7 Creepy Urban Legends That Happen to Be True (Part 6) Well, it's that time of year again.
Specifically, the time of year when we make you shit your pants with stories that sound like they must have been made up, but are actually terrifyingly true. We have done this five times before, and somehow humanity keeps topping itself ... #7. The Homemade Self-Decapitation Machine. The 6 Most Spectacular Low Points of Modern Pop Culture. Brothers and sisters of the Internet, we are living in a Golden Age of the strange.
On any given day, you may see Germans declare war against all ice and motherfuckers or watch the proud people of Norwegia have some time with traditional burga moving. Yet in the lifespan of every medium there is a sweet spot -- a place where the perfect timing meets the perfect failure or the perfect enthusiasm to create a moment of sublime insanity that will never be duplicated. Let's look back on the "best" moments from six different areas of America's rich and absurd pop culture. #6. Literature -- How to Be Famous, 2009 There have always been and will always be celebrities who are famous for nothing.
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were probably the worst examples of this. The dumbest and worst among you are probably saying, "Those two made money by doing nothing -- they just knew how to game the system! " 5 Reasons the Scariest Thing Ever Written Is a Kids' Book. When we were kids in the '80s, pornography was hidden from our eyes for fear it would warp us -- and with good reason.
The only way we could see a skin mag was to sneak into the homeless camp at the abandoned drive-in, brain a hobo with a log and take the porn from his lifeless corpse. Now you're a murderer, and it's all because some people look good naked. The 6 Most Eerily Convincing Ghost Videos on YouTube. YouTube is full of "This is totally real, guys" ghost videos, and if you don't spend at least one night around Halloween browsing through a bunch of them, you're not truly getting into the spirit of the holiday.
Here are what we consider the most eerily convincing videos in the genre.* *Note: Science has found zero empirical evidence for the existence of ghosts, aliens, demons or any other supernatural creatures, and these videos will surely not fool an expert in video fakery. Unless he or she watches them alone, late at night, in the dark. . #6. The 5 Most Embarrassing Ways Churches Are Trying to Be Hip. Church attendance is dwindling in this day and age, and churches are finally starting to realize that if they don't adapt, they're going to go extinct faster than gingers.
Hilariously, this is the best any of them have come up with so far ... #5. Church Plays Techno Music Like a Club Getty Since most young people these days spend their nights grinding up on each other while synthesized music tears apart their eardrums, priests at Church of All Saints in Stockholm decided that techno music was the obvious solution for recent attendance problems. And, because apparently there are no dance clubs in Sweden, it totally worked. . #4. Bbc.co.uk. 4 Truly Scary Facts No One Tells You About Halloween. To an alien species visiting Earth for the first time, Halloween must resemble a kind of sexy war.
People and monsters stumble through the streets, slick with blood, knives plunged through their heads, while erotic nurses bounce between divisions, doing a terrible job of triage. Not even the children are spared. In fact, they are frenzied participants, screaming through the shadows with flaming bags of shit or hustling between cobwebbed houses carrying severed limbs and sacks of teeth-rotting courage all night long, or at least until curfew. At the end of it all, everyone either passes out from overstimulation or has sex with a stranger; those are the only two options. Our forensics swap will be as mediocre as our costume choices! Halloween is a celebration of reckless indulgence, honoring the dead by living really hard for one night.
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Laws changed, regimes changed, the way we look at the world changed and the release date of the Tim Allen masterpiece Big Trouble changed because it featured a bomb on an airplane. But under all of that, the world was affected in a number of bizarre, unexpected ways that largely went unreported, for obvious reasons. But thanks to the action of a handful of terrorists ... #7. The World Got Hotter Getty In the wake of 9/11, something happened that most people never thought they'd see until the utter collapse of human civilization: completely empty skies.
The 5 Most Terrifying Civilizations In The History of the World. The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World. Humans are like goats. We'll eat any damned thing. Just ask the people who make PowerBars. In fact, you'll find foods in this world that don't even seem possible. The 5 Most Depraved Sex Scenes from Important Cultural Myths. If you've spent time studying history at all, you probably already know that depraved sex acts are to religion as rock star groupies from the '70s are to depraved sex acts.
In other words, they go hand in hand. Or hand in some other body part, depending on who we're talking about. And since we've already covered wanton debauchery mentioned in the Bible, we thought it only fair to take a look at the kinkiest stories from other cultures around the world. #5. Loki Makes Horse-Rape Babies Via Wikipedia. 5 Giant City-Wide Parties You Won’t Believe Are Real. #2.
Talkeetna Moose Shit Festival.