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 …
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 Costa Concordia Disaster
On the evening of January 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia was on the first day of a seven-day cruise that included port visits in Italy, …
The Mt. Erebus Disaster
On the morning of the 28th of November 1979, two hundred and fifty-seven people left Mangere airport in Auckland, New Zealand, for an 11-hour leisurely …
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 …
The Bizarre 1994 Ariel School UFO Sighting in Zimbabwe
Friday, 16th of September, 1994, began as just another ordinary day for the pupils of the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe. For many, it was …
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 …