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This should serve as a warning to parents everywhere: you're kids know how to use the internet. And if you are in the habit of getting nude pictures taken of yourself, keep them secure.

The 18-year-old student from Auckland created an auction for “five naked photos of my Mum” on the Trade Me site after being told to clear the family garage and sell any unwanted items on the site, the Herald newspaper reported.

Trade Me pulled the auction the next day, but the student, identified only as Michael, was soon back trying to sell a series of eight-year-old “glamour” shots of his mother, including one of her in underwear.

Michael told the paper that the first auction was “a bit of a joke.”

“I did it a bit sneakily but she found out. At first she was was pretty shocked, but then she went along with it. I just wanted a bit of extra cash, we’re not rich or anything,” he said.

– Via the Telegraph

And here are the greatest parents in the world. They’re probably watching Netflix movies and left the kiddo to play with the pet cobra.

But I guess what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger right?

UFO hunters should look a little closer to earth. Australian government officials have reported that some "crop circles" in opium poppy fields were actually caused by wallabies that ate the drug, then hopped in around in circles.

“We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles. Then they crash.”

– Lara Giddings, government official

Here, in no particular order, are the spookiest spots from across America.

Gettysburg Battlefield

By: Chris Payne

A shocking 50,000 plus people were killed and wounded at the site of one of the most famous battles of the Civil War. The field had a haunted past even before the battle, dubbed the Devil’s Den it was ever a spot of spooky goings on. Huge boulders and other rough terrain made the spot look like a graveyard before it actually became a graveyard. Countless tourist photos capture strange images thought to be the ghosts of fallen Union and Confederate soldiers, making it a haunted, but also documented spooky site.

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium

UofL Archive Photo

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is thought to be one of the most haunted places in the world. Built upon a foreboding swamp, the asylum was active in the early 1900s when tuberculosis was ravaging the country. Gruesome efforts to stop the disease often left the patients maimed if not dead. And those who succumbed at the asylum were dropped down the “body chute” to railroad tracks below for easy clean up. Playful child ghosts, white coated doctors and countless insane patients are said to roam the corridors, stuck between life and death in the sanatorium’s dilapidated walls.

The White House

The White House

Does Abe Lincoln’s ghost still haunt the secret halls of the countries presidential castle? First ladies and queens staying in at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue say they’ve spotted the lanky specter. President William Henry Harrison is thought to haunt the attic, and President Andrew Jackson have also been spotted what was once his bedroom. And once first lady Abigail Adams has been seen floating down the hallway on numerous occasions.

The Myrtles Plantation

Archive Photo

So much death and anguish happened at the Myrtles Plantation house, it’s a wonder how people ever lived there. A slave who’s ear was cut off for not working accidentally poisoned two children, and was then hanged. A civil war soldier bled to death in one room. One man was killed through a window, his assailant never caught. A caretaker was slain during a robbery. All are said to haunt the grand home, which has become a horrifying bed and breakfast. I’ll stay at the Super 8, thanks.

Shackelford Corner

The grand Tennessee home is said to be one of the most active place to see a haunting, and according to records, only one person has been able to stay an entire night in the manor. Ghost hunters have captured some of the most unnerving and fascinating ghost photos ever seen. See the image above, a girl figure spotted in through glass, at first it looks like a reflection, but at that angle one could see the camera and photographer — very spooky.

The bigfoot of the plant world, the Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar has been sparking tall tales and wild fantasies since German explorer Carl Liche first wrote about the monster tree in his journal.

A sense of foreboding overcomes Liche. He turns to speak to his British assistant Hendrick – and notes that the native porters are becoming excited. They thrust a Mkodo woman towards the monstrous plant. As ghastly prayers are uttered, the woman drinks a strange liquid that oozes from the plant, and then becomes ‘wild and hysterical.’ As the chanting climaxes, ‘the atrocious cannibal tree that had been so inert and dead came to sudden savage life.’ The tendrils coil around the woman’s neck and body like anacondas, wrapping her in their terrible folds. As her screams fade, the leaves rise until she is visible no more. Upon returning to the site ten days later, Liche finds nothing but a grinning skull within the plants’ now-lowered leaves.

It sounds totally awesome and totally fake, but who knows. Even today, hundreds of years later, the jungle is a vast unknown space. Why couldn’t some terrifying carnivorous plant be lying in wait in some dark hollow, slowly stretching its tentacles toward its next meal.

Via Digg

Super slow-motion surfing video, really awesome.

Via BBC Two

Lol, it’s the nose that does it.

Via Common Chant

Eye don’t know.

Via Pik-A-Boo

This is really unnerving.

Via Loreffrey

Sweet new Mastadon video, very cool.

Via Stereogum