Using a valid U.S. address (and for a small fee), Died in House instantly searches millions of records to determine if a death has occurred at that location, and if so, will try to retrieve who, when, what caused it, not to mention the “vitality status” of previous residents. From co-founder Roy Condrey's Lapham's Quarterly…
The Reno Gazette Journal recently published an obituary that struck many readers as unusual (and not just because of the time-traveling). From MyNews4.com: Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick born Jan 4, 1935 and died alone on Sept. 30, 2013 [sic-Johnson died Aug. 30]. She is survived by her 6 of 8 children whom she spent her lifetime…
Ignoring the fact that chocolate strawberries and fire trucks don't go together, and ignoring the fact that the aforementioned fire truck image has been ripped off from clipart.com, don't you think the cake decorator would have thought that adding splattered chocolate and red sprinkles and frosting might, just might, give the effect of blood splatter…
So the latest issue of Rolling Stone arrived in the mail not too long ago. You know the one I’m talking about—it’s the issue with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing brother, on the cover looking like a rock star because, well, maybe he is. And he’s not alone. “Bad boys, bad boys, watcha…
A woman in Houston, Texas recently committed murder “with a deadly weapon, namely a shoe…” At least, that's what the police think after Ana Lilia Trujillo answered the victim's apartment door covered in blood and with her repeatedly stabbed boyfriend lying dead in the hallway next to her discarded shoe. According to CNN, who also…
Anyone who knows me will tell you that food is right at the top of my priorities in life. Follow my Twitter feed, and you’ll notice that probably a full 25 percent of my tweets are related to eating. Still, there are things that seem extreme even to me, like beating a chef to death…
For years, absinthe was considered far more dangerous than most liquors. In fact, it was banned in both the United States and the EU for nearly a century due to its alleged hallucinogenic qualities. But in fact, it appears that the absinthe itself—the distilled spirit of wormwood—was not responsible for the problems faced by early…
A man in Japan was recently accused of attempted murder by introducing a caustic material, hydrofluoric acid, into the shoes of a female colleague he was stalking. This story was covered, among other places, by France 24, a coincidence since in Paris in the turn of the last century, death from poisoned shoes wasn't apparently…
Ever play a game and wonder just where the creators got their ideas? As it turns out, one of the greatest games ever to be created for wordsmiths was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. Alfred Butts, the creator of Scrabble, was inspired by Poe’s story “The Gold Bug,” about a code that is based on…
Everything’s for sale. Even an alibi. Just ask the folks at AlibiNetwork.com. They offer an absolutely astonishing array of services, including Toll free or local virtual hotel number answered by a virtual front desk clerk 24 hours a day. The operator will greet a caller with the appropriate hotel greeting message and will handle the…
