Cracked Archive - Weird World
13 Old-Timey Photos That Prove History Was Haunted
Old-timey people were insane. Like Lovecraftian-world-of-horrors insane.
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- By Mark Hill
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675 7 Creepy Urban Legends That Happen to Be True (Part 6)
Well, it's that time of year again. Specifically, the time of year when we make you shit your pants with stories that sound like they must have been made up, but are actually terrifyingly true.
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- By Nathan Birch
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6 Real Museums Straight Out of Your Nightmares
In our continuing mission to ruin your life completely, here are some museums that will have you sleeping with a nightlight for the next few years.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , J. Wisniewski, Itzhak J. Czukor
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The 6 Most Eerily Convincing Ghost Videos on YouTube
Science has found zero empirical evidence for the existence of ghosts, aliens, demons or any other supernatural creature and these videos will surely not fool an expert in video fakery. Unless he or she watches them alone, late at night, in the dark. Then they become very convincing.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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5 Creepy Coincidences You Won't Believe Actually Happened
The rational part of our brain tells us that there is nothing weird about coincidences. We're here to tell it to shut its pie hole.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 B.S. Political Arguments You Hear Every Election Season
Look, we're not going to try to sway you on any one issue, but you should know that there are some factual points that almost everyone gets wrong.
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- By Patrick McCarty, Alex Race
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Cracked Round-Up: Debategasm Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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7 Horrifying Uses of the Human Body to Create Art
Here are the most insane things people have done to themselves in the name of art -- the end result may still be ridiculous and it may still be bullshit, but nobody could call these people lazy.
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- By Rayan Tofique
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5 Famous Artists Who Tried to Destroy Their Own Work
For artists, it must be complete agony to see their hard-labored brainchildren banned, censored or outright destroyed -- which makes it all the more baffling when they choose to do it themselves.
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- By Drew Anderson
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The 6 Most Hilariously Insane Overreactions of All Time
Even if you've never, say, pulled a gun on somebody who cut you off in traffic, you've probably only imagined yourself doing it. Not everyone is capable of such restraint.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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5 Everyday Things You Won't Believe Are Copyrighted
Since all of human history consists of people thinking of ways to take good ideas and make them terrible, these days copyright laws have been taken to absurd extremes.
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- By C. Coville, Ajay Kumar, Karl Smallwood, Andrew Marinus
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Cracked Round-Up: Joe Biden Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 Classic Superman Comics That Prove He Used to Be a Dick
Turns out that back in the day, the Man of Steel was less of a big blue Boy Scout and more of a raging anti-establishment maniac in red underpants who spent more time destroying property than catching criminals.
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- By Dillon Fenner
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The 6 Most Hilariously Creative Acts of Revenge
We do not endorse any of the following actions. (No matter how friggin' awesome they are.)
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- By Scott Pearson
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5 Big News Stories That Left Out the Most Important Part
The news media is in and out quicker than a high school kid on prom night, hyping up the most outlandish elements of a story and then dropping it like it's an infant.
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- By Chris Radomile
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