In 2008, a 27-year-old woman in Portugal reached a point where the stress in her home had become difficult to bear. She was raising two young children while living with a critical mother-in-law. Her husband was abroad for work, and…
A Strange Sound No One Else Could Hear On Sunday evening, March 15, 1970, Lisa Cooper was sitting with her husband and two children in her home in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her children were playing a board game. Her husband…
On January 16, 1960, a 77-year-old woman in Toulon, France, was reportedly attacked by her husband after years of severe paralysis. What happened next became an extraordinary medical story. The woman, Marie, had been unable to walk or move normally…
The murder of René Gorlin On November 25, 1980, workers at a construction site outside Paris made a disturbing discovery. A man’s body was lying in the mud beside a pile of gravel. He had been shot twice in the…
Gary Cagne’s Survival Begins in a Violent Storm In late November 1976, 27-year-old Canadian sailor Gary Cagne was crossing the Tasman Sea between Fiji and New Zealand. He was traveling alone in his 31-foot wooden boat. The voyage had already…
A Thief Stole a Parrot and Ran On the morning of September 20, 1909, a man named Terry Rooney was walking down a busy street in San Francisco, California. He passed shops, restaurants, and cafes. Then something in a shop…
The Frosty the Polar Bear Escape In 1978, residents of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, got an unexpected visitor in Slater Park. It was not a stray dog or a wild animal from the surrounding area. It was an 800-pound polar bear…
A Late-Night Joyride Takes a Strange Turn On the night of March 9, 1974, a 44-year-old man named Don Yearwood was walking along a sidewalk with two friends in Florida. They had been drinking for hours and were still passing…
The Mysterious Doctor Who Appeared in a Hospital One afternoon in June 1975, Marie Daniels was preparing to leave a hospital room in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Her husband, Harold, was lying in the bed beside her. He had undergone surgery…
On May 15, 1978, a man in Tucson, Arizona, heard something that should not have been possible. He picked up a Mayday signal from a boat in trouble off the Florida coast. The problem was that Tucson was thousands of…