Josh Wilson

10/30/2025

In January 2025, 22-year-old Mariia Zelenina, a Russian performer, was injured while doing an underwater “mermaid” show at Xishuangbanna Primitive Forest Park in China. During her routine, a Chinese sturgeon suddenly lunged and tried to close its mouth around her head, pulling off her goggles and leaving her with facial bruises. Shocked visitors watched as she broke free and swam to the surface for help. She was treated at a hospital and later confirmed to have survived with minor injuries.

Zelenina later said the giant fish attacked from behind and tried to “swallow” her head. The park reviewed safety procedures after the incident, which quickly went viral online.

Imagine performing gracefully underwater and suddenly becoming prey in front of an entire audience. Zelenina survived, but it was a terrifying day she’ll never forget.

- Source: People Magazine | Daily Mail | Chinese Local Media (January 2025)

10/29/2025

💨 Power Beneath the Wings! ⚙️✈️
When engineering meets perfection — the mighty GE engine that lifts giants into the sky! 💪🔥
Every spin, every roar… is pure innovation in motion. 🌍💫

10/29/2025

In October 2025, a church in Warsaw, Poland, made history when it introduced SanTO, an artificial intelligence “priest” capable of reciting scripture, giving blessings, and offering advice through a touchscreen tablet. The small robot, shaped like a saintly figure with glowing eyes, responds to questions about faith using a database of religious texts and teachings.

Church leaders say SanTO was designed to make spiritual guidance more accessible, especially for people who feel anxious about confession or are curious about religion in the digital age. While some parishioners embraced it as a modern miracle, others found the experience unsettling, one woman said it felt like “talking to a holy smartphone.”

The project reflects a growing global trend of merging religion with technology, from AI-written prayers to robot monks in Japan. For better or worse, even faith now runs on code.

- Source: BBC News, October 2025

10/29/2025

In August 2024, the U.S. Coast Guard encountered a man floating inside a self-built hamster wheel off the coast of Georgia. His goal: to run across the Atlantic Ocean all the way to London. The wheel-like vessel, powered by his own footsteps, was made of buoys, paddles, and a lot of optimism.

When officials approached, he refused to leave, claiming his journey was “for world peace.” It wasn’t his first attempt — he had tried similar voyages before, each ending with rescue teams and disbelief. Authorities declared the craft unsafe and escorted him back to shore.

For some, it was madness. For others, it was human determination at its strangest. Either way, he became a legend of endurance, and eccentricity.

- Source: Associated Press, August 2024

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

In June 2025, a bizarre incident unfolded in Salt Lake City, Utah, when Jose Manuel Perez, 24, was eating lunch with another man. In the middle of their meal, Perez suddenly began striking the victim and placed him in a chokehold. He then pulled out a wooden stake with a nail in it and told the victim he believed he was a werewolf and intended to pierce his heart. The terrified victim managed to escape and contacted police.

When officers located Perez shortly afterward, they found him still carrying the victim’s backpack along with pockets full of rocks and stones. Perez told police he armed himself because he thought the victim, a supposed werewolf, was going to kill him. He was arrested and booked on a charge of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony.

This man came prepared for supernatural combat, armed with a wooden stake, a handful of rocks, and the conviction that his lunch companion was a lycanthrope. The victim was not, in fact, a werewolf. Just a man trying to eat lunch.

- Source: KUTV News | FOX 13 Now | Gephardt Daily (Salt Lake City Police Report, June 2025)

10/29/2025

When Nash Keen was born, he weighed just 10 ounces, less than a can of soda. His journey is one of medical innovation, relentless teamwork, and the unique capabilities of University of Iowa Health Care's Stead Family Children's Hospital, one of the few places in the world equipped to treat babies born so early.

Nash's birth came just after crossing the hospital's 21-week threshold for active intervention, timing that high-risk obstetrician Malinda Schaefer, MD, PhD, called "a new frontier in maternal-fetal medicine." A multidisciplinary team of over 30 specialists worked around the clock to keep Nash alive. Today, he's a thriving child, proving that miracles happen at the intersection of cutting-edge medicine and unwavering dedication.

