Weird & Strange

For centuries, exorcism stories have terrified the public. Demonic possession can be creepy and dangerous, and over the years, some unexplainable and sinister cases have happened that sound made up, however, many priests and other witnesses were present during the exorcisms and their records and could be enough to confirm that demonic possessions are actually real. Here are some incredibly scary a

Think Paris and Venice are a little too mundane? Tired of going to the same old places? If you really want a romantic vacation and one that neither of you will

In high school, I was a Cobra. That was embarrassing. In college I was a Mariner. That was boring. Then I became a teacher at a school that bore uniforms

When you get to be a big enough celebrity, you’re often asked to endorse things. Sometimes they make sense, like when Michael Jordan tries to sell you overpriced sneakers, or Paris Hilton makes a commercial for herpes. Wait, no, sorry, she actually endorsed cheeseburgers. Serves us right to make assumptions without paying attention to what the ad was selling. Anyway, some celebrity endorsements, l

Ever had a self-appointed linguistic expert regale you with word origin stories that seemed a bit off? The following etymologies have spread well beyond

The Japanese are known the world over for their ingenuity, their inventiveness and their love of the absurd. Chindogu is a concept that combines all of these

Mandela effect was named after Nelson Mandela, a South-African leader. Apparently, a number of people remember clearly his death and funeral in the 1980s. Mandela...

We often look up to famous people because of the fact that they have managed to turn something they were really passionate about into a hugely successful career. Now that they have all the money in the world and are living their dream, you have to wonder about what they do for fun outside of their work and what kind of hobbies they might have. Here are some of the most surprising and unexpected ho

If horror movies are scary and terrifying, can you imagine how it must be to film them? You have to spend weeks on set all day, and the atmosphere and feeling of the scary movie can definitely mess with your head. Some movies are so scary that certain unnatural things happened during filming. Check out some of the most bizarre and terrifying things that happened behind the scenes of some famous ho

Architecture is a difficult profession, and we don’t think for a second we’d be able to just jump right in and do it ourselves. It requires skill, precision, and a whole lot more math than we’ve ever used, and about the closest we’ve ever come is building a few pillow forts. But everyone makes mistakes now and then, and that includes architects and engineers, and the results, quite predictably, ar