Posts by Matt Gilligan

It’s like a bottle lost in the ocean for years, randomly found by a stranger thousands of miles away… An airplane passenger recently found a revealing, heartfelt confession of love…written on a barf bag. Hey, if you’re not gonna use it to vomit into, why not write a beautiful, romantic story on it? A photo...

We’re hitting those extremely depressing days of winter, where the sun never seems to shine and we’re bombarded with snow for days on end. But you’ll never have it as bad as Norilsk, Russia, a Siberian where it snows 270 days a year and residents don’t even glimpse the sun for long periods of time....

There may not be a more fascinating figure in American history than Abraham Lincoln. Honest Abe’s life continues to be studied more than 150 years after his death, and for good reason. He is one of the towering figures of our nation’s past, he was a trailblazer, and he did some truly unusual things. Enjoy...

I’ve had friends and acquaintances who claim they lived in ‘haunted houses.’ While their stories were pretty convincing, I must say they’ve never totally gotten through the skeptic in me. I guess you have to experience something like that firsthand to become a true believer. These AskReddit users share their creepy personal tales of paranormal...

Even when a relationship doesn’t work out and you have to end it, you still take a lot of lessons away with you. While they’re not always easily learned lessons, a bad experience can be an extremely useful cautionary tale for you and everyone who hears about it. In this AskReddit article, people share the...

We can all think back to our school days and remember when a fellow student (or sometimes the teacher) really blew it with a hilariously incorrect answer. Come again? What was that? One more time? The best is when they are completely convinced they’re right, and you have to shake your head and say, “No,...

I think the strangest person I ever met was a guy who used to come into the taco place I worked at in high school. His name was Gary. He was incredibly bizarre and had special instructions for how he wanted his tacos made. He also drank the hot sauce like it was Coca-Cola. Ahhhh,...

Are we living in a real-life version of the movie Idiocracy? The answer is a resounding “YES!” And that’s something we should probably be a little bit afraid of, if you ask this guy. It’s kind of scary to think that these people hold down jobs, drive cars, etc. Take a look at this, folks. 1....

Fact: cops love donuts. At least, it seems that way based on all the movies and TV shows I’ve seen. Well, one thing is for certain, there’s a stereotype that cops love donuts, so it’s really funny to see them poke fun at themselves about it once in a while. Which is what happened in Lexington, Kentucky when...

Artist Eduardo Sanchez, also known as Edull, was sick and tired of prejudice against plus-size women, so he took it upon himself to illustrate a series of plus-size superhero women wearing everyday versions of their crimefighting outfits. Sanchez said, “I have been working on this theme for almost 6 years now. I want to show...

Waiters see it all. And they hear it all, too. All kinds of weird and wacky conversations from their many, many tables. Here are some of the weirdest that AskReddit users shared. 1. Don’t follow my lead “I saw a mother take her knife and with the flat part of it, whack the hand of...

These facts may sound like BS, but let me assure you they are anything but. They are 100%, certifiably TRUE. And you will say “WOW.” Believe me. 1. That’s a big cat 2. I like this 3. A storm’s coming 4. Let that sink in 5. Pyramids are VERY old 6. In limbo 7. Good...

“Can’t you knock?!” is something that I think every teenager has screamed at their parents at one time or another. And they’re not wrong. Think about it — if parents don’t knock, they might stumble onto a situation that will leave both child and guardian scarred for life. AskReddit users shared their most embarrassing stories...

“Well, isn’t that convenient?” How many times have you said that in your life? Sometimes the universe just seems to be looking out for you. These AskReddit folks shared the most convenient things that ever happened to them. 1. Rolled on in “I ran out of gas on a long one lane bridge with a gas...

History has a funny way of repeating itself. We always like to believe we’re on the cutting edge of just about everything, but the truth is a lot of things we view as ‘modern’ are actually pretty old. Some of these so-called modern things have been around for decades, if not centuries. Here are some...