History is full of supposedly haunted houses such as The Winchester Mystery House, The Amityville Horror House, and the one in Disneyland where those grim ghosts won’t stop grinning. While many of these haunted houses are famous, few boast the evidence of paranormal activity like an unassuming home nestled snugly […]
On Oct. 13, 1972, a plane carrying 45 passengers, including the Old Christians Uruguayan rugby team, crashed in the Andes between Chile and Argentina. The Uruguayan Air Force flight 571 survivors believed they would be rescued within days. They could not have predicted how long their ordeal would last or […]
Even the weirdest death row last meals make sense, because how do you limit yourself to small fare when you know it’s the last food you’ll ever eat? Serial killers like Steven Michael Woods order as much food as possible so they can make their last meals count. The prisoners […]
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Stephen King didn’t earn the title King of Horror by sticking to safe subjects or shying away from taboo characters. Vampires, children being run over by semi trucks, and a girl dispatching bully classmates with her telepathic powers titillated readers and fans, but never elicited outrage on a large scale. […]
Let’s face it, the very act of sex is weird. And gross. And the reason you exist. And the driving force behind the world’s technology. Human beings have developed some very strange habits, and it’s easy to look at something like, say, nasolingusts (nose lickers) and wonder, simply: why? But […]
Cannibalism has existed throughout history and, in 2023, we learned about many instances of the practice taking place. While a lot of historical sources that contain such stories are written with bias, those same documents create a very grim look at the past. Often, part of that past includes famine, […]
Following in the footsteps of one of his biggest heroes, Antarctic explorer Henry Worsley dreamed of crossing the continent completely on his own, but the voyage ended in tragedy. Inspired by the incredibly tough, competitive, and stubborn explorers of the early-1900s, the Worsley Antarctic expedition of 2015 was an attempt […]
Humanity has endured pretty terrible things in the last 2,000 years, from wars to natural disasters to virulent plagues. But what was the absolute worst time to live in certain countries? Or to put it another way, what events and natural disasters in history should you be glad every day […]
While many of us are used to the comforts of air conditioning and Netflix, our ancestors didn’t get to enjoy such luxuries. They lived off the land, and some survived in the harshest environments on Earth. This can make us wonder – would we be able to survive off the […]
