scary

  • Police called to investigate staggering zombie

    Police in West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom were called out to investigate a man covered in blood staggering close to a canal. When they arrived at the scene, closely followed by an ambulance they discovered that the “victim” was actually an actor wearing zombie makeup. The issue was...
  • Canadian artist leaves predatory tracks in the snow

    A Canadian artist going by the name of Maskull Lasserre has an oddly amusing hobby. He walks around in the snow wearing boots that leave frightening tracks. The boots, which are of his own design, mimic the paw prints of large predatory animals, or when the mood strikes him,...
  • Woman eats 4,000 sponges, 100 bars of soap in 4 years

    Pica is a rare disorder that causes people to have uncontrollable cravings for things that aren’t food. I hadn’t heard anything about it until recently and now I’ve heard of two women, both in the UK who are suffering from this. First, the pregnant lady who was eating furniture...
  • Bulletproof vest stands up to gun-owner’s idiocy [self-test video]

    Recently, in a trailer somewhere in the United States, a portly, bearded gentleman decided to put his bulletproof vest to the test. There are plenty of smarter ways he could have done this but no, he decided to wear said vest and shoot himself in the stomach with his...
  • Virus found to make zombie caterpillars that commit suicide

    First zombie bees in San Fransisco and now zombie caterpillars. Yes, scientists have discovered a virus that once it infects caterpillars, it turns them into a zombie like state. But that’s not all, once infected the little critters commit suicide. Basically in a hypnotic state, the caterpillars climb to...
  • Workers lucky to be alive after crane flips backward

    In China’s Henan Province, three workers are lucky to be alive after the crane there were driving flipped backwards, leaving them stranded 40 feet in the air. No word on how long they were stuck up there before firefighters could get them down but judging on the above picture...
  • MythBusters cannon experiment goes horribly awry

    A MythBusters experiment involving a cannon went horribly awry yesterday when a misfire sent a cannonball into a residential area. Nobody was injured when the cannonball, which was fired at the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department bomb range, went off-course. It was supposed to crash through a few water-filled barrels...
  • Farmers settle tax office bribery demand with bags of snakes

    Uttar Pradesh (India) state official official claims that two farmers, one of whom moonlights as a snake charmer, decided to respond to bribery demands by emptying three bags of snakes, some of them extremely poisonous, in a busy tax office. Ramsukh Sharma said that the bags contained around 40...
  • Scottish teen risks life everytime she brushes her hair

    Most of us brush our hair every day and night without consequence. For 13-year old Megan Stewart brushing her hair could kill her. Doctors have diagnosed the teen with a rare condition called “Hair Brushing Syndrome.” It is so rare Stewart’s doctors have actually only heard of one other...