The shadow of Christopher Nellerd was beloved in the town of Berk’s Falls, Minnesota as a civic leader, renaissance man, and all-around bon vivant. Nearly everyone in town attended his funeral: the mayor, whom he had saved from an orphanage fire as a child; four graduating classes of the school of international diplomacy he had founded; a half dozen of his successful heart transplant patients; and so many others. When the real Christopher Nellerd, car wash manager and divorcee living in West Plunkett 22 miles away, read the glowing eulogy of the shadow that had escaped him when he was 17 in exchange for the promise of a life free from the pressures of the spotlight, he spent a long, sad moment wondering how one could end up living in the shadow of a shadow.

Who can forget the final game of the 1928 Binwhipple Championship? The classic match might have seen the Harrisburg Grumwhellers claim victory against the Akron Tomtomhoops until legendary filsner Tommy Buntz stepped up to the wickowak, steeled his gaze at his longtime nemesis, Harrisburg fontzer Obie Doobmeyer, and let fly the most magnificent hamchamptanger, knocking the fontz straight through the lipzper and out into far left gronk. The fontz being impossibly high to block and too far out of reach for any of the Harrisburg chamblers to recover in time, Buntz was able to homb the jufors six times, winning the game and the title for Akron. His hamchamp sits in the Binwhipple Hall of Fame to this day, inspiring young boys and girls to take up the still-popular sport.

The things they found in the nearly century-old jewelry box they unearthed in the backyard—a pair of emerald earrings, a signet ring with the initials CBR, and a photograph of a man they vaguely recognized and a woman they did not—lead Adam and Theresa Donne on a three-year journey that changed everything they thought they knew about their family.

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This urn depicts the brothers Fu Li and Fu Dao, jealous twins who discovered a magic vessel in a cave said to contain a yaoguai that could grant immense power. The demon was bound to the vessel such that only one person could control it. The brothers fought over the vessel and dropped it, shattering the lid and releasing the yaoguai into the world to cause mischief forevermore.

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It was an odd Mother's Day present, but Lydia Carnes had to admit: her son had done a remarkable job capturing the precise moment before the fly ball hit her in the face at his seventh grade little league division championship.

Living alone in the cabin in the woods, Charlie Amaktak was advised to hang above the door a pair of antlers are blessed and marked to ward off evil spirits. There are things in the woods, however, that come in through windows.

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The Great Arctic Basilisk is one of the earth’s natural cooling mechanisms from the days when giant beasts roamed. Beginning from a small egg, the creature grows to an improbable 3000 feet long, absorbing any heat from the environment around it. The basilisk makes its way into the ocean, where it supercools the water, suspending natural currents and halting atmospheric heat transfer. Eventually it lays a clutch of eggs, preserved in a frozen shell that preserves the next generation for millennia. According to fossil records, the creatures last thawed during the extreme warming event at the end of the Cenozoic period, dominating the northern pole and triggering the ice age lasting through the start of the Holocene period. They’re not due for another 6,000 years, but scientists report the timetable may need to be moved up.