
Decades after 70 men disappeared on the USS Grunion, a Navy submarine, their families kept searching. See photos of the remarkable search.
Shark! How One Surfer Survived an Attack
When a two-ton predator caught surfer Todd Endris in its jaws, an unlikely group of swimmers came to his rescue.
By Cathy Free in Reader's Digest - July 2008
A family's dream trip turns into a nightmare.
By Kenneth Miller in Reader's Digest - July 2006
Sometimes when lightning strikes, you're not even safe indoors.
By Lisa Collier Cool in Reader's Digest - June 2006
At the crest of a hill in Kansas City, Missouri, in the old stone house on Grandview Road where he had been born, Donin Wright and his girlfriend, Janet Clark, held loaded rifles. ...
By Anita Bartholomew in Reader's Digest - March 2005
They expected to be home by midnight. But when a blizzard blew in, Tom and Tamitha Garner's pilgrimage to photograph a herd of mustangs turned into a fight for survival.
By Kenneth Miller in Reader's Digest - June 2008
It was the perfect gift for his dad -- an adventure on an Alaska river. Until they capsized in icy water.
By Andrea Cooper in Reader's Digest - November 2003
The Heroes of the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
When the bridge started to groan, and the pillars of concrete and steel twisted and crumbled in a terrible roar, these people rushed in to help.
By Christopher W. Davis in Reader's Digest - November 2007
Don Schoendorfer invented the world's cheapest wheelchair to give away to those in need.
What would you do if your family and your home became a target?
By Melba Newsome in Reader's Digest - August 2006