My (20's F) friend (30's M), we will call him "Jesse", started writing a short story several years ago. Over the years, he would occasionally ask if I had any interest in reading it, to which I would say yes. Every time I attempted to read it, I wou…
Born December 14, 1503 in Provence, Nostradamus predicted the entire history of the world from his death in 1566 to the present day and later. Nostradamus is known for his book "Prophecy" that was first published in 1955. It attracted a large numbe…
Copypasta is a term referring to blocks of text that are widely copied and pasted on the Internet. Sometimes, depending on the community, Copypasta can be confusing to new people who don't recognize it as copied and pasted content. Once it gets enou…
Exercise Tiger was the code name for one of a series of large-scale D-Day invasion of Normandy tests that took place in April 1944 at Slapton Sands, Devon. Slapton's pristine pebble beach, facing a shallow freshwater ley supported by grasslands, see…
The stories draw attention to Florida's alleged notoriety for bizarre and unusual events. The Miami New Times reported that Florida's freedom of information laws make it easier for reporters to get information about arrests from the police than in o…
What is Kayfabe? Kayfabe is often viewed as a suspension of distrust, used to create non-wrestling aspects of the business such as wrestling feuds, angles and tricks (the person on the screen of a fighter, from his personality to his clothes). Kayf…
More than thirty years before the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, in July 1587, a group of 117 tired men, women and children waded and made history on Roanoke Island, the first attempt to establish a settlement of its kind in the United States. Th…
What are Aswangs? According to Filipino folklore, the aswang is an evil shape-shifting creature that shares the grotesque characteristics of werewolves, vampires, and ghouls. Aswang is a general term for various evil shape-shifting creatures in Fil…
