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Yesterday, February 2, was Groundhog Day. You know how the thing goes — a groundhog comes out of its hole and if it sees its shadow, winter goes on for six more weeks. But what happens if the groundhog is too busy being dead to see anything ever again? Well, we’re about to find out. …
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Could you live on a cruise ship? Imagine it! Where do you live right now? Chances are, like “most of us” you live in one location and you sometimes go on vacation. For Angelyn and Richard Burk, living on a cruise ship makes financial sense, as it’s cheaper for them than paying a mortgage. They …
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Gas stations are often not the most hygienic places, whether inside or outside. You can often expect to find trash, used contraceptive devices, and other gross stuff in and around them. But you’d never expect to find dismembered human genitalia. Sadly, that was the shocking discovery made in Alabama. Police officers were called to a …
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Ever left home to take something somewhere but when you arrive at your destination, you just can’t find the darn thing? You could swear you packed it in your car but it’s just nowhere to be found. Well, Australia is now dealing with that — only on a much, much more serious scale. As if …
It’s been a bit rainy in Australia recently. So much so, in fact, that some areas of the country are seeing “once in a century” floods. The rushing waters have caused plenty of damage to both infrastructure and people. But there’s also another unpleasant side effect. They’re leaving huge hordes of fish dead and rotting …
Continue reading “Australians Want to Give Carp Herpes After Floods Wash Thousands of Fish on Beach”
There are few things worse than finding out someone’s swiped your credit card info. It can happen if you buy something from a shady website or use a compromised ATM, for example. But you’d never suspect your goldfish could be behind the crime. Unlikely as that seems, it happened. The residents of a Japanese YouTuber’s …
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Remember in “Tiger King” when everyone thought that Carol Baskin was her ex-husband’s killer? Who didn’t watch Tiger King at the height of COVID, or has at least heard of it? Turns out that Carol never killed her husband at all, and this is the story. Baskin’s dead husband isn’t dead at all, yet very …
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Waiheke Island is an idyllic vacation destination off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island. It enjoys a reputation as a paradise on Earth — if you can afford to travel there. But there’s a strange mystery happening on Waiheke. The island’s residents have been haunted by a bizarre occurrence for almost a year. Somebody …
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Did you read Woman Arrested for Fake Cancer Fundraiser: Part One? Because this is part two. Madison shared her fake cancer story publicly, not only on social media and on a Go Fund Me page, but was also highlighted in the North Scott Press newspaper on Oct. 18, 2022, where she gives the story of …
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After creating a fake cancer fundraiser, Madison Marie Russo, 19, was arrested Monday mourning, January 23rd. She’s facing fraud charges in regard to an online fundraising campaign she started for herself. For a disease that she never had. Police say that Russo’s health records don’t substantiate any of her public claims of ongoing cancer treatments. She …
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