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While many people celebrate professional baseball’s greatest home runs, or its best players, we choose to honor the wackiest, most ridiculous, or downright embarrassing things to happen during a game. Some of these, many would like to forget, but we won’t let them. 10. Plague of Midges The Cleveland Indians baseball stadium, and much of [...]
Posted by Gregory Myers on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Sports · Tagged baseball, Bizarre, Gregory Myers, hall of fame, hallucinogenic, new york mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, potato, Sports, texas rangers, TopTenz, toronto blue jays, yankees
Recently, three women who had been kidnapped separately over a decade ago were found alive and well, and the brothers who had kidnapped them all were jailed. It was a shocking but welcome turn of events, as the loved ones of those who are kidnapped too seldom receive this kind of news. It’s more common than [...]
Posted by Jason Ward on Monday, May 20, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under People · Tagged Amnesia, Bizarre, Disappeared people, identity, Jason Ward, kidnapping, missing, mystery, People, TopTenz, Unexplained disappearances
There have been many TV channels throughout the years, some good and some bad. The good ones stay and cater to the audience. The bad ones either ran so cheaply, or had such a strange premise, they failed hard. These are of the latter: 10. The Puppy Channel In 1997, after seeing how TV was [...]
Posted by Evan Symon on Monday, May 6, 2013 at 4:30 am
Filed under Television · Tagged Bizarre, channels, Evan Symon, FCC, puppies, ted turner, Television, TopTenz, UHF
Every company in the world wants to increase their name recognition; after all, people cannot buy products from you if they do not know you exist. However, sometimes companies’ marketing stunts are so absurd, so questionable that it leads us to think there may actually be such a thing as bad publicity. Below are ten publicity [...]
Posted by Gregory Myers on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Advertising, Bizarre · Tagged ads, Advertising, alcohol, balloon boy, Bizarre, brewdog, bull testicle, bull testicle beer, Burger King, Business, colorado brewery, Come Together, commercials, corporations, denny's, denny's wedding chapel, marketing, never mind the anabolics, never mind the anabolics beer, olympic games, olympics, Oprah, PETA, pontiac, public relations, publicity, publicity stunts, rocky mountain oyster stout, sea kittens, speedo, Starbucks, steroid, steroid beer, steroids, subservient chicken, taco bell, taco bell speedo, Television commercials, The Olympic Games, the Olympics, Whopper
Albinism is when a given creature has a partial or complete a melanin deficiency, which leads to the creature looking like God turned the hue and saturation, all the way down. Here are ten of the rarest or most bizarre albino animals. Because why not? 10. Albino Manta Ray Manta rays are like the living [...]
Posted by Karl Smallwood on Friday, March 22, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals, Bizarre · Tagged albinism, albino, albino animals, albinos, Animals, bats, beautiful albino animals, Bizarre, chameleons, hummingbirds, koalas, Leopards, manta rays, melanin deficiency, rare albino animals, skunks, Snail, TopTenz, TopTenz.net
Unless you are fascinated by mummies, the beauty of their well-preserved bodies may be lost on you. But surely you can appreciate the shapely leg of a woman from the Bronze Age, the supple skin of a wife from the Western Han Dynasty, and the enigmatic smile on the face of King Tutankhamun’s grandmother. The [...]
Posted by Guest Author on Friday, September 21, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, People · Tagged beautiful women, Bizarre, Bodies, bone cancer, Breast, Christine Quigley, coffin, death, discovery, egypt, false beard, female pharaoh, head, king tutankhamun, mortality, pharaoh, pharaoh hatshepsut, princess of altai, queen, royal mummy, russian steppes, siberia, siberian ice maiden, strange, TopTenz, TopTenz.net, Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, western han dynasty, Women
Throughout history, mental disorders have been regarded with fear, bias, and ignorance. Though medicine has drastically improved for the mentally ill in the last century, mainstream society still has a relatively uninformed and biased view against individuals with mental disorders. This is particularly harmful because every year up to ¼ of Americans fit the criteria [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, April 29, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Health · Tagged Abnormal psychology, Alexandria V. Resnica, American Psychiatric Association, antisocial disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, auditory and visual hallucinations, Bipolar disorder, Bizarre, Clinical psychology, dangerous disorders, Depersonalization, Depersonalization Disorder, disorders, Dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Factitious disorder, Health, Health_Medical_Pharma, Mania, medical, mental disorders, mild Schizophrenia, Mood disorders, Multiple Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, One Bipolar Disorder, paranoia, People, phobia, phobias, physically disruptive disorders, Psychiatry, Psychology, psychotherapy, psychotic disorders, Schizoaffective disorder, Schizophrenia, severe Bipolar Disorder, Specific Phobia, Trichotillomania, unmedicated bipolar disorder
Christmastime is here. We all have our own holiday traditions – in my family we watch a Christmas movie on Christmas Eve and stuff our faces. Your family might do something different. Shoot, you might even be from another country, where there are what seem (to us) like some pretty wacky traditions. Some you might [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Downing on Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Holidays · Tagged auk, Bizarre, Caga Tio, chimney, Christmas, christmas eve, christmas holiday, christmas movie, christmas tradition, christmastime, evil spirits, holiday traditions, Holidays, Kallikantzaroi, kiviak, Mari Lwyd, monkey, pudding, Santa, Santa Claus, seal skin, star, witches
Do you believe in reincarnation? If you’re like most people, either you reject the idea outright or don’t know enough about it to make an informed decision. What is not generally known to the average westerner, however, is that reincarnation has a good deal of hard evidence to support it, and that this evidence is [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Friday, July 9, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Religion, Science · Tagged Amadeus Mozart, birthmarks, Bizarre, Bridey Murphy, Child Prodigies, Conscious Past Life Memories, Corresponding Birthmarks, Déjà Vu, Helen Wambach, Homosexuality, Hypnosis, Ian Stevenson, Idiomatic Phobias, Jeff Danelek, Life after death, musician, New Age, paranormal, Past Life Regression, phobias, prodigy, Psychology, Reincarnation, Reincarnation research, therapist, Transgender, Xenoglossy
Freak shows were much more popular fifty years ago than they are today. In fact, they are now illegal in some states. Freak shows were common at state fairs, carnivals, and circus sideshows. Curtains would be tightly drawn around the various “three-headed lady” or “alligator boy” tents. Curious customers wondered what was inside, and perhaps [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, People · Tagged America, Asia, Bailey, Barnum, Bizarre, Black Scorpion, carnival, Charles Stratton, Chelsea Charms, children, circus, Circuses, Coney Island, Coney Island freak show, Entertainment, Europe, Fiji, Fiji mermaid, France, Frank Lentini, Freak show, freak/researcher, freaks, Frederick III, hoaxes, interesting people, James Anthony Bailey, Jesse Stretch, Joannes Baptista Colloredo, Joseph Merrick, King, lap dancer, Las Vegas, Lazarus Colloredo, Nature, nelson mandela, Nevada, North America, odd, oddities, P. T. Barnum, People, performers, Phineas Taylor Barnum, president, punks, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Saartjie Baartman, Sarah Baartman, science, Sideshow, South Africa, state fair, strange, Sum 41, Taboo, The Black Scorpion, The Elephant Man, Theresa Murray, tom thumb, Ulisse Aldrovandi, United States