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I wanted to take a bit of a different turn for this episode.
This will probably be hato parter. I'm not one hundred percent sure yet,
but Mother's Day just happened yesterday from when I'm recording this, and I wanted
to do something special for all the moms out there and everybody that loves their
mom. You know, everybody does what most people do. I'm so sorry
if you don't, but I wanted to take today to recognize some superhero moms.
A quick warning before we get into it, some of these are a
little bit graphic. I am definitely going to mispronounce things and I'm probably going
to swear. So if any of that bothers, you feel free to skip
over today's episode. But if that's all fine with you, we'll get right
into it. Today We're going to be talking about thirteen superhero moms. A
mother's love is something that is really unique. It's something that can completely change
the way we think, the way we feel, the way we act.
There's even been studies done on animals where when confronted with something that fight or
flight is usually a freeze or run. But as a mom, if their
babies are around, they go into fight mode. They don't freeze, They
go into fight mode to try to protect their young. This is the same
with human moms too. There's something about being a mom that makes you okay
with risking your life to protect your children. This first woman we're going to
talk about risk her life to save her children from a house fire. The
stories I'm getting today are all from different articles. I will say where I'm
getting them as i'm going through, and I'm going right from the article as
well. This is from people dot com and it was written by Jason Duane
Hahn, mom of three who almost died saving her children from house fire,
recovers and weds their father. A Washington mother has made an incredible recovery after
experiencing horrific third degree burns to her body last year while saving her children from
a house fire. When Angel Fiorini woke up in her home around midnight on
October twenty eighth, twenty sixteen, she found herself struggling to breathe. She
mustered the strength to rise from her bed and open her bedroom door. She
stood in front of a terrifying sight. Her home was on fire and engulfed
in thick smoke, with her three children, Gianna, Vinnie, and Rosalie
inside. It was really hot already, even though it was on the opposite
side of the house. Fiorini, thirty three, of Spokane, Washington,
tells people, I just knew I had to get out. Fiorini placed her
youngest children, Vinnie four and Rizsiie, two, in each arm and rushed
them to safety outside, but the fire was spreading quickly with Gianna eight still
in her room. In that moment, the smoke being so thick and so
black, in the fire moving as fast as it was, I had no
idea how I would get back there, Fiorini explains, crediting her strength in
those moments to her faith in God. There was no way that I was
going to stand outside my house watching it burn with her inside. There was
nobody to call for help, and I knew that I was the only one
who knew where she was in the house, and waiting wasn't an option.
With her living room in flame, Fiorini laid on her stomach to maneuver through
the thick smoke. To reach Gianna, I couldn't go in with eyes open
between that heat and the smoke, so it was almost an army crawl across
the ground, she recalls. I crawled toward the bedroom door and had to
feel my way into her doorway. Once she reached Gianna, Fiorini dragged her
from the room to the front door, as the fire had torched her limbs.
She says, her skin melted off onto the doorknob as she attempted to
escape through the front door. She passed out just feet from the front entrance,
and by chance, a volunteer firefighter passing by rushed in to pull them
from the flames. When Fiorini regained consciousness outside, she helplessly watched her home
and belongings turned to ash. Her then boyfriend of fifteen years and father to
her children, Aaron, was out and unaware of what had happened. Gianna
and I had skin charred, melting hanging off of our arms and our hands,
Fiorini remembers. The heroic rescue loved Fiorini and Gianna with third degree burns
to much of their bodies, and they were soon admitted to the burn center
at University of Washington School of Medicine's Harbor View Medical Center. Thanks to her
mom's bravery, little Gianna escaped with injuries less severe than her mother's, who
had almost half of her body burned. Doctors wrapped Fiorini's arms in thick bandages
and placed her on a ventilator to breathe. I remember waking up and being
really angry that I couldn't move my arms or talk, she says. I
remember trying to tell people around me that I needed my arms down and I
needed something to drink, but I couldn't say anything. All I could say
was arg those. She contracted bacterial pneumonia and experienced a pulmonary embolism that almost
killed her during her admittance. Fearing, He returned home five weeks later on
December second. To her surprise, her community quickly banded together to relieve some
of the family struggles. Local businesses give to them a car and a couch,
others raised thousands of dollars, and one family generously gave them a mobile
home to live in. Oh go fund me page has been set up for
the family for anyone who wants to lend their support. Still fearing, he
said she struggles with accepting so much help. I think it's a natural thing
for a lot of people to have a hard time receiving things. Even though
we lost everything, I just couldn't really put together why so many people had
come together and donated so much stuff. People lose their house and fires pretty
often, and it was hard for me to comprehend why we were being so
blessed. Aaron took the lead on Fiorini's wound care, changing her dressing every
day as she recovered. Although they had been together for fifteen years and we're
content with not officially tying the knat, Aaron proposed to Fiorini on January twentieth,
and they married on July twenty eighth. Fiorini and Gianna have made tremendous
emotional and physical strides in their recoveries since the night that changed their lives.
We don't really talk about it very much now, but Gianna did in the
very beginning. Fiorini says, I think that might have been really healing for
her, being able to open up in the first couple of months about her
feelings and what had happened in her experiences. According to the National Fire Protection
Agency, more than twenty five hundred people die a year in the US from
house fires. Fiorini says she didn't have a working smoke detector at the time
of the fire, and the cause of the blaze is still undetermined. Today,
she's aiming to raise awareness about fire safety and remind people to check their
alarms. I have a really strong desire to make a difference from all of
this. My life wasn't just spared for no reason fearing, he says,
it's something that gives me strength knowing what I've overcome and what I've been able
to fight through. I thought that was an amazing story. Something instinctual in
us makes us not want to be that close to fire, even if we
like fire and we like sitting around a fire, if our house is in
flames, we don't want to go back in there. Many people don't go
back in for anything. But this woman went through this whole house that was
engulfed in flames to say her eight year old daughter. There are pictures of
her online that you can see again. Her name is angel Fiorini, f
Io r I and I. She looks beautiful in her wedding dress, her
kids look happy, her husband looks happy. She does have discards from the
burns, but I mean, that's a small price to pay to still have
your daughter. Now. This next one, a woman also gave something up
in order to save her children. This is again from people dot com and
it's by Nicole Wise and c Egan. The title of this article people Icons
mom who saved her children from tornado has no regrets about losing her legs.
