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How the CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture Gave Up Its Final Secret | Scientific American
The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, recently took a bizarre twist. Cryptographers had broken the first three passages in the 1990s, just a few years after artist Jim Sanborn erect…
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Read article →Rat king - Wikipedia
Another concern is the possibility ... museum specimens could be fabricated, such hoaxes being common in earlier eras. 17th–18th-century naturalists proposed many hypotheses to explain this phenomenon. Most were dubious, ranging from the rats getting stuck together during birth and glued later, to h…
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Read article →Who Was The Taured Man, The Traveler Allegedly Arrested In 1954 With A Passport From A Country That Didn't Exist?
He knew a fair bit of Japanese. Nothing out of the ordinary — that is until the man handed over his passport. RedditA newspaper clipping featuring a picture of John Allen Zegrus, a.k.a. the Taured Man.
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Read article →The Mysterious Marree Man of Outback Australia: Largest Geoglyph in the World | Ancient Origins
However, its very existence presents ... a single witness can attest to its creation, and to this day, its creator and the reason for its construction remain unknown....
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Read article →The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved | WIRED
The analysis demonstrated that the Blood Falls are the result of pressure variations affecting the brine deposits beneath the glacier. As Taylor Glacier slides downstream, the overlying ice mass compresses the subglacial channels, building up ...
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Read article →The Mystery of Devil's Kettle Falls
To the east, a traditional waterfall carves a downward path, but to the west, a geological conundrum awaits visitors. A giant pothole, the Devil’s Kettle, swallows half of the Brule and, until recently, no one had any idea where it goes.
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Read article →What Are the Marfa Lights | Marfa Texas | Live Science
A group of physics students from the University of Texas at Dallas concluded that headlights from vehicles on nearby U.S. Highway 67 could explain at least some of the reported sightings of the Marfa Lights.
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Read article →Oak Island mystery - Wikipedia
The Oak Island mystery refers to ... buried treasure and unexplained objects found on or near Oak Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. The site consists of digs by numerous individuals and groups of people. The original shaft, the location of which is unknown today, was dug by early explorers, and is know…
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Read article →The Tantalizing Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
The weight of car tires and foot traffic combined with the summer heat help to gradually fuse each tile to the street and wear down the tar paper, revealing the messages and images carved by the unknown artist.
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Read article →Bélmez Faces - Wikipedia
The Bélmez Faces or the Faces of Bélmez (Spanish: caras de Bélmez ... ) is an alleged paranormal phenomenon in a private house in Spain. The phenomenon started in 1971 when residents claimed images of extremely unsettling faces appeared in the concrete floor of the house.
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Read article →The Circleville letters: Anonymous letters threaten to expose an Ohio town's rumored secrets - CBS News
It may sound like a plot from a thriller, but, in fact, a very real flood of anonymous letters terrorized a small town in Central Ohio for nearly 20 years. And the letters didn't stop even after a man went to prison.
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Read article →Death of Gloria Ramirez - Wikipedia
On April 20, 1994—ten weeks after her death—Ramirez was buried at Olivewood Memorial Park in Riverside. Her official cause of death was labeled cardiac dysrhythmia that resulted in kidney failure, all stemming from her cervical cancer. During her funeral, and afterward, her family continued pinning …
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Read article →Georgia Guidestones monument, called satanic by some, torn down after bombing | PBS News
"That's given the guidestones a sort of shroud of mystery around them, because the identity and intent of the individuals who commissioned them is unknown," said Katie McCarthy, who researches conspiracy theories for the Anti-Defamation League.
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Read article →Kaspar Hauser - Wikipedia
His claims, and his subsequent ... both in Nuremberg and abroad. Theories propounded at the time identified Hauser as a member of the grand ducal House of Baden, hidden away because of dynastic intrigue. However, there were also allegations that Hauser was an impostor. In 2024, a scientific study ru…
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Read article →Hoia Baciu Forest: The World's Most Haunted Forest
Multiple independent readings, including Pătruț's long-running dataset, have confirmed localized electromagnetic anomalies within the forest, concentrated in and around Poiana Rotundă and the zones of maximum tree deformity.
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Read article →Cicada 3301 - Wikipedia
Cicada 3301 posted their last verified OpenPGP-signed message in April 2017, denying the validity of any unsigned puzzle. The puzzles focused heavily on data security, cryptography, steganography, and Internet anonymity. It has been called "the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the Internet ag…
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Read article →Catatumbo lightning - Wikipedia
The Catatumbo lightning (Spanish: Relámpago del Catatumbo), also known as The Everlasting Storm, is an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, typically over a bog area formed where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake.
