This really happened (26 photos)

It's time for exciting stories. Here are 25 funny and unusual things that happened in real life to real people. Sometimes such stories are surprisingly exciting, better than any movie!





1. In 2019, a five-year-old boy from Michigan invited his entire kindergarten class to witness his adoption. Everyone came



2. Chinese Chen Xi is on duty on the largest bridge in the country on weekends and makes sure that suicides do not jump from there. He saved more than 300 people





3. An orangutan tried to save a man from a pond infested with snakes, believing that he was in danger. In fact, a reserve employee was cleaning the pond from snakes to ensure the safety of the monkeys



4. In 2001, American Kenny Waters, illegally imprisoned for 18 years, was finally released. His younger sister trained as a lawyer to prove his innocence



5. In 1996, a cat named Scarlett saved her five kittens from a burning building in New York. She walked through fire 5 times to save them all



6. Daniel Kish became blind at the age of 1 due to eye cancer. He mastered echolocation by clicking his tongue and listening for echoes



It can ride a bicycle in a traffic jam, identify a building at a distance of up to 300 meters, and distinguish between certain types of cars. Kish and his organization teach echolocation to blind children around the world.

7. In 1836, the management of the Bank of England received an anonymous letter in which the author claimed that he had direct access to gold in the bank



The letter was not believed, but later another one arrived, and its sender offered to meet the bank directors at a time of their choosing inside the main vault. The bankers were intrigued and agreed. At the appointed hour, a noise was heard in the storage room under the floorboards, and a man jumped out from somewhere under the floor. He turned out to be a sewer worker who discovered an old sewer leading directly under a gold vault inside a bank. He had plenty of opportunities to take something from the vault, but he didn't. For his honesty, he was given £800 - the equivalent of £80,000 today.

8. In 2018, hero father Brad Lewis saved his youngest son from death after falling from a balcony. He jumped right behind him and pinned him to his chest, taking the brunt of the blow and suffering a skull fracture



The incident occurred when his son fired a toy Nerf gun and chased the bullet onto the balcony, but slipped and lost his balance. Both Brad and his son made full recoveries.

9. In 2000, a Mumbai police dog named Zanjeer died. He received a state funeral with full honors



During the Bombay attacks of March 1993, Zanjeer helped foil at least three more attacks - in Bombay, Mumbra and Thane.

The first incident occurred on March 15, 1993, when Zanjeer alerted his handlers to a scooter bomb on Dhanji Road containing RDX explosives. He was then called to the scene of the discovery of ten unclaimed suitcases near the Siddhivinayak Temple and discovered three rifles, five 9mm pistols and 200 grenades marked "Arges 69". A few days later, Zanjeer examined two suitcases containing nine rifles in the Zaveri bazaar.

During his service as a police dog, he recovered more than 2,329 kg of explosives, 249 hand grenades and 6,406 rounds of live ammunition.

10. Barry Marshall was convinced that Helicobacter Pylori caused stomach ulcers, but no one believed him.



Since it was illegal to test his theory on people, he drank the bacteria himself and developed an ulcer within a few days. He treated her with antibiotics and received the Nobel Prize in 2005.

11. In 2012, a German kindergarten teacher named Ina König jumped into a 23-meter-high shaft when her three-year-old student fell into it.



The shaft was filled with cold water, but Ina Koenig managed to hold the child's head above the surface for more than two hours, saving his life.

12. In Cluj, Romania, you can pay for your bus ticket by doing 20 squats. Disabled and elderly people can ride for free



13. On April 1, 2001, the American pub Hooters offered employees the chance to win a Toyota by selling the most beer. Jodie Berry won the competition, but instead of a car she received a Yoda figurine



The company said the competition was just an April Fool's joke. A year later, Jodie won in court, receiving large compensation from the company for playing such a joke on her. The amount was not announced, but the woman’s lawyer said that with this money Jodi would be able to choose any Toyota she wanted.

14. This is an actual long exposure photograph of an airplane taking off.



15. In 2001, actor Mark Ruffalo had a realistic dream that he had a brain tumor.



Despite the absence of any symptoms, he went to the doctor under the impression of his dream. A CT scan showed that Mark did indeed have a brain tumor behind his ear. It was subsequently removed. He lost hearing in one ear, but survived and considers it a gift from above.

16. In 1994, a 73-year-old American was denied a driver's license due to poor eyesight. He drove 400 km from one state to another on a lawnmower to visit his brother, who had recently suffered a stroke.



17. Chinese woman Li Jingzhi was reunited with her son Jia Jia, who was kidnapped in 1988, after 32 years



On October 17, 1988, Jia Jia's father, known by his surname Mao, took his two-year-old son to walk and play outside near his home. A little later, Mao went into the hotel to ask for a glass of water for the baby, who was thirsty, but when he returned, he realized that his son was missing.

The boy's mother spent more than 32 years traveling throughout China, through 20 provinces and hundreds of cities, searching for him. During her search, she helped reunite four different children with their families before eventually finding her own son. It turns out that Jia Jia was sold to a family in Sichuan province in southwest China for 6,000 yuan.

18. In 1993, American James Scott deliberately damaged a dam and caused severe flooding on the Mississippi River just to prevent his wife from returning home and having a party.



His actions resulted in the flooding of 14,000 acres of farmland, the destruction of buildings, and the closure of a bridge. James Scott is guilty of causing a disaster with intent and is still in prison, serving a life sentence.

19. In Sylacauga, Alabama, in 1954, Ann Hodges was dozing on the couch when a piece of black rock the size of a small ball came through the ceiling, bounced off the radio console and struck a woman in the thigh, leaving a very large bruise.



A geologist working in the area was called to the scene and determined that the object was a meteorite. Ann Elizabeth Hodges - the first documented case of a meteorite striking a person.

20. On April 19, 1995, American MacArthur Wheeler robbed a bank using lemon juice as a disguise.



He knew that lemon juice could be used as invisible ink and was confident that if he smeared it on his face, he would become “invisible” to CCTV cameras. He smiled at every camera he saw. He was arrested that same evening. When shown the CCTV footage, Wheeler stared at it in disbelief. “But I had juice on my face!” - he told the police.

21. A Colombian woman named Marina Chapman was raised by capuchin monkeys for 5 years after she was abandoned in the jungle as a child.



She learned to climb trees, catch birds and rabbits with her bare hands, and lived among the monkeys as one of them until she was discovered by hunters.

22. This is Francesco Lentini, the three-legged man. Italian-American circus performer was born with three legs, four feet and two sets of functioning genitalia



He was a star in the “circus of freaks” and lived to be 77 years old.

23. In the 50s in the USA, there was such fun among teenagers - to cram as many people as possible into a telephone booth as a “sandwich”.



24. On April 28, 1988, the roof of an Aloha Airlines plane was torn off at an altitude of 7 km, but the plane still managed to land. There was one death



25. In 2017, German police in Frankfurt discovered a car belonging to a 76-year-old man who had forgotten where he had parked his car 20 years earlier.