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  • Mummified body of woman found in apartment

    Posted on February 19th, 2010 Cubez No comments

    An old woman’s mummified body was found in her apartment in Moscow, 4 months after she died. The woman was aged 70 and she lived alone. It is likely the cold weather helped preserve her body. Read the rest of this entry »

  • Sign this petition. Help stop the killing of dolphins

    Posted on October 12th, 2009 Cubez No comments

    Do you like dolphins? Dolphins are highly intelligent mammals that live in many of the world’s oceans and are (truly) fascinating to know. In fact, dolphins have been man’s best friend in the sea, as there are many tales, and real reports that attest to dolphin’s saving human lives from drowning, or from shark attack.

    Are we humans grateful to the dolphins? Apparently not.

    Young dolphin with pacifier

    Young dolphin with pacifier

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  • Maggots found in woman’s nose

    Posted on October 1st, 2009 Cubez No comments

    Warning – Gross story. An Indian woman in Mumbai was found to have 40 maggots crawling inside her nose and chewing her flesh after doctors could not figure out what was wrong with her.

    The 70 year old woman had a nose bleed for 5 days and her family took her to 2 hospitals but the doctors did not realize what was wrong with her and gave her nosedrops which of course did not work. Only after she was taken to the civic-run Sion Hospital that doctors found out she had maggots inside her nose! Read the rest of this entry »

  • Woman trapped in toilet for a week

    Posted on August 10th, 2009 Cubez No comments

    This recent one is kinda hard to believe. An elderly 67 year old woman in Ipswich, Australia, got trapped between her toilet bowl and her toilet door for a week before her cries were heard by a neighbor. She got rescued by hospital personnel and was severely dehydrated at the time of rescue. Read the rest of this entry »

  • Cannibalism still exists

    Posted on July 2nd, 2009 Cubez No comments

    A group of 4 men were caught cannibalizing a half burnt corpse on a funeral pyre in Palwal, India. The cremation grounds watchman, Ajay, that witnessed the incident alerted other people, and soon a crowd gathered around those men and beat them up. Read the rest of this entry »

  • Teenage corpse bride

    Posted on June 20th, 2009 Cubez No comments

    5 people have been arrested in China for digging up the corpse of a young girl to turn into a corpse bride for a young man who died recently in a car crash.

    The father of the young man along with 4 companions were arrested after he paid them to go find a wife for his son who died single. The father allegedly paid about $4450 to those guys who then dug up the body of a young woman who had recently poisoned herself after failing in university entrance examinations last year. Read the rest of this entry »

  • Man does not bath for 35 years

    Posted on May 24th, 2009 Cubez No comments

    A man in Varanasi, India who was desperate to get a son after having 7 daughters has not bathed for 35 years in the belief that it would help him get a son.

    Kailash “Kalau” Singh, 63, even refused to dip in the Ganges River as was the custom, when his brother died five years ago, outraging his family.

    “I still don’t remember how it all began,” he said.

    “I just know it started about 35 years ago.” Read the rest of this entry »

  • Soft drink made from cow urine

    Posted on February 18th, 2009 Cubez No comments

    cow-nose

    India’s Hindu nationalist movement believes it has the answer to Pepsi and Coke – A soft drink made from cow urine.

    The Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India’s biggest and oldest Hindu nationalist group is currently developing the soft drink.

    Om Prakash, head of the department, says it is almost near final development and will be available “very soon.” Read the rest of this entry »