For his radio play Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas invented a village called Llareggub. Everyone thought it was authentically Welsh until, after the broadcast, someone read the name out backwards.

In Miami, a thief broke into a sneaker store and took 20 shoes," Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon reported in 2022. "But when he got out, he realized he only stole the left sneakers."

In 2022, a cargo ship got stuck in the mud, grounded off the coast of Maryland in Chesapeake Bay. Comedians had a field day with the vessel's name... the Ever Forward.

On the set of The Hunger Games in Hawaii, a boulder came loose, rolled down a mountain, and wrecked the sound booth. "The Hawaiians were like, 'Oh my god, it's the curse!'" recalled Jennifer Lawrence, who'd been rubbing on the rock to relieve an itchy bum. "I'm around the corner going, 'I'm your curse - I wedged it loose with my ass!'"

Ellen DeGeneres got bumped from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson because "Robert Goulet was singing 'Memories,' and kept forgetting the words."

Because the killer in Halloween wore a William Shatner mask, Shatner wore one trick-or-treating with his grandkids. Once, when a man answered, "I leered at him with the mask, and then I yanked it off, and I stared at him. He screamed and shut the door."

Since the studio where Aerosmith recorded "Sweet Emotion" had no maracas, Steven Tyler cranked up the microphone and made the sound with a sugar packet.

After trashing the ref over a disputed goal in a 1930 World Cup game, a U.S. trainer treating an injured player delighted the crowd when he threw down his bag, broke a bottle of chloroform, fainted from the fumes,
and was carted off by his team.

When prankster DJs said a stealth fighter had landed at an Iowa airport, 10,000 people went to look. When callers complained, the DJs said the plane could only be seen "if you move your head back and fourth like a chicken and try to catch a glimpse out of the corner of your eye." Many people were trying this when the police arrived.

In 1979, a woman who jumped from the Empire State Building was blown back inside by a sudden gust of wind.