Just say no to neti pots. Not only do they look ridiculous (yeah, we get it, they’re really funny), but if you live in Louisiana, you could die from using one without taking the proper precautions. Louisiana officials warned this week that you might want to hold off on pouring the state’s tap water into [...]
A Minnesota resident, Lisa Nasseff (31) is suing Castlewood Treatment Center in Ballwin for allegedly treating an eating disorder with psychotropic drugs and hypnosis. Nasseff spent 15 months between 2007 to 2009 in the care of psychologist Mark Schwartz at the center for treatment of anorexia. It was there where Nasseff claims, Schwartz brainwashed her [...]
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 [...]
There’s something strange said to be found along the road found within two square miles of rugged woodlands in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. That’s where you can find a little spot known by the locals as Zombie Land. And in the center of the United States lies a much more infamous abandoned street just outside of [...]
On the outskirts of Pittsburgh, near where Piney Fork empties into Peters Creek, there’s an old neglected railroad tunnel covered in graffiti and filled with road salt. It was built in 1924 as the Piney Fork Tunnel to service coal mines along the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Peters Creek Branch. Abandoned since 1962, the locals have given [...]
There are very few television shows I’ll actually make it a habit to watch, but one of them is Ancient Aliens. I find it rather interesting and entertaining; you can discover a lot of interesting places and history by watching, but there are a lot of connections made by taking galactic-sized leaps between civilization and [...]
Last Wednesday in Ghana, Africa, soldiers at the Dog Training Academy in the Accra suburb of North Dzorwulu were shocked to find an elderly naked woman lying on the ground between two piles of stones within the military compound at 7:00 AM. Without any signs of forced entry and no conceivable answer among the soldiers [...]
