Prisoner Dubbed ‘Escape King’ Breaks Out of Prison for the 4th Time in 16 Years
An Albanian man dubbed the ‘Escape King’ managed to live up to his name by breaking out of prison for the 4th time in 16 years.
Man Fakes Complete Blindness for Over 50 Years to Collect Disability Payments
A 70-year-old Italian man stands accused of pretending to be totally blind for over a century, during which time he collected over one million euros ($1.16 million) in disability payments. The case of a Vincenza man who unduly received over a million euros in benefits for total blindness over a period of 53 years has […]
Man Survives Two Days with Crossbow Bolt Stuck in His Brain
A 64-year-old Italian man was found conscious in his bed two days after shooting himself in the head with a crossbow from very close range. The unidentified Ancona resident, a known crossbow enthusiast, was found in his home by local police (carabinieri) following an emergency services phone call from a concerned family member. After forcing […]
Man Obsessed with Lab-Grown Viruses Raises Children in Complete Isolation
Italian police recently discovered two siblings, ages 6 and 9, raised on an isolated farm in Piedmont by their virus-obsessed father. During the flood that affected the Italian province of Piedmont in April, local carabinieri visited an isolated farm in the foothills of Lauriano, a small comune near Turin. They were there to issue a […]
Man Charged with Manslaughter After Son Bumps into Pensioner While Learning to Ride a Bike
An Italian man recently had to fight charges of manslaughter after his five-year-old son hit an 87-year-old pensioner while learning to ride a bicycle in a Milan park. What was meant to be a rite of passage for a young boy, turned into a nightmare for his entire family and that of an 87-year-old woman […]
Doctor Under Fire for Giving Pet Cat a Cat Scan at His Hospital
An Italian doctor is currently being investigated for using hospital equipment to diagnose his injured pet cat and then operating on her in order to save her life. Gianluca Fanelli , head of the simple structure of Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology at the Parini Hospital in Aosta, Italy, recently split his home country into two camps – […]
Montenapoleone – The New World’s Most Expensive Street
For the longest time, New York’s Upper Fifth Avenue held the title of ‘the most expensive street in the world’ but it was recently dethroned by Montenapoleone, an upscale shopping street in Milan, Italy. Every year, American firm Cushman & Wakefield publishes a global index that ranks the world’s most expensive shopping areas by the […]
Respected Italian Nun Arrested for Working with Infamous Mafia Family
Sister Anna Donelli, a respected nurse from northern Italy, was recently arrested under suspicion of having colluded with a powerful clan of the ‘Ndragheta mafia family. The arrest of 57-year-old Anna Donelli, a respected nun and recent recipient of the Golden Panettone, an annual Milanese civic award, for her volunteer work in prisons and in […]
60-Year-Old Man Forgets the Last 39 Years of His Life Following Hit-and-Run
An Italian man has been struggling to adjust to daily life following a hit-and-run accident that put him in a coma and ultimately erased 39 years worth of memories, including his own family. Imagine living in the 1980s and then suddenly being transported to present day. Things like smartphones, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, the internet […]
German Woman Poses as Empress of Made-up Kingdom to Mingle with Italian Socialites
A 49-year-old German woman who had been posing as the empress of a non-existent kingdom and rubbing shoulders with Italy’s elite had been accidentally unmasked as a fraud. Sandra Nicole Martinez, who had adorned herself with titles like ‘Her Royal Highness’ or ‘Her Imperial Highness”, had become a regular at exclusive parties and social events […]
Man Undergoes Penis Enlargement Surgery, Ends Up Suing Doctor for Erectile Dysfunction
A 40-year-old Italian man took a doctor and two medical clinics to court after paying for a penis enlargement procedure that he claims left him with “impotence and erectile dysfunction”. The unnamed man from Tuscany, Italy, allegedly paid a cosmetic surgeon 5,000 euros ($5,400) for a penis enlargement procedure, but after about a month he […]
Woman Leaves $5 Million Fortune to Caretaker, Completely Snubs Relatives
An Italian woman with no direct heirs left all her €5 million ($5.4 million) fortune to her Albanian caretaker, completely blindsiding the 10 nephews who were expecting the inheritance. Maria Malfatti, a descendant of one of the most famous families in Rovereto, a town in Italy’s Trento province, died last November at the age of […]
The World’s Narrowest House Was Built Out of Spite
Casa du Currivu, aka ‘House of Spite’, is a bizarre-looking house in the Sicilian village of Petralia Sottana that holds the unofficial title of ‘world’s narrowest house’. Petralia Sottana, a small village of about 2,000 people in the heart of the Madonie mountains in the province of Palermo, is home to one of Italy’s most […]
Gang of Senior Armed Robbers in Their 60s and 70s Arrested in Italy
A gang of six alleged armed robbers led by senior citizens in their 60s and 70s have been arrested in Italy after carrying out several armed burglaries at post offices in Rome. 70-year-old Italo De Witt, nicknamed “the German”, Sandro Baruzzo, 68, and 77-year-old Raniero Pula look more like harmless grandpas than hardened criminals, but […]
This Italian Church Has a 500-Year-Old Crocodile Hanging from the Ceiling
The Santuario Della Beata Vergine Maria Delle Grazie, in Italy’s Lombardia region, is an old church famous for having a real taxidermied crocodile hanging from the ceiling. What’s the last thing you expect to see when you look up in a church? Granted, there are plenty of interesting answers one can think of, but ‘a […]