How The South Outsmarts Ghosts With Old Bottles
They hang colored bottles in trees to trap roaming spirits - a Hoodoo-rooted Southern trick that's equal parts faith, recycling and stubborn charm.Read More 
Colombia's Giant Roasted Ants Are Deliciously Unruly
In Santander they toast hormigas culonas - nutty, bacony courting snacks that make polite dinner talk evaporate.Read More 
That Time Space Whispered 'Wow' and Ghosted Us
August 15, 1977: a radio dish heard something so rude it earned a single-word reaction and never explained itself.Read More 
The Dried Hand Thieves Loved
Believe it or not, at one time burglars carried a pickled hanged man's hand like it was a get-out-of-jail-free card.Read More 
They Buried Pee And Pins To Stop Curses
In old houses folks filled bottles with urine, hair and bent pins, buried them in hearths and pretended the devil would take a number and wait.Read More 
That Barnacle That Makes Crabs Babysit Its Babies
Meet the parasitic barnacle that sneaks into a crab, turns him into a sterilized nanny and gets him to love every minute of it.Read More 
Donkeys Are Not Allowed To Nap In Bathtubs, Dear
Only in Arizona will you find a law that actually tells a beast where not to catch a snooze - and yes, it comes from a real mess, not a punchline.Read More
When A Stroke Gives You A Foreign Accent
You wake up after a head injury and your sister swears you sound like you grew up in Warsaw; welcome to foreign accent syndrome, the brain's most rude impersonation.
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When Your Sofa Turns Into a Dollhouse: Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Some people wake up and the world has shrunk or stretched like a bad special effect; it is real, it is weird, and it has a proper medical name.
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