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Sydney Building Manager Allegedly Found Living in ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ Beneath Apartments
The building's underground storage area had been converted into a living space and filled with residents' stolen belongings.
A Mummified Body Found in a Sydney Home Is Being Treated as ‘Suspicious’
Police say it had been there for a "considerable time".
Hoarders Are Confronting Clutter in Virtual Reality
Researchers are using VR to surround diagnosed hoarders with clutter. I tried it out.
Heartbreaking Photos from the Life of a Hoarder
Photographer Arnaud Chochon spent a year with Jean, a 60-year-old hoarder whose house is cleaned out once a year, for health and safety reasons.
A Blind Woman May Have Accidentally Lived with Her Son's Corpse for Decades
Authorities found a fully-intact skeleton lying on a mattress inside the woman's home—still dressed in socks, jeans, and a T-shirt.
The Complex, Tragic Psychology Behind Animal Hoarding
Why is it that there are constant news stories about people who cage or cram hundreds of pets into their homes? Sometimes it's animal cruelty, but it could also be attributed to a specific mental illness.
This Guy Is Trying to Collect Every Single Copy of the Movie 'Speed' on VHS
Ryan Beitz currently owns over 500 copies of the movie 'Speed'. His goal is a simple one: To collect every copy of 'Speed' on VHS ever made.
Bless This Mess
At 8 AM on a sunny Tuesday morning I am on my way to a crisis site on East End Avenue at 82nd Street. The call had come in an hour or so earlier. "I presume you're in good physical fitness," Ron Alford had warned me over the phone.
Employees Of The Month
A few words from Sandy: “My name is Sandy Kim and I live in San Francisco and I’m five feet tall. I have a collection of all my friends’ hair on my wall and a shrine to my boyfriend next to my bed.
Psych Brain
I've been obsessed with collecting rare, "out there," and psychedelic records ever since I was a kid in Kentucky mowing lawns.