South America Odd News

Update your status at your own peril in Venezuela: A pair of university students burglarized their Facebook friends' homes after collecting info on what they owned and when they wouldn't be home. Theft and other crime facilitated by social networking...

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...

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...

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...

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!...

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...

Report surfaced that four teenage boys ran into an alien. They claimed that the creature started moving towards them while they were playing, so they started throwing rocks at it and eventually killed it. They left and later came back...