George Pike's father was an active farmer and chauffeur at age 70, until he went into the hospital for hip replacement surgery in March 2013. An infection kept him in a chair and depressed for many months. So his son made the decision to end early his year abroad in Australia, sell his car, and return home. Watch the heart-warming reunion.
Jenny Baker was out last weekend in north-east London and met a very sweet homeless man named Michael. What started as an innocent meeting led to actions by Jenny and other generous strangers, that will completely change his life forever.
Nurse Eileen Remedios was heartbroken when her beloved bicycle was stolen while locked outside near the street. She left a humorous note attached to the same lamppost begging for its safe return. She wrote, Please return my bike, which she loved for it will be frightened without its owner. The 55-year-old from Brighton got a big surprise in return.
A 62-year-old woman's desire to find her birth mother led her back to California and into the arms of the resident who found the abandoned infant, in the front seat of her car. I lifted the lid, and these two little eyes were staring at me. Now, she is looking into those eyes six decades later and is grateful for a new friendship.
Kimberly Mitchell's life story has always been missing a few important pages -- like how she ended up in an orphanage in 1970's Vietnam with war raging. She finally knows the story and got to thank the soldier who rescued and named her in 1972.
A California couple who found a wedding ring in the used car they recently purchased, spent weeks trying to track down the owner. Now a 79 year-old has been reunited with the ring that belonged to her late husband.
One night last month, Russell, who was unable to sleep, climbed out of bed and sat down at his computer to do some late night eBay searching. Russell, who lives in Southland, Texas, says that every so often he'd do a search for his 1967 Austin Healey, a beloved sports car that was stolen in 1970.
After a massive tornado hit Joplin, Missouri last year, thousands of families whose homes were destroyed lost their most treasured mementos. But thanks to the dedication and hard work of Abi Almandinger, tornado survivors have been reunited with thousands of old photographs that were blown away with the wind and found by strangers. Her webpage, Joplin's Found Photos, acts as a clearinghouse for photos that had been been blown away by the storm.
Since 9/11, more than 2 million service people have been deployed overseas. But the strain of long-distance relationships makes the moment when families are finally reunited that much sweeter. A Memorial Day TV special on Nat Geo channel reveals the emotional back-stories behind the best surprise soldier homecoming videos.
You're never too late to follow your dreams, which is why, after a fifty year-long search for her birth mother, an elderly lady found joy again.
Last August, Renee Varela's 18-year-old son was killed by a drunk driver and she donated his heart to a father who needed a transplant. Recently Varela held a stethoscope to his chest and heard her son's heart beating. Tragedy brought the two families together -- an extended family now bound by an act of grace.
Have a box of tissues at the ready when you watch this husband surprise his wife with her prized childhood memories.
A tiny Renoir painting has returned home to a gallery in the Baltimore Museum of Art nearly 63 years after it was stolen and then kept mysteriously hidden for decades until it resurfaced in 2012. Museum officials were thrilled and a little teary-eyed when it was returned to its rightful home.
When a Nigerian student hadn't seen his mother in 4 years, and she would miss him getting his diploma, his classmates arranged it all.
A Northern Irish woman only discovered in 1989 that she had an older sister—and finally embraced her for the first time at Dublin airport Tuesday.
This dog loses all control when he realizes he's going home with the best friend he hasn't seen since they were homeless together two years earlier.
Mario Lopes was pretty happy to be out of Kuwait and back in the US – but he was even happier about being surprised by his father first.
You may not believe in fate, but these friends, who grew up as orphans in Africa, chalk up their chance reunion–thousands of miles away– to destiny.
While most students learn about Nazi Germany through books and movies, Naperville, Ill. middle schoolers have done real detective work to reunite two Holocaust survivors after 73 years. Madison Junior High eighth graders used Google, Facebook and databases of newspapers to bring together Edith Westerfeld of Skokie, Ill. and Gerda Katz of Seattle.
A good Samaritan and the police search for homeless man to reunite him with his inheritance.
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