Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Persons with Alice in Wonderland syndrome experience significant changes in their perception, without explanation. Objects may seem much larger than they are or appear...
A Unique Way to Unalive Yourself
In early modern Europe, depressed Christians - predominately Protestants and predominately women - took to an unusual way to die by suicide: They killed...
5 Unusual Places to Find Writing Prompts
In a post on the Novlr blog, Pamela Koehne-Drube suggests some unusual places to find story prompts. She suggests the following tools and websites:
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The Strangest Non-Fictional Deaths
If you ever thought you were destined for a death that is baroque and complicated, you'll fit in with a lot of writers from...
The World’s Worst Parties
Cracked has a breakdown of the world's worst parties, including:
The Ball of the Wild Men. In honor of the impending wedding of her...
The 1,600-Year Old Demon-Slaying Mega Sword
Archaeologists have unearthed an oversized ceremonial iron sword and a bronze mirror shaped like a shield from a 1,600-year-old burial mound in Nara, Japan....
What’s Happening Along the Corpse Road
Have you ever walked one of Europe's Corpse Roads? Traversing the rural countryside, you might encounter one of these roadways, paths marked with crucifixes...
These are Some Very Loud Teeth
It sounds like a demonic curse - or an awesome D&D spell - but the apparently real story of people whose teeth literally exploded...
These Rocks are Alive!
Or maybe not. But they look cool!
In Romania, the small town of Costesti boasts boulders--called trovants or living rocks--that excrete smaller versions of themselves,...
The Bag of Secrets
Between the 1400s and 1800s, the UK government maintained a Bag of Secrets containing the records of notorious legal trials, most for treason. The...
