Cracked Personal Experiences
The Surprisingly Violent, Rage-Filled World Of Bingo
Bingo: A super boring game that only old people play because their hips are too fragile for flag football. Agree? You shouldn't.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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My Crazy Life As Arnold Schwarzenegger's Stunt Double
While Hollywood's top action stars are very skilled at wearing tuxedos and chatting with TV hosts, credit for their craziest onscreen shenanigans belongs to the often-underrated stunt performers.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Ted Bundy Abducted And Nearly Murdered Me: How I Survived
Over the course of his criminal career, a handful of women either escaped from or experienced near misses with Bundy. One of those women was our source today, Rhonda Stapley.
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- By Robert Evans
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I Live In Centralia, PA: It's America's Creepiest Ghost Town
The 1962 trash fire beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania is still burning to this day. We spoke with a few former residents and they told us ...
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- By Evan V. Symon
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5 Depraved Things You See Working Backstage At Concerts
Pro tip: you don't want to be the venue worker who doesn't recognize My Chemical Romance.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The Realities Of Hunting The 2nd Deadliest Animal In Africa
Note: When going on safari, stay the heck away from Cape buffalo.
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- By Ryan Menezes, Nick Rudicle
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I Fell 14,000 Feet In A Skydiving Accident (And Didn't Die)
After the first few seconds of ecstatic freefall, I felt the parachute try to open. But it didn't.
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- By Ryan Menezes, Brad Guy
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6 Deadly Realities Of Being Muslim And Gay Around The World
In Islam, homosexuality is all about location, location, location.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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There Are Still 60,000 Slaves In America (And I Was One)
Some 60,000 people are still enslaved in the United States, and we sat down to speak with one of them.
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- By Robert Evans
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5 Secrets You Learn When You're A Gun Consultant For Movies
We're still using real firearms in movies, and that's pretty terrifying.
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- By Robert Evans
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I Was There At Disneyland's Opening (And It Was A Nightmare)
It turns out Disneyland's grand opening went about as well as the Fyre Festival did.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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I Was A Human Search Engine In The Days Before Google
Take a look into the weird world that was ChaCha, the human search engines that were the originators of fake news.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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5 Strange Problems You Face When You're A Liberal Ex-Muslim
Believe it or not, but Muslims are not one big, uniform entity.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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7 Weird Secrets You Learn Doing Makeup For US Politicians
Thanks to Nixon, politicians have relied on makeup artists to hide their late nights, cold sores, and reptilian skin from public view for years. We talked to three of them, and this is what we learned.
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- By Robert Evans
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I Was Drugged And Raped At Burning Man: My Story
In 2012 she was drugged and raped at Burning Man by a serial rapist. This is her story.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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