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Top 10 of Teens You Won’t Believe Exist

All teenagers are a little strange… it’s just something everyone goes through in that stage of life. But some kids out there would actually be worthy the label “bizarre”. Some for doing extraordinary things, others for suffering from very unusual conditions; we have compiled this article that presents to you 10 teens who are so unusual you just won’t believe they exist.

10. Julia Vins

Julia Vins is extraordinary because she worked very hard towards her passion, which happened to be body building. This 19 year old teenager looks just like a doll, until you look beyond her face… then you notice her gigantic muscles, and colossal arms and shoulders that would scare a professional wrestler. Julia is the living proof that you can be extremely tough and strong and still look like an angel!

9. Ellen Lietzow

If there was a world record for anorexia, Ellen Lietzow would likely qualify. This teenager decided not to eat or drink for a long time, because she felt that would help her become popular. She did get a lot of public attention, although arguably for the wrong reasons. At age 17, she was rushed to the hospital when she collapsed in school, after a full week with absolutely no nourishment or hydration.

8. Hunter Steinitz

Many people who come across Hunter Steinitz assume this teenager was a burn victim… but in fact she suffers from something even worse. She has a rare condition callled “harlequin ichthyosis” which makes all of her skin turn very thick, red and dry. It got so bad she became unable to close her eyes and her hair stopped growing because her follicles were blocked… she also cannot sweat, which leads to many secondary problems.

7. Mahendra Ahirwar

Mahendra Ahirwar was an Indian boy who also suffered from a terrible rare condition… fortunately modern medicine was able to help him lead a normal life. At age 13, he was afflicted with such severe congenital myopathy that his neck turned 180º from the normal position. He was turned down by 50 local doctors until eventually a successful crowd-funding helped him find a surgeon who was able to operate on his neck.

6. Nihal Bitla

Nihal Bitla really didn’t look like a teenager at all when he passed away at age 15. He suffered from a condition called progeria, which made him age at eight times the normal pace. This disease made him look like an old man before he became a teenager, while leaving him with a normal child’s mind. Although he sadly died much too soon, his story raised awareness of this terrible disease.

5. Fu Wengui

Fu Wengui was a 15 year old teenager from china who also suffered from a very unusual malformation that affected his neck, making it unusually long as well as causing him terrible pain. He had three extra vertebra in the spine, which eventually had to be removed to allow him to lead a peaceful and pain-free life.

4. Ciera Swaringen

Sara Swaringen is a teenager from North Carolina (USA) who has a rare condition called Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevus, which only affects in in 1/2 million people. This condition made her grow tens of thousands of moles all over her body, giving her a very unusual dotted skin. Ciera refused to be put down by her condition and decided to stand up for herself and proud of her body, rather than looking for treatment.

3. Lucy and Maria Aylmer

Lucy and Maria Aylmer are twin sisters from Gloucester (England), but you really wouldn’t think so. Born to a half Jamaican mother and a white father, the girls each drew from opposite ends of the genetic pool. Lucy is a ginger with notably light skin, while Maria looks almost black with her extremely tight curls and very dark skin. You would be hard pressed to find twins who look as different as these girls!

2. Isa-Bella Leclair

Isa-Bella Leclair is another inspiring teenager who refused to be put down by her deformities. She has a condition called Parkes Weber Syndrome, which caused her right leg to grow and swell to more than twice the size of her left leg. The doctors warned her mother that she might never be able to walk, but her strong will proved otherwise. To this day, she keeps inspiring people all around the world with her positive attitude.

1. Abigail & Brittany Hensel

Abigail Loraine Hensel and Britany Lee Hensel are two American girls who were born as conjoined twins – meaning their bodies have merged while keeping their heads separate. They each control half of the body, which is packed with a pair of each organ even though it looks strikingly normal and symmetrical from the neck down. These twins effectively look like a normal person with two heads, and they have raised much attention in the scientific community and beyond – they even starred in their own reality series in 2012.

