Anne Sewell

Mayor Buddy Dyer has said the city should purchase the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in order to create a memorial to honor the lives of the 49 people killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The fate of the Pulse Nightclub, which catered to the LGBT community, has been up in the […]

In a movie world where killer clowns are causing coulrophobia, why not add one more terrifying film to the mix? Clowntown definitely looks like it could increase the fear of clowns. Yes, coulrophobia is the official name for the fear of clowns, and it probably wouldn’t be that surprising if that phobia isn’t increasing right […]

When a northbound charter bus crashed into a sign pole on Highway 99 in Merced County Tuesday, the pole tore almost completely through the vehicle, killing five and injuring many passengers. The incident happened before dawn on Tuesday morning, when a charter bus crashed into the support pole for a sign on Highway 99 in […]

Rapper Kanye West told the BBC this week that he hasn’t given up on his plans to design “minimalist” furniture for the Swedish furniture flat-pack giant, IKEA. He also discussed his political ambitions and how he messed up at the Glastonbury festival last year. West says students would particularly like him to create “a minimalist […]

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has spoken. Registered sex offenders in New York State will not be allowed to play the popular Pokémon GO or other similar online games. According to a press statement from the governor’s office yesterday, Cuomo has issued a letter to Niantic, Inc., requesting cooperation in barring sex offenders from […]

A 25-year-old Milwaukee father walked into a pond on Saturday, cradling his crying infant son; then sat down in the water until the child drowned. According to a neighbor, Robert Amstadt, what he witnessed from his apartment window on Saturday was “the most evil thing I’ve seen.” He watched as the Milwaukee father walked into […]

Instead of just punishing bad drivers, the Dubai Police created a plan. Drivers who keep their driving record clean for a year get the chance of being given a brand new car. As part of this initiative, police in Dubai have just handed over the keys to two new cars to two drivers who have […]

If it wasn’t for his bike, 16-year-old Ethan Riozzi-Bodine would not be here with us today after surviving a lightning strike on Bradley Beach in New Jersey. Nick Griemsmann in Scottsdale, on the other hand, was just plain lucky. Riozzi-Bodine got a little more than he bargained for last week while filming an impressive storm […]

Alabama homeowner, Nathanial Johnson, 68, had been burglarized multiple times, so he set up a trap to catch a suspected burglar. However, that trap ended with the burglar tied to a tree and deceased. According to Washington County Sheriff Richard Stringer, there was an unusual turn of events on Friday night, when a homeowner caught […]

It won’t always be easy to tell who is who – or what – in HBO’s Westworld, premiering on October 2, but it will certainly be interesting. HBO has dubbed the series, “a new drama about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin.” Inspired by Michael Crichton’s 1973 film of the same […]

Muslims in the hometown of Adel Kermiche, the ISIS priest killer, have refused to bury him. Kermiche was killed by police after he slit the throat of an elderly priest in a church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France. Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean, both 19 years of age, took six people hostage in a church in the […]

The Great Wall of China is a well-known UNESCO site and popular tourist destination. However, the wall is gradually being eroded away, as people steal bricks as souvenirs, or to build homes. Now China is taking action to stop this erosion. While the Great Wall is not a single, unbroken structure, it is estimated to […]

A 59-year-old woman, who had recently been released from an Oregon prison, found she couldn’t cope with life on the outside. What she wanted more than anything was to return to prison, so she robbed a Wyoming bank, threw the money in the air and gave it to passersby, before sitting down to await the […]

A Swedish pickpocket had no idea what was coming on Wednesday as he tried to rob a couple of off-duty cops relaxing and sunbathing in a park. It’s not every day that a criminal gets held down by a couple of ladies in bikinis, but this guy sure did. Mikaela Kellner and her friends were […]

Michael Jackson’s nephews, Taj, TJ, and Taryll Jackson, are suing Radar Online for $100 million over published stories alleging they were sexually abused and bribed by their King of Pop uncle. The three men filed the $100 million libel lawsuit on Wednesday after the celebrity gossip website published multiple stories during June about Michael Jackson. […]

A seven-year-old girl was visiting the Rabat-Temara Zoological Park on Tuesday with her family. On visiting the African elephant enclosure in the Rabat Zoo in Morocco, an elephant hurled a sizeable rock at the girl’s head as she stood taking photos of the animals. After the girl was hit in the head by the rock, […]

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is being investigated on charges related to a recent suicide attempt at Fort Leavenworth prison. If convicted, she will face indefinite solitary confinement. Manning, now 28, was arrested in 2010 and received a sentence of 35 years back in 2013. This was after she was found guilty of 20 charges under court […]

