Everyone's Got A Story To Tell

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There’s an old saying that everyone’s got a book in them. But it is just that, a saying. Because in reality most people would struggle to write a few pages let alone write a complete book and fill it with stories that would make it interesting from beginning to end. However even though most people would struggle to write a complete book, everyone, no matter who they are or what walk of life they come from has got at least one story they could tell that someone else would find interesting, be it funny, sad, moving, inspiring or bizarre.

Everyone’s Got A Story To Tell is a collection of such stories, written by ordinary people. Though their stories are far from ordinary…

Stories include

Why You Should Always Make Sure Your Tent Is Zipped Up At Night When Camping In The Jungle

John, a Marine in the United States Army, was on an expedition in South East Asia, and in the middle of the night he and the rest of his unit were woken by frantic screams of “Help” and “Get it off me!” coming from one of the tents. And when they ran to their friend’s aide and ripped his tent open they couldn’t quite believe what they saw; their friend was being swallowed alive by an 18ft python.

I Saw My Dad Commit Suicide And Twenty Five Years Later My Best Friend Did Exactly The Same Thing To Me

When Kieran was thirteen when he came home from school one day and his dad asked him to go to the shops to get some flowers for his mum, which he did. And when he returned he found his dad hanging from the loft hatch with a rope around his neck. His dad had committed suicide knowing his son would be the one that found him. And, as the title of his story says, years later his best friend did the same thing – he’d hung himself knowing that Kieran would be the one who would find him. This is one of the stories in the book to do with mental health which Mick received a letter off Prince William regarding. (HRH Prince William is part of the Heads Together mental health charity.)

Would You Like Vegetables With Your Dinner Mr Billionaire? Yes, I would. And Make Sure The Asparagus Is The ‘Right Way Up’ On My Plate (And If It’s Not You’ll Be Sacked On The Spot)

Some people get sacked for being persistently late. Some people get sacked for bad workmanship. And others get the chop if they step out of line when they’re on their final warning. And some people get sacked for putting asparagus ‘upside down’ on a plate! Lucy’s business involves providing staff to the mega rich, the sort who won’t bat an eye lid at spending £4,000 on a cardigan for their 4yr old daughter, spend £15,000 on a bed, spend £50,000 on Christmas decorations and give their wives a £70,000 a year handbag allowance. They also won’t bat an eyelid at sacking a servant on the spot for putting asparagus on their plate with the tips facing the wrong way to how they like them. Welcome to the world of the super rich.

Did Our Dogs Know Something Awful Was Going To Happen To My Husband?

Jean always thought it was ‘poppycock’ that dogs had a sixth sense and that they could sense danger. But she now thinks very differently. Her three dogs started behaving very strangely one day as her husband was about to go to work and they tried to prevent him from leaving the house. Then later that night at 10.20pm they began howling and barking and wailing which she thought was very strange indeed. Little did she know that at 10.22pm her husband would be killed in a road traffic accident on his way home from work.

The Most Barbaric Act I’ve Ever Reported On

Envisage being tied to a chair and forced to watch as a loved one is shot dead in front of you. Then envisage standing by their grave at their funeral and seeing them being buried and imagine how much heartache you’d be going through. And now envisage opening your front door one morning two weeks after you’d buried them and seeing their corpse propped up against a wall opposite your house. It’d be pretty horrendous wouldn’t it? Well imagine how it must feel to be forced to watch not just one loved one being shot dead in front of you, but being forced to watch as every single member of your family - including your wife, your kids, your grandchild and your mum and dad - are shot dead in front of you, and then seeing ALL their corpses outside your house when you open your front door one morning. Well one poor guy doesn’t have to imagine how that would feel. He knows how it feels, because it happened to him. And it’s the kind of thing that happens when you cross the Mexican drug cartels.

Ozzy Osbourne Helps Me Escape From My Graveyard

Due to his depression, the guy in this story was on the verge of committing suicide and if it wasn’t for him hearing Ozzy Osbourne’s song Under The Graveyard on the radio - in which Ozzy sings about the time he thought about taking his own life - he probably would have done it. The bizarre thing is that this guy had no reason whatsoever to be depressed. He had a well paid job. He was happily married with three beautiful kids. He had no money worries. And he and his family were financially secure. But one morning he woke up and Bang! It hit him. And he’s suffered with bouts of depression ever since. The mind certainly works in peculiar ways – as his story shows. This is another of the stories to do with mental health which Mick received a letter off Prince William regarding.

