Rented “Friends” Pad Wedding Guest Lists

“Help!! Our wedding’s not expensive enough!” When’s the last time you heard someone say that? How about never? The problem with weddings in the Western world is usually too high a price, no…

Does Buddha Live Reincarnated in the Nepalese Jungle?

Does the mighty Buddha live again in the form of a 17-year-old boy that spent more than one year in a remote jungle in southeast Nepal? Thousands of pilgrims who flocked to the site for a glimpse of R…

Freakish Trend Has Indian Villagers Seeing Double

Residents of Minneapolis-St. Paul, eat your hearts out! For decades now, Minnesotans have spoken with pride of their “Twin Cities.” “Twin” refers to the fact that the two Mississippi River-…

Indian Man Has 5 Kidneys

Many people in need of a transplant struggle to receive just one organ. But a photographer from Khaira Dona village, in the northwest state of Punjab, India, is now living with five kidneys. …

Spice in Space: India Developing Curry For Space Travel

India’s race to send a man to the moon by 2015 is fraught with odd innovation. Having sent an unmanned probe to the Moon last November and being currently involved in a space race with China and …

The Goonch: Vicious Human-Eating Mutant Catfish

The Great Kali is a river that flows along the India-Nepal border. Ordinarily a rather serene location, a mutant, vicious catfish has been terrorizing natives who fear swimming and meeting up with the…

Indian Girl Cries Tears of Blood

In a weird and very unusual twist of medical fate, Rashida Khatoon, a young girl from northeast India cries tears of blood instead of water. She and her unusual medical condition have been transfor…

Village of Unmarried People’s Road to Love

The remote village of Barwaan Kala, west of Bihar in the heart of the Kaimur Hills in India, is the home of some 121 bachelors between the ages of 16 and 80. Since the village is so remote and ther…

No Toilet! No Bride!

In the northern Indian state of Haryana, courtship is generally intricate business, but the mothers of the brides-to-be have simplified matters by clearing stating to potential grooms: “If you don…

New Artificial Hearts Inspired by… Cockroaches!

The cockroach has survived every civilization known to man. It is hard to believe, however, that these critters could actually be a boon to mankind, which believe it or not, they now seem to be, at…

Teacher Fakes Death To Marry Out of Caste

In a tale straight out of the love-story books, comes this true account of an Indian woman from Modavadar in Kutch, India, who pretended to light her own funeral pyre in order to marry the man she lov…

Indian Elephant Bandit: Not Armed But Dangerous

The "Bandit Elephant" in northern Keonjhar district in Orissa state of India, is at it again! The wild pachyderm waylays motorists by refusing to let their vehicles pass unless they give him food. …

Boy, Pierced Through Stomach With 5 Foot Rod, Lives

Last week on March 11, 2009, India celebrated Holi, the Festival of Colors, where people run around all day throwing colored powder and liquids on each other. Mihir Kumar, a 6 year-old boy, climbed…

Police Confuse Living Man as Dead, Send to Autopsy

In a bizarre turn of events that seem straight out of an old Twilight Zone episode, police in Khajekalam, India, mistakenly declared a man dead who was found in a semi-conscious state, and sent him of…