Photo stories of incredible events (34 photos)
Sometimes stories happen in life, the reality of which from the outside is difficult to believe. And only photographs prove that everything that happened is the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
A 96-year-old man saved an 87-year-old woman from suffocation using the Heimlich maneuver. This man is none other than Dr. Henry Heimlich, the inventor of this technique.
A woman found her cat 16 days after the tornado.
In 1981, pediatrician Dr. Shannon saved a baby who was born weighing 1.5 kilograms. His chances of survival were 50/50. Shannon cared for the baby day and night until his condition stabilized. 30 years later, Dr. Shannon was involved in an accident and was trapped inside a burning car. He was saved by a paramedic named Chris Trokey - the same baby the doctor had delivered three decades earlier.
This cat knew where to sit.
In 2013, Anaïs Bordier saw a YouTube video of actress Samantha Futerman, who looked exactly like her. She wrote to Futerman and found out that they were both born in South Korea on the same day and were adopted as infants. A DNA test later showed that they were twins who had been separated since childhood and found each other by pure chance.
A Filipino fisherman tripped over a rock and decided to take it home as a good luck charm. And then he kept it under his bed for 10 years, until one day his house burned down. Only then did he learn that this “stone” was in fact the largest pearl ever found and was valued at $100,000,000.
So the seagull saved the driver from a fine of $300.
The fish jumped right in front of the camera, creating a funny photo.
While reporting on my local animal shelter on national television, the reporters focused on Alice, the cat we adopted 7 months ago! We found out where she came from! We were delighted.
The same whale with a damaged tail, photographed 35 years apart off the coast of Mexico.
A man narrowly escaped being hit by a tree that fell from a lightning strike.
My cat leads a secret life as a model.
Two nurses hired months apart and working the same shift on the same floor of the same Florida hospital discovered they were sisters separated as children.
Perfect Moment: Lightning Strikes a Rainbow
Meet the Jim Twins. Two identical twins were separated and adopted into different families at birth. Both were named James, both married and then divorced women named Linda, remarried women named Betty, and each had a dog named Toy. They even both named their sons James Allan. They reunited at the age of 39.
The guy met Keanu Reeves twice, 3 years apart, and Keanu wore the same T-shirt both times.
This is how a diver found a lost wedding ring wrapped around a mullet off Norfolk Island.
The rainbow from the window was perfectly reflected in the slab.
Photobomber Bee
The guy remembered a trip for a long time when his electric wheelchair accidentally got stuck in the grill of a semi-trailer, which carried him several kilometers in front of the bumper at a speed of about 80 km/h. At the same time, both the stroller and the rider remained unharmed.
This apartment building in Shanghai collapsed but remained almost undamaged.
Three generations of twins.
The couple found each other in the same childhood photograph taken many years before they met and married. They lived 500 kilometers from each other and ended up on the beach at the same time only because the boy’s family accidentally stopped there on vacation.
A soap bubble is stuck on a thin thread of a spider's web.
Ron Sullivan is a lightning strike survival champion. Lightning struck him at the fire tower, in the truck, in the yard, twice when he was running from a thunderstorm, while fishing. After the seventh blow, a bear immediately attacked him - and he was able to drive it away with a stick he picked up right there.
A guy who survived a plane crash that killed 71 people was involved in a passenger bus crash. 20 people died in it - and he remained alive again.
Two brothers won the lottery on the same day.
The spider has found the perfect place for its web.
The culprit of the accident fled from the scene and did not notice that he had left his license plate in the wheel arch of the victim.
Wasps made a nest on my bottle of wasp spray.
In 1943, a B-17 bomber with Alan Magee as its gunner was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery. Alan flew more than 5 kilometers without a parachute before crashing into the glass roof of a train station. He survived the fall and lived to be 84 years old.
This fish just fell out of the sky onto the dog park - it was dropped by a bald eagle.
An Evergreen truck got stuck on a highway in China, just like the ship of the same name did in the Suez Canal.