It was my time to step up. It's been five years since Stephanie Decker
made the life altering decision to save her kids instead of herself when a tornado
ripped through their town of Henryville, Indiana, and the devoted mom says she
has no regrets about losing both of her legs in the process. I don't
even think twice about it, says Decker, who appears on People Icons Heroes
and Survivors on Tuesday, March fourteenth, at ten pm. This was a
couple of years ago, by the way, so you're not gonna be able
to watch just you might be able to see it on YouTube. Though I
wouldn't change it for a million bucks. Things happened for a reason. It
was my time to step up. On March second two and twelve. Stephanie
now forty two, had just made it home with her two children, Dominic
eight and Reese, five, when the wind really started picking up, so
they made their way to the basement. I looked up and I saw her
tramp lane that was staked into the ground go flying across the yard, she
says. Then the entire house started to shake. I became petrified at that
point, and one of the windows busted in. So she took a blanket,
wrapped her children in it, and laid down on top of them.
I watched the foundations separate from the house and lift up, she says.
The F four tornado with one hundred and seventy five mile an hour winds was
tearing through their home. She looked up and saw a twenty foot steel beam,
which had been holding their house together, falling toward her. I could
see it in slow motion, she says. I was covered in bricks and
stones. I could let go of them, move the stuff off me,
and get away from that beam. I chose to let the beam fall instead
of letting go of my kids. The feeling was I'd rather get my arms
ripped off instead of letting go of them. Instead, her legs were crushed.
But that wasn't all. Now she was trapped with the beam on her
legs, and there was another tornado, this one and f two headed their
way that ripped a pillar off of their home. The pillar was coming straight
from my daughter's head, she says. Now that I only have upper body
movement, I can't cover them. So I'm twisting back and forth taking the
brunt of the flying debris. I twisted my body and it broke eight ribs
and punctured my lung. But her daughter was safe. After her kids ran
for help, she made a pledge and knew if I could get out of
here, I would somehow try to make some kind of impact, she says.
One year after the tornado, she started the Stephanie Decker Foundation, which
has helped two hundred and fifty children who have lost limb attend a local sports
camp. She also travels across the country as a motivational speaker. She and
her husband, Joe forty seven, a high school math teacher and baseball coach,
did not rebuild their home. They now live about fifteen minutes away in
Sellersburg, Indiana. Stephanie recently took up running with special prosthetics and hopes to
one day beyond dancing with stars. I love the impossible, she says,
that's my forte I am like speechless over this. Tornadoes I don't think scare
me much. But we don't really get a ton of them here. They've
popped up, I mean, definitely, But why I live up here in
northeastern Ohio, they're not quite super common. I don't know if it's because
we don't have as flat of a terrain as a lot of places. I'm
very close to Pennsylvania here, so Pennsylvania is known for all the hills and
everything it has. Maybe that's part of it. We did have a tornado
come through this part of Ohio, I think in eighty five. I'm not
one hundred percent sure if that's right. I'm pretty sure that's right. Eighty
five or eighty six. That was before I was even born. My mom
was a teenager then and she kind of remembers it. My grandma remembers it.
But I think that was the last like actual tornado we had, real,
real close to me. I couldn't imagine knowing that a tornado is coming,
watching your house be ripped from the ground, and knowing that you have
to protect your two children. All of these things that all of these women
have done are like every mother's worst fear. So I am so sorry if
this is like panic inducing, But we are going to move on to another
mom who did something amazing. Again, all of these moms are amazing.
This is from ABC News and it was written by Karma Allen, And this
is a little more recent than the other ones. This is from last year,
twenty nineteen. Woman says mom instinct took over when she fought off cougar
attacking her son. Now, when I was looking up some of these articles,
there are a few attacks that do seem to be way more prevalent than
others. Cougars, mountain lions, and crocodiles and alligators seemed to be very
common occurrences to where moms need to jump into action. I came across quite
a few articles with that. But this Canadian woman said her mom instincts took
over last week when she fought off a cougar that mulled her seven year old
son in their backyard. Chelsea Lockhart was doing household chores on Friday afternoon when
she heard her son, Zachary, scuffling. Was something outside their home in
Lake Fuck. It's not Lake Fuck. I'm sorry, Cawacan Lake, Cawakan.
I think Vancouver Island, she said. She rushed to the backyard to
look for the source of the commotion and found the boy fighting for his life.
I ran downstairs, and I ran toward his voice. I turned the
corner and saw this animal on my child, she told CTV on Tuesday.
He was on the ground and the cougar was attached to his arm. I
had mom instinct, right. I just leapt on it and tried to pry
its mouth open. She said. She doesn't know where she gained the strength,
but she fishhooked the juvenile cougar by the mouth and managed to pry him
off. I just looked at him, and I thought, oh my god,
my kid could die right before my eyes. All you think is what
can you do? What can you do in your own physical strength, she
recalled. I'm so grateful for him to be alive. She said, it's
a miracle that Zachary survived the attack with only a gash on his head and
a few injuries and cuts on his neck and arms. I knew that in
my own power and in my own strength, I wasn't going to be able
to pry his mouth open, so I started praying in tongues. I'm just
crying out to the Lord, she said, three sentences, three sentences into
me praying. It released and it ran away. Zachary is expected to make
a full recover. His mom said he was resting up at his grandma's house
on Monday. We are definitely well on our way to recovery and zach is
resting at his grandma's house having some one on one time there. Lockhart said
his stitches are healing. He is well on his way to being fully recovered.
Officials with the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service said that they found two cougars,
both juvenile males, about twenty yards away from the family's home. They
were both hungry and looking for food, according to the service. Scott Norris,
sergeant with British Columbia Conservation Officers Service, said the animals were euthanized.
After the attack. The mom looked out from her deck and saw the cougar
on top of him and sprang into action. Norris told ABC News on Tuesday.
