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The C word is terrifying to us all, there’s no doubt about that, but one fitness fanatic is hoping to inspire the world to listen our bodies.

Meet Australia’s Danni Duncan, a health coach with over 150,000 followers on Instagram; less than a month ago she revealed that she’d once been diagnosed with Stage 2 bowel cancer.

Still in her 30s, the news hit her like a train, but she’s now turning the whole experience into something positive and wants anybody who’ll listen to take tiny changes in their body seriously – it might just save your life.

“I got bowel cancer in my 30s, here are three symptoms you should never ignore,” she captioned a clip of herself posing in the mirror.

But what were the cancerous identifiers she spotted before pursuing medical assistance?

Danni noticed three things that just weren’t right (Instagram/@danni___duncan)

“I was dizzy, anxious”

Duncan went on to write: “Fatigue that isn’t normal for YOU. My runs were slow, I couldn’t finish sets at the gym. I couldn’t get my heart rate down, I was dizzy, anxious.

“This wasn’t your normal ‘I need a nap’ tired. I was 4 months postpartum with my 4th baby. I dismissed it as that initially.

“This was different. I was so anemic my doctor said I should’ve been bleeding out in front of her, yet I didn’t even have my period back and was breastfeeding.”

Unexplained bloating

As for the fitness influencer’s second symptoms, she’d been dealing with inexplicable bloating.

“I eat 90% whole foods, drink 3-4 litres of water a day, limit alcohol (especially when breastfeeding), my stress was low, people tried to help by saying to go easy on myself, I’d just had my 4th baby and was nearing 40. It wasn’t sitting right with me,” she shared.

UK bowel cancer stats (LADbible)

“I just knew something was wrong”

Then came a ‘gut instinct’ as opposed to an official symptom.

“Your gut is your second brain. Listen to it,” Duncan encouraged. “I just knew something was wrong. I knew my body and something didn’t feel right.

“You MUST listen to that instinct and advocate for your health. YOU know your body better than anyone. I knew I looked after myself better than anyone I know. Loved it, nourished it, honoured it. Yet I could tell something was up.”

The Australian pointed to the more obvious symptoms connected to bowel cancer too, including bloody stools and uncharacteristic constipation or diarrhoea.

She signed off with: “The best thing you can do is take care of yourself NOW. Be the fittest, healthiest version of you, so if the worst is to come tapping – like it did with me – you’re in the best shape to fight it.”

In the comments, Duncan’s words were music to the ears of many, proving that everyone’s personal story can be inspiring.

“Wow this is so interesting and inspiring. Thank you for sharing your story,” read one message.

“Thank you, all your advocacy made me book in for colonoscopy,” revealed a second fan. “My Dr removed two polyps really early stages, one came back as an aggressive one which would likely develop into bowel cancer in years to come. Thank you.”

A clip of a Rumpelstiltskin type character has gone viral on social media as people put it into new contexts, but it actually has a creepy backstory.

The clip features a young woman in what looks like a stable surrounded by hay, with a gnome-like character then approaching her as she screams out.

The gnome then does a dance around her, before turning all the hay in the room into gold coins, making the woman happy.

She then kisses the gnome character, who transforms into a handsome prince.

It’s seemingly based on the Brothers Grimm fairytale Rumpelstiltskin where the title character spins the hay in the stable into gold to save the life of the woman, whose father has boasted that she can spin hay into gold. She must then guess Rumpelstiltskin’s name to get out of having to give him her first child as payment for his services, which she does to his fury.

Some people had speculated that the clip was from the movie Rumpelstiltskin which was released back in 1987, but this is not the case.

The clip has been repurposed as a meme (Instagram)

One person took to social media, saying: “I am literally seeing it EVERYWHERE, and every single time, it sends a chill down my spine.

“I have no idea what it is about this creepy little thing, but something about it is deeply unsettling.”

The clip is actually AI-generated, with the AI video generator scraping its database for the tropes and the looks of fantasy films from around the 1980s, as well as what even appears to be some sort of ‘handsome prince’ trope towards the end.

It has even generated the look of the pre-CGI practical effects in these sorts of films in the way that the character’s feet move.

An Instagram account called stroinaya appears to be where the video was first shared, and has other AI-generated clips which appear to reference fairytales such as The Frog Prince and Rapunzel.

People have put it into different contexts (Instagram)

It’s far from the first time that AI has been used in this way, with the ‘dark fantasy’ trope previously going viral with AI-generated clips mimicking the results of the the immense talent and hard work that went into the practical effects in these films.

Movies such as The Never-ending Story, Labyrinth, or The Dark Crystal all have a very distinctive look – the result of months and even years of talented artists working hard to produce spellbinding puppets, make-up, prosthetics, and sets.

This clip however, was just the result of a prompt being put into an AI generator, though that has not stopped it from going viral on social media, as well as becoming a meme called the ‘Rumpelstiltskin Tiptoe’.

In the meme, the footage is played, with the music being TiP TOE WiNG iN MY JAWWDINZ by Riff Raff as the AI-generated gnome dances.

