9-Year-Old Boy Lives Alone in Apartment for Two Years After Mother Moves with Boyfriend
This is the heartbreaking story of a 9-year-old boy forced to live by himself in a cold apartment for two years after his mother moved in with her boyfriend 3 miles away. French newspapers recently reported the sad and shocking story of a boy who lived alone in a low-income housing unit in Nersac for […]
Man Drowns After Being Pushed Off of Ferry for Arriving Too Late
Greece was recently shocked by the tragic death of a man who drowned in the waters of the Mediterranean after being pushed in by the crew of a ferryboat for coming aboard at the last minute. The incident occurred in Piraeus Harbor, close to the Greek capital of Athens. CCTV footage shows a man running […]
Father Finds Abducted Son After 22 Years of Desperate Searching
A Chinese man who has dedicated most of the last 22 years to trying to find his abducted son finally managed to find his son in a city 560 miles (900 kilometers) away. On October 9, 2001, Lei Wuze left his home in Yueyang, Hunan Province without knowing that it would be the last time […]
Security Guard Sacrifices Himself to Save Suicidal Woman, Gets Criticized by Her Family
A young security guard who suffered multiple injuries while trying to catch a girl who had jumped from a building ended up losing his job and getting criticized by the woman’s family. 28-year-old Qu Yan was working as a security guard at a hospital in China’s Jilin Province in 2022 when his life took a […]
Clive Wearing – The Man With a 30-Second Memory
Clive Wearing, once an accomplished musicologist and orchestra conductor, is now known as the man with the 30-second memory, and for having one of the worst cases of amnesia ever recorded. Can you imagine being unable to remember most of your life or to make any kind of new memories? Most of us can’t even […]
Dog Goes to the Beach Every Day to Wait for Fisherman Owner Who Will Never Return
Vaguito, a dog who spends his days on a beach in Punta Negra, Peru, waiting for his fisherman owner to return from his last fishing trip has melted the hearts of millions around the world. Vaguito’s heartbreaking story was made public by Jolie Mejía, a Peruvian woman who happened to be walking on the coast […]
Turkish Man Has Been Testing Positive for Covid-19 for Fourteen Months
A 56-year-old man from Turkey has spent the last fourteen months of his life in isolation, testing positive for Covid-19 no less than 78 times ever since becoming infected in November of 2020. Muzaffer Kayasan from Turkey has been confined to hospitals and his own home for over a year, and is desperately looking for […]
Young Father Sets Up DIY Lab to Create Medicine For His Son
Unable to find the medicine his two-year-old son desperately needs in China or even import it from abroad, a loving father set up his own laboratory and synthesized the drug himself. Two-year-old Haoyang suffers from Menkes Syndrome, an ultra-rare genetic disorder that affects how copper is processed and absorbed in the body. The boy cannot […]
Woman Recruits Someone to Lie to Her Grandmother for 13 Years, Out of Kindness
A Chinese woman was forced to lie to her grandmother, and even recruit someone to do the same, for 13 years, just to avoid breaking the old woman’s heart. Chinese media recently featured the heartbreaking story of a young woman who decided to deceive her own grandmother for over a decade, knowing that the truth […]
9-Year-Old Boy Drops Out of School, Spends Next 17 Years Chasing His Father’s Killer
Chinese media recently reported the fascinating story of a young boy who, after witnessing his father’s murder at the hands of a neighbor, when he was 9-years-old, spent the next 17 years trying to catch the culprit. Looking back on that fateful day of August 9th, 2000, Xiang Mingqian wishes he had never thrown that […]
Chinese Parents Take Wealthy Son to Court For Not Taking Care of Them
An elderly couple from China’s Henan province took legal action against their own son for neglecting his duty of financially supporting them. Filial piety isn’t that important of a notion in the Western world, but in China it’s a big deal. Failing to take care of your elderly parents is actually considered a legal offense […]
World’s Loneliest Dolphin Dies After Years Spent Alone in Abandoned Aquarium Pool
Honey, dubbed by activists and animal lovers ‘the world’s loneliest dolphin’, died last month, after almost two years spent by herself in a small pool at an abandoned aquarium in Japan. We originally featured Honey’s tragic story back in October 2018, when footage shot by Japanese animal rights activists showing a single bottlenose dolphin floating […]
Parents of Girl Who Dropped Apple From Balcony Ordered to Pay Compensation for Freak Accident
In March of 2018, an 11-year-old girl accidentally dropped an apple from the balcony of her family’s 24th floor apartment in Dongguan, China. This simple act ended up costing a toddler its future and the girl’s parents a fortune in compensation… On March 9, 2018, the unnamed girl was reportedly trying to feed the family […]
10-Year-Old Boy Lives by Himself, Farming and Foraging, After Losing Entire Family
Heartbreaking news of a 10-year-old boy in rural Vietnam who refuses to be adopted after losing his whole family, instead living by himself and working in the fields all day, has melted the hearts of millions around the world. While most 10-year-olds have nothing to worry about but going to school and enjoying their childhood, […]
“Greek Hachiko” Has Been Waiting by His Owner’s Car Crash Site for 18 Months
A loyal dog in Greece recently melted the hearts of millions around the world after it was reported that it has spent the last 18 months at a roadside shrine where his owner tragically lost his life in a traffic accident. Nicknamed the “Greek Hachiko” after the legendary Akita Inu who spent years waiting at […]