As we all know, the amount of information on the Interweb vastly outstrips our capacity to make sense of it all, a phenomenon confirmed daily by all the strange images of nonsensical wackiness that come our way via various websites devoted to unearthing unusual ephemera. Every so often though, some site like Neatorama, The Daily What or Rocket Boom does the necessary research to uncover the inevitably disappointing story behind a strange image. Today’s listicle of The True Stories Behind 5 WTF Images come sour way via Cracked. We especially like the story behind the image at right, which preserves some of the inherent magic of its original impact. Russian ninja lumberjacks, indeed.