We owe the cesarean section... to pure desperation!The year was 1500, and the wife of a man named Jacob Nufer, who worked as a pig castrator, was having a very…
What’s wrong with shark meat? Shark meat carries mercury. The big fish eat the little fish and the mercury builds up. The sharks live long and the poison stays in…
"I have a friend at work who traveled from NC to New York every month for cancer treatments. A few months ago, she broke down on the interstate in NC,…
“My 4-month-old baby was crying loudly because, for some unexpected reasons, I couldn’t feed him before we got on the plane. My 3-year-old daughter was excited at first but then…
My husband has a tendency to move slower on the weekends, and knowing we had alot of errands to get done, I went into the store looking for him, annoyed.…
Do doctors lie to patients? My girlfriend (who is a urologist), once told me that she knows this one doctor who never tells his patients they have cancer. As in…
Three years ago, I found out that the people who raised me weren’t actually related to me. They believed I was their biological child until they passed away. My once…
The woman in the photo, Margaret Schilling , a patient of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. On December 2, 1978, the woman disappeared, perhaps while playing hide and seek with a nurse who forgot…
My little reminder from after my divorce… I came home one day to tell my at the time husband about my little encounter. I had mentioned that I thought I…
"Take a good look at this picture. This is Sgt. Majorie Jordan of the Jersey City Police Department. Sgt. Jordan abandoned her position of cover and ran out into the…
A few weeks before I turned nineteen, I was sitting next to my mom. When I looked at her, she noticed something strange—my left eye wasn’t moving with my right…
In the early morning of October 6, 1995, 15-year-old Nicole Vanden Hurk disappeared on her way to work in Eindhoven, a city in the Netherlands. Her body was found six…
This photo went viral and touched people all over the world. It was taken in 1987 in the city of Zabsha, Poland. The picture captures a moment after a 23-hour…