Man turns uncle’s body into a guitar
And other stories from the stranger side of life
A man has made a guitar using his late uncle’s bones, which he dug up from a cemetery. Yaago Anax, also known as Prince Midnight, credits his uncle with starting his passion for heavy metal music. He repatriated the remains of his uncle from Greece to Florida before embarking on his curious project. "I did a lot of research and no one has ever made a guitar out of a skeleton,” he said. “So, I did it.”
Funeral dolls expose fake pregnancy
A Russian woman who told her husband she was pregnant with twins that died has been exposed as a liar. Laura Daudov pretended to be pregnant, shopping for babies’ cots and the renting a flat near a maternity hospital. She told her husband she had given birth but that the twins died of a cerebral haemorrhage aneurysm. For the subsequent funeral she produced two dolls, wrapped in shrouds. During the ceremony, her husband unwrapped one of the shrouds and her story unravelled from here.
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Everest photos lead to climber ban
Two climbers have been banned from Mount Everest after they falsely claimed to have climbed to the summit of the world’s tallest mountain. Sceptics pointed out that photos shared by Narender Singh Yadav and Seema Rani Goswami lacked mountains in the reflection of their sunglasses and featured drooping flags in places that are known for their strong winds. Yadav denies any wrongdoing, writing on Twitter: “There is no competition between donkeys and horses and the world will keep barking like this.”
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.
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