Thurston Penwick III 
When Bad Memory Becomes a Movement The Mandela Effect is one of the saddest monuments to collective human ego in modern history. It’s the phenomenon where a large group of people misremembers something — and instead of accepting that memory is a squishy, unreliable mess, they decide they’ve stumbled into evidence of alternate dimensions. Because … Read more
Lies So Dumb, Even NASA Laughed If you ever want to experience secondhand embarrassment powerful enough to rupture an organ, just spend five minutes listening to a Moon landing denier. It’s like watching someone proudly announce they’ve outsmarted gravity by falling down the stairs on purpose. The Moon landing hoax theory is the apex predator … Read more
Where Geography, Physics, and Sanity Go to Die There’s something uniquely humbling about realizing that in an age where we can send robots to Mars, track hurricanes from space, and map the molecular structure of proteins, there are still people — allegedly literate — who believe Earth is shaped like a cosmic frisbee. Flat Earth … Read more
When You Need Therapy, Not Chucky There’s nothing quite like a grown adult claiming their stuffed toy is possessed by the malevolent spirit of a Victorian chimney sweep. It’s the kind of story that makes you question not just individual judgment, but the collective failure of entire educational systems. “Haunted” dolls have become an industry … Read more
Let’s be honest: ghost hunters are just cosplayers who got lost on their way to the paintball field. The “science” of ghost hunting boils down to this: turn off all the lights, wander around old buildings in cargo pants, whisper “Did you hear that?” every six seconds, and record some static to call it a … Read more
America’s Favorite Invisible Man in a Monkey Suit Bigfoot is the participation trophy of the paranormal world. You can’t prove he’s there, you can’t prove he’s not, and somehow that’s enough for a certain breed of sweaty enthusiast to slap a sticker on their pickup truck and call it a lifestyle. Every few months some … Read more
Crop Circles: Mowing Down Common Sense There’s something especially magical about crop circles. Not in the way the believers think — no sacred geometry, no alien landing pads — but magical in the sense that a couple of dudes with planks and rope can absolutely devastate the critical thinking skills of an entire generation. Every … Read more
Scam Artists in Sweatpants Once upon a time, you could call a 1-900 number, fork over five bucks a minute, and some stranger wearing pajama pants and fuzzy slippers would tell you that “great changes are coming” to your love life. Ah, the good old days, when hope was expensive and delivered in fifteen-minute increments … Read more
Astrology Isn’t Ancient Wisdom. It’s Ancient Wishful Thinking. Astrology is the art of blaming your personal failures on the cosmic movements of balls of gas millions of miles away. It’s the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card for people who refuse to accept that sometimes, Brenda, you’re just bad at picking men — it has nothing to do … Read more