A Florida woman has been charged with fraud and theft after she kept her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

An elderly woman who had been missing for seven years was found dead in her own home!

The remains, nothing more than a skeleton at this point, appear to have lain undisturbed in her apartment since the day she had been reported missing. picked by funkfrost 8 months ago

A Belfast woman who cared for a baby elephant in her back garden during the war years has finally been identified.

The ‘elephant angel’ was Denise Weston Austin, who was one of the first female zoo keepers in Belfast Zoo.

Update on this post. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

A former teacher was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison for forcing a Haitian girl to work as a slave for years, each day of the week, in her South Florida home.

Apparently the woman still refuses to admit she did anything wrong. picked by jhordie 1 year ago

A Chinese woman's 64-year-old headache has ended after doctors removed a bullet that relatives said lodged in her skull when Japanese soldiers shot her during World War Two. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Doctors say that cannot explain how or why this happens to her based on what they know of persistent vegetative states. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

A cat has returned to its Birmingham home – nine years after disappearing. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A woman who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her son, 3, was handed to an Afghan who raped her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched.

He was jailed for 20 years for murder - but the woman, Rukhma, was jailed, too. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A woman documented her image year after year and stored the pics in a makeup bag. Then someone bought the bag at a flea market and voila! a post for moi. picked by gnikgnok 2 years ago

He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive. picked by Moe 2 years ago

An Australian woman who spent more than 60 years in an iron lung to treat polio has died at the age of 83. June Middleton entered the Guinness World Book of Records in 2006 as the person who has spent the longest time in an iron lung. An American woman hs also been in an irong lung for 60 years. picked by suebe 1 week ago

A man who lost his wallet in 1970 got it back after 37 years with everything still inside. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A woman who lost her class ring in Lake Michigan in 1954 has it back, thanks to a metal-detector hobbyist. he ring's owner says she had forgotten about the ring she lost at Ludington State Park. And she's even more puzzled that Savage found it in a lake about a dozen miles away. picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

A grandmother has been left virtually housebound for two years because she burps uncontrollably.

Jean Driscoll, 72, said she started belching two years ago and despite visits to two doctors and three hospitals, noone has been able to diagnose what it wrong with her. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Casper, which is 12 years old, boards the No3 service at 10.55am from outside his home in Plymouth, Devon, and travels the entire 11-mile route before returning home about an hour later. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

A marine biologist has helped fill in the so-called lost years of Australia's loggerhead turtles by discovering they are using ocean currents to undertake a 20,000-kilometre, round trip across the Pacific Ocean. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

She was 19 and now she's 78 years old. All these years she wasn't legal. picked by civicracer18c1 3 years ago

An Ohio woman faces a decision: Serve two years in prison for stealing DVDs from her local library or serve six months and pay back nearly $17,000. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A mummified woman was found in her apartment in Croatia, 35 years after she had last been seen. picked by princess2408 1 year ago

A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying. picked by punthe 2 years ago