Apps promise friendship and love on demand, but researchers are discovering that relationships with artificial companions can deepen loneliness, foster dependence, and in tragic cases, contribute to self-harm.
Apps promise friendship and love on demand, but researchers are discovering that relationships with artificial companions can deepen loneliness, foster dependence, and in tragic cases, contribute to self-harm.
A hilltop crucifixion of children, the biggest gold nugget ever yanked out of the ground, unexpected and deadly tornadoes in February, and a round of golf for space cases.
When Steven Spielberg’s mechanical shark “Bruce” broke down constantly during the grueling 159-day shoot, it accidentally created one of cinema’s most terrifying masterpieces — proving that sometimes the best scares come from what you can’t see lurking beneath the surface.
A new research facility is using extended IV DMT sessions to establish two-way communication with the non-human beings people encounter while tripping — and the beings keep showing up.
A South African family decided that a death certificate was simply not dramatic enough proof of death, so they upgraded their documentation strategy significantly.
On January 7th, a dog no one could later identify walked up to a Louisville police officer mid-search and led him straight to a missing 3-year-old locked inside a car.
A woman needed a kidney transplant, and the DNA test told her she wasn’t the mother of her own children — because she was two people.
Leaked military drone footage from the Syria-Jordan border shows an unidentified object pulling off a move that no known aircraft on Earth can do — and the Pentagon’s own analysts couldn’t explain it.
They show up without warning. They know things they shouldn’t. And they always have the same message: stop talking about what you saw. The Men in Black have been silencing witnesses for decades. But this tactic is far older than flying saucers.
From an 18th-century New Jersey legend to a wave of Texas tragedies in the 2000s, the fear of carrying Satan’s child has driven ordinary people to extraordinary horror.
In 1962, identical twin sisters were forcibly separated in a North Carolina psychiatric hospital; within hours, both were dead in their beds with no wounds, no poison, and no medical explanation — their death certificates simply read “ill-defined and unknown cause.”
He was handsome, polite, studied elementary education — and murdered at least seven young women in Michigan between 1967 and 1969.
A dedicated team of researchers in upstate New York claims they’ve documented hundreds of Bigfoot encounters — including one creature caught dumpster diving at a Dairy Queen.
In 1948, a dying cab driver deliberately crashed his taxi into a parked car — but the man who shot him in the back of the head walked away into the Boston night and was never seen again.
A 23-year-old French con artist with brown eyes and a thick accent convinced a Texas family he was their blue-eyed, missing 13-year-old son — and they welcomed him home.
The story of how early Mormon leaders allegedly believed six-foot-tall Quakers were living on the moon is stranger, funnier, and more complicated than the memes suggest — and it involves a newspaper hoax, bat-men, a German professor who saw cities on the lunar surface, and a game of telephone spanning four decades.