The top strange-but-true news story of 2008 was about a Pennsylvania cat lover, who got a smelly surprise when a neighbour's cat turned out to be a frightened skunk.
Not only did the cat spray the woman, but it also ran into her Mount Carmel home, and it took about several hours for emergency services officials to get the putrid pest out of the house.
Second on Fox News' list of top 10 news was a story about two grammar-conscious vigilantes who were sentenced to probation and banned from national parks for a year, after they defaced a six-decade-old, hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park, while fighting against typos everywhere.
Third top story was about Adolf Hitler's plan to transform Berlin into the "capital of the world", that is a super city dubbed 'Germania', which would have come complete with a vast underground network that would have included roads and a rail system. Above the surface, were plans for a series of huge buildings that would have rivalled the architecture of cities like Paris and Rome.
A standoff between police and a slippery wild simian monkey at Tokyo's Shibuya Station-when commuters snapped photos with their cell phones as about 30 cops made failed attempt to catch the monkey-made the fourth top news.
The fifth strangest story was about a 24-year-old dead man propped upright in the living room of his mother's San Juan home, when a local funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the body standing for his three-day wake.