When an aquarium performer dove in to play a mermaid, she never expected to end up head-first in a giant fish’s mouth. Apparently this Chinese sturgeon didn’t get the memo that mermaids aren’t on the lunch menu.

Weird or dark stories I mention in the podcast or radio show, stories I decide not to share but still find interesting, etc. Online articles, stories, videos, photos, and other strangeness about various topics that still cover the humorous, odd, or macabre!
When an aquarium performer dove in to play a mermaid, she never expected to end up head-first in a giant fish’s mouth. Apparently this Chinese sturgeon didn’t get the memo that mermaids aren’t on the lunch menu.
Thankfully I located some of my favorites on the collector’s market. I found it interesting that masks from the 70s and early 80s held up better.
As a new study has shown, it is not only water that plays an important role in the habitability of the planet, but also its atmosphere.
A Utah man was arrested and accused of manslaughter after allegedly shooting his friend in the chest because the latter claimed he could dodge bullets.
The idea of a river with water so hot that it can literally cook animals alive sounds like something out of a folk story, yet as it turns out, such a river really does exist and it is just as dangerous as it sounds.
Whether in the heart of Chicago or ambling through a woodsy state park, some of the most chilling ghost stories of the nation hail from Illinois.
A satellite image covering part of the desolate Antarctic wastes shows a feature that looks deceptively like a face.
A sinister series of events saw three women abducted by unseen forces in one of Kentucky’s most chilling cases.
It’s difficult to see how illusions of and in consciousness can indicate the non-existence of consciousness (I tend to suspect that they indicate the opposite), but bear with me.
Days before his inauguration, Trump pledged to uncover the truth about the large-scale drone sightings reported across the Garden State, including near his golf course in Bedminster.
Over the past several days, multiple pilots have reported near-collisions with unidentified objects in the skies above Turkey’s capital.
We’ve already covered the ten horror games banned for being too dark, but apparently, there’s no shortage of developers willing to take things even further. Whether it’s graphic violence, real-life tragedies turned into “entertainment,” or just concepts that should’ve been rejected immediately, these games didn’t just cross the line—they removed it.
When the volcano erupted in 79 A.D., it baked hundreds of people to death — and transformed at least one victim’s brain matter into twisted, glassy fragments.
Multiple pilots have reported inexplicable near-collisions with unknown objects over the last few days.
The Moon is seen as a ‘stepping stone’ to sending humans to Mars – but could we realistically skip it?
Scientists just determined that the skull found in an elaborate tomb in Ephesus in 1929 didn’t actually belong to Cleopatra’s half-sister Arsinoë IV but rather to an 11- to 14-year-old boy with a possible developmental disorder.
💀 What if every choice you’ve ever made created a new universe—one where you picked a different path, wore a different outfit, or even lived in a world where dogs could talk? Would you want to visit?
💀 After 46 years, DNA evidence finally reveals who killed a teenage girl found murdered in her Hawaii high school.
Someone has seemingly been writing the word ‘help’ on the ground over and over again.