If the name Sylvia Browne rings a bell, you may recall her as the self-described psychic who routinely appeared on The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live. Browne, who died in 2013, wrote that, "In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe..."
Read MoreBorn April 4th, 2012 and affixed with the moniker Tardar Sauce, the mixed-breed dwarf kitten with a perpetually perturbed outer appearance became known to the world at large as Grumpy Cat, an internet celebrity of such ubiquity as to command her own personal brand.
Read MoreMore than a mere way to pad the DVD, movie commentary is sometimes even better than the films themselves.
Read MoreNo one can predict the future, but there are always new technologies on the horizon that will change things. These inventions will be here sooner than you think, so it's best to get yourself and your wallet ready for the next big thing. These will be some of the greatest inventions of 2020.
Read MoreIf you want to thrill and amaze the young ones in your life, just open up as many credit cards as you can find and pick up the Astolat Dollhouse Castle, AKA the most expensive toy in the world. How expensive are we talking? Try "very."
Read MoreKerri Rawson's father was Dennis Rader the BTK killer, whose chilling moniker stood for "bind, torture, kill." Over a 27-year period he killed 10 people. Rawson had known one of them personally: a woman who lived down the street. Here's the untold truth of the BTK killer's daughter, Kerri Rawson.
Read MoreMindhunter is a Netflix thriller series about a small unit of FBI agents who revolutionized the way law enforcement hunts for serial killers by using psychological profiles drawn up by interviewing dozens of incarcerated killers and figuring out how their minds work. But how real is Mindhunter?
Read MoreThere are two kinds of serial killers: those who get caught and those who don't. Some serial killers are smarter than others, eluding capture with an uncanny ability to leave little trace, while others seem to get off through sheer luck. So who is the most dangerous active serial killer in 2019?
Read MoreAmerica has always had a thing about serial killers. We're fascinated by them. And late at night when we hear an unexpected creak somewhere in the house, we kind of worry for a moment that one of those serial killers might be coming for us. So how many active serial killers are in the US?
Read MoreParents might tell their kids monsters don't exist, but serial killers sure do. These real-life monsters prey on us all, and plenty of serial killers have been caught through the years. Here's how several notorious serial killers were finally caught.
Read MoreHoping to stem the spread, organizations and individuals are taking steps to get the hell away from each other. With more postal and parcel services will play a vital role in acquiring food and other necessities and paying rent. But what happens if a package handler catches the coronavirus?
Read MoreWhat started as a local skirmish in Wuhan has now reached global status has now escalated to a point where the World Health Organization has classified the outbreak as a pandemic. Still, while we might be dealing with this particular virus for a while, surely it must die down at some point?
Read MoreThe beginning of spring typically sees a reduction in flu-like infections, but with the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe could we see a late season resurgence?
Read MoreFlorence Nightingale invented the modern nursing profession and changed the course of public health forever. But the woman who did so much to improve health care spent much of her own life sickly, reclusive, and averse to media attention. This is the tragic life of Florence Nightingale.
Read MoreIn March 2020, Afghanistan learned firsthand that the saying "two heads are better than one" doesn't apply to heads of state.
Read MoreOne of the Wild West’s most iconic outlaws, John Wesley Hardin shot down rivals, lawmen, and soldiers, and his real-life story was crazy.
Read MoreThere is, in fact, a verified holder of the record for most world records. Known to the world as Ashrita Furman, he is a pinnacle of human achievement.
Read MoreArt Recovery International founder Christopher Marinello called it "a theft of epic proportions," according to the BBC. In 2019, a pair of men dressed in black ransacked the lavish Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe) at the Dresden Royal Palace.
Read MoreThe deadliest civil war in human history, the Taiping Rebellion broke out in the middle of the 19th century. What started as a small sect of violent Christians quickly transformed into a rampaging army of more than 2 million. And buddy, things got bloody.
Read MoreCode Blue! We have a strange story about thousands of people who dressed as smurfs and gathered in a tiny French village despite the risk of spreading COVID-19.
Read MoreMozart was a genius with a gross sense of humor, an inability to handle money, and a life filled with tragedy right up to his dying moments. Here are a few heartbreaking facts about him you might not know.
Read MorePigs are often viewed through food-colored glasses, but they're more than just the other white meat. Sweet, loyal, and with remarkably human-like intelligence, they make great pets. And when danger strikes, pigs go ham, protecting people they care about from becoming the other dead meat.
Read MoreFew great historic disasters are without precedent, and before the catastrophic Fyre Festival there was the legendary screw up that was Woodstock '99. So what went wrong?
Read MoreMagicians are, by their very nature, big fat liars. That's their whole job -- to confuse the senses and mystify their audience. Their tricks (no, Michael, illusions!) are a series of artistically constructed con jobs designed to make you, the viewer, go "wha?"
Read MoreOn April 26th, 1986, the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at Chernobyl found itself quite unexpectedly exploding. With the irradiated area continuing to bring curious visitors from around the world, the question must be asked: how long will it take for it to shed its pesky radioactivity?
Read MoreIn 1969, Doors front man Jim Morrison was described as a "demonic vision out of a medieval Hellmouth," and "the Sex-death, Acid-Evangelist of Rock, a sort of Hell's Angel of the groin." Despite this, Morrison described his life in Los Angeles as "anonymous."
Read MoreIt's easy to romanticize what life would have been like if you'd only been born a few thousand years earlier. No credit card debt. No student loans. No telemarketers. No need to pine over whether bae has watched your Insta story yet. The Bronze Age was just a simpler time. Simpler, but brutal.
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