Being a daredevil comes with plenty of danger. Some stunts carry a risk of broken bones and other such injuries, while some stunts have a very good chance of killing you. To be a daredevil, you have to accept these risks and accept that each stunt could be your last. For some, this day did eventually come.

10Orvar Arnarson And Andrimar Pordarson

Orvar Arnarson was an Icelandic skydiving instructor with over 1,000 jumps under his belt. Andrimar Pordarson, while nowhere near as experienced as Arnarson, had jumped eight times himself. In 2013, the pair were part of an annual Icelandic skydiving excursion to Florida. Having already completed two jumps, they intended to make their third jump on the clear morning of March 23. They were seen jumping from the plane separately, but never returned to the ground. Worried friends eventually called the police. It took nine hours of searching before their bodies were found in a wooded area approximately 1.5 kilometers (one mile) from where they were meant to land.

The circumstances were immediately puzzling. Neither primary parachute had been deployed, and backups (designed to open automatically if the main chute failed) had not fully inflated before they hit the ground. It was not until police looked at the video from Arnarson’s helmet camera that the events took shape. The video showed Pordarson unable to open his primary chute. Arnarson, noticing the less-experienced diver’s distress, heroically made the split-second decision to risk his life trying to save that of another. He made contact with Podarson mid-fall and frantically tried to free the chute. The pair fell to their deaths, never managing to unfurl Pordarson’s parachute.

9Kyle Lee Stocking

Canyon rope swinging, in which a person swings from a rope attached to the arch of large canyon, has gained huge popularity on YouTube in the last year. Numerous videos have surfaced showing daredevils attempting to better their online competitors. In March 2013, 22-year-old Kyle Lee Stocking was to attempt his own rope swing at the Corona Arch in Moab, Utah. Stocking was clipped into a waist harness, surrounded by friends and onlookers. But as he jumped, it was quickly clear that something was wrong. Instead of swinging back and forth through the arch, he slammed straight into the floor of the canyon, dying instantly. The group had carelessly miscalculated how much rope would be needed for a successful swing. The area is famous for what is known as the World’s Biggest Rope Swing, and this the first such incident to happen at the location.

8Matt Cranch

Scott May’s Daredevil Stunt Show had been touring the UK since 1991, performing dangerous stunts to raise money for local charities. In 2011, the group were performing at the Kent County Showground when stuntman Matt Cranch readied himself for his Human Cannonball act. The performance involved Cranch being placed in a hydraulic propulsion system—a large tube-like contraption mounted on the back of a truck. After signaling that he was ready, Cranch would be fired into the air. While in the air, he had to turn around and land on a carefully placed safety net. But the safety net collapsed this time, leaving Cranch plummeting toward the ground. He landed, breaking his neck and suffering life-threatening head injuries. He later died in hospital. Scott May’s show continues to perform around the UK.

7Audrey Mestre

Free-diving, where a diver does not use oxygen tanks or scuba gear, might not be what immediately comes to mind when you think of daredevils, but it is an incredibly dangerous sport with the potential to be as disastrous as anything performed in the sky. In 2006, French free-diver Audrey Mestre was determined to break the world record (held by her husband) by diving 171 meters (561 ft) into the depths of the ocean. She was attached to a 200-pound weight mounted on a steel cable to enable her to get to the target depth.

Miraculously, Mestre made the dive, but on the way back up she lost consciousness at a depth of almost 90 meters (300 ft). Her team attempted to lift her from the water, but encountered numerous problems with the equipment they were using. Cables appeared to have become damaged in training, while the lift-bag intended to bring her back up was either inadequately inflated or had leaked. In total, Mestre’s dive took nine minutes, during which she had no access to oxygen. Consequently, she could not be revived and died at the scene. A documentary titled No Limits details Mestre’s attempt at the record.

6Richard Guzman

In the early 1970s, tightrope walker Richard Guzman performed with the world-famous Flying Wallendas. However, on the night he would lose his life, he wasn’t even the main attraction. The performance took place in front of a crowd of 6,000 people at the open-air Wheeling Island Stadium in West Virginia. Headliner Karl Wallenda was about to finish his usual tightrope trick, having successfully navigated the treacherous journey. As he got toward the end of the rope, Guzman (who also happens to be Wallenda’s son-in-law) climbed a support and reached out to take Karl’s balancing pole, allowing him to descend steadily. Twelve years before, Guzman himself had fallen from the high wire and spent nine months in hospital, so he knew how important a safe return was. As Guzman reached out to take the pole, he accidentally steadied himself on a piece of live cable used to hold up metal rigging. The shock sent him flying to the ground, where he landed on a policeman who was attempting to catch him. Despite being tended to almost immediately by an off-duty nurse, he later died from his injuries.

