(WIDK By Jane Rouen ) – After 17 years underground, cicadas are beginning to re-emerge.

People around the East Coast are beginning to see lots and lots of cicadas, the noisy, cricket-like insects that remain underground for 17 years and then re-emerge in the billions when the weather gets warm to lay eggs for the next breeding cycle.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – More than 100 horses are feared dead at just one farm after the devastating Oklahoma tornadoes.

Although it is impossible to get an exact count, it is believed that more than 100 horses died at the Orr Family Farm near Moore, Oklahoma, which was directly in the path of the May 20th tornado that hit the Oklahoma City area with the power of up to 600 nuclear bombs.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) - It was not business as usual at LAX customs this week.

The dead body of a Macaque monkey, elephant meat and hundreds of handbags made out of exotic reptile skins were among the more unusual and illegal items confiscated by U.S Customs this week at Los Angeles International Airport this week.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – A Florida man caught the longest Python in the world.

In Miami-Dade County, Jason Leon, an amateur snake collector, caught and killed the longest Burmese python ever recorded — the massive 128-lb snake measured 18 feet, 8 inches long.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) - Amid the horror and mayhem of the Oklahoma tornadoes, Jessica Wilkinson cared about saving one precious thing, her dog.

Jessica Wilkinson searched through the destruction of her Norman Oklahoma home before finding the one things that really mattered to her — Bella, her pet terrier.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) - Pig waste has been exploding around the Midwest, and scientists aren’t sure why.

30 to 40 mysterious fires and explosions have occurred on pig farms around the Midwest, one of them powerful enough to destroy an entire barn, killing 1,500 pigs.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – Bigfoot hunters claim that they may have found thermal evidence of the elusive creature in the woods of Northern New Mexico.

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), who claim to be the only scientific organization in the world hunting Bigfoot, say a video shot by high school students exists displaying a grainy thermal image that appears to show a 7-foot tall figure walking along a ridge line in the forest of Valles Caldera, a volcanic crater in the Jemez mountains in northern New Mexico.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) - An Ontario man’s breakfast is interrupted by 400-pound black bear who wanted him for breakfast.

Joe Azougar, 30, could already feel the 400-pound black bear’s teeth on his scalp when two women, whom Azougar calls “his angels,” scared the beast away.
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