Justice With A Grave Outcome

People often say that if anyone ever harmed their kids they’d kill them but the truth is that most people who say it wouldn’t actually do it even if they got the chance and that's because there’s a big difference between saying it and doing it. However some people DO mean it. Also, for some, simply killing the person responsible for harming their kid isn't enough. They want to make them suffer first. And when someone attacked this man’s friend’s daughter not only did they make the perpetrator suffer they made him suffocate – by burying him alive. They were also assisted by a serving police officer who tipped them off to the man’s whereabouts after a fellow officer’s daughter had been molested by the same man.

My Daughter Tries To Kill Me When I’m Asleep At Night

There’s always been a history of sleepwalking in Hannah’s family. She used to do it. Her brother used to do it. And her father used to do it as well. And now Hannah’s daughter does it too. The difference is that when Hannah, her brother and her father used to sleepwalk they never tried to kill anyone whilst doing it, whereas her daughter has tried to kill Hannah on several occasions whilst she’s been asleep in bed herself. Including by hitting her over the head with the bedside lamp and by wrapping the flex of the lamp around Hannah’s neck trying to throttle her with it. But the most frightening time was when Hannah woke up to find her daughter stood by the bed holding a pair of scissors with both hands above her head as though she was about to sacrifice her.

On The Right Track - To Instant Death

It’s every train drivers worst nightmare: seeing someone take their own life by jumping in front of their train. Unfortunately for Terry from Kingston Upon Thames it’s happened to him three times. And on the third occasion one man even wanted to ‘fight’ his train, and he stood in the middle of the track, rolled up his sleeves, clenched his fists and drew his arm back to throw a punch. But there’s only ever going to be one winner when a thirteen stone man squares up to a 200 tonne diesel locomotive that’s hurtling towards him at 100mph. (This story also relates to mental health issues.)

The Man Who Has Saved The Lives Of Over Two And A Half Million Babies

The name James Harrison won’t be a name that’s familiar to 99% of women. But if you’ve got children and you gave birth to them from around the mid 1960’s onwards and during your pregnancy you were diagnosed with Rhesus disease then you’ve got this man to thank for your child being born safely because it was his blood – and his subsequent one thousand blood donations, which is a record – that helped find a cure for a disease that caused thousands of babies to die every year or be born with irreversible brain damage, and through his donations James Harrison has helped prevent the deaths of literally millions of babies worldwide.

The Democratic Republic of Congo: Hell on Earth

Be prepared to be shocked when you read this story. We said that some of the stories in the book are horrific and this UN worker’s story is one of them. The atrocities and monstrous acts she has seen carried out by rebels and so called ‘armies’ in the DRC beggars belief. She tells of how one girl was gang raped by a group of around forty rebels and after they’d raped her they cut her arm off just above her elbow and forced it into her vagina so that just the hand was sticking out. They then all stood around her laughing whilst videoing it on their phones. Another girl was gang raped whilst her dad was forced to watch and afterwards they forced her dad to rape her too and said that if he didn’t they’d shoot them both dead. Boys have also been forced to rape their own sisters and rape their own mums and one teenage boy who was forced to rape his own mum was shot in the back of the head whilst doing it and died on top of her. Witchcraft and cannibalism is also commonplace. It really is hell on earth - yet governments from around the world turn a blind eye to it.

Was Likeable Larry Lunching Alone Or Lobbing His Loved Ones Limbs In The Lake?

When she was younger, Pat, from Cumbria, used to work for a boat hire company on Lake Windermere and every Wednesday ‘Likeable Larry’ as they nicknamed him and his wife ‘Battle-Axe Brenda’ as they nicknamed her - due to her constant nagging and belittling of her husband - used to hire a boat and go out onto the lake and have lunch. Then one Wednesday Larry turned up alone and said that his wife was poorly at home and he went out onto the lake for lunch by himself. And he turned up the following day too – and for the next four days after that as well. And each time he took a parcel that was wrapped in black plastic out of his picnic hamper and dropped it into the water in the middle of the lake. And then Pat never saw him again. WAS Larry lunching alone? And is Battle-Axe Brenda now lying at the bottom - of various parts - of Lake Windermere?

Buggered If I Know What Happened

Vicky has seen some strange sights during her time working on reception at A&E at her local hospital, none stranger than the night a man came walking in with half a cucumber stuck in his anus. And when he told her how it got there she and her colleagues could hardly contain themselves. The man told her that he liked to cook in the nude and he said that as he was making a salad he knocked the cucumber off the kitchen work top and as he grabbed it he slipped on some cooking oil that he’d spilt on the floor and his leg gave way and he fell and landed on his backside with his hand that had the cucumber in it underneath him and the cucumber went up his bum! Hmmm.... You can make your own minds up on that one after you’ve read it!

Everyone's Got A Story To Tell

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