10 Extremely Gross Kidnapping Stories Shocked You

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These kidnaping stories are not just made up stories but they are cruel reality of our society. These kidnaping cases involved not just keeping them hostage but also abusing them physically and sexually.

Extremely Gross Kidnaping Stories of All Times

The kidnaping cases have different backgrounds but mostly the kidnapers had some sort of mental disorder that made them so things as gross as kidnaping someone and torturing them.

1. Masha

The story of Masha is very heart touching as she was not just a child who was kidnaped in a very awkward way and abused. She was in a Russian orphanage from where she was adopted by an American man Matthew Mancuso, unfortunately after her adoption there were no visits made to make sure that the child was alright. More over even at the time of adoption no background checks were made of the man and his conduct. The only information about him was that he was a divorced man and wanted to adopt a child.

She was just 5 when she was adopted and just after the adoption he started abusing her physically and not just that he started using her in child pornography and not in limited films but she was so much in the child pornography that police started searching for the poor child. The police after watching so much abuse with her started investigating and taking clues from the films which led to the man and finally Masha was rescued by police. The case was taken so seriously that after just 3 months she was rescued. Masha has filed a law suit and her adoptive father is sentences to jail for child pornography and child rape both. These kidnaping stories are mind disturbing.

2. David Pelzer

Born in 1960 David Pelzer is an author, he found his only way to express what he has been through by his words. Pelzer’s best work is his own story about child abuse known as “A Child Called It” , it was infect his first book and received huge response because his true emotions couldn’t let people ignore his words. The book explains how his mother use to make him starve and make him drink ammonia, she even stabbed him in the stomach and made him drink his own vomit.

His father played no role in taking action against all his violence. Pelzer had awkward relations with his mother since childhood where he was beaten and abused, this was not just a normal case soon his teachers stepped into the matter and he was taken to a foster care. Apparently his mother was alcoholic but use to beat up only David from all of her children. David joined Us Air force when he turned 18 and led a relatively normal life from there on.

3. Elizabeth Fritzel One of Heart Wrenching Kidnaping Stories

This is again another case which would be listed as kidnaping; the point is it is not always you enemies who become cruel to you sometimes your own people show up being the faces behind the cruelty. Elizabeth was kept locked up in a basement since child hood and for a time period of 24 years. Her story is more serious and beyond the imagination of a normal person and makes you think what kind of mental unrest would make you do it for a period of 24 years and not once you realized that you were doing wrong.

Elizabeth was kept locked and continuously physically and sexually raped by her father which resulted in birth of 4 children who were raised by her father Josef Fritzl and his wife. Elizabeth was recovered when her eldest daughter had serious lungs condition and Josef had to take her to the hospital and gave a confusing story to the doctors later he had to bring Elizabeth to the hospital after long twisted stories where she had to be taken by the police and she told all her story and Josef was charged with all his crimes at the age of 75. Josef made up stories regarding the kids being born by Elizabeth that he found them abandoned and wants to raise them.

4. Steven Stayner

Steven Styner was kidnapped when he was 7 and he was kept hostage for almost 7 years and then he returned to his family. His kidnapper Kenneth Parnell not just kidnaped Steven but also made him believe that he has hid legal custody. Steven was sexually abused and was also enrolled in school. It was when Parnell kidnapped another boy and Steven along with this other boy escaped from there. Steven’s case became so much famous that a film was also made on his true story called “ I Know my name is Steven”.

5. Natascha Kampusch

Natacha was abducted by her kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil. She was abducted for almost 8 years when one day she escaped. Natascha was kidnapped at the age of 10 and ran away when she was 18, she gained a lot of media attention and she also wrote an autobiography called 3096 days. Natascha earlier from her kidnaping was not in a very healthy environment as her parents were already separated and just after her kidnap they were divorced. She even had her passport with her when she was kidnapped as she just returned to her mother’s place after holidays. Natacha explained the time of her captivity saying that all this time she was kept in a small dungeon which was also sound proof. Initially she has to be there all the time latter she was allowed to be in the upper portion of the home freely when Prillopil was at home.

