A mystery ailment has claimed a victim! Weekly World News, the tabloid that for 28 years has chronicled sightings of Elvis, extraterrestrial activity and the exploits of Bat Boy, is no more.

Weekly World News started as a weekly newspaper with its first issue on October 16, 1979, ending publication on August 27, 2007. Its publication resurfaced as entirely online in 2009 through 2015.

Publisher American Media Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will stop printing the Weekly World News tabloid, home of 'Bat Boy,' alien babies and other bizarre 'news' stories.

Some Web sites ask you to sit through television-style commercials. A handful charge for subscriptions. The online version of the Weekly World News tabloid, facing a slump in print sales, just ...

Weekly World News, the tabloid that invented such wacky characters as Bat Boy, is launching an entertainment division.

Weekly World News, a tabloid that screamed in joyous horror for 28 years, is dying with barely a whimper. What will Elvis read as he passes the long, lonely nights up there in Kalamazoo?

Founded in 1979, Weekly World News is a satirical tabloid known for it's over-the-top "reporting" on aliens, cryptids, and the paranormal. A black-and-white mainstay at grocery stores around the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A beacon of shining fake news, Weekly World News, is alive and kicking, much like the infamous Bat Child it exclusively discovered in a cave years ago. (Not sure about his/her ...

Weekly World News, the tabloid magazine hacky stand-up comedians are talking about when they joke about tabloids, will put out its final issue on Aug. 3. Apparently, circulation was on the decline ...

The half-bat, half-human character is just one of 30-odd wacky creations spawned by the erstwhile supermarket tabloid Weekly World News and now up for grabs in Hollywood.

EXCLUSIVE: Weekly World News—the supermarket tabloid behind such wacky characters as Bat Boy, Manigator, P’lod the Alien, Ph.D. Ape and SpyCat—is launching an entertainment division. Weekly ...