Have you heard a very interesting story lately?
Interesting stories happen all the time I guess, the strange, the unusual, the types of stories that bring a tear to your eye or make you laugh, think twice or even at times haunt you.
Like for e.g. this story.
The singer Sixto Rodriguez released an album in 1970 called ‘Cold Fact’ which received a less than enthusiastic response in the USA. I believe it sold only 6 copies.
Rodriguez, thinking his career aspirations were a waste of time went back to his job as handyman and laborer. Many that knew him said he reminded them of a ‘homeless guy’.
Unbeknown to him, his album was hitting the charts in two other countries, South Africa and Australia. He was famous for many years in these two countries.
The happy ending was that a South African fan, went about finding him and he was later brought out to SA and Australia to sing to adoring crowds some 25 years later. He was totally unaware of his fame and thought it all a joke when they found him and called him.
He had spent his life as an unknown in his own space and mind, living a frugal life and very much a hard life too, yet somewhere else he was famous and loved. How strange is that?
the documentary ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ was recently aired and won some awards too.
I’d love to hear any interesting stories you have experienced lately, it could be in your own life or something you read about that you found interesting.
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Quora is full of stories like these.
One question was “Have you ever seen a classmate get completely roasted by the teacher in high school?”
One of the answers:
“Yep. One of my students had a middle school science project to do, a report on some aspect of astronomy. His topic? Mars. The science teacher called him up to her desk, and asked him if he understood the assignment. He said he did. She asked him if his report on the planet Mars was his own work. He said it was. She had him read it to the class. It was a single cut-and-paste internet article on the history of the Mars candy company, makers of Mars Bars, m&ms, etc. He’d copied and pasted into a Word document and failed to read even the first sentence.”
Made me laugh a bit.
More on that here.
A story that has haunted me is the death of the young Canadian Lisa Lam who was found drowned in the water tank on the roof of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. It is a very strange case that has given rise to a lot of speculation. There is a video on YouTube showing her in the hotel lift shortly before she died.
@flutherother I know about that. The whole case is shrouded in mystery. They couldn’t figure out how did she get up there, and there was even some problems with her identity as well. The creepiest thing is that, several years earlier, there was a film about a death case in a hotel described identically as her case.
My older daughter has gradually begun to choose what I would term questionable “friends.” So over the last five years they have stolen the gate off her yard, most of her clothes, her washer and dryer, the copper wiring from her hot water heater but last night was the limit: someone stole her front door and winter is coming. Her younger sister said,” Í‘m not surprised. I’ve been hearing things like this for so many years I“m used to it. It’s her fault for choosing the wrong types of people.She deserves it and I don’t care one bit.”
Have you ever heard of a story like this ? This always happens when she stays at her boyfriend’s house for too long. Her house is watched and they pounce.
There’s your story.
@flutherother @Sneki95
The Lisa Lam case also deeply haunts me. The Cecil is about 15 miles from me, but I can’t get anyone to go down there with me, and I’m afraid to go alone. :(
@flutherother was that not ruled as a case of mental illness and suicide?
There is too much things that happened to call it a suicide. She was found naked in a closed tank, located very high and wery well secured. There is no evidence of anyone else, but it is basically impossible to go throigh several alarm systems, climb and open a giant tank, jump in and close it behind yourself. Also, her name is actually a name of some sort of illness.
It is not a basically new story, but it was interesting. A husband and wife missionary team went down to Central America, as they have one on frequent occasion. They take their motorhome and drive (surely a crazy idea to many). They got tired and it was getting late so they thought to hold up for the night. They drove into some little town, can’t quite remember if it was Mexico, El Salvador or Honduras. One of the locals told them it was a rough town and they would be better, AND SAFER, camping outside of town, they even suggested a perfect place. The missionaries took the advice and when to the location, set up camp for overnight. The next morning they stopped back into the town to get some provisions for the rest of the trip, the local who recommended the perfect place approached them and ask how they figured him out. Perplexed they asked him what he was speaking on. The local said I suggested that perfect place because it was secluded and it would be very easy to rob you. He said but when he and some of his posse went to the place to rob them, there were eight tall men guarding the perimeter of the camp, so they could not carry out the robbery. The missionaries told him they were traveling alone; they had no men with them. The local did not believe them. The missionaries proceeded on, and it was not until they were far away from the city that they realized what had happened, and how. Keep in mind, this story paraphrases a true event.
@LornaLove The investigators were convinced that no one else was involved which makes the case no less strange. Lisa Lam was a personable intelligent young woman who was behaving very strangely in the years leading up to her death. That interests me as it has never been properly explained. It was also of course deeply tragic for her and for her family.
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