A woman working as a cook at a Noodles & Company in Alexandria told her co-worker “I’m not serving that” when she saw a uniformed police officer queuing at the counter. Now, both employees have lost their jobs after refusing to serve the Northern Virginia police officer. As reported by WTTG-TV, in the latest episode […]

An undercover reporter working for the British Sun newspaper was coached for two months by an Islamic State recruiter with the intention of blowing up a major London tourist site. Possible sites included Big Ben, the London Bridge, or a major shopping area of the U.K. capital. The Sun released a report on Thursday giving […]

Social media was ablaze after a streak of light burst across the night sky late on Wednesday, sparking questions as to its origins. It turned out what was dubbed the “Utah meteor” was, in fact, the remains of a Chinese rocket returning home to Earth. The glowing trail was spotted in Nevada and Utah and […]

https://rumble.com/embed/vd4wn/ Never doubt the strength of the human spirit. Remember the crazy Ice Bucket Challenge everyone was doing back in 2014? Turns out it had a positive effect. The Ice Bucket Challenge was one of the fads that “broke the internet” (a phrase that also dates from 2014) and dominated social media worldwide. It was […]

At all of three years of age, Britain’s Prince George has been hit by a nasty rant on Facebook by an employee of a British government-supported organization. Including other things, the royal tot is accused of “white privilege,” “living on public money,” and being a “f*****g d******d.” Prince George turned three last Friday, and he […]

https://rumble.com/embed/vd4hx/ Satoshi Uematsu, the 26-year-old suspected of killing 19 and injuring 25 in a knife attack at a care facility in Japan, “wanted euthanasia” for disabled people. On July 26, the knife attack suspect broke into the Tsukui Yamayuri En (Tsukui Lily Garden) care home in the town of Sagamihara in Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture and […]

The corrections minister for the Northern Territory has lost his job over footage released on Australian national television of the horrific abuse of juveniles in detention. After disturbing footage was aired on the Australian ABC television channel on Monday night, John Elferink, the Northern Territory corrections minister has been fired. The Northern Territory chief minister, […]

After accepting the GOP nomination, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has spoken out about the terrorist acts in France and Germany. It was their own fault for letting the terrorists into their countries in the first place, according to The Donald. Trump has laid the blame for the recent terror attacks in France and […]

A yellow Labrador Retriever named Max helped to save the life of a 14-year-old boy, lost for almost two days in a Mexican mountain wilderness. The loyal and friendly dog refused to leave Juan Heriberto Treviño’s side until he was finally rescued. Treviño was attending a summer camp in the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range […]

Rocket Raccoon and Groot will be heading to space for real, as the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory’s latest mission patch features the popular characters from the Guardians of the Galaxy. Reportedly, it took some time to choose which popular characters from the Marvel universe would feature on the patch, but seeing as Rocket […]

Saturday evening saw three adults and one child killed and another child injured in a shooting incident at an apartment complex in the small town of Bastrop, Texas. Bastrop is a town of approximately 7,500 residents located around 35 miles southeast of the Texas state capitol. According to Bastrop police, a man, two women and […]

Pokémon GO is becoming a global sensation and despite the fact the game is not available in Syria, kids there have found a way to use the characters to highlight their problems. While the world looks on at the U.S. presidential election frenzy, brutal terror attacks in Europe and the recent attempted coup in Turkey, […]

The iconic oak that featured in The Shawshank Redemption and was part of what has been dubbed the “Shawshank Trail” has fallen. While Stephen King placed the oak in Buxton, Maine, the tree actually stood tall in Richland County, Ohio – at least until now. It was a sad moment when the white oak, made […]

After an 18-year-old German-Iranian opened fire near a shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening killing ten people, authorities are seeking to piece together a motive for the attack. As of this morning, police said they had found no immediate evidence of an Islamist motive behind the Munich shooting. Authorities had said it is too […]

There’s nothing like a little “found footage” to get the nerve ends tingling, and it turns out Lionsgate has pulled off an incredible coup. What has been known up until now as The Woods, set to hit the theaters on September 16, has now been officially titled Blair Witch. The trailer is included above, but […]

Annabelle Lawrence was born profoundly deaf, and at three months of age, she finally gets to hear her mother’s voice for the very first time. The video captures the heartwarming and tissue-worthy moment when Annabelle the deaf baby hears for the first time ever. According to a report by the Telegraph, Annabelle was fitted with […]

There’s nothing worse than co-workers who steal your stuff from the communal office fridge, but one woman got the perfect revenge after someone kept pinching her coffee creamer. She reportedly filled her normal coffee creamer container with her own breast milk and placed it in the fridge. Later that week, she wrote a note, which […]

