Weird BUT true

German police have launched an investigation into the disappearance of a large wooden sculpture of a phallus from a mountainside where it mysteriously appeared several years ago.

The nearly 7-foot-tall sculpture appeared to have been chopped down over the weekend. Only a small pile of sawdust was left behind on the Gruenten mountain.

Hawaii is offering free round-trip tickets to former residents, as well as out-of-staters who want to work remotely from the islands.

The program, dubbed “Movers and Shakas,” is seeking those who are passionate about Hawaii and who have “the skills and willingness to contribute to the local community,” officials said.

A shaka is a friendly Hawaiian gesture involving the thumb and pinky.

An Australian diver had a terrifying run-in with a hammerhead shark — but fought it off with the GoPro he used to record the incident.

Dion Creek said he was diving on Magpie Reef off Princess Charlotte Bay in Queensland when the shark swam toward him.

Creek repeatedly shoved the predator with his camera to repel it.

A collection of Ice Age paintings — dubbed “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients” — has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest.

The prehistoric rock art was discovered last year by a British-Colombian team of archaeologists, who unearthed tens of thousands of 12,500-year-old paintings while exploring in Columbia.

The discovery was kept secret ahead of the BBC Channel 4 series “Jungle Mystery: Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon,” which premieres next month.

Two elderly exotic birds in need of special care were stolen from a California zoo over the weekend.

The hunt is on for the birdnapper who cut a lock at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s Australian Asian Aviary exhibit Sunday and stuffed the two threatened-species birds into a duffel bag before fleeing.