5Todd Green

Wing walking is a sport in which people attempt to climb onto the wings of a biplane. The daredevils are usually attached to the plane using a support structure, which, while not making the experience completely risk-free, does add some element of safety. Others however, prefer to do it without the safety equipment. Todd Green was one of these, even adding a helicopter into the mix. At the 2011 Selfridge Air Show in Michigan, Green attempted to climb out of the passenger seat of a biplane and grab on to the bottom of the helicopter, which would whisk him away to safety. During the performance, Todd reached out to the helicopter but failed to grab hold, slipping off the wings of the plane. Spectators initially thought it was part of the act, not realizing that Green had fallen to his death.

4Sailendra Nath Roy

Indian daredevil Sailendra Nath Roy was known for his freakishly strong hair, which he used to pull buses, trucks, and even small trains. In 2013, Roy announced he would attempt to cross a river while suspended from a zip wire attached to his ponytail. The stunt, watched by hundreds of onlookers, was designed to outdo his own world record, held since 2011, by traveling 180 meters (590 ft). After covering approximately 90 meters (300 ft), Roy became stuck and began shouting for help. Despite the known danger involved in the stunt, it took over 45 minutes for the emergency services to arrive. By the time they managed to get to Roy, he was motionless. Rushed to hospital, it was discovered that Roy had died from a massive heart attack while suspended from the wire. He had promised his worried wife that the performance would be his last.

3Pavel Kashin

Pavel Kashin was a Russian freerunner famous for his death-defying feats and superb agility. In 2013, he was performing a stunt which would see him backflip on the edge of a 16-story building in St. Petersburg. His last moment was captured by a friend, on top of the roof with him, who snapped a picture mid-flip. Tragically Kashin missed the ledge on the way back down and fell to his death. The image of his last backflip was released on to the internet by his family, who hoped it would prevent others from attempting such dangerous stunts in the future. Videos of Kahin’s amazing freerunning ability can be found all over the Internet.

2Jane Wicker

Jane Wicker was a true wing walker. She was so passionate about her calling that she even planned to get married to her fiance on the wings of a plane. Unfortunately, her plans would never be brought to fruition. On June 22, 2013, at the Vectren Air Show, Ohio, Wicker took to the skies in front of an eager crowd with her pilot Charlie Schwenker. It would be her last performance. Wicker’s trick involved climbing on to the wings and walking, with no safety harness or parachute. However, the plane began moving erratically in the middle of the performance and almost immediately entered a barrel roll toward the earth. Schwenker apparently steered the aircraft away from onlookers. The plane hit the ground at tremendous speed, bursting into flames. Both Wicker and Schwenker were killed immediately.

1Sean Cunningham

The Red Arrows are the aerobatic team of the British Royal Air Force. A group of highly skilled pilots who perform daring aerial maneuvers in their trademark scarlet planes, they have entertained the public at air shows and special events around the world. From 1988 to 2011, there wasn’t a single fatality in the group: a remarkable accolade. Yet in 2011, two pilots died within months of each other. The first was Lt. John Egging who is thought to have lost consciousness due to G-forces before spiraling towards the ground. The second was Sean Cunningham, whose death took place under much stranger circumstances. Cunningham was not yet in the air when his accident occurred. He was readying for takeoff in his Hawk T1 on the runway at RAF Scampton, Lancashire when his ejector seat activated, firing him over 60 meters (200 ft) into the air. In a harsh twist of fate, Cunningham’s parachute failed to open, resulting in him plummeting to his death. An inquest into why the ejector seat was activated and why the parachute didn’t open found no manufacturer fault.

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10 Air Combat USA

At the top of every kid’s wish list, at some time or another, are the words “fighter pilot.” Air Combat USA is an opportunity for adults to actually be one, with a full day’s experience in aerobatics and dogfighting. You spend some time in a preflight briefing learning about the aircraft, an S1A1 Marchetti SF260, and your tactical maneuvers. The Marchetti is an Italian plane that can perform unlimited aerobatics. It also allows your instructor to sit right next to you while you fly, instead of behind you. Thanks to this setup, you will have the controls 90 percent of the time.  You even get your own flight suit, helmet, and parachute! You’ll take your aircraft up with the help of your instructor and practice some of the maneuvers you learned in preflight.

