The Prankster’s Fortune: How a Dead Lawyer’s Joke Sparked a Decade-Long Baby Race
— August 20, 2026On Halloween night in 1926, a wealthy, eccentric Toronto lawyer named Charles Vance Millar…
For most people, insurance is usually a good thing. It can protect them when they have health problems, it can help them rebuild their homes after a fire or natural disaster, and it can help repair or replace an automobile following an accident. There are many types of insurance that go way beyond what most of us consider the typical, and there are also insurance claims that are quite outside-the-box. Here are some very strange, and sometimes even funny, insurance claims that have been filed.
It’s not entirely clear how this happened, but a woman claims to have caught her left breast in a car door while closing it. She reports that she was stuck for a time, unable to free herself until a passerby assisted her. After she was treated at the hospital, she received nearly $4,000 to cover her medical bills.
On Halloween night in 1926, a wealthy, eccentric Toronto lawyer named Charles Vance Millar…
In September 1922, the streets of New York City erupted into eight days of…
For more than three centuries, one of the strangest psychological afflictions in European history…
Odd or what? That, presumably, is a matter of opinion, but despite your thoughts regarding what's found here, you know you just have to look! We scour the web looking for things that make you question your own version of reality and present them here for your perusal.

