OhMyGod ... The "Weekly World News" roleplaying game!

[Wombat]

I have a friend who has written several stories for them.

...whoah...

Another connection between us!

Your friend didn't happen to be a male English BA student from a college in New Hampshire...?

He loved writing for WWN for a while, but he was scared by all the people who wrote in who actually believed the stories...

 

[VirgilCaine]

I like the paper, it's hilarious.

They had a "demon, killed in action in Iraq by U.S. military" story once. WITH PHOTOS! Of course, it was only a plastic skeleton with small horns attached. You could tell the skull was plastic because of the sheen on the skull.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Heh! I actually ran the old TSR Amazing Engine - Tabloid game a few times, it was great fun.

For yet more inspiration try to find Mark Sumner's News from the Edge series of books. (Monster of Minnesota, Insanity Illinois, Vampires of Vermont.)

The Auld Grump, and of course Weekly World News itself...