Man With Too Much Time Creates Color Gradient Collection of Dung Beetles
Bored during the last stages of the Covid-19 lockdown, a Japanese man spent a whole month catching dung beetles and creating a mesmerizing color gradient collection. On August 17, Japanese Twitter (X) user bochimushi posted a photo of hundreds of shiny dung beetles arranged by color – from deep blue to purple – forming an […]
Turkish Repairman Boasts Collection of Over 1,000 “Antique” Cellphones
To get an idea of what mobile phones were like before the smartphones took over, take a look at this Turkish man’s impressive collection of outdated handhelds from the pre-iPhone era. It’s hard to believe that kids today have to imagine what it was like having to push physical buttons, not figures on a touchscreen, […]
Britain’s Biggest Hoarder Fills Two Homes and Two Garages with Treasure Trove Valued at Over $5 Million
A computer programmer has been dubbed ‘Britain’s biggest hoarder’ after it was discovered that he had amassed a huge collection of items stored in several homes and garages and valued at £4 million ($5.2 million). Ramann Shukla, 64, passed away earlier this year, but has posthumously been dubbed Britain’s biggest hoarder for filling his three-bedroom […]
Dutch Man Has a Collection of 1,200 Messages in Bottles Washed Up on Beaches
Dutch beachcomber Wim Kruiswijk has amassed a collection of 1200 messages-in-bottles over the course of 34 years and has responded to almost all of them. 68-year-old Kruiswijk says that his unusual hobby began in 1983 when he found three bottles on his local beach, each containing letters and return addresses. He wrote to all three […]
Slovakian Collector Opens Museum of Old Mobile Phones
Many people have one or two really old mobile phones from before the smartphone revolution happened, but 26-year old Stefan Polgari has a collection of over 3,500 of them, made up of 1,231 different models. Polgari, from the small Slovakian town of Dobsina, has always been kind of a tech-head, and at 15-years-old, he started doing online reviews […]
This Guy Is on a Pointless Quest to Collect Every VHS Copy of the Movie “Speed” Ever Made
Ryan Beitz, from Moscow, Idaho, is a huge fan of the movie ‘Speed’. So huge, that he’s actually on a quest to collect every single VHS copy of the movie ever made. So far, he has over 500 VHS tapes and 26 laser discs. But it’s the tapes that he’s really after, the discs are […]
Chinese Man Collects 5,000 Bras in 20 Years, Wants to Open Bra Museum
Chen Qingzu, a 56-year-old health worker from South China’s Hainan province, has a very bizarre hobby – he collects brassieres. In the past 20 years, he has amassed over 5,000 bras of various colors, shapes and sizes. Chen now wants to start a museum to display his entire bra collection. Now, before you write-off Chen’s […]
The Bone Collector – Man Amasses Creepy Collection of over 7,000 Animal Skulls and Bones
Ray Bandar, a retired biologist from San Francisco, has spent the last 50 years collecting thousands of animal bones. He estimates he has 7,000 skulls, 200 pelvises and countless other limbs from animals he mostly found and cleaned himself. “I enjoy removing the flesh from the skull and disarticulating the jaws,” Bandar recently said in an […]