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A couple of guys are out one night in Indiana on a drinking/drugging binge. They're driving their car on a deserted country road in the middle of the night, when something runs in front of their path and onto the other side of the road. For whatever reason and whatever intoxicant they are all under, they all agree that it was a goblin, and they pull over and attempt to apprehend the goblin in the interest of science.

They manage to catch the goblin and put it in the trunk of the car. They get home to one of their houses and put the goblin into a closet, and then pass out. When they awake, they wonder if the evening's events were just a dream, a hard drug trip, or if there is in fact a goblin in the closet. They open the closet to find a frightened 5 year old boy who has Down's Syndrome. They call local police to report the boy, and end up being heroes because the boy had been missing for days. They ended up receiving a considerable cash reward for his safe return.

A hospitalized man was nearing death, so he ordered to have a priest come to clense him of his sins. The priest arrived, did his thing and then asked the man if he had any last requests. He did not answer... it seemed he was struggling for something. The priest was confused as the man began to quickly write a note. The priest took the note and stuck it in his pocket. The priest tried to help the poor guy but there was nothing he could do for him, and so he passed away. The priest then decided to read his note thinking it was his last request... the note said, "Father, please! Your foot is on my breathing tube!"

Chocolate Chip Cookies were a mistake.A very long time ago, and English woman was having company over and wanted to make chocolate cookies for her guests. Unfortunatley, she didn't have the required amount of chocolate for the recipies. So, instead she chopped the chocolate into little pieces in the hopes that it would spread throughout the cookie. Thus, chocolate chip cookies were invented!

A modern Irish legend tells of a woman from Dublin who visits the Grotto at the French shrine of Lourdes, famous for its stories of miraculous cures. Although in good health, the woman feels tired on the hot day of her visit, and she sits down in an empty wheelchair to rest, then falls asleep. Waking up when a priest arrives to bless the visitors, the woman jumps up from the chair and is immediately surrounded by a crowd screaming "It's a miracle!" In the excitement, the woman is knocked to the ground, and her leg is broken.

A teenage girl was trying to get her driver's license. She really wasn't doing that well on the driving part of the test. She would drive the car up on the imbankment, back into tiny trees, run over the cones, and just about anything else you could think of. The driving teacher wasn't too happy with the girl's performance. He knew she was going to fail and just wondered why he kept on letting her drive. After hitting several more things on the driving course, the teacher finally said to the student "You are the worst, I should have let myself out when you first started." He finally finished by saying she could drive herself home, that he hoped she got pulled over by the police. He walked behind the car and all of a sudden tripped over a wire. He fell to the ground without the girl seeing him. She put the car in reverse and accidently ran over the teacher, killing him, as she was parking to walk home.

An atheist who was training for the olympics had been given special pool priveliges at the university he was attending. Late one night he was considering the arguments a religious friend had been confronting him with as he climbed the high-dive for a little late-night practice. He stood on the board and prepared for a backward flip when he noticed the shadow he was casting on the wall formed a perfect cross in the partially-lit room. Shaken, he sat down on the board to think. As he sat there a maintenance worker came into the pool area and turned on the rest of lights and the diver saw that the pool had been drained for maintenance.

Over a hundred years ago, a cowboy shot a rattlesnake. It wasn't dead, so he stomped it to death. Within a few days, the man took ill and died mysteriously. When his son was grown, he proudly took his fathers favorite boots as his own, a few days later he turned grey and died. His wife had been pregnant at the time, and when her son was grown she gave him the boots, telling him "You're father and your grandfather died in these boots, take good care of them." A few days later he died. Finally someone noticed that in the heel of the boot was the rattlesnake's fang, and it had enough venom left for several more generations.