People Call Time On Google Earth ‘Mystery’

Everybody loves a good mystery. Curiosity about the unknown is human nature, and the spine-tingling sensation that can be found in things both weird and sensational gives a rush that rivals any other. With the strong reaction it can produce, it is no surprise that it is a favorite topic of clickbait merchants everywhere.  Helped …
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15+ Cringey Times Reply Guys Risked It All

If you’ve ever spent time on social media, you’re probably aware of the existence of «Reply Guys.» The term refers to men who go out of their way to reply (unsolicited) to women’s tweets or slide into dms with comments that are generally very inappropriate and very horny. While we’re sure these messages are generally …
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How Allison Harvard of «Creepy Chan» Went From Meme to Model

We recently sat down with Allison Harvard, whose eerie images, fascination with blood and passion for photography made her a well-known figure on 4chan back in the mid-2000s, earning her the pseudonym «Creepy Chan.» Her creepy photos eventually made their way in front of a casting producer for «America’s Next Top Model,» and the rest …
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Two-Sentence Scary Stories That Tease The Imagination

‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn.’ This is perhaps the most famous bit of micro-fiction, allegedly written by Ernest Hemingway. What’s remarkable about stories like these isn’t necessarily the brevity of them, but rather the possibilities created by what’s left unsaid. The most successful micro-fiction gives the reader just enough to stimulate the imagination, but …
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20 Reasons Why ‘Smart Devices’ Are Actually Dumb As Hell

What’s the point of ‘smart’ and ‘connected’ objects? Are they supposed to help us get through menial tasks more efficiently, or have the capitalists figured out a clever way to perpetually profit off the objects we use on a daily basis? Sometimes it feels like the latter. When your printer holds your ink cartridge hostage …
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23 Reasons Why Connecting Everything To The Internet Is A Mistake

Ever look around and get the sense that we’re living in some sort of techno-dystopia? We get it—sometimes it’s cool to have lights that you can dim from your phone or a watch that tells you how many calories you burned, but maybe the ‘Internet of Things’ has gone too damn far. Once you start …
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Eerie Twitter Story About Kid Sneaking Food & Discovering Trespasser

There’s been a lot of talk about Bong Joon-Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite, but this true and incredibly disturbing story kind of trumps it. Horror writer Grady Hendrix shared a chilling tale back in October about innocent food-sneaking gone incredibly wrong. Kids are known for sneaking around, and one night when Hendrix intended to sneak-eat his family’s leftovers, …
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People’s «Man, I Gotta Get Outta Here» Moments

Maybe it’s a 6th sense, maybe it’s sheer panic, maybe it’s using your eyes to see an angry pig barreling at you like you’re made of slop. There are moments in our lives where we know that the right thing to do is just leave and never come back. There are also those moments where …
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Video: NYC Woman Finds Mysterious Apartment Behind Her Bathroom Mirror

New York City is definitely ‘weird living situations’ capital of the world, but this is next level. TikTokker @samanthartsoe felt a perplexing draft coming from her bathroom mirror and decided to investigate while documenting the exploration in a series of TikTok videos. What she found was pretty insane—a huge hold in the wall that her …
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The Largest Bullets People Dodged

As not-total-idiots, we spend a lot of time worrying about making the right decision. Sometimes we can thank ourselves for avoiding a bad situation, and sometimes it’s totally up to random chance whether we dodge a huge bullet or not. Everyone has a moment in their lives that the think about «man if that had …
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