Henna Tattoo Allergy Leaves Man with Permanent Handlebar Mustache Scar
What was supposed to be a bit of fun turned into a crying game for Arran Maye, a 28-year-old plumber from Leicester. While vacationing with 20 friends in the Spanish city of Benidorm, the Briton invested 9 pounds ($12) in a henna tattoo that left him sporting a handlebar mustache and a chin beard. The […]
Belgian Artist Chains Himself to Giant Block of Marble, Has to Be Cut Loose after 19 Days
A Belgian man had to be cut free from his art installation after failing to liberate himself after 19 days. Mikes Poppe had tethered himself by the ankle to a three-meter (10ft) chain that ran through a massive four-ton block of marble and spent 438 hours attempting to chisel his way to freedom. The performance […]
Doomsday-Fearing Man Spent the Last 30 Years Building Secret Bunkers on Government Land
We all have our phobias. Some people run for their lives at the sight of insects or reptiles, others hate tight spaces like elevators, or stepping on the roof of a tall building. And while most people can live perfectly normal lives despite their phobias, there are also those who let the fear dominate their […]
German Man Needs to Drink 20 Liters of Water Per Day to Stay Alive
German architect Marc Wübbenhorst has to drink at least 20 liters of water a day or risk dying from dehydration. The 35-year-old suffers from the rare metabolic disease Diabetes insipidus, which causes intense thirst and the frequent excretion of large amounts of diluted urine. If Wübbenhorst stops drinking water, his body starts to dry out, […]
Woman Becomes Homeless Overnight After Thieves Drive Off with Her House
A 70-year-old widowed grandmother from Devon, England, was left homeless after thieves stole her 40-foot, £30,000 static caravan by lifting it from its base, putting it on a low loader trailer and just driving off with it. They broke into the yard s. The victim, Sonia McColl, believes that the unusual theft is somehow connected […]
Indian Man Checks Into Hotels, Steals 120 TV Sets Over Four Months
Hotel owners, beware: sometimes respectable-looking, well-behaved guests are after your room fixtures! An Indian man actually made a career of it, taking off with more than 120 TV sets from hotels over a period of four months. Vasudev Nanaiah, 37, was arrested last month and charged with 21 counts of theft after wreaking havoc among […]
Meet the Man Behind Russia’s Healing Pyramids
Ever heard of Russia’s healing pyramids? They are the work of Dr. Alexander Golod, a Ukrainian scientist who claims that they have the power to prevent diseases, enhance the potency of medicines, cure impotence and even control the weather. Dr. Golod, a Moscow-based scientist and defense engineer, began building his mysterious pyramids in 1990. By […]
Woman Leaves Her Husband After Seeing the View from Her Bedroom Window on Another Woman’s Instagram
A Russian woman has left her husband after she recognized the view from her bedroom window in a photo on another woman’s Instagram account and realized that he was cheating on her. Yulia Agranovych, a former model turned pediatric dentist, from St. Petersburg, was browsing through her Instagram feed one morning, when she noticed a […]
Vietnamese Blogger Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Reporting on Catastrophic Toxic Spill
A Vietnamese court recently sentenced 22-year-old blogger and journalist Nguyen Van Hoa to seven years in prison for reporting on the 2016 Formosa spill that devastated the Vietnamese coast. Arrested in April, Hoa had produced video footage, photos, and articles about Taiwan-owned Formosa Plastics Group’s April 2016 toxic chemical spill from its steel plant located […]
Turkish University Course to Prepare Students for Alien Encounters
If alien conspiracy theories are your thing or you simply believe in extraterrestrial life and eagerly await the first contact, you’ll feel right at home at Akdeniz University in Turkey. This educational establishment, based in the province of Antalya, has made a course called “Ufology and Exopolitics” part of its latest curriculum. Its aim is […]
Irish Beach That Vanished 12 Years Ago Reappears Overnight
Imagine waking up one day and finding that your beautiful local beach is no more – gone, its fine white sand swept away by a freak storm. You go about your daily business for 12 long years and then suddenly the beach is back, all its glory restored by another storm. This is what happened […]
Loud “Booms” Occurring All Around the World Leave Experts Scratching Their Heads
Mysterious boom sounds have baffled people all over the planet throughout the past year. There have been 64 recorded incidents within the last 12 months, with the majority heard on the east coast of the USA, but also reported everywhere from the Middle East to Australia. Experts have no clear answer as to the cause […]
Designer Creates “Substitute Phone” to Help People Battle Smartphone Addiction
Austrian designer Klemens Schillinger has created a therapeutic replacement for smartphones called Substitute Phones. The Vienna-based designer made a series of five of these non-devices which feature a row of stone beads to imitate various motions typical to smartphone use, such as scrolling, zooming, and swiping. By using stone beads to emulate interaction with a […]
German Town Is Slowly Falling Apart Due to Geothermal Drilling Gone Wrong
The German town of Staufen is falling apart at the seams. The town of 8,100 residents, located on the edge of the Black Forest, decided to invest in geothermal energy back in 2007, aiming for a green energy future. Unfortunately, the decision backfired when the underground drilling went wrong causing hundreds of buildings to begin […]
Brown Bear Armed with Two Guns Is Apparently on the Loose in Siberia
What comes to mind when you think of Siberia? Maybe vast expanses of snow-covered land, teeth-chattering cold, Lake Baikal, and the Tunguska meteorite mystery. How about gun-totting brown bears? One such animal recently gave a hunter quite the fright, but more importantly, took off with the man’s bag, which happened to contain two firearms. The […]