Collar Bomb Heist
On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, United States....
2025-11-24 16:41:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Penis Theft
Koro is a culture-bound delusional disorder in which individuals have an overpowering belief that their sex organs are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals.2025-11-17 19:26:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Balloon Fest 1986
Balloonfest '86 was a fundraising event in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, held on September 27, 1986, in which the local chapter of United Way set a 2025-11-10 19:42:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Nutmaxxing
Mostly taken from this GQ article here: https://www.gq.com/story/meet-the-nutmaxxers-obsessed-with-shooting-bigger-loads
2025-11-04 04:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostTime travel claims and urban legends
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_claims_and_urban_legends
Multiple accounts of people who allegedly travelled through time have been reported by the press or circulated online. These reports have turned out to be either 2025-10-27 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Broadcast signal intrusion
A broadcast signal intrusion is the hijacking of broadcast signals of radio, television stations, cable television broadcast feeds o...
2025-10-07 02:42:49 +0000 UTC View Post"Rube" Waddell
George Edward "Rube" Waddell (October 13, 1876 – April 1, 1914) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). A left-hander, he played for 13 years, with the 2025-09-29 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
History's Most Expensive Party
The 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire,[1] officially known as the 2,500-year celebration of the Empire of Iran (Persian: جشنهای ۲۵۰۰ ساله شاهنشاهی ایران, 2025-09-22 15:04:04 +0000 UTC View Post
ChatGPT convinced a guy that he's a superhero
Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
2025-09-15 15:44:13 +0000 UTC View PostVictorian Mummy Mania and Sundry Weirdness
Mummia, mumia, or originally mummy referred to several different preparations in the history of medicine, from "mineral pitch" to "powdered human mummies". It originated from 2025-09-08 22:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The Vasa
Vasa (previously Wasa) (Swedish pronunciation: [²vɑːsa] ⓘ) is a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. The ship sank after sailing roughly 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into her maide...
2025-09-01 23:55:44 +0000 UTC View PostExxon Valdez
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The spill occurred when 2025-08-26 04:25:54 +0000 UTC View Post
How I Survived a Wedding in a Jungle That Tried to Eat Me Alive
https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/essays/jungle-wedding/
2025-08-18 12:23:33 +0000 UTC View PostOlestra / Olean
Olestra (also known by its brand name Olean) is a fat substitute food additive that adds no metabolizable calories to products. It has been used in the preparation of otherwise high-fat foods, thereby lowering or eliminating their fat content.
Pluto
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the o...
2025-08-04 14:27:43 +0000 UTC View PostMy Immortal - Chapters 35-37 (July Bonus)
Latest addition to the saga
2025-07-31 17:40:53 +0000 UTC View PostDefenestration
Defenestration (from Neo-Latin de fenestrā[1]) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.[2]...
2025-07-28 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostMoving Day
Moving Day was a tradition in New York City dating back to colonial times and lasting until after World War II. On February 1, sometimes known as "Rent Day", landlords would give notice to their tenants what the new rent would...
2025-07-22 09:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostMark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced",[1] with 2025-07-15 08:41:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Juniper Tree
"The Juniper Tree" (also "The Almond Tree"; Low German: Von dem Machandelboom) is a German fairy tale published in Low German by the 2025-07-08 07:47:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Optograms & Wife Sales
Optography is the process of viewing or retrieving an optogram, an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye "recorded" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims' eyes in several real-life murder investigations, in case the theory was true. The concept has been repeatedly debunked as a 2025-07-01 07:23:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry. On 25 October 1...
2025-06-23 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Barkley Marathons - The Immortal Horizon - Part 2
The Barkley Marathons is an ultramarathon trail race held each year in Frozen Head State Park in Morgan County, Tennessee, Un...
2025-06-16 17:06:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Barkley Marathons - The Immortal Horizon
https://www.thebeliever.net/the-immortal-horizon/
The Barkley Marathons is an ultramarathon trail race held each year in 2025-06-09 18:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Operation Channel Fireball & Operation Fantasia
Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), has been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations (MISO), Psy Ops, political warfare, "H...
2025-06-02 15:53:37 +0000 UTC View PostDonkey Kong
Donkey Kong[a] is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto for 2025-05-26 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Fax Machines
Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a
May Bonus - Banana Man Chapter 3-4
Ray Comfort's Banana Man, Chapter 3 and 4
2025-05-16 19:55:54 +0000 UTC View Post