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Read article →Lluvia de peces - Wikipedia
'rain of fish'), also known as aguacero de pescado (lit. 'downpour of fish'), is a phenomenon in Yoro, Honduras, wherein fish are able to found on the ground after large storms. It has been occurring for over a hundred years, said by residents to occur yearly in the mid-year rainy season.
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Read article →The 1962 Laughter Epidemic of Tanganyika Was No Joke
The 1962 outbreak began in a girls’ school and then spread to other communities, with uncontrollable laughter affecting perhaps 1,000 people, lasting several months, and causing the temporary closure of 14 schools.
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Read article →The Medical Mystery Of Tarrare, A Cannibalistic French Spy | Ripley's Believe It or Not! | Aquariums, Attractions, Museums
According to contemporary accounts and existent medical records, his quenchless appetite continued growing to the point that his legendarily gluttonous gorging caused this ravenous Frenchman to ingest live animals and maraud morgues for sustenance.
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Read article →SAR Technology - Aviation Cold Case Response
The ... aircraft, with eleven people ... however, broadcast a last, cryptic, Morse message; "STENDEC", which was received by Santiago Airport at 17:41 hrs - just four minutes before it's planned landing time....
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Read article →Beast of Gévaudan - Wikipedia
The Beast of Gévaudan (French: La Bête du Gévaudan, IPA: [la bɛt dy ʒevodɑ̃]; Occitan: La Bèstia de Gavaudan) is the historic name associated with a man-eating animal or animals that terrorized the former province of Gévaudan (consisting of the modern-day department of Lozère and ...
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Read article →D.B. Cooper Hijacking | Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI artist rendering of so-called D.B. Cooper, who hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 out of Portland (Oregon), demanded and received ransom money upon landing in Seattle, then parachuted into the woods and was never found again.
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Read article →UVB-76 - Wikipedia
), also known by the nickname "The Buzzer", is a shortwave radio station that broadcasts in upper sideband mode on the frequency of 4625 kHz (wavelength of 64.8 m). It broadcasts a short, monotonous buzz tone (listenⓘ), repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, 24 hours per day.
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Read article →Naga fireball - Wikipedia
Some individuals have attempted to explain the phenomenon scientifically. One explanation is that the fireball is a result of flammable phosphine gas generated by the marshy environment. Dunning writes that such fireballs are very unlikely to spontaneously ignite, and would not stay lit when ...
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Read article →Hinterkaifeck murders - Wikipedia
On the evening of 31 March 1922, six inhabitants of a small Bavarian farmstead, commonly referred to today as Hinterkaifeck ([ˈhɪntɐˌkaɪfɛk]), were murdered by an unknown assailant. Occurring approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Munich, the victims were Andreas Gruber (aged 63), ...
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Read article →The Lead Masks Case: What Happened in Brazil in 1966 – Headcount Coffee
It was a real investigation conducted by Brazilian police, medical examiners, journalists, and baffled locals. Nearly sixty years later, the case remains one of the most puzzling unsolved deaths in modern forensic history.
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Read article →The Mystery of the Devil’s Footprints - Discovery UK
Is there any other explanation for whatever or whoever made such a strange and improbable journey? ... The Devil’s Footprints were mysterious cloven hoofmarks imprinted in the Devon snow over the night of 8th-9th February 1855.
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Read article →The Mysterious Disappearance of Ghost Ship Carroll A. Deering’s Crew | Headlines & Heroes
In late January, 1921, all occupants ... North Carolina coast. The ship was still in good condition when it was spotted from Cape Hatteras on January 31, 1921, before it was torn apart on the Diamond Shoals....
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Read article →Toynbee tiles - Wikipedia
Beginning in 2007, tiles were discovered in Philadelphia that are quite similar to the original tiles, leading some to believe that everything has been the work of the same person throughout the life of the tile phenomenon. The font and message are the same as the old ones, and the subtext is a retu…
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Read article →The Lost Colony of Roanoke | Britannica
Regardless of this evidence, and many other theories, it is likely that no definitive answer to the mystery of the colonists’ disappearance will ever be found. What Happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?It's the oldest mystery in colonial America.(more)See all videos for this article
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Read article →Roopkund - Wikipedia
Radiocarbon dating of the bones ... with genome-wide analysis of 38 individuals from Roopkund Lake, found that the remains are from different eras and belong to three distinct groups....
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Read article →Fairy circle (arid grass formation) - Wikipedia
In 2021, an explanation using ... in Australia. In 2022, a study was published that tested the termite theory and the theory of plant self-organization for Namibia by excavating hundreds of grasses within and around the fairy circles....
