The Barefoot Sensei – Former Marine Left Everything Behind to Live in the Forest, Barefoot
Mick Dodge has spent the past 25 years away from civilization, living off the land in a rainforest. The former marine gave up his 9-to-5 job as a heavy equipment mechanic at Fort Lewis to take up this alternative lifestyle. “That’s my real life passion,” he says. Dodge is actually a native of the Hoh […]
Jeweler Born with No Fingers Creates Masterpieces Worth Thousands of Dollars
For a person born without fingers, 48-year-old Annette Gabbedey has the most unusual job – she is one of Britain’s most talented jewelry designers and an expert goldsmith. It is surprising that she doesn’t even use special tools to help her work around her condition. Instead, she adapts conventional crafting devices to make the most […]
Meet Steven Kutcher – The Guy Who Gets Insects to Act on Camera
Have you ever wondered how the insects in movies do exactly what they’re supposed to? How do they know they’re even in a movie scene and play along with the plot? Like the spider that bites Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) in Spiderman. The bees that swarm Matt Damon in We Bought a Zoo. The spider […]
Human Air Pump Inflates Car Tires with His Nose
If Nie Yongbing was in a comic book, he would probably be ‘Super-Lung Man’ (lame name, I know, but I’m open to suggestions). The 63-year-old has lungs of steel that allow him to inflate car tires using only his nose. According to recent news reports, the Chinese man displayed his strength in Chengdu, Southwest China, […]
Inspiring Doctor Dresses as Homeless and Makes House Calls to People without Homes
Dr. Jim Withers, from Pittsburgh, Pa., has dedicated the past 20 years of his life to treating the city’s homeless. He is known as the ‘street doctor’ because he dresses up like a homeless person and goes out at night to provide medical care to the real needy. The extraordinary doctor started his unusual practice […]
Meet Inri Cristo, the Man Who Thinks He Is Jesus Reincarnated
A 66-year-old Brazilian man believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus. He has been preaching the word of God for the past for the past 35 years. Born Alvaro Theiss, this controversial religious figure now goes by ‘Inri Cristo’. Inri is derived from the Latin acronym inscribed on the cross during Jesus’ crucifixion (INRI – […]
World’s Dirtiest Man: 80-Year-Old Iranian Man Hasn’t Bathed in 60 Years
80-year-old Haji believes that “cleanliness brings him sickness.” That’s why he hasn’t bathed at all in the past 60 years. He lives in isolation in Dejgah village, in the Southern Iranian province of Fars. Haji hates contact with water. Even the suggestion of a bath makes him very angry. And all these years of escaping […]
14-Year-Old Can Lift Twice His Body Weight, Is Probably the World’s Strongest Kid
To be the ‘strongest kid in the world’ is a childhood dream that never translates into reality for most kids. But Jake Schellenschlager has managed to come very, very close to this goal. Inspiration hit him when he was 12 years old – when he saw his dad working out one day. Jake hasn’t looked […]
Rosemary Jacobs, the Woman Whose Skin Turned Silver after Using Nose Drops
71-year-old Rosemary Jacobs has had silver-colored skin for the past 60 years. At age 11, she developed a rare condition called argyria – caused by exposure to chemical forms of the element silver that makes the skin turn blue or bluish-grey. For Rosemary, the exposure occurred from nasal drops containing colloidal silver. Rosemary’s story is […]
Meet Erik Weihenmayer, the World’s Most Accomplished Blind Adventurer
Erik Weihenmayer became blind at age 13, but he has never let this life-altering event limit him in any way. He is one of those rare individuals who have not just managed to overcome a disability, but live like it never happened. He is also the only blind person in the world to have scaled […]
Woman Has Her Leg Cut Off So She Can Wear High Heels
21-year-old New Yorker Mariah Serrano was born with a painfully twisted club foot, and had never worn high heels in her life. She’d attended her high school prom in golden trainers, insanely jealous of her friends who wore heels. Like many other girls from New York, Mariah dreamed of a job in fashion, but it […]
The Inspirational Story of a Paralyzed Surgeon who Continues to Operate
Dr. Ted Rummel thought his life was pretty much over when he was left paralyzed from the waist-down in 2010. The exceptional surgeon had been diagnosed with a cavernous hemangioma – a blood filled cyst – in the middle of his spinal cord a year earlier. Neurologists told him the cyst couldn’t be surgically removed, […]
China’s Best Mao Zedong Impersonator Is Actually a Woman
57-year-old Chen Yan used to be an average, run-of-the-mill homemaker. The only noticeable thing about her: her striking resemblance to Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong. Chen was teased mercilessly for this as a child, reducing her to tears. But in 2006 she made a decision that would completely change her life – to embrace herself and […]
Concussion Turns Ordinary Man into Musical Genius, Overnight
If getting hit on the head means that I’d get to be a kickass musician for the rest of my life, I think I would seriously consider it. It sounds impossible, but something of the sort happened to 41-year-old Derek Amato. He really didn’t have a choice about it, though. Derek had no idea his […]
Living in the 18th Century – Woman Shuns Modern Technology for Victorian-era Lifestyle
While some people want to make the most of technology by adding more and more fancy gadgets to their daily lives, others simply prefer going back to the basics. Meet Sarah Chrisman, a 33-year-old Seattle resident who decided to ditch almost every aspect of modern life, from cooking to clothing, and embrace a Victorian-era lifestyle. […]