Ben Hooper

Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Authorities in Indiana spent four hours searching unsuccessfully for two lions reported to be on the loose in the area of Madison and Hancock Counties.

Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Three men jumped onto a massive airbag on a body of water in Switzerland and launched a fourth man to a record-breaking height of 92.58 feet in the air.

Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A South Carolina man wound up receiving the perfect gift on his wedding anniversary: a $100,000 lottery jackpot.

Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A Virginia doctor shared the unusual story of how she recently woke up in her home to find a bat attempting to get into her mouth.

Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Three Patagonian maras, rodents closely related to capybaras and guinea pigs, were safely recovered after escaping from a Netherlands zoo.

Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush bested his own title for balancing toilet paper on his head by keeping 254 rolls in the air.

Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A mysterious island estimated to cover an area of over 105,000 square feet appeared in a British Columbia reservoir before disappearing just as enigmatically.

Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Firefighters in California were called out to a local tree to rescue a pet parrot that flew up to a high branch and was stranded for multiple days.

Aug. 31 (UPI) -- An Ohio man credited his lucky number -- 13 -- with inspiring the purchase that earned him a $1 million prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket.

A pair of metal detecting hobbyists found a class ring at a New York lake that turned out to have been lost during a day on the water 28 years earlier.