Strange and Unusual Stories

Recently, the Vancouver Sun Online carried a video entitled, “Ten People Who Saved the World”.  Here are a couple of excerpts from that video. November 13, 1907, 25-year-old Jesus García…

In Buffalo, New York lives a 64-year-old man named Arthur Brose.  But what many people don’t know, is that Arthur has a secret life!  Once a week, Arthur puts on…

Back in 1954, 17-year-old Martha Ingham was attending Jeffersonville High School in Indiana when, in tears, she discovered that she had lost her purse.  That was 65 years ago. Recently,…

We have a digital clock by our bedside that projects the time onto the ceiling. A couple of weeks ago, early Tuesday morning, I woke up and sat on the…

Back in 1990, in China, a poor farmer’s wife was involved in a horrible accident and he had no money to pay for her treatment.  The medical fees required to…

Recently, NBC News published an interesting article, based on interviews with psychologists and neuroscientists.  Apparently, the professionals have studied ‘awe’ and its effect on our well-being and they say that…

Sixty-year-old British comedian Ian Cognito started performing stand-up comedy back in 1985.  He liked to ‘shock’ his audiences with vulgarities and abandoning all decency.  His comedy act was often banned,…

This past February, Pastor Alph Lukau, of the Alleluia Ministries International church, in Kramerville, South Africa, has been caught in a scam, pretending to bring a dead man back to…

Not every WW2 bomb dropped on Germany exploded.  Last August, a construction, crew in the western German city of Luwigshafen, unearthed what appeared to be a large metal object.  Taking…

In early March, a devastating fire ripped through a church in West Virginia.  Firefighters came and battled the blaze, but the fire was so bad that, at one point, they…