This is the eight-year-old boy who spent six hours trapped in a neighbours chimney after apparently trying to climb down to look for a drink.

Emergency services had to rip out the wall of Richard and Sandy Draper's home in West Valley City, Utah, when they discovered Stephen Hopkins stuck inside.

The youngster, who had been playing with the couple's grandchildren, later told police he was thirsty had been trying to get inside the house to find water.

Asked by Mr Draper how he had got into the chimney, Stephen said he had climbed up a tree in their garden to reach the roof, ABC News reported.

He had managed to wriggle nearly 30ft down the flue, before getting lodged by the basement of the house.

Firefighters were only able to get him out by breaking through a wall in the Draper family's living room.

West Valley City Police Sergeant Michael Powell told ABC: 'He was definitely stuck inside there. Our officers did a fabulous job comforting him ... letting him know everything was going to be okay.'

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Texas police have arrested a teen after he broke into a woman's apartment and attacked her, making hissing sounds and claiming to be a 500-year-old vampire.

Lyle Monroe Bensley, 19, of Galveston, allegedly entered the woman’s bedroom early Saturday morning and bit into her neck as she lay on the bed.

Wearing just a pair of boxer shorts and covered in tattoos, Bensley then reportedly dragged the woman out of her unit where she managed to run away and get into a nearby vehicle.

She later called the police who said Bensley climbed two fences to get away from them, yelling that he "didn't want to have to feed on humans".

Bensley told the police that he “needed to feed,” and then said that he has been “alive for 500 years.”

He was taken to Galveston County Jail where he told guards to restrain him for their own safety, police said.

He has been charged with burglary with intent to commit assault with a $40,000 Bond.

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We've met the lady who eats dryer cloths, the teddy bear mother and the woman with 24-inch nails. There was even an adult baby who sleeps in a cot and wears diapers.

TLC's reality TV show, My Strange Addiction, takes a look into the less-than-orthodox compulsive habits of some interesting characters. And, true to form, it has delivered some colourful tales in its second series run.

Saving the best for last, the series finale, last night, featured a woman who is so close to the memory of her late husband that she eats his ashes.

26-year-old Casie, who was widowed just two months before filming the show, is unable to stop herself from dipping her finger into her husband's urn of ashes and taking a lick of the grey dust.

She says she first tasted the remains of her husband, Shawn, when she transferred the ashes from a temporary cardboard box into a special memorial urn.

'Some of it spilled out on my hands. I didn't want to just wipe him away, so I just licked it off my fingers.

'And here I am today, almost two months later and I can't stop.'

Shawn died from a sudden and severe asthma attack. The couple married in 2009 after Casie found 'all she ever wanted in a man.'

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A 50-year-old South African man thought to be dead woke up in a chilly morgue on Sunday and shouted to be let out, scaring off two attendants who thought he was a ghost, local media reported.

"His family thought he had died," health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo told the Sapa news agency.

"The family called a private undertaker who took what they thought was a dead body to the morgue, but the man woke up inside the morgue on Sunday at 5:00 pm and screamed, demanding to be taken out of the cold place."

This caused two mortuary attendants on duty to flee the building in the small town of Libode in the rural Eastern Cape as they thought it was a ghost.

After calling for help and returning to find the man alive, an ambulance was sent to fetch the man who had "been exposed to extreme cold for nearly 24 hours" said Kupelo.

He said the public should not assume that a sick person had died and contact a mortuary, the report said.

"Doctors, emergency workers and the police are the only people who have a right to examine the patients and determine if they are dead or not."

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