When you feel like you know what you’re doing, the dogfight begins. There’s an electronic tracking system on the planes that will give you sound effects, and will cause smoke to trail from the tail of the enemy plane when you’ve hit your target. They also include cameras from different angles of the flight (including one from the gun sight). When you land, you get to see your flight from the other plane’s perspective and go over it all with your instructor. To keep reliving your day (and to show off to your friends), you can keep the video footage. They also offer the opportunity to let you bring a friend, so that you two can fly against each other. 

9 Covert Ops Miami

You know what’s also on wish lists everywhere? Being the ultimate soldier. And this adventure doesn’t mess around. Held near Miami, Florida, Covert Ops is your chance to learn all of the counter-terrorism skills your brain can hold. There’s a scaled-down two-day adventure, or a four-day one if you’re feeling hardcore. In both you’ll have weapons training (pistols) followed by the use of Krav Maga (a form of martial arts developed in Israel and designed to seriously mess somebody up) to disarm your enemy in close combat. You’ll also learn how to shoot from moving vehicles and identify an ambush attack. If you think you can handle the four-day adventure, you’ll learn all of these skills more in-depth, as well as learning additional skills like military gas training, combat first aid, close-quartered battle techniques, vehicle take-downs, and assault rifle handling and use. Basically, you learn to be a badass. Both adventures have missions for you to carry out on the final day.

8 Stock Up

It’s time to put up or shut up in your own stock car race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama (or one of eight other tracks across the country). All cars are Sprint Cup Series racers. You’ll go through a ground school, learning about the racetrack, the cars, and track safety. After you get suited up in your jumpsuit, helmet, and HANS device and are given your raceway orientation, you’ll head out onto the track with about eight other cars. The cars can top out around 275 kph (170 mph), and both drafting and passing are absolutely allowed. You will not be required to follow a pace car. You can bring friends down to try and fill the grandstand, but in the long run, you’ll only be reliving your race in your mind on Monday morning as you sit in traffic on the way to work. (Although it’s probably cooler than what the guy next to you is thinking about.)

7 World War II Underwater

In the middle of the Pacific, a part of the Caroline Islands in Micronesia, lies the protected body of water of Truk Lagoon (also known as “Chuuk Lagoon”).  Once considered “Japan’s Pearl Harbor,” the location was a main base for the Empire of Japan during World War II. Everything from aircraft carriers to destroyers to submarines was anchored at this site. American forces attacked the location on February 17, 1944 during Operation Hailstone, lasting two days and taking the Japanese completely by surprise. They had moved some larger ships out to sea, but many were still anchored in Truk. After an attack involving subs, ships, and aircraft, the battle ended in the defeat of Japan. The Americans sunk 12 warships and 32 merchant ships, and destroyed 249 aircraft. The number of wrecks and the clear, warm waters make Truk Lagoon a scuba diver’s paradise. 

One of the greatest ways to experience as much as possible is aboard the dive ship the SS Thorfinn, which covers more than 70 dive sites in the area—mostly ships, but also airplanes and even a sub. Wreck depths vary from the surface all the way down to below 60 meters (200 ft). Several of the larger ships carry some cool cargo, too: Things like tanks and Jeeps still sit in the cargo holds. You can swim right through the ship and see many of the rooms and artifacts that were left when they sank. Many of the shells and munitions are still considered “live,” so be prepared. If you’re a diver and a history nerd, this could be an awesome opportunity. 

6 Heli-Intense

Crave speed and deep powder runs? Ever wanted to ski or board down the open face of a mountain? Telluride Helitrax can hook you up. Located in the San Juan Mountains, they have 200 square acres of varied terrain accessed by a Bell 407 helicopter. You can ski from 3,050–4,115 meters (10,000–13,500 ft) of elevation, each run dropping 305–915 meters (1,000—3,000 ft). Each day of heli-skiing allows at least six runs, giving you a massive amount of vertical skiing, with most runs ranging from around double-blue to double-black grade. Telluride hooks you up with all the stuff you’ll need: food, water, avalanche beacons, safety equipment, and powder skis and poles. If you’re a boarder, you have to bring your own board, preferably the biggest one you’ve got. This is not for the faint of heart; you should be an “advanced-intermediate or above” skier (“advanced,” for snowboarders), in pretty good shape, and already be pretty confident with black diamond runs. You’ll ski in a group of four to five, with one guide. If you’re feeling crazy, they offer two- or five-day heli-skiing trips to run you into the ground.

