A 77-year-old man who had come to renew his passport was lost near JEM in Singapore with no phone, while his family searched all afternoon. ITE student Naira Maisara Binte Abdullah was about to cycle home. Instead, she walked him 30 minutes to his door.
Irishman Patrick Mohr’s gold wedding ring slipped off his finger into a fast mountain stream in Italy. Three Italian strangers roped themselves to boulders and dived for it until they found it nine days later, then flew to Ireland dressed as hobbits to give it back.
The night before Roze Mulen returned to her nursing job after two months away for her mental health, a cashier named Tim at the Trader Joe’s in Bloomington, Minnesota, asked how she was doing and actually listened. Then he walked away and came back with flowers and chocolates.
On a lonely holiday in Chengdu, a blind massage worker told his ride-hailing driver he wore sunglasses because his eyes were ugly. The driver’s four-word reply went viral, and now he has promised free rides to the man’s hometown.
A fatal crash closed Idaho’s Highway 21 an hour before Erich Thalacker and Kyla Dickey’s wedding. Elk hunter Garrett Kerr and a stranger named Jessica got them 16 miles around it on an electric pit bike and an ATV.
Ethan Woodhead, 24, traveled alone from Guernsey to run the Chicago Marathon. His uncle Phil asked strangers on Facebook to give him an occasional cheer, and on race day people lined the course with his name on homemade signs.
A 21-year-old moviegoer in Maryville, Tennessee, noticed 85-year-old Mary Ellen Eron working hard after 45 years in theaters. One TikTok and a GoFundMe later, more than 7,500 strangers had given $146,317.
When a car plunged into a lake in Plantation, Florida, a driver jumped in and bystanders threw a life ring. That ring was put there by a mother whose son died trying to save a stranger in 2022.
When a first-time backpacker got lost overnight in Arkansas’ Ouachita National Forest, a local woman who had never met him called in to work, grabbed her dog Buckey, and went looking. Now his family is thanking her.
A 26-year-old mom stopped to help a partially blind 88-year-old find a Diet Coke at a Texas gas station. A ride, a phone number and a belated birthday dinner later, their friendship has touched millions.