STRANGE PEOPLE
Added on: 12th Jan 2016
THE MAN WHO PHOTOGRAPHED AND ANALYSED
EVERY MEAL FOR THIRTY-FOUR YEARS
Yoshiro Nakamatsu is a Japanese inventor claiming to hold
the world record for the most inventions (over three thousand)
including the floppy disk and “PyonPyon” spring shoes. He has been
photographing and retrospectively analysing every meal he has
consumed during a period of 40 years.
THE MAN WHO LIVED IN AN AIRPORT FOR
NEARLY TWO DECADES
Mehran Karimi Nasseri is an Iranian refugee who lived in the
departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport in France,
from August 26, 1988, until July 2006. His story became the main
inspiration and basis for the Tom Hanks movie The Terminal.
THE REAL BIONIC WOMAN
Eileen Brown from Bolton, England, has had more than a dozen
operations over the past two decades. Her only remaining natural
joints are her left hip and left elbow.
THE SOLDIER WHO HID IN THE JUNGLE FOR ALMOST
THIRTY YEARS BELIEVING WORLD WAR II WAS
STILL HAPPENING
Almost forty-three years ago a World War II Japanese soldier
by the name of Hiroo Onoda was found in the jungles of
Guam, having survived there for nearly three decades.
Under orders to not surrender under any circumstance,
Hiroo Onoda fought a one man war and only surrendered
when Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, who had since become a
bookseller, personally came to give him the order.
THE JAPANESE JESUS CHRIST
Mitsuo Matayoshi is a Japanese political activist, known for his
perennial candidacy. Matayoshi was trained as a Protestant
preacher, and through his religious studies developed a
particular concept of Christianity strongly influenced by
eschatology. In 1997, he established the World Economic
Community Party, a political party based on his conviction
that he is God.
THE REAL VERSION OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK
Brazilian body builder Romario Dos Santos Alves was so
desperate to emulate the Incredible Hulk that he actually injected
his arms with a potentially lethal combination of oil and alcohol.
The twenty-five-year-old risked his life in the process, and
almost had both arms amputated. His grotesquely swollen muscles
have earned him cruel nicknames such as “beast” and “monster.”
THE “DEVIL HORNS” GRANDMOTHER
In 2010 a 101-year-old Chinese woman named Zhang Ruifang
shocked her friends, family, and the rest of the world when she
made headlines for growing a devil-like horn on top of her head.
THE SELF-PROCLAIMED POPE
David Allen Bawden, also known as Pope Michael, is an American
citizen and a conclavist claimant to the papacy. Bawden was elected
by a group of six laypeople, including himself and his parents,
who had come to believe that the post-Vatican II “Catholic” Church
had seceded from the Catholic faith, and that there has been no
legitimate popes elected since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.
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