The Weirdest Plot in ‘The Secret Agent’ Is Actually More Real Than You Think

While the story of the hairy leg in The Secret Agent might seem too wild to be true, it's actually based in reality.

'The Pitt' used real maggots for cast scene, and none were 'injured'

"The Pitt" Episode 2 has a maggot reveal which required the real thing. "One of those days where it was like, 'So this is ...

Ducks star Leo Carlsson out 3-5 weeks with thigh injury, could miss Olympics

Ducks leading scorer Leo Carlsson is set to miss the next three to five weeks, which could endanger his participation in the ...

Couple killed roommates and hacked the bodies with meat cleavers before scattering remains

A husband and wife were brutally killed and their body was hacked to pieces then buried across several parks - their ...

I watched Matilda the Musical in Plymouth and it was revoltingly brilliant

REVOLTING! That’s the pupils of Crunchem Hall, the school where terrifying headmistress Miss Trunchbull reigns supreme, and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Maggots Are an Incredibly Efficient Source of Protein, Which May Make Them the Next Superfood for Humans

Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets ...

Holiday horror as tiny jellyfish sting leaves Perth mum on the brink of amputation: 'My foot started to go black'

A Perth mother has spoken out after a terrifying jellyfish sting during a family holiday nearly cost her a leg.  Andrea ...
The New Yorker

In Tracy Letts’s “Bug,” Crazy Is Contagious

Shannon had played a trailer-trash fuckup in Letts’s early hit, the nihilist neo-noir “Killer Joe,” and for “Bug,” a more ...

'I survived a plane crash with maggots feasting on my wounds'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Known as 'the girl who fell from the sky', this extraordinary woman has a story like no other, when she survived a plane crash that left her stranded in the Amazon Rainfor ...
Irish Mirror

'I survived a plane crash and fought off maggots feasting on my wounds'

Juliane Koepcke was just 17 when she survived a plane crash and fell 10,000 feet into the Amazon Rainforest, where she spent 11 days alone fighting for her life ...
Daily Star on MSN

Teen falls 10,000 feet in plane crash and survives 11 days with maggots feasting on wounds

Her plane crashed over the Amazon rainforest on Christmas Eve as she plummeted two miles through the air, and spent 11 days fighting for survival ...

Maggots feast on teen who fell from 10,000-foot plane crash into Amazon - and she survives

At just 17-years-old she fell from a plane into the Amazon rainforest on Christmas Eve and survived 11 days alone in the jungle, treating maggot-infested wounds ...