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Read article →Isdal Woman - Wikipedia
The Isdal Woman (Norwegian: Isdalskvinna, c. 1930–1945 – November 1970) is a placeholder name given to an unidentified woman who was found dead at Isdalen ("The Ice Valley") in Bergen, Norway, on 29 November 1970. Although police at the time ruled a verdict of likely suicide, the nature ...
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Read article →Jatinga - Wikipedia
Jatinga (/dʒəˈtɪŋɡə/also /dʒæ-/), a village on a ridge, is located in Dima Hasao district, Assam, India. It is 330 kilometres (210 mi) south of Guwahati The village is inhabited by about 2,500 Khasi people. It is well known for being the location of mysterious bird deaths.
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Read article →Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
De precolumbiaanse ‘chiefdom’ nederzettingen bestaan uit vier archeologische plekken in de Diquís Delta in het zuiden van Costa Rica. Ze worden beschouwd als unieke voorbeelden van de complexe sociale, economische en politieke systemen van de periode 500 tot 1500 na Christus. De gebieden hebben kuns…
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Read article →Baltic Sea anomaly - Wikipedia
The Swedish-based OceanX describe themselves as treasure hunters and salvage operators. According to the team, they returned from an expedition in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland with a "blurry but interesting" sonar image while searching for an old shipwreck in the summer of 2011.
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Read article →Sodder children disappearance - Wikipedia
Early Christmas morning, December 25, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder residence in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped.
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Read article →Flannan Isles Lighthouse - Wikipedia
Moore and three volunteer seamen ... December 1900, stating: A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans. The three keepers, Ducat, Marshall and the Occasional have disappeared from the Island......
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Read article →KUOW - Return of the blobs: SW Washington revisited by decades-old gooey mystery
Several friends reported animals dying after eating the substance, Roberts told the paper. When they were first reported, in August 1994, the gelatinous globs were about the size of a grain of rice, much smaller than what McCrite collected.
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Read article →London Beer Flood - Wikipedia
The London Beer Flood was an accident at Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, London, on 17 October 1814. It took place when one of the 22-foot-tall (6.7 m) wooden vats of fermenting porter burst. The escaping liquid dislodged the valve of another vessel and destroyed several large barrels: between ...
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Read article →Eternal Flame Falls - Wikipedia
In August 2023, the main trail to the Eternal Flame Falls in Orchard Park, New York re-opened after major work, including the addition of 139 box steps bypassing the trickiest part of the Eternal Flame Trail at Chestnut Ridge Park, and some 120 feet (35 m) of railing along the trail to the creek bed…
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Read article →This 'Gate to Hell' has burned for decades. Will we ever shut it? | National Geographic
The 230-foot-wide, 100-foot-deep pit in north-central Turkmenistan is formally known as the Darvaza Crater (and named after a nearby village), but its nickname describes the phenomenon better: a methane-belching hole ignited decades ago in a remote stretch of the Karakum Desert that’s been burning e…
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Read article →Darvaza gas crater - Wikipedia
The Darvaza gas crater (Turkmen: Garagum ýalkymy), also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, officially the Shining of Karakum, is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near Darvaza, Turkmenistan. Hundreds of natural gas fires illuminate the floor and rim of the crater.
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Read article →Somerton Man - Wikipedia
The Somerton Man is an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The case is also known by the Persian phrase tamám shud (تمام شد), meaning "It is over" or "It is finished", which was printed on a scrap ...
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Read article →r/UnresolvedMysteries on Reddit: Who Interrupted Chicago’s Airwaves in 1987? A look back on the unresolved Max Headroom Hijacker. Who was he? What were his motives?
Two stations had their broadcast signals hijacked by a figure dressed in the likeness of Max Headroom—an artificial, malignant take on the already sythnetic television personality—known for his twitchy, pixelated visage and sardonic wit.
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Read article →Voynich manuscript - Wikipedia
Feely's method posited that the text was a highly abbreviated medieval Latin written in a simple substitution cipher. Leonell C. Strong, a cancer research scientist and amateur cryptographer, claimed that the solution to the Voynich manuscript was a "peculiar double system of arithmetical …
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Read article →Lake Nyos disaster - Wikipedia
On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock. The eruption triggered the sudden release of about 100,000–300,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). The gas cloud initially rose at nearly 100 km/h (62 mph; 28 m/s) and…
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Read article →SS Baychimo - Wikipedia
Baychimo did not sink, and over ... time they were either unequipped to salvage the ship or driven away by bad weather. The last recorded sighting of Baychimo was by a group of Inuit in 1969, 38 years after she was abandoned....