The AI-generated character has also been isolated out from the rest of the clip and placed onto a green screen background, allowing people to put it onto whatever other backdrop they want.

People have put it into different contexts, with meme.com explaining that it conveys ‘smug, playful mischief’.

A man was transported to hospital in serious condition after being trapped inside a bin lorry in San Francisco last month.

The San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) heard screaming coming from a garbage truck at around 4:11am on 2 September 2026.

In a statement, the SFFD said a fire truck was ‘dispatched to a report of a person trapped inside a Recology garbage truck on the 100 block of Mason St.’

“The driver of the truck had been flagged down and was told there was yelling inside the garbage area of his truck,” they said.

“Crews are currently working to remove all the garbage to access the victim.”

SFFD public information officer Capt. Mariano Elias told PEOPLE that 25 firefighters were called to help pull the man out of the lorry for over two hours.

During the rescue, the man remained conscious and ‘verbal’, Elias said.

(San Francisco Fire Department)

“I personally heard him yell a few times,” he recalled. “I don’t know if that was in pain or just frustration.”

Once the individual, whose identity hasn’t been shared publicly, was successfully removed from garbage truck, paramedics accessed the man’s arm to administer an intravenous drip to protect him from crush syndrome.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, crush syndrome is a life-threatening condition that could cause muscle breakdown, releasing ‘potentially toxic muscle cell components and electrolytes into the circulatory system’.

It can cause local tissue injury, organ dysfunction, and metabolic abnormalities, including acidosis, hyperkalemia and hypocalcemia.

“It’s an unfortunate situation to lead someone to go into a dumpster, whether that was to sleep or fish through some things to find something for himself or something to eat, but the good part of his outcome is that he’s alive,” Elias said.

Recology spokesperson Robert Reed said the incident was ‘pretty unusual’.

Samuel Menchaca, a public information officer with the Fire Department, said one firefighter suffered a laceration injury and was taken to a hospital in stable condition.

LADbible Group has reached out to the San Francisco Fire Department for an update.

A self-proclaimed psychic dubbed the ‘Prophet of Doom’ made a chilling prediction over a possible pandemic days before the news about a possible plague outbreak broke.

Speaking on a stream shared on September 24, Craig Hamilton-Parker, who is also known as ‘Prophet of Doom’, told his YouTube followers a future pandemic of a bacterial illness that attacks the chest was on the way.

He is previously claimed to have accurately predicted the Covid-19 pandemic and the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

His major COVID prediction came in a video published in January 2020, in which he forecast a flu-like pandemic that would start in China and spread worldwide, just months before global lockdowns were introduced.

Lab technician holding test tubes (Getty Stock)

In a recent video which has had over 160,000 views, he attributed the warning of another ‘pandemic’ to two Tibetan monks who he claimed had arrived unexpectedly at his home with a ‘warning’.

“It would be more like a biological type of illness that would be much harder to control,” he described, adding: “It’s much more dangerous this one because it can spread much more quickly.”

He also said the monks knew of a cure, hidden in ancient Tibetan texts, and that the prophecies say the outbreak would be stopped.

“So if it happens again, guys, rest assured we’re going to conquer it. We’ll beat it,” he told viewers.

Mere weeks later was when news then broke about a lab worker who had died in Russia, sparking fears of a potential outbreak of the pneumonic plague.

Daria Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia, reportedly came into contact with the pathogen and became unwell.

Some local media outlets reported that Shipilova became infected while at the Institute after ‘breaking a test tube’ containing live biological material that can cause pneumonic plague.

Daria Shipilova (Facebook)

This is a condition which affects the lungs, and is one of three different forms of plague, with the other two being bubonic plague and septcaemic, with the bacterium itself being called ‘Yersinia pestis’.

While in hospital Shipilova was placed on a ventilator, but died two after being admitted to the hospital.

Since then, some 189 people have reportedly been quarantined as authorities suspect that they may have come into contact with Shipilova, raising the possibility that they may have been infected with the bacterium.

Among them are other members of staff at the laboratory where Shipilova had been employed as a technician.

Shipilova’s death has prompted fears of a pneumonic plague outbreak, resulting in five hospitals and colleges being placed into lockdown and around 200 people she came into contact with being quarantined.

There have also been accusations that Russian officials are attempting to ‘cover-up’ the situation.

Experts have highlighted alarming parallels between the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and an outbreak of plague in Russia.

A 28-year-old lab worker named in local media reports as Daria Shipilova is reported to have died of pneumonic plague after accidentally breaking a test tube filled with the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which causes plague.

Shipilova was taken to hospital on 29 September, where she received treatment for pneumonia, but sadly died two days after being admitted.

Almost 200 people are believed to have had contact with Shipilova, and measures are reportedly being put in place to contain the outbreak, though due to suppression of the press in Russia more precise information is difficult to find.

Shipilova had worked at the Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, which is located at the city of Shelekho in the Irkutsk region.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon was formerly the commanding officer of the Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment in the UK, and warn that Russia’s lack of transparency may mirror that of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, which started in China.

