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In 2010, a guy in Connecticut had his arm trapped in his furnace for 3 days, smelled it rotting, and sawed through most of it himself with a saw blade before passing out. A coworker who noticed he missed work stopped by, heard the dog, called 911, and firefighters had to rip the furnace apart to get him out. Doctors say he saved his own life.

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For almost 10 years in 1920s Los Angeles, a wealthy woman kept her secret lover living full-time in her attic—coming out only when her husband was away. One night in 1922 he heard them fighting, came down, and shot the husband dead. Then he calmly went back up into the attic… and the case remained tangled for years, with the full story emerging about eight years later. The tr...


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On September 5, 1942, after the USS Gregory was sunk near Guadalcanal, 15 American sailors, many wounded, were left drifting helplessly on a raft, dangerously close to enemy forces. In the darkness of the Pacific, with sharks in the water and drifting toward enemy fire and a Japanese-held shore, 22-year-old Charles Jackson French tied a rope around his waist, jumped into the ...


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