Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

This unsolved mystery is one of the oddest I’ve ever come across – not because of the missing people, but because of the string of bizarre details that seem to cloud the truth of what happened. On a remote island off the coast of Scotland, 3 lighthouse keepers lived and worked together. Then, on December 26, 1900, a supply...

An amazing show (that’s sadly no longer on the air) called Dark Matters: Twisted But True featured a story on this incident several years ago, and since then it’s never been far from my mind when talking about strange, unsolved incidents. On February 2, 1959, a group of 9 college-aged hikers camped for the night...

That’s right – the next time one of your friends gives you a hard time for loving everything magical and Hogwarts (or for legitimately needing to believe that your letter got lost in the mail), you’ve got science on your side when you hit back. According to a recent paper published in the Journal of...

In this day and age, it’s crazy to think that people are actually living off the grid. I mean totally off, where they subsist on their own crops, have zero contact with the outside world, and do not live as part of any particular community. Well, when you take into consideration that Siberia consists of...

The world is changing fast, and thanks to awesome things like science and technology and nerdy high school kids, that means we’re all going to be looking for cool, weird gadgets to fill out our lives (or make them easier) in the coming year. Check out these 20 items that are already showing up on...

It’s called “champing” (because everything needs a cutesy hook to earn people’s interest these days), but the chance to spend a few days in one of several rural, medieval churches in the English countryside is a pretty charming proposal, adorable name or not. The Churches Conservation Trust came up with the idea back in 2014...

Combining stoners and video games seems like a no-brainer – the only thing better would be somehow incorporating junk food into the mix, too – and yet (as ever), the @midnight players and viewers manage to take things to a whole new level. #15. Effortless. #14. Solid. @midnight #StonerVideoGames Assassin’s Weed — MaliceNile (@malicenile) March...

This Tumblr account collects final text messages – both from people who have passed on or gone away, and from the people they left behind, who, perhaps to find some closure, tell their stories online. The messages are oddly touching, occasionally spooky, but always a brief, poignant glimpse into humanity just before some of our most trying...

 In 2000, what was once a thriving colony of Little Penguins – the (aptly named) smallest species of penguin – had been reduced to just four pairs. The colony on Middle Island, which sits off the southern coast of Australia, had a problem: the red fox, a species that was introduced from the mainland by colonists. They...

It’s that time of year again – when we all have grand plans about organizing the house and having a clean start in 2018. I know that for most of us these days, our go-to resource for organizational hacks is Pinterest, but what if I told you that you could find over 100 tips and...

I don’t know about you, but I’m 100% more likely to do a workout in the winter if I don’t have to leave the house. It’s cold, the streets are bad, people are sick and cranky, and in January the gym is always packed with other people trying to keep their New Year’s resolutions. Why would you...

I think that, many times, the Hashtag Wars on @Midnight gather funnier responses than any other hashtag game on the Internet. It’s the topics, maybe, or the fact that Comedy Central allows for a wider breadth of responses. Whatever it is, I love when Chris Hardwick has people come up with clever twists on existing...

The holidays are over, which means one thing – we’ve got miles to go before spring rolls back around and the idea of going outside doesn’t make your extremities recoil in horror. But the good news is, you can get pretty much whatever you want delivered now, so there’s no need to leave your house!...

I can’t say that I’ve ever been fired – though, with some of the crap I pulled at work in my younger days, I probably should have been at one point or another. And when Jimmy Fallon threw out his latest hashtag challenge in the form of #HowIGotFired, there were plenty of people willing to...

Who doesn’t love pictures and videos of unlikely animal friendships? The answer, really, is no one – there’s even a television show highlighting the best of these adorable duos! Lots of times, they fall in friend-love when they’re babies, but are they as adorable when they grow up? Well…check out the pics below, and decide for...