“Could you please pass the salt? I can barely taste the sorrow in these mashed potatoes.” Hoxton Street Monster Supplies has created a line of salts harvested from real human tears. They make salt from tears of anger, laughter and sorrow. Not weird enough? They’ve also got salt made from [...]
Using wire, ingenuity and a twisted imagination, photographer Terry Border depicts the secret and often troubled lives (and deaths) of everyday inanimate objects in his project “Bent Objects.” From cannibalistic peanuts to martyr marshmallows getting burned at the stake, the creations show off Border’s morbidly dark humor. [ Via Bent [...]
Gather round the campfire kids. It’s urban legend time. Except this story is a departure from the usual half man half monster myth – it’s about a violent lunatic known as Bunny Man. During an ill-fated transfer of psychiatric patients from one asylum to another, the vehicle crashed and one [...]
Last year an 18 year old in Virginia stole 26 gallons of milk from Walmart while dressed up as a cow. “This is probably one of the most unique efforts of shoplifting I’ve seen,” said a spokesman for the Stafford County Sheriff. The culprit was later arrested at a McDonalds—coincidence? [...]
Native Japanese honey bees can vibrate enough to raise their body temperature and use the heat to cook an invading giant hornet alive. The giant hornet is basically a scout for an invading army, and the honey bees deal with the threat by creating a kind of bee-driven easy bake [...]
Ma Xiangang of northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province can illuminate a light bulb using only his bare hands. He can withstand up to 220 volts without getting shocked. He made the discovery after he fixed a live television wire with his bare hands and didn’t get electrocuted. Apparently his skin is [...]
We’ve all seen cheesy wedding photos—the couple always doing something improbably romantic or nauseatingly charming. How often do you two really walk down a beach in slow motion? Or prance around in a meadow? Korean newlyweds Julian Sunmi Park and Benjamin Jinsuk Lee decided to get creative with their wedding [...]
The skin is pierced several times side by side in two symmetrical rows down the back to give the impression of a laced-up corset. Corset piercings are intended to be temporary (that style of piercing doesn’t lend itself to healing very well). Even though piercing has a long history, corset [...]
Google is everywhere and owns everything. Your dog? Yup, Google owns your dog. And not satisfied with copying the entire internet, they’re also engaged in copying the planet earth via the Street View function on Google Maps. Cars with fixed multi-lens cameras are driven around to capture the images, and [...]
Childhood isn’t always about puppies and sandcastles—sometimes it involves death by ennui. The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a classic abecedarian book by Edward Gorey (perfect surname) written in 1963 that tells the story of 26 unlucky children who die morbidly funny deaths. Composed in rhyming dactylic couplets and featuring moody black [...]
A fitting end for an annoying household pest: the fly that bothered you so relentlessly in life can now be a source of merriment in death. Swedish photographer Magnus Muhr has created a morbidly funny series of drawings that feature dead flies riding horses, sun-bathing and performing feats of acrobatics. [...]
The 1500 inmates at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines achieved Youtube fame after their performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” The video has reached over 51 million views. The prison hired professional choreographer Gwendolyn Lador to train the inmates, who have since added a number of routines [...]