•In 1993, it featured a front-page photo, shot from a low-flying plane, of the Lake Erie Monster – a 200-ton, "dinosaur-like" leviathan – slicing a 38-foot sailboat in half.

•Five years ago, it revealed that Cleveland was being invaded by superaggressive Brazilian cockroaches "as big as kittens," which were eating bread by the loaf and were suspected of devouring 168 local dogs and cats.

•It disclosed that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum was a spirit-channeling pyramid through which a psychic was picking up new songs being co-written by George Harrison, Roy Orbison and John Lennon.

And only WWN reported that an Amish horse-and-buggy team had qualified for the Kentucky Derby.

I loved this paragraph in the story...

"The paper then billed itself as "The World's Only Reliable Newspaper" and a "journal of information and opinion." In 2004, however, it began noting that "the reader should suspend disbelief for the sake of enjoyment."