Here’s a wedding that doesn’t happen everyday. Amanda Sparrow Large, a 45-year-old Irish woman who works as a Jack Sparrow impersonator, married the spirit of a 300-year-old Haitian pirate. They met, according to Ms. Large, when the spirit showed up in her bed (attracted, she thinks by her job at a “Pirates of the Caribbean” park) and started a “casual” relationship (Ghouls With Benefits?). But that wasn’t enough for Large. “I wasn’t really cool with having casual sex with a spirit,” she told the Irish Central, even if she declared the sex was the best she’d ever had, so she demanded he put a ring on it. The spirit only she can communicate with agreed, and proposed. Since inter-dimensional nuptials are not legal in Ireland, the happy couple chartered a ship for international waters, where a medium performed the ceremony. The bride wore white, the groom was represented by a black “Jolly Roger” flag. While Snopes has declared this story false (kiljoys!), we’re intrigued by the fact that marriages between a corporal person and a spirit are legal in China, the Sudan, and France.
In India, doctors are having to answer questions of how they mistakenly declared a man dead. On January 20th, a worker at an electrical factory complained of chest pains and collapsed. Although he was rushed to the hospital, doctors said it was too late. The time was death was recorded as 11:30pm, and he was sent to the hospital’s morgue. But when a post-mortem was conducted, they discovered that the time was death was actually 8am, a gap of eight hours. The man’s brother is suing, claiming that if treatment had been given, he could still be alive.
Finally, in Flint, Michigan, a body of a child exhumed from an unmarked grave is estimated to have been buried more than thirty years ago. The plain wood casket was discovered by cemetery workers at Gracelawn Cemetery while digging another grave. At this time, authorities are looking a cemetery records to try and solve this mystery.
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