Undead Elvis and the two-headed boy: The world’s weirdest tabloid is on Google Books

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by Sindy Cator on July 14, 2015 at 11:17 am

Google Books is a treasure trove of interesting material but it’s just got its most incredible cache of madness: The archives of the Weekly World News. Marilyn Monroe x JFK = Tabloid gold for The Weekly World News The sensationalist supermarket tabloid was one of the strangest publications in the world, specialising in stories about aliens, human oddities and the supernatural. Toilet haunted by a plumber’s ghost – The Weekly World News It was published in print from 1979 until 2007 and lives on as a rather disappointing online-only publication. The trouble is, even a legendarily loopy newspaper can’t match the true strangeness…