Except in rare instances, when I make a trip to Walmart, I go in and grab what I need, pay and leave as quickly as possible (though my local Walmart’s refusal to open more than a small handful their registers usually thwarts that). There is just something about that store that I can’t stand. So for me, even the thought of spending anymore time than necessary in one makes my skin crawl. That said, I have always a morbid curiosity with what it would be like to stay in one since they changed over to being open 24-7. Thanks to Bayan Rabbani over at Zug.com, my curiosity has been satisfied. Bayan is not very clear on why he decided to spend 24 consecutive hours inside a Walmart Supercenter (though can there even be a rational explanation for wanting to do that), but he did and fortunately for the rest of the internet he chronicled his adventure on Twitter for posterity.

While his 24 hour experiment is full of interesting anecdotes ranging from fondling produce to waking up in the Mcdonalds with no memory of how he got there, the true high point (at least for me) is that it took the crack Walmart management team a full twenty two hours to realize that he was staying in the store. Though I guess they should at least be given credit for being good sports about the whole affair. After Bayan explained what he was doing they let him stay the last two hours to finish out the full 24.

The Walmart Experiment: 24 Hours Locked Inside a Super Walmart [via The Consumerist]

A statue commemorating the first Mothman
sighting near Point Pleasant, WV

photo by Fokket

Quite possibly one of the worlds best know cryptids, the Mothman has been seen on and off across the United States for the past 40 plus years. Just recently a witness came forward and contacted About.com’s Paranormal Phenomena Guide Stephen Wagner with the details of an encounter near the Ft. Worth suburb of Mansfield, Texas.

In the fall of 2007 the witness was driving with her daughter along FM 157 between Mansfield and Venus, Texas around dusk when something caught her eye. At first she thought she was seeing a plastic bag caught in the wind, but as the object neared she saw it was no bag. It appeared to have a “human-like form with wings attached”. The witness reported the creature made no noise as it glided towards her car. Filled with fear she instinctively rolled up her window. When her daughter didn’t say anything, the witness began to think she was seeing things. Finally after driving a few miles she asked her daughter if she had seen the creature. The daughter replied that she had. They then sheepishly opened the inside cover of the sun roof to see if the creature, which had disappeared from sight, had landed on the roof, which luckily it had not.

Mothman in Texas