I love horror stories. Not the scary-ghosts kind. The embarrassment, shame, and agony-aunt kind: Mother-in-law horror stories, health insurance horror stories, rudeness in general. It’s brilliant, and it taps into something deep in the human psyche that I can’t quite pinpoint.
Similarly, the odd news stories– like the dead man’s cell phone — get me every time. Ananova is a great source of those.