'She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs...'

'His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer.'

'Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.'

'The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.'

These are the 10 winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton contest, wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel. (Victorian author Edward George Bulwer-Lytton is famous - or infamous - for writing the novel that began 'It was a dark and stormy night...')

This is a car advertisement from the UK. When they finished filming the ad, the film editor noticed something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist.  They found out that a person had been killed a year earlier in that exact same spot...

The ad was never put on TV because of the unexplained ghostly phenomenon. Watch the front end of the car as it clears the trees in the middle of the screen and you'll see the white mist crossing in front of the car, then following it along the road. Is it a ghost, or is it simply mist? You decide.

WARNING: SERIOUSLY SCARY - DO NOT VIEW IF YOU HAVE A NERVOUS DISPOSITION!

And now for the winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest. 'What's that?' you say. Go to Funny Stuff and find out!

These are the 10 winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton contest, wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel. (Victorian author Edward George Bulwer-Lytton is famous - or infamous - for writing the novel that began 'It was a dark and stormy night...')

All true photos.