EPTAnyways, here is one story that was available on YouTube:
Does anyone want to share any unbelievable stories in history that are actually true? Please do! I'm very interested in reading these kind of things.
Unbelievable Stories that are True
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Amnesia
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Anyways, here is one story that was available on YouTube: Does anyone want to share any unbelievable stories in history that are actually true? Please do! I'm very interested in reading these kind of things. | ||
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siv00
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Amnesia
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On November 25 2009 07:25 siv00 wrote: You should cite sources. I can't find any but in the end of the show, they do provide sources. Of course that does not mean that it's true. Anyways that's not the point, whether or not my story was true or not. I made this thread with the intention of others sharing similar stories to mine. | ||
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siv00
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
On November 25 2009 07:30 siv00 wrote: You said you wanted true stories. So post them. | ||
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siv00
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Amnesia
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On November 25 2009 07:34 siv00 wrote: A guy had a rocket lodged in his stomach and didn't die. Peace. | ||
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Boblion
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Source. | ||
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asel
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Amnesia
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I'm sorry for posting without a source. I just know that I saw it on TV but then again, you can't trust everything on TV. Anyways can we get to the fucking point of the thread? FFS. | ||
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FonzeXD
United States220 Posts
On November 25 2009 07:40 Amnesia wrote: I just edited it out. I think this thread is going to be derailed if I leave it on. I'm sorry for posting without a source. I just know that I saw it on TV but then again, you can't trust everything on TV. Anyways can we get to the fucking point of the thread? FFS. Point of thread: Tell an unbelievable story that is true. Alright boys, let's get this thread going! I got a blow at a party. | ||
HwangjaeTerran
Finland5967 Posts
That´s quite lucky. E. From the same wikipedia page: Captain Joseph Kittinger of the United States, On August 16, 1960 he made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,330 m). Towing a small drogue chute for stabilization, he fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h) [1] before opening his parachute at 14,000 feet (4,270 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled to twice its normal size. Free Fall at 988 km/h o.O That´s just wrong.. | ||
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Amnesia
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On November 25 2009 07:40 asel wrote: Simo Hayha killed over 500 russian soldiers in the winterwar. In the end he was shot in the face, but survived and lived till 2002. Wow, how did he survive? Was he after normal after the shot or did he become paralyzed or disabled or something like that? On November 25 2009 07:52 FonzeXD wrote: Point of thread: Tell an unbelievable story that is true. Alright boys, let's get this thread going! I got a blow at a party. By a guy right? Faggot. | ||
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FonzeXD
United States220 Posts
On November 25 2009 08:01 Amnesia wrote: Wow, how did he survive? Was he after normal after the shot or did he become paralyzed or disabled or something like that? By a guy right? Faggot. read my story now. Huh, HUH? ;D | ||
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Amnesia
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FonzeXD
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Ganfei
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Keniji
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nofAcedAgent
United States952 Posts
On November 25 2009 07:52 FonzeXD wrote: Point of thread: Tell an unbelievable story that is true. Alright boys, let's get this thread going! I got a blow at a party. EDIT: Okay, well, I'll tell an actual "story": I was bored and had recently listened to the song "City" by HollyWood Undead. I thought about how the "the city looks so pretty, do you want to burn it with me?" lyric was epic and immediately had to be put into effect. I started 6 fires, using my friends vehicles and different friends, or maybe more. I think it was around 6-7, but, it was in the span of about 4 hours in a 3-4 mile radius from one another. My friends vehicle even got towed and we had 15 witnesses tell the cops that it was 2 teenagers who did it. Somehow, though, my friend was given back his vehicle so no charges were made. This was on a separate date though, not part of the arson rage(the 6-7 fires in 4 hours), but, it was on the day before the arson rage. The arson rage became so popular, it made all the unpopular firefighters into super stars since they went and put out each fire. Ever since the arson rage, I was seeing a craze: many other random fields of grass and such were being burned everyday. A huge plumb of smoke rose each morning, to my enjoyment. Well, this arson craze became SO popular, a bounty was put on the person who started a fire or any information on who is starting fires: $2,000. This was posted all over the place: windows of stores, public bulletins, public places. The bounty was up and the