10/9/2026
Weekly Weird News · strange-cases
The Story Behind the Infamous Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter
In 1989, Weird Al Yankovic included a song called "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" on his album UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff. The song was not in the movie, and was never released as a single. But it referenced a real story. In 1950, Francis A. Johnson of Darwin, Minnesota, started collecting sisal twine from hay baling. He rolled it into a ball that became enormous, and made the papers. But then Frank Stoeber of Cawker City, Kansas, decided to give Johnson a
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