It stands ten feet tall, covered in black and gray fur, and lives in the dense jungles of northeastern India. Villagers have seen it lurking behind the trees and have spotted its claw marks and massive footprints. They call this ape-like creature “mande barung.” Skeptics call it an Asiatic bear or maybe a wild boar rearing on its hind legs. But according to the BBC, new testing of the bizarre hair samples has turned up something even more startling: this creature is neither bear nor boar; indeed, its hair has a “startling resemblance” to those of another mysterious creature… the Abominable Snowman.

Sir Edmund Hillary, the first European to conquer Mt. Everest, had brought back hair samples from an ape-like creature he claimed to have sighted during his adventure. For years, they were stored by a museum in the UK and quietly forgotten.

Then came the discovery of giant “dragon teeth” in the stores of Chinese apothecaries. These teeth were identified as belonging to gigantapithecus: a giant prehistoric ape that had once roamed this area.

Now come the mande barung hairs. Preliminary microscopic testing has been conducted by primate expert Ian Redmond, who noted, “We now know for definite that these hairs do not belong to Asiatic black bear, they do not belong to a wild boar and they do not resemble hairs from various species of macaque monkeys. These hairs remain an enigma.”

Now it’s up to DNA testing to see if the abominable is identifiable…

Somewhere out there are five bodies missing right feet.

The small Canadian island village of Gabriola has been thoroughly creeped out by a morbid discovery — make that, discoveries: five shoe-encased feet that have washed up on its normally peaceful shores over the past year.

While police have DNA’d the severed appendages, they have no matches. Or clues.

Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer told reporters that disarticulated feet occasionally pop up in the oceans, since rotting bodies tend to fall apart at the joints. Rubber sneakers keep them afloat, sole-side up.

But where are the bodes that come with the feet? And why are they all right feet?

No one knows, but the Worldwide Scoop will keep you posted when we find out more.

(Random photo of foot courtesy of Creative Commons.)

You’ve heard of “pipe dreams” — how about “pipe nightmares”?

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to take a leak and finding this in your toilet: the head of a snake. A living snake. Attached to six feet more of living snake.

That’s what the residents of one Australian apartment discovered today: a six-foot-long black-headed python in their toilet. While snakes are not uncommon in the city of Darwin, Australia, they’re not exactly common in apartment plumbing — particularly up on the 10th floor of a high-rise building, which is where this one was found.

A professional reptile catcher was called in to wrangle and capture the serpent. “When I saw it I was pretty shocked,” he said. “I had to give him a wash because he was wet and a bit smelly.” Fortunately, no one was harmed, not even the snake. We can only imagine what could have happened…

If you’re in China this summer, and the heat gives rise to a mighty thirst, just visit one of the local wildlife parks for a nice tall glass of tiger wine…

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For a group of young men in Utrecht, Netherlands, it started out as a lark. On Sunday morning, they decided to run down a commercial street with their pants down, mooning all the passersby. Then one of them saw a temptation he could not resist: a café window…

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Everyone knows that the sight of a woman in heels drives men crazy. Now one scientist claims that those heels may also drive the woman wearing them schizo…

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Not far from Stonehenge, that cryptic stone formation that’s baffled British scientists for centuries, lies an even more mysterious formation…

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Remember when your mother told you not to eat yellow snow? After reading this scoop, you might also want to avoid the fresh fluffy white stuff — particularly the French variety…

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Who says trailer park residents are the only ones who see UFOs? British air traffic controllers have also witnessed unusual lights in the sky — and on the ground…

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