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World’s Steepest Roller Coaster Ride

The Flamingo Land Park, near Malton, North Yorks are proud to announce the opening of the world’s steepest roller coaster ride, The Mumbo Jumbo. As you can see from the video, it is quite impressive. The first drop is so steep you actually go back on yourself, after that drop you can then look forward [...]

Stuntman Breaks World Record For Running Whilst On Fire

An amateur stuntman has set a new world record for running whilst on fire. Scotsman Keith Malcolm risked his skin to get in the Guinness Book of World Records by sprinting 259 ft whilst engulfed in flames. The previous record was a pathetic 227 ft, but Malcolm had struggled to beat that on his earlier attempt [...]

Heroes Season 4 Details

Speculation over the content of the next season of Heroes has been buzzing around the internet. Practically everyone is banging on about the “Carnivale” storyline. The belief is that when the show returns this autumn it will be following a similar formula to HBO’s hit show from 2003, Carnivale. The basic premise is two sets of [...]

Little People Want The Word Midget Banned

The Little People of America have called for the word “midget” to be banned following an episode of Celebrity Apprentice. At their annual conference in Brooklyn this week co-chairman Clinton Brown called for the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word “midget” on broadcast TV. In April the group protested about an episode [...]

Care Home From Hell

Undercover reporters from the Malaysian Star have exposed horrific and distressing details of life in one of Malaysia’s care homes for the mentally disabled. Reporters gained access to the Kuala Kubu Baru Hospital in Selangor, Malaysia after a tip off from a source in London. What the investigative journalists found was truly shocking, patients were more [...]

Ritual Killings On The Rise In Nigeria

In recent months the sickening news coming out of Tanzania about the brutal slaying of albino Africans in ritual murders has shocked the world. But sadly it seems as if a new sick fad is taking off in Nigeria, where their witch doctors aren’t quite as fussy. Officials in the Nigerian city of Kano have been [...]

Police Warn Of Escaped Python

Police in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland are warning parents of a potentially deadly escaped snake in the area. The six year old carpet python is around six feet long, non-venomous and described as harmless. However in light of the recent reports of the death of a toddler in America which was strangled by an escaped python it [...]

Joey Chestnut Retains The Mustard Belt

As crowds of supporters cheered him on Joey Chestnut held his title of World Champion Hot Dog Eater at yesterday’s Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island. Chestnut beat off stiff competition from his arch rival Takeru Kobayashi of Japan. In a spectacular contest Kobayashi managed to beat the former world record [...]

Severed Penis Update

Contrary to yesterday’s report that an unnamed man in Wantage cut off his own penis with a knife whilst drunk, the Telegraph has this morning identified the man as 54 year old carpenter Stuart Keen and they say a saw was used and not a knife. According to the Telegraph the statement given by Thames Valley [...]

New Horror Film Featuring Stars From Merlin And Primeval

A new horror film from director Paddy Breathnach, the man behind Shrooms has been released at the cinema this week. Red Mist is a stalker type killer movie with a slight difference, the main protagonist of the film (played by Primeval star Andrew Lee Potts) lies unconscious in a hospital bed and possesses others in order [...]

Drunk Man Cuts Off His Own Penis

Emergency services were called to a house in Oxford last month where a man had severed his own penis with a knife. The unnamed man from Wantage in Oxfordshire dialed the emergency services after emasculating himself and asked for assistance as he believed he was bleeding to death. Paramedics arrived but called for police backup as [...]

Terminator Arrested At Casino

A naked man has been arrested for running through a California casino arcade and exposing himself to a group of children. In his defence the man said he thought he was a Terminator and his clothes had not travelled back in time with him. 19 year old Sean Stanley Smith has been jailed for indecent exposure [...]

Tarantula On The Loose In Bristol

A woman in Bristol has found evidence of a rogue bird eating spider roaming around the Bristol suburbs. Heather Underwood discovered what she believed to be the cadaver of a deceased tarantula as she was walking along the street outside her home with her three young sons. The family were setting off on a “nature trail” [...]

Star Wars TV Show Begins Pre-Production

The eagerly anticipated live action Star Wars television show is rumoured to be beginning pre-production in Australia. Sci Fi TV in Australia say that pre-production of the show has been confirmed to them by Lucasfilm insiders, and the show will be shot in Australia. Star Wars producer Rick McCallum is reported to have already approached Australian [...]

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Zombie fans may be pleased to hear that despite rumours to the contrary there will be a fourth Resident Evil movie. Shock Till You Drop claim to have insider knowledge that an internal memo is circulating around the Sony offices stating that they intend having Resident Evil: Afterlife in theatres for 17th September 2010. Resident Evil writer [...]

Man Has Second Penis Removed

Ang Qiang from Guangzhou in China was born with two penises. The condition is known as diphallia or penile duplication and effects one in 5.5 million men in the United States. Men born with the condition have a higher mortality rate due to the accompanying renal and anorectal deformities. Men who have a diphallus are [...]

Mini-Luchadores Murdered

Two midget Mexican wrestlers have been found dead in their hotel room, the apparent victims of a robbery and double homicide. La Parkita and Espectrito II, real names Alberto Perez Jimenez and Alejandro Perez Jimenez were brothers and ranked two of the best mini-wrestlers in all of Lucha Libre. The pair of diddy gladiators are suspected [...]

Killer Python Update

The two year old child killed by her family’s pet python yesterday has been named as Shaiunna Hare. Shaiunna lived with her mother Jaren Hare and her mother’s boyfriend Charles Darnell who owned the snake. TV 20 in Florida have reported that the child was found by Darnell at 09:00 yesterday morning local time. The snake [...]

Bees Offer Possible Cure For Elephant Men

A scientist in Melbourne, Australia thinks he may have found a treatment which will suppress neurofibromatosis, the disease which causes tumours to grow on people’s nerve endings almost anywhere on their bodies. James O’Neal, Ed Port and Tonderai Mandigumura all suffer from the condition and are desperate for a cure. Huang Chuncai, who is known as [...]

Toddler Killed By Pet Python

A 2 year old girl has been strangled to death by the family’s escaped pet snake. Mercury News reports that the unnamed child was announced dead at the scene by paramedics called to the girl’s home in Florida. Although Florida is seeing an invasion of feral Burmese Pythons that have been illegally introduced into the countryside, [...]