She later was also allowed to be in the garden area as well. She explains that all this time she was given books to educate herself and was forced to do the entire household for the kidnapper she also admitted that she was raped several times by him. She was also allowed to have outdoor trips where she tried to gain some attention by people but all of that in vain. She escaped when she was cleaning the kidnaper’s car while he received a phone call. With the noise of the vacuum cleaner she ran to the nearest police station and the kidnapper committed suicide when he found out that the police was looking for him.

6. John Jamelske

John Jamelske was based in DeWitt and was a serial kidnapper and rapist. His kidnaping stories also got media fame and attention as his story was the character of Jamie Gumm in Silence of the Lambs. He was apprehended in 2003. Jamelske use to keep girls abducted in a small dungeon under his home and sexually abuse them and also free them. Jamelske was caught when he made his last kidnap and kept her with him and also took her for outings on her 2nd trip she slipped and made a call to her sister, the sister traced the id and called back an employee picked up the phone when she asked him to call 9 11.

The employee rather called his boss who was supposed to meet Jamelske and told him about the kidnaping stories he came to know about him. The boss informed the police and was arrested at his home when he left with the girl to his home.

7. Michael Devlin

Such kidnaping stories are heart wrenching but when these kidnaping stories have an ending of capturing the criminal they give you some sort of satisfaction as well. Micheal Devlin is one of these horrifying kidnaping stories which will shock your souls. He not just kidnapped young boys but also sexually abused them and used them in child pornography. He was arrested as a result of his mini truck which matched the description of a vehicle involved in abductions. When investigated policed found 2 boys who were reported to be lost, Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby. The boys have been reunited with their families but the kidnaping stories leave impact.

8. Genie

Ginie spent first 13 years of her life locked in a room. Her parents were mentally disturbed which is very clear in such kidnaping stories that normal people don’t do stuff like that. At a very early age she was diagnosed with a problem of slow mental development. She was tortured and made to be in horrible situations due to keeping her isolated she couldn’t even speak as there was no exposure to someone talking. When she was 13 her mother escaped and took her along. She was made to spend entire day tied to a potty chair and at night was made to sleep in a bag which was covered with a metal crib. These kidnaping stories are totally heart breaking.

9. Colleen Stan

Collen Stan was a woman who was kidnapped by Cameron Hooker in California in 1977. Out of all the kidnaping stories this particular one was so much designed. She was held captured for 8 years and was sexually abused and was made to believed that she is kidnapped by a large group of people called “ The Company” and that her family is watched and will be harmed if she tries to flee. She was brain washed by hooker so much that he wanted he wanted her to be his second wife she was allowed to do job but all the secrets came out when hooker wanted to have 4 more slaves. She also had a book written on her name. She told police that she wanted hooker to change and give him a chance but he didn’t seem to be changing. Such kidnaping stories totally change your perception about human beings.

10. Fusako Sano

This is one of the kidnaping stories when the kids are kidnapped and kept captive for years and when they escape they lack the ability to adjust in normal things. The girl was kidnapped at the age of 9 and was kept for 9 years in lock. She was abducted in 4thgrade and when free also behaved like a child. She was discovered when the kidnapper’s mother asked public health service to visit as her child Nobuyuki Satō (the kidnapper) was behaving weird. Upon the visit things got out of control the police had to come and recovered Fusaku who was very weak due to no exposure to sun, no proper diet and jaundice. Such kidnaping stories should be brought into light to be addressed by society.

10 Cool Well-Paid Dream Jobs

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You are probably wondering whether there are any people who do not only earn good money but also enjoy their work and get a lot of pleasure out of spending every single hour at their working place. Indeed, it is very easy to believe that you need to work your socks off, spend twenty-four hours a day at the office, no weekend, no vacation, just to be able to have some money left by the end of the month after paying the bills. In fact, there are some amazing jobs that are not only well-paid but also enjoyable and look very close to being dream jobs. Let us look closer at some of these cool places where people are happy to do their work.

