanternfly invasion

A baby donkey murdered, the spotted lanternfly invasion, a hidden world under the dock, Charlotte's web, kangaroo on the loose and llamas in costumes

OFFBITES: A serial pooper and a blood moon

OFFBITES: FBI finds missing Egyptian artifacts, plus rescue stories about a pig, snake and nearly 150 cats

The case of a serial pooper, plus Egyptian artifacts, pigs, cats, snakes and blood moons

OFFBITES: An offbeat Green Day adventure, angry beavers and angry bears