100 Miles From Home

This week the Good News Gals cover the story of 6 Tongan teens who find themselves stranded on an uninhabited island 56 years ago.

The result is anything but the storyline you may remember from Lord of the Flies. 

Join us as we follow a true survival story through the struggle but ending with joy.

To learn more about these incredible humans check out some of our sources! 

Six Tongan Castaways in Ata Island | OLD DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL 7

Tongan Culture

A real life Lord of the Flies: The 50-year-old story of a group of teens stranded on an island - Correspondent Holly Williams

“Rutger Bregman: the Dutch historian who rocked Davos and unearthed the real Lord of the Flies”

“The 'real Lord of the Flies': a survivor's story of shipwreck and salvation” 

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

The Tongan Castaways of Ata Island | Surviving with one of the six boys

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

"This is really old theory in Western culture, that our civilization is just a thin veneer, just a thin layer. And that when something bad happens—say there is a natural disaster or you shipwreck on an island and you have the freedom to establish your own society—that people reveal who they really are. You know, people deep down are just selfish."