It’s no surprise that happiness comes with a wide variety of advantages. It boosts the immune system and makes you more resilient to pain, along with reducing stress and overall improving the quality of your life. Sadness, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to do us any good, and is one feeling we consistently try

Ivan Milat, known as ‘The Backpacker Killer’, is an Australian serial killer responsible for the brutal murders of 7 young backpackers in the Belanglo State Forest, southwest of Sydney. Many of his victims were tourists expecting an adventure of a lifetime but since the gruesome discovery of their remains in 1992, it was clear they

Amusement parks are built to be place of thrills and entertainment, wonder and awe. They should give fond memories and bring smiles to faces. But, some parks are shrouded in mystery and misfortune, causing fear and shivers instead. In this list, we will discuss ten parks that have a past dark enough to ruin any

Welcome back to another week of strange stories, curious chronicles, and aberrant anecdotes. If you missed last week’s list, you can catch it here. There are two poop stories this week, although they are significantly different. One highlights a pigeon with great comedic timing while the other explores a scientific experiment designed to see if

Note: The bonus item at the bottom of this list contains the full audio of the mass-suicide in Jonestown. It is disturbing and discretion is advised. On November 18, 1978, deep in the jungle of Guyana, the 912 occupants of Jonestown drank a mixture of cyanide and Flavor-Aide. These people did this unthinkable thing because

Most government scandals are actually quite dull — there’s only so worked up people can get over misfiled expense reports or kickbacks from donut suppliers. But every so often a major politician gets caught up in a conspiracy so bizarre it would make Richard Nixon himself blush. 10Orgiastic Conspiracy: Faked Orgy Photos (And Unsolved Murder)

Celebrities are loved by millions of people all over the world. We all have a favorite celebrity, someone we’ve never met but love. We watch their movies, or listen to their songs, and could spend hours talking about them. People set up blogs dedicated to them, write books about them, and they’re constantly in the

The Earth’s surface holds many wonders great and small, natural and man-made. A different, though no less mesmerizing, world exists below. Human beings, while certainly not optimized for these environments, enter them regularly. Tourists visit caves, commuters shoot through subway tunnels, and miners across the world work underground as a matter of course. By and

Urban legends—from little elementary kids telling each other that swallowing a watermelon seed will make a watermelon grow in your stomach from teens daring each other to walk up to the “murder house” of the neighborhood—every one of us has heard them. The thing that makes urban legends so interesting is that they’re spread with

The onion is one of the most common vegetables, and it is one of the oldest foods known to the human race. They are found in nearly every major dish in some form. It’s simple to flavor most meals with an onion, but you will find many more uses for the vegetable if you peel