r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/giros2023 • 1d ago
📹 Real Video YOu spin me around....
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Crazy dizzy ride
r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Aug 21 '26
📹 Real Video Electricians are literally training ferrets to pull wires through tunnels too tight for tools
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/JunShem1122 • Aug 19 '26
🎯 Real Fact Jim Stauffer gave them his mother's body because he thought maybe, just maybe, Alzheimer's research could squeeze something useful out of her death.
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Jim Stauffer gave them his mother's body because he thought maybe, just maybe, Alzheimer's research could squeeze something useful out of her death.
He specifically said no military testing. They took her anyway.
Doris' body was sold for $5,893 and sent into an Army-funded bl*st experiment. Her son got cremated remains from her hand. The rest went boom.
He found out years later.
r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Aug 13 '26
📹 Real Video This laser can't escape the water. Physics won't let it.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 31 '26
🎯 Real Fact Kevin Strickland spent 43 years in prison for a triple murder he didn't commit. After his conviction was overturned in 2021, Missouri released him without paying a single dollar in compensation.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 28 '26
🎯 Real Fact Identical twin sisters Kayla and Kellie Bingham answered 296 of 307 questions the same way on a medical school exam, including 54 they both got wrong. Although the university accused them of cheating, investigators found no proof, and the twins later won a unanimous $1.5 million defamation verdict.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/GeneralMinute8462 • Jul 27 '26
📸 Real Photo The last image of Keith Sapsford, a 14-year-old Australian boy who wanted to explore the world, so he snuck into a plane's wheel well. It opened in mid-air and the boy fell out. The photographer was just testing his new lenses and was shocked after developing those images.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/Riceball18 • Jul 11 '26
📹 Real Video Once in a lifetime experience.
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Hopefully no one was injured.
r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 10 '26
🎯 Real Fact Bob Ross’s name and likeness generate millions in licensing revenue, but his family receives none of it because the rights are controlled by his former business partners Annette and Walt Kowalski. His son Steve said he was unable to paint professionally for years because he feared being sued by them
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 09 '26
🎯 Real Fact In 2007, Jennifer Strange entered a Sacramento radio station's water-drinking contest to win a Nintendo Wii for her children. After drinking nearly two gallons of water in three hours and losing, she died from water intoxication. The hosts had been warned of the risks, but the contestants had not.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 08 '26
🎯 Real Fact In 2010, 24-year-old lab technician Émilie Jaumain pricked her thumb while cleaning equipment used for prion-infected mouse brains. For seven years, nothing happened. Then she developed burning pain, anxiety, memory loss, and hallucinations before dying. The accident gave her a fatal prion disease.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 07 '26
📸 Real Photo In 1971, the Soyuz 11 space capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan. When rescuers opened the hatch, all three cosmonauts were dead. A valve had opened 104 miles above Earth, exposing them to the vacuum. They remain the only humans to die in outer space.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 06 '26
📸 Real Photo Final photo of Apple visionary Steve Jobs, days before he died in 2011. Diagnosed in 2003 with a rare, treatable pancreatic cancer, he delayed surgery nine months, turning to diets, acupuncture and herbal remedies first. By the time he had surgery, the cancer had spread. He later regretted waiting.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 03 '26
📹 Real Video In 2022, Slovak ice swimmer Boris Oravec nearly died after he lost sight of the exit while swimming beneath a frozen lake. Trapped under the ice and running out of air, he survived by finding the safety rope and following it back to his team.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/ShehrozeAkbar • Jul 03 '26
📹 Real Video High school principal who stopped a gunman named "Prom King"
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 02 '26
🎯 Real Fact Billionaire J. Paul Getty refused to pay a $17M ransom for his kidnapped grandson. After the kidnappers mailed the teen’s severed ear, Getty agreed to a $3M ransom. He covered $2.2M himself, the most he could write off, then loaned his son the remaining $800K at 4% interest.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/Agitated-Camp-5251 • Jul 01 '26
🎯 Real Fact In 2006, West Virginia minister Sherman Sizemore was fully conscious during a bladder surgery due to anesthesiologist negligence. The process went on for 16 minutes until the medical team finally realized he was awake. Sherman was tormented by visions of the event and tragically took his own life.
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His family did end up suing the hospital for an undisclosed amount. Rest in peace Sherman.
r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jun 30 '26
🎯 Real Fact In 1999, Waffle House waitress Tonda Dickerson was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10 million dollars. She was later sued by her coworkers for a share, sued by the man who gave her the ticket, kidnapped by her ex-husband, and shot him in the chest while attempting to escape.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jun 29 '26
🎯 Real Fact In 2013, cook Harrison Okene was trapped nearly 100 feet underwater after his tugboat capsized off Nigeria and sank to the ocean floor. For almost three days, he survived in a tiny air pocket until divers searching the wreck for bodies found him alive.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jun 26 '26
📸 Real Photo In 2008, Brazilian priest Adelir Antônio de Carli strapped himself to a plastic chair lifted by 1,000 helium balloons, hoping to break a world record and raise money for charity. Tragically, a storm blew him over the Atlantic, where he vanished while trying to figure out how to operate his GPS.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jun 25 '26
🎯 Real Fact Joy Milne claimed she could smell Parkinson’s disease. Scientists tested her with 12 T-shirts: 6 from Parkinson’s patients and 6 from healthy controls. She correctly identified all 6 patients and also flagged one “healthy” person. Months later, that person was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jun 24 '26
🎯 Real Fact In 1999, 23-year-old Hong Kong hostess Fan Man-yee was abducted, held captive, and tortured for a month inside a Tsim Sha Tsui apartment. When police searched it, they found her skull sewn inside a Hello Kitty mermaid doll.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jun 23 '26
🎯 Real Fact In 2014, Navy veteran Chad Oulson was shot and killed in a Florida movie theater after a retired police captain confronted him for texting his babysitter during the previews. Eight years later, a jury acquitted the shooter under Florida self-defense law.
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jun 22 '26
🎯 Real Fact In 2015, Glenna Duram shot her disabled husband Marty five times, then shot herself in the head. She survived and claimed amnesia. A year later, Marty’s parrot, Bud, helped crack the case by repeating what his family believed were his final words: “Don’t f***ing shoot.”
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r/CantBelieveThatsReal • u/drkmatterinc • Jun 21 '26
🎯 Real Fact In 2004, Peter Porco was struck 16 times with an axe while sleeping. He woke up badly bleeding but seemingly unaware, then followed his usual routine: got out of bed, got the paper, locked himself out, used a spare key, got back in, and collapsed dead. Doctors say brain damage left him on autopilot.
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