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Hypnotism's validity is still widely argued in the scientific community, where they can't seem to decide whether people can truly be hypnotized or not.

But whether you believe hypnotism really works or is nothing but pseudoscience doesn't really matter in this instance, because students in a Florida town are dying due to their belief in hypnotism.

A high school principal named George Kenney used students and faculty from North Port high school as guinea pigs, practicing hypnotism on them without a license or much training, and at least three students are dead as a result.

The students were said to have received hypnotic "treatments" to help them deal with their problems but were instead left feeling a bit strange.

A few years later three of the students hypnotized by Kenney died within weeks of each other, one in a car accident and two by suicide, and Kenney was found guilty of a misdemeanor, practicing hypnosis without a license.

But was Kenney responsible for altering the brain chemistry of these teen students, or is the whole thing the result of overactive young imaginations?

Read more about these Students Who Died After Hypnosis here

Some older folks don't know what to make of that Snapchat app the young folks are crazy about these days, wondering how an app that lets you chat with your social world via pics and short videos could cause such a stir.

But just because they don't get it doesn't mean they won't happily jump on board once they're introduced to Snapchat, and according to the "father" of Australian politics Philip Ruddock the Lenses are the best feature.

Philip was introduced to what he calls "Snapshow" by a young whippersnapper from BuzzFeed Australia named Mark Di Stefano, and now Mark has to explain to Mrs. Ruddock why Philip keeps sending her these strange selfies:

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The Fallout video game franchise stays true to the roleplaying game genre by allowing players to fully customize their character as they see fit, and the series made the transition from turn-based RPG to first-person shooter RPG smoothly.

This flexibility means everybody plays Fallout their own way- choosing different tactics, weapons and perks, meaning there are hundreds, if not thousands, of different character options.

But for the sake of brevity let's just say there are ten core types of Fallout players.

Julia Lepetit drew up graphic depictions of the 10 Types Of Fallout Players for Dorkly, and it seems I'm part Hoarder, part Cartographer when I play (dull, I know). What kind of Fallout player are you?

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Nowadays becoming a criminal is as easy as learning how to hack into bank accounts or credit cards, but back in the good old days you had to physically steal cash and stuff for the heist to be considered successful.

That's why old school criminals looked up to master magician Harry Houdini, because he possessed skills that would have been incredibly handy for burglars, cutpurses, train robbers and the like.

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In 1906 Houdini published a book entitled The Right Way To Do Wrong that includes all kinds of highly regarded advice for lowly thieves, a book which was purportedly written to help fight crime but reads more like a criminal primer.

Houdini's book includes some creative and theatrical ideas such as:

use a prosthetic arm to avoid being detected while picking a pocket, walk backwards through the snow when committing a burglary so you appear to be moving away from your mark, and become a master of disguise if you decide to pursue a life of crime.

Read 10 Tips For Becoming A Successful Criminal, According To Harry Houdini at mental_floss

Being home alone for an extended period of time isn't as fun as they make it out to be in the movies, and things can get pretty weird when you have to find ways to entertain yourself in an empty house.

Lucky for you we're not talking about dirty ways to "entertain yourself" in this instance, but rather silly ways which seem to entertain Snapchat cinematographer DatsGoodForm every bit as much as the viewer.

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Moral of the story- put your toys away before you do your physics homework, or those little plastic people won't leave you alone!

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With Halloween rapidly approaching people have all kinds of scary things on their mind, which are mostly figments of their imagination, and like clockwork reports of strange sightings start rolling in.

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One of the most recent cryptid sightings happened in Galloway Township, New Jersey, where folks spotted a strange shape in the sky and decided it was the famed Jersey Devil taking flight.

One lucky witness named Emily Martin even captured the flight on video.

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That's very compelling footage! The still pic has people wondering what the heck that thing flapping across the skyline really is, with guesses that it's a launched goat or a squirrel falling out of a tree.

But the craziest part of this story is the fact that people are actually wondering "Jersey Devil or Halloween prank?", as if there could be any doubt!

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Chugging champagne out of a bottle isn't very classy, but it's the only surefire way to get drunk in under a minute!

Okay, you definitely shouldn't chug champagne like that, unless you really love vomiting and headachey hangovers, so why would somebody make a champagne bong?

The simple answer would probably be some reason related to ironic hipster culture making a statement about being privileged, but that's not really what the Chambong is all about.

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The Chambong is't built to send a whole bottle of bubbly hurtling down your throat, which means it's safe, but it is built to look all kinds of classy, so it's sexy. And it ain't your grandma's alcohol funnel, so you'll be on the cutting edge of chugging champagne!

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What would you think if you came home to find a burglar still hanging out in your house, kicking back watching TV like he owns the place?

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The ranch house residents who found Christopher Hiscock sitting on their couch sipping coffee probably thought the worst too, but then they discovered Christopher was no ordinary burglar, because he was born to be a rancher.

