This letter sent by a US Army sergeant in World War II to his mother has finally been delivered to his widow 76 years later after it got lost in the post. John Gonsalves, a then 22-year-old sergeant in the U.S. Army located in Bad Orb, a town in the…
This letter written by Empress Catherine the Great of Russia in 1787 advocating vaccination has been sold for USD 1.26 million after it was put up for auction together with a portrait of her. The portrait of the Russian Empress Catherine II - also known as Catherine the Great -…
A 1787 letter written by Catherine the Great encouraging a vaccination programme is set to go under the hammer with British auctioneers McDougall's. The letter is part of a lot that includes a portrait of the Russian Empress that has been valued at between GBP 800,000 and GBP 1.2 million.…
A 95-year-old German baroness cut her daughter out of her will and decided to give her estate worth millions to a lawyer - but her will has raised suspicions after it was shakily written "in old man writing" on a single sheet of paper. The baroness' adopted daughter sued and…
The Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime teams of Mugla Police Department have recovered a reportedly 3,000-year-old Torah that was destined to be sold on the black market. According to the local news site Hurriyet’s report, it was learned that a person identified only with initials, U.B, would be travelling to the…
A message claiming to be from a kidnapped woman and written on a piece of toilet paper has gone viral on social networks. The mysterious message was found in a department store in the city of Puebla, in the municipality of the same name, in the state of Puebla, located…
A highly-valuable Bible handwritten in Hebrew on gazelle skin that was looted in Syria has been found by Turkish cops. The handwritten book was looted from a museum in the Syrian city of Aleppo and was brought to Turkey where it was later put up for sale for USD 1,000,000…
Austrian police have pulled over a motorbike which had had the silencers removed to make it louder than a pneumatic drill and with the message "f*ck you Greta" written on the saddlebags. The motorbike was stopped by cops who registered that it was emitting 121 dB of sound, making it…
The first openly gay professional footballer in Argentina has revealed other gay footballers are not coming out "because they are afraid” but says hundreds have written to him since he came out. Argentine goalkeeper Nicolas Fernandez, 25, made the comments during an exclusive interview with local newspaper ‘Infobae’. The interview…
Convicted drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has reportedly written to the President of Mexico claiming he is being held in is “the most severe and horrific prison in the United States”. Guzman’s lawyer Juan Pablo Badillo told Mexican TV channel Univision that the drug lord had written a letter…