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The Backrooms: How a Creepy Office Photo Became an Internet Bogeyman

A pic has inspired its own Slender Man-style supernatural internet mythology.
Andrew Lloyd
3.29.22
I Was There
10:12

Buried Alive- 2018 Palu Tsunami

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Palu, Indonesia in 2018. The tsunami that followed killed thousands of people. VWN met with Ista Nur Masyithah who recounts her ordeal.
University

'I Earned About £5,000': Ghostwriters Are Helping Uni Students Cheat Exams

Two anonymous students explain how they get paid to sit other people's online exams.
Robert Hofmann
3.29.22
Thailand

Buddhist Monks Keep Getting Arrested for Corruption, Murder and Drug Trafficking

What's up with the Thai clergy's unexpected and twisted relationship with crime?
Koh Ewe
3.29.22
Life

'There's More Than We Think': Infiltrating the Australian Neo-Nazi Movement

“The easiest way to infiltrate and get them to drop their guard was to have somebody who - in the undercover’s words - was an ‘old school racist."
Julie Fenwick
3.29.22
News

Flood Victims Say Cops Are Relying on Them to Source and Pay For Tools

“The cracks that we saw in the system from the beginning are now bursting with water.”
John Buckley
3.29.22
shopping-food

This Sichuan Smoked Salmon Is Our New Favorite Snack

The new Fly by Jing x Fishwife collab is the best of both worlds, bringing together bougie tinned seafood and spicy chile crisp.
Angel Kilmister
3.28.22
Astro Guide

Daily Horoscope: March 29, 2022

The moon enters Pisces.
Randon Rosenbohm
3.28.22
tech-science

Scientists Are Preparing for Our Best Shot Yet at Identifying Alien Life

Methane is a potential sign of life that the James Webb Space Telescope can readily detect on other worlds, reports a new study.
Becky Ferreira
3.28.22
mexico

The US Admitted a Group of Russians at the Border Under Secret Deal With Mexico

The opaque agreement offered to the Russian asylum seekers is highly unusual.
David Noriega
David Mora
3.28.22
Politics

Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Into Law

The bill bans classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through the third grade.
Carter Sherman
3.28.22
The Academy Awards

The Lives of Others

How you respond to this ends up saying more about you than it does Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, or Chris Rock.
Gita Jackson
3.28.22
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