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Collar Bomb Heist

On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, 2025-11-24 16:41:42 +0000 UTC View Post

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 ...

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 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

Time 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 ...

QAnon Shaman vs. USA et al

https://azdailysun.com/news/state-and-regional/qanon-shaman-files-40-trillion-lawsuit-against-trump-with-plan-to-revolutionize-america/article_5f4ad841-60ef-4060-9ff3-7f33d7ee4...

Bike Batman

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/biking/real-life-superhero-who-beats-cops-bike-thieves/

Broadcast signal intrusion

A broadcast signal intrusion is the hijacking of broadcast signals of radio, television stations, 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 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: جشن‌ها�...

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

Victorian 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 2025-09-08 22:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post

The Vasa

Vasa (previously Wasa) (Swedish pronunciation: [²vɑːsa] ⓘ) is a Swedish warship built be...

Exxon Valdez

The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound o...

How I Survived a Wedding in a Jungle That Tried to Eat Me Alive

https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/essays/jungle-wedding/

Olestra / 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, t...

Pluto

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of 2025-08-04 14:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post

My Immortal - Chapters 35-37 (July Bonus)

Latest addition to the saga

Defenestration

Defenestration (from Neo-Latin de fenestrā[1]) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window....

Moving 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,...

Mark 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",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 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 ...

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 2025-06-23 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

The Barkley Marathons - The Immortal Horizon - Part 2

The Barkley Marathons is an ultramarathon trail race held each year in Frozen Head State Park in 2025-06-16 17:06:40 +0000 UTC View Post

The Barkley Marathons - The Immortal Horizon

https://www.thebeliever.net/the-immortal-horizon/

The Barkley Marathons is an ultramarathon trail rac...

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, 2025-06-02 15:53:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong[a] is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese game designer 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 o...

May Bonus - Banana Man Chapter 3-4

Ray Comfort's Banana Man, Chapter 3 and 4