Daria Shipilova has died (Facebook)

“The Russian authorities have clammed up and lots of social media posts have been withdrawn,” told The Telegraph. “We know what happened when Covid emerged. The Chinese clammed up, four million people left Wuhan and the disease spread around the world.”

de Bretton-Gordon also raised concerns about the measures which were being put in place at the laboratory as well, saying that there should have been precautions in place to prevent someone in Shipilova’s job being vulnerable to the condition.

“For a lab technician working with plague to die from plague is extraordinary,” he said. “She should have been vaccinated, there should have been medical countermeasures.”

The opacity of the Russian authorities around the incident has also meant that the basic facts around the outbreak are still not clear.

Filippa Lentzos, is a biosecurity expert at King’s College London, and said: “Russian authorities seem to be denying that the woman died of plague or that there was a laboratory accident. So the basic facts are not yet settled.”

Concerns have been raised about the safety protocols in the lab (Getty Stock)

Igor Kobzev, the regional governor of Irkutsk, said on Monday that an expert commission found that Shipilova’s cause of death was ‘pneumonia of undetermined aetiology’, adding that the investigation had said that ‘no microorganisms linked to the young woman’s professional work were found in her biological samples’.

All three forms of Plague are caused by the bacterium Yersinia Pestis, though the form of plague varies depending on how it is spread and the part of the body it affects.

Pneumonic Plague is a rare but extremely dangerous form of plague affecting the lungs, with the other two types being Bubonic Plague, which is spread by infected rodent fleas and affects the lymph nodes, and Septicaemic Plague which affects the blood.

While Pneumonic Plague is rarer than Bubonic Plague, UK heath security guidance advises that it is almost always fatal when not properly treated, and even when treatment is started promptly it it fatal around 30 percent of the time.

Pneumonic Plague can be come about as a development from a case of Bubonic Plague, but is more commonly contracted by inhaling infectious particles.

One of the members of the media who witnessed the botched execution of Christa Pike says everyone knew she was still alive after the curtains to the execution chamber were closed because they could hear her snoring.

The press are permitted to attend executions and among the group observing it was Catherine Sweeney, who explained in NPR that there were seven reporters invited to watch and cover the death penalty being carried out.

Pike was expected to enter the execution chamber at 10am, but proceedings were delayed by a stay of execution and it was around 6pm when the press were told they could enter their viewing area, which had loudspeakers connected to microphones inside the chamber.

Windows looking into the execution chamber have curtains which are drawn to hide the identities of the people who attach the IV and administer the lethal injection.

Sweeney, who had attended executions before, explained that typically witnesses will be sat with the curtains closed for between 10 and 15 minutes while the IV line is set up.

Christa Pike is still alive, having survived her lethal injection (Tennessee Department of Corrections)

The execution team then goes into a hidden chamber where they cannot be seen but can administer the drugs from, the reporter explained that in Pike’s case it was about 45 minutes with the curtain closed and the microphones turned off.

“After half an hour, it was clear the IV team must have been struggling,” she wrote.

At 7:27pm the curtain was drawn back and they could see Christa Pike on the gurney, facing the other viewing room where prosecutors and the family of the victim sit.

Also in the room was Mikey Noechel, her spiritual advisor, who is allowed to be in the execution chamber as the lethal injection is administered.

Pike said her arm was burning and asked if it was normal, with Sweeney noting that the lethal injection drug is an alkaline that ‘burns like drain cleaner if it touches skin’ but such a feeling was unlikely if the IV was correctly administered.

Christa Pike, pictured in 1995, could be heard snoring after the curtain to the execution chamber was drawn (WBIR10)

The reporter explained that Pike and Noechel were speaking ‘for what seemed a shocking amount of time’, and that a few minutes after the drugs are administered prisoners tend to show signs of being sedated.

In Tennessee they use the rather abnormal practice of putting a rock on a platform which signals it will be five minutes before they close the curtains and a doctor comes in to pronounce the executed prisoner dead.

The rock was placed at 7:41pm and by 7:44pm Pike was still awake and speaking to Noechel, which was the point Sweeney was convinced ‘something was very wrong’.

After the five minutes the curtain closed and Noechel was sent to the witness bay, but then he was asked to return to the execution chamber, a sign that they were going to attempt the execution again with the curtain opening again.

“Pike stopped talking. She started snoring,” Sweeney said of the second attempt to administer the lethal injection.

Christa Pike was still speaking with her spiritual advisor a couple of minutes before a doctor was supposed to come and pronounce her dead (Tennessee Department of Corrections)

“She continued to snore after the rock was put out the second time and the curtain closed again. We continued to hear her snore over the loudspeaker.”

The curtain closed again at 8:16pm and the reporters ‘listened to Pike’s snoring for 40 minutes’, until at 8:53pm when they were told to leave.

When they went out they could see emergency vehicles arriving and one left with its sirens on, a sign that Pike was still alive.

The death row inmate has since been hospitalised, with her lawyers saying she is still on life support.