By  Helen Thomson Name: Graham Condition: Cotard’s syndrome “When I was in hospital I kept on telling them that the tablets weren’t going to do me any good ’cause my brain was dead. I lost my sense of smell and taste. I didn’t need to eat, or speak, or do anything. I ended up spending time in the graveyard because [...]

A man who received the transplanted heart of a suicide victim has killed himself in exactly the same way. And, astonishingly, the same wife is mourning all over again. Sonny Graham, who had received Terry Cottle’s heart, also went on to marry his widow. The couple met after Mr Graham started writing to her after being told her husband was [...]

By Tracy Staedter When Maria Jones-Elliot of Waterford, Ireland, was just 23 weeks pregnant, her water broke. She was carrying twin girls and doctors were worried about the survival of the babies. Despite the odds, one of the babies, Amy, was born. That was June 1, 2012. Amy was four months premature and weighed a little more than one pound. [...]

A legendary maths wizard dubbed the world’s fastest ‘human computer’ has died. Shakuntala Devi died age 83, at a Bangalore hospital following respiratory problems on Sunday. Ms Devi was a child prodigy and gained world fame in 1977 when she calculated the 23rd root of a more than 100 digit number in 50 seconds – 12 seconds faster than the [...]

There’s been quite a bit of interest in the nine-year-old girl Nandana, who is said to have a telepathic connection with her mother. The child is severely autistic, but the mother started to notice that she seemed to know exactly what she was going to be given to eat, or the details of a trip the family was about to [...]

A Widnes mother whose daughter died after suffering horrific burns at Halton College has begged paranormal investigators to stop speculating about whether spontaneous human combustion was to blame. Jean Fitzsimon, 77, spoke out after the latest work to feature a probe into the death of her child Jackie was published. She was adamant that her 17-year-old daughter died from complications [...]

They are completely free of two of the most debilitating illnesses – diabetes and cancer.   Now scientists hope a community of dwarfs living in a remote corner of Ecuador could hold the key to a cure for both.  The Laron dwarfs, who have a condition believed to be caused by inbreeding, appear to be completely immune to cancer and other [...]

Your Strange News Portal, My Zimbabwe News, has once again brought to you yet another frightening, stranger than fiction news report. Glendale villagers are living in fear amid reports that several school-going children have allegedly confessed to be part of a cult that exhumes graves and collect human remains for consumption. According to the youngsters’ confessions, they reportedly visit graveyards [...]

It is an amazing – some might say unbelievable – tale: how a Yorkshire housewife spent five years as a young child being raised by monkeys in the Colombian jungle. Yet experts have found no evidence that Marina Chapman’s story is a fantasy – and now she has told it for the first time, in riveting detail. In a new [...]

A woman from Serbia sees the world upside down because of a rare brain condition called spatial orientation phenomenon. Bojana Danilovic, 28, has to turn her TV, books and newspapers upside down because her brain does not process images in the normal way. The council worker’s condition means that while her eyes see the world the right way up, her [...]