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On Monday, August 17th, pro baseball player Fernando Tatis Jr. of the San Diego Padres curried both rage and adulation by ... playing baseball. But according to many, what he was really doing was breaking baseball's unwritten rules. Raising the question -- what are baseball's unwritten rules?
Read MoreIn the vast, seemingly endless ocean of weirdness available on the internet, Japanese game shows stand head and shoulders above the rest.
Read MoreSheila started making phone calls -- roughly 700 of them, by her estimates. She phoned the police again and again and was, by her recollection, largely blown off. She went so far as to become a licensed private investigator, all in the hopes of landing a little more clout with law enforcement.
Read MoreForget Attila the Hun's murderous, barbaric ways. Instead, why don't we let cooler heads prevail and remember that he was also a generous dinner host who dressed modestly. So, you know. There's that.
Read MoreFor close to three decades, WWN was a staple of grocery store checkout lines, a beacon of grayscale hope in a dreary landscape, serving its piping hot, all-caps message to a public ill prepared to accept the truth, with headlines such as, "HILLARY ADOPTS ALIEN BABY!"
Read MoreThere are two scenarios, each one roughly equidistant from the realm of possibility, that most Americans have considered. The first is "what would I do if I won the lottery?" The second: "What would my last meal be, before my execution?"
Read MoreIf you're being honest, you probably don't want Russell Crowe to think you're an a**hole. Ahead of the release of his new film, Unhinged, the Academy Award winner sat down with Looper to lay out some helpful guidelines on how to avoid this terrible fate.
Read MoreOut of all of history's serial killers, the Axeman of New Orleans is perhaps the most remarkable, for two reasons. First, he was never identified, and secondly, he's standing right behind you.
Read MoreThe UFO sighting took place at the long-since defunct Burrett College during the wee morning hours. As the sun rose over the school, a group of students noticed something peculiar. More specifically, two things: glowing orbs.
Read MoreLook at the pictures from the night of Abraham Lincoln's assassination with an inquisitive eye and you'll notice that, along with the Lincolns and a failed actor, there's another couple in frame. The Lincolns had guests with them that night. Their names were Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris.
Read MoreIt's a celebrity deathmatch for the ages. In one corner, you have Steven Seagal. In the other, John Leguizamo. Or, Luigi, if you prefer.
Read MoreIt was 1991, and the really meaty days of hating Steven Seagal were still in front of us. But a seminal night in the martial artist cum actor's career was underway. The stage was set for Seagal to inscribe his name into the annals of SNL history as the Worst Host Ever.
Read Morethe case came to a close. The 1817 case came to a close. Or it would have, if it weren't for the fact that the whole thing happened again 157 years later. In a series of eerie coincidences, Barbara Forrest met her astonishingly similar and tragic end in 1974.
Read MoreThe way of the samurai: if you saw that Tom Cruise movie or played Ghost of Tsushima, you've probably got your finger on the pulse of the whole shebang, right? Surprise twist: it turns out it's a lot more complicated than that.
Read MoreThe whole to-do wasn't started by the plagues or crusades generally associated with the historical ballpark of the millennium in question. In point of fact, this age of cultural and financial stagnation was brought about by the meekest of all the Earth's forces: the humble gigantic volcano.
Read More"He has 71 confirmed murders to his name, although this could be just the tip of the iceberg in terms of his kill count. The vast majority of these victims were criminals themselves." One more time for the cheap seats -- "the vast majority." Not all.
Read MoreWho was Davy Jones? And why did he keep a locker if his work kept him out at sea so often? Wouldn't a storage unit be a more realistic option? Skim a few websites for historical societies and you'll notice that the answers are varied, evocative, and bizarre.
Read MoreSumner Redstone became the CEO of National Amusements, Inc. in 1967, and their already prominent hold on the entertainment industry got some extra oomph thanks to his belief that, basically, content providers would come and go, but the content itself would always be in demand.
Read MoreThe young lady developed some medical complications as she grew older. Seizures weren't uncommon, but what really seemed to upset her parents were the developmental delays.
Read MoreIn June of 2020, a scant 155 years after the end of the Civil War, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill officially retiring the state's Confederate flag design. The hunt was on for a new set of colors to fly above the capital.
Read MoreHell ants, for the uninitiated, were a species of insect during the Cretaceous period, and some of the first ant variations believed to have existed.
Read MoreWhen Brian Shaffer didn't show up for his planned flight to Florida, his girlfriend reported him missing.
Read MoreIt's a story that seems more at home in a psychological horror film than in the real world, and first hand accounts of the events involved feel unsettlingly removed from reality. But the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons are a matter of record. Weird, weird record.
Read MoreMötley Crüe's Tommy Lee: a man whose public misdeeds are outnumbered only by the number of times that he showed the audience his sweet keister on tour.
Read MoreIn theory, energy vortexes (or vortices) are spiralling whirlpools of invisible energy, described varyingly as stemming from magic, ley lines, spiritual power, and electromagnetic fields.
Read MoreWhen the going gets dangerous, at least MI6's highest-functioning sociopath can still be counted on to lock and load, utilizing that classic firearm that we've all come to associate with James Bond: a .25 ACP Beretta with a skeleton grip.
Read MoreThe infamous Nazi Führer and dumb, dumb mustache enthusiast was, as many people know already, big into painting.
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