
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Jany Chumas was puzzled when her cat, Mary Poppins, vanished from her Wisconsin home.
Then, a week later, she heard faint meowing from behind the basement ceiling, which had recently been dry-walled.
You know the rest. Mary Poppins is just fine.
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All 11-year-old Cameron Schuette remembers is the “giant headache.”
Turns out the fifth-grader from Michigan City, Ind., fell off the back of his grandfather’s three-ton truck as it was being backed up, and the tires rolled over his head.
Miraculously, all he had was a hairline fracture.
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An Argentinian woman who disappeared on New Year’s Eve, stunned mourners when she showed up at her funeral.
The mother of Angela Saraiva, 20, of Salta, mistakenly identified a dead body as her daughter’s.
“I loved this whole experience,” Angela said. “It made me realize how much my friends and family would miss me if I die.”
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There’s a new extreme sport in Holland – “fun burials.” For $100, thrill seekers are buried five feet under in a coffin with an oxygen supply and a panic button, just in case.
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At first, emergency workers in Hungary thought they were on a routine call to transport a woman to a hospital – until they arrived and found she weighed 700 pounds.
Thirteen firefighters spent five hours removing a window and taking down part of a wall so they could strap her to a fork lift and move her to an ambulance.


