Have you ever seen someone rescue a chimp from drowning, or attempt to convert lions to Christianity? If not, you clearly need to spend more time at the zoo.

When a strange boat washed ashore in Ireland, the Coast Guard embarked on a rescue mission. But after the rescuers discovered that no one was inside the vessel, they soon discovered its incredible backstory.

It doesn’t take much to creep out a kid, and some horrors are so unsettling that they can haunt for a lifetime. But the worst of these scares cannot be rationally explained – even as an adult.

Brazilian great-grandmother Dona Nely takes religion very seriously and prays every day. But then she realized that the effigy she had been praying to wasn’t whom she’d thought it was.

Tim Phifer had already tried to demolish a 2.6-million-pound smokestack twice. His third method involved scraping away at the structure with an excavator – but what happened next was shocking.