The Tradfest in Dungarvan, Ireland is notorious for the weird but wonderful tradition of bucket singing. This long standing Waterford tradition involves place a galvanised bucket over your head before …
Bigfoot is entrenched in American popular culture and its icon status had been compared to Michael Jordan. There’s an annual Bigfoot festival in Oklahoma, Oregon, and California. A celebration for …
Since the 1800s, a Maltese town has celebrated its patron saint by scrabbling to the top of a greasy pole. The much-loved greasy pole competition is the highlight of the Feast of …
The tooth fairy doesn’t get around as much as you think. The tooth fairy has been shown as a child with wings, a pixie, a dragon, a blue mother-figure, a flying ballerina, two …
Since the 1600s, a goat catcher goes up into the mountains to catch a wild goat to be crowned King Puck. Probably well over 400 years old, the “Fair …
At the time of the great Beer Flood, giant porter vats were a tourist draw at London breweries. “It is thought that one of the most spectacular sights, certainly …
The buyer of this coloring book gets to meet Ian Beck, the world famous illustrator. Then Mr. Beck, famous for the “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” album cover, will be forced …
We could have been backrubbing things on the Mesh. Tim Berners-Lee had a few possible names for the World Wide Web. The Mesh. Mine of Information. The Information Mine. Tim …
This is not a tall tale. On the soggy seacoast of southern France sloshes a region called Les Landes. Ironically much of Les Landes is neither land nor water. For centuries …
On National Sleepy Head Day in Finland, the last person sleeping in the house gets dunked. Legend of the Saints of Ephesus The Saints of Ephesus cannily slept in a …
Ratcatcher’s Day celebrates that famous exterminator: the Pied Piper of Hamelin. On July 22, 1376, a ratcatcher lured over a hundred children from Hamelin, Germany. They were never to …
Put a couple of bots in a virtual room and what do you get? Hilarious bickering and sniping, that’s what. The first ever conversation between two simple artificial intelligence …