She grabbed the cougar and yanked it off of her child Vancouver Island has
said. Vancouver Island has had several cougar attacks over the past few years,
but it's a rare occurrence. He says. I did read another article on
this particular one too, and it had said that for some reason, these
two male cougars. Yeah, these two male cougars were pretty young, and
they had been starving and without their mother for a few months, which is
odd. Usually the mother hangs around for quite a while, so they don't
know what happened with the mom. But these two cougars were basically just desperate
for food. That's why they went after him. It's sad that they had
to be put down, but if they are danger to society, you have
to. And as I think in the other article I read too, they
did set up some type of camera and live bait traps or yeah, some
kind of bait traps to where I wouldn't kill the cougar if the mother came
back in search for her for her cups. They weren't early cups. They
were just younger, you know, So that is fucking terrifying. This next
one is a little bit different. Lawrence mom used body as speed bump to
save twins. From rolling car. This is from WCVB and it was written
by Kimberly Bookman. Middy trans leftnee was crushed and her right leg dislocated from
her hip. The twenty two year old was injured while trying to save her
twin daughters from their rolling car. I had to use myself as a speed
bump to slow it down enough for one of my neighbors to get in and
completely stop the car transit. The incident happened on March sixth, just days
after signing a lease at her new Lawrence apartment. She backed her Honda into
the garage, put it in park, and had her two year old twins
buckled in the backseat. When she said she got out to unlock her front
door, she saw the car start moving. I was like, what's going
on? And I see my daughters sitting in there in the backseat, and
of course my first instinct is I have to push the car back up into
the driveway. She said she was afraid the car would go down her steep
driveway and into the busy Marshton Street. She said her motherly instincts just kicked
in. My daughters are my everything, my everything, and I don't want
to see them in the hospital. I don't want to see them hurt.
I knew that at that time it was either me or them, she said.
That's when the new neighbors ran to help. She jumped in front of
the car. One of the neighbors jumped into the car, stopped it,
and helped to get her daughters to safety. Firefighters arrived and stabilized the car
with wooden blocks and then used an air bag to her car. Trans has
been in and out of hospitals and has another surgery set for Wednesday. Knowing
there's a long recovery ahead, she vows she'll walk again. It was all
for my kids. I'm just glad my kids are fine. I looked for
updates on this story too, and I think they said she's walking again.
I mean, this story was from twenty fourteen, so as far as we
know, she's walking again, back to normal. I guess the car was
rolling too fast for her to be able to just hop in and slam on
the brakes. It was enough to where she had to jump in front of
it to slow it down or else I was going to go into this main
busy road and most likely her girls, her toddlers that were in the backseat
would have been seriously hurt or killed, along with who knows how many other
people. This next one blew my mind. Protective mother Russell's lost polar bear.
This is from the Globe inmail dot com. It was published back in
February of two thousand and six, so it's been a while since this,
but the story is still a great story, and it was written by Paul
Waldy. I am most definitely going to mispronounce this woman's last name. I
am so sorry Lydia and you I think is her name. I am going
to refer to her as Lydia throughout this as long as I can remember.
Lydia's kids sure won't be giving her much trouble anymore now that they've seen her.
Russell, a seven hundred pound polar bear. Lydia lives in damn it
Vujevic, a village of three hundred people on the shore of the Hudson Bay
of northern Quebec. One Wednesday evening earlier this month, Lydia was walking near
the village community center with her two sons when a group of children playing street
hockey nearby were shouting and pointing frantically Lydia, forty one, turned around and
saw a polar bear sizing up her seven year old son. She told the
children to run and raced around to get between the bear and her son.
Then she started kicking and punching the animal. According to police reports, in
a flash, the bear swatted her in the face and she fell on her
back. With the bear on top of her, Lydia began kicking her legs,
almost in a bicycle motion. She was swatted once more and rolled over,
but the bear moved toward her again. A neighbor heard the commotion and
came rushing over her. Seeing Lydia wrestling the bear, he ran to his
brother's home, grabbed a rifle, and headed back to the street. He
fired a few warning shots. The sound did divert the bear's attention from Lydia
just long enough for him to aim and fire again. According to police,
this neighbor, mister and Aleck, fired four shots into the bear before it
finally died. With the help of some neighbors, Lydia made it to the
home of Nelson Kahn, a constable with the Catavic Regional Police Force. She
came in a panic. Mister Khn recalled in an interview yesterday, she was
obviously in shock. She was saying, bear bear. I just took her
over to our nursing station and I asked where and if the bear was dead.
She said yes. Remarkably, Lydia suffered only a couple of scratches and
a black eye. She and the local police have been fielding calls from across
Canada ever since the incident was first reported last week. Lydia, who doesn't
have a telephone, couldn't be reached yesterday. Meanwhile, villagers are still marveling
at her courage, and there is talk of nominating her for a Bravery medal
awarded by the Governor General. I've been here twenty four years and I've never
seen this before, said Larry Hubert, a regional captain with the police force
who arrived on the scene just after the bear was shot. For sure,
she saved the kids' lives. Mister Hubert has known Lydia for about fifteen years
and he can't believe that she took on a bear. He said the bear
measured about eight feet or two point four meters in height and weighed at least
seven hundred pounds or three hundred and eighteen kilograms. Lydia is about five foot
nothing in ninety pounds on a wet day. Mister Hubert said, with a
laugh, she's pretty wyatt. I'm surprised she went and did this, but
I guess when your backs up against the wall, I guess we come up
with superhuman strength. The police where this is is one of Quebec's northernmost communities.
It's situated on a peninsula where the Hudson Bay meets the Hudson Straight.
While polar bears roam the giant ice packs that float just off the shore,
Mister Hubert said that it's prayer for them to wander into the village. He
said that he believes the bear that tangled with Lydia became disoriented and was not
looking for food. She's lucky the bear wasn't hungry. He said. If
the bear was hungry, she would have been eaten pretty quickly. Kevin Ramsey
Turgeon, another local police officer, said villagers might spot a bear in near
town once a year, but no one can recall a bear getting close enough
to hurt anyone. Polar bear attacks anywhere are rare. About two years ago,
research student was pushed to the ground by a polar bear and Wapusk National
Park, which runs along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill. A colleague
managed to scare the bear off by hitting with a piece of wood. It
was the first bear incident in more than twenty years in the park. The
last fatal mulling in that area occurred in nineteen eighty three. However, officials
in Russia have had to shoot three aggressive polar bears so far this year.
