Results: Strange But True Part 8

Elsie Allcock will be 106 years old this June, but her amazing claim to fame isn't her age, but the fact that she lives in the house she was born in -- and has never lived anywhere else. She was born at the end of World War l in 1918, right in a top floor bedroom in this house in Nottinghamshire, England, and she has lived her entire life in that house, many years with her husband who passed away in 1995. Do you know anyone who has lived in the same house their entire life?

In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe released the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. The story was about three sailors who had to consume their friend to survive a shipwreck. Little did Poe know that this story became a reality some years later… In 1884, three sailors actually became shipwrecked and were forced to eat their friend, who eerily had the name of Richard Parker, the man eaten in the story. Have you ever read this book?

Boanthropy is a psychological disorder where a person believes himself or herself to be a bovine. History's most famous sufferer of boanthropy may have been Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. According to the Biblical prophet Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar was punished by God and lived like a cow for seven years. Have you ever heard of this psychological disorder?

In 2017, two students, Lloyd Jack and Ruairi Gray thought they were pulling a prank, by placing a pineapple on a vacant display table at Robert Gordon University's Look Again exhibition. When the pair returned four days later, they found that their pineapple was untouched. In fact, it had been given its very own glass display case. The pineapple had become art. The exhibition they targeted aims to make people 'take a second look at their surroundings'. Exhibition curators claimed they had no idea where the glass case came from. Have you ever been to a gallery and thought, is this art?