The electric guitar Bob Dylan was playing at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when he got booed for playing rock 'n' roll, sold for $965,000 on Friday, which is a world auction record for a guitar. The 1964 Fender Stratocaster had been accidentally left on a private aircraft by the songwriter and his band in the months after the Rhode Island festival.
A 76-year-old man, Geoff Pilkington, had been sick with cancer for a two years. Finally, he recovered enough to play golf. On the first hole, with his first shot, he scored a hole in one
What this woman thought was a pick-up line was actually some advice that ended up saving her life.
Robert Bowlin won the husband of year award – and $2 million – after keeping his lotto win a secret so he could surprise his wife Christmas morning.
A man's wife and daughter released a balloon at his grave to send a "message to heaven" – and had it answered later that day.
If he hadn't been talking on the phone at the time when a bomb exploded nearby, he might have been another casualty in Paris. Instead, his Samsung took the hit.
Imagine boarding a plane to find that the person sitting in your seat looks exactly like you? The fun doesn't stop there...
With all their punters injured, the New York Jets called into a radio show to ask the host to return to the NFL for one more game.
When a $2M lottery ticket accidentally ended up in the trash, the store owners had to become detectives to track down the customer who bought it.
A big guy with a beard wandered the streets of New York handing out cash at Christmas. The man, wearing a red Santa hat, handed out $100 notes to dozens of people at random over three days.
Andreas Schmitz, a German man, received a lottery ticket as a wedding gift. It turned out to be a winner, worth a million marks. Instead of keeping the money, spending it on a fancy honeymoon, he donated it all to a dance company that was in financial straits.
Erin had spent the summer collecting cans and bottles just to be able to buy herself 60 raffle tickets. What she did when she won was priceless.
A NYC firefighter who responded to the World Trade Center on 9/11 – then had to retire because of resulting health problems – just hit the jackpot.
Fifty five years ago, when Joyce was a young girl, she lost her parents after their small plane crash in a remote area of Washington state. Suddenly, Joyce is reliving happy memories after recently receiving a wondrous gift from a stranger.
On January 10, a Portland woman dropped in a store parking lot an envelope containing $2,000 in cash and a $38,000 cashier's check. It was the down payment she needed for a house. Lucky for her, Brian DiCarlo, a 23-year-old aspiring teacher, found the envelope.
Benjamin Olewine is a regular at the Peachtree restaurant where Melissa Mainier of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania worked. Melissa knew she wanted to be a nurse and was wracking up a lot of debt to put herself through school. One day he told Melissa that he wanted to pay her tuition -- and has done so now for years.
A 65-year-old mom in West Virginia was told she'd have to wait five years to receive an kidney transplant, so her son Jeremy posted an ad on Craigslist, saying "Wanted: Kidney", and found a perfect match.
Mild-mannered pharmacy employee John Robertson is being hailed as a hero after saving a customer's life. When a customer failed to pick up his prescription, Robertson got worried and went to check on him at his home. Turns out, the man was injured and lying on his bathroom floor.
A Wisconsin couple on vacation huddled together for days eating what food they'd brought in the car after they became trapped in deep snow on a closed pass near Yellowstone Park in Wyoming. Fearing her life might be over, Kris Wathke used notebook paper stowed in her purse to write letters to all her loved ones telling them how much they meant to her.
A Connecticut man bought a large desk on Craigslist. Luckily it was too big to fit through the door by a fraction of an inch, according to Rabbi Noah Muroff. He and his wife took the desk apart and found a huge pile of cash hidden in a plastic bag behind the deep file drawers. But that is not the end of the story.
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