5 Basic Instincts

Always watch Doomsday Preppers but don’t know if you would actually survive? Or wonder why Bear Grylls drinks his own pee? The BOSS course just might be for you. BOSS is the Boulder Outdoor Survival School in Boulder, Utah. It offers a bunch of different options for courses you can take to learn and use primitive and traditional survival skills. This school doesn’t just teach it, they make you live it.

Take, for example, the most intensive and challenging course they offer: the 28-Day (“Standard”) Field Course. You’ll work with up to 11 other students using nothing but a knife, water bottle, blanket, and poncho. You can hike about 25–50 kilometers (15–30 mi) each day. You’ll learn skills while on the move, including primitive skills like how to build fires and shelter, purify water, and even how to select edible and medicinal plants. You’ll go through a course about “large-game processing” using, generally, a sheep (you don’t have to watch if you don’t want to) but you do need to learn how to prepare and store the meat. You’ll also have what they call a “solo,” when you’re put into a site to create and use your new skills to live on your own. You get to have an expedition that lets you (and your class) travel without an instructor. There’s a very mysterious “Final Challenge” on the curriculum, but your guess is as good as mine. The best news of all? Going through the course usually has you losing 10–30 pounds by the time you’re done.

4 Get Mushy

Seriously, you’ve never driven your own Alaskan dog sled team? Get with the program. The Golsovia Lodge Mushing Trip out of St. Michael, Alaska, may be just what you need to open your eyes. The company was founded by Jerry Austin, who made it to the Iditarod Hall of Fame. For the Golsovia trip, you’ll mush for up to 40 kilometers (25 mi) each day, including one leg that goes over 6.5 kilometers (four miles) of ocean ice to an abandoned Eskimo village, and another leg that covers 11 kilometers (seven miles) uphill. You’ll get to stay at lodges or heated tent camps with your dogs each night. And if you’re going to have a sled dog team, you might as well really bond with the group.

3 Scenario Paintball

If you want to practice saving the world, it’s time to check out some scenario paintball events in Indiana. Scenario paintball is a theme-based game with missions to complete, usually relating to the military or law enforcement. Hundreds of people show up to play. This place has 11 fields with cool names like “Cambodia,” “Omaha Beach,” and “Jungle,” plus an indoor arena. Their grounds include towns, woods, towers, forts, and different vehicles as part of their games. They also have special missions covering things like “search and rescue” and “demolitions.” Paintball extras like grenades, rocket launchers, and tanks could make appearances. And no, “tanks” is not a typo.

2 Skydiving And White Water Rafting

Coming out of Millinocket, Maine, you’ll find the Jump and Raft, a combination of two fantastic adventures: skydiving and white water rafting. You can opt for the two-day adventure package (one on each day) or take each individually. The tandem skydiving starts with a 30-minute ground school where you learn the basics. The jump takes place right near Mount Katahdin, giving you some fantastic scenery to take in on the way down. You jump from 3,350 meters (11,000 ft) with your instructor safely strapped to your back, giving you a freefall of almost a full minute, flying towards Earth at 195 kph (120 mph), then a nice five- to nine-minute glide once you pop your chute. Rafting takes place on the Penobscot River and is rated as Class V rapids (the most dangerous is Class VI). You’ll hurtle through 21 kilometers (13 mi) of chutes and holes, and tackle rapids with extreme names like “Exterminator.” Gear up.

1 One Tough Mudder

Number one on this list is not just an ultimate adventure, it’s an ultimate challenge. It requires mental, physical, and emotional strength you probably never even knew you had. Are you up for it? Created by a member of the British Special Forces, the Tough Mudder challenge event is a 16–19 kilometer (10–12 mi) obstacle course created to test endurance, stamina, strength, and teamwork. It is not a race, although you can time yourself for bragging rights. (The average Mudder gets through in about 3.5 hours.)

