Oddities

It all started with a young woman going to visit her friend in Coralville, IA. They started hearing weird noises late one night, and they couldn't figure out where it was coming from. After hearing it several times, they realized it was someone knocking at the door. Each time this person knocke…

This account is called Zooming In Iowa Houses and it's my new obsession. Who hasn't zoomed in on Google Maps to try and find their house or even their friends' houses? There are currently about 85 videos of this person zooming in on random Iowa homes.

An Iowa man keeps this old Chuck E. Cheese car in his garden at home.

In 2019, the Alternative Learning Center in Dubuque redesigned their PE program. This school is for 11th and 12th graders, and their PE classes are more dynamic than any Gym class you've taken.

ALC offers students different options to fulfill their PE credit like canoeing, hiking, and even yar…

And the winner of this battle of the Joshes? A little boy named Josh Vinson Jr. This entire event raised over $8,000 at a children's hospital. Coincidentally, little Josh was receiving treatment from that very same hospital.

The crookedest road in the world might just be in Burlington, Iowa. It's called Snake Alley and is the town's biggest tourist attraction.

Well, for one couple in Iowa this was a major deal. Both couples married on November 20th, 1947, and while one couple married at Westminster Abbey, Gerald and Dorothy Beck married in Elkader.

One Waterloo man used a peculiar getaway vehicle...a riding mower, as reported originally in the Courier. Local police say that he zoomed away on the mower after breaking into a garage.

Quickly the officer was off in an attempt to pursue the speeder. The suspect was in a rented Maserati when this whole thing went down. The driver, John Burgoyne from Des Moines, did not pull over for approximately TWO WHOLE HOURS. Burgoyne lost the state trooper somewhere in Story County when he wen…

Some of the perks of the job include living in a house on the Sonoma property rent free for one year, $10,000 dollars a month, and THIRTY cases of wine. Some of the other responsibilities that come with the job include hospitality, establishing contacts with some of the other employees, buyers, and …