Polish man, believed drowned, resurfaces
A police search for a Polish man believed to have drowned himself in a lake ended when the man showed up, wondering what all the fuss was about. Maciej Nowak was last seen drinking heavily after his girlfriend dumped him, and his clothes were found next to a lake. As police divers plumbed the depths for his body, Nowak appeared and said he’d woken up at a nearby house, naked, with no memory of the previous evening. His girlfriend said it was “stupid things like this that caused me to dump him.’’
Woman takes heart from image of Jesus on steam iron
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A Massachusetts woman whose life has taken a bad turn was heartened recently to find Jesus Christ looking out at her from her steam iron. Mary Jo Coady, 44, says the iron was lying on the floor of her daughter’s bedroom when she spotted the curious pattern of scorching on its face. “I see his eyes, his nose, his whole face,” says Coady, “and I was like, ‘That’s Jesus looking at us.’” Coady, who recently separated from her husband, moved out of her house, and had her hours cut at work, said the miraculous image “gave me a sign that life is going to be good.���
Grief-stricken Vietnamese sleeps beside wife's corpse
A Vietnamese man, distraught after the death of his wife, dug up her corpse and slept beside it for five years. The unnamed 55-year-old says that for the first 20 months after his wife’s death, in 2003, he slept on top of her grave, but when the rain and cold started to affect his health, he dug up her remains, used clay to restore some of her womanly form, and took the corpse home. “I’m a person who does things differently,” the man told authorities.
