They were obviously under a bad spell.

Officials in Webster, Mass., did some research and admitted that for years they’d been misspelling their local body of water, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

They had made a mistake by inserting an “o” for a “u” at the 20th letter and an “h” for an “n” at the 38th position of the 45-letter name, the longest of any geographical location in the nation.

In case you’re wondering, the lake was named by a local Indian tribe and means “fishing place at the boundary.”

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Two Pennsylvanians decided to set a world record by sending each other 217,000 text messages in a month. They succeeded but then one of them got a phone bill for $26,000.

Nick Andes said he had thought he’d be OK because he was on an unlimited-messaging plan. The phone company says it’s investigating.

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Talk about a Wonderbra!

A 57-year-old Detroit woman was saved from a stray bullet when it deflected off the underwire of her brassiere.

“It slowed the bullet down,” said a police spokesman. “She sustained serious injuries but they’re not life-threatening.”

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Maybe there is too much violence on TV.

A 911 call reporting gunshots and screaming had cops in Bartlett, Tenn., racing to a home only to find that a neighbor had been blasting the TV with his windows open.

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Monkey see, monkey do, monkey get back in your cage.

A circus simian named Reggie, on the lam for six weeks in Florida, was finally recaptured with the help of junk food.

Residents of a trailer park were able to lure him with Coca-Cola, potato chips and Twinkies until the circus owners got there to take him in.