The true accomplishment comes from just completing and overcoming the course itself. There’s an entire training “boot camp” designed to prepare you for what you’ll face. Mud comes stock with everything, and obstacles include things like low-crawling through long pipes and under barbed wire, swimming through icy water (called the “Arctic Enema”), and running through strands of wire charged with 10,000 volts of electricity. You’ll also climb insanely high walls, crawl under nets, drag tires, and jog through flames to cross the finish line. Everyone who makes it to the end gets a free beer. Tough Mudder raises money for the Wounded Warrior Project, a charity offering help and recovery services to injured military vets. Events take place across the US, the UK, Australia, and Germany. If you feel like you’re a tougher Mudder than the others, you can go on to enter the World’s Toughest Mudder competition and spend 24 straight hours running obstacles, if you somehow didn’t already punish your body enough.

It’s no secret that Google is slowly suppressing offbeat content or channels on YouTube that don’t support the political and social views the company is promoting for reasons we’ll leave for conspiracy theory lists. Even our own startup YouTube channel had four of its six videos flagged for demonetization.

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I pointed out that it was a form of soft censorship but was rebuffed with such responses as “you don’t have to comply: we just won’t pay you”. Nice one Google. As other advertising companies grew in size and we were able to switch away from Google’s ad network, things improved. However, Google owns the biggest search Engine in the world and they are now using that (along with Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter who are censoring like mad) to manipulate content: you can publish what you like, but if Google doesn’t like it, it is hidden from search results. While this behavior doesn’t break the law, it does mean that you can’t survive publishing content that goes against the narrative being promoted by Social Media giants. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see that this will lead to the dumbing down and sterilization of online content and push people to such places as the Dark Web for genuine content.

Yesterday’s QANon list by Mary Fetzer inspired me to put this list together. So, here are the ten most popular articles we published, that Google requested we suppress in one way or another.

10 Banned Controversial Album Covers
By Maggot, 291 Comments

Read The List: 10 Banned Controversial Album Covers

A great list by one of our most beloved commenters and readers Maggot. My favorite line from the list: “Today of course, I am older and wiser, and so I can offer a much more mature commentary on the artistry of this photo: Did you see the racks on those babes?!” To answer: yes, Maggot, we saw them. Even if the powers that be really didn’t want us to.

Maggot’s introduction, in part, reads: “What is “art”? Over the years there have been many record albums or CDs released with what was deemed to be controversial or offensive cover artwork. Censorship and attempts to define the limits of free speech is a subject worthy of debating, and of course “offensive” imagery is in the eye of the beholder. As such, some of these might seem rather tame by today’s standards, but nonetheless they originally elicited enough controversy, public outcry, or heavy-handed pressure from major retailers, to cause censoring actions.”

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Pornography
By Jamie Frater, 295 Comments

Read The List: Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pornography

We should have retitled this one: “Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pornography And Never Will If Google Gets Their Way”. Here is the introduction: “Erotica has existed since man first was able to think. A once large industry has now burst out as a giant in entertainment due to the Internet. Most people with access to the net has seen pornography either intentionally or accidentally. This list takes a look at some of the more obscure facts surrounding pornography.”

8 Details That Make History’s Worst Tragedies Even Worse
By Mark Oliver, 327 Comments

Read The List: 10 Details That Make History’s Worst Tragedies Even Worse

I’ll leave it up to you to guess which particular entry on this list really bothered Big Brother. Here is Mark’s introduction to this fascinating list: “We like to imagine that we learn from our tragedies—that when the worst moment comes, people change their ways and start working together to make things right. But sometimes, even after the catastrophe is over, the tragedy continues. People get swept up in the havoc and chaos of the moment and do things that make history’s worst moments even worse. And in the aftermath, some of our darkest moments are left with details too bleak to make it into the history books.”

7Spunky Facts About Sperm
By Petros Absalon, 387 Comments

Read The List: 10 Spunky Facts About Sperm

Oh come on! What on earth is wrong with a sciencey list about sperm? Perhaps it needed to be combined with a list about ova for the censors to allow it. Too much “white” male privilege perhaps. The introduction: “Sperm and semen are as common as men in the world. However, aside from knowing that it comes from the male genitals and is important for making babies, there are still a lot of amazing things about it that many of us don’t know. For example, during World War I, British spies had the bright idea to use semen as invisible ink. After one agent decided to store his semen in a bottle, the letters he sent using the invisible ink stank so much that his handlers were forced to send him a letter telling him that a ‘fresh operation is necessary for each letter.’”