According to the Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, one bear killed a
fifteen year old girl in a remote village in the region of Jakoka, Jakota
or something like that, which is across the Bearing Strait from Alaska. The
organization said in a statement that decreasing ice cover caused global warming is the reason
for such behavior because it has disrupted the bear's feeding patterns. So that's wow.
M I didn't I knew that polar bear attacks weren't frequent. I've also
read some things in a couple different places that with polar bears, they're easily
or more easily scared off than a lot of other bears unless they are hungry.
If they're hungry, they will get very aggressive. I don't know if
any of you live anywhere that polar bears roam, but if you do,
be careful. Keep an eye out. This summer, we are supposed to
get record high temperatures. It's forecasted so far that it's going to be a
hot, hot summer, so just be careful. Now, this is another
mom fighting off a cougar. This is from CBC dot C but this is
back from two thousand and nine. Conservation officers in Squamish, British Columbia continued
to hunt for two more cougars after a rash of attacks, including one in
which a mother fought off an attack on her daughter three, who couldn't understand
why the big kitty didn't want to quote play nice, Oh, how sweet.
Five conservation officers, eighty by two dogs and their handlers eventually tracked the
cat through several yards and eventually shot it just off of Depot Road in the
Briggendale neighborhood, about sixty kilometers north of Vancouver, four hours after the attack
Tuesday evening. DNA samples taken from the cougar will be used to determine whether
it was the one that attacked the child. They said the cougar is the
second killed by conservation officers since Saturday. The other was shot after two dogs
were attacked on a popular hiking trail on Friday and Saturday, and the attack
on Tuesday. The cougar pounced on Maya Espinosa from behind as she and her
mother were walking their dog and picking berries in Fishermen's Park near the Squamish River.
Maureen Lee told CBC News that she was turning away to pick a berry
when she thought she saw another dog approaching out of the corner of her eye,
but it was the cougar coming to attack her daughter, Maya. All
of a sudden, it just flew on her, rolled her a couple of
times and grabbed her under its belly on the ground like in the fetal position.
Lee recalled, Maya was on her back and he had his paws on
her head, and I just knew I had to act really quick, so
I just jumped in there and wedged myself between the cougar and her on the
ground, and I just got up and threw it off of my back and
grabbed her and booked it. She said. The titler suffered puncture ones to
her left arm and head. But was recovering well, her mother said.
Neighbor Wade Roland said it appeared the girl didn't entirely understand what had happened.
Everyone's taking it well. They're in good spirits, he said. The little
girl. Her big comment was, I guess why didn't the kittie play an
ice? Pablo Espinosa, Maya's father, told CBC News his daughter thought the
cat was playing. She was eager to return to kindergarten to tell her classmates
what happened. Now. During this time, the article does go on to
talk about how there were a bunch of different encounters with cougars for some reason
during this season. There were a total of thirty encounters with cougars just in
a ten day period. Six of them were on Friday, the Friday of
this week alone. They're not sure why it was happening this time. They
think that they are hungry. Some of them were considered to be emaciated.
But there do seem to be a lot of reports of cougars or mountain lions
when they do get very hungry coming after people. Now, this next one
is one of my biggest fears. This is from ABC News. I'll go
and It's written by Olivia Katranjan and this is from twenty twelve, so this
one is a little bit older. I can't believe that's already eight years ago.
Mother saves daughter from shark attack in Florida. A brave mother fought off
a shark that attacked her daughter as the two were surfing. The same day,
another surfer was attacked on the same Florida beach. The two incidents Wednesday
are among this series of shark attacks in recent days, as the underwater predators
seemed to enter shallow coastal waters earlier than usual with the warmer than usual weather
this year. I just said, but the polar bear story it's going to
be warmer his year two. So if you're in Florida or any coastal place
where you can come into contact with sharks, be careful. Vala Levi and
her fifteen year old daughter Sydney were paddling on their surfboards Wednesday off New Smyrno
Beach when a shark suddenly pulled the team underwater twice. Levy pulled her daughter
onto her board. It was to me like a scene out of Jaws where
the girl's getting sucked under and I said, there's no way this thing is
going to kill my daughter, and I grabbed her shoulders and I pulled her
up and threw her on the nose of my board, Levey told WKMGTV.
The shark continued to circle Levy and her daughter until two nearby surfers heard their
screams and helped them to shore. There was already an ambulance at the scene
because a shark had attacked a seventeen year old surfer, Nick Romano in water
that was waist deep, only minutes before. Levy was rushed into surgery and
released from the hospital a few hours later. A few days earlier, a
bullshark leapt out of the water and chomped down on a surfer's arm just over
one hundred miles away at Florida's Jensen Beach. Good lord. They do go
on to talk a little bit about some different attacks in here, but I
am terrified of the ocean. I don't know what it is, but when
it comes to the ocean, I'm not okay with water that's like above my
belly button. I'm perfectly fine with lakes. I can swim, I'm fine
with lakes. I'm fine with pools. I don't want anything that can eat
me in the water, you know. So that's terrifying and concerning. And
I don't know if you know how hard it is to pool somebody, a
teenager, out of the water by their shoulders while you're sitting on a surfboard.
It's hard to pull somebody out of water when you're like on solid land,
or even just on a dock or something. I couldn't imagine. I
could not imagine. Now. This next one is another common kind of attack.
Mom saves toddler from crocodile by sticking fingers up reptiles nose. This one
is very recent. This is from April eighteenth, twenty twenty, and it's
written by Paula Freyolic on the New York Post. Note to the wise,
if you're ever attacked by a crocodile, stick your fingers up its nose.
