Richard Jenkins had an extremely unfortunate childhood. He grew up staying in homeless shelters, hospitals and motels with his family. While he didn’t ever get to have what most kids his age did, he managed to stay positive and use his misfortune to push him in the right direction. Jenkins was always embarrassed about his situation growing up. He has stated that he had to hide things from friends or lie about his living situation…
When Monalisa Perez and her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz were planning their next YouTube stunt, they never expected it to go so horribly wrong. Ruiz convinced his girlfriend that it would work out fine, but now she’s having to deal with the consequences of their actions. Monalisa Perez and Pedro Ruiz were a young couple from Halstad, Minnesota. Having become teenage parents early on in their relationship, they decided to start a YouTube channel named “La…
Relationships always have their ups and downs. This is due to many different factors. One very popular situation involves starting a relationship with someone who has kids while the other person does not. Beginning a life with someone who already has children isn’t something every person can handle. Many people see the start of a relationship as a time where the two can focus on each other. However, when kids are involved, things are…
A young Chick-fil-A manager was captured on surveillance video, leaping out the drive-thru window after a scene in a nearby car caught his attention. After spotting a child in the backseat, the manager realized something was wrong and flew into action. Now, his own heartbreaking back story has emerged. Logan Simmons, a 19-year-old manager at a Georgia Chick-fil-A, was inside the Flowery Branch location where he works one second and leaping out the drive-thru window…
Early one January morning in 2015, a knock on the door brought Bobby and Cheryl Love’s lives crashing down. “It was like I was in a movie — a Lifetime movie,” Cheryl described, and rightfully so: What happened when she opened the door sounds like something from a bad noir film. She didn’t notice how many cops there were until they were streaming past her and into the house. A stunned Cheryl watched as they…
The happenings of the last few hundred years have been well documented and corroborated, but what about those of the hundreds of years before then — or the thousands before that? With the truth of the distant past so delicately balanced on what little information we have, all it takes is a single revelation to completely rewrite history. For centuries, one common belief about a Mesoamerican society was held as absolute truth, shaping the study and understanding…
Anyone who says they enjoy doing chores is either lying or hasn’t ever spent their Sunday working through a mountain of limp, reeking laundry. Joy just seems to wilt and shrink into oblivion in the face of around-the-house efforts, and the worst of it is, the work never goes away. The list of dour duties has plagued us for far too long. As soon as you make your bed and take a nap to recharge,…
No matter how many centuries pass here on Earth, we’ll always be obsessed with space. Every galactic discovery leads to more questions than answers, and these questions take astronomical amounts of money and time to investigate. Because of this, many perplexing mysteries about our solar system alone have gone unanswered. Until now. Due to the lack of funding for space research, even theories are considered scientific breakthroughs nowadays, and scientists may have just shed light…
From the blossoming trees along the avenue to the chirping birds outside your window, you have Mother Nature to thank for most of the beauty you see around you. You also have her to thank for many of the most terrifying natural phenomena in the world. Harsh and unforgiving, this Turkmen desert features a natural aberration that’s been attracting attention for decades. While the bold and daring travel thousands of miles just to get a…
When Isaac Wright Jr. was handcuffed and shoved into the back of a police car, he didn’t worry too much. He knew he didn’t commit the crime authorities were accusing him of — or any crime for that matter. He was going to be a free man. But the second he set foot into the courtroom, Issac learned that he was not facing a fair trial; in fact, he’d walked face first into a grand…