Japanese Woman Fills Dying Village with 300 Dolls, Woman Chases Child with Car, Drunk Bus Driver Caught on Bodycam, Pope Leo Hung Up On by His Own Bank & TikTokers Storm Scientology HQ

In the remote Japanese village of Nagoro, one woman has spent years hand-crafting over three hundred life-sized dolls to represent every person who left or died as the town slowly emptied — placing them in schools, bus stops, and streets so the village looks inhabited. In Spokane, Washington, a woman is arrested after witnesses watch her chase a child with her car for several blocks down a residential street — the child escapes unharmed. In Miami, newly released police bodycam footage shows a university shuttle bus driver pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving — and openly admitting to officers that he absolutely should not have been behind the wheel. Pope Leo XIV calls his American bank to sort out an account issue and the customer service employee hangs up on him, convinced it's a prank call. And in London, groups of TikTok-inspired youths descend on the Church of Scientology's headquarters to sprint inside and see how far they get before being thrown out — videos rack up millions of views. Five stories. All real. All strange. The Daily Strange — where truth is always weirder than fiction.