A mother in Zimbabwe rescued her toddler from a killer croc this week by jamming
her fingers up the reptile's nose. I'm going to mispronounce this name. I
am sorry. Maureena missus Nia Yanna something like that. Thirty had left her
two children playing under an umbrella in the bank of the run Day River while
she went fishing nearby. When she heard a scream and saw her son Gideon
being dragged away by the huge reptile. Marina jumped on the beast and used
her fingers to block its nose, forcing it to release its grip on the
boy. According to the mirror, during the encounter, she was bitten on
the hand. I pressed its nose hard, a tip I learned from the
elders long back from Koci Village. If you suffocated crocodile from its nose,
it loses its strength, and that is exactly what I did. I used
my other arm to free my baby's head from its jaws. Even to this
day, I still do not believe I rescued my son. Gideon was taken
to a nearby hospital and has since made a full recovery. Oh my eye
is twitching. Oh good Lord. That seems terrifying. Why I mean,
I understand Zimbabwe, it's not people in Florida. I have questions for you.
Why do you live in places where a lot of things can kill you?
Australia? You two, Everything there wants to kill you. Why do
you live there? Well, this next one is a bit different. This
doesn't have to do with natural disasters. This doesn't have to do with wild
animals. This one a mother ends up going like undercover spy to rescue her
son. This is from the Huffington Post and it's written by Cavan Sikowski,
I think Sikowski and this is from December sixth of twenty seventeen. Calli Ata,
Pennsylvania mother rescues kidnaps son in Egypt by hiding under nick kwab nikab.
I don't know how to say that shit. I should have looked that one
up. A Pennsylvania mother traveled to Egypt to rescue her son, who she
claimed had been kidnapped by his biological father. To avoid detection, the woman
reportedly hid under the cover of a nikab Nickquab nikab, I don't know for
several months. Calliope Callie Atheia, her sister, and her son Khalil Mohammed
or Nico as he's known Atea, had traveled to Egypt in July twenty eleven
on a family vacation. While there, they went to visit Mohammed Attea,
Callie's ex husband, and Nico's father. On August first, eleven year old
Nico was allegedly kidnapped by his father after his mother was pushed out of a
taxi cab. The family was writing it. He was pounding on the back
window, asking, screaming for me, and his aunt, Kellie told the
Chicago Tribune in December of that year, to me, it's like a loving
death. You know, I'm walking, I'm breathing, but it's nothing the
emptiness. Since then, Callie had been trying to get her son back home
to Fayetteville, Pennsylvania. Some people will say I was crazy, Kellie told
Public Opinion about deciding to travel to Egypt to get her son back. I
had already lost everything. I had nothing to lose. Callie enlisted the help
of a local guide to track down Mohammed, whom she had married in nineteen
ninety nine and separated from shortly after Nico's birth in two thousand. According to
Fox News, for several months she was able to disguise herself on under an
a cob and watch her son and X has been unnoticed. Now this head
dress that I am having, or this thing that I'm having such trouble pronouncing
it is a face veil that's worn with a headscarf, and it leaves open
the area around their eyes, so their whole face is covered. It would
be very easy for her to wear this and blend in, so after months
of surveillance, the mother decides to make her move. Mid March, Callie
drove to Nico School and waited as the children got off the bus and were
greeted by teachers and security. Callie finally saw her son step off of the
bus. She walked up, touched his arm and said, Niko, it's
mommy, Come with me, and he went right with her. He reportedly
knew it was his mother under the nakab because he recognized her bright blue eyes.
I dressed him up as a girl and we made it back to a
safe house, she told Public Opinion. She and her son are now in
the United States at an undisclosed, undisclosed location. I'm having issues talking today.
Apparently it's still unclear why Mohammed allegedly kidnapped his son. My son told
me it was to make him a Muslim. Kellie, who was afraid Mohammed
may try to come to the US, told Fox News. He said that
we lack the morality and the values that their system has, and he said
that Americans were so violent. He said, we were a rotting society.
Last February, the Franklin County District Attorney filed criminal charges against Muhammad for the
concealment of the whereabouts of a child, a felony. I tried to look
up to see if there were any new articles on this too, just to
see if there are any updates, and there really aren't. It's like retellings
of the same story. This mom went to another country. She went to
fucking Egypt to track down her ex husband and get her son back. And
there is a picture of her up here with her son and they both look
very very happy. Now, this next one is wild. Could happen to
any of us. This is from New York Daily News dot com. It
was written by Meg Wagner and this is from April twenty third of twenty and
fourteen. Mom attacks pit bull, bites off its ear to save daughter from
being mulled to death. Mike Tyson has got nothing on this heroic mom.
Chelsea Camp saved her two year old daughter from a ruthless pit bull attack by
biting the dog's ear off. The Texas woman was dog sitting her friend's usually
friendly pitbull last month. That's when the dog approached her daughter, Mackenzie,
and things got ugly. The dog came up and was just curious. Camp
told Houston's kho you when he smelled her. That's when you saw it flip
because I think it smelled my dog on her. The dog began attacking the
little girl, and Camp was determined to save her daughter. Camp bit the
dog's ear off and punched it in the mouth. Somehow, she managed to
call nine one one during the fight. An officer responded and shot the pit
bull, but didn't kill it. However, the dog was later euthanized.
A month later. Camp and Mackenzie are both recovering. Camp is back at
work and it can now use both of her arms. Mackenzie has scars on
her face, but gets her stitches out this week. She's a strong little
girl and a fighter. Camp said. She is meant to be here.
Even after the irdeal, Camp says she still loves dogs no matter the breed.
This is a rough one because it's not it's not just pit bulls.
Pit Bulls get a bad rap. They can be so so sweet, but
just like any dog, they can be aggressive. I mean typically the most
aggressive dog is a Chihuahua. I think we all know that there are actually
more reports of injuries or needing to get stitches or dog bites from Chihuahuas than
any other dog breed. I know it's shocking. Pit bulls get a bad
rap. They do that can be wonderful, wonderful dogs. No one knows
why this dog snapped and attacked a little kid. At one point, pit
bulls were known as nanny dogs because they were great with children. So I
don't know why this dog snapped, and it's a shame. Luckily, the
little girl and her mom are both fine and they made a complete and full
recovery. Now this next one has to do with a bear encounter. This
is from twenty fourteen, and this is from shoot Missoulian dot com. Missoula
woman saves six year olds from bear encounter. A Missoula woman's quick thinking saved
her friends six year old sons from a potential encounter with a black bear as
they waited for the school bus in residential area of West Missoula. I'm not
sure if I'm saying that right. Please don't have me about it, just
because doubt I'm ever gonna have to say this again. Candice Gamma saw Blake
and Braden Williams standing on the sidewalk Thursday morning and then spotted a bear about
twenty yards away. Gamma drove her car between the boys and the bear and
yelled for them to get in the car. When they didn't respond quickly enough,
Gamma says she grabbed them by their backpacks and threw them in the car.
