Top Ten Strange Religious Beliefs
Religion is precious to many people. It is the driving force that helps them deal with daily challenges and keeps them on their moral track. Religion has been the source of incredible strength to help overcome unimaginable hardship. As the list below shows, however, religion can also be a big [...]
Top Ten Odd Things to See at the Smithsonian
An afternoon at the museum may not sound like the most fun family activity ever, but when the museum is the Smithsonian, you know that even the most persnickety of your family members is going to have fun exploring for hours among the expansive collections of this multi-building museum. The [...]
Top Ten Theories of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most respected and influential writers in the history of people wearing out of date clothes and talking about how dreadful life is. He is also one of the most world famous cases of ‘no-one-knows-what-the-heck-happened-to-him’ in history. While having written countless works that would [...]
Top 10 Mythical Creatures
As if there wasn’t already a plentiful plethora of creatures available for the perusal and scrutiny of always curious humanity- a fair few have been fabricated in the past that, to be fair- totally trump most known ‘real’ species. From flying horses to hysteric women with snakes for hair, it’d appear we [...]
Top 10 UFO Sightings
I often think it to be characteristically arrogant for human beings to be settled with the opinion that we may be alone in the Universe. Given the endless tapestry of planets, stars, galaxies and moons set around our miniscule planet- it is 100 per cent more logical to assume the [...]
Top Ten Crazy Fears that Actually Have Names
Everybody has met somebody who says that they aren’t afraid of anything. Big lies, right? Even if you don’t fear the reaper, or the boogie man, and would gladly frolic around in the dark carrying spiders with your head wrapped in snakes, there is still something that gives you the [...]
Top 10 Most Contagious Illnesses
Being ill is seldom fun, getting pinned down by a particularly nasty cold usually results in a good few days of moping and generally feeling sorry for yourself whilst constantly blowing your nose. But it could be worse, I know medicine today is in many ways a blessing- however there [...]
Top 10 Alleged Cases of Demonic Possession
The supernatural world is one shrouded in mysticism and uncertainty, a place undoubtedly existent in the minds of some yet rejected entirely by others. Whilst demonic possession is a concept un-foreign in most societies today, widely as a result of its frequent interpretation in the popular entertainment industry, the truth [...]
Top Ten Technology Advances in History
The story of humanity is really the story about our ability to use tools to advance our society. From the very first time a human picked up a stick an used it as a weapon through the use of computer guided medical robots we as a society have evolved because [...]
Top 10 Brutal Torture Methods
For millennia, torture has been used by humankind in order to meet various ends. Whether as punishment for a crime, for the extraction of information or as part of an execution- we’ve become devilishly good at devising ways of inflicting unthinkable misery upon each other. Here’s a look at some [...]
