20 Strange Photos Of People With Even Stranger Stories

A picture truly is worth a thousand words. But a simple photo isn’t enough to tell the story that goes along with it. The people listed either have a terrifying story, or a glorious one, but it is insanely hard to tell from the photo alone. Here are 20 strange photos of people with absolutely insane stories to go with them.

1. I got you

Back in 2019, Fred Pepperman, a 53 year old father went to swim out to rescue his daughters when suddenly, they were caught in a riptide on a Florida beach. The extra weird part though is when his daughters were saved, he ended up feeling unconscious. He would die on his way to the hospital, and then his last words to them were, I got you.

2. Aleksander Doba was something else

Aleksander Doba was nothing short of a superhuman. He ended up kayaking solo across the entirety of the Atlantic Ocean, which totals 5400 km, and did so under his own power. The crazy part? He did this three times, and most recently he did it in 2017 at the age of 70.

3. The way she holds that child shows that animals really do care.

Back in 1996, Binti Jua, who was an 8 year old female gorilla, ended up rescuing a 3 year old boy. The boy had fallen 25 feet into her enclosure, and then broke his hand. Binti Jua carried the boy near a service door and then handed him over to the paramedics. Binti’s still alive today, and has also become a grandmother.

4. 60 hours in complete darkness would ruin anyone.

Back in 2013, Harrison Okene ended up spending 60 hours submerged underwater in complete darkness after his vessel had capsized 20 miles off the coast of Nigeria and then sunk to the bottom of the sea. He ended up being discovered by divers that were sent to recover the dead bodies.

5. Would you ever give up the search?

A Japanese man named Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wide in the heartbreaking, catastrophic 2011 earthquake. He hasn’t stopped looking for her body for over 10 years. To make things even crazier he’s dove over 800 times into the ocean, attempting to find her.

6. Fire ants saved her life.

Back in 1999, skydiver Joan Murray ended up having a faulty parachute that malfunctioned. This left Murray stuck on a 14,500 foot free fall above North Carolina. She ended up landing directly on a fire ants’ mound too. Somehow though, by the grace of a miracle itself, Murray survived. Well actually, as it turns out, by being stung over 200 times the ends ended up triggering a surge of adrenaline that was responsible for keeping her heart beating.

7. She outsmarted Einstein.

It’s not every day that you see someone pull that off. Back in 1999, a Harvard physicist named Lene Hau was able to literally slow light down to 17 meters per second. Then, in 2001, she was able to bring light to a screeching halt completely. In 2005, Professor Lene Hau pulled off a feat that Einstein himself had assumed was impossible. Hau stopped light completely by using atoms and lasers in her Harvard lab.

8. We didn’t know you could bond with a crocodile.

A local fisherman named Chito in Costa Rica ended up nursing a crocodile fully back to health after it’d been shot in the head. Chito then released the crocodile so that it could return home. The next day however, chito learned that the crocodile had followed him home and was sleeping away on his porch. For 20 years after the fact, that crocodile would end up becoming a part of the family. Wow.

9. This has to be some sort of coincidence.

“US $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills. Now take these bills and fold them into the same configuration. This ends up revealing a five-part time lapse of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers destruction.

10. What a terrifying way to go.

Back in 2013 a Florida man named Jeff Bush was fast asleep in his bedroom. Suddenly, an enormous sinkhole opened up literally right underneath his bed. He ended up being swallowed up alongside his whole bedroom. His brother heard his screams but wasn’t able to reach him in time. Talk about an actual nightmare.

11. This is actually a great survival tip.

Back in 2017 a Florida girl named Juliana Ossa was able to fight off a deadly alligator attack. She did so by shoving two of her fingers up the alligator’s nose. This made it so that the alligator had to breathe through its mouth, which in turn freed up Ossa’s leg so that she could make her escape.

12. Genghis had some trust issues.

Genghis Khan was committed to keeping his burial a complete secret. In fact, the 2000+ people that attended his funeral were all executed. The executioners themselves were then killed by members of his close crew, and then took their own lives upon reaching the destination. To this day, the site continues to remain undiscovered.

13. Imagine being quadriplegic and having your first sense of power back.

The first human to receive the Neuralink brain implant then used it so that he could stay up all night and play Civilization 6.

14. Those are some awful friends.

Back in 2010, an Australian boy named Sam Ballard was drinking with his friends when they spotted a slug crawling across the floor. His friends then dared for Sam to eat the slug. Sam chose to and then ended up falling into a coma for 420 days. When Sam woke up he was paralyzed and then ended up dying 8 years later in 2018.

15. Rumor has it the knife was hurt more than he was.

Back in 1998, Michael Hill ended up being stabbed in the brain by an 8-inch serrated blade when he answered the door at his friend’s house. After seven days he left the hospital but had suffered memory loss in addition to having a paralyzed left hand. That knife was the largest object that’s ever been removed from a human brain.

16. Don’t trust anyone.

Sheldon Johnson was an ex-con who appeared on a podcast that strongly advocated for rehabilitative justice. Johnson ended up being arrested after the police discovered human remains in his apartment.

17. Being a double agent is disgraceful.

FBI agent Robert Hanssen was given the task of finding a mole in the FBI following the capture of one of the FBI’s moles in the KGB. Hanssen was the mole though, and had been working with the KGB since 1979. In fact, Hanssen’s espionage is described by the Department of Justice as potentially the worst intelligence disaster in US history.

18. What kind of ritual activities?

So, it turns out that Stanley Kubrick’s movie, Eyes Wide Shut, is actually about elites engaging in occult ritual activities. It was filmed in an actual Rothschild mansion to make things even more unsettling.

19. Jack Black’s mom is a legend.

This really isn’t that surprising, because so is Jack Black himself. Judith Love Cohen was an American aerospace engineer who ended up helping to create an Abort-Guidance System that was responsible for rescuing Apollo 13 astronauts. When Judith went into labor she brought her work with her, printed out the problem, phoned her boss, and claims that she ultimately finished it right before giving birth to Jack Black.

20. Don’t even know what to say.

Back in 2015, a father ended up saving his son’s life after the doctor’s had wrongly declared that his son was brain dead, and were thus going to take him off life support. The dad barricaded himself and his son in the hospital and had a standoff with the SWAT team. His son ended up making a full recovery.