Posts by Matt Gilligan

If you spend enough time in thrift stores, you eventually notice something: people have all kinds of super weird sh*t and they eventually end up donating it to Goodwill and other places like it. Pretty much every bizarre thing you could ever imagine lines the shelves of those stores and we’re about to hear about...

Ahhh, college. It was a glorious time. Filled with parties, drinking, staying up all night… Oh, and some studying and learning, too. When you have that many young people thrown together in an atmosphere with little to no supervision, crazy things are bound to happen. I know I saw my fair amount! Let’s get wild...

We should all strive to be open books. What do I mean by that, you ask? Well, I mean that we should all try to be life-long learners. Because knowledge is power and we should never stop trying to fill our heads with all kinds of information about all kinds of subjects! It’s good for...

No doubt about it, doctors have a tough job. Actually, EVERYONE who works in health care has a tough job when it comes down to it. And they get to see every aspect of our society at their jobs. They deal with the good, the bad, and the ugly on a daily basis. And that’s...

Sometimes, it’s the little things in life that matter the most. And sometimes those little things are facts that most people don’t know about that could end up saving their lives one day. Hey, we only get one shot at this life thing, so we might as well soak up all the knowledge we can,...

We usually only hear about the really dangerous and scary things that police officers have to deal with on a daily basis, but you better believe that they spend some of their time on the job dealing with dumb and mundane things just like the rest of us do. The only difference is that we...

Have you ever had an experience in your life that gave you the creeps so much that you couldn’t explain it? It happens to a whole lot of folks out there and a lot of times these encounters and events can turn the most die-hard nonbeliever into a person who begins to question what’s really...

Life is full of scary things and events that we have a hard time explaining. And, even if you don’t believe in the supernatural, sometimes you have an experience that really creeps you out and makes you question everything you thought you knew about life…and death. In this article, people opened up about creepy and...

What’s the biggest mystery of your life that you just can’t explain? Maybe it’s something huge and monumental, or maybe it’s something small and seemingly inconsequential but it still lingers in the back of your brain and you think about it every now and then. Either way, life sure is strange and it’s full of...

Life sure can be tricky, huh? You think you have everything figured out and then BAM!, you get hit with something totally weird that you really can’t explain… Has something like this ever happened to you before? It could be a big mystery or just a little one, but either way, they can gnaw at...

Every industry has its secrets, and the airlines are no exception. And, like most industries, what actually goes on behind the scenes would probably shock a lot of us who don’t really put a whole lot of thought into it. We get on the plane, fall asleep for a few hours, and then we’re in...

When you board an airplane, you probably just go about your routine and you assume that everything is business as usual. The pilots are getting the plane ready to go, the luggage handlers are getting everything into the cargo holds, and the flight attendants are brewing the coffee and fawning over the people in First...

A lot of teenagers really do think they know it all. But hey, we were all young once, right? I remember thinking that I was a hell of a lot smarter than I really was when I was in high school and college. And, as most of us tend to do, I later found out...

Remember when you were a teenager? Remember how you thought you knew pretty much EVERYTHING there was to know about EVERYTHING? Yeah, it turns out that we really don’t know all that much about how the world operates when we’re in high school and we live under our parents’ roof and are pretty well taken...

First things first: hats off to all the doctors and other healthcare workers out there who are doing a great job during these trying times. But now it’s time to look at the lighter side of their work and explore some funny stories about patients who were either totally OVERdramatic or not dramatic at all....