If you suffer from any level of insomnia, you know how damaging it can be to your health as well as your personal life. So you can just imagine having a disease that NEVER allows you to sleep, keeping you in a constant state of exhaustion…until your body gives up and dies.
That’s what fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is. The disease is extremely rare (less than one out of 10 million people have it), but those who do suffer from it live in extreme agony. Sadly, so far there is no cure.
(via Oddity Central)
There is currently no cure for FFI, but as sufferers of the disease continue donating their brains to science, experts believe they are getting closer to finding one. In the meantime, people with FFI go to often bizarre lengths to help them sleep, such as sensory deprivation tanks and even electroconvulsive therapy.
Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/fatal-familial-insomnia/
There are some things on the Internet that are best left unexplained. To ask why YouTuber theseheavenlybodies would insert panicked voices over several speeding trains would only lead one down a rabbit hole of more unanswerable questions…spiraling into insanity. All you need to know is that it looks like the trains are screaming, and it’s simultaneously hilarious and frightening.
I can’t deny that I’ve watched this video at least 15 times now, and each time I get more confused. The best thing to do is to embrace the chaos. One YouTube commenter described it as “Thomas and friends on mushrooms.” Seems about right.
Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/screaming-trains/
During sixties, “Deadman’s Hill” in Clophill (the area of old, ruined chapel of St. Mary) was the greatest marketplace of some specifically dark black miracle traditions.
Recently, paranormal detectives decided to go on site assured of getting a glimpse of just one thing otherworldly. Dean Johnson together with his friend Charlie have-been shooting the entry in the chapel when they filmed one thing just a little strange…
This encounter may have quickly recently been faked (or even the video clip personalized), but given the webpage’s record and odd atmosphere, it will justify consideration. That said, in 1963, people maintains had been arranged whenever you consider the nave involving chapel for a black mass (and it’s easy to do you know exactly what the idea was in reality)…
Learn more: http://www.viralnova.com/old-st-mary-monk/
When Will Burks, 41, started his ski run on Della Mountain in Hailey, Idaho, one day, he wasn’t expecting to be faced with disaster. First of all, Burks isn’t your average skier. Instead, he prefers to ski-fly, which means that he skis right off the edge of the mountain and uses a parachute to float down to the bottom. It’s pretty safe to say that it’s hard to scare him.
And that’s why this footage is so incredible. When this brave guy opened up his parachute and looked down at the mountain that he was just skiing on, he saw something pretty alarming.
Burks later learned that the avalanche that he’d so narrowly escaped was classified as a D2 event. Basically, this skier is lucky that he jumped when he did. The ending of this story could’ve been far more upsetting!
Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/ski-avalanche/
When you’re out mowing your lawn, the last thing you might expect is for the ground to open up and swallow you whole. But that’s what almost happened to Emma James back in November.
The 45-year-old British woman first noticed an odd dip in her lawn a few months ago, but since then, it’s grown into a full-fledged hole that’s two feet by two feet…
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsFamily are baffled after seven-foot deep hole opened up on their front lawn with rusty STEPS leading into the dark… https://t.co/C91qPgMz4J
— Paris Hatzievagelou (@parishatzi) March 9, 2016
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsA massive hole opened up in this family’s garden… and it has an unexpected surprise https://t.co/LcnizzR1g6 pic.twitter.com/nHKpzqo6IF
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) March 10, 2016
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Hopefully it doesn’t turn out to be some sort of demonic portal to the other side…
(via The Bucks Herald)
Well, that’s terrifying. I think I would try to move out if I found something like that in my front yard. Yikes.
Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/hell-hole/
In a truly tragic twist of fate, a woman was killed by a train while trying to hunt down a cryptozoological being that’s known to lure people onto the tracks. Roquel Bain and her boyfriend were visiting Louisville, Kentucky, from Ohio when they decided to stalk the legendary Pope Lick Monster, which is a mythological creature that is supposedly a cross between a man and a goat.
The two unwittingly fell into the monster’s trap and were struck by a train on the bridge. Roquel’s boyfriend managed to hang for dear life, but she fell off the bridge and died.
In 1988, a local film called “The Legend of the Pope Lick Monster”debuted in Louisville theaters. The Norfolk Southern Railway took issue with the film, as they were afraid it might encourage young people to hang out on the trestles. Based on this story, I’d say that their fears were totally justified.
Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/pope-lick-monster-vicitm/
There are few things more beautiful than listening to thunder crack and watching lightning dance outside your window. But when a thunderstorm rolls over the tallest building on the planet, the effect is even more amazing than you could possibly imagine.
The footage below, taken in Dubai, captures an explosive lightning strike over the Burj Khalifa, which stands 2,722 feet tall. Fortunately for us, Instagram user Fazza decided to share his chilling, beautiful video with the rest of the world.
Interestingly enough, the keen-eyed photographer who caught this shocking spectacle also goes by the name of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai! Even royalty can’t deny the allure of nature.
