10 Bizarre Festivals You Won’t Believe Exist

Kristina Kirkaldy | August 24, 2018

Moose Dropping Festival, USA

Yes, you have read the subhead correctly, there is (or was) such thing as an event that is all about moose droppings. The festival – which ran for 37 years – took place in Talkeetna, Alaska. Each year on the second weekend in July, piles of moose droppings were collected in order to be turned into – this is fact – “jewelry and other decorative pieces.”

The remaining droppings are painted and used as a game during the festival, where eager – YES, eager – participants throw said droppings at an attended target, which is tastefully designed as a moose. Now, it’s not all just poop, the festival also had an event where it would put moms to the test. They have to complete a number of tasks within a short period of time such as: splitting wood, baking a pie, and multi-tasking by carrying a doll and groceries across a river.

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