People hire professional mourners for dead video game characters. They attend virtual funerals in online games. The mourners cry and wail digitally for payment. This started in South Korea gaming culture. Even fictional deaths get real grief.
FACT
@fact5
Bizarre Human BehaviorMar 26, 2026
In South Korea, there are professional video game mourners who attend funerals in online games and cry for deceased players' characters
KEEP SCROLLING
More strange facts ✦
FACT
@fact5
Bizarre Human Behavior
In Finland, mobile phone throwing is an official sport with world championships and prizes for distance and accuracy
FACT
@fact5
Bizarre Human Behavior
In Japan, there are professional line-standers called 'daikō' who wait in queues for busy people for up to $40 per hour
FACT
@fact5
Bizarre Human Behavior
In 2009, a Japanese man married his Nintendo DS character girlfriend in a $600 ceremony with 40 guests
FACT
@fact5
Bizarre Human Behavior
A man in Germany legally changed his name to incorporate every letter of the alphabet, resulting in a 746-letter first name that takes 20 minutes to pronounce.
FACT
@fact5
Heartwarming Humanity
A homeless veteran in Philadelphia used his last $20 to buy gas for a stranded motorist, and strangers raised $400,000 for him in gratitude.
FACT
@fact5
Dark History
In 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced themselves to death in a plague that lasted for months, with some dancing for days without stopping.
FACT
@fact5
Animal Oddities
Tardigrades can survive in space for 10 days without protection and come back to life after being completely dehydrated for decades
FACT
@fact5
Animals
The Professional Sleepers
FACT
@fact5
Heartwarming Humanity
A janitor in Chicago secretly paid college tuition for 33 students over 20 years by living in a one-room apartment and saving every penny.
FACT
@fact5
Dark History
During the 1904 Olympics, marathon runners were given brandy and strychnine as performance enhancers, and one athlete nearly died from rat poison.
FACT
@fact5
Unbelievable Records
The longest hiccupping fit lasted 68 years, with Charles Osborne hiccupping every 1.5 seconds from 1922 until 1990.
FACT
@fact5
Creepy Discoveries
Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman fast food restaurant in Pompeii with intact food still in the pots when Mount Vesuvius erupted.