The Floridian Abyss: News of the weird from the Sunshine State

04/09/2024

04/08/2024

Florida we get our turn...in 21 years. 🌒

03/28/2024

MEET LOUIE! A 2-year-old raccoon from South Florida has be come the first raccoon to be crowned the 2024 Cadbury Bunny Tryouts winner. MORE: bit.ly/43EECWI

03/27/2024

The skeletons, found in St. Augustine, Florida, likely date to the first decades of the oldest European settlement in the United States

03/18/2024

No ma’am.

A team of trackers found 500 pounds of snake in a South Florida marsh last month, according to the Miami Herald.

03/15/2024

03/11/2024

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/woman-accused-breaking-into-ex-boyfriends-home-tossing-pickled-pork-couch/NB26Z6F7OBCVBIXHCWVSJQ6VY4/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0SlyXy3v2YxKdiHNHxQcBG9enf0R1DUgRzTdFe4kaV2HG3SbfrZyUG980_aem_AdW7Zr2hhbup69zqecACOqkfji-dBl6Yxk2M-4MwRLSPvhhlcAFQPdM3F9PMuRU7mIk

Aukievah Reddick was accused of going hog-wild at her ex-boyfriend's home.

03/08/2024

03/08/2024

02/17/2024

https://www.news4jax.com/news/2018/12/26/florida-man-worried-about-vampires-burns-down-his-house-police-say/?fbclid=IwAR1Atn3wphl5JzklvGQTEGs9WkZLLTrLICB4XQsDwK1CKyUVfiznF7a-yEc

A Daytona Beach man was arrested this week after police said he burned down his own house after screaming about vampires.

02/17/2024

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2021/02/17/florida-woman-stabs-sister-with-epipen-because-shes-allergic-to-drunks-police-say/

A Florida woman stabbed her sister with an EpiPen as the two were drinking together because she’s “allergic to drunks,” according to the Naples Police Department.

02/17/2024

https://www.wptv.com/news/state/florida-man-steals-gator-from-mini-golf-course-beats-it-telling-police-he-was-teaching-it-a-lesson

A southwest Florida man is accused of stealing an alligator from a mini-golf course and repeatedly beating the animal, telling police he was "teaching it a lesson."

02/17/2024

https://wild941.com/2023/04/08/florida-man-whips-out-machete-at-karaoke-night/

A Florida man pulled out an 18-inch machete at a bar after being denied a karaoke song. Brevard County deputies got to Kennedy's Lamp Post Tavern in Cape Canaveral shortly before 2 p.m. and found Travis Jordan with bloodshot and glassy eyes, smelling strongly of alcohol and having trouble standing.

02/17/2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/14/acorn-florida-police-shoot-unarmed/

A Florida officer fired at an unarmed, handcuffed suspect in his own vehicle after hearing an acorn fall on the car and believing it to be a gunshot.

11/03/2023

09/06/2023

A three-legged bear known as Tripod broke into a lanai over the weekend and decided to have a party.

08/27/2023

A shift manager at a Florida Popeyes location said it caught her eye while making preparations at the drive-thru.

07/30/2023

A Japanese hibachi steakhouse in Florida permanently closed its doors after seven customers alleged they tested positive for m**hamphetamine hours after eating at the restaurant earlier this month.

07/24/2023

"Don't send your husbands here to 'pick up Chipotle,'" cautions one Yelp review.

05/28/2023

05/24/2023

ONLY IN FLORIDA! 🦎🚽 Little Godzilla was found hissing in a toilet while in a man’s Hollywood home. No thanks! Credit: John Riddle

05/16/2023

University of South Florida professor Joseph Dituri has spent more than 74 days at an underwater Florida Keys lodge. He's already broken the record for living underwater and plans to stay at Jules' Undersea Lodge until he hits 100 days.