15 More True Stories That Sound Completely Made Up

In 1835 a man fired two pistols at the President of the United States from a few feet away, and both misfired. In 1939 America built a giant red snow machine to conquer Antarctica, and it got stuck in the first snow it met. A Cuban cow got her own marble statue. A sailor survived 76 days in a rubber raft. A quiet Kansas farm became "the center of the internet" by accident. These are fifteen true stories, every one of them on the record, and every one of them a little hard to believe. Settle in, this one runs about an hour and forty minutes. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:56 The President Who Fought Back With His Cane 7:45 The Giant on Wheels That Got Lost in Antarctica 14:59 The Cow With Her Own Statue 20:44 Seventy-Six Days in a Rubber Raft 27:33 The Miser Who Died in a Sack 33:39 The Man Who Supposedly Would Not Die 41:11 The Officer Who Went to War With a Sword 48:03 The Farm at the Center of the Internet 54:05 The Astronomer With a Metal Nose 1:00:54 The Name Nobody Could Pronounce 1:06:35 The Soldier Who Swallowed the Whole Supply 1:12:22 The Castle Defended by Both Sides 1:19:56 The Bomb Nobody Could Defuse 1:27:10 The Man in the Queen's Bedroom 1:32:46 Six Boys on an Empty Island Which story surprised you the most? Tell us in the comments, and subscribe for more true stories every week. Visuals in this video are AI-generated reconstructions for illustration; the stories are drawn from historical records, newspaper archives and published accounts. #TrueStories #History #UnbelievableButTrue