Cracked Archive - Weird World

It turns out there have been plenty of psychopathic killers in history for whom a lifetime of mayhem and mutilation was just their way of paying the bills.

• By B.T. Doran
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• October 29, 2015

Apart from naming them, picking a Halloween costume is the most nerve-wracking decision you'll ever make for your kid.

• By Chris Radomile
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• October 28, 2015

Watching Seinfeld makes some people literally ill. What's the deal with that!

• By Ivan Farkas
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• October 28, 2015

Society has decided that being famous is the most important thing in the world. And that's a big problem.

• By Kathy Benjamin
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• October 27, 2015

In keeping with our storied tradition of ruining everyone's fun, here are some more examples of famous paranormal phenomena that seem to have some compelling evidence behind them ... until you look a bit closer.

• By Jesus A. Rodriguez
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• October 27, 2015

Just because a horror plot is outlandish, that doesn't mean it couldn't actually happen ...

• By Pat Carnell
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• October 27, 2015

This is the body of Xin Zhui, a Chinese noblewoman who died over 2,000 years ago, yet continues to be blessed with the skin, flesh, organs, and sunny disposition of a fairly fresh corpse.

• By Adam Wears
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• October 27, 2015

There's no way thousands of people just independently go crazy in the exact same way and for no reason, right? Wellll ...

• By Jesus A. Rodriguez
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• October 26, 2015

Prank videos are stupid.

• By Daniel Dockery
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• October 25, 2015

True ruinous harassment takes a special kind of person. It takes madness, it takes evil, and most of it all, it takes devotion.

• By Robin Warder
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• October 25, 2015

For me, snoring has become serious. So that's why I bought a didgeridoo.

• By Luis Prada
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• October 24, 2015

The road to riches can actually be paved with petty misdemeanors.

• By E. Reid Ross
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• October 24, 2015

Sorry, Iowa Tractor Museum, but these terrifying museums really highlight the fact that you're the 'Gary from accounting' of educational institutions.

• By Laura H
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• October 24, 2015

I've come to discover that asking the Internet for advice on raising babies is the exact opposite of helpful.

• By C. Coville
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• October 23, 2015

Sure, some of them are serial killers. The vast majority are not. And they're everywhere.

• By Joseph Joyce
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• October 23, 2015