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Brenda Willison, a town crier in Newmarket, Suffolk, England, now holds two Guinness World Records titles: loudest town crier (female) and loudest shout by an individual (female), Guinness World Records announced. On Sept. 9 she cried "oyez" at 105.9 dB (C-weighted), which Guinness compares to standing next to a snowblower or a blasting car horn. She said she had a cold and expects she can get louder.

She has been a town crier since 1987, when the Peterborough paper advertised for one. Unknown to her, her daughter wrote in that if Willison shouted "chips" outside one café at the country park where she worked, people could hear it at the other, a mile and a half away. Since then, Guinness says, she has cried at Buckingham Palace for the Queen Mother's 100th birthday and Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, and at the bridge over the River Kwai in 1995.

Glenwood Hoskin Jr., a 60-year-old retired tax officer, watched 1,207 films in one year at his local Regal cinema in York Haven, Pennsylvania, Guinness World Records announced, an average of 3.3 a day. That beats the previous record of 777, set by Zachariah Swope, for the most films seen in a cinema in one year. His year ran from April 2024 to April 2025.

Hoskin told Guinness he checked the listings each day and watched from early morning until midnight. He started in spring hoping to pass 777 before winter because "I hate driving in the winter," and a mild Pennsylvania winter let him keep going. Cartoons were his favorite, partly because they are shorter, and he enjoyed hearing audiences laugh at jokes he had already heard many times. He said he couldn't take on the separate record for seeing the same film the most times, because most films left his cinema for streaming too quickly.

A sculpture of La Catrina, the elegant skeleton of Day of the Dead imagery, standing in Mexico City's main square is now the Guinness World Records holder as the tallest Catrina monument, Popular Science reports. At nearly 110 feet, roughly 11 stories, the steel-and-fiberglass figure tops the 92.3-foot Catrina built in Puerto Vallarta in 2023.

About 140 people assembled it. Her purple dress is more than 88 feet long, and the ofrenda (memorial altar) around her is surrounded by an estimated 70,000 marigold plants grown in the Xochimilco borough. Day of the Dead is observed on Nov. 1 and 2.

Claude P. Moore of Detroit holds the Guinness World Records title for the largest rubber band ball: 5,251.69 kg (11,578 lb), measured at Belle Isle in Detroit on Aug. 29, 2026, according to Guinness. UPI reported the record this week. It beats Florida man Joel Waul's 9,032-pound ball from 2008.

Guinness says Moore spent much of his childhood in and out of hospitals being treated for hemophilia, and making rubber band balls passed the time between appointments; in middle school he made one "as big as a chair" before a classmate stole it. In 2015 coworkers challenged him to build a massive one. It outgrew his garage and moved to a storage unit, and in August dozens of helpers rolled it out and a crane lifted it for the trip to Belle Isle, UPI reports. Moore told Guinness the record is a first step toward a bigger goal: ending world hunger.

Luceros y Penumbras ("Starlight and Shadows"), a pop-up book in the rotunda of the Los Angeles Central Library, is officially the largest pop-up book of all time, Guinness World Records announced. It was made by Los Angeles artist Daniel González for the library's centennial, with paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart.

The cover measures 15.41 by 20.01 feet and opens into a scene about 31 feet wide, with designs up to 11 feet tall. It weighs 1,800 lbs and uses ordinary book materials: paper, adhesive and fabric. Turning a page takes a team of 10 people with extra-large sticks. Its two spreads show the library emerging from the night sky and a "Tree of Wisdom." A team of 35 built it, in sections so it would fit through the library doors. It is on free display.