Poon Lim, The Man who Survived 133 Days Lost at Sea
You may know the movie called Castaway, starring Tom Hanks. Do you know the definition of castaway? It means shipwrecked or someone lost in a …
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Robert Landsburg and the Mount St. Helens Eruption
On May 18th, 1980, the sun broke across the Cascade Mountains in Washington State at 5:36 a.m. to reveal a calm and cool morning. For …
Marina Chapman, The Girl who was Raised by Monkeys
What if everything in your predictable future was changed in a single moment? That’s what happened to Marina Chapman. She was being a kid, and …
The Mysterious Death of Alfred Loewenstein
In 1928, Alfred Leonard Loewenstein was the third richest man in the world, sitting on a fortune worth around £12 million (£929 million today). Wherever …
The Mysterious Case of the Yuba County Five
In February 1978, a group of friends from Yuba City, California, were getting ready to travel to Chico, a town just an hour away, to …
How Betty Lou Oliver Survived a Plane Crash and 1,000-ft Fall on the Same Day
July 28th 1945, was set to be another ordinary day for the residents of New York. In the fog of World War II, its citizens …
Bonnie and Clyde: The Story of America’s Most Notorious Killer Couple
Murder, robberies, police chases, and prison escapes sound more like an action movie plot than a real-life story. However, the true tale of the crime …
The Strange Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
The unexplained vanishing of a young aspiring pilot has become one of the most famous mysteries in Australian history. More than 40 years later, his …
Stanislav Petrov, the Man who Saved the World
In a bunker in a high-security military base south of Moscow, Soviet Air Defence Forces Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov had one of the most nerve-wracking …
Harrison Okene, The Man who Survived for 3 Days on the Sea Floor
It’s not very often, or at all, that a man can survive sixty hours in the depths of the Ocean and live to tell the …