2 Year Old China Girl Weight 91 Ibs

She may be just two years old, but Pang Ya is already tipping the scales at 6.5st (41 Kg or 91 lbs).

The toddler’s size means she now weighs the same as an average female Chinese adult.

Although her alarmed parents admit that their daughter has a healthy appetite, they are desperate for help.


Can you beleive that she is only 2 years old?
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'Dead' woman comes back to life

by China Daily News

Preparations were under way for an elderly woman's funeral who reportedly died on Jan 18.

She had been in the coffin for 16 hours when she 'came back to life'.

Her family found her alive after she reportedly kicked the coffin to alert them

The woman, identified only as Hou, has since undergone a medical check-up at their home in Enshi city in China's Hubei province and is also eating well.

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Indonesian horror flick about menstruating ghost withdrawn

JAKARTA - Indonesian film producers said Friday they had withdrawn a horror-comedy movie about a menstruating ghost from cinemas due to threats from hardline Muslims.

"We did this because the reaction to the film is outrageous. The situation is still tense," K2K production house manager Evelin Hutagaol told AFP.

"Hantu Puncak Datang Bulan" (The Menstruating Ghost of Puncak) was screened to a selected audience in Jakarta earlier this week and was due for general release on Thursday.

The producers said they made significant cuts to the film before it was approved by the mainly Muslim country's censorship board, including most of the sex scenes.

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Top 10 spooky sleep disorders

By Stephanie Pappas
Source: MSNBC.MSN

Sleep is supposed to be a time of peace and relaxation. Most of us drift from our waking lives into predictable cycles of deep, non-rapid-eye-movement sleep, followed by dream-filled rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. But when the boundaries of these three phases of arousal get fuzzy, sleep can be downright scary. In fact, some sleep disorders seem more at home in horror films than in your bedroom.

Nightmare Disorder
Whether it's running from axe-wielding murderers or showing up naked in the school cafeteria, most of us have been jolted awake by a nightmare at some point.

Night terrors
Screaming, thrashing, frantically pacing — night terrors earn their name, both for the person experiencing one and for anyone around during the event.


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Sleepy hallucinations
Sleep-related hallucinations are most common in people with narcolepsy. So while the occasional phantasmic visitation is nothing to worry about, if the hallucinations are accompanied by daytime sleepiness and loss of muscle control when excited or surprised, Kline recommends you see a doctor.

Do you Know...
In Japan forklore,
Akume stands for Japanese for nightmare.
Akumu means "devil dream", an especially disturbing nightmare, spirit, succubus, incubus.
and
Akuma is the Japanese evil spirit or angelic being, devil, demon, evil genius of dreams in some contexts. It can be used to describe devils from Western culture, as in the sh(j( manga, Akuma no houteishiki, wherein the devils are the familiar (to Western demonologists at least) Astaroth and Beelzebub.

Exploding head syndrome
This creatively named disorder occurs during the onset of deep sleep, when the person is suddenly startled awake by a sharp, loud noise.

Sleep paralysis
Even today, some researchers suspect that tales of alien abduction may be explained by episodes of sleep paralysis.

REM behavior disorder
REM behavior disorder occurs most often among older adults, and it can be a symptom of Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological disorder.

Nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder
The disorder is poorly understood, but, like sleepwalking, it occurs during non-REM sleep. Drugs that increase dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with reward and pleasure, can help stop the unconscious nighttime snacking, doctors say.

Sexsomnia
First described in a 1996 case study of seven individuals, sleep sex can range from annoying (loud sexual moans) to dangerous (self-injurious masturbation) to criminal (sexual assault or rape).

Insomnia
Insomnia, the inability to fall or stay asleep, can cause irritability and lack of concentration during the day, and long-term sleep deprivation can be downright dangerous.

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Bermuda Triangle of Asia

Backdate: 10/29/2008

There are concerns over Taiwan's Penghu Islands' area that is the Asia's Bermuda triangle. During a routine training mission a fighter jet disappeared some days ago.
Experts say the irregular magnetic field breaks navigational devices, but this was rejected later. In two decades three commercial airplanes, a civil helicopter and five fighter jets crashed.



In 2002 an airplane broke into four parts, and all the 225 passengers aboard died. Later at the same place a cargo plane crashed. The County chief of Penghu blamed the big air traffic over that area. He said human or mechanical failure the cause.

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Vietnam Man Sleep Next to Dead Wife for 5 Years

They say love knows no boundaries, but this is taking it a little too far. A Vietnamese man has been sleeping next to his wife’s corpse for the last five years.


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Le Van, a 55-year-old man from Quang Nam province, Vietnam, lost his wife in 2003. Because he couldn’t go to sleep at night without hugging his beloved spouse, he slept on top of her grave for about 20 months. When he couldn’t stand the rain and wind anymore, he decided to dig a tunnel into the grave, so he could sleep with his wife.


