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Unknown Heroes

A woman from Michigan was visiting Chicago, left her purse on a park bench, and some jerk tried to take it.  But two random women saw him rifling through it, wrestled the purse away, and left it at a nearby store. She walked into the store five minutes later looking for it, and the cashier said . . . THIS purse?  They told her the whole story, but she…
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Random Encounter Leads to Diagnosis

A cameraman for “CTV News” in Canada is undergoing a life-changing treatment, all thanks to a random encounter he had while out on assignment. He was putting a microphone on a neurosurgeon when she saw his hands shaking and said, “I can FIX that.”  He’s been suffering from a neurological condition called essential tremor since he was a teenager. She told him he’d need multiple surgeries to put electrodes in his brain.  He…
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Sharing the Good Stuff

A small school district in Ohio set up a microphone in the middle of the hallway, and invited students to share something GOOD that’s happened to them recently.  Like, “someone told me that my hair looked really pretty” . . . and “there’s a new girl at school today, and I think I made a new friend.” They created a montage of the responses and posted it on social media.