In November 1942, the ocean swallowed the SS Benlomond in less than 120 seconds Amid the waves, a Chinese man named Poon Lim, second steward on board, managed to free himself from the wreckage and floated for hours until he found a wooden raft. It wasn't salvation, but limbo: biscuits, chocolate, sugar, a jug of water, a few flares, two funnels, and a flashlight. No company, no route, just the void of the Atlantic. The attack was the work of the German submarine U-172. Of the 54 crew members, only six managed to leave the ship. Lim was the only survivor. For 133 days, the sea was his only home. He caught birds, drank their blood, fished with improvised lines, faced a shark, hauled it aboard, killed it with a jug, and ate it. Every day was a pact with hunger, every night a duel with loneliness. When the Brazilian coast finally appeared on the horizon, Poon was a man, nine kilos lighter, but still able to walk. Local fishermen found him and helped him, but they didn't save him:...
On December 24, 2007, three generations were wiped out in the Carnation Massacre, which took place close to Carnation, Washington, a tiny rural community located 40 kilometers east of Seattle. The killings took place in Wayne Scott and Judy Anderson's house. Victims Of The Carnation Massacre Six family members lost their lives on the fateful day. Wayne Scott Anderson, 60, a Boeing engineer and husband of Judy Anderson Judy Anderson, 61, a postal worker, and wife of Wayne Scott Anderson Scott Anderson, 32, son of Wayne and Judy Erica Mantle Anderson, 32, wife of Scott Olivia Anderson, 5, daughter of Scott and Erica Nathan Anderson, 3, son of Scott and Erica Michele Kristen Anderson who was 29 was the younger sister of Scott Anderson. She claimed her brother owed her money and that her parents and brother had treated her unfairly. The Day Of The Crime According to report, on the afternoon of December 24, 2007, Joseph Thomas McEnroe and Michele Kristen Anders...