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Some years after he had swallowed a snake’s raw gall bladder “for a dare”, a man named Li, from Hunan, China, started getting optical disturbances in the form of a “mosaic like thing” appearing in his

Rangers defender Kirk Broadfoot was already sidelined with one injury when a microwave caused another. At home in 2009, Broadfoot decided to poach an egg – soon he was all over the back pages. “Shell

As a medical student, I had a total of two weeks’ training in dermatology – the specialty for skin diseases. That made it a bit of a shock when I entered general practice, where every other patient se

How many of your favourite scary movies may have inspired fiction to become reality? We investigate…

You might expect to encounter a psychopath in a law office or managing a hedge fund, or perhaps in an operating theatre. Law, finance and medicine are often seen as favourable professions for those wh

“Welcome to the 19th century,” began Jeremy Harte, introducing the Folklore Society’s Legendary Weekend examining ‘Lying in Legend and Tradition’. Gathering at Carlisle’s Tullie House Museum over 6-7