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Sam Griner, now 18, is speaking out about life nearly two decades after a beach photo turned him into one of the internet’s most enduring memes. The Florida teen and his parents, Laney and Justin Griner, opened up in the…
Gabe Poirot says he met Jesus Christ during an 18-day coma and emerged with what he calls a spiritual gift. Poirot, who was 20 at the time, cracked his skull in an accident on October 25, 2021, suffering a traumatic…
Ash Dykes has returned home from his 435-mile Congo Basin expedition and is pushing back at viewers who rooted for disaster. The British adventurer, who kayaked the Sangha River with local guide Obed Temba Tuyumvire and videographer Will Perez, said…
A transgender former school bus driver in Ontario is suing after being fired for wearing a revealing outfit and branding a route the “Lolita Line.” L.Z., as the driver is identified in court filings, was dismissed in 2025 from the…
A new study has crowned Maine the most superstitious state in America, with its New England neighbors close behind. The ranking, released by Manhattan Mental Health Counseling ahead of Halloween, placed New Mexico second and New Hampshire third in a…
Food influencer Allie Tong has spoken out after a heated street confrontation outside a San Francisco coffee shop exploded across social media. Tong, a content creator focused on food and recipes, was filming outside Wrecking Ball Coffee on Tuesday afternoon…
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s X platform, has generated a fresh translation of a disputed first-century passage that describes Jesus rising from the dead. The passage, known as the Testimonium Flavianum, is attributed to Flavius Josephus, a…
A Russian plumber has spoken out after surgeons removed a sprouting seed from his eye that caused four months of crippling headaches. Maxim Sleptsov, 42, told Yakutia newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that the ordeal began during a trip to the remote…
Superstitious athletes are shelling out cash to online spellcasters in a last-ditch bid to cool down Sunday’s New York City Marathon. Jessica O’Neill Lyublinksy, a first-time marathoner, dropped $20 on a “perfect weather” spell from an Etsy witch after watching…
A Florida true-crime influencer has been criminally charged over a secretly recorded phone call she allegedly posted involving the father of Patrick Clancy. Shawna Gramkow, 46, of Sanford, Florida, faces one count of unlawful wiretapping in Massachusetts after investigators say…
A homeless scavenger searching for scrap metal in Brooklyn made a grisly discovery when he opened a garbage bag and found a man’s corpse inside, police sources said. The unidentified scavenger, who had been hunting for recyclable materials, spotted the…
Walt, the Red Baron Pizza worker caught in a viral TikTok prank, has broken his silence. The frozen-food aisle employee, identified only as Walt, posted a public message on GoFundMe last week after a staged “theft” video racked up millions…
Houdini II spoke out after dangling nine stories above Hollywood to honor the legendary escape artist whose name he carries. The performer, whose real name has not been disclosed, completed the upside-down straitjacket escape last Friday beside the Magic Castle,…
A Disney on Ice stunt known as the headbanger went wrong during a live performance in San Jose, leaving both skaters on the ice before they waved off the crowd and exited. Watch on TikTok The incident unfolded Sunday, October…
Rowan Jette Knox, 50, has claimed a two-spirit identity on social media. The Canadian author and Toronto coffee shop co-owner, who previously lived as a straight married woman named Amanda before coming out as a transgender man three years ago,…
Things are getting hairy for Bigfoot in New Jersey. A group of hunters is investigating Sasquatch “sightings” in the Garden State, where the mysterious upright-walking beast has reportedly been seen or heard nearly 80 times, according to The Bigfoot Field…