The boy's mother, Kim Williams, says the boy's grandfather was ready to
confront Gamma when he heard her scream bear bear. Blake and Braden say they
weren't scared. Gamma's five year old daughter, Alison, said her mom was
the hero of the day. How cool is that? I have never seen
a bear in person? I imagine it would be fucking terrifying. I wonder
bears don't typically come into neighborhoods, do they? At least not while people
are out and about? And I might have to actually look into that.
I know people catch them on their their outdoor cameras and security cams and stuff
like that, but did they come into neighborhoods regularly? Let me know if
you know. Now this next one, all I think heard a version of
this tale. This is from twenty fifteen, and this is on NBC news
dot com. Hostage Florida mother uses Pizza Hut phone app to call for help.
A Florida mother being held hostage at knife point by her boyfriend, managed
to call for help using a pizza delivery app. Police said Cheryl Treadway convinced
her boyfriend to let her use her phone to order from Pizza Hut, but
as well as requesting a small hand tossed classic pizza with pepperoni, Treadway also
wrote nine on one hostage help in the order's comments, prompting the Pizza Hut
to call the authorities. Police responded to the pizza chain and to Treadway's home
in Highlands County after she made the order on Monday, at which point she
ran outside holding a small child. Treadway's boyfriend, twenty six year old Ethan
Earl Nickerson, was persuaded to come outside peacefully, and her other two children
were unharmed. Police said, we've never seen that before. Candy Hamilton,
manager of the restaurant that took the order, to WFLA, I've been here
twenty eight years and never never seen nothing like that. Nickerson was charged with
aggravated assault with a weapon, battery, false imprisonment, and obstructing justice by
depriving communication to law enforcement. I couldn't find any more updates to the story
either, but this is actually a suggestion that police give now if you are
in trouble and you can't openly call nine one one, they see to do
something like this place a food order of some kind and in the comments section
put nine one one and then like hostage or kidnapped or whatever it may be.
Because there's all your information is on there, the address where you're at,
everything police will respond. So if you're ever in a situation where you
need that, that is a phenomenal, phenomenal tip to do now. This
last one, this is another amazing mom and she gave up quite a bit
to save her son from a burning building. This is by Ankita Mishra on
her do Women Working dot com and this is from March nineteenth of twenty twenty.
Heroic mom broke her back to save son from burning house by jumping off
third floor balcony. A mother's love is as tender as it is fierce when
it comes to protecting her child from danger. She will risk everything, even
her life, if that's what it takes. A mom from Massachusetts took a
plunge for life and broke her spine in an attempt to save her son from
the devastating fire that was engulfing their apartment. Back in twenty fourteen, the
then twenty three year old Christina Samoa's found herself trapped in her house when their
building was going up in flames. As the fire started to engulf their home,
the only thought in her mind was how to save her eighteen month old
son, Cameron. As she peered out the window, she saw thick flames.
She immediately grabbed Cameron and ran to the front door, but the hallway
was filled with smoke. Soon she understood that there was no way out of
the house but the balcony. Given that it was the only choice, she
decided to hold her son in her arms and throw herself off off the balcony
backward. Needless to mention, it takes a lot of courage to jump off
of a third floor When it comes to risking her life to save her child
or give up A mother's choice is most likely the former. Explaining the incident,
she said, I looked out the window again realized there wasn't going to
be any time to wait for a firefighter. She realized she had to jump.
I grabbed my son and I gave him a kiss, she recalled.
I told him I loved him, and then I jumped. Although she landed
on her feet first, she soon collapsed. The impact broke her vertebrae.
Nestled in his mother's arms, Cameron was fine. Her struggle to save her
son didn't stop there. With a broken back, Christina Army crawled away from
the debris and later was airlifted by a local hospital. Her son was fine,
but the plunge cost the twenty three year old mom her back. After
a few lengthy surgeries, she was out of danger, but it had a
severe nerve impact on her. I'm not doing great, but I'm alive.
But she was elated that her son was fine. It's so worth it because
he's okay, she said. It's amazing to see him perfectly fine and playing.
Her boyfriend at the time, Tyler Strangman, told the news outlet,
this is the longest he's ever been away from her. Ever. Since this
incident, Christina has been hailed as a heroic mom, but real life heroes
are not superhumans. Doctors soon informed the family that she will probably never be
able to walk again, but being the courageous woman she is, she took
this challenge as well. According to the GOFUNI page set up for the case,
the young mong proved the doctor's wrong. Seven weeks, two days.
I am now able to climb the stairs while just being supervised. I can
use the bathroom unassisted. I can transfer too in from my bed in my
chair unassisted. I took my first steps, not holding on to anything would
just shelby supporting my hips. Today I walked one hundred and ninety five feet
with my new crutches and balanced on a foam board with a ball between my
knees. I'd say we're making progress, she wrote at the time. Christina
is not only a brave mother who didn't step back from doing what it takes
to save her son's life, but she is also a brave woman who proved
that strong will power can do miracles. More power to you. So as
you see moms a lot, most moms, not all, I'm aware of
the ones that are not like this. Moms tend to want to do anything
they can to make sure their children are safe, healthy and happy dads are
too, and maybe for Father's Day I'll do something similar to this for amazing
dads. But that's the end of our episode. I decided to do all
of them in one and just make this a long episode. I'm still gonna
go over some iTunes reviews, so this is going to be a kind of
lengthy episode. If you don't want to listen to the iTunes reviews, feel
free to end this episode now. Thank you for listening. I'll see you
next time. For those of you that want to listen to the iTunes reviews,
let's hop right into it. Okay, So just a reminder, we
are going from oldest to newest for these iTunes reviews. We've only made it
to June so far. So this first one is from Agent Sinner Raymond Right
father Sin. That's what he goes by. Outstanding love, the mix up,
heard you originally on Mysterious Circumstances, then dot hook like a Fish after
checking out the Elizabeth Bathory episode, great research and great delivery. He is
the host of The Sinful Show. I think as of now he's doing more
interviews, or at least the last time I checked with everything, especially right
Now with the kids being home, I don't have time to really listen to
as many shows as I used to, so I have not had a chance
to go back and check his stuff out that he's been doing lately. I
did have the opportunity to come on to his show there for a bit and
we sat there and we just send They're shooting the ship, talking about witchcraft,
things like that podcasting. It was a great time. He's great to
have an interview with. So if you want to, you can go over
and check out The Sinful Show. This one is from Spud ninety eight twelve.
