Jamie Frater
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Top 10 Eras Of Horror Movies
We use science-fiction to look to our future and fantasy to interpret our past. We use horror to talk about our present, about what scares us, about → Read More
Top 10 Silliest English Words And Their Origins [COMPETITION]
English is an amazing language with its roots in the Eastern Germanic family of languages with an enormous dollop of influence from the Romance languages → Read More
Top 10 Bizarre Recent Protests
You would have to be living in a hermetically sealed sensory deprivation tank these days to not be aware of the extreme angst in society all around the → Read More
10 Images of What Children Eat Around the World
The diversity of cultures in the world can be seen in a unique way through the eyes of children. This list travels the globe and gives us a glimpse of the → Read More
Top 10 Tips For The Perfect Diet [Competition]
I'm as guilty as the next man when it comes to canonizing our ancestors---in fact, probably more guilty than most if this list, this list, and this list → Read More
Top 10 Fascinating Facts About U.S. Money
It doesn't seem to matter how much money you have, it is never enough. We are trapped in a prison of spend and consume. Some of us manage to find ways to → Read More
Top 10 Creepy Scenes In Movies
For the sake of your reading pleasure I have tried to balance the scary (jump-worthy even) with the eerie (sinister and uncomfortable). A list like this → Read More
Top 10 Tips For Perfect Happiness [Competition]
It is the weekend. If you in the northern hemisphere, winter is slowly heading to you and you may be starting to feel a little down. Politics sucks, → Read More
Top 10 Incredible Smells
"Every city, let me teach you, has its own smell." So said E. M. Forster in A Room With A View. As a hobbyist perfumer I am fascinated by → Read More
30 Little-Known Facts About Famous Landmarks
We have previously covered famous landmarks and their related facts, but never in a more abstract manner such as this list! So here we are presenting → Read More
Top 10 Amazing Audience Reactions
We've all heard the tales of people fainting at the site of something horrifying in a newly released movie (true), and most of us have heard the cliché → Read More
Top 10 American Serial Killers
Many years ago we wrote the definitive list of Serial Killers. That 2007 list ranked killers based on a variety of factors, only one of which was death → Read More
10 Things Your Ancestors Did Better Than You
We have a rather arrogant quality about ourselves in these modern times. We seem to truly think we have reached the acme of human society. Well, I hate to → Read More
60 Stunning Images Of South Asia
It is very easy for us in the west to ignore life in remote places. We are, particularly these days, so focussed on our social media driven adrenaline → Read More
Top 10 Words You're Saying Wrong
The western world has become so multi-cultural that half of our daily discussions now involve terms that are borrowed into English from other cultures or → Read More
10 Creepy Reasons Climate Change Is Starting To Look Like A Religion
Since the beginning of Earth's existence, the climate has changed. It has been influenced by the sun, geological factors, ecological factors, and perhaps → Read More
Top 10 Must-See Recent Genre-Defying Horrors
Are you sick of struggling to find anything decent to watch out of Hollywood these days? Me too! Long a bastion of great movie making, Hollywood has recent → Read More
Top 10 Bizarre Ingredients In Perfume
This list includes a competition. Since the dawn of civilization, man has been a perfumed creature. Whether it be for improving the smell of our environmen → Read More
10 Things You Should Know About the Papacy
Pope Benedict XVI has abdicated. The consequences of this are yet to be seen but one thing is sure: the American media is in a very confused hoopla. → Read More
Top 10 Eerie Places on Earth in Images
WARNING: Disturbing. Eerie places can be found all over the world; most of us probably live near one. In this images list we look at 10 places that are → Read More