Woman boards the wrong bus and gets lost for 25 years Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops!
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Florida woman keeps mother's dead body in house for six years Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Woman Missing for 7 Years Found Dead In Home Posted: 8 months ago by funkfrost
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.
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Chinese woman has bullet taken from head 64 years on Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Woman gets 7 years in Haitian slavery case Posted: 2 years ago by jhordie
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.
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Identity of woman who kept elephant in her back yard revealed Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Dixie the cat returns home after nine years Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A cat has returned to its Birmingham home – nine years after disappearing.
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Woman in coma for 6 years, wakes up for 3 days to say she's OK then slips back into unconsciousness. Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
Doctors say that cannot explain how or why this happens to her based on what they know of persistent vegetative states.
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As the years went by... Posted: 2 years ago by gnikgnok
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.
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Woman raped, saw son die - then jailed Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 625 [+].
50 years for a crime that never was Posted: 2 years ago by Moe
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.
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After 60 Years in an Iron Lung, Woman Loses Her Battle Posted: 4 weeks ago by suebe
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.
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Man Reunited With Wallet After 37 Years Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
A man who lost his wallet in 1970 got it back after 37 years with everything still inside.
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Aussie turtles 'ride the EAC' to Peru Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Class ring lost for 54 years returned to owner Posted: 1 year ago by bevissimo
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.
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Pet cat catches the daily bus for four years Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Grandmother mystifies medics by burping uncontrollably for two years Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Woman's dead body lies in flat for 35 years Posted: 2 years ago by princess2408
A mummified woman was found in her apartment in Croatia, 35 years after she had last been seen.
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After 58 years, this TN woman had no idea she wasn't a US citizen Posted: 3 years ago by civicracer18c1
She was 19 and now she's 78 years old. All these years she wasn't legal.
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Ohio woman to pick punishment Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
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.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 146 [+].
Baby-Killer Gets 23 Years Posted: 2 years ago by punthe
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.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 191 [+].