In general, don't meet bears. They really don't want to meet you, either. They're predators, and they get hungry, and while many bears are omnivores (consuming anything from berries to grubs to you), any port in a storm when you're hangry.
Read MoreThere are tales of a real life vampire... and it's not who you think.
Read MoreWhen you're on set of a horror flick, it's easy to get carried away with eerie occurrences that happen. Here are some creepy tales of movie set ghosts.
Read MoreMaybe it's just that splitting your time between being a rock god and serving as a sun damaged Jack Sparrow life model doesn't leave room in your schedule for discerning personal choices, but Steven Tyler has had a couple "incidents" in his past.
Read More'Sean was the product of love,' John Lennon is reported to have once told a young Julian. 'You were the product of a whiskey bottle.'"
Read MoreIt's one of the older scams going (and it's still very much going): psychics.
Read MoreYou just don't hear about organizations like the Special Operations Executive anymore. Or their mission to beat the Nazis with exploding rats.
Read MoreApparently there's a relatively wide-spread rumor going around that not only has NASA shifted the calendar, but has added a new sign to the traditional 12-sign lineup of the zodiac (which, to be clear, is astrology).
Read MoreOne of the strangest and most unique crimes in history was a bank robbery that became known as the Pizza Bomber. In happened in 2003, but it just got weirder and weirder as the years went on, and there are still some unanswered questions, too. This is the crazy real-life story of the Pizza Bomber.
Read MoreTrent Reznor of the Nine Inch Nails has had an extraordinary career. And his net worth reflects that.
Read MoreWhen founder, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist Glenn Frey died at the age of 67 in 2016, his son Deacon stepped up.
Read MoreRadioactive takes a few liberties on its way to present a true, if not entirely factual, sense of an historical individual.
Read MoreThe details of Kanye West's bipolar diagnosis aren't anybody's business but his, but scattered interviews and public comments have given the public a fraction of a look at the tough position of living with both an intense personality disorder and an alien lifestyle of being a musical phenomenon.
Read More"Before I did the record, we went on tour with Skinny Puppy. That was the first time I played these songs live. It was a somewhat bad experience," said Trent Reznor.
Read MoreYou're not dreaming. You can smell the rain...
Read MoreIn 410, Rome fell for the first time in 800 years and for the first time since the establishment of its imperial power. Though today we would date the end of the Western Empire sixty-six years later in 476, its days were now numbered.
Read MoreIn June of 1845, Andrew Jackson was 78 years old -- roughly 248 in 19th century years. Soon he'd be buried -- but not how you might expect.
Read MoreMost people don't remember watching certain animated movies as children. David Bowie, on the other hand, didn't remember recording an album as a 29-year-old.
Read MorePart of the narrative of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo is that the defenders were there to liberate Texas from the tyranny of Mexico. One of the points that often gets lost amid the flag-waving and coonskin caps is that by the time of the Texas Revolution, Mexico had abolished slavery. Texas hadn't.
Read More"Polly," which appears in the iconic Nirvana album Nevermind, is a disturbing song that's hard to forget.
Read MoreIn 1985, Stones frontman Mick Jagger released his debut solo album, She's The Boss, and it nearly struck a killing blow to the band.
Read MoreNot every big rocker of the time showed up at Woodstock. Here are some musicians who turned down playing at Woodstock.
Read MoreQuicksand is probably more important as a motion picture plot device than as an actual natural phenomenon that's waiting to suck you to your death the next time you stroll in the woods/jungle/cursed mall.
Read MoreLife for Whitney Houston — and pop music as you know it — may have gone very differently, had the musician made one different choice.
Read More"He saw two black dots he assumed to be Mallory and Irvine near one of the final ridges before the peak before disappearing into the clouds again. It was the last time both of them were seen alive..."
Read MoreLedbetter, later known as Lead Belly, was born in Louisiana in the late 1880s -- into a life of violence.
Read MoreThis probably won't come as much of a surprise, but the life of a correctional officer is distinctly short on beer and skittles.
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