Harsh Reality is a new regular feature where we take a look at paranormal reality shows that never made it beyond the development phase. Sometimes this happens because a new network head takes over. Other times it happens because deals can’t be reached with the production companies. But most of the time.. it’s because they’re [...]
What follows is a tale of missing persons, hamburger surpluses, roadside breakdowns, small town newspapers, big cable production companies, marriage proposals, drug addiction, irish hobos, mysterious semen stains, and just barely, but triumphantly, pulling off something big.
Yes, this story is one of miracles and what many believers would consider to be proof of divine intervention. But what if science could explain what had happened? What if the parting of the Red Sea wasn’t accomplished by God’s hand but rather a series of events inspired by mother nature?
On tonight’s episode of Ghost Adventures, the vacuous trio headed to Jamaica and searched for the legendary ghost of Annie Palmer, a wicked lady said to have haunted the Great House at Rose Hall – some six miles east of Montego Bay – for nearly two centuries. Also this week, the new issue of The Bent Spoon [...]
A fat man squeezing down chimneys and traveling faster than the speed of light to deliver presents in one night? A half-human, half-diety born from a virgin? Eating petrified fruitcake? You have to admit that Christmas is full of outlandish claims and impossible weirdness. Ever since the earliest celebrations of Christmas, there have been some [...]
In November 1868, a 10-foot-tall mummified man crafted out of stone was planted on William Newell’s farm near Cardiff, New York. It was uncovered almost a year later on October 16 by workers digging a new well. This now-infamous hoax known as the Cardiff Giant perpetrated by tobacco dealer George Hull sprang out of his [...]
Humankind has a tendency to think of itself as superior to other animals, far more intelligent and sophisticated. Watch just one episode of Jersey Shore and you might want to rethink that. But science really does keep showing that we aren’t all that different in so many ways… even how we think. An example of [...]
North America is no stranger to reports of ferocious beasts lurking in the woods. There have been terrifying newspaper accounts of Sasquatch, flying horse-like things (no, not Pegasus; the Jersey Devil), and lake monsters. A whole range of these legendary creatures resemble humans: the Mothman, a half man half frog in southern Ohio called the [...]
