02-09-2024, 01:09 AM
Just remembered a cool one that's a true story. A pair of my great grandparents and their parents/siblings moved to America from Hungary in the late 1890s or early 1900s and decided they wanted to move back home after a while. They were on the RMS Carpathia (ship) heading back to Austria-Hungary with all their stuff when their captain took them off course to go help rescue people off the sunk/sinking Titanic. They boated back to America after that and stayed put and eventually had my grandpa. Imagine they weren't big on sea travel after that but might have just been a financial thing. There's a newspaper story out there featuring my great or great great grandma talking about all the crazy stuff she saw.