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30 Strange Old-Timey Medical Treatments

Venesection on male patient by Cintio d'Amato, 1671

30 Strange Old-Timey Medical Treatments

Fine Feathered Fiends: 6 Bizarre Turkey Attacks

Why did the turkey cross the road? To peck at your tires.

Fine Feathered Fiends: 6 Bizarre Turkey Attacks

Blubber Boom: Reliving the Disastrous Tale of Oregon's Exploding Whale—50 Years Later

Oregon came up with a combustible solution for their dead whale problem.

Blubber Boom: Reliving the Disastrous Tale of Oregon's Exploding Whale—50 Years Later

In the Early 1900s, the United States Postal Service Would Let You Mail a Child

A postal carrier with a special delivery.

In the Early 1900s, the United States Postal Service Would Let You Mail a Child

When a Long Island Housewife Handed Out Arsenic to Kids on Halloween

This Halloween procession in Massachusetts was poison-free.

The Secret Society That Left a Trail of Human Skeletons in its Wake

Skeletons have been known to lurk in abandoned lodges of fraternal organizations.

22 Creepy Cryptids From Around the World

Belgian painter Pieter Dirkx's interpretation of the Mongolian death worm.

Little Weesy Coppin, the Ghost That Foretold the Franklin Expedition’s Fate

An 1847 illustration of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus during an earlier Arctic expedition, by James Wilson Carmichael.

Remembering the Deadly London Beer Flood of 1814

London's Horseshoe Brewery

10 Facts About NXIVM and The Vow, HBO's True Crime Docuseries

Sarah Edmondson in a scene from The Vow (2020).

6 Bizarre Halloween-Related Lawsuits

Halloween scares can sometimes invite legal action.

Profane Polly: Expletive-Spewing Parrots Have Been Removed From an England Zoo

"F*ck off!"

UFO Sightings Are Up 51 Percent During the COVID-19 Pandemic

With more free time as a result of the pandemic, people have been reporting more UFO sightings.

30 Offbeat Holidays to Celebrate In October

Photo by Brandon Griggs on Unsplash

How Keanu Reeves Was Tricked Into Making The Watcher

Keanu Reeves in 2008.

Surprise: Cows Poop Corn Kernels, Too

Cows—they're just like us.