Taryn Thompson was astonished and grateful when strangers helped find her lost family heirloom. It was a special ring that her grandmother Louise Thompson left her after she passed away in 2007. As reported by WLEX 18 News, the western Kentucky student was attending a wedding in Lexington when she stopped into the Gratz Park Inn to freshen up. That's when she must have lost the ring… but, no one at the hotel could find it.
Every once and a while someone does something that restores your faith in humanity. That is how Dayton-area mom, Andy Robinson of Bellbrook, said she felt when two Fairborn students found the wallet her son lost at a high school football game and didn't rest until they returned
A police sergeant said it was pure dumb luck how a 20 year old, Nick Simmons, was reunited with his family in upstate New York after a news photographer shot his photo huddled with homeless men on a grate in Washington, DC.
I bet Jaxxyn Wood's parents are glad Santa brought their 12-year-old son a new video game for Christmas. He was enthralled in one of the game's important mission at 3:30 in the morning when he smelled foul smoke coming from the kitchen. If he hadn't been awake, the nine people sleeping upstairs might have been trapped by a raging fire.
At 71, Margaret Ann Wolf Harris heard her father's voice for the first time in her adult life. Her dad, Sgt. Cody Wolf, died in World War II when his plane was shot down over Germany on Jan. 11, 1944. But a couple of weeks before his death, he contributed to a Christmas broadcast, produced by war correspondents of the Maryland newspaper The Baltimore Sun. His baby daughter got to hear it recently.
In October 2013, Louis Munoz donated one of his kidneys to William Lynch. The organ match would not have occurred without a bit of serendipity and a big love of football: Munoz and Lynch hadn't seen each other in years – then they found themselves randomly seated next to each other with season tickets for San Diego Chargers games.
An Illinois couple wrote a letter saying Hooray for ice storms after what they found while trying to protect their frozen pipes. Tara Catogge and her husband Ian found someone's diamond and sapphire wedding ring while trying to clear the pipes in their kitchen sink last week.
Unemployed, in debt and facing another year living on the streets in Hungary, László Andraschek spent his last remaining coins on a lottery ticket. Now the formerly homeless man is one of Hungary's biggest lottery winners, with a prize of about $2.8 million, and the 55-year-old plans to use his winnings to establish a foundation for addicts.
Raised 5,000 miles apart and speaking different languages, a chance sighting on YouTube by a friend helped them to discover a lost twin they didn't know existed.
Jona Rechnitz, who won $50,000 on the 2012 Superbowl just did it again ... by placing the same exact bet. Both times the NYC real estate mogul donated the winnings to charity -- $75,000 in total.
Detroit-based Quicken Loans, America's fourth largest mortgage lender, has joined forces with Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway to pay a billion dollars to anyone who completes a perfect bracket, predicting the winner of every game in the March 2014 men's college basketball championship tournament. Any U.S. citizen over 21 years of age who correctly enters the contest and predicts the winner in all 63 tournament games will win or share the total $1 billion prize.
A dog that got stuck on cliff high above Portugese Beach in Sonoma County, Calif. was rescued Saturday afternoon after a sheriff's deputy dangling from a helicopter plucked it off a sheer rock face and returned it unharmed to its owner. The black and white Labrador named Oreo somehow made her way about 40 feet down a huge 90-foot high cliff, where there was no way of return.
After having just adopted a puppy three weeks ago from the Humane Society, a Michigan family owes the husky-mix their lives after he alerted them to a gas leak in the middle of the night. His adoptive mom, Jill McLarty, had a cold and couldn't smell the gas streaming from a gas burner left on in the kitchen.
All the Wheel of Fortune player knew was that the answer was a 'thing', it was three words of varying length and started with an NE. Incredibly, Emil, who the host Pat Sajak called a very good puzzle solver, pulled the answer out of nowhere.
While everyone else is complaining about the weather Calvin and Zatera Spencer experienced a March to remember. It sounds like an April Fool's joke, but the Virginia couple really did win the top prize for three different Virginia lottery tickets all within a single month.
When 59-year-old Jeff Taylor saw a nativity scene for sale in a thrift shop that reminded him of the one he loved as a boy, he never dreamed that this cardboard set, missing the lamp and the straw, would turn out to be the exact one that had disappeared from his mother's home three decades earlier.
After almost 70 years, the letters written by a World War II sailor made the final leg of a mysterious journey. On Wednesday they were turned over to 85-year-old Dorothy Bartos Carlberg, the girl for whom the notes were penned.
Even more amazing than David Brenner's wedding ring being found under a Vail chair lift five years after it slipped off unnoticed, is the incredible way he heard that it had been recovered last week.
A baseball player in the Houston Astros minor league, Conrad Gregor, hit his first Midwest League home run on Saturday night and the ball was caught over the right field wall by a familiar face -- his own father.
Found trapped in a cage meant for an opossum by an animal control officer in another state, a small Shih Tzu from Louisiana looked like she'd been through a lot of trouble. But with a little luck an an amazing coincidence regarding the dog's name, the weary pet has left Arkansas and is back with its loving owners.