Amanda Mannen has written for Cracked since 2013. She works from a rotation of surfaces in western Canada, where she lives with her husband and various human and plant children. You can find her on Twitter @manna_festo, but really, who still uses Twitter?"
It’s important for a business to have a good logo, lest people start making up entire conspiracy theories to explain why your graphic design sucks so hard.
Disneyland has been a magnet for chaos since day one, and while there probably aren’t any actual skeletons hanging around the Pirates of the Caribbean ride (anymore), that place is definitely haunted.
A hasty press release regarding what the government has insisted ever since was the remains of a weather balloon kicked off a UFO craze that the residents of New Mexico have learned to embrace.
When a series of unfortunate events all cluster around one event, however, even the most skeptical start rationalizing that it’s not like throwing a little salt over your shoulder will hurt anything.
It took a few well-publicized serial attacks, along with some help from Hollywood, to turn a species just trying to mind its own business into a national phobia.