6 Incestuous Relationships In the Bible
By Jamie Frater, 387 Comments

Read The List: Top 6 Incestuous Relationships In the Bible

How could this not be controversial? the Bible and sex together on one list! Here is the introduction I wrote for the list before Google slapped a chain on it: “Religious scholars say that God suspended the laws of incest in the early days of man in order to ensure that man spread on the earth. In the words of the commentators of the Douay Rheims Bible: “God [dispensed] with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as mankind could not otherwise be propagated.” Despite that, these tales are not all simply matters of procreation – particularly item 1. So, here is a list of 6 of the more questionable relationships in the Bible.”

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5 Incendiary Facts About Incest
By Eliza Lenz, 438 Comments

Read The List: 10 Incendiary Facts About Incest

It seems that Google really hates incest . . . perhaps it hits a little close to home for someone on their Propaganda and Censorship team. This list certain did leave some rather hot under the collar. Eliza opens thusly: “We all seem to know that incest is wrong, either through cultural conditioning or what appear to be innate evolutionary cues, yet some humans can’t seem to resist the urge to bed their relatives. In fact, since the DNA of every living human is 99.9 percent the same, it may be much more common than we think. Still, that doesn’t mean incest is a good thing. As we will see, breeding with a close relative can result in some dire consequences.”

4 Animals That Practice Homosexuality
By Andrew Blackstone, 446 Comments

Read The List: 10 Animals That Practice Homosexuality

When Hollywood decided they needed to educate us all on nature vs nurture, a number of wildly popular TV shows such as Will and Grace and Parks and Recreation dedicated entire episodes to informing us that animals—particularly penguins—are gay and it’s okay. Thank God for Hollywood saving the gays; where would we be without them? Probably still burning at the stake. Anyway, for some reason Google decided that we shouldn’t publish similar content and our list of ten gay animals was given the chop. Here’s the intro:

“Scientific research is spotting a surprising range of animals that engage in same-sex relationships. In this mind-expanding list, we will look at the “Lesbian Albatrosses” of Hawaii; male dolphins who keep boyfriends; and same-sex seagull couples who adopt young to raise together. In the animal world, big surprises always await us.”

3 Beautiful Celebrity Brunettes
By Randall, 563 Comments

Read The List: Top 25 Beautiful Celebrity Brunettes

I’m sure most readers will have seen the hit TV show from Netflix (before it lost its mojo) called Stranger Things. Believe it or not the mother from the show (Winona Ryder) was once a beautiful brunette who had men swooning (actually men didn’t swoon like they do these days—they probably grunted instead). Pictured here and number one on the list by our now-missing much loved regular, Randall. Needless to say a large number of the comments were from people disgruntled at the “sexualization” of women. They must have written Google and asked to have us cancelled, judging by the nasty ban letter we got. Here’s part of the rather long intro:

“The brunette, in history, has always been seen as the temptress, the siren; from Lilith of Hebrew mythology to Shakespeare’s ‘dark lady of the sonnets,’ the brunette has been the woman who gives men pause even while we desire her, as though we sense there’s a dangerous cleverness in her that will destroy us.”

2 Ways Pornography Shapes The World
By Chris Jenkins, 599 Comments

Read The List: 10 Ways Pornography Shapes The World

A really interesting list that has some incredibly unexpected entries. If you hated the Brunette list, this one will really drive you crazy. Here’s a bit of the intro: “Pornography is often associated with deviant behavior and sexual violence. Many people at least assume it has a negative effect on those who view it, especially young people. These individuals, then, may be surprised to hear that pornography has helped guard the Constitution, redefine art, and even keep young women safe.” Like I said, “unexpected”.

1 Shocking Cases Of Female Sexual Predators
By Damien B., 698 Comments

Read The List: 10 Shocking Cases Of Female Sexual Predators

This is a very disturbing list and no reason was given by Google for its banning. It covers a number of real life cases of predation against children by women in positions of power over them. Google has not typically had a problem with lists dealing with deviance perpetrated by men or general predatory-type lists. The intro is short. Here it is in its entirety: “When we think of sexual predators, the image that springs to mind is usually a man. However, there are many recorded cases of women committing such vile acts. Below are 10 sexual assaults in which the perpetrator was a woman.”

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We live in an age of mind-blowing medical breakthroughs. Modern doctors can make the blind see, regrow, or attach totally dismembered organs, or even rouse patients who’ve been in a coma for a long time. However, every now and then, seasoned medical practitioners come across spontaneous recoveries where the patient had little to no chances of survival. Below, we will explore cases of people who recovered even after facing certain deaths as victims of accidents or deadly diagnoses. Here are the top 10 miraculous recoveries.

