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A lifelong Nantucket resident captured rare footage of a great white shark tearing apart a seal just feet from shore. Carrie Drayton, a local who recorded the attack, was driving past Great Point Beach with her boyfriend around 10:30 a.m.…
A Las Vegas family has been reunited with their stolen Pomeranian after a frantic two-day search driven by neighbor security footage. Jaelle Johnson, a Summerlin resident, discovered her dog Linus missing on Friday, Sept. 18 around 6 p.m. When she…
A Tennessee mother paralyzed at a Kentucky music festival has forgiven the stranger who fell from a tree and crushed her spine. Jamie Ulshoffer, a Tennessee native, suffered a severed spinal cord when a man plummeted from a tree and…
A clinical anatomist is publicly challenging the ethics of a major plastinated-body exhibition that opens in London this week, spotlighting consent concerns around displays of corpses arranged in sexual poses. Dr Joyce El-Haddad, a senior lecturer in anatomy and histology…
Paul Horst is demanding action after students at a rival high school flashed sexually explicit signs targeting young women during a Long Island football game. Horst, who has relatives on the William Floyd football team, said the posters displayed during…
Lizzie Borden’s real-life sister Emma has been misrepresented in Netflix’s latest Ryan Murphy drama, with the series inventing a rift that never existed during the most critical years of their lives. Emma Borden, born in 1851, was the eldest of…
Christa Pike’s lawyers have revealed a disturbing childhood drawing she made years before she became the youngest woman ever sentenced to death in the United States. Pike, 50, has spent three decades on Tennessee’s death row for the 1995 murder…
A California recruitment CEO forced employees to browse a sexually explicit gay massage website to hire in-home masseuses for her personal use, then demoted and publicly humiliated a worker who objected, according to a new lawsuit. Kaynaz Farhood, a former…
Ahna’s parents have spoken out about their nine-year-old daughter’s vivid visions of an ancient underwater city. The couple, who appear in the Lifetime Movie Network documentary series *The Ghost Inside My Child*, say the girl began describing detailed scenes from…
Hard Mountain Dew is dangling a $1 million prize for anyone who can prove Bigfoot walks among us. The boozy soda brand, launched by PepsiCo and Boston Beer Company, unveiled its “Bigfoot Bounty” contest last week with a straight-faced press…
Aaron Walenga is praising a group of four runners who pulled his wife back from death after lightning struck the Florida couple as they walked hand in hand. Aaron, 48, and Clare Walenga, 43, had just dropped off their three…
Peter Mossfield says he feels “great” despite spending 77 days consuming 24 beers daily while taking steroids and skipping every workout. Mossfield, who runs the Instagram account BoozeBagFitness, said in May that his extreme regimen has given him “the body…
Junior Ubiribo has defended his late father against speculation that insecurity drove him to seek repeated penile enlargement procedures. The son of British influencer Igho ‘Tiny’ Ubiribo, 43, spoke after his father’s death in Bangkok this March following a fifth…
A Georgia college student discovered a stowaway kitten dangling from her car bumper after an 800-mile drive from New Jersey. Jadyn Sawyer, a University of Georgia student, had no idea the animal was riding inside her vehicle’s undercarriage when she…
A hacked freeway sign in Los Angeles flashed a website targeting Iranian dissidents, and one woman who found herself listed says she no longer feels safe in America. Emel Karsaz, 48, an Iranian-born regime critic, discovered her name, photograph and…
A 74-year-old Maryland hunter has been charged with manslaughter after fatally shooting a mother of five he mistook for a deer in a Delaware field. Walter Moorhead, 74, of Salisbury, Maryland, was arrested Friday evening following the death of Santos…