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When the kids heard his crazy plan, they did everything they could to stop him, so Le Van had to think of another way he could cuddle up to his wife at night. In 2004 he unearthed her remains, wrapped them in pieces of paper and a clay mould and put a dummy mask on her face. The man has been sleeping next to his dead wife ever since.

A video spookily crafted illustrating the story...


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7 Ton Giant Jars Mystery of Laos

Located in Laos, near the Eastern border with Viet Nam, the stone jars are found in small clusters. At the most well known site, Ban Ang, the jars seem to be positioned on top of a steep hill. The jars, often weighing as much as 7 tons, appear to have been made at a different site and then moved to their present locations. They are from 3 to 10 feet in height and some span more than a meter in diameter. All are made from very hard stone, mostly granite but some have been carved from sandstone containing quartz, feldspar and mica.


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Carving the jars, considering that there are thousands of them, must have been a remarkable feat for such a sparcely populated region. Scientists estimate that the age of these jars is around 2500 to 3000 years old. Some are so finely carved that it appears they must have been made on a huge lathe. Others are artistically carved in a prism shape. Some have even been found with human forms decorating them.


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Virgin Mary Weep Blood in Bangladesh

February 18, 2003 As reported in BBC News - Written by Alastair Lawson, BBC correspondent in Dhaka. Thousands of people in the Bangladeshi port city of Chittagong are flocking to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic church where tears are reported to have been seen on a statue of the Virgin Mary. Many of those visiting the church are Muslims, eager to see what some locals believe is a sign of the Virgin's dismay over the recent outbreak of violence in the country and elsewhere in the world. Roman Catholic believers say it is the first time in Bangladesh that tears have been seen on a statue of the Virgin Mary.

In a country which is overwhelmingly Muslim, it is unusual for a symbol of the Christian faith to attract much interest. But so many people are gathering outside the Chittagong church that police have been deployed to ensure law and order is maintained. 'Inquisitive' Muslims are queuing to see the statue even though the Koran warns believers against showing an interest in religious idols. Roman Catholics in Chittagong say that most people are queuing up to see the statue because they are inquisitive.

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Blood Weeping Statue of St. Therese in Baguio Phillippines

July 14, 2004 - Statue of St. Therese in Baguio weeps blood. Reported insunstar.com. Baguio City- Roman Catholic devotees started flocking to the Baguio Cathedral on Tuesday morning after hearing reports of a wooden statue of St. Therese reportedly shedding tears of blood. As early as 6 a.m. Tuesday, a number of Catholic followers waited outside the Cathedral to open its doors after Fr. Vicente Castro, the parish priest, confirmed that St. Therese indeed wept blood.


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Castro told reporters he came to know about it when his male assistant informed him that two women churchgoers wiped with tissue paper the blood that reportedly came out from the eyes of St. Therese. He said they convinced the women to turn over the tissue to them for possible laboratory examination to see if it is indeed human blood. The parish priest, however, learned it was churchgoer Christopher Fergis, 26, who first noticed the statue was crying and informed other devotees who were left behind after the Monday afternoon mass. Fergis told reporters he was wondering why he decided to stay after the mass, claiming an unknown force brought him to stand before the statue of St. Therese, where he witnessed it weeping blood.

"When I was in front of the St. Therese statue, I heard voices coming from nowhere and was telling me we should pray for unity and pray for our leaders," Fergis said as several devotees tried to approach and ask him of what he had witnessed. He revealed he's been dreaming about Mother Mary for almost a week and decided to attend a mass at the Baguio Cathedral on Monday afternoon.

Some parishioners who flocked to the Baguio Cathedral said they prayed for peace for the while world while some said they prayed for the release of Angelo de la Cruz, a Filipino being held hostage by Iraqi rebels and threatened with beheading if the Philippine government would not pull out its humanitarian troops from Iraq. The "weeping" of blood by St. Therese statue occurred four days ahead the 14th commemoration of the July 16, 1990 killer temblor that devastated Baguio and its environs, killing thousands of residents and visitors.

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Blood Weeping Statue in Agoo, Philippines

An estimated one million people gathered in a small Philippine town north of Manila on 6 March to witness a visitation of the Virgin Mary. Many people in the crowd, including top Philippine government officials, journalists, and the local Catholic bishop - acting as a representative of the Pope - attested to seeing a silhouette resembling the Virgin Mary appear above a guava tree for approximately five seconds. This was followed several minutes later by flashes of red, yellow and blue lights moving towards a "dancing sun".

The events took place at Apparition Hill in the small town of Agoo, in La Union province. A visionary boy, 16-year-old Judiel Nieva, says that the Virgin Mary has been appearing to him, and giving him messages, on the first Saturday of every month and on special religious feasts since 1989. The pilgrims gathered in Agoo on 6 March because the boy said the Virgin would appear at that particular place and time.

