William Hill is famous for accepting almost any type of bet. The bookmaker has seen no limits of punters’ imagination with some of them expectedly materializing into huge payouts.

Today, we would like to share a list of the weirdest and funniest novelty bets conducted by one of the top online bookmakers William Hill. 

• First-ever “space” bet 
  
  

In April 1964, a bettor named David Threlfall placed a £10 bet at odds of 1001.00 (1000/1) that a human would step onto the surface of any heavenly body distant from Earth before the January of 1970. 

It became the first-ever “space” bet, which started the wave of betting on the same event. Unfortunately for the Hill, Neil Amstrong stepped on the Moon’s surface on 21st July 1969 around a half a year before the bet would have expired. Threlfall received his £10,000 leading the William Hill’s total payouts of £50,000 for the event (around £860,000 today).

• The longest odds ever offered
  
  

Elvis Presley is responsible for the biggest odds ever offered by William Hill. This incredible bet, proposed by the Glaswegian postman, featured Elvis himself crashing the UFO into the Loch Ness, striking the infamous monster. As absurd as it sounds, the bet received 20000001.00 (20,000,000/1) odds.

• Yeti bet
  
  

Chris Bonnington, the famous mountainer, offered William Hill a bet that he would return from his Himalayan expedition with the proof of the “Yeti” existence.