Two hikers who planned a day trip on California’s Mount Shasta ended up spending 36 hours on the mountain before rescuers found them trapped between steep cliffs. Their phones had died hours earlier, and overnight temperatures had dropped as low as 14 degrees. The 19-year-old man and 20-year-old woman, both from Salt Lake City, started…
Passengers on an American Airlines flight ended up jumping from the plane’s wing after an emergency landing in St. Louis on Saturday, October 17. The flight had turned around after oxygen masks dropped and passengers reported haze and an odor inside the cabin. American Eagle Flight 5089 was headed from St. Louis to Philadelphia when…
A new hotel in Brooklyn has a boiler room, a pitch-black hallway, and a honeymoon suite where nobody ever checks out. It’s not taking overnight reservations, though, because the whole thing is a Halloween attraction filled with zombies. The Haunted Hotel at Lakeside opened October 9 at the LeFrak Center in Prospect Park. It will…
There’s a town in Nevada where you can visit an old saloon with a crypt, take a ghost tour, and spend the night in a supposedly haunted hotel. It’s called Virginia City, and it just took first place on a new list of America’s spookiest cities. Home security company Vivint released its 2026 rankings, with…
A funeral home in Jacksonville, Florida, has been turned into a hotel where people can spend the night… if they dare. The Raven still has its original casket elevator, and one of the guest rooms even has a kitchen island made from an old coffin. The two-story brick building was constructed in 1916 for the…
Seabourn recently announced a new world cruise that will take passengers to 32 islands and more than 25 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage sites. The entire cruise lasts 138 days, meaning anyone who books it will be away for nearly five months. Seabourn Quest will leave Miami on Jan. 7,…
If you happen to look up at the sky on Friday night, Sept. 4, you may not notice anything unusual. However, around 219 million birds could be flying over the contiguous United States while most people are sleeping. The estimate comes from BirdCast, which uses weather radar to follow birds during spring and fall migration….
Four people have been arrested during an investigation into the deaths of 18 elephants in southern Kenya’s Amboseli ecosystem. The suspects have since been released on bail, a Kenya Wildlife Service spokesperson told Reuters. The ministry has not announced their names or any formal charges. The first 15 deaths were recorded between June 24 and…
A Washington driver allegedly sped away from a traffic stop and escaped the patrol cars behind him. However, he didn’t realize that an airplane was tracking him too. Pierce County Sheriff’s Deputy Carly Cappetto said the encounter began around 8:30 p.m. Aug. 13 during an auto-theft task force operation in Parkland. A deputy noticed a…