Category: People
Gregor Schneider.
Artist is looking for people who are dying to be part of an art exhibit. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008.
Squirrelman.
Man that lived in a treehouse for two years gets evicted.
Post date: Friday, April 11th, 2008.
Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation.
Man survives without a heart for 16 days.
Post date: Thursday, April 3rd, 2008.
David “None of the Above” Gatchell.
Man running for governor of Tennessee legally changes his middle name to None of the above. (via)
Post date: Thursday, July 20th, 2006.
Aaron Kosminski.
Polish barber that a detective of the day claims was Jack the Ripper.
Post date: Friday, July 14th, 2006.
Psychological neoteny.
Researchers find that more people are growing up and are never reaching mental adulthood.
Post date: Monday, June 26th, 2006.
Hanuman.
Man with a congential defect that looks like he has a tail is believed by villagers to be an incarnation of a Hindu monkey god. (via)
Post date: Thursday, June 22nd, 2006.
The Baby Mind Reader.
Man who professes to being able to read the minds of babies. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, June 21st, 2006.
To boldly go.
Two men are trying to travel from Alaska to Miami by personal watercraft. (via)
Post date: Monday, June 19th, 2006.
Hail cannons.
Shock wave generators that protect a farmer’s crop by disrupting hail formation in the sky may also be preventing the entire town from receiving rain. (via)
Post date: Friday, June 16th, 2006.
Project RUSH.
Man has designed a crossbow to launch his homemade rocket 20 miles into the air.
Post date: Monday, June 5th, 2006.
Voiceprint.
Technology used to recreate what Mona Lisa’s voice sounded like. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 31st, 2006.
Pid-Nekoupieh.
Village discovered in Iran whose residents are cavemen. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, May 30th, 2006.
Pat’s Weight Loss Shake.
Rev. Pat Robertson has developed an age-defying protein shake that allows him to leg press 2000 pounds. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2006.
Cell Track-ID.
Technique that can amplify genetic information from single strands of DNA may prove that Jack the Ripper was a woman.
Post date: Thursday, May 18th, 2006.
Nymark.
Uninhabited island that an artist claims he discovered and is ruler over.
Post date: Friday, May 12th, 2006.
73P Schwassmann-Wachmann.
Comet that an air traffic controller believes a fragment of will catastrophically strike Earth on May 25.
Post date: Wednesday, April 19th, 2006.
Limerick.
Post date: Wednesday, April 19th, 2006.
Severn Bore.
British surfer breaks world record by riding a wave for seven miles. (via)
Post date: Thursday, April 13th, 2006.
Bahlaqeem.
Chiropractor claims that he can go back in time and cure you before you were injured.
Post date: Monday, April 10th, 2006.
Terra firma, terra firma.
Two men cross the Bering Strait on foot. UPDATE: Russian authorities have detained them.
Post date: Tuesday, April 4th, 2006.
Viewing hours.
Egyptian tycoon wants to be mummified and attached to the arm of a clock after he dies. (via)
Post date: Monday, March 27th, 2006.
Mortalman.
Man who ‘hears God’s voice‘ claims he has killed the Devil. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006.
Hyperthymestic syndrome.
Condition that a woman in California has in which she remembers almost every detail of her life.
Post date: Tuesday, March 21st, 2006.
Epic find.
Ancient sarcophagus discovered in Cyprus containing color illustrations of Homer’s poems. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, March 21st, 2006.
Rukhnama.
Turkmenistan’s president assures passage to heaven for those who read his book three times.
Post date: Monday, March 20th, 2006.
Tornado-propelled human flight.
Man is whisked 1300 feet away from his home by a tornado and lives. (via)
Post date: Monday, March 20th, 2006.
The end.
Frozen French couple are forced to be cremated after their cryongenic freezer brakes.
Post date: Monday, March 20th, 2006.
Ararat anomaly.
Man who has been searching for Noah’s Ark for 13 years may be close to finding it. (via)
Post date: Friday, March 10th, 2006.
Magdalenian Girl.
Post date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2006.
Revelations.
Soviet Union ordered the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. (via)
Post date: Friday, March 3rd, 2006.
Mikulicz’s syndrome.
Shakespeare apparently died from a rare eye cancer. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, March 1st, 2006.
A View From the Sidewalk.
Homless man blogs about homless life. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006.
Gospel of Judas.
Apocryphal manuscript to be published around Easter in which Jesus forgives Judas.
Post date: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006.
Dead Man Dancing.
Comatose man given up for dead regains conciousness after life support is turned off and attends his daughter’s wedding.
Post date: Monday, February 27th, 2006.
Jigga what?
Damon Wayans is trying to trademark the word ‘Nigga’. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006.
Mayan Long Count.
Former major leaguer says that the world will end on December 21, 2012.
Post date: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006.
Freedmen.
African Americans whose ancestors were Native American slaves are suing to become tribal citizens. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 21st, 2006.
Check my cell phone.
Post date: Monday, February 20th, 2006.
Prolonged insomnia.
Vietnamese man has not slept since 1973. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2006.
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