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Read article →Green children of Woolpit - Wikipedia
The legend of the Green Children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, possibly during the reign of King Stephen (r. 1135–1154). The children, found to be brother…
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Read article →Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia
It could be used to predict ... to an olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games. The artefact was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901....
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Read article →Kentucky meat shower - Wikipedia
The Kentucky meat shower was an incident that occurred for a period of several minutes between 11 a.m. and 12 noon on March 3, 1876, where what appeared to be chunks of red meat fell from the sky in a 100-by-50-yard (90-by-45-meter) area near Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky, United …
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Read article →Centralia Pennsylvania: The Underground Fire Still Burning
Centralia, Pennsylvania has had a coal mine fire burning underground since 1962. The condemned ghost town is now being reclaimed by nature and wildlife.
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Read article →What is the bloop?
Years later, NOAA scientists discovered that this sound emanated from an iceberg cracking and breaking away from an Antarctic glacier. Shown here: a NASA Landsat mosaic image of Antarctica.
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Read article →Hessdalen lights - Wikipedia
One explanation attributes the phenomenon to an incompletely understood combustion of airborne dust from mining in the area. The analysis identified hydrogen, oxygen and other elements including titanium. It was thought this occurs in Hessdalen because of the large deposits of scand…
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Read article →The Sailing Stones of Death Valley | National Park Foundation
They tumble down due to the forces of erosion, coming to rest on the parched ground below. Once they reach the level surface of the playa, the rocks somehow move horizontally, leaving perfect tracks behind them to record their path.
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Read article →Mary Celeste - Wikipedia
These findings strengthened Flood's suspicions that human wrongdoing rather than natural disaster lay behind the mystery. On January 22, 1873, he sent the reports to the Board of Trade in London, adding his own conclusion that the crew had gotten at the alcohol and murdered the Briggs family an…
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Read article →Overtoun Bridge - Wikipedia
A large central arch spans the Overtoun Burn with two lower and smaller arches flanking both sides. Since the 1950s, locals have referred to the bridge as the "Bridge of Death" or the "Dog Suicide Bridge", as it was reported that dogs were leaping from the bridge into the…
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Read article →Wow! signal - Wikipedia
The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The signal appeared to come from the direction of the co…
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Read article →Salish Sea human foot discoveries - Wikipedia
In Canada, the British Columbia Coroners Service said in December 2017 that foul play had been ruled out by authorities in all previous cases. The feet were usually found in sneakers, which the coroner thought were responsible for both keeping the feet buoyant enough to eventually wash ashor…
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Read article →Solving the Taos Hum Mystery: Investigating the Infamous Sound - Thrillist
A low purr was barely perceptible on the grounds of the Millicent Rogers Museum, set on sprawling, shrubby land a few miles from downtown Taos, New Mexico. It’s not too far from the ancient adobe dwelling of the Taos Pueblo as well as the Earthship Biotecture, an architectural compound where icono…
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Read article →Tunguska event - Wikipedia
The Tunguska event was a large ... the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga felled a large number of trees, over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest, and eyewitness accounts suggest up to three people may have died....
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Read article →Great Molasses Flood - Wikipedia
The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster, was a disaster that occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. A large storage tank filled with 2.3 million U.S. gallons (8,700 cubic meters) of molasses, weighing approx…
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Read article →Dyatlov Pass incident - Wikipedia
The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: ... Group') was an event in which nine Soviet ski hikers died in the northern part of the Ural Mountains ridge in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union on 1 or 2 February 1959 under undetermined circumstances....
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Read article →Dancing plague of 1518 - Wikipedia
The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518; German: Straßburger Tanzwut), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518.
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Read article →Against all odds: 5 incredible animal survival stories from around the world, including the three-legged lion that swam across a crocodile-infested river | Discover Wildlife
Uganda’s famous ‘lion with nine lives’ was filmed swimming across a predator-infested river, having previously survived numerous life-threatening incidents, one of which left him with an amputated leg.
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Read article →Headless in Fruita | Rocky Mountain PBS
In 1945, Lloyd Olsen was harvesting chickens to take into town. He severed the head of one, but inadvertantly left part of the brain stem and one ear behind. This is how Mike lost his head, but kept on living.
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Read article →Mike the Headless Chicken - Wikipedia
Mike the Headless Chicken (April, 1945 – March 17, 1947) was a male Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after he was beheaded, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact, and a blood clot prevented him from bleeding to death. After the beheading, Mike achieved…
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