Posts by Noah Berman

Did I stutter? Sorry, that was rude. Let me explain. Perhaps when you were a wee child, you looked up at your parents as, every morning, they poured themselves a cup of steaming coffee. And being small and unworldly, you thought maybe it tasted like hot chocolate, which was really your only previous experience with...

Every once in a while, a myth enters the public sphere that is not just incorrect, but actually dangerous. The fallacy that vaccines are in some way associated with the onset of autism is one of the single most harmful misconceptions currently floating around. And I don’t mean harmful in a metaphorical way – people...

For some utterly baffling reason, the idea that the Earth might not be a sphere, but rather a flattened disc, has made a comeback. This ridiculous theory seems to be growing in popularity, despite the fact that the sphericity of the world has actually been widely accepted and believed by educated people since it was...

Consider the humble goldfish. Many of us had some growing up – maybe more than we knew, given that they all look pretty much the same and are notoriously easy for sneaky parents to replace. As far as aquatic companions go, goldfish are about as straightforward as it gets. And, allegedly, they are also about...

These stories, taken from various AskReddit threads, are all (supposedly) true. To me, that makes them so much scarier. Ghost stories are fun and all, but I’m just not a sucker for a campfire tale. If you tell me a story that actually happened, though, well…I’ll be much less inclined to turn off the hallway...

Have you ever had something happen to you that made your pulse pound and your adrenaline kick into action? Something so scary that you had to take a moment or two to recover? You may need a moment to recover from just hearing some of these 19 (scary af) true stories from AskReddit. The people who...

The Internet is a hotbed of scary stuff – and I’m not just talking about the news (ba-zing!). If you’ve never done a deep dive into the corners of the many, many creepypasta sites and wikis, you’re really missing out. For horror fans especially, it’s can’t miss stuff (check out the SCP site if you...

We are not all model citizens – in fact, few of us are. Most of us have done things we regret because they hurt others, whether accidentally or otherwise. But even knowing that an action is bad is not always enough to stop us from doing it. You can find plenty of reasons to justify hurting others...

People can be…bad. There’s not really any other way to say it. Sometimes they do bad things for good reasons, and other times…not so much. This list has a little of both. To be real for a second – some of these AskReddit stories are legitimately shocking. I guess I just prefer to think well of humanity,...

We’ve all go secrets, some worse than others. Sometimes, those secrets are so bad that there’s no one you feel comfortable telling them to. And that really sucks because secrets naturally want to get out. It’s not healthy to walk around with too much on your chest. And that’s where the Internet comes in. With...

Confession is good for the soul. It can be really hard to carry a secret around, day in and day out, with no one to talk to about it. Luckily, the Internet provides the perfect anonymous place to spill your guts. Even if no one knows who you are, on Reddit people can still offer advice or...

Giving birth is not an easy process, physically or mentally. It is utterly exhausting for everyone involved, as well it should be. It is the way we bring new life into the world–it’s good that it isn’t an easy thing to do. But that is not the same as saying it should be dramatic. When...

I consider myself very lucky that I don’t have any stories like these. Frankly, they made me want to check my closets while I was reading them–so I can only imagine how petrifying it must have been to actually live through them. Hats off to these 10 AskReddit users for proving that truth is indeed a whole lot...

Pride is a strong emotion, but not as strong as embarrassment. Is it cool that you can blow bubbles of spit? Maybe. Is that something you should tell your co-workers? No. No matter how much you may want to. Even though you think your boss might think it’s funny, and then consider you a cooler guy,...

Sometimes, people are rude. And rude people are just asking for petty vengeance. I know some of these 19 AskReddit tales of trifling retribution might seem over the top, but rudeness is simply not to be borne – not in civil society, anyway. In my experience, the only way a rude person learns to dial back...