Amazing podcast. I've listened to many podcasts, and this one is one
of the best I've ever heard. You are so sweet, You are so
sweet. Thank you so much. Mafia Catwoman. I love that binging like
it's Netflix. I found this podcast about two weeks ago and Avenge listened to
every chance I get. I'm now completely caught up with all episodes. Just
does an amazing job of bringing these stories to life while giving you a ton
of details. She definitely does her research. I can't say enough good things
about this podcast. Thank you so much. I'm going to tell you guys
this if you've made it this far, then you know you actually I think
you actually care or you just want to hear me. Go over and say
your name. I've been planning a couple of really really big episodes for a
while now. I am going to have Justin ramel On with me very soon,
thinking about four weeks, so not the next episode, but the one
after, and we are going to be talking about King James. It's a
big, huge topic and I've been working on it here and there for a
while. I am also working on an episode for the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
These are topics that are enormous. I mean, it'll get a lot
easier now that I don't have to homeschool kids. This is their last week,
so that is going to be terrific. But you'll get to see the
episodes that do contain a shit ton more information next week. In the following
week. Talents and Wings twenty one Educational and Inspiring. I have been binge
listening to this podcast for the purpose of learning more about the supernatural. I
love the material and that it's put out in this podcast, and I would
definitely recommend this podcast. Thank you. Nestor Girl must listen. Oh my
goodness, I can't turn this off. Your storytelling is great. I love
the way you approach different subjects, even sensitive ones. You have a beautiful
way of conveying stories I've heard on other podcasts with much more in depth search
and personal accounts of firsthand witnesses. You are my spirit animal. Thank you,
Ali, Thank you Ali. That is an amazing, really sweet review.
Thank you so so much. I think there are a couple of episodes
that I dug pretty pretty freaking deep into, especially the ones that do have
a lot of information if you look in certain areas. As much as I
love doing episodes like these that are just uplifting and fun, I want to
do more that do have that heavy research again, just because I've only been
doing these ones as fun as they are to do because I can't do the
research that I normally do. But I don't want to just take a break,
you know. So next is Deathly Hollows seven. Oh I love that,
Thank you, Oh, thank you. This show. This show is
exactly what this Midwestern girl was looking for, non judgmental space for me to
explore all topics that are taboo. This show is straight up there with hillbilly
horror Stories, Graveyard Tales, and Brohio. Cannot wait for more shows to
be released as I am all caught up. Well, thank you so much.
That is a huge compliment for me that I'm blown away. I love
all three of those shows. Hillbilly Horror Stories, Graveyard Tales, Brohio.
I love all three of those shows. Those are three of my absolute favorites,
along with of course Mysterious Circumstances and quite a few others. It's multi
murder and that's why we drink. I have a ton of favorites that as
soon as like a new episode comes out, I'm listening, even if I
got to put my headphones in, like with Orohio with the kids being home,
I have to wear my headphones to listen to them. But I absolutely
love them now. Next r wp Kola great podcast, heard their ad on
Graveyard Tales and gave it a listen. Really like it. I'm not sure
this one's for me. I remember getting this and sending Adam a message and
I was like, hey, shoote, I listened to every episode, but
I've never heard you mention my show, so it was a mix up.
I don't know if they were mistaken on what show they heard one of my
ads on or if this is supposed to be for a different show, but
either way, thank you. I mean it's five stars at hell. This
next one is from dire x nine excellent. I started listening after meeting Jessica
at the live show and Indie for three other pods. It was fun hanging
out and chatting at the after party. I love the show and the unique
content. I especially liked the episode on funny Folklore. Keep it up and
hope to see y'all at another show. The live show in Indie. Last
year was that? Last year? Was that? The year before? I
can't remember either. Last year the year before was so much fun. I
had an absolute blast there and it was so great getting to meet everybody.
The name on here I can't remember who this is, but I'm sure I
had a blast with you two. I had a blast the entire time I
was there. It was it was just so much fun. Kays oh one
time. I like the ghost stories and true crime, but I'm not into
the podcast that I love. What the hell is this? I think this
one is for supposed to be for somebody else, but I'm not into the
podcast that I listened to to get away from politics. Then to hear the
extended opinions of political issues aren't what I came for. Otherwise, the stories
are decent. I don't think this one was for me. I don't ever
talk about politics, so maybe that one was a noops. It was three
stars, so not terrible, but I don't think that one was supposed to
be for me. Next is feather Fiddler, Thank you, hither one of
my favorites. Really enjoyed listening to this podcast. It's entertaining and I'm always
learning new things. I love expanding my knowledge of all things, and just
delivers the info in such a captivating way. I appreciate. I appreciate her
perspective and depth of knowledge. Thanks so much, and keep up the great
work. Thank you, Heather. I love that Thank you so much.
Definitely makes up for the one before that. Redcoat seventeen seventy six, highly
enjoyable and informative podcast. I'm a huge fan of the supernatural, cryptid and
folklore's type topics. I found this podcast while searching around for this material and
took a chance on it. I can tell you that I am glad that
I did, as it is a great podcast and I enjoyed listening to it
all the time. Keep up the sum as, keep up the awesome episodes.
