There is something to be said about having the skill, drive, and tenacity to track something, even when it is very difficult to do so. Once upon a time, your ability to hunt and track could be the difference between life and death. These days, it is less important for most of us, but there are also different ways a person can track and hunt a target. Sometimes, people can still go beyond what is reasonable to find what or who they are looking for.
10. Tiger tracks down poacher after being shot
It’s easy to underestimate how big Russia is and how diverse its wildlife can be. This is a land where you can find bears, wolves and tigers in relatively close quarters, or at least you used to. The Siberian or Amur tiger has suffered great losses, but the big cats are still around and are excellent hunters. Ask Vladimir Markov , if you have a Ouija board.
In 1997, Markov was poaching to make ends meet. Tigers were and remain big business for some people, who can earn up to $50,000 on one . Based on what he could establish after the fact, Markov tracked down the tiger that had made the kill and shot the cat. The tiger, wounded but by no means dead, ran away. Markov took it to kill.
In a remarkable but horrifying twist, the tiger seemed to take this very personally. It later tracked Markov to his home and destroyed his belongings, then waited outside for him to return. The timeline suggests this took anywhere from 12 to 48 hours, meaning it wasn’t just an impulsive act of following Markov home. The cat had it planned.
When Markov was later found, it was said that a tiger had dragged him into the forest and eaten him. His boots were found with bone fragments sticking out of them. Near his head there was no face anymore The arm was missing and the femur had been eaten clean.
9. Catwoman tracked down a real man in photographs
In one of the most bizarre stories about catching catfish Emma Perrier met a man on Zoosk who turned out to be a scammer. In reality, the handsome young Italian she thought she was talking to was a much older British man pretending to be her. After months of being dragged along and never agreeing to meet, she spentreverse image search and discovered that his photos were of a Turkish model. And that's where things get weird.
Perrier, still not understanding what was going on, began stalking the model. She found his social media and the agency he worked through. Her fake friend said it was really him; he just used a fake name sometimes. Eventually, he screwed up enough that she caught him, and in response, she texted the real man in the photos to warn him that his face was being used to scam women.
The model responded and they video-chatted to discuss it. Then they introduced themselves and got to know each other. Much later, they even met in person, as her fake relationship of a year pushed her to get to know the real man and find out that he was much better. The two fell in love.
8. Vitaly Kaloev tracked down the man he blamed for the death of his family
Few tales of revenge are more brutal than the one about a Russian man who lost his family and decided to make those responsible pay in blood. In 2002, Vitaly Kaloyev's wife and children were killed in a mid-air collision that took lives of 71 people over Switzerland. By 2007, four air traffic control employees had been convicted of manslaughter. The only person noticeably absent was Peter Nielsen, the only employee actually working at the time of the accident.
Kaloyev tracked down Nilsen after his family's death. It was 2004, almost two years after Nilsen had left his job. During the trial, it was said that Kaloyev's intention was not to kill Nilsen, but to force him to look at pictures of his dead children and apologize. But Nilsen refused, which enraged Kaloyev, who had grabbed a knife. After tracking him across Europe, he grabbed and stabbed him to death on his lawn in front of his own wife and children.
Kaloyev received only five years in prison for the murder, but more remarkably, he was greeted upon his return home as a hero .
7. Teddy Roosevelt hunted the men who stole his boat on an icy river.
The legend of Teddy Roosevelt is unlike any other president in history. The man was like a proto-Crocodile Dundee, known as a hunter, a fighter, and an all-around macho, tough guy. There’s a picture of him riding a moose. And while it’s debatable how many of the stories about his tough-guy exploits are true, some certainly ring true, including one nasty tale about what happened when someone stole his boat.
As Roosevelt recounted, this was just at the moment when the ice on the Missouri River was just beginning to melt. in 1886, when three thieves stole his boat and made off with it. Roosevelt was a deputy sheriff at the time, and, strongly suspecting that he already knew who had taken the boat, he began tracking it down. But how do you track a boat if someone has stolen it? You build a new one.
Roosevelt and his two comrades literally built a completely new boat , albeit a simple, flat-bottomed boat, to track down the thieves and their stolen goods. It took a couple of days just to build the boat, and then another three days to track the men down the river. When they were finally caught, the river was still too dangerous due to broken ice to return with the prisoners in tow, so Roosevelt brought them overland to surrender them.
