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A woman declared dead by the coroner after her husband found her unresponsive in bed was being placed in a coffin when morticians made a startling discovery — she was very much alive. The horrifying tale from the Czech Republic unfolded when an 88-year-old woman, who was thought to be dead, showed signs of life in her coffin. According to Blesk.cz, the husband of the woman thought to be deceased called the Pilsen emergency services to potentially help his wife. The husband told the emergency dispatcher that “she didn’t move, she didn’t breathe,” according to the report. When paramedics arrived,...

ohn Carpenter’s The Thing is a cult classic forty years after its initial release, and the discussion for it hasn’t died down as a new fan theory has come along to explain an oddity from the film and its prequel/sequel. Throughout both the 1982 “original” and its 2011 follow-up, The Thing as an organism is incapable of communication outside of its human host. It’ll kill them mercilessly, feasting on paranoia as much as it does the flesh itself. This fan theory from /u/Outrageous-Career-91 explains why it doesn’t communicate with humans. (snip) Essentially, the disgust and mistrust it has for mankind...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Wind gusts, heavy rain and lightning have forced people to evacuate the media tents outside of the Wells Fargo Center and take shelter less than an hour before the opening gavel on the final night of the Democratic National Convention. Officials say that the media tents in the vicinity of the Wells Fargo Center are not designed to fully protect people in the event of a direct lightening strike. They’re strongly recommending that people leave their tents due to lightening that becomes a concern when the strikes are within a six-mile radius of the DNC and evacuate...

Political content in this weekend’s new movies at the theater: A Nightmare On Elm Street//Furry Vengeance [leftist greenie alert]//Harry Brown [conservative Dirty Harry alert]//Please Give [leftist anti-consumerism alert]//The Human Centipede [icky horror movie alert] plus some old dvds: Face/Off//The Forgotten//Fast Times at Ridgemont High//Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her//Saved! [anti-Fundamentalist Christian alert]

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Al Gore jokes he's been getting a taste of the movie star treatment. The former vice president was on the "Tonight" show Thursday night. Host Jay Leno asked about the reaction to Gore's documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." Gore says since he's been on the Hollywood A-list, he's had a huge feud with Lindsay Lohan. When Leno asked for details, Gore said Lohan "knows what she did." The line got a big laugh. Gore also jokes he might consider a nude scene in his next movie if the script had integrity and it advanced the story. On the...

/begin my translationWomen Watching a Horror Movie Found Dead at the TheaterPusan, Yonhap News2005.07.04 Around 3 pm on July 3rd, a woman, Ms. Chung (age: 34) was found dead with her neck stabbed at a theater in Choong-ku, Pusan by its employee Mr. Hong(age:22), who reported it to police.  When she was found, she was dead at her seat with a knife in her left hand, and head bowing to the front, bleeding. According to police, she was suffering from depression, having an outpatient treatment, and since she was holding a knife in her hand, she might have taken her life, swept...