Surprising and Strange

Rancho Santa Fe, Surprising and Strange, The World May 1, 2026

29 years ago, Heaven’s Gate couldn’t wait

Dateline Rancho Santa Fe. March 26, 1997. A 911 call came into the San Diego Sheriff’s Communications Center. It was treated as a prank call at first. From what turned out to be a nearby payphone, the caller said something so preposterous that dispatchers took their time in relaying the information to central command. “This is regarding a mass suicide. I can give you the address,” the…

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Grapevine Investigation, Police, Police/Fire, Surprising and Strange

Move over D.B. Cooper for Geezer Bandit

Surprising and Strange, The World

In age of Drumpf, Tony Clifton claims foul

Surprising and Strange, The World

Ides of March and Trump beware, it’s National Everything You Think Is Wrong Day

Dean Weissmann presents, Surprising and Strange

Pi Day, shmiday, other numbers deserve holidays, too

Featured, Surprising and Strange

Bill Murray ‘ghostbusted’ at Kit Carson Park?

Lifestyle, Lifestyle/Society, Surprising and Strange

Why are so few people born on Christmas Day, New Year’s and other holidays?

History, San Diego, Surprising and Strange, Weather

The man who made it rain, rain, rain in 1916

Surprising and Strange

It’s National Fluffernutter Day. Hip Hip Hooray?

Blogs, Columns/Blogs, Surprising and Strange October 1, 2025

Poltergeists? Ghosts are just people, too

Having a ghost in your house doesn’t necessarily mean pictures fly off the wall at you and the dog cowers and growls at the top of the basement stairs. Spirits are everywhere, and they come in a variety of shapes, sizes and intentions Hollywood has led people to believe that ghosts are not only real but vicious things that rip flesh and possess children to…

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