Every Year, This Finnish City Blasts Classical Music to Keep Youths Away
For the past few years, police in the Finnish city of Espoo have been employing an intriguing tactic to keep youths from partying on a local beach – blasting classical music from loudspeakers. There is no scientific evidence that young people have an aversion to classical music, but police in Espoo swear that it works, […]
Man Miraculously Survives Gunshot After Silver Necklace Stops Bullet
A Colorado man can consider himself extremely lucky to be alive after surviving a gunshot thanks to the silver necklace around his neck. Last week, the Commerce City Police Department in Colorado posted photos of a bloodied metal necklace with a small piece of metal lodged in its links on its Facebook page. Apparently, it […]
Algerian Vlogger Sentenced to Two Months in Jail for Hugging People on the Street
An Algerian man was recently convicted for indecent behavior and sentenced to two months behind bars for hugging random people on the street to spread peace and positivity. Mohamed Ramzi, a 30-something vlogger from Algeria, sparked outrage in his home country last summer by posting a TikTok video inspired by a popular European vlogger who […]
China’s ‘Stink-Raising Water’ Craze Sees Children Creating the Smelliest Potions Possible
There is a bizarre craze sweeping China’s primary and secondary schools. Students are adding all sorts of smelly ingredients to plastic bottles to create the stinkiest recipes possible. Chinese media recently reported multiple incidents involving bottles of foul-smelling water created by young school students using online recipes. Apparently, they were related to a strange craze […]
People Lick Supermarket Eggs in Hopes of Getting Food Infection and Receiving Compensation
After the owner of a Russian supermarket chain announced that he would be paying 1 million rubles to each person proven to have gotten food poisoning from the store’s products, many decided to take him up on his offer. Earlier this month, Yekaterinburg-based supermarket chain Zhiznmart came under fire for allegedly selling compromised food products […]
University Festival Gives Girl Group’s Used Water Bottles Away as Prizes to Fans
The organizers of a recent festival at a university in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, were forced to apologize after the host decided to give away the water bottles used by the members of an idol group as prizes. On May 22, the popular girl group Oh My Girl performed at a university festival in […]
Fire Breather Battles Mexican Mariachi in the World’s Most Bizarre Street Fight
CCTV cameras in Mexico recently recorded one of the strangest street fights in history involving a band of mariachi and a fire-breathing performer quarreling over busking territory. They say life is stranger than fiction and a short video clip captured by surveillance cameras in the Mexican city of Morelia proves it! Not even the brilliant […]
Russian Woman Wakes Up to Boa Constrictor Coming Out of Her Toilet
A Moscow woman recently got the shock of her life when she entered her bathroom and saw a full-grown white Boa constrictor snake hanging out on her toilet bowl. Exotic snakes crawling up from toilets may not be a worthy news topic in countries like Australia or Brazil, where the slithering reptiles are virtually a […]
Man Who Disappeared 27 Years Ago Found in Neighbor’s Cellar, 200 Meters from His Home
An Algerian man who had disappeared from his home one morning in 1998 was recently found alive in his neighbor’s cellar, just 200 meters from the house he had grown up in. Omar bin Omran was only 17 years old when he disappeared from his home in Djelfa, Algeria, in 1998. It was during the […]
Referee Celebrates Title with Football Team after Eliminating 3 Opponents and Giving 15 Minutes of Extra Time
A football referee has been suspended for life for allegedly celebrating with a club he helped win by eliminating 3 players from the opposing side and granting 15 minutes of extra time, enough for the winners to score a necessary goal. Earlier this month, Dutch football clubs St. George and SV De Valken met in […]
Wanted Criminal Pretends to Be Deaf and Mute for 20 Years to Avoid Prison
A Chinese man wanted for murder managed to avoid police detection for over 20 years by pretending to be a deaf and mute scavenger in the mountains of Hubei Province. On the evening of May 22, 2004, a young and quick-tempered man named Xiao got into a heated argument with a neighbor in his home […]
Boy Diagnosed with Hair Cutting Phobia Could Be Expelled for His Long Locks
A 12-year-old boy who has never had his hair cut in his life and reportedly suffers from ‘tonsurephobia’, an uncontrollable fear of having his hair cut, has been threatened with expulsion by his school because of his long hair. Farouk James has never had more than a trim of his impressive mane and his waist-long […]
Man Dies Trying to Exercise by Hanging from a Chin Strap
A Chinese man recently lost his life while performing a controversial type of exercise that requires practitioners to hang only by their chins to relieve neck and spine pain by reducing pressure on nerves. Over the past decade or so, a bizarre form of exercise has been getting traction throughout China. It basically involves swinging […]
Man Falls in Love with His Mother-in-Law, Marries Her with Father-in-Law’s Blessing
In what can only be described as an unconventional love story, an Indian man fell in love and ended up marrying his mother-in-law with his father-in-law’s blessing. This bizarre tale begins with a tragedy. After the death of Sikandar Yadav’s wife, the father-of-two moved in with his in-laws in Bihar’s Heer Moti village. Over time, […]
Woman Avoids Prison Time for Repeatedly Lacing Husband’s Coffee with Bleach
An Arizona woman was recently sentenced to three years probation for trying to poison her husband by mixing bleach in his morning coffee. Melody Felicano Johnson was initially charged with attempted first-degree murder but ended up pleading guilty to two counts of the lesser felony charge of adding poison or a harmful substance to food […]