bounty hunters emerged. Only a few select group of friends(plus my accomplices) knew that I had done them, but, some of my "shady" friends heard rumors that either me or my cousin had started the fires. So, my shady friends(who, at the time, were actually HUNTING FOR MY BOUNTY and I didn't fucking know) wanted to hang out so I did. They were like "let's smoke crack!" and I'm like "okaaay!" So they take me to a spot, far far away from the public, where only ranches and dirt roads existed. We smoked a big rock and it was my 2nd time trying the stuff so I would get pretty emotional. The moment I am getting freaked out because the cactus stared at me funny, one of my shady friends pops the question of whether or not I started the fires. The crack was their way of trying to get me to admit, but, it proved to do the opposite: it made me more paranoid. I hatched a thought in my head that if they were asking if I started the fires, they must want some information, so, I didn't give them any. They try asking multiple times and saying "yeaaaaaaah you did" and trying to make it sound all relaxed but I told them I didn't know what they were talking about. They looked at me, angry, and asked to be dropped off. yep. Cool story man, what state are you in? Whats your first and last name btw? | ||
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Impervious
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+ Show Spoiler + Audie Leon Murphy (June 20, 1926 (?) – May 28, 1971)[2] was a highly-decorated American soldier who served in the European Theater during World War II. He later became an actor, appearing in 39 American films,[3] and also found some success as a country music composer. In 27 months of combat action, Murphy became one of the most highly decorated United States soldiers of World War II.[2][3] He received the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military's highest award for valor, along with 32 additional U.S. and foreign medals and citations,[2][4][3] including five from France and one from Belgium.[1][2][5] Murphy's successful movie career included the extremely popular To Hell and Back (1955), which was based on his book of the same name (1949).[3] He also starred in an impressive 39 Hollywood films.[3] He died in a plane crash in 1971 and was interred, with full military honors, in Arlington National Cemetery.[3] Audie Murphy's grave site is the second-most visited grave at Arlington, after that of President John F. Kennedy.[1][5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy + Show Spoiler + Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964) was a United States soldier, famous as a World War I hero. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others. This action took place during the U.S.-led portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, which was part of a broader Allied offensive masterminded by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to breach the Hindenburg line and ultimately force the opposing German forces to capitulate.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York + Show Spoiler + Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav of the Indian army was awarded the highest Indian military honour, Param Vir Chakra for his actions during the Kargil War on 4 July 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogendra_Singh_Yadav + Show Spoiler + Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming "Jack" Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 –8 March 1996), nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", was an English soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a bow, arrows and a claymore. He once said "any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill + Show Spoiler + Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (8 February 1894 – 11 September 1956) was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace, and according to some sources, the top ace of the British Empire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop + Show Spoiler + Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC & Bar, MC (9 November 1884 – 4 August 1917) was a British medical doctor and British Army officer who is one of only three people to be awarded a Victoria Cross twice. The battlefield of Mametz was to see acts of heroism by Captain Chavasse, the only man to be awarded the Victoria Cross twice during the First World War. In 1916, Chavasse was hit by shell splinters while rescuing men in no-man's land. It is said he got as close as 25 yards from the German line, where he found three men and continued throughout the night under a constant rain of sniper bullets and bombing. He performed similar heroics in the offensive at Passchendaele to gain a second VC and become the most highly decorated British serviceman in the war. Although operated upon, he was to die of his wounds two days later in 1917.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Godfrey_Chavasse + Show Spoiler + Sidney Frank Godley VC (14 August 1889 — 29 June 1957) was a British soldier, and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest Commonwealth award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy", during the First World War. He was the first private soldier awarded the VC in World War I[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Godley + Show Spoiler + Major Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock VC, DSO and Two Bars, MC & Bar (May 24, 1887 – July 26, 1918) was a British First World War flying ace. Mannock was probably born in Ireland, though of English and Scottish parentage. Mannock was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, and may have been the highest-scoring British Empire ace of all time, and is regarded as one of the greatest fighter pilots of the