6. An Arizona man became Santa Claus for a little girl in Mexico.
How far would you go to make a complete stranger's dreams come true? In 2018, Randy Heiss was hiking in Arizona when he discovered an old hot air balloon with a note attached. The note was a numbered list written in Spanish Hayes' wife was able to translate it, and they realized that the letter to Santa had been written by a little girl in Mexico. It was her Christmas list.
All Heiss had was the little girl's name. He posted the list online, assuming it probably came from Nogales, Mexico , about 20 miles away, and contacted a local radio station. It took them an hour to get a lead.
The radio station contacted the family, and then Heiss and his wife arranged to meet at the station some time later. They arrived with all the gifts on the girl's list.
5. The author traveled 500 miles to find the person who gave him a bad review of his book.
One thing any novelist has to get used to is less-than-favorable reviews. Every writer, from Dickens to Shakespeare to Stephen King to George R.R. Martin, now has online reviews that will drag them through the mud. Nobody likes everything. A writer has to take it in stride. Richard Britten didn’t.
Brittain, then 28, posted the book on Wattpad. An 18-year-old woman reviewed it and didn't like it much. She called it amateurish. . Brittain responded by first writing a whole blog about it, then stalking the woman on Facebook. That's extreme, but his next move was to stalk her at work in real life, 500 miles away, drive there, and hit her over the head with a bottle of wine. He never even talked to her He was later sentenced to 30 months imprisonment.
4. 50 years later, Eric Lomax tracked down the Japanese soldier who tortured him
The story of Eric Lomax is one that most people find hard to believe, and it spans decades. During World War II, Lomax, a British Army officer, was captured by the Japanese. Takashi Nagase was a translator working for the soldiers who tortured Lomax and forced him and others to build a railway between Bangkok and Rangoon.
In 1995 two men met again , for the first time since the war. Torturer and victim met in Scotland after Lomax tracked the man down. He spent years dealing with his anger and trauma over what happened to him, but when he met Nagase, he forgave the man for what he had done.
3. 101-Year-Old Message in a Bottle Traced to Sender's Grandson
A message in a bottle is something most of us are familiar with as a concept, even if we’ve never seen one in real life. People do find them at sea from time to time, but it’s something of a novelty, especially these days. However, perhaps the most dramatic message in a bottle story happened in 2014, when a fisherman found a floating 101 year old message in a beer bottle.
The message, written in German, was traced back to the sender's granddaughter with the help of the National Maritime Museum Richard Platz The granddaughter never saw her grandfather; he died in 1946 when he was 54 years old.
2. Man Tracks Down Who Killed Him in Video Game
How do you approach games? Do you keep a cool head and play methodically? Do you grit your teeth and curse at the screen when things go wrong? Do you fly into a rage and threaten other players? Or do you do like Julien Barraud and spend months tracking down the person who killed you — in a game, mind you — only to stab them in real life?
Barro played in Counter-Strike , when another player named Mikhail stabbed his character with a knife . He was so furious about this that he tracked down the man's whereabouts and found that he lived just a few miles away. The plot took place six months later, six months after he was killed in the game, and he went to the man's house with a kitchen knife and knocked on the door.
Mikhail opened the door, and Barro immediately stabbed him in the chest. He simply missed the man's heart Barro was later arrested and sentenced to two years in prison.
1. The writer spent a whole year looking for an ugly naked guy friends
If you were a fan of 90s sitcoms, you'll remember something called "Friends" . It ran for 10 seasons and is still considered one of the best sitcoms of all time. It also introduced a host of unusual supporting characters, including the infamous Ugly Naked Guy.
The "ugly naked guy" was a running gag on the show, referring to a man the cast could see from the windows or balcony of one apartment - a man across the street who was always naked and, well, ugly. We never saw him on screen, at least not fully, but in a couple of episodes he was seen from the side or from behind, so his face was never revealed. But years later Author Huffington Post wanted to know who this guy was. And it turned out that the answer was very vague.
No one remembered who the Ugly Naked Guy was. The actor most often credited for playing the character denied it was him. The show's casting agency had no information, and even the man who created Friends couldn't remember.
It took the screenwriter a full year to track down the real deal after receiving a tip from a producer and then going back to the casting agency. The real actor, John Haugen , was just a random addition they needed to fill the space.
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