Not to be a buzzkill, but here is one of the most depressing stories you’ll read this month: A woman with severe agoraphobia left her house and promptly fell down a manhole. Because the universe is a cruel place with a bad sense of humor.

The PR firm responsible for promoting the release of the Sleepy Hollow's first season on DVD faced just about the worst possible timing for their push yesterday, as an email celebrating "Headless Day" went out to fans and media at just about the exact moment that news broke that ISIS had beheaded American journalist…

A teen who fainted as a result of holding his breath is blamed for a crash in Portland, according to police.

A fortysomething woman in Montreal was killed this morning after her scarf got caught in the escalator at a train station. Holy fucking shit. An escalator strangled someone to death. I need to lie down.

You guys, guns — and we really can’t stress this enough — are incredibly dangerous. They’re made specifically for blasting giant holes in living things, and they do it with a frequency that should alarm just about anyone who’s ever watched Predator and thought, “Holy shit — Jesse Ventura just tore up part of a…

Want to get married in a hot air balloon? Okay, sure. But as is the case with most affairs of the heart, there are some risks involved. Just ask the California couple who wanted to wed high in the sky at sunset; they cashed in on the "for worse" part of their vows when the balloon — which carried not just the bride…

If not for all the poison candy (that's not actually a thing, btw) and lazy, "I'm-a-baseball-fan!" sports apparel costuming, Halloween would be the Platonic ideal of holidays. Oh, and except for all the conflagrations — U.S. fire experts estimate that, during the witching season, people are far more likely to set…

And here's a startling new development in the case of Women v. Math, Science, Saying Something Is "Fine" When It Is Not Actually Fine At All, and Driving: According to the L.A. Times, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that there is a prevalence of females (two-thirds of the drivers involved)…

It was an unusually dangerous weekend on the New York City subway. And one particular set of train passengers got the horrifying shock of a lifetime. It happened at about 10 p.m. on Saturday, when people got off the L train at the Sixth Avenue stop and saw a man's severed head wedged between the train car and the…

After accidentally throwing away his wife's custom designed platinum engagement ring, a Florida man has dug his way out of the dog house— but first he had to go through 9 tons of disgusting garbage.

A freak accident that left a 75-year-old woman trapped outside in a canvas chair overnight has a happy ending thanks to the newspaper carrier). Last month Evelyn Rogers of Liberty Hill, Texas pulled a piece of plastic on the chair she was sitting in on her patio and it collapsed, trapping her in the aluminum frame.…

If you've misplaced any underwear recently, it might have turned up on the side of a highway in Ohio. Today in Fairfield County, police found about 3,000 pairs of panties strewn in trees and along hillsides at four dumping locations. Officers collected 10 bags of the "evidence," which includes worn and unworn panties…

A Kuwaiti teenager is in some hot water after flying into a shoe-throwing rage and destroying a chandelier worth over $1.8 million.

A new study shows that an "honor culture" of toughness and badassery in the American South and West may lead to an increased risk of accidental death.

An Australian public servant is suing her employer because a light fixture in her motel fell on her during a business trip. The government contends that this doesn't count because she happened to be having sex during the accident.