Thank you so much. This next one is a three star. All
the ones that I've talked about so far, except for the one that said
something about politics, we're five stars. That one was a three star in
this one is a three star. PB Varsity twenty. Love everything but the
theme music the podcast is great, but the intro music is such a mood
killer. It's super jarring and doesn't fit the tone of the rest of the
podcast. I did address this at one point before. I try to remember.
I think I do it most of the time, but sometimes I do
forget to kind of make that intro part fade in a little bit so it's
not just like wham starting out, you know. I try to remember I
will have to actually go in and edit my actual intro part so that when
I so that I don't have an opportunity to forget, you know, I
just forget to do it beforeand oh goodness, all Diva Diana intro. I
happen to love the intro music. It rocks and totally fits the show.
The story this week was awesome. That was back in August thank you so
much, Diva Diana. I love the introm music too. Most of you
know by now. That's a band that my husband is in called Love Turns
Hate. If you want to hear more of their songs, you can search
Love Turns Hate on YouTube. Even if you just search for that song,
it's not over. Then you can come across a lot of their other ones.
I think there's eleven that they released. Next one is a w Vanderwolf.
Great podcast. My daughter and I have been listening since early on and
love the content and the intro. Keep it up. Thank you so much.
Dao fifteen eighty four. Absolutely amazing. I always look forward to Jessica's
new episodes. They're informative and entertaining. Keep up the great work. Jess
Jewels from Women Behind the Veil, Thank you Jewels, and I love I
adore Jewels. She's an amazing person and she's so fucking funny. I'm not
on social media very often. I tend to stay off of there a little
bit, and even sometimes when I do hop on to try to check things,
like I'll look through my notifications and then I'll get like sidetracked on a
video or something. But her group for women behind the veil. She posts
some of the funniest shit, my goodness, and she's so sweet, Like
we talk regularly all the time, and I absolutely love her. Zerata b
amazing storytelling, so not weird at all. I found your podcast in what
I like to call my valley of emotions, you know, when it just
kind of dips and I need to distract myself. Oh, I know what
you're talking about. You have given me such an amazing fine. You have
beautiful story telling skills. Keep up the great work. Can't wait till I'm
fully caught up. Well, I really hope you were able to come out
of that dip. I know it sucks in a little bit of a dip
right now myself. No idea why, no reason for it, but it's
just kind of like, so I get it. I hope you're able to
come out of that all right, Gaming unicycled style, interesting name. Love
it with a bunch of black hearts. Heard about your podcast from Hillbilly Horror
Stories and I've been binge listening for a few days now. All I can
say is I love it. What thank you? And I love you.
I don't know how you guys can binge listen to me. That blows my
mind. Next one is Angie nineteen seventy four awesome podcast. Just finished listening
to your episodes on basic Witchcraft. Thank you for them. I joined a
couple of witchcraft groups on Facebook that are so complicated and overwhelming. You have
really helped me see that it doesn't have to be that way. It is
something you can seriously make your own. And thank you also for the Witchcraft
and Christianity episode. I was raised by a Bible thumber, if you will,
but left all that behind when I left home, and I refuse to
push any beliefs on my sons. I want them to find their path on
their own. Glad to know you are like minded in that way. Well,
thank you, Angie. That is very true. I forget what episode
it was that I talked about being a mom while I also being a witch.
I don't push anything on my kids. I want them to be very
open minded to find what's right for them. If they decide to grow up
and be very Christian, Jewish, Muslim, pagan follow a Norse tradition,
witchcraft just general pagan wickan, it doesn't matter as long as they're happy and
it's right for them. And yeah, a lot of the groups on Facebook
for witchcraft people are negative nancies. It is mind boggling. I don't like
the Debbie Downers. I get so frustrated. I ended up leaving quite a
few of those groups. There are some that I'm in that I just kind
of like lurk and then if somebody posts something really cool, like I'll in
a act a little bit, but I don't comment or anything because it's some
of these groups it's like there are piranhas populating them and they're just waiting for
some tender meat to come along. It's insane, like express one different opinion
and they'll attack you for it. It's not a great environment for even like
people coming into this new It's not a good environment for people that have been
practicing for a long ass time, let alone coming in new Alright, I'm
gonna do I think two more? Okay, woilche Woman twenty eighteen. Who
I like that one? Whoops? Sorry, that's my husband texted me on
his break That was very unprofessional podcast. Oh my god, I just found
your podcast and I have binged the whole thing. Love your voice and the
stories. Thank you for sharing. Thank you so much. A witchy woman.
I love that name. That is very sweet of you. Again,
I don't know how you binged all of that, but thank you. Next
is History Goes Bump. I absolutely adore History Goes Bump the podcast. Diane
and Kelly are two amazing people. I absolutely love both of them. It
was so nice getting to meet them. I met them at the live show
hill Billy Horror Stories did in West Virginia the Moth Band place Point Pleasant.
Okay, I couldn't remember the name of the town, but this is the
one from either Diane or don't Diane, It's Diane. I kept I had
to keep reading. One of the best. Oh you flatter me. I
listened to a ton of podcasts and I'm pretty picky. This one locked me
in fast and I'm hooked. Instead of another tired paranormal podcast cut from the
same cloth, this one is unique. Jess as a great voice in cadence.
The production is awesome and the topics are interesting. The music for the
intro and outro is great because this podcast screams metal of rock with a feminine
touch. Keep up the great work, Diane. That makes me insanely happy.
Thank you so much, Diane, Diane's been in this business for quite
a while. I think five or six years she's been doing this. The
whole layout of her podcast history goes mom but is just amazing. I love
their show. I love the bloopers at the end that they're doing now.
I get so excited for those. But I think we're going to end the
reviews there for right now. Thank you guys so much for listening. You
all are awesome. I'll see you in about two weeks with a new episode.
In the meantime, if you want some extra content, I do have
a Patreon. You can go on there look for shoes, business, tattoos.
I do bonus videos and bonus episodes. Join the Facebook group. I
have a couple two videos on there now, along with a shit show of
Alive. The only question you have to answer to get in is my name
Jess. So I hope to talk to you all soon. Thanks bye.
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