Police recovered the body of 66-year-old Beverly Mitchell from the basement of her home in Cheshire, Conn. Saturday. Police believe Mitchell, an apparent hoarder, to have died when the first floor of her house collapsed from the weight of clutter that was stacked to the ceiling.

The skeletonized remains of a woman missing for nearly 30 years were found behind a false wall in the basement of the woman's former husband, who neighbors described as an intense hoarder.

Mike Allen, chief White House correspondent for THE POLITICO and “'the most powerful' or 'important' journalist" in Washington, D.C., has a clutter problem. This is a photograph of his office at Time magazine, where he worked as a political reporter until 2007.

Reading the New Republic's enlightening and maddening interview with the the amoral monsters behind THE POLITICO—"Q. Does President Obama read Politico? A. I assume he does, yes."—we were reminded of an old story we read once.

When Newtown (CT) police officers responded to a State Police tip about suspicious activity at a rundown property in Sandy Hook they found the back door had been broken down.

An extreme hoarder in Canada who became pinned down when a large pile of his collected belongings tipped over spent two days trapped in his home until a concerned relative asked police officers to check in on him.

(If the headline isn't enough of a warning, here's another: the video above is disgusting and disturbing. Proceed with caution and without food in your mouth.)

An Illinois man hoarding 200 birds "of varying species" has had his suburban Aurora townhome condemned after a painting contractor working outside the property noticed "several dead birds" inside the house.

A Carson City man who neighbors say was an "anti-government" recluse, died recently leaving behind just $200 in the bank — but a fortune in gold coins, gold bars, stocks, and cash inside his home.

Hantavirus is back and bigger than ever: first the Yosemite outbreak, and now a new case on the set of a reality show filming in Texas.

Don't you hate it when your wife asks you to get rid of some of your antique radios?

Cops in Berwyn, Ill. responded to a report of an unresponsive 14-year-old boy on Thursday night. They apparently found him—dying—outside the home. Investigating inside they discovered more than 200 animals in the 1,100-square foot home.

On the upcoming finale of Hoarders, a man defends his right to pack rats. Literally, the man's house is packed with rats. If this show wasn't already the grossest television series about a subtype of OCD, it surely is now.

Last night, A&E debuted Storage Wars, a new series about professional garbage pickers who forage through abandoned storage units hoping to find treasure. Only in America do we have so much crap that sifting through it deserves a TV show.

Over the past year, the number of television series about American pack-rats hard been absurd (Hoarders, Animal Hoarders, Hoarding: Buried Alive...) The show took notice and worked hoarding into a ridiculous episode that had South Park invading each others dreams.

A Las Vegas woman who went missing in April, Billie Jean James, was found dead in her home this week by her husband, who spotted her feet sticking out from a pile of junk. Welcome to Extreme Hoarders: Death Trap.

The fourth episode of Confessions: Animal Hoarding continued profiling and attempting to help people who hoard animals, and the effects it has on not only their life, but those around them. This episode featured Lauren and Jack.

A mysterious woman brought two car loads of chihuahuas to a local shelter, abandoning a total of 43 chihuahuas in 24 hours. Did a Canadian pet shelter just save 43 puppies from the Cruella De Vil of chihuahuas?