10 A Boy Who Was Almost Beaten to Death

In 2010, a gang of four adult men viciously attacked a seven-year-old boy in Bangladesh. Okkhoy was playing in his family home when three other kids approached him. These older kids promised Okkhoy a treat if he agreed to complete a task with them. He reluctantly agreed and went along with his newfound friends. After a while, the boy decided to head back home. Four men emerged from nearby and grabbed him.

They demanded that he beg for money from passers-by, which Okkhoy declined and threatened to tell his father. His assailants hit his head with a huge brick. Even as he bled profusely, the men sliced a deep cut into the child’s torso and mutilated his genitalia. They left the boy for dead. Okkhoy’s mother found her child’s almost lifeless body lying in a pool of blood next to a warehouse. Okkhoy was rushed to hospital in a rickshaw. Despite zero chances of surviving his wounds, he managed to recover after three months in the intensive care unit.

9 ‘Skitching’ Gone Wrong

In van Buren, Indiana, and other parts of the country, it isn’t strange to see teenagers holding on to moving vehicles as they balance their skateboards. This is popularly known as ‘skitching.’ In 2014, this dangerous activity almost cost Randon Timmons his life. He was just 18 years old. While riding on his skateboard, Randon decided to give ‘skitching’ a try. As he clutched to the speeding vehicle, his skateboard hit a pothole in the road. The impact sent Randon in the air before hitting his head hard on the pavement.

By the time Randon arrived at the hospital, he had almost zero brain activity. Due to his head’s impact, he suffered an extreme case of brain swelling, and doctors had to remove most of his skull. According to the doctors, Randon had a minimal chance of making it through the night. However, his family wouldn’t give up on him. They stayed by the boy’s bedside. Miraculously, the boy’s condition quickly improved, and the doctors discharged him. How the young man managed to survive this severe brain trauma case is a plain case of medical miracles.

8 A Man Survived A Fall from The 47th Story Of A Building

Alcides and his younger brother Edgar had been washing windows of a tall building in Manhattan, New York, when they were involved in a horrific accident. The platform they were using to scale to the windows of the building’s 47th floor suddenly broke and dropped out of the sky. The two brothers fell to the ground. The impact killed Edgar on the spot. Amazingly, by the time rescuers arrived at the scene, Alcides was conscious and sitting upright in the alleyway.

By the time he arrived in the hospital, Alcides was barely conscious. He was bleeding profusely, and the scans revealed the worst. He suffered a severe brain injury, had broken a rib, both his legs and one arm. His spinal cord was badly injured. The doctors performed an emergency operation despite having no hopes that he would survive the accident. In the next few weeks, the doctors performed nine more operations on him. They were stunned when Alcides uttered his first words after the accident.

7 A Boy Who Recovered from Electrocution

9-year-old Elijah Belden was celebrating an early birthday party when he had a close encounter with death. Electrocution almost cost the young boy’s life after he grabbed a metal pole on his family house’s patio. Belden had gone outside to pose for a picture with a friend. He accidentally grabbed onto the round pole that supported the outdoor lighting of the house. It turns out that the metal structure had become electrified when electrical wires came into contact with its surface.

Electricity flowing within the surface of the pole electrocuted Belden, and he lost consciousness. Elijah miraculously woke from this coma after ten days of despair and uncertainty. He still had his memory intact and could even hold a conversation with the medical personnel. Doctors called his case a miracle since he didn’t show any signs of trauma or brain damage. Within two weeks, Elijah was capable of taking a stroll outside. A week later, the doctors sent him home to recover fully.

6 A Girl Who Survived Three Severe Cancers

Rachel Lozano spent most of her high school years battling an aggressive form of cancer and Askin’s tumor. She underwent several surgeries, including a bone marrow transplant. The doctor’s efforts paid off when the cancer went away for the second time. Rachel took her losses and small victories in a stride. However, she was devastated when the doctors informed her that her cancer had reappeared for the third time.

In a last-ditch effort, the doctors decided to perform one last attempt to remove the tumor. So, they took her to the operation room and began the surgery. They were perplexed and completely mystified after finding that the tumor had miraculously disappeared. There was not even a single trace of cancerous tissue in Rachel’s body. They stitched her up without doing anything. Rachel later confirmed that she had attended father William Chaminade’s honor ceremony and prayed for healing.