He had fed the cat, given the horses some hay, and basked in the glory of a sleepover on the ranch, which he described in this entry he added to the resident's diary:

"Today was my first full day at the ranch. I fed the cats and horses. So much I can do here I have to remind myself to just relax and take my time. I don't feel alone here, I guess with 2 cats and 3 horses it's kinda hard to be alone. Last night I had a fire in the house. It was so (peaceful). I slept like a little baby. I saw a picture in the basement on the wall of a man holding and weighing fish on a boat. Looking at him I think we look a lot alike, but I think I'm more handsome."

Christopher was placed on a one-year probation for his crime, which he strangely feels is a small price to pay for a glorious day spent living that ranch life. Maybe he needs to get a cat?

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Getting lost down an internet rabbit hole can be an enlightening and educational experience, a complete waste of time, or a twisted journey into the dark depths of the human psyche.

In other words there's some really horrifying stuff posted online for all the world to behold, but there's also plenty of scary stuff to read online that won't result in mental trauma.

If you're looking to read about some interesting yet scary stuff you should start your journey with BuzzFeed's list of Creepy Wikipedia Pages That Will Keep You Up At Night.

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It features classic creep outs like the Cleveland Torso Murderer, who dismembered at least a dozen people but was never caught, or the mysterious Cicada 3301 organization, who are recruiting "highly intelligent individuals" with complex internet puzzles.

And when you have a few weeks to kill you can continue your investigation at the subreddit Unresolved Mysteries, where lots more creepy mysteries await budding online investigators.

Wearing a GoPro everywhere you go has become the norm in the extreme sports community, and backpackers also like to get in on the action when they're trekking through an interesting area.

Most backpacking videos are probably pretty yet pretty dull to watch, but one lucky hiker named Adrien Whistle ended up with an extreme falling video thanks to the fact that he was sporting his GoPro camera.

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Adrien and his fellow 'packers were walking across a suspension bridge in New Zealand when the bridge gave way beneath them, sending them plummeting to the water 25 feet below.

Luckily nobody was seriously injured, and the camera never stopped rolling so the French fellow recording it all got to walk away with one heck of a souvenir!

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Do you remember shopping at K-Mart between the years of 1988 and 1992?

If so then you were gathering your goods and living that K-Mart life while soothing elevator music played through the store's PA system to announce specials and keep you shopping calmly.

If your life has felt incomplete without that "attention K-Mart shoppers" sound then you're in luck, because former K-Mart employee Mark Davis made a bunch of the original K-Mart retail tapes available to download on Archive.org.

They feature in-store advertisements and soothing sounds that will take you back to a simpler time, when that big red "K" symbolized shopping freedom.

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Florida Man is that ubiquitous everyman you keep hearing about in the media, whose name is almost always followed by the word "arrested" and the details of some crazy crime he committed.

He's the subject of his own Twitter page @_FloridaMan, and a few years back Mandatory hired artist Dave Rappoccio to adapt his misadventures into a series of webcomics.

Each comic features a nondescript fellow who is capable of doing just about anything, as long as it's super strange, and the illustrations really bring these oddball scenarios to life.

See more Florida Man comics here

Cats and dogs can actually get along, and this cameraderie may seem like a good thing, but when cats and dogs are actively engaged in battling each other they don't have time to tear up your house.

Boston based comedy group FATAWESOME have been proving cats and dogs should be versus instead of plus with their fur realz video series Cat-Friend Vs. Dog-Friend, here's barely NSFW due to language installment number 3:

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If there's one thing you should take away from this video it's that cat-friend is aloof and constantly staring at walls, but at least he's not actively engaged in destroying your home, except for that cozy laptop chair you set out for him.

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The Iron Throne is made of iron for a reason- because whoever sits atop it and thereby rules Westeros must be extremely hardcore.

They'll have no need of lumbar support, extra cushy seats or padded armrests, because they will be king or queen of a fantasy kingdom ruled by might and misery.

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But those of us who are sitting on our soft buns waiting for the next season of Game Of Thrones to air need a throne appropriate for our kind of kingdom, with no killing required.

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And as the IT Wars raged all around him this noble ruler sat tight, knowing he had the power of Intel inside the computer-iffic throne his royal buns were resting upon.

See 18 'Game Of Thrones' Tribute Thrones Too Comfy For Westeros here

They wrote some of the catchiest pop/dance songs of the 90s, taking America by storm just like fellow Swedes ABBA did decades earlier, and little did we know their music contained a dark messages inspired by Nazi ideology.

They are Ace Of Base, the seemingly harmless Swedish electronic dance group whose catchy hits "The Sign", "All That She Wants" and "Don't Turn Around" are earworms that will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

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Ace Of Base may not seem like the sort to spread Nazi inspired propaganda, and this theory may seem like the ravings of a crackpot conspiracist, which the alleger, Cracked's Adam Tod Brown, will readily admit.

But consider this- Ace Of Base founder Ulf Ekberg was once part of the Neo-Nazi punk band Commit Suiside, and he named the group after the Nazi's Keroman submarine facility, sometimes referred to as "the base of the aces".

Read How A 90s Pop Band Secretly Sold Nazism To America at Cracked (contains NSFW language)