Category: People

Kite-Surfer Finds Message in a Bottle With Diamond Ring Inside, Tracks Down Its Owner

Canadian kite-surfer Sebastien Allain accidentally lost his gear during a winter surfing trip, but the hours-long search to recover his possessions yielded an unexpected find: a message in a bottle, which happened to also contain a diamond ring. Allain tracked down the sender and learned this was not the first message he has sent, nor…


Neglected Baby Living in Filthy Trailer Saved by Deputy, Makes Amazing Transformation With New Family

In July 2018, a sheriff’s deputy came across a starving baby girl living in squalor, inside a filthy trailer with her father. The deputy was responding to an unrelated call in San Bernardino County, California; and fearing for her life, the officer intervened. Almost three years later, the little girl is now thriving in a new…


6-Year-Old Gets His Wallet Stolen at Walmart With $200 Christmas Cash, so Police Replace It

When a 6-year-old boy’s wallet was stolen by a woman at a Walmart last week, he was left devastated. The wallet had contained $200 in Christmas and birthday money that he received as gift money. But the Chandler Police Department was able to bring a smile to the boy’s face once again; they all pitched…


Once Neglected, Four Kids With Special Needs Adopted by US Family Thrive Five Years On

When Keshia Melton, a registered nurse of 11 years from New Zealand, shared a heartfelt post on social media about a Ukrainian child with special needs desperately needing a home, the perfect family answered. Five years on, Amelia and three additional children with special needs are thriving with the same adoptive family. Keshia’s involvement with orphanages…


‘Karate Kid’ Star Shares the Secret to Happy 33-Year Marriage to High School Sweetheart

Actor Ralph Macchio has shared the secrets to his happy 33-year marriage with his high school sweetheart, Phyllis Fierro. With a rate of divorce in the United States as high as 50 percent, according to the American Psychological Association, it’s remarkable how some marriages have withstood the test of time—particularly when we’re talking marriages coming out of…


Adopted Texas Woman Meets Birth Parents for First Time in 62 Years Using DNA Test Kit

A Hunt County, Texas, woman says she has “a lot to be thankful for” in 2020, even though it’s a year that brought hardship to so many. For Anna Taylor, this is the year she was reunited with her birth parents, more than six decades after being put up for adoption. And she has since…


VIDEO: Aussie Fishermen Find Baby Sea Turtle Tangled in Fishing Net and Cut Him Free

When a baby sea turtle became entangled in a mess of discarded fishing gear and garbage, it almost certainly would’ve died without help. Luckily, three fishermen came upon the floating trash pile and spotted the trapped infant reptile. Australian man Rhys Shearer was out fishing with two buddies off the coast of Dundee, near Darwin,…


Luxury Home Built From 12 Industrial Shipping Containers Hits the Market in New Zealand

A six-bedroom luxury home in New Zealand that was built out of 12 repurposed shipping containers just hit the market, and the internet is gushing over images of the interior. The readymade two-story home was built by David Wade, who used industrial shipping containers to create the skeleton for the dwelling. Daily Mail reports that…


Flipping the Script on the Abortion Narrative

When Ryan Bomberger was 13, everything he knew about his origin story changed. He already knew he was adopted—his adoptive parents and siblings are white, and he’s biracial, he said with a laugh, but every adoptee goes through a process of wondering why they were given up for adoption. So to realize his birth mother…


Celebrity Jewelry Designer Befriends Homeless Woman, Fundraises to Get Her an Apartment

A TikTok star has given a homeless woman on Skid Row in Los Angeles, California, the opportunity to reclaim her life, documenting their interactions in a series of viral videos on TikTok. Isaiah Garza–a jewelry designer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur from downtown Los Angeles with over 4 million followers–started visiting Robin Clayton on Skid Row in August 2020,…