The summary of the text includes three distinct stories:
1. The first story is about a man named Cornelius Mike Anderson. He was a troubled man who was destined for jail time but changed his life in 2000. He moved to a different suburb, started a successful construction company, married twice, had three kids, and became a youth football coach. In 2000, he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 13 years in prison. However, a clerical error led to him being released from prison without serving his sentence. He later made a public statement about his past and was released after several appeals.
2. The second story is about the Trump family. In 2016, the family members suddenly dumped their passports, credit cards, and cell phones, and left their house. They drove around for several days, separating at different locations. Their daughter Rihanna was found in a catatonic state and was taken to a psychiatric unit. The other family members were found later and were taken to the same unit. The family was later discovered to be in a state of shock, but they did not show any signs of mental instability. The family's strange behavior was later attributed to a phenomenon called "folly ado," where a delusional person can pass that delusion onto others.
3. The third story is about Ava Vishnierska, a member of the German national paragliding team. In 2007, Ava was preparing for a major competition when she was caught in a thunderstorm. She was pulled into a cumulonimbus cloud, which is extremely dangerous for paragliders. She was thrown out of the cloud and fell to the ground, but she survived. She was found to be in good health, with only minor bruises and cuts from the hail. She was discharged from the hospital the same day and later showed her teammates her GPS track, which showed she had reached an altitude of 32,634 feet, the same as a commercial jet.
In conclusion, the stories demonstrate that truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction. Each story highlights the resilience and determination of the individuals involved, despite the extraordinary and life-threatening situations they found themselves in.
1. The text is about three stories that demonstrate how the truth can be stranger than fiction.
2. The first story is about Cornelius Mike Anderson, who was a troubled young man in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.
3. In 2000, when he was 23 years old, Mike changed his life and moved to a different suburb outside of St. Louis, Webster Groves, where he started a successful construction company.
4. He got married, divorced, married again, had three kids, and became the father to a stepchild. He was very active in his community, volunteering countless hours at his church and becoming a youth football coach.
5. In 1999, Mike robbed a Burger King outside of St. Louis at gunpoint. He was arrested in 2000, convicted of armed robbery, and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
6. However, due to a clerical error, the state believed Mike was already in prison, and no one ever took him to jail. In 2013, at the end of his original 13-year sentence, they went to release him from prison, but he had never been incarcerated.
7. The second story is about the Trump family, who were a normal hard-working household. They had established a successful red current farm and earth-moving business at their property in Sylvan, just outside of Melbourne.
8. On August 29, 2016, the family disappeared without any warning, leaving their passports, credit cards, and cell phones on the kitchen table. They drove north 30 kilometers into their journey and reached a motel in the New South Wales town of Bathurst, 800 kilometers away to the west of Sydney.
9. The family members separated, with Mitchell deciding he did not want to be a part of whatever they were doing and began heading home. The remaining four family members did not go after him.
10. The two daughters, Rihanna and Ella, decided they also did not want to be a part of whatever they were doing and stole a car and began heading home.
11. The third story is about Eva Vishnierska, a member of the German national paragliding team. In 2007, she was preparing for her first major competition of the year when a storm was spotted to the north.
12. Despite the ambiguous forecast, Eva decided to launch her paraglider. She was the only one of a handful of people that remained and took off.
13. As she flew, she entered the skies over the vast savannah and was caught in a storm. The storm lifted her at a rate of 60 feet per second, and she passed out from a lack of oxygen.
14. At some point, the updraft shot her up and out of the cloud, and she was out of the storm but in air that was 50 degrees below zero.
15. She was not in control, and she was still unconscious when she started barreling back towards the ground like gravity had been turned back on again.
16. She cleared the storm and then right after getting out from underneath it, her glider miraculously just opened back up again, and the jerking motion of her suddenly stopping her free fall jolted her awake.
17. She was looking around totally confused as she was gradually regaining consciousness and taking stock of where she was. She was still in the storm cloud but right at the bottom of it.
18. Luckily, the updraft had stopped, and she was steady. She was able to reach up and grab her toggles and fly herself down to the ground and crash land. Then she curled into a ball, grabbed her radio, and called her team.
19. When they heard her voice, they could not believe she was alive. The other paraglider that got sucked up by the updraft, the guy from the Chinese national team, was struck by lightning and was killed.
20. But Eva had not just survived. When they brought her to the hospital, they discovered that virtually nothing was wrong with her. She had some pretty bad bruises and cuts from the hail and a little bit of frostbite on her face, but it was treatable.
21. The same day she was brought in, they discharged her after leaving the hospital. She and her teammates went back to the launch site so she could collect her gear. When they got there, she looked