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The Cyber Fiction Saga of Horse_Ebooks and Pronunciation Book

92.9 The Torch | February 9, 2025

The early 2010s witnessed two enigmatic internet mysteries: the Twitter profile Horse_eBooks, and the Youtube channel Pronunciation Book. Over the following years, these two gradually became stranger, eventually coalescing into a reveal which was more bizarre than any could have anticipated. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/atrocityguide Twitter: https://twitter.com/AtrocityGuide Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AtrocityGuide/ Orbis Obscura: https://www.reddit.com/r/orbisobscura […]

NEWS & CULTURE

The Throne of James Hampton

92.9 The Torch | February 6, 2025

A throne room, built from garbage and wrapped in aluminum foil, was discovered in a storage unit in 1964, Washington DC. Accompanying it, was a holy text written in an unrecognizable language. Together, these works make up James Hampton’s “Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly.” […]

NEWS & CULTURE

The Man Who Lived in an Airport for 18 Years

92.9 The Torch | February 5, 2025

Beginning in the late 1980s, a man who went by the name “Sir Alfred” lived on a red bench inside a pre-departures terminal of Charles de Gaulle international airport in Paris for eighteen years. To this day, no one is sure why. Merch: atrocityguide.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/atrocityguide Twitter: https://twitter.com/AtrocityGuide Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AtrocityGuide/ […]

FUNNY STUFF

JD Vance’s Bizarre Migrant Hoax Gets Roasted by Late Night Writer Jeff Wright

Late Night with Seth Meyers | January 14, 2025

Late Night writer Jeff Wright takes a moment to share his opinion about JD Vance’s claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing and eating pets. Late Night with Seth Meyers. Stream now on Peacock: https://bit.ly/3erP2gX Subscribe to Late Night: http://bit.ly/LateNightSeth Watch Late Night with Seth Meyers Weeknights 12:35ET/11:35c […]

NEWS & CULTURE

The Internet’s Self-Taught Soldier

92.9 The Torch | January 7, 2025

From 2011-2012, a poster from the Something Awful forums taught himself emergency medicine, purchased combat gear, and flew to Libya and Syria in order to document and fight in two civil wars. This is the story of Kevin Dawes. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/atrocityguide Twitter: https://twitter.com/AtrocityGuide Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AtrocityGuide/ Sources: NPR Interview: https://www.npr.org/2011/10/24/141646227/u-s-aid-worker-took-up-arms-with-libyas-rebels GQ […]

WEIRD

The Joke That Corrupted Europe’s Currency

Qxir | October 10, 2024

One of the world’s foremost currencies has a stickman on the back – but why? “The euro (symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the […]

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