Homemade Dialysis Machine Keeps Man Alive for 13 Years
A man from Nanjing, China, has recently made headlines after it was discovered he built his own dialysis machine, and managed to keep himself alive for 13 years, after he couldn’t afford to receive proper hospital care. A research fro 2008, shows only one in ten Chinese people can afford regular dialysis treatment, but one […]
Insanely Complicated Maze Is Probably Impossible to Solve
It looks like the street map of a really complex city of the future, but this intricate drawing is really a 30-year-old maze drawn by a Japanese janitor. His daughter posted photos of the complicated work on Twitter, which went viral almost instantly. Just last year, we posted an article about the efforts of Joe Wos, […]
Education Anywhere – Underprivileged Indian Children Attend Outdoor School under a Bridge
40-year-old Rajesh Kumar Sharma, from New Delhi, started a makeshift school under a metro bridge, where he teaches children from the city’s slums too poor to attend regular schools. He believes education is the most important weapon for India’s youth, and if they don’t have it, they are doomed for life. Mr. Sharma is not a […]
Sound of Silence CD Sold by Church Proves Big Hit
St Peter’s Church, in East Sussex, England, has found a novel way to found its repairs – selling CDs with the sound of silence recorded inside the 800-year-old house of worship. Believe it or not, the 30-minute recording featuring only dull sounds like squeaking pews, soft footsteps and the hum of distant traffic proved a […]
You Thought Reborn Babies Were Creepy? How About Vampire Reborn Babies?
Reborn baby dolls have been around for a few years now, and while some people love them so much they actually treat them like real babies, their ultra-realistic look creep a lot of people out. But one artist has managed to make these thing even creepier by making vampire reborn babies. After seeing Chucky the […]
Friends in Real Life – Man Opens Iconic Sitcom Cafe in Beijing
If you were a fan of the hugely popular sitcom Friends, you surely remember their favorite meeting place, the Central Perk Cafe. Tired of just seeing the characters experience the coziness of that soft orange couch, one Chinese fan decided to create his own Friends cafe, in Beijing. Like so many of us, Du Xin loved […]
French Haunted House Auctioned Off on eBay for Just 1 Euro
A listing on the French version of eBay recently went viral after being picked up by major news outlets. Apparently, someone is selling a haunted house in Arbresle, Rhône-Alpes region, for just 1 euro. It’s true that the place doesn’t look like much, if the photos are anything to go by, but still 1 euro for […]
The Stunningly Beautiful Porcelain Flowers of Vladimir Kanevsky
Ukrainian-born artist Vladimir Kanevsky creates exquisitely handcrafted porcelain flowers that look perfectly natural, but never die. From hyacinths and chrysanthemums to clematis and hollyhocks, Vladimir Kanevsky makes botanically-perfect flowers from porcelain. Inspired mostly by 17th- and 18th-century European botanical prints, but also by the glass flower collection at Harvard University’s Museum of Natural History, the talented artisan has […]
Japanese Restaurant Uses Dirt as the Main Ingredient for Its Expensive Dishes
While most chefs work hard to make sure no dirt winds up in their food, at French restaurant Ne Quittez Pas, in Tokyo, Japan, dirt is actually used as a key ingredient. Mind you, this isn’t just any kind of dirt. It’s a special black soil from Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, that’s actually been tested for safety, but […]
Vernon Spicer’s Incredible Pasta Paintings
Self-taught artist Vernon Spicer, from Alabama, uses pasta like spaghetti, macaroni, lasagna and noodles to create his detailed paintings. I’ve seen some pretty unusual materials used in paintings, but pasta is definitely a first for me. 71-year-old Vernon Spicer, a Vietnam veteran and pastor at a church in Selma, Alabama, got the idea of using […]
Family Is Literally Living under a Rock in the Mexican Desert
For the last three decades, Benito Hernandez and his wife have been living under a huge rock, in Mexico’s Coahuila Desert, 80 kilometers from the US border. Benito Hernandez started visiting the 40 meter diameter rock that now serves as a roof for his sun-dried brick home when he was just eight years old. He […]
Designer Covers $500,000 Gold Ring with a Piece of His Own Skin
The Forget Me Knot gold ring created by Icelandic fashion designer Sruli Recht is not your usual piece of luxury jewelry. The artist had a strip of his own skin surgically removed and mounted on a 24-karat-gold band. We’ve featured some pretty bizarre jewelry on Oddity Central in the past, like the human-bone accessories of Columbine […]
Italian Artist Turns River Stones into Life-Like Works of Art
River rocks may not seem very interesting to you, but once you see what Italian rock painter Ernestina Gallina can do with them, I’ll bet you’ll see them in a new light. Ernestina Gallina, from Cenestino, Italy has had a thing for the arts ever since she was just a child. She loved painting, drawing […]
Male TV Hosts Go Through the Agony of Giving Birth
Two male Dutch TV hosts known for performing outlandish stunts on their program, “Proefkonijnen” (Guinea Pigs), have recently experienced agonizing pain similar to that of labor, by strapping electrode emitting machines to their abdomens. Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno first caused international controversy in 2011, when they consumed cooked pieces of each other’s flesh, on live television. […]
Artist Creates Hauntingly Realistic Portraits with Tulle Netting
The tulle is that netting fabric you usually see on wedding dresses and other pompous gowns, but British artist Benjamin Shine folds and presses it to create these incredible portraits that look almost three-dimensional. Armed with a household iron, Benjamin Shine uses a single piece of tulle, sometimes as long as 50 meters to make […]