Weird but true

They tried to line pockets . . . with sand.

A French couple could face up to six years in jail for allegedly stealing 90 pounds of sand from a beach in Sardinia, Italy.

They were caught with 14 plastic bottles in their SUV.

It’s illegal to remove Sardinia’s famed white sand, but it’s often smuggled out and sold online.

Is there life on Mars, and will it like being photographed?

A rover is set to look for signs of life on the red planet, with the help of an alien-hunting camera.

The British-built ExoMars is set to land March 19, 2021, and will begin scouring the surface for signs of extraterrestrials with a “Pan-Cam.”

Pencil in an “F” for this Texas middle school.

The parents of a black seventh-grader at Berry Miller Junior High in Pearland claim school administrators used permanent marker to fill in designs shaved into their son’s head.

In a civil-rights lawsuit, the parents say it took two days to wash the ink off of their son, who was left “humiliated and shamed” by the incident. She’s not clowning around. A 42-year-old New Jersey woman freaked out when she found a creepy doll of Pennywise the clown in her Harrington Park backyard — burning the toy and then sleeping with a knife.

The creepiest part? The woman said that the doll of Stephen King’s infamous character didn’t immediately catch fire, likely due to a flame retardant on the toy.

Something is drawing tourists to this Ohio house . . . and it’s definitely not the smell.

Countless pilgrims over the last 80 years have flocked to a residence in Canton dubbed the “Miracle house,” which happens to be located next to a garbage dump.

Rhoda Wise — who once claimed she was visited by Jesus Christ and healed of a terminal illness — lived in the house until her death in 1948. Visitors still come seeking their own miracles.