In eastern Yemen there is a hole in the ground known as the Well of Barhout, aka the "Well of Hell." Located in the Hadhramaut region, the hole is 30… Read the rest of the article: What lies at the bottom of Yemen's mysterious Well of Hell?

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a serial killer known as Zodiac killed at least five people in Northern California. The case has never been solved. The Zodiac Killer… Read the rest of the article: French software engineer may have cracked the Zodiac killer's code

Stacy Goldstein was seemingly trying to put the "pal" back in "principal," at least as students were concerned, by announcing that the public secondary school she presides over, wouldn't hold… Read the rest of the article: NYC public school principal busted allegedly trying to release students for summer break a week early

Ten days ago, a cattle herder in the remote South African village of KwaHlathi found what appeared to be a large diamond in a field. By Sunday, thousands of people… Read the rest of the article: Shiny rocks that sparked the mad South African diamond rush this month were actually just quartz

Back in 2012, a mystery object blocked most of the slight from a distant star in our galaxy named VVV-WIT-08. The star was dim for around 200 days before becoming… Read the rest of the article: What was the mystery object in space that blocked the light of a star for more than six months?

In this clip below from an episode of NCIS, hackers have already burned through the NCIS public firewall. They're moving so fast that they determined the only conceivable way to… Read the rest of the article: Watch TV's stupidest "hacking" scene ever

On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard developed the habit of tugging his uniform shirt down to straighten it out. Fans, cast, and crew refer to it at the… Read the rest of the article: Watch: Every time Captain Picard tugs his shirt, his communicator badge pops off

The video below that appears to be a dead werewolf reportedly shot in Nigeria is allegedly a hoax. The dubbed-over viral video seems to be a clip from a Portugese… Read the rest of the article: This dead werewolf seen on viral video from Nigeria probably wasn't real

In the mid-oughts, Boing Boing evangelized the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), a fine example of a religion pretending to be a joke (or a joke pretending to… Read the rest of the article: Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster denied legal recognition in Australia

I've experienced the Ames Window optical illusion many times, including in physical forms, but the video clip below from an early 1970s episode of Australia's long-running Curiosity Show is my… Read the rest of the article: Fantastic physical model of famous optical illusion melted my mind

Below, watch after-party interviews from the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards. Remember, this was when MTV still played music videos and was, y'know, relevant. Joey Ramone: "Some of it I… Read the rest of the article: See Beastie Boys, Joey Ramone, Boy George, Morris Day, etc. at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards after party

Staff at at a nature reserve in Leningrad Oblas, Russia thought they were clever by disguising a wildlife camera as tree bark. It did not go as planned. Video below.… Read the rest of the article: Watch woodpecker happily destroy wildlife camera disguised as tree bark

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, commemorating the freeing of enslaved Black people in Texas on June 19, 1865. That was the day that Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger delivered a message to the… Read the rest of the article: Juneteenth: "Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones"

These ingenious individuals outfitted an old Honda Civic with a tandem bicycle so that the pedaling powers the vehicle. Video below. The fun they're having is infectious. Know what I… Read the rest of the article: Check out this ridiculous and fantastic Honda Civic powered by a tandem bicycle

Tucked away in Los Angeles's Santa Monica Mountains, between Hollywood Boulevard and Mulholland Drive, there are 62 acres of unmarked trees, brush, and dirt where the public can hike or… Read the rest of the article: What is… the Alex Trebek Open Space?

At every Olympics since 1988, organizers have distributed more than 100,000 free condoms to the 15,000 participating athletes who live together in the Olympic Village for weeks. The condoms have… Read the rest of the article: 160,000 condoms are readied for Olympic athletes yet regulation requires they "avoid unnecessary forms of physical contact"

Darin Mano, Salt Lake City's first Asian American council member, was going door to door campaigning on Saturday when he knocked at the home of Utah Assistant Attorney General Steven… Read the rest of the article: "Die and go to hell, mother*****er!": Utah Assistant Attorney General's email to city council member who woke him from a nap

From 1967 through the 1980s, Emory Douglas was the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, the revolutionary social justice and political organization founded in Oakland, California. Douglas was the art… Read the rest of the article: New streetwear line with art by legendary Black Panther designer Emory Douglas

Flooding in Victoria, Australia this week has driven people, and apparently spiders, out of their homes. The mass arachnid migration resulted in a blanket of webs across East Gippsland. Australia's… Read the rest of the article: Creepy scenes of Australian town blanketed in spider webs

Self-described "aviation geek" Nik Sennhauser of Glasgow, Scotland has missed air travel so much during the pandemic that he's been recreating inflight meals at home. I bet Nik's meals taste… Read the rest of the article: Aviation geek recreates airline meals at home