Woman Fights to Prove She Is Alive after Government Declares Her Dead
Barbara Murphy, of Roy, Utah, is giving the phrase “walking dead” a whole new meaning. The 64-year-old woman is alive and in pretty good health, but, for some reason, the Social Security Administration believes she died on in July 2014 and is attempting to take back two years’ worth of Social Security payments and recuperate Medicare or Medicaid treatment […]
Devout Christian to Carry Large Wooden Cross to Mountain Top after Getting Vision from God
48-year-old Emyr Mathias, a builder from Ceredigion, Wales, is preparing to embark on an epic 200-mile journey carrying a 25-kg wooden cross from St. Davids in Pembrokeshire to the top of Mount Snowdon, after getting a series of visions from the Lord. A devout Christian for the past 31 years, Emyr says he is taking on the monumental […]
Creepy Pokemon Go-Like App Lets You Receive Visual Messages from Beyond the Grave
A Japanese tombstone company is using the augmented reality technology made popular by Pokemon Go to allow mourners to “catch” pre-recorded video messages from their deceased loved ones in cemeteries. Named “Spot Message”, the new Pokemon Go-inspired app is the brainchild of Yoshiyuki Katori, president of Ryoshin Sekizai, a tombstone company based in Katori, Japan’s […]
Woman Hires Someone to Cut Off Her Hand and Foot So She Can Claim Health Insurance
A young Vietnamese woman recently shocked police after admitting that she had paid someone to cut off her left hand and foot, so she could claim a health insurance payoff of roughly $180,000. The extreme insurance scam reportedly began in May, when a 30-year-old woman named only as Ly Thi N convinced an acquaintance to cut […]
Chinese Parents Are Taking Kids as Young as Three to ‘CEO Training Courses’
In a bid to give their children a head start in life, wealthy Chinese parents are enrolling them in all kinds of early education programs, including CEO training courses. Chinese state media reports that an early education institute in Guangzhou, China’s Guangdong province, is offering a ‘CEO training course’ for kids aged between 3 and 12, […]
Watermelon Plant That Yielded 131 Fruit in a Single Harvest Sets New World Record
Watermelon plants usually yield only 1 to 4 fruit per harvest, but a new variety created by an agricultural technology company in China has recently set a new Guinness Record after yielding no less than 131 massive fruit. The Chinese seem to be really good at creating super plants. Just weeks after we posted about their impressive “octopus […]
Russian Woman Spends 4 Months Trying to Revive Husband with Holy Water
Unable to cope with the death of her husband, a Russian woman reportedly spent at least four months trying to bring him back t life with the help of holy water and prayer. The unnamed 76-year-old retired therapist from the central district of Volgograd stunned police investigators when she said she didn’t report the death […]
The Hide-and-Seek World Championship is an Actual Event
The game of hide-and-seek may not yet be an Olympic sport – although efforts are being made in that regard – but it’s apparently popular enough to have its own world championship. What started out as a fun one-time event thought up by small Italian publication CTRL Magazine, in 2010, eventually turned into an annual event […]
Indian Men Detained for Forgery Walk Free after Faking Court Documents
Two notorious Indian criminals recently detained for forging documents and scamming people have managed to secure bail by doing what they do best – faking documents signed by nonexistent cops and guarantors. Mohammed Lukman Shaikh, 48, and Bashir Mulla, 62, both with long criminal records under their belts, were put behind bars a little over a […]
Homeless Man Inspired by Hollywood Movie ‘The Terminal’ Is Living in Airport
Inspired by the 2004 Tom Hanks film The Terminal, a homeless army veteran looking for a place to sleep recently decided to move into Heathrow Airport. He originally planned on staying for a couple of nights, but he’s been living there for almost a month. A former member of the Parachute Regiment who served in […]
Woman Turns Her Brooklyn Home into a Lush Urban Jungle
Fashion Model Summer Rayne Oakes has been living in a 1,200-square-foot converted industrial space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for 11 years, and during in that time she has managed to turn it into a stunning oasis filled with 500 plants, including a living wall, an irrigated vertical garden, a closet garden, edibles and exotic species. “I think […]
Man Swallows 40 Knives on Purpose, Lives to Tell the Tale
42-year-old Jarnail Singh was recently admitted to The Corporate Hospital in Gurdaspur, India, after complaining of severe stomach pains and general weakness. What he failed to mention was that he had voluntarily swallowed 40 sharp metal knives over the past couple of months. After asking Singh a few questions and performing the routine checkup, doctors […]
Chinese Woman Claims She Was Pregnant for 17 Months
An expectant mother from Tianping City, China’s Hunan province, may have set a new world record for the longest pregnancy. She claims that she was supposed to deliver her baby in November of last year, but eight months past her due date she was was still pregnant because her placenta was underdeveloped. The woman finally gave birth in her 18th of August. Local […]
The NodPod – Finally, a Hammock for Your Head
Getting a good, relaxing nap while travelling over long distances has always been an impossible dream, but now someone claims to have come up with “the ultimate sleep travel solution”. Introducing the NodPod. After deciding she’d had enough of sleepless commuting for work, Kentucky-based designer Paula Blankenship decided it was time for a superior alternative to the […]
The Walmart Diet – Man Loses Hundreds of Pounds by Walking to Walmart for Food
A formerly-obese man from Arizona managed to shed 300 pounds of excess weight in three years after he challenged himself to walk to the nearest Wallmart every day to collect his food. 31-year-old Pasquale “Pat” Brocco used to weigh a whopping 605 pounds, but after his doctor warned him that his high blood pressure and high […]