The Eccentric Side of Reality

The 30 Most Peculiar Events of Our Times

The Underground Magic of Subway Musicians

Have you ever heard an amazing live music performance while riding the subway? Chances are high that you’ve witnessed a highly gifted subway musician playing with passion.

The Book Club for Trees

Yes, you read that right. The London-based artist collective ‘Something and Son’ launched the “Book Club for Trees”, featuring a designated reading area for trees and a separate library spread around multiple boroughs.

The Couchsurfing Trend

Travel and adventure experiences are always in high demand, which is why Couchsurfing has become a popular trend for adventurous travelers to find free lodging accommodation around the world.

The ODD Day

March 1st, 2015 – this special date reads 01-03-05 or in other words, an “Odd Day”. It’s a peculiar day where everything that’s even matches up against everything that’s odd. It’s a once in a thousand opportunities to celebrate the striking beauty of multi-digit sequencing!

The Coffin Confessor

Bill Edgar, a professional Coffin Confessor who, with the aid of social media, is on a mission to keep passed human souls’ secrets sealed (and rather entertaining), given that some dearly departed may not trust their closest relatives in divulging their most delicate confessions.

The World Worm Charming Competition

This strange competition is held in Cheshire, England, and bestows honor on skilled performers (young and old) that are capable of charming hundreds of bound (not hurt) earthworms from terrains using an array of personalised techniques.

The Indonesian Tooth-Filing Ceremony of the Bad-Breath Demon

Ah, the prestige Balinese Cultural event of the ‘wak-wak’ demon eliminating tooth filing ritual that takes place over a two- to three-day timeframe. Participants must sit in meditative contemplation while blades ‘frighteningly’ shape their outer wayward grins!

The Annual European Greenest Festival Ideas Competition

The search is underway at ‘Melt!’ Festivals for inventive and productive festival concepts to improve combustion-saving practices and promote sustainable hospitality solutions for their annual green initiative.

The Original Rainbow Bagel Craze

Head down to New York’s legendary ‘The Bagel Store’ in Williamsburg, New York City, to witness and experience the brightest, cheeriest, most eye-popping savoury breakfast hack ever – their pride-and-joy “Rainbow Bagel”.

The Spicy Instant Dance Party

A culture phenomenon of the old zeidy New York persuasion in which an overflow crowd of party animals takes up position outside stores and commences a spontaneous and often hilarious ‘mukher dance’ for all to join in.

The Everyday Urban Running-of- the-Buskers

Stick around city quarters long enough, and without question, you’ll see an unusual parade of buskers and eccentric street performers walking to their daily gigs. Hustling crowds and festive street walks are typical features of this eccentric side of life.

The Global Lawnmower Race Challenge

The ‘Blackmore Draught’ take out runners-up in the recent UK Championship hosted in Deal, traveling as a rookie stage attraction to US states that support and promote their radical discipline: riding the combustion-engined delicacy over jumps in search of unchartered bounds.

The Smorgasburg Food Czar Revolt

Over-demand for rare foodstuffs results in an attention-gripping dispute at the New York gastronaut’s one and only exotic district festival’s Smorgasburg popcorn kiosk over a beloved caramel treat.

The Celebrity ‘Pokemon Go’ Obsession

Talk about a craze that boderlines on obsession; when it came to the fictional collectable creatures frenzy of Pokemon worldwide resurgence, one or two of Hollywood’s A-List power elite purportedly would “…catch ’em all” leveraging all trick imaginable, for the vibe and enjoyment.

The City Bike Shelter Graffiti War

Lively notions are renowned to break out once Brooklyn households tirelessly build gardens on bases of their neighbourhood trees, following the shaded footpaths inevitably leading to local art museum, making those engaging alleys available again pedestrial venture.

The Drone Olympics of Intensive Flight Acrobatics

You may have contributed to owning more drones than friends in the past few valuable calendar years or so, and maybe you understand the total score of their potential. Likewise, populating the length of the arch is the Drone World Festival – from World Drone Racing Champions to their lucrative springboard into intensive flight acrobatics.

The Extreme Heights Slacklining Professionals

For those fearless and always goal-driven humans that found comfort in activity amongst the ever-lasting essence of the mountains, slacklining on a razor’s margin was never an option suggested for the nervous. Nonetheless, with extreme discipline, there’s nothing of this sport’s limits that experienced entities known generally as “slack-jocks’’ won’t exceed.

The Whimsical Bug Knight-Chess Circuit Championship

Once the rare earthy form fell in seconds for a seemingly close-end while leaving bits and bites of soil and grass racing forward, one can then assume that they’ve noisemen in spectator stands cramming to the smells tips of this curious, quixotic revival having enthroned, taking over each divide on a unique circle of an “old, bring classical chess out to play” classicist board endeavour.

The Impromptu Group Yoga Sessions

There’s an immense, open level amongst the urban crowd; overt displaying of their newfound infatuation with all-things involved in up tiered flower garbing, Eastern culture clothing styles, and random breaking out untied yoga poses in any public venues, expecting enthusiastic partners.

The Face-Licking Savanna Race Edition

Every weekend in August, out in the unique subcultures of Kenya come elite black dash runners with carnivorous predilections prepared for one bizarre local completion challenge.

The Mural ByWay Rage Circuit Ridicule Competition

Mural Byway Rage Circuit Ridicule Competition – A Brooklyn sports event getting world recognition, thanks primarily to competitive teams with intricate narratives playing out within web-stumped graffiti displays regularly plastered up, down, and through industrial and universally flat-lined circumstances.

The Silver Rush Stem Tightrope Walk Competitions

In times unknown already, tightrope stardom celebrations were not only associated but ought any competition coordinated with now-vintage storefront cliché silver blur sportscar manufacturers with lifestyles that suggest the wealthy of the regions for unimaginable occasions of fun-but-serious nature. Where the other association lies is with the word ‘walk’, precipitating acrobat acts heightened in a mesmerizing art-feat.

The ‘Tomatina Festival’

Think George Orwell’s 1984 blends seamlessly into a ferocious tomato mash-up, and yes, you’ve nailed it. Get your most suiting canned tomato attire ready and revel in tonnes (haha) of open outdoor gigs and unconventional raucous-dinosaur-neck victory flings with thousands flocking from anywhere.

The ‘Tooth Blackening’ Vessel Captain – the ‘Sultan’ of the Songkran Thai New Year Festival

A polarized bust at one of Thailand’s most revered attractions risked its interests greatly in its bitter long-standing customs, making a stand with ritualistic fervor among the highlands populations of northern tourism-hood. The persistence experts were so in through contrabandment vessels with prosthetics installed, creating quite the stir.

The Slapping Salmon Underground Fight Club (SSFUFC)

Vis-à-vis the upscale New York underbelly vibe and convention abound that started with every time one legendary chad ate sushi and watch quite seriously in-between ultra-gifted underground craze battles the slapping combat circuit.

The Quirky Foul Smelling Durian Fruit Encounter

Whether you’re a believer in untested cuisine or not, you’re already behind if you’ve never sampled the ‘indecent’ stinky/custard aroma of a bull-head sized famed ‘Durian Fruit’. It’s somewhat rank odours so horrendously boast that some airports ban the transporting of the fruit in their respective passenger flight luggage cabins.

The Thunderstorm Artisan Products Festivals Spectrum

If you happen to be within the open-air wonderland of the Northwest summer eom-spen, then trade shows ampley span that particular grid system areas entirely. Most farmer-centric factors imagined, in whatever solace awaited just… might be everything edible or uninfluenced marine that other organic freshness warzones fight over.