Texas Family Has Ordinary-Looking Barns Converted Into Epic Country Houses
‘Barndominiums’ are becoming a major home improvement trend in North Texas, thanks to Morton Buildings, a construction company that specializes in converting ordinary barns into luxurious dwellings. They started in the year 2000, and they have since transformed thousands of barns and sheds across the US into beautiful mansions. Paul and Judy Pogue, from McKinney, Texas, are […]
The Brutal Colombian Prison Where Inmates Carry Firearms but Guards Do Not
La Modelo prison in Botogá, Colombia, is notorious for the free reign that its 11,000 odd inmates enjoy. The prisoners completely run the show, with easy access to guns and grenades, while the prison guards do not carry any weapons inside the premises. The inmates frequently resort to violence in order to settle disputes between […]
Florida Teen Arrested for Running Fake Medical Practice, Seeing Patients
18-year-old Malachi Love-Robinson, from West Palm Beach, Florida, was arrested last week for pretending to be a medical doctor. The teenager had opened a medical practice of his own in a professional medical building at 4700 North Congress Ave., where he swindled patients for thousands of dollars before he was caught and arrested. Interestingly, this […]
Can Dogs Fly Planes? New Reality Show Wants to Find Out
You might think it ridiculous and even dangerous to put dogs behind the yoke of a plane and let them try to fly it, but that won’t stop some people from trying. Case in point, Dogs Might Fly, a new TV show from the UK that plans to train some dogs to fly a plane. While the internet has […]
Georgian Shop Has iPhones Blessed by Priest to Increase Sales
A mobile phone store chain in Georgia is experiencing a boost in iPhone sales after arranging for a priest to bless the entire Apple stock at one of their stores in Tbilisi. According to iPhone+ store manager Georgiy Machavariani, the holy ceremony has mollified fears and concerns that people have about iPhones being the “device of the devil”. “We have […]
Woman Lives in Small Bathtub for a Month in Protest of Orca Being Kept in Captivity
New Zealander Danielle Daals is taking up a 30-day ‘Living like Lolita’ bathtub challenge in Miami to protest the captivity of a killer whale named Lolita. For the next one month, the 29-year-old activist will sit in a bathtub from 10am to 7pm outside Miami Seaquarium, in order to represent Lolita’s plight. Since 1970, the […]
Voluntary Castaway – Student with No Survival Training Spends 19 Days Alone on Remote Island
Japanese student Reikko Hori is in the news for choosing to be a real-life castaway on the uninhabited island of Amparo in Indonesia. After 19 days of complete isolation, during which her only companions were a spear and a magnifying glass, the 22-year-old claims to have returned to normal life with a newfound appreciation for civilization. […]
Isolated Town Is Desperate to Find a Hairdresser after Years of Cutting Their Own Hair
Fed up of DIY haircuts, the residents of Norman Wells, an isolated town in northern Canada, are desperately looking for a professional hairdresser. They’ve been cutting their own hair for the past two years and frankly, they’ve had enough of it. Located near the southern edge of the Arctic Circle, with a population of about […]
Caring Husband Creates Giant Scented Flower Garden to Make His Blind Wife Smile Again
Over 7,000 people visit this beautiful phlox moss garden in Shintomi Town, Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture on any given day in the months of March and April, drawn both by the beauty of this scented purple carpet and the touching story behind its very existence. The story of this popular tourist spot can be traced back to 1956, when […]
Sunglasses-Wearing Cat Becomes Internet Superstar
Meet Bagel, a.k.a ‘Sunglass Cat’, who became a social media sensation because of an eye condition that requires her to wear sunglasses at all times. Her shades are decorated with stick-on jewels, giving her a cool vibe that has earned her a reputation as one of the internet’s coolest cats. The Los Angeles feline was born without […]
These Gravity-Defying Sneakers Simulate the Feeling of Walking on the Moon
Thanks to these new sneakers, you don’t need to wait for space tourism to take off to experience walking on the moon. Aptly named ‘MoonWalker’, these shoes rely on magnets to allegedly simulate walking in a low-gravity environment. On their Indiegogo campaign page, startup Moonshine Crea reveals that the ingenious shoes are made from an “incredibly durable yet […]
Compassionate Chinese Couple Have Been Taking Care of a Homeless Person for Over Three Decades
While some of us find it difficult to host guests for a few weeks, this Chinese couple have generously shared their home with a mentally ill homeless person for the past 35 years. When Xue Shunlu and his wife Li Huannv first found Xue Zhen on the streets of Fenglingdu, in China’s Shanxi Province, the poor […]
Woman Has Pet Cat Stuffed So She Can Take It with Her Everywhere
An Argentinian woman found it so hard to part with her recently deceased pet cat that she had its body stuffed by a taxidermist just so she could keep carrying it with her everywhere she goes. Daniela Cardone and her stuffed cat Matute shot to fame a few days ago, when she posted some pictures of their […]
This Rock Is Actually Fire-Powered Wi-Fi Router
At first glance, this rock, placed strategically in a small clearing in the woods part of an outdoor museum in Germany, seems like an ordinary boulder. But a closer look will reveal that the inconspicuous 1.5-ton boulder is far from ordinary. It’s actually an art installation with a fire-powered WiFi router and USB drive hidden inside! […]
Guy Gives Up Lucrative Career to Build Whimsical Treehouse in the Middle of Nature
Unhappy with his high flying career in fashion, New Yorker Foster Huntington gave it all up to live life on his own terms. He is now in the news for building ‘Bro-topia’, an outlandish dwelling made up of two treehouses connected by a swinging rope bridge, on a grassy hilltop in southwest Washington state. It all […]