Possible Clues:

• Fodder for Ripley's column
• 'Space --', a David Bowie chart-topping single in 1975
• Strange or unusual person or thing
• Curio
• Broken toy did strange thing
• Curiosity moving friend ultimately to DIY
• “Then came the Tin Woodman, named because of the ____ of a Woodman made of Tin” (L Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz)
• Peculiarity; phenomenon
• Having headless torso outside, Nancy's said: 'This isn't normal!'
• Rare bird