10. Fake executive

If you are a white male, have a suit, and can look like you are an important person, you may work as a fake executive in China. No experience required. No education required. Just pretend that you are the boss.

Big Chinese companies hire a fake executive to look well-connected to the Western World (mostly U.S.) and to show the community their importance in the world of business. This is not a year-contract job, you will only be asked to be present at the ceremony, to attend some dinners, maybe to tour the factory or the company office. You know, to show yourself around. For the rest of the day, you may just enjoy the hotel services or pretend you are working hard at the office. If you look like a real cool boss, you may even be asked to give a speech.

This job is becoming more and more popular, but you may expect to find this kind of job only in big Chinese cities or somewhere not far away from them. Due to the local tradition, no ladies are allowed. No need to know Mandarin, the interpreters will translate everything you say in the way they want. Basic acting skills are welcomed.

You may expect to get $1,000 a week with all expenses paid by the company.

9. Water slide tester

If you see a lonely adult man in a swimming suit who zips down the hotel’s water slide several times in a row, it can certainly be just a person who is trying to recapture his lost childhood, but it can be a water slide tester as well.

A water slide tester is usually hired by a hotel chain or a big travel company in order to check how fun and how safe the water slides are. You need to focus on whether you are sliding down quickly enough and whether it goes smoothly, notice how much water the slide uses, and generally evaluate the adrenaline factor of the water attraction.

This kind of job will give you around $30,000 a year, with all your travel and allocation expenses paid. You travel by airplane from hotel to hotel, check in, put on your swimming outfit, and go directly to the pool. After the main job is done, you need to write a report about your feelings while sliding and send it both to the company that hired you and to the hotel manager.

The water slide tester job does not require any special degree, you just need to be older than 22 years old, you need to be reliable, stay calm under pressure, and learn as many synonyms for the words “fun,” “water,” and “slide” as you can to write a unique report for each case. And it would be nice if you could swim well. You know, just in case.

8. Panda custodian

For those of you who love spending time with animals, The Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Ya’an, Sichuan province in China offers a job of a panda custodian. You will have to stroke little fluffy bears, give them food, provide the animals with everything they need, and receive all the love they will give to you in return.

The salary is $32,000 yearly plus free meals, transit, and accommodation near the research center. Generally, the center does not require much from the applicants, they just need to be older than 22 years old, have good writing skills, photography skills, and have some basic knowledge about pandas. The center expects that most applicants will be office workers who got tired of the stressful city life and who want to change their office work to a peaceful vacation-like job with cute animals.

7. Ice cream tasters

Imagine a person who says “I paid for this Tesla Car by eating ice cream.” Sounds like a joke, but in fact, ice cream tasters earn quite good money ($60,000 yearly), plus, of course, they have free ice cream of all the possible flavors every day.

As an ice cream taster, you are expected to evaluate taste, consistency, texture, smell, and a number of other features of every portion of ice cream. Well, we all understand that in any case it will mostly be only about the taste. Therefore, you are expected to like ice cream, otherwise, this job may turn into real hell for you. On the other hand, will you still love ice cream like before after you taste your 5,000th ice cream sample?

6. Ethical computer hackers

This part of work requires a solid computer education and a natural desire to crack and hack programs and systems. You may do it just because you are a naturally curious person, or you can earn money in that working as an ethical hacker.

Ethical hackers are hired by the security departments of big organizations (or even the national government) in order to find out whether their information is stored safely enough. It means that a hacker absolutely legally tries his best to penetrate a computer system and gets money for this (the yearly salary can be up to $150,000).

The purpose of this job is to find the weak places that the “freelance evil” hackers may use to break down the system. Once an ethical hacker finds the vulnerability, they should document it and provide advice on how to fix the problem. So, generally, ethical hackers are there to improve company’s overall security.

