For the second time in the past month, a high school in Ireland was visited by an angry ghost or possibly a couple powerful gusts of wind. The original released video from Deerpark C.B.S hit the Internet in early October. The footage shows lockers shaking, papers flying, and random doors slamming at 3 a.m. without …
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An 81-year-old man from Bretten, Germany contacted police in a panic last week. He thought he’d stumbled upon a decades-old bomb in his vegetable garden. It turns out the weapon of mass destruction was a huge dud. According to experts on the scene, it was a zucchini. But an incredibly dangerous looking summer squash. It could …
Earlier this year, I had the chance to once again visit the Coral Reef restaurant in Disney’s Epcot Center. It was exactly how I remembered it as a kid, right down to the odd carpeting and 1970s-inspired decor. It was just a restaurant with a giant fish tank for a while. Sure, it’s fun for …
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The punishment usually always fits the crime. In this case, the punishment probably felt like torture for a Hawaii man who broke a protective order and contacted his ex-girlfriend. “For every nasty thing you said about her, you’re going to say a nice thing,” explained 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo to defendant Daren Young. Young, …
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Here’s a story that’s close to my heart, not just because it’s fascinating, but because messages in a bottle and I have a weird connection. For the past 34 years, Wim Kruiswijk has been combing the coasts of Zandvoort, Netherlands, in search of messages-in-bottles. One wonders how many times can one person come across such …
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This Halloween, we’ve seen 3-story tall AT-AT displays and a zombie car accident but this lawn light show might have won the holiday. It probably also drives the neighbor’s insane. Tom BetGeorge’s over-the-top Halloween light show, perfectly synced to the song, This Is Halloween, from The Nightmare Before Christmas is fun to watch but only …
Pumpkin carving sometimes takes hours, especially if the design is incredibly detailed. These carvers went through “dozens and dozens” of gourds for one purpose – a stop-motion video – that took YEARS to finish. Oh My Gourd is a Halloween stop-motion pumpkin carving experiment of epic proportions. The carving team found hundreds of pumpkins similar …
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In every single major city, space is at a premium. Still, people continue to build monster buildings that take up the little land still available. A company in Helsinki, Finland wants urban planners to rethink the way buildings are constructed and prove that a perfectly livable home can fit into a parking space. Yes, one …
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Earlier this month, we highlighted a UK company that installed over 400 tiles to create a “bent” look in the office. The goal was to keep people from running up and down the hallway. A town in Iceland went the optical illusion route to stop cars from speeding down a business city street. The result …
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In 1922, Albert Einstein traveled to Japan to receive the Noble Prize for physics. The story goes that a messenger visited his room and the physicist didn’t have money for a tip, so instead, he gifted the guy a handwritten note off the desk. Einstein explained to the messenger that “one day the handwritten note …
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