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15-Year-Old Girl Was The Only Person On A 300-Passenger Flight Who Could Talk To A Deafblind Man
About an hour into an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston, a flight attendant made an unusual announcement over the plane’s public address system. A passenger was both deaf and blind, the crew needed to communicate with him, and they wanted to know if anyone onboard knew American Sign Language. On a plane carrying roughly 300…
Firefighters Comfort Frightened 2-Year-Old Girl After Car Crash by Letting Her Paint Their Nails
A Utah family had just been hit from behind three times when firefighters arrived to find a 2-year-old girl screaming in the back seat. Her mother was pregnant, the crash had left everyone shaken, and emergency crews were trying to assess what had happened. Then one firefighter noticed the toddler was still clutching several bottles…
Jimothy The Viral Raccoon Has A Much Stranger Origin Story
For weeks, Jimothy the raccoon was an internet mystery. His tiny neck, round body and unusual walk left people wondering whether an injury had changed him. Now, footage recorded a year before he went viral offers a much clearer answer. Jimothy already looked this way as a baby, when his mother and siblings helped him…
A 7 Eleven Customer Got the Perfect Receipt and Saved It Forever
A customer in Jacksonville walked out of 7-Eleven with a receipt that seemed almost too perfect to be real. The total was $7.11, the date was 7/11, and the time was exactly 7:11 PM. Instead of throwing it away, he framed it. Then a photo spread online with a claim that the odds were around…
Cruise Vacation Turns Into Medical Nightmare After Rope Swing Accident
Kirsten Lindsey expected her first cruise to end with holiday photos and stories worth telling. Instead, a rope swing at a resort in Honduras left the 28-year-old facing emergency surgery, a medical evacuation and months of rehabilitation. The accident happened in seconds. The bills and recovery that followed have stretched far beyond that moment. A…
A Tattoo Artist Made One Promise To Sick Kids. Nine Years Later, He’s Still Keeping It
Benjamin Lloyd had a simple idea when he opened Facebook in May 2016. The 25-year-old airbrush artist from Tauranga, New Zealand, said he would visit Starship Children’s Hospital and give the children free temporary tattoos if his post received 50 likes. It sounded like the kind of offer that might attract a little local attention,…
AI Companies Are Buying Up Rare Books, And Some Are Being Destroyed
Books are having a bizarre second life in the AI boom. Companies building large language models are reportedly buying huge quantities of old and used books, not to read them or preserve them, but to strip out the pages, scan the text, and potentially destroy the originals. For booksellers, the sudden demand can mean a…
Mom Finds A Genius Way To Help Her Nonverbal Son Talk When Technology Fails
When 11-year-old Hunter’s communication device suddenly died during a meal, his mother Jessica Fletcher was left facing a problem that could have brought their conversation to an abrupt stop. Hunter is nonverbal and uses an Augmentative and Alternative Communication device to select words and symbols, but the technology was suddenly useless when its battery ran…
Missing Man Found Trapped Inside Metro Station Six Days After His Family Thought He Was Dead
Rashawn Williams walked out of a Maryland hotel one Friday evening in October 2023 and vanished without a phone or identification. The 31-year-old, who is nonverbal and requires round-the-clock supervision, had simply signaled that he needed to use the bathroom while staying at a Residence Inn in Silver Spring. His caregiver went to find a…
12 Year Old Dancer Takes Her First Steps After A Rare Spinal Stroke
Morgan Lopez was just 12 when a routine dance practice turned into a medical emergency that left her unable to walk. Within hours, her family was facing the possibility that their daughter might never move normally again. Three months later, Morgan walked out of rehabilitation on her own. The California dancer is still undergoing treatment,…