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the OMAD diet, his struggle with near fatal obesity, and claims that he ate his family. Other stories featured the exploits of the world's fattest couple at the gym, the world's fattest baby, and even a similar weight-guessing contest featuring the world's fattest dog. One continuing story featured a morbidly obese man named Buster Simcus who had lost so much weight that it left 80 pounds of loose skin hanging off his body that he was planning to have surgically removed. By the next story, he had regained the weight, severely damaging his scars.
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been abducted and taken aboard UFOs and yet there's not a single verifiable signature of an extraterrestrial being anywhere on Earth," said
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via telepathic e-mail. Several factions of extraterrestrials have been using the moon to dump garbage. Martians have been monitoring the
Mideast crisis. Warrior aliens have been resurrecting the dead, fighting Bigfoot, and training in a mock U.S. town hidden in Antarctica. San Franciscans have opened
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encouraged readers to send in their guesses as to exactly how much they believed Roland weighed. Weighing in at over 576.2 lbs., Roland was featured being weighed and measured and the crew was possibly sat on, by the world's fattest man. Later stories involved
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on April 17, 2004. According to the article, she was at least half human, very sociable, and extremely intelligent; and was able to talk in a sophisticated "three dimensional language" that depends heavily on noises that could possibly be connected to the "click languages" prevalent in parts of
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editor from 1981 to 2001, "About 80 percent of the stories were clipped from newspapers. We had three or four clippers who were surrounded by mountains of newspapers. We spent the day looking at newspapers throughout the world, clipping weird stories. About 50 percent were about people narrowly
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in the immediate future in which many prominent celebrities, politicians, and icons of business would become penniless. The cover story of the June 6, 2005, issue warned that the second Great
Depression was "just weeks away." Because of this, Texas oil tycoons were planning to flee to
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peaked at 1.2 million per issue. The Weekly World News went on to thrive online from 2009 to 2015 and was relaunched in 2019 by Senior Editor and
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510:. Managing editor Eddie Clontz defended his decision to run the photos, claiming that he hoped that such images would deter other murderers. Angry and surprised officials in Florida vowed to catch the person responsible, eventually arresting a low-level employee of the
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created a Bat Boy comic "using celebrities and current events and creating totally absurd and implausible stories and situations for them." In 2011, IDW Publishing released a hardcover collection of Bagge's strips. "SpyCat", created by Dick Siegel, was drawn by
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One of the many other recurring subjects was the occasional "ALIVE!" cover story. Most often the story pertained to some sort of creature such as a mummy, prehistoric creature, or, occasionally, a human who had been frozen in a block of ice (e.g.
471:, man whose pants were on fire at the time. It reported on the discovery of an infant dragon preserved in formaldehyde proving the existence of dragons, although this was later proven to be a hoax. It also quoted Vatican exorcist Father
537:: "We'd say Elvis was still alive and run a picture of what Elvis would have looked like at that time. We'd get dozens of phone calls. If someone calls and says, 'I saw Elvis,' you didn't try to disprove the headline." Derrik Lang, a
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had faked his death and had recently emerged from years of seclusion to prepare for a comeback. Obviously altered photos purported to show a gray-haired, balding Elvis sneaking into a movie theater and coming out of a
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traditionally claimed that it always printed the truth, but many stories appeared to have comedic intent â more so as time went by. As recalled by Joe Berger, a former White House correspondent who served as a
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In August 2019, Greg D'Alessandro took over as CEO/Editor-In-Chief with David
Collins as President/CFO. They relaunched the brand and began developing a number of projects with Hollywood producers.
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column was replaced by the horoscopes of Madame Malisa, and Dotti
Primrose's "Dear Dotti" was supplanted by an advice column called "Hi Dolly" written by a middle-aged Southern blonde woman. The new
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formerly published in a newspaper format reporting mostly fictional "news" stories in the United States from 1979 to 2007. The paper was renowned for its outlandish cover stories often based on
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On March 21, 2021, 'Weekly World News" printed its first full-length print publication in 15 years. "Weekly World News
Greatest Covers" was printed as a limited special edition (5,000 copies).
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650:. Daemon specialized in B-List Monster hunting. "Alien Baby" by Craig Boldman chronicled the adventures of Moogera the deadbeat alien dad, alien baby Ethan, and Stacy, his Earth-born mother.
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campaign in an effort to expand reporting, graphics and video production, as well as to get the tabloid back into print. The campaign was successful in reaching its financial goal.
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was made available via an online paid subscription. The online edition is emailed to subscribers biweekly. The online edition closely resembles the printed
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reported that 12 U.S. senators were aliens from other planets. In response, several senators or their spokespersons humorously "confirmed" the story. One,
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images widely used in the arts. It ceased print publication in August 2007. The company has a library of 110,000+ articles and 300+ original characters.
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and other supermarket tabloids as writing prompts. Two examples: âJealous Husband Returns in the Form of a Parrotâ and âBoy Born with Tattoo of Elvis.â
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1988:"The June 7 edition of the Weekly World News supermarket tabloid alleges that 12 U.S. senators, including William S. Cohen of Maine, are space aliens"
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would shut down. Both times, the claim was interpreted by some as genuine. The second time, Facebook issued an official reply to the technology blog
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later reported that claims of Elvis' (belated) death had been a hoax. In an earlier telling of his story, Weingarten varied some details.
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ran strange-but-true stories, such as "DEVOUT CHRISTIAN ATTACKED â AND HE'S THE ONE FINED!" referring to British street evangelist
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escaping death; someone falling off a cliff, or hanging off a tree branch for four days until they were rescued." The introduction to
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announced the formation of Weekly World News Studios, to develop and produce entertainment projects based on its brand and characters.
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states that one person would read the tabloid for real news, whereas another would read it for the humor. The tabloid's main rival
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featured articles about plans for future terrorist attacks on the United States of America. A 2004 cover story described plans by
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as "The best damn investigative journalism in the country." A publication that told the truth because it was 'a free country.'
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to eventually invade and conquer the United States. Other stories featured profiles on the location and nature of Iraq's
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remained devoted to its original content, refusing to fact-check its way out of a sensational story, or, as Iain Calder,
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were actually women. According to the paper, President Lincoln was insane, and his ghost had also been spotted in the
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for the paper, said that "everything in my stories was fake â you know, depending on how you define fake." Common
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blamed these creatures for holes in the ozone. A Roswell crash survivor, "Altair Bob," made contact with
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of Maine, told the mainstream press, "It is preferable to be a space alien than a space cadet."
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