Good ol' WWN

The Weekly World News was such a great tabloid - tongue firmly in cheek, but written in a great sensationalist style. The sad thing is, I knew a few people that genuinely believed it... I miss having it around to liven up a boring supermarket checkout line. It's still good as a web-only publication, but it added a welcome helping of the surreal to the shopping. The photo manipulation was classic.

Surely you mean "Boy-Bat"?

>"The Weekly World News's most famous creation was "Bat Boy" - a hideous hybrid child found living in cave who went on to become the subject of an off-Broadway show."

It's not Bat Boy - it's a human boy with bat wings! Sheesh, how many times do you guys need telling?

What they don't tell you...

>"The Weekly World News's most famous creation was "Bat Boy" - a hideous hybrid child found living in cave who went on to become the subject of an off-Broadway show."

What they don't mention is that it all didn't end well for Bat Boy, owing to something of a misunderstanding which arose when they took the show on a tour of Jamaica and booked Buju Banton as the support act...

Honeymoon couple attacked by goldfish!

A quick random sampling from WWN brought to my attention a rather chilling article about one couple's close brush with death at the hands (fins?) of a horde of ravenous goldfish.

"In the light of the full moon, I glimpsed their soulless, little eyes rushing past me, felt their puckered lips sucking on my skin."

Classic.

My favourite headline:

"Lady Gives Birth to Six-foot Green Martian Baby"

I was looking for the Weekly World News on a recent trip to Canada; now I know why I couldn't find it.

I miss it.

I used to read this paper when I was growing up just because it was so much fun.

Ah, memories

I remember picking up a copy in Barbados. The headline was (along the lines of) Gay Titanic Sailor Lovers Found. There was a picture of two skeletons, wearing sailors hats, hugging in a SS Titanic lifebelt. Classic.

Two of my favorite covers

1) A pic of a B-17 parked in a crater on the moon

2) Headline: "WW II's best kept secret; Hitler was a woman!"