A lion proves that truth is stranger than fiction
The lion stopped just feet away. The woman looked up. She didn’t scream. She didn’t run. She simply looked into the golden eyes of the beast and whispered a name.
The lion stopped just feet away. The woman looked up. She didn’t scream. She didn’t run. She simply looked into the golden eyes of the beast and whispered a name.
According to the story, Unsinkable Sam survived the destruction of three warships in World War II and lived happily until 1955. A pastel portrait of Sam (titled Oscar, the Bismarck’s Cat) by the artist Georgina Shaw-Baker is in the possession of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
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