5. Chief listening officer

Do you like to procrastinate while working and browse the Internet for hours instead of actually doing your job? Maybe then it is time to make reading stuff on social networks your main source of income? A chief listening officer can earn up to $95,000 yearly for observing and monitoring comments and opinions that customers and clients leave on the Internet about a certain company.

Basically, you need to focus on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and other social networks to track all references to your company. You need to find out what people are talking about the products and services, whether they are satisfied or disappointed. You collect all the complaints, all the tips and ideas people want to be realized and then deliver this information to the company departments.

For instance, if your company’s Facebook is full of bad reviews of one product, you send this information to the Customer Service Director, so that they can solve the problem and improve the situation. It is also very important to let people know that the clients are happy with the excellent service, so they remain motivated to do their job further on the same high level.

4. Voice-over artists

If you have a nice voice and a good accent, you may earn your money for simply saying things. The voices you hear on TV and radio commercials, in award presentations or backstage theater reading—all these pieces of work are done by voice-over artists. You may remember storytelling voice-overs in some popular movies, such as Fight Club, Blade Runner, Moulin Rouge!, or The Shawshank Redemption.

A voice-over artist, especially if they have a unique voice, may earn about $80,000 yearly on average. No need to write your own text, just read the script as well as you can.

3. Video game tester

If you spend your free time playing video games, maybe it is time to change your job and get money for your hobby? Video game tester may sound like a dream job, but the $50,000 yearly for doing this are quite real.

There are different kinds of tasks a video game player has to do. Some check completely new games in order to find bugs or mistakes while playing. Others may be hired by ordinary players for helping them attain higher levels in games.

In most cases, video game player is supposed to be an office worker, but some smaller companies are okay with working from home, too. There are some qualities a video game tester must have: you need to have very good attention, be able to work in team, avoid being angry, negative or sarcastic, and, what is probably the most important, you should not get bored playing the same game for a long time, sometimes for days, weeks, or even months.

2. Hotel test sleeper

From time to time, most office workers dream about sleeping during working hours, but for Beijing-based Zhuang Jing it is not a dream, she is paid for sleeping in the best luxury hotels. Jing works for the online company Qunar, and her task is to find out the quality of the service in the hotel.

Jing was selected together with other two recruits out of 7,800 candidates. In every room, she needs to check whether everything around her fits each guest’s needs. Is the pillow soft enough? Is the bathroom crystal clean? Are there any fingertips or water marks on the plates and glasses? Is it quiet at night? Is it convenient to get to the hotel from the public transport stations?

Jing spends only one night in every hotel, and every evening she writes her opinion and notes in a review. She does not have to be on duty every single night though; Jing has started her hotel research back in March 2010, and by now she has reviewed around 200 hotels. It is very important to her to stay unrecognized, so Jing is not craving fame, she just enjoys the nights in the best Beijing hotels for money.

1. Chocolate taster

This job exists not only in Roald Dahl’s world about Willy Wonka but also in real life. Can you imagine: all you need to do is examine the smell, the taste, and the quality of the finest chocolate bars, and you will get paid for this!

Chocolate tasters can have a contract with one big company, but in most cases, they are hired by different chocolate manufacturing companies, food science companies, or pretty much any place where chocolate products are manufactured or sold. An average chocolate taster earns between $30,000 and $60,000 per year, though if you are extremely good at this work, you may earn even more.

What is also nice about being a chocolate taster is that you are not obligated to eat chocolate, you are required to taste it. It means that you can save your body from being fat and still enjoy the delicious taste of the most amazing kinds of chocolate in the world.

Chocolate testers are expected to know and understand all the details of the chocolate manufacturing. Sometimes they do their work in a dark room so they cannot be fooled by the nice appearance of the chocolate bar. The taste—that what is really important!

