Author: Alexander Strange
Less than 24 hours after a failed coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol, the FBI and other police agencies have launched a massive manhunt for the rioters who disrupted the Electoral College vote...
For years, the south Florida city of Opa-locka, already one of the most unusual communities in a very odd state, had one of the more bizarre ordinances on the books. The city, famous...
By Alexander Strange They say politics makes strange bedfellows. And it’s hard to imagine, with less than ninety days until the election, that it could get weirder than this. But there’s another cliché...
By Alexander Strange As Florida reopens its beaches in the midst of a global pandemic and the death count rises, the coronavirus has now claimed an entire city. Thankfully, the mermaids are okay....
All these stories about weirdness don’t come out of my imagination but from the pages of newspapers, wire services, police reports, and tipsters. One group of contributors has taken to calling itself the...
Don’t call it a manhunt. It’s a chicken hunt. Police in Walker, Louisiana are scratching around for a pesky fowl who has been harassing bank patrons. The bird has chased customers attempting to...
The number of coronavirus cases and fatalities in Florida is at its peak, so what better time to drop restrictions on social distancing and open the beaches back up? What? You don’t see...
“Help…Please…Get me out of here.” That’s the lettering on a yellow sheet of paper a maintenance worker saw in an apartment window in Naples, Florida. Was someone being held hostage? he wondered. Only...
It is refreshing to learn that even in the midst of a deadly pandemic where thousands are dying and millions are holding themselves in self-isolation, that some men have not abandoned their sense...
We now take a moment to offer congratulations to Vanity Fair magazine, the uncontested winner of the first annual Weird Florida Writing Award in the Breaking News category. Writer Yohana Desta scored the...