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The Salish Sea is a beautiful body of water between Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Yet, there’s a gruesome phenomenon has been taking place beneath the rugged cliffs and lush forests. Severed human feet, still in shoes, keep washing up the shores of the Salish Sea. More than 20 feet have been found around …
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We think Germany might need some help. Not only are their railroads in a complete tangle while radioactive boars encroach on southern German towns but there’s yet another problem threatening to get out of hand. It’s raccoons. Hordes of them. Germany’s raccoon population has exploded in the past couple of decades. The crafty, adaptable furballs …
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Picture yourself walking into a dark room and turning on the lights — only to see corpses strewn all over the floor. What would you do? Well, upon spotting multiple unmoving bodies in a candle-lit cafe, with an eerie character sitting in the middle of them, a British couple called the police. Which is probably …
Continue reading “Suspected ‘Ritual Mass Murder’ Turns Out to Be a Yoga Class”
Space is a scary place in general, but perhaps the most terrifying thing out there is black holes. You can barely observe them until you’re caught in their enormous gravitational pull and compressed into the infinitely dense singularity at their center. Their gravity is so strong that nothing can escape them — not even light. …
Continue reading “Black Holes Are Farting Remnants of Eaten Stars into Space — And No One Knows Why”
Picture a herd of wild boars charging at you from a forest. That’s scary enough on its own, but what if the boars were also highly radioactive? You might wonder which post-nuclear-apocalypse movie we’re talking about. The thing is, though, this isn’t science fiction. It’s just life in Germany. The central European country is currently …
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Taking your dog out for a car ride is just fun. They’re just so cute with their head stuck out the window and ears flapping in the breeze. It’s not just dogs that enjoy an occasional Sunday drive, though. Bigger animals can like them too. Much, much bigger. Nebraska cops recently pulled over a man …
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Have you read Dying Woman Asks Husband to “Sleep With Her Ex”: Part One? Follow that link if you want to, because this is part two. “She gave a whole monologue about how sex sometimes is just physical and how emotionally fulfilling sex is with me but it was bulls**t to get to that point.” …
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You know that (in)famous bee scene in the Nicolas Cage version of Wicker Man? The one where he screams incoherently while having bees poured all over him? Well, if you had ever wanted to recreate that scene, you just missed a golden opportunity. A Canadian road in Burlington, Ontario, had to be closed on August …
Continue reading “Not the Bees! — 5 Million Bees That Fell Off a Truck Force Road Closure in Canada”
Many things can lead to depression. Loss of a loved one, continued hardships, substance abuse, or physical imbalances in brain chemistry can all lead to a person losing all joy in life. We can now add a new potential cause to the list. A 15-year-old Taiwanese girl had been seeing doctors for a while because …
A couple of months ago, we brought you the story of how Pokémon cards led to the arrest of a serial bomber in Maryland. Now, the cards featuring pocket-sized monsters are once again at the center of a crime case. One thing is different, though. This time, the crook appears to be a police officer. …
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