Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Hollywood takes some liberties, sure, but these real life horror stories gave screenwriters some chilling jumping off points. Some of these movies turned out more frightening than others, but there’s no doubt that the actual incidents at their center would be enough to send any of us running for the hills. As long as they don’t have...

In the days (centuries) before the pitfalls of genetics were common knowledge, royal and aristocratic families intermarried in order to keep their bloodlines “pure” – ie. they couldn’t trust “common” blood not to pollute whatever it was they believed gave them the right to rule. In ancient Rome, the same families ruled from the time of...

I can’t spoil this video for you, but if you’re an animal lover (especially kittens!), you’re not going to want to miss it. Not only that, but if you’ve never realized how smart crows are, this bird is about to blow your mind. I think this is pretty amazing. Strangely, I want a crow for a...

Okay, fine, it’s just secrets a few agents have let slip now that they’re retired but still – pretty cool, if you ask me. The Secret Service was formed, ironically as it would turn out, on the day President Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford Theatre. At the time they were charged with protecting the...

There’s no denying that the world of technology has changed everyone’s lives very quickly. Those of us who were on the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution (I was born in 1979, and from birth through college was never truly influenced by the internet) are the only generation of folks to experience both a life...

One of my favorite things to do is start typing a search into Google just to see how it completes the query for me. It’s my own little way of trying to get a glimpse behind the curtain, trying to see into the minds of the masses of people who Google right alongside me. Sometimes (often),...

Twitter is the place to be for many things: snark, live tweets, breaking news…and outing the strangers you come across in real life when they do something social media worthy. In that spirit, people took to Twitter to tell on the weirdest waiters they’d ever had the, er, pleasure of meeting. As a server (once...

Amos Dudley (who also has a name that belongs in a Harry Potter novel) is a 23-year-old digital design student in New Jersey with a pretty common problem – he hates his crooked teeth. He reportedly had braces as a teenager but didn’t do his part to maintain the fix (um, hello, who among us...

I love a good drama queen. Hell, I’ve even been called one on occasion, and I honestly don’t have much of a counter argument in some situations. Some days, there’s just no way to reasonably react to pretty much anything- especially if it’s a three-cup-of-coffee kind of day. At any rate, you’ve likely got someone...

And yet, they still shared their stories online. Because if not for embarrassing confessions told for the amusement of strangers, what is the Internet for, anyway? Nothing good, that’s for sure. Except cats. 15. Or ever, actually. 14. I need to know if she’s actually a lesbian, or if she just found out at that...

Tumblr – love it or hate it, you have to admit that the people over there are quick. And they’re usually spot on with super hilarious comebacks or apropos observations. Whenever I’m having a shit day, these 14 posts are sure to get a snort out of me, at the very least. I hope it...

Dating is rough. We might as well laugh at it. 20. Keep looking and you’ll find someone who appreciates your dark side. 19. Playing “which of these things is a bigger turnoff?” 18. Nailed it. 17. OMG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 16. Painfully on point. 15. Maybe save the lame jokes for a little while down the line....

In 1893, America hit a big milestone – she discovered her first serial killer. It was the year of Chicago’s World’s Fair, and H.H. Holmes had big plans for the property he had converted into a macabre, deadly hotel. By the time he was caught, it contained secret passageways, gas chambers, ovens, and a host of...

On July 5, 2015, zoologist Rassim Khelifa noticed something strange while he was traipsing around the Swiss Alps studying how temperature affects dragonfly larvae. Really strange. While I was waiting at a pond near Arosa, at about 2,000 meter elevation, I witnessed a dragonfly dive to the ground while being pursued by another dragonfly… the...

I know that saving money is something I struggle with (and something I’d like to learn to be better at), so I often click on articles that contain suggestions on how to do just that. While the amounts put forth in this article would be a bit of stretch for me, the theory still applies...