lovecraftian horrors Mysterious hole appears in the floor of a 175-year-old New England house, attempting to swallow the owner Thom Dunn

old houses How to drill into a secret room you suspect lies in the voids of your pre-war home Rob Beschizza

police After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics Elías Villoro

History US giving away free lighthouses to groups who will take care of them David Pescovitz

books Spirituality and Abolition, a new book from the Abolition Journal Elías Villoro

crime '60 Minutes' investigates child hiring practices at slaughterhouse cleaning company Rusty Blazenhoff

bad foundations A Utah house collapses and slides off cliff as astonished owners watch (video) Carla Sinclair

politics Conservative Twitter clone Parler is sold and shut down to be "revamped" Rob Beschizza

U.S. military secrets Teenager shares info about Pentagon leaker — both were members of small Discord group Carla Sinclair

ceramics Woman finds rare Picasso plates at thrift store, cashes in Rusty Blazenhoff

cannabis Public housing intern grew weed in dead tenants' homes David Pescovitz

science fiction Kickstart the audiobook for Cory Doctorow's new novel, Red Team Blues Thom Dunn

Sears and Roebuck’s monkey business When you could buy a monkey from the Sears mail-order catalog Elías Villoro

History One man's crusade to digitize millions of newspaper pages Rusty Blazenhoff

Business Hundreds of thousands of Atari cartr—wait, Beanie Ba—sorry, Funko Pops headed to the landfill Rob Beschizza

vintage Gevalia's tea kettle-shaped trucks were like cartoons brought to life Popkin

mardi gras "Yardi Gras" is still going strong in New Orleans Jennifer Sandlin

not-so-cheap entertainment A 6-year-old boy "played" with his dad's Grubhub app, ordering $1,000 worth of food Carla Sinclair

television What is Bluey and why are so many adults watching it? Devin Nealy