As the year draws to a close, it's likely that you've been asking yourself one question and one question only: what is 2014's answer to Fifty Shades of Grey? What taboo will some enterprising publisher mine in order to instill a small tremor of excitement in us as a populace? Um, well, according to speculation, 2014's… » 12/17/13 1:10pm 12/17/13 1:10pm

I never thought I'd long for the days where the most despicable thing a New York Police Department officer was accused of was raping women, but here we are: a cop was arrested yesterday in Queens by the FBI "on suspicion of a federal kidnapping conspiracy in which he discussed cooking and eating female body parts,… » 10/25/12 2:20pm 10/25/12 2:20pm

An international child porn crackdown that's led to 40 arrests in six countries has uncovered a particularly gruesome stateside correspondence out of Florida, our nation's unofficial Sensational Headline Generator™. A 57-year-old man named Ronald William Brown, who has worked as a Christian-interest puppeteer and… » 7/28/12 3:00pm 7/28/12 3:00pm

Listen, this face-eating business is getting out of control—and we can't even blame it on bath salts anymore. . Now it's spread to China; is there some kind of virus traveling through the air, Contagion-style? This latest incident occurred in Wenzhou, when a very drunk man randomly attacked a woman who was driving by… » 7/02/12 9:30am 7/02/12 9:30am

Bug lovers will recall that the female praying mantis cannibalizes the head of her sexual partner upon mating. Turns out this may not entirely accurate. » 12/01/10 2:20pm 12/01/10 2:20pm

Analysis of bones found at the site where the Donner Party spent their deadly winter indicates that, although they consumed dogs and horses, they probably didn't resort to cannibalism. Experts say the Victorian-era allegations may have stemmed from racism. [MSNBC] » 4/16/10 2:20pm 4/16/10 2:20pm