- Source: AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges), University of Iowa Health Care 2024

10/29/2025

In Detroit in the late 1930s, a street cleaner named Joseph Figlock was sweeping an alley when a baby fell from a fourth-story window and landed on him.

The baby’s fall was broken by Figlock, and both survived, though they suffered minor injuries. The event was reported in Time Magazine in October 1938 and quickly became known as one of the strangest coincidences in the city.

Reports also mention that about a year earlier, a similar incident had occurred involving Figlock and another falling baby. However, there is no reliable evidence that it was the same baby or the same window.

Still, the coincidence was remarkable enough to make Figlock a minor legend in Detroit. Some called him the city’s luckiest man, while others said he was the unluckiest, depending on how you look at it.

- Sources:
Time Magazine (October 17, 1938)
Detroit Free Press archives (1938)
Today I Found Out historical fact-check (2011)
Skeptics StackExchange research on the Figlock incident (2016)

10/29/2025

In the early 2000s, a soon-to-be-married couple named Alex and Donna were sorting through old photos to include in their wedding video.

While going through Donna’s childhood pictures, they found one from a family trip to Walt Disney World in the early 1980s. In the photo, Donna and her siblings were posing with Mr. Smee, the comical sidekick from Peter Pan.

But then they noticed something unbelievable.
In the background, a young boy sat in a stroller. It was Alex, being pushed by his father.

Until that moment, neither of them had any idea they had been at Disney World on the same day, in the same place, nearly two decades before they met.

Their families had lived in different countries at the time, Donna in Florida and Alex in Canada, which made the coincidence even more extraordinary. Out of millions of Disney visitors, the two future soulmates were unknowingly photographed together as toddlers.

- Sources:
CBS News (2010)
Associated Press archives
KSL | human-interest report (2013)
WESH Orlando local news (2013)

10/29/2025

In March 2002, a pair of identical twin brothers from Finland met eerily identical fates.

Both 70 years old, they were cycling on the same stretch of road near the coastal town of Raahe, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) north of Helsinki, when tragedy struck twice.

The first brother was killed around 9:30 a.m. after being hit by a truck at an icy junction. Just two hours later, and barely one mile (1.6 km) down the same road, his twin was struck and killed in a nearly identical accident.

Police said the coincidence was so shocking that “it made my hair stand on end.”
Two identical twins dying in separate but almost identical accidents on the same day, along the same road, became one of the most extraordinary coincidences ever recorded.

- Sources:
Los Angeles Times (March 7, 2002)
Associated Press report via Michigan’s Thumb (March 7, 2002)
Wired News (March 7, 2002)
Finnish police statements reported by Helsingin Sanomat archives

10/29/2025

Four hundred and thirty eight days is an unimaginable amount of time to spend lost at sea, and when shark fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga washed ashore on Tile Islet in the Marshall Islands in 2014, there was scepticism that his story could possibly be true. It was only when reporters and scientists dug into his tale, his physical condition, his survival techniques, the witnesses that had seen him cast off, that the world began to come to terms with the extent of his ordeal.

He set sail from the west coast of Mexico in 2012 in a 23-foot vessel expecting a 30-hour shift of deep-sea fishing, and did not see land again for 14 months. Set adrift by a storm and a broken engine, he survived on fish, turtles, sea birds, rainwater, his own urine and his devout Christian faith. He had one crewmate, Ezequiel Cordoba, who died after around four months after starting to refuse food.

Salvador Alvarenga holds the record for the longest anyone has survived adrift at sea. Over 14 months floating across 6,700 miles of ocean. When he was rescued, people didn't believe him until investigators verified every detail. His crewmate's death haunted him, but somehow Salvador kept himself alive through sheer willpower.

- Source: Love Exploring verified historical survival stories, 2014 rescue