Although being scared may possibly not be a pleasant sensation, the capability to sense fear is clearly fairly essential, making certain that creatures respond accordingly to harmful……
On the most southernmost tip on New Zealand’s South Island is a place called Slope Point. It hosts some of the strangest-looking trees in the……
There are strange and amazing creatures living in our world, and some of the most intriguing of these animals are the ones that are transparent.……
These days, monsters feel as American as apple pie. They star in our movies, and turn our Six Flags theme parks into Fright Nights. Tom……
Alien abduction claims have become a godsend for science fiction writers, bored reporters, and stand-up comedians since the early 1950s. First-hand accounts of alien abductions……
The Man Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. He was a physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and influential thinker of the early twentieth century. He……
You’ll never know what’s in store for you when you hear the true story of The Greenbrier Ghost. It is a remarkable case in which……
Stark warnings. The last few years have seen Artificial Intelligence and robotics finally start to catch up with their science fiction counterparts. Advances in “deep……
Flat earth. One of the great lies told to schoolchildren is that the whole round-earth thing was first proposed by Christopher Columbus, sailing toward the……
Dangerous railways. Nobody is actually really scared of trains, are they? Air travel, sure, and you wouldn’t be too surprised to meet someone who gets……
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Alone with their thoughts. In 1654, scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a……
The Saurian Monster must have left a ghoulish sight in the wake of his macabre stride. It all started in October 1886 when workers found……
The grey wolf. The battle between wolves and farmers has been going on since the beginning of time, and has been largely uninterrupted over the……
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False facts about the Titanic. The sinking of the Titanic was a disaster on a monumental scale, ending with the deaths of 1,500 passengers in……
Vietnamese people with the same last name. The existence of last names in Vietnam dates to 111 BC, the beginning of a lengthy thousand-year occupation……
Spiders can hear you ‘walking and talking’. If you’re already scared of spiders, you’re not going to like this next part. A new study published Thursday……
What life actually was like for a real pirate. In between bouts of pirate-talk and rocking out to Alestorm (or Lazy Town, whichever you prefer),……
How fire ants form towers more than 30 ants high. Fire ants may not be cute or cuddly, but they have some pretty cool tricks. They……
We are entering a digital dark age You may think that those photos on Facebook or all your tweets may last forever, or might even……
The elegant beauty of the big cats. Using only a simple, dark background, Vincent J. Musi captures the elegance of lions, leopards, tigers, and more. The South……
Voodoo. In A.D. 64, a great fire broke out in Rome for six days, and devastated much of the city. According to the writer Tacitus,……
