The podcast that explores the strange and the bizarre. From 'Anatomical Oddities' such as "Grady Styles The Lobster Boy" who was born with claws instead of hands and 'Modified Marvels' such as "Rick Genest The Zombie Boy" who tattooed his entire body to resemble a rotting corpse - to 'Peculiar People' such as "Mac Norton L’homme Aquarium" who swallowed live fish and frogs before regurgitating them unharmed, and even 'Abnormal Animals' such as "Oliver The Humanzee" whom scientists believe could have been the missing link in evolution.
Welcome to Unusual As Usual
Migaloo is a humpback whale that was first spotted in 1991 off Byron Bay, Queensland by a group of volunteers conducting a whale count. He was born with Albinism - the absence of any pigmentation or coloration. Researchers estimated that he was born around 1986 making him 5 years old when he was first spotted.
In 2003 Migaloo was struck by a boat full of people eager to get close for photographs, he survived the encounter but it left him with scars across his back. All humpback whales are protected under Australian law, but since this incident there have been additional laws passed so Migaloo and other humpback whales that are more than 90% white are classed as “special management marine mammals” and have an additional exclusion zone around them.
Adopt Migaloo here: https://give.pacificwhale.org/animals/187621
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27 Aug 2021
The 3 Breasts of Jasmine TriDevil
Alisha Hessler was born in 1993 in Tampa, Florida. She rose to fame in 2014 when she began using the alias Jasmine TriDevil and posting selfies on the internet, Her new found fame divided opinions, with some being amazed and others suspecting that her third breast wasn’t real.
It all came to a head when it was reported that TriDevil had been found dead in the early hours in her Tampa Apartment after someone had attempted to remove her third breast.
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25 Aug 2021
The Hard Hitting Story of Melvin Burkhart
Melvin Burkhart was born on 16th February 1907 in Atlanta, Georgia. At the age of 20, he joined a small circus and worked as 'The Anatomical Wonder'. He would inflate one lung at a time, elongate his neck to an incredible degree and could contort his facial muscles in such a way that on one half he was smiling, whilst simultaneously on the other half he was frowning.
However, had ambitions to become a prize fighter, so he became a boxer. Not a very good boxer but a boxer none the less.He had 6 fights in the ring, and lost every single one of them. With a record 6 losses and 0 wins as you can imagine he spent quite a lot of his time sitting in hospital waiting rooms. It was at one of these frequent visits to the hospital that he had his eureka moment.
Each time he visited hospital the doctor seemed to remove more and more damaged cartilage from his repeatedly broken nose. He figured the less cartilage in his nasal cavity the more room there will be for an inanimate object - such as ...a 6 inch nail. He got home later that night found a hammer, dug out a nail and the rest as they say is history. When Robert Ripley saw Burkhart's new act he dubbed him a "Human Blockhead” and the name has stuck ever since. Burkhart retired in 1989 but continued to perform for tourists and journalists right up until his death in 2001 at the age of 94.
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