About a month earlier, a statue of the Virgin Mary owned by Judial Nieva's family began regularly weeping tears of blood. The phenomenon was witnessed by thousands during a noontime mass in February. An assistant to the nationâs President said that the statue was brought before his critically ill wife on two occasions, and both times she unexpectedly recovered. There are also reports that Communion wafers turn to flesh and blood in Nievaâs mouth. Another resident of the area said that his statue of the Virgin was also "shedding tears, which later turn blood red."

On the day before the Virgin's visitation in Agoo, thousands of Marian devotees in the area witnessed the phenomenon of the "dancing sun". A Manila Bulletin reporter who was covering these events said he personally witnessed a "spinning and dancing of the sun for about 15 minutes." During an overnight vigil preceding the Agoo visitation, witnesses said that three bright stars appeared to be facing each other just below the Big Dipper constellation in the east. At dawn that day, the sun again "moved or danced" for a few seconds, witnesses said.

On 6 March, with the huge crowd in attendance, Father Roger Cortez conducted a noontime mass at Apparition Hill. After Cortez appealed for silence from the crowd, and called for them to feel the presence of Christ in their hearts, a silhouette of the Virgin Mary appeared for a few seconds above a guava tree. Approximately 10 minutes later, when Judiel Nieva was reading a message that he had received from the Virgin Mary, "lights of different colours came from various directions and moved toward the sun," according to the Manila Bulletin. The young seer said that the Virgin Mary in her message asked Catholics to pray for the children of famine-wracked Somalia. Nieva said the next apparition would be on 8 September, and then "the Blessed Mother will disappear for ever."

Top Philippine government officials, including the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore, attested to the manifestation in Agoo. A radio reporter, Mon Francisco, said over Manila radio station DZXL that he saw a silhouette of a woman wearing a dark waistband. Francisco said he had not expected to see the apparition, and that he "was not hallucinating." Bishop Salvador Lazo, the province's Catholic bishop, also experienced the phenomenon and created a commission to investigate, gather evidence and testimonies, and report to the Vatican on the event. Scores of miraculous cures have been attributed to the water spring at the apparition site. The occurrences in Agoo have received major publicity throughout the Philippines, and have also been reported on the Associated Press wire services.

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Magical Scarecrows to Ward off Black Magic

In Bali, the main duty of the scarecrows is to scare away the sparrows that eat the rice paddy seeds. But for specific supernatural reasons, the magic scarecrow – on which spells have been placed complete with offerings – is designed to counter any black magic attacks on the field or its owner.

Lelakut bertuah are few and far between in Bali nowadays, as farmers no longer know how to imbue scarecrows with the right spells or to assemble the required offerings. The artistically decorated scarecrows are now the most common, although they are made only to counter attacks from small birds.

Making the lelakut bertuah requires specific materials and processes. The basic material is a single branch from a coconut tree (papah nyuh nunggal). Such branches are usually found hanging alone far from other branches.

The papah nyuh nunggal is believed to carry a potent supernatural power that can ward off attacks from both black magic and birds.

After getting a branch, the farmers must consider on which certain special day they might create and place the enchanted scarecrow in the field. For the Balinese, kajeng kliwon is a magically sacred and, therefore, perfect day to learn mysticism, or cast spells or charms by chanting a mantra, including “summoning” a sorcerer scarecrow.

To ensure the presence of magical powers, a farmer must cast the spells and serve offerings consisting of two canang (simple offering of flowers, leaves and fragrances) and a satuh snack to the scarecrow. After placing the scarecrow in a paddy field on kajeng kliwon, the farmer will chew onion and jangu (a type of medicinal grass) three times before spitting the concoction at the scarecrow.

Similar offerings must be made every 15 days and on kajeng kliwon days.

If the sorcerer scarecrow succeeds in keeping the birds away, then during the harvest ceremony, the farmers must also make other offerings to Sang Hyang Sepuh and Sang Hyang Pemunah Sakti, the guardian gods of rice paddies and fields, as a token of their gratitude.

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Supernatural Meteorite Gemstones

Apart from being one of the world’s chief tin-producing centers, the island of Bangka Belitung, located off the eastern coast of Sumatra, has also cemented a reputation overseas for its satam gemstone handicrafts, signature jewelry not found elsewhere.

According to Belitung legends, the stones have the power to ward off poison and evil forces. They can also be used to determine whether people are in good health, Firman said, adding that a stone placed on the palm on your hand that felt warm was a sign of poor health.

“The gem can also intercept evil energies such as black magic,” he said. “Former president Megawati Soekarnoputri once bought a satam necklace.”


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Zaenal Abidin, principal of Junior High School 4, Manggar regency, Belitung, claimed gemstone therapy had been used many times for healing purposes.

“The stone was placed on the ailing body part, absorbing poison,” he said.

These unique stones are used to make jewelry such as rings, necklaces, brooches and earrings.

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