by Ernest Ersatz, Improbable Research staff Although people say that “a penny’s not going to kill you,” that’s not strictly true. Sometimes a penny will kill you. There are several cases on record where in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/08/a-pennys-not-going-to-kill-you/The following is an article from Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader. A dark tale from our "Dustbin of Gruesome History" files. THE DISCOVERY One the night of April 28, 1908, Joe Maxson, a hired ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/05/belle-gunness-the-terror-of-la-porte/by Annalee Newitz Editor, io9 San Francisco, California Chart by Stephanie Fox. Additional reporting by Katharine Duckett. There’s been a huge spike in the production of zombie movies lately, and many of them se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/12/war-and-social-upheaval-cause-spikes-in-zombie-movie-production/For the devout, Easter is an opportunity to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, but for many others, it’s an excuse to munch down on piles of pastel candies and chocolate bunnies. By far the most notorious of thes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/08/13-hilarious-peeps-candy-easter-dioramas/The following is an article from Uncle John's Heavy Duty Bathroom Reader. The subject matter may be disturbing for some readers. "Big Nose" George Parrot got his nickname for the fact that he had a very large probo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/28/the-strange-fate-of-big-nose-george/Video link I'm sure many of you are familiar with the German superstar bear, Knut. He rose to stardom when his mother abandoned him at birth. A keeper at the Berlin Zoo stepped in and raised the cub from childhood, fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/21/knut-has-passed-away/Believe them or not, cases of demonic possessions have persisted since the dawn of religion. Road Tickle blog has an intriguing post about 4 strange cases of demonic possession.For example, take a look at this one of Ann...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/25/4-strange-cases-of-demonic-possession/After Mussolini was executed, his body was strung up before being brought to the hospital for autopsy and eventually returned to the family members. So, when an eBay auction started for the brain and some blood samples o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/30/mussolinis-stolen-brain-offered-on-ebay/In July 1841 the dead body of the beautiful brunette Mary Cecilia Rogers was found in the Hudson, near Hoboken. When the famous author Edgar Allan Poe soon afterwards published his story "The Murder of Marie Rog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/14/was-marie-roget-murdered-by-edgar-allan-poe/A 16-inch snake was killed at a home in China and then found to have a foot growing out of its body! 66-year-old Dean Qiongxiu said she awoke to find the reptile clinging to a wall in her bedroom. She killed the snake wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/15/snake-found-with-a-foot/
