The following are real strange headlines from various newspapers.

This document layout is copyright 1997-2003 Steven Ward (me).

I would like MORE. So if you have any just drop me a line to the address below.
On Thursday, September 07, 2000 this list exceeded 1000 headlines.

Unlike other headline lists on the web, this list is updated on a monthly basis and where possible I have listed the paper where the headline origniated.

Last modified: Thursday, 16-Sep-2004 14:10:47 BST

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  1. "Flying Rats" Have Bank In Flap -- Irish News.
  2. Face Transplants No Longer Science Fiction -- Reuters headline
  3. Fairies From Outer Space Go Missing On Train To Sunderland -- Sunderland Echo
  4. Fairy Returned Safe And Well -- Middlesborough Evening Gazette.
  5. Fairy Tourists Spark Warning To Children -- Bradford Telegraph & Argus
  6. Fake Condoms Kill Adam And Eve In China
  7. Families Jettison Meals At Table -- Times
  8. Family's Ceiling Leaked Dead Birds
  9. Family Frantic As Mother Is Stolen
  10. Family Issues Ultimatum Over Crater -- Yorkshire Regional Ceefax
  11. Family Of 17 Defects From North Korea
  12. Farm Worker Axed Friends to Death, Court Told -- PA headline
  13. Farmer Bill Dies In House
  14. Farmer Bitten Splitting Dogs
  15. Fatal Mudslide Blamed On Hill
  16. Faulty Parts Bring The World To A Halt
  17. Fayed's Chopper Drives Us Crazy -- Ealing & Acton Gazette
  18. Fears Over Singing Lollipop -- Johannesburg Times
  19. Feds Step Up Laundering Crackdown -- AP headline
  20. Fence Not Keeping Deer From Waltzing -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  21. Ferries Must Stay Afloat In Worst Of Storms, Say Safety Engineers
  22. Few Britons Feel Death Had Lasting Effect On Them -- Johannesburg Star
  23. Fiji Village to Apologize for Eating English Missionary -- AFP headline
  24. Final Funerals In Arkansas -- Daily Telegraph
  25. Fine Young Man Convicted Of Misdemeanor
  26. Fish Around On New Web Sites -- Watford Observer.
  27. Fish Lurk In Streams -- Rochester, New York, Democrat & Chronicle, January 29
  28. Flaming Toilet Seat Causes Evacuation At High School
  29. Fleeing Aliens Denied Entry Into Tanzania
  30. Floods Only Bring More Tears
  31. Florida May Need Disabled Voter Machines -- AP headline
  32. Flowers To Ease Famine -- Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
  33. Fly Genes Mixed into Chicken Soup -- UPI headline
  34. Flying Bishop Pursued -- Guardian
  35. Flying Goats Spark Alarm
  36. Flying Rabbis Try To Ward Off Iraqi Attack -- Daily Telegraph
  37. Food Is Basic To Student Diet --Bridgeport (Cn) Post 1/18/78
  38. Foot Heads Arms Body -- Daily Mirror
  39. For Valentine's Day, Try to Plan Your Spontaneity -- Indianapolis Star headline
  40. Former Manager "Growled Like A Dog" When He Bit Man's Ear -- Irish Times
  41. Former Python To Open Giraffe House -- The News (Portsmouth)
  42. Fossil Scientists Track Down Oldest Footprints In The World
  43. Fox Offers Mexicans An End To Monologue - Financial Times
  44. Free Advice: Bundle Up When Out In The Cold -- Lexington Herald-Leader, January 26
  45. Free Speech For Aliens
  46. French Minister 'Condoned Police Shooting Of Aliens' - Guardian
  47. French Police Suspect Nudist Site Has Something to Hide -- AFP headline
  48. Frequent Handshaking May Be Hazardous to Candidates -- AFP headline
  49. Friends Trade Tattered Card for 49 Years -- AP headline
  50. Frogs Satirize Racial Politics - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  51. Frozen Semen Talks -- from an Australian paper; an article on a visit by the Victorian Artificial Breeders Co-op
  52. Frying Squirrel Blamed for Sunday Power Outage -- Muskegon (Mich.) Chronicle headline
  53. FT Not To Blame For Journalists' Suffering -- Independent
  54. Fuchsia Talks -- Bristol Evening Post
  55. Fund Set Up For Beating Victim's Kin
  56. Fur Flies In Cat Kitty -- Evening News?
  57. Future Bright for Super Stainless Steel -- AFP headline
Many thanks to Richard Edkins, Jon Hall, B G Dorgan and Hawkmoon for submitting quite a few headlines, Andy from Seagate for the trash compacter story, Colin Matthews, Mike Wilson, Jennifer Woodmansee, Newt, Dave Monk, David Cook, Lynda Featherstone, John McBride for informing me of my Googlewhack "Malaysian Gyrator" [ GoogleWhack ], Anna Tickle, Katy Smith, Jim Ness for the Air Head Fired source, Debbie Carter, Terry Shea, Steve Cawood of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo.

Special thanks to [ Randy Cassingham ]

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