5 Luke Burgie

In 1998, Pope Francis proclaimed that a four-year-old boy’s recovery was a miracle. Doctors had diagnosed a mysterious illness in Luke Burgie that caused bouts of diarrhea. The young boy also experienced a sharp pain after ingesting anything. Luke’s parents sought the help of the medical personnel at Denver Hospital, but they too had no idea what was ailing the child. The boy’s condition deteriorated by the day. Luke was quickly losing weight. Out of desperation, Luke’s mother asked two nuns to pray for her young boy.

The nuns obliged and the prayer vigil lasted more than a week. Meanwhile, Luke’s doctor came up with a theory that only a hidden tumor could be ailing the boy. So they arranged a colonoscopy test for Luke. Having no other option, his family took him to the hospital for the test. However, when they arrived at the doctor’s table, Luke had completely healed. When doctors inquired what had happened, the mother explained how Luke had jumped from his sleep and joyfully announced he no longer felt any pain in his tummy. The doctors were awe-stricken. Many people were skeptical of the illness’s authenticity.

4 Elderly Woman Who Survived the H1N1 Virus

Lesley Bunning’s health was rapidly deteriorating, and her family decided to rush her to hospital in January 2014. After a few tests, doctors confirmed that she had contracted the H1N1 Virus. Her condition continued to deteriorate, and doctors had to medically induce a coma. They placed Lesley on life support. She stayed in the ICU for ten weeks as doctors tried their best to save her life. The only thing her family could hope for was a miracle.

The doctors did everything within their ability and knowledge to help Lesley breathe on her own again. They even sought the help of other doctors from different hospitals. This only proved futile. They began preparing her family to pull the plug on her since there wasn’t any hope that she would make it through on her own. Just when they were about to talk to her family, Lesley miraculously began to breathe on her own. The doctors removed her from the ventilator and only needed feeding tubes. Her doctors still recall her case as a medical miracle.

3 Man Wakes Up After Six Years

Neurosurgeons have long used brain stimulation to treat various brain traumas and illnesses such as Parkinson’s disease. However, this treatment proved very important for a man who had been in a vegetative state for six years after a brutal assault. The man’s family had long lost hope of the recovery of their loved one. During the six years, the man had not communicated, swallowed, or even made coordinated body movements.

Just as his family contemplated pulling the plug, a medical team decided to insert electrodes in his skull to stimulate the brain. They hoped this stimulation would trigger his dormant brain to function again. And they were right. The doctors scheduled him for surgery. The man who had not even blinked once in six years immediately began to show improvement after the doctors inserted the electrodes. Medical practitioners had never used this kind of treatment to treat brain damage. They were perplexed when it worked perfectly with this patient.

2 Recovery from A Stroke

Never in his life had Sam Schmid thought that his life would take the sudden turn it did after being involved in a horrific car accident. The accident took place in October 2011, and five cars were involved. The car that Schmid was traveling hit a light pole and rolled over. Rescuers airlifted him to the nearby hospital, where he was confirmed to have a broken left hand and two broken legs. As if this was not enough for him to deal with, doctors later discovered Schmid suffered a severe brain injury. The doctors operated on Schmid, and it resulted in a stroke.

However, when Robert Spetzler, a neurosurgeon, conducted an MRI scan on Schmid, it didn’t reveal any serious brain damage. So, Robert instinctively decided to keep him a little longer on life support. Against all odds, he was able to recover within a couple of weeks. By December, Sam Schmid had recovered so well that he could walk with a walker. However, Sam does not remember even a single bit of the horrific accident that almost killed him.

1 Abigail Kopf Recovered from A Head Shot

People still remember the February 20, 2016 shoot out by the Kalamazoo Uber gunman that left many people dead. From this shootout emerged an inspiring medical story. Abigail Kopf was one of the victims of the shootout. She suffered a headshot. It is common to hear of people who have recovered from gunshot wounds. However, it is not every day that you hear of a 14-year-old girl who survived a headshot. The doctors were about to harvest the young girl’s organs when she squeezed her mother’s thumb on her deathbed.

She recovered in just three months, making her story even more miraculous and inspirational. The fact that she survived after a close-range headshot makes her an inspiration to many. Today, Abigail leads the life of a normal young girl despite having a few mobility challenges.