Black Tom Inferno: The 1916 Sabotage That Shook New York Harbor and America’s Neutrality
— April 10, 2026Just after 2 a.m. on Sunday, July 30, 1916, New Yorkers were jolted from…
Dumpster diving, shopping at D-Mart, garbage picking, trashing. Whatever you want to call it, it’s not something that only needy people do. At times there are true treasures that are pulled from dumpsters and trash cans. People have made amazing and valuable discoveries by picking through trash, but usually the things people find in the trash are pretty much, well, trash. In many of the following cases, one man’s trash is another man’s weird find.
Not too long ago a woman in the United Kingdom received her fifteen minutes of fame by dumping a neighbor’s cat in a trash bin. There have been numerous other incidents all over the world where people have placed cats or kittens in trash containers – some dead and some quite alive and healthy.
Just after 2 a.m. on Sunday, July 30, 1916, New Yorkers were jolted from…
On a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, lies one of…
On February 25, 1942, just three months after Pearl Harbor, the city of Los…
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.

