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What Lurks in the Shadows? Home Inspectors Know

By Brenda Masse / October 25, 2023 /

Halloween is just around the corner, and that means it’s time for an obligatory creepy column! And what is creepier than the things that creep in and around the hidden places in our homes: insects, spiders, and snakes (oh my!)? Home Inspectors encounter these foul creatures on a regular basis in their work, unfortunately, but…

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Let’s Open Up the Weird Wednesday WTF Mailbag, Shall We?

By Bethany Erickson / July 10, 2019 /

When you’ve spent almost two years writing about the weird (and sometimes wonderful) things in the world, you get a bit of a reputation. And then because of that reputation, people send you emails with suggestions of things to write about. And suddenly, you’ve become a hoarder of WTF. Your virtual mailbox becomes this thing…

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We Don’t Do Snakes, But Here We Are Again

By Bethany Erickson / July 4, 2018 /

Listen, I have made no secret about how I feel about snakes. In short, the tamest ones freak me out and the scariest ones can actually kill me. And you kind of have to get way too close for comfort (read, within a 100-foot radius) to find out which kind (bitey die or bitey no…

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Wednesday WTF: A Brief Hisss-tory of Commodal Nopes

By Bethany Erickson / November 29, 2017 /
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I can’t imagine anything more WTF than getting bitten on the posterior by anything whilst trying to settle down on a toilet to do one’s business. And yet, here we are.

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Is This Patio Snake Real or a Fake?

By Candy Evans / April 7, 2015 /

Update 10:04 am: Yikes! Now there are two snakes on the patio! New listing here, and this big fat snake shows up in the photo of the back patio. Is that a real snake or a fake serpent? I had one for years — kept it outside on the lawn chairs to keep birds and…

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