Idris Elba was at San Diego Comic-Con recently for two reasons. He was there about his appearance as the villain, Krall, in Star Trek Beyond – which opens in theaters Friday – but he also spoke more about his new and exciting role in the adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. While discussing his […]

While Colorado has legalized recreational marijuana, you won’t find any shops in the town of Hugo. Despite this, evidence of THC – the main “ingredient” in marijuana – has reportedly been found in the local water supply. Hugo is a small town with only 720 residents, located around 100 miles southeast of Denver. As local […]

Kickass Torrents (KAT) – the largest and most popular website for downloads of movies and TV shows – is down and out. The website’s founder and owner has been arrested and is currently awaiting extradition to the U.S. Founded in 2008, Kickass Torrents eventually surpassed The Pirate Bay as the best place to go to […]

With the warmer weather in the U.K. recently, there has been an outbreak of what is termed “dogging” – or the practice of exhibitionist sexual activity in a public place. What is surprising the Croydon police more than anything is the number of pensioners who have been caught having public sex. While normally the Croydon […]

A student sparked a bomb scare when he was seen in central Brussels on Wednesday, wearing a thick winter coat on a hot summer’s day and with wires protruding. Belgian police sealed off the area, calling in the bomb squad. As noted by CNN, wearing a winter coat is not the usual scenario in temperatures […]

A man’s home is his castle — right? It turns out that old adage doesn’t hold true in Finland. A Finnish homeowner just received a stiffer sentence than the thieves he was fighting off after an attempted home invasion. It has taken the Finnish court a while to deliberate over the case, but said homeowner […]

Mohammad Riyadh, the 17-year-old Afghan refugee who carried out a brutal axe attack on a train in Bavaria, Germany, left damning evidence in his wake. The Inquisitr reported on Tuesday on the brutal axe attack, which affected 20 people on a train traveling between Treuchtlingen and Würzburg in Germany. Of the passengers on the train, […]

The Nelson Mandela Foundation announced with a “heavy heart” on Monday the death of Gugu Zulu, one of the climbers on the Trek4Mandela team. The South African rally driver lost his life while attempting to climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The climbers participating in the Trek4Mandela were due to reach the […]

After a 17-year-old Afghan refugee attacked 20 people on a Bavarian train with an axe, officials found a hand-painted ISIS flag in his room. The Inquisitr reported on Monday’s attack by the Afghan teenager on a train near Würzburg, southern Germany. The Afghan refugee first yelled “Allahu akbah,” Arabic for “God is great,” before attacking […]

Mary Bell and her boyfriend, Gary Cassle, were arrested after abandoning three young children, with no shoes or water, in the searing heat of the Mojave Desert in California. According to a statement by Sheriff John McMahon of the San Bernardino Sheriff’s department, two boys, aged 5 and 6, and a 7-year-old girl were abandoned […]

A sweet and touching scene was recently caught on camera of an animal shelter worker cuddled up to Prissy, a rescued dog, on the floor of her kennel. Prissy was rescued from living outside on a concrete slab in the hot Tennessee sun, and she was taken to the Conway Area Humane Society. She had […]

Brigitte Gonzalez saved the life of a Florida woman and her daughter by intentionally crashing into their car. The Good Samaritan did not think twice before taking the action. Gonzalez didn’t think of herself as a hero or a Good Samaritan at the time — she just did what came naturally when she saw a […]

The lead singer of U2 was enjoying dinner at La Petit Maison restaurant on the seafront in Nice as the Bastille Day attack unfolded. Bono, 56, owns a house in the nearby town of Eze and was relaxing with friends on the terrace of the restaurant when the terror attack began at around 10:30 p.m. […]

Nice, a popular tourist resort on the French Riviera, was just starting to get back to normal following the Paris attack last year. Now, following the devastating Bastille Day terror attack, the town is quiet as the Promenade des Anglais is cleaned up and opened again for tourists and locals. As reported by the Wall […]

Coco, daughter of former Friends star Courteney Cox and her ex-husband David Arquette, is starring in a Foy Vance music video of the same name, and she is all grown up. Twelve-year-old Coco Arquette looks totally relaxed and confident as she acts like herself in the sentimental new song “Coco.” According to the Belfast Telegraph, […]

Pokémon GO hasn’t even gone global yet, but the mobile game is already about to surpass Twitter in daily active users on Android. However, the game can also play right into the hands of hackers, just waiting for all your private data. Since its release on July 6, Pokémon GO is so far only available […]