Breaking South America Odd News

Police in Peru have uncovered a rather bizarre and sinister scheme that involved murdering people to extract their fat! Evidently the fat is drained off the dead and sold into the "black market" cosmetics industry. 3 men were arrested with...

Spiders are creepy insects and little Miss Muffet was terribly frightened by one as she sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey. Now, a Briton has been caught trying to smuggle out live spiders – of all things!...

A student in Brazil had been sent back home after she appeared in class dressed in mini skirts – off with the mini skirt was the cry. The University authorities did not want any disturbing influence around in the campus...

As uncommon as it is to watch your own funeral, it happened on Monday in Rio de Janeiro. Ademir Jorge Gocalves, 59, shocked his morning family by showing up very much alive at his funeral. Brazilian custom is to bury...

Wonders never cease to surprise us and, whenever an unusual incident is reported, we pause to think how little we know about the Almighty. Otherwise, how can a dead body move, how can the dead come back to life? People...

Candomblé, a religion practiced primarily in South America and inspired by older African beliefs, makes much use of animal sacrifice. Researchers writing in the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine carried out interviews with priests, priestesses and adherents of the religion,...

An environmental group says about 20 dead Fraser’s dolphins have turned up on a beach in Uruguay.it isn’t clear why the tropical dolphins died in the colder waters off South America’s southern Atlantic coast, but some experts theorise they became...