Posts by Matt Gilligan

Ahhhhh, the first kiss. A rite of passage for young people. And old people too I guess, depending on when you started getting busy. Regardless of the age, everyone remembers their first kiss. Maybe it was great. Maybe it was terrible (probably). Take a look at the 13 AskReddit entries below to see if your...

Ouch. Some of these are rough. A rejected proposal has to be an incredibly tough thing to go through, but in the long run, most of these people are probably thankful it didn’t work out. Take a look at these 12 stories from AskReddit. 1. Level Headed Current girlfriend, actually. About a year ago I...

Awwwwwwww. Now isn’t this a lovely topic? We spend so much of our time being bombarded with bad news, it’s nice to be reminded every once in a while about all the great stuff out there. Take a look at the AskReddit responses below from people who talk about the exact moment they knew their spouse was...

I’ve worked some terrible jobs in my life, but these 12 people have had experiences that make mine look like a walk in the park. Bloody hotel room cleanup anyone? Yeah, doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun… 1. Housekeeping! Hotel housekeeping. If it comes out of the human body, I’ve cleaned it up. I...

Getting pregnant is pretty major, so it’s understandable that the newly expecting have TONS of questions for their doctors. Knowing that, one OBGYN attempted to answer the most important questions BEFORE patients even get in for their appointments by posting this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek sign in the office lobby. Pregnancy can also be stressful, and these fun answers give patients and their partners a...

Morons. They’re everywhere. EVERYWHERE. We’d like to think that all this technology we use every day has advanced our brains too, but that’s simply not the truth. Take a look at the 12 entries below and weep for the future of humanity. 1. Genius There was a guy who was famous among electricians for his stupidity. The...

Starting a new job is always a stressful ordeal. A million thoughts run through your mind: Will I fit in? Will my co-workers like me? Am I as stupid as my mother says? When Tumblr user kimpossibooty scored a new job as a cashier at Target, he decided to document his first week of work there. All...

This has to be a first. And if it isn’t, then it has to be the first time this incredible situation was tweeted about and then went viral for the whole world to see. The whole story started when Uber driver Msixelaa picked up a customer at the airport…then it all went downhill. Watch the scandalous story...

Sadly, attacks on schools have become an all too familiar phenomenon in the U.S. These senseless tragedies play out on our television screens so often that many Americans have seemingly become desensitized to the massacres. Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and many other schools will always be associated with the violence that occurred there. Without conducting...

Although Aileen Wuornos is one of the most well-known female serial killers in American history, it was the fictionalized portrayal of her life in the 2003 film Monster that brought her tragic, brutal story to the masses. Wuornos’ life was an unfortunate one, filled with rage, violence, and sadness. Aileen Wuornos was born to teenage parents...

Gary Heidnik was born in 1943. An intelligent young man with an I.Q. of 130, he never quite managed to fit in growing up in small-town Ohio. Heidnik was a loner who avoided eye contact and made few friends. At the age of 17, he dropped out of high school and joined the Army. In 1962, only...

With the aid of two young accomplices, serial killer Dean Corll carried out a brutal series of murders in the early 1970s that continues to haunt Houston, Texas to this day. The man nicknamed “The Candy Man” was responsible for at least 28 killings over a 3-year span, before he met his own demise at the...

Back in the early days of the Internet, when chat rooms were all the rage, the danger of who might be lurking in the dark corners of the web was still relatively unknown. The vast network offered up new possibilities for people to connect with likeminded individuals and to explore any topic they wanted, no...

At Close Range is, in my opinion, a highly underrated crime film. The 1986 drama depicts the events surrounding a crime family based in rural Pennsylvania during the 1960s and 1970s. I didn’t realize until years later that the film starring Sean Penn and Christopher Walken is based on a real case. While the film stands on its own merit,...

By all appearances, Robert Hansen seemed like a model citizen: He was a business owner, husband, and father. But lying below the surface was a vicious serial killer who hunted women for sport in the Alaskan wilderness. Hansen’s crimes seem so horrendous as to be fiction, especially when compared alongside Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game, the famous...