Top Ten Strange Stories from Foreign Countries

There are many strange things in the world. There are many strange people and strange things in this world. Many strange things in the world can only be imagined by you. No one can do it, especially the weird people who appear in Western developed countries and regions that are relatively open-minded. More strange things. Let’s take you through the top ten strange people and strange things abroad.

1. The man who lived with a corpse for 7 years

In 1930, Carl Tanzler, a radiology technician at the U.S. Naval Hospital, met a patient named MariaElena Milagro de Hoyos in the hospital. Carl fell in love with her at first sight when she went to the hospital with latent tuberculosis infection and offered to provide him with home care. A year later, Maria died of a serious illness. Carl not only paid all the funeral expenses for Maria's family, but also built a cemetery for her. One night in 1933, Carl secretly dug up Maria's body from the cemetery. However, the body had already decomposed. So Carl used his medical knowledge to tie up the scattered bones of the body with hangers and fix them with silk dipped in wax and plaster. He covered the rotten flesh, stuffed the chest and abdominal cavity with cloth to prevent dents, used formaldehyde and perfume to cover the smell of corpses, and stuffed paper tubes in his vagina to make people suspect that he had sex with the corpse. In 1940, Carl was discovered by a neighbor one day dancing with Maria at home, and the body theft was revealed.

2. This singer was castrated at a young age because he wanted to preserve his beautiful voice

Alessandro Moreschi is a famous castrato. Before puberty, he was castrated because adults wanted to Castrated while retaining his angelic voice. This practice was banned only at the end of the 19th century.

3. The twins only talk to each other

June Gibbons and Jennifer Gibbons from Wells are twin sisters. Since they are the only black girls in school, they often Being bullied left many shadows in my heart. The two gradually distance themselves from others, refuse to talk to others, and develop a language that only they understand. They also made a promise that when one of them dies, the other will start talking to others again. Jennifer died in 1993 at the age of 29. June told the outside world: "I am finally free. Jennifer gave up her life for me."

4. When he was 17 years old, he almost completed it in his backyard A Nuclear Reactor

David Hahn was a kid who loved science. He pieced together everyday items containing radioactive materials to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard. Although it was not completed in the end, the radiation was still 1,000 times higher than the radiation standard, and it was stopped by the FBI and the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency. From then on, David suffered from depression and died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 39.

5. A man who has lived at the airport for nearly 18 years

Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasseri lived at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France from 1988 to 2006. He originally planned to transfer from France to London, but lost his passport and documents on the way, so he was sneaked back to the French airport as soon as he arrived in London. Since he had no identification, he could not leave the airport. He stayed here for 18 years and was eventually taken to the hospital.

6. The first female mayor in the history of the United States was originally just a joke among a group of men. They nominated her because it was fun, but they did not expect that she actually won the election in the end.

Susanna M. Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas in 1887. Her nomination was originally just a joke among a group of male staff to discourage women from participating in politics. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be true. .

7. The first person to die while traveling in space

Soviet astronaut Vladimir Kormarov was assigned to board the space vehicle Soyuz 1 (Soyuz 1) and became the first A spacecraft that actually carried passengers, but the ship's equipment malfunction led to a serious accident, causing Vladimir to crash and die. There was no security check on the ship at that time, because the authorities wanted to launch in time for Lenin's birthday, and Vladimir knew that something would happen. Therefore, before departure, he told his family that he hoped his funeral would be held with an open coffin, so as to "let the Soviet leaders know what good things they had done."

8. He is both a dwarf and a giant

The Austrian man was only 120 centimeters tall when he was 18 years old in 1917, but a tumor in his pituitary gland accelerated his growth, and he reached the age of 32 His height became 218 centimeters that year, and he was as high as 233 centimeters when he died at the age of 51.

9. He solicited people who "volunteered to be cannibalized" and received responses

In 2001, Armin Meiwes posted an advertisement on the cannibal exchange website "The Cannibal Cafe" seeking help. People who volunteered to be eaten, and actually found them. He first ate the opponent's GG alive, then killed him, and then ate several body parts. Meiwes was sentenced to life in prison and became a vegetarian while in prison. (TEEPR me: Could it be because GG actually tastes bad?...Mistake)

10. The man who cheated on the show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and became a millionaire

In 2001, with the help of his wife Tecwen Whittock, Charles Ingram won the show and became the grand prize winner. Their cheating method is: Charles will read out 4 answers in sequence, and his wife will point out the correct answer by coughing. The couple was eventually exposed and fined 115,000 pounds (approximately NT$4.47 million) according to law, and also faced jail time.