True stories about people and places. Survival, crime, mystery, rescue, and achievement. A property has a story.
Danger, hardship, isolation, uncertainty, loss, and the difficult periods people endure before they find a way through.
Aron Ralston entered a narrow Utah canyon alone in April 2003. Five days later, with his right arm pinned beneath an enormous boulder, he used a small multitool to free himself.
Beck Weathers survived a night exposed on Mount Everest during the 1996 disaster. Believed dead after severe cold and hypothermia, he regained consciousness and walked into Camp 4 before rescuers helped him descend.
Tami Oldham Ashcraft survived alone at sea after a hurricane destroyed her yacht. Injured and without a working engine, she navigated toward Hawaii across roughly 1,500 miles of open ocean.
José Salvador Alvarenga left the Mexican coast on a fishing trip and spent 438 days adrift after a storm disabled his boat. He survived on fish, birds, turtles and rainwater before reaching the Marshall Islands.
Steven Callahan spent 76 days alone on a six-foot inflatable raft after his sloop was badly damaged in the Atlantic. He made fresh water, caught fish and drifted about 1,800 miles before fishermen found him.
Harrison Okene was inside the Jascon-4 when the tugboat capsized off Nigeria. He found an air pocket inside the wreck and spent nearly three days underwater before divers reached him.
Mauro Prosperi disappeared during the 1994 Marathon des Sables after a sandstorm erased his route. He spent several days sheltering in an abandoned shrine before walking across the Sahara into Algeria.
Juliane Koepcke was 17 when lightning struck the plane carrying her across Peru. She fell thousands of metres into the Amazon rainforest, survived the impact and spent 11 days alone before reaching people.
Nehemiah Danjuma was offered a different course when he first sought to study Law. He reapplied, graduated with a Second Class Upper and later became the first deaf lawyer from Northern Nigeria.
A boat left Bufaloto in The Gambia carrying people bound for Spain. After nearly 25 days stranded in the Atlantic, 38 survivors reached Mauritania while 143 people from the vessel were reported dead or missing.
Matt Scott was 19 when armed men seized eight foreign tourists in northern Colombia. About 11 hours later, he went over a mountain ridge and spent nearly two weeks alone in the jungle before Kogui people and Colombian soldiers helped him out.
Maryam Ibrahim was among about 50 women taken from Madagali towards Sambisa Forest. In captivity, she cleaned guns and arranged ammunition before one day pretending to fetch water and running for her life.
Jaslinda Saludin became separated from a hiking group near Gunung Batu Putih in Perak, Malaysia, and spent 14 days alone in the forest. She survived by drinking water from natural sources, including pitcher plants, before an Orang Asli villager found her.
Patrik Jagunić was buried beneath about five feet of snow in Norway. With only a small air pocket, he scraped away snow until he could reach his phone and call for help.
After a plane crash killed their mother, 13-year-old Lesly Mucutuy helped her three younger siblings survive 40 days in the Colombian Amazon.
Kai Sato was sailing alone from California towards Hawaii when his mast broke. After his fuel and fresh water ran out, he made an improvised sail and collected condensation from seawater with plastic bags.
Kim and Nathan Maker were swept away from their dive boat during a storm off the Texas coast and spent about 38 hours in the Gulf of Mexico before a Coast Guard aircraft spotted their flashlight signal.
Crimes, wrongdoing, accusations, victims, investigations, punishment, injustice, and the search for answers when something has gone wrong.
At dawn in Kabul, an explosive vehicle tore through the British Council compound gate. Guards fought inside as two teachers sheltered in a reinforced room while Afghan and foreign forces fought to retake the site.
A hidden passage connected warehouses on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. When authorities found the tunnel in 2010, more than 20 tons of marijuana were seized and eight people were arrested.
Anthony Gignac presented himself as a Saudi prince, complete with royal titles, luxury cars and fake diplomatic credentials. Investors across five countries sent more than $8 million into his fraudulent ventures.
For four and a half years, an undercover police agent worked inside Ashdod Port as a customs inspector while importers and customs brokers allegedly used the port to move illegal goods through bribery and false declarations.
Police moved in on a cyber-fraud syndicate during a meeting with a bank employee. Three suspects were arrested, while a fourth man who had flown in from France escaped the operation.
During the first months of the 2022 Russian invasion, suspected looters in Ukrainian towns were restrained with plastic wrap and left in public places as civilians took punishment into their own hands.
A knife sheath left inside a Moscow house after four students were killed yielded a tiny genetic trace that eventually led investigators to Bryan Kohberger.
After federal agents arrested several men linked to a murder-for-hire case in Chicago, Durk Banks was booked on international flights. The FBI learned about the bookings before arresting him near Miami.
Colonel Russell Williams commanded a major Canadian air base while secretly committing burglaries and sexual assaults. A cold-case investigation eventually linked him to the murder of Jessica Lloyd.
In 2003, thieves entered the heavily protected Antwerp Diamond Centre vault and emptied 109 safe-deposit boxes. The stolen gems were valued at more than $100 million.
After nearly four years in captivity, 11 sailors slipped through a broken window before dawn and ran more than 10 kilometres through darkness to reach safety in Somalia.
A viral video appeared to show Indonesian thieves wrapped in tape and dressed like Teletubbies after being caught by residents. The real story was very different: the men were content creators completing a TikTok challenge.
Strange events, unanswered questions, unexpected discoveries, unusual encounters, and cases where the facts do not immediately explain what happened.
Ramesh Ganjhu left his family home in Jharkhand after a dispute and disappeared for 16 years. A WhatsApp message helped his family locate him in Chennai, where his son was living only a few kilometres away.
At about 4am in Nkulumane, Zimbabwe, residents heard a strange sound outside a house and found a naked elderly woman lying inside a yard. People gathered around her as stories spread that she had fallen from the sky.
A viral video appeared to show armed bandits celebrating in Nigeria before one man was shot. The truth was different: the footage came from a wedding in Chad, where celebratory gunfire struck the groom.
A portrait missing for about 80 years appeared above a sofa in a Mar del Plata house listing, helping investigators trace a Giuseppe Ghislandi painting linked to a collection seized during Nazi rule.
Seventeen-year-old Uriah kept finding chicken eggs on his bed. His mother suspected a prank until the family discovered that Lola the hen had learned to enter the house through the cat flap.
A woman found a tooth in her bathroom sink after brushing her teeth. She initially thought she had lost it, but a dentist said it appeared to belong to an older person. Her husband also said it was not his.
When people are found, saved, helped through danger, or come out of difficult situations after others have stepped in to help.
Leo Schofield spent more than 36 years in prison after his conviction for Michelle Schofield's murder. Years later, after Jeremy Scott confessed to the killing, Leo spoke with him and offered forgiveness.
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