A Spanish tradition dating back from 1620, baby jumping is a practice that take place every year in a small town called Castrillo de Murcia.

During the Colacho festival, people dressed as the devil (Colacho in spanish), jump over babies born in the last 12 months to cleanse them of the original sin and protect them against evil spirits and illness.

It’s considered the most dangerous festival from around the world. This year, it took place on May 22, but you can catch it in 2009, when it takes place on June 11.

A 59 year old American woman that was thought to be dead by the medical staff after her heart stopped, came back to life after she was taken off the life support, just as its family was beginning to arrange for her funeral.

Her name is Velma Thomas and it all begun with a cardiac arrest that she had at home, after which medics took 8 minutes of CPR to get a faint pulse from her again. After she was brought to the hospital, her heart stopped twice more, so she was put on life support.

In the next 17 hours, doctors couldn’t detect any kind of brain activity in the woman, even as they tried some new treatments in their attempts to revive her, lowering her body temperature to stimulate her brain.

Here’s what Tim Thomas her son declared to the Charleston Daily Mail about the decision to pull the plug:

I came to the conclusion she wasn’t going to make it. Her skin had already started hardening, her hands and toes were curling up, they were already drawn. There was no life there.

And with the doctors telling him that there was no pulse, measurable brain activity or blood pressure, the decision came to turn off the life support.

Soon after they left the hospital, the doctors called him and said that his mother came back to life. She had begun moving her limbs and then suddenly, her heart restarted.

When he got back to the hospital, she was conscious and asking where her son was.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

A homeless woman lived in the closet of a Japanese man for one year before she was found and arrested.

Apparently the fact that someone was living in his home wasn’t enough to tip him off. It took the fact that food was missing from his house to give him a hint that something was wrong. Since he lived alone, and didn’t have any rats, he installed security cameras in his rooms and set them up to transmit to his mobile phone.

Shortly after, he saw something in those images, and thinking that there was a burglar in the house, he called the police. When the police arrived, they found the house locked, but when they entered the house they found something they didn’t expect.

“We searched the house … checking everywhere someone could possibly hide,” Itakura said. “When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side.”

It was a homeless woman, 58 years old, that entered the house when the owner left without locking the door. She lived for one year in a small closet, on a futon she moved in it, taking showers and eating the man’s food when he was out of the house.

Well, would you? I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

Imagine yourself being 101 years old. Now, add to that drinking beer, smoking and staying out late. Would you train for a marathon in these conditions? Well, that’s exactly Buster Martin’s situation, and he’s preparing for the London marathon in April. A few weeks ago he completed a 13 mile half marathon in 5 hours. He would’ve done it a bit faster he said, but he had to stop to buy beer and cigarettes along the way.

A few other things about Buster Martin: he has 17 children, still works 3 days a week cleaning vans and he’s part of a senior rock band called the Zimmers, which apparently had a hit single in the UK last year.