war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mannock + Show Spoiler + Walter Daniel John Tull (28 April 1888 – 25 March 1918) was the first black/mixed race officer in the British Army, and the second black/mixed race player to play in in the top division of the Football League. Following the death of their parents, Tull and his brother Edward were brought up in a National Children's Home orphanage in Bethnal Green, London. He joined Tottenham Hotspur in 1909, and transferred to Northampton Town in 1911, for whom Tull made 111 first-team appearances, playing in the inside forward position. During the First World War, Tull served in the Footballers' Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, and fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 30 May 1917, making him the first black/mixed race combat officer in the British Army, despite the 1914 Manual of Military Law specifically excluding Negroes/Mulattos from exercising command as officers. Tull fought in Italy in 1917–18, and was Mentioned in Despatches for "gallantry and coolness" while leading his company of 26 men on a raiding party into enemy territory. He returned to France in 1918, and was killed in action on 25 March during the Spring Offensive; his body was never recovered. Campaigners have called for a statue to be erected in his honour, and Northampton South MP, Brian Binley has campaigned for Tull to be posthumously awarded the Military Cross. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Tull + Show Spoiler + Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC (10 July 1886 - 31 March 1946) was a British and Anglo-Irish soldier who served in both World War I and II, rising to the rank of field marshal and receiving the Victoria Cross, the highest Commonwealth award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gort + Show Spoiler + Theodore Wright VC (15 May 1883-14 September 1914) born in Vailly, France) he was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Wright + Show Spoiler + Francis Octavius Grenfell VC (4 September 1880 - 24 May 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Octavius_Grenfell + Show Spoiler + Frederick William Holmes VC (15 September 1889 – 22 October 1969) was a British soldier, and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Commonwealth forces, during the First World War. He was 24 years old, and a Lance Corporal in the 2nd Battalion, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 26 August 1914 at Le Cateau, France, Lance-Corporal Holmes carried a wounded man out of the trenches under heavy fire and later helped to drive a gun out of action by taking the place of a driver who was wounded. He later achieved the rank of Captain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Holmes + Show Spoiler + Ross Tollerton VC (May 6, 1890 May 7- 1931) born in Hurlford, Ayrshire, was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Tollerton + Show Spoiler + John Travers Cornwell VC (8 January 1900 – 2 June 1916), commonly known as Jack Cornwell or as Boy Cornwell, is remembered for his gallantry at the Battle of Jutland aged just 16, for which he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award of the British Commonwealth for gallantry "in the face of the enemy". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cornwell + Show Spoiler + The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps against three divisions of the German Sixth Army. The battle, which took place from 9 April to 12 April 1917, was part of the opening phase of the British-led Battle of Arras, a diversionary attack for the French Nivelle Offensive. The objective of the Canadian Corps was to take control of the German-held high ground along an escarpment at the northernmost end of the Arras Offensive. This would ensure that the southern flank could advance without suffering German enfilade fire. Supported by a creeping barrage, the Canadian Corps captured most of the ridge during the first day of the attack. The town of Thélus fell during the second day of the attack, as did the crest of the ridge once the Canadian Corps overcame a salient of considerable German resistance. The final objective, a fortified knoll located outside the town of Givenchy-en-Gohelle, fell to the Canadian Corps on 12 April. The German forces then retreated to the Oppy–Méricourt line. Historians attribute the success of the Canadian Corps in capturing the ridge to a mixture of technical and tactical innovation, meticulous planning, powerful artillery support, and extensive training, as well as the failure of the German Sixth Army to properly apply the German defensive doctrine. The battle was the first occasion when all four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force participated in a battle together, and thus became a Canadian nationalistic symbol of achievement and sacrifice. A 250-acre (100 ha) portion of the former battleground now serves as a preserved memorial park and site of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_vimy_ridge If you have any understanding of how WW! was fought, you would be amazed at how well executed this battle was. It revolutionized many of the tactics used during the rest of the war, as well as affecting tactics used in future wars. + Show Spoiler + Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918) was a German fighter pilot known as the "Red Baron". He was the most successful flying ace during World War I, being officially credited with 80 confirmed air combat victories.[1][2] He served in the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte). Richthofen was a member of an aristocratic family with many famous relatives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen And there are many more. Many, many more. | ||
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