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Snail mating involves “love darts.”
Snail mating involves “love darts.”
The battery-powdered purr machines are part of the library's collection of unusual items available for lending.
The world's longest saxophone note is too risky to attempt. So is the world's longest kiss.
The Explorers Club keeps some odd artifacts in its collection, including a stuffed whale penis.
Though these marine mysteries are often solved, globsters—unidentified organic masses that wash up on beaches—continue to capture the public’s imagination.
Weird but fascinating facts about everything from the guy who dragged cars with his nipples to frogs shedding (and eating!) their own skin.
NYC311 has fielded calls involving everything from goats to ghosts.
Only three bat species, out of some 1100 in the world, actually have a taste for blood.
The ancient art of sword swallowing may seem like some sort of elaborate trick—but it’s very, very real (and very, very dangerous).
Being rich, famous, or influential has plenty of perks—but escaping the spirit world’s torments isn’t necessarily one of them.
Cut through the half-truths and urban legends to find out more about Friday the 13th, the unluckiest day on the calendar.
Some, like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Victor Hugo, believed they had communicated with spirits directly; others, like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Hardy, had ghostly encounters they couldn’t explain.
The rich history of the English language is full of similar directional words that are cool but uncommon, like ‘pancakewards,’ ‘couchward,’ and ‘pocketwards.’
The theremin—a spooky instrument that scored the biggest sci-fi films of the 1950s—was invented by accident.
For decades, a man dressed head to toe in leather moved through Connecticut and New York. Who was he, and what did he want?
The Ouija board has terrified countless slumber party children and served as a plot vehicle in a number of Hollywood films. Here’s where it came from.
Almost every country has its own cryptid, from giant bats in Java to enormous water hounds in Ireland.
We're glad skeletons are usually made of plastic now.
From spiritualism's beginnings at the Fox cottage to ectoplasm, so-called spirit photography, and beyond, here's what you need to know about this controversial cultural phenomenon.
From classics like the vanishing hitchhiker to creepy cryptids, ghostly vehicles, deadly curses, and some stuff you’ve probably seen on Facebook.
Eating centuries-old mummies was a hot health trend in medieval Europe.
From famous authors to a Roman emperor, these spirits sure had a lot to share.
In 1961, an ordinary New Hampshire couple claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Betty and Barney Hill's tale still reverberates through pop culture today.
The Muppets have squared off against everyone from Johnny Cash to Celine Dion.