95-Year-Old’s MH370 Tips, Bootleggers & WWII Treasure Drama

95-Year-Old’s MH370 Tips, Bootleggers & WWII Treasure Drama
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At 95, grandma’s memory might be glitching harder than my wifi, but unlike my buffering brain, her old tales are crystal clear. She dropped some family bombs: great-grandpa was an illegal bootlegger and invented a cocktail—take that, Prohibition! She also insists she spotted the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plunging into the Australian ocean in 2014 and tried pitching it to 60 Minutes Australia, who ghosted her harder than a bad Tinder date. Lately, she’s been spinning WWII loot legends straight out of a Hollywood heist movie, all while calling dad multiple times with the day’s date forgotten but 70-years-old scandal fresh as morning coffee. The moral? Memory loss brought out the storytelling Hemingway she always was.

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Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/26/2025 | Author: Ash Jurberg