8 Enlightening Facts About the Winter Solstice

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All of the Northern Hemisphere on Saturday will experience the darkest day of the year. Specifically, at 12:11 p.m. ET, we will witness the winter solstice. In the U.S., we'll have just nine hours, 32 minutes of daylight. For many this time of year, that means leaving home and returning from work in darkness.
For those who are not fans of winter, take heart. From here on out, the days will get lighter and lighter. For winter lovers, there's good news also: The coldest temperatures are still to come.

Here are a few facts you may have not have known about the winter solstice.

1. It happens at a specific time

The winter solstice isn't the full day of Dec. 21, but rather occurs at a specific time. At that point, the sun is shining farthest to the south, directly over the Tropic of Capricorn. There's no duration to the event, per se. Paul Stokles, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration refers to the winter solstice as a "single event."
Of course, the sun isn't actually moving, the Earth is. At 12:11 p.m. ET, the North Pole is tipped about 23 degrees away from the sun. When summer rolls around, the South Pole is tipped 23 degrees away from the sun. During the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the Earth is not tilted in either direction.

2. It happens at a different time each year

The winter solstice doesn't always occur on Dec. 21. Sometimes it comes on Dec. 22, which will happen again in 2015. The hour of day also fluctuates. Last year, the solstice came at 11:12 a.m. ET. Next year, it occurs at 11:03 p.m.

3. The meteorological winter began three weeks ago

If it feels like winter has already begun, you are correct. Meteorologists consider Dec. 1 the start of the meteorological winter and March 1 the start of the meteorological spring. That's because December, January and February are the three coldest months of the year. By the time the Spring Equinox rolls around on March 20, 2014, average temperatures in most areas will have already started rising. The winter solstice isn't the coldest day of the year, either — that comes later.

4. Last year at this time, some people thought the world was ending

Remember how the Mayan calendar supposedly said the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012? That was based on a reading of the end date of the Mayans' 5,126-year-long Mesoamerica Long Count Calendar, which corresponded to certain astronomical events, including the winter solstice.

5. There's no biblical justification for celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25

Though we picture the Three Wise Men visiting the baby Jesus in a manger in Bethlehem in the dead of winter, that's just a popular interpretation. There's nothing in the Bible that states what time of year that event occurred. Instead, some believe the Christian church chose the date to offset Saturnalia and Natalis Invicti celebrations that revolved around the winter solstice.
The ancient name for Christmas, Yule, may also have been derived from jól, the Scandinavian winter solstice festival that pre-dated Christmas. Christmas has also been celebrated in the past on March 28 and May 20, among other dates.

6. In some regions, the winter solstice is a short day, indeed

Nine and a half hours may seem like a short period of daylight, but consider the winter solstice in Iceland, where it doesn't get light until 10 a.m. and starts getting dark at 4:49 p.m. — that's about seven hours of daylight. Of course, in places further north, like Barrow, Alaska, there is no sunrise. In Nome, Alaska, sunrise comes at noon, and then there's four hours of light until sunset. If you want consistency, move to the equator, when sunrise and sunset are at around 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., respectively, all year round.

7. There's no proof that this is the most depressing time of the year

Many scientists believe that the paucity of sunlight during the winter months makes your brain deplete its stores of serotonin by requiring the pineal gland to convert it into melatonin, which makes you sleepy. However, some studies have found there aren't higher instances of winter sadness in countries like Norway vs. the U.S.
Though there's an urban legend that the suicide rates are highest in Scandinavian countries, the actual list shows that — although the sparsely populated Greenland is No. 1 — South Korea, Guyana and China are far ahead of Norway, Sweden and Finland. Denmark, rated the happiest country in the world, also has just seven hours of daylight this time of year.

8. This isn't the day of the earliest sunrise and latest sunset

Most U.S. locations see their earliest sunset a week or so before the solstice and see their latest sunset sometime in January. For instance, in New York City, sunset came at 4:28 p.m. on Dec. 7, and then started occurring later. On Dec. 29, sunrise will come at 7:20 a.m. — the latest of the year. It won't start getting lighter earlier until Jan. 11.