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If you grew up watching Barney & Friends, this one might surprise you.

David Joyner, the actor who spent 10 years inside the iconic Barney costume, left the children's TV world behind and went in a completely different direction.

The 63-year-old now works as a tantric massage practitioner and spiritual energy healer.

Joyner has said he's studied tantra since he was 20 and believes his current work is still rooted in the same message he brought to Barney: love.

Speaking previously about the career change, he said: "Everything stems, grows, and evolves from love."

It's definitely one of the more unexpected career pivots from a former TV star, especially considering millions of kids grew up watching him as everyone's favorite purple dinosaur.

A 20-year-old UK forensics student has admitted murdering a woman after allegedly recreating a scene straight out of Dexter.

Benjamin Day pleaded guilty to the murder of 24-year-old Maria Saceanu after luring her to an Airbnb where police later found the bedroom lined with plastic sheeting. Officers also recovered multiple knives, duct tape and a staple gun.

The case became even stranger when Day reportedly flagged down police after cutting his own hand. He initially claimed he'd been attacked by a fox, but officers became suspicious and arrested him.

Investigators said Day had become obsessed with Dexter, the TV series about a serial killer who uses plastic-lined "kill rooms" before murdering his victims.

He had reportedly planned to argue self-defence and claim the room was part of a tribute video, but instead changed his plea and admitted murder.

For decades, UFO researcher Joe Jordan investigated hundreds of alleged alien abduction cases expecting to find evidence of extraterrestrial encounters.

Instead, he says he found something completely different.

Jordan, who claims to have examined more than 700 cases over a 32-year period, said many people reported that their experiences ended immediately after calling out to "God" or "Jesus." Others allegedly said that praying or singing a hymn had the same effect.

According to Jordan, the pattern was so consistent that it eventually changed his own beliefs, leading him to become a Christian. He now argues that many so-called alien abduction experiences may not be extraterrestrial at all, but could instead have a spiritual or even demonic explanation.

One example he cites involved a man who claimed he was being abducted before shouting, "Jesus, Jesus, help me!" and instantly waking up safely in his bed.

Of course, skeptics would argue there are more mundane explanations, including sleep paralysis, religious expectation, psychological phenomena, or the power of belief.

What do you think?

• If alien abductions were real, why would religious words stop them?
• Does this point to a spiritual explanation rather than an extraterrestrial one?
• Or is it simply evidence of how the human brain responds under extreme stress?

Interested to hear opinions from both believers and skeptics.

Christopher Scott was 27 when he was convicted of a 1997 murder in Dallas. The case rested almost entirely on one eyewitness identification, and the judge wouldn't let the defense present evidence pointing to two other men. He was exonerated in 2009 after the Dallas County DA's Conviction Integrity Unit took up his case.

Looking back, he says the early days were all about survival: learning quickly who to trust, not turning your back on anyone, and sleeping light. He saw stabbings, deaths and people harming themselves because they couldn't cope.

What got him through was routine. He worked the fields for about two and a half years, then moved into kitchen work. He exercised, read up to three books a week, and made soap operas a fixed part of his day. He believes that structure kept him out of trouble, and that it's part of why he got out.

He now helps run The House of Renewed Hope, which investigates other possible wrongful convictions.

British travel vlogger Carrie Patsalis has visited Afghanistan more than once, travelling through places including Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad and remote parts of Nuristan.

What surprised her most was how different everyday life could be from the image many of us have seen on TV for years.

She described being met with incredible hospitality, locals helping when her car broke down, being invited into people's homes for food and tea — and even mistaking wedding gunshots for something far more serious. 😅

But her experiences also revealed a much more complicated picture.

While she found many Afghans incredibly welcoming, she also spoke about growing frustration over the economy and the restrictions placed on women, including the impact of women being prevented from continuing their education and medical training.

It’s a fascinating perspective on a country that most of us have only ever seen through news reports and documentaries.

Would you ever consider travelling somewhere like Afghanistan to experience it for yourself?

Remember Julianna Rose Mauriello, the original Stephanie from LazyTown?

She left the show before the 2013 revival and, despite all the weird internet rumours, nothing dramatic happened. She went on to study at Columbia University and is now a licensed pediatric occupational therapist specialising in child development.

Pretty wholesome career change tbh. 😄

Former UAP Task Force member David Grusch claimed on Joe Rogan's podcast that classified files document what \looks and smells like conflict' between non-human species in our skies. When Rogan asked if it was 'grays vs reptilians,' Grusch surprisingly agreed it could be.

Grusch still admits he hasn't personally seen craft or alien bodies, relying entirely on top-secret files and second-hand accounts. With the Pentagon completely denying these claims, do you think Grusch is revealing the truth, or is he destroying his own credibility with stories like this?

Russian health authorities have triggered full anti-epidemic measures following the death of 28-year-old lab technician Daria Shipilova in Siberia.

Shipilova worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute. While pneumonic plague can spread airborne via respiratory droplets, officials have quarantined the Shelekhov local hospital and placed 189 potential contacts under medical observation. Investigators are looking into whether the exposure was caused by a lab mishap or recent international travel.

A 17-person team from the Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue leaves next week to investigate an object spotted in Nikumaroro's lagoon on 2015 satellite imagery, taken just after Cyclone Pam. The expedition leader says it's "very possible, perhaps even likely" that it's the plane.

Sceptics will point out that satellite anomalies usually turn out to be rocks, coral or storm debris, and that the timing after a cyclone doesn't help. But this is a credentialed team with sonar, magnetometers and a dredge, not a treasure hunt.

Where do you land? Is this the real thing, or another expedition that ends in "inconclusive"? And if it is the Electra, does the "ran out of fuel and crashed" story finally die?

Dr. Chris Kerr, who's spent decades in hospice care, described on Oprah's podcast a pattern he's observed in dying patients: as people near the end, they start experiencing vivid "visitations" from loved ones who've already passed. He's careful not to call them dreams — patients report the encounters as completely real and specific, not symbolic or dream-like, and can get offended if someone frames it that way.

He said these episodes tend to intensify the closer someone gets to death, largely happening as people sleep more and more in their final days.

The interesting twist is with children. Since most kids haven't lost a person close to them, their visions often take the form of a deceased pet instead - serving the same comforting purpose. One of his patients pictured herself safe inside a castle she'd built in her mind.

Kerr says both children and adults nearing death often seem to have a strikingly clear understanding that the end is near.