In 1836 a group of young boys discovered a group of 17 miniature coffins buried in a cave outside Edinburgh, Scotland. The coffins contain tiny dolls, each individually dressed, and the coffins all differ in their decoration. No one knows who buried them, when, or why.
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In 1901 a doctor named Duncan MacDougall tried to prove the existence of the human soul. To do so he measured the weight of a person at the moment of death. He had 6 patients all of which experienced weight loss with the average loss of weight being 21 grams.
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Weirdo
A 10 year old girl named Laura Buxton released a balloon with her name and address on it, which floated 140 miles and landed in the back yard of a house where also lived a 10 year old girl named Laura Buxton. On the day of the meeting, the two girls wore essentially the same outfit – a pink sweater and jeans. The girls were the same height, which was unusual because they were both tall for their age. They both had brown hair and wore it in the same style. They both had three-year-old black Labrador Retrievers at home, as well as gray pet rabbits. They both brought their guinea pigs, which were the same color and even had the same orange markings on their hindquarters. It was almost as though these two Laura Buxtons were the same person.
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During World War II, allied fighter pilots frequently observed glowing balls of moving fire while on combat missions over Europe. Named foo fighters, there are a number of theories on the source of the fireballs, including UFOs and ball lightning. One explanation is that they were the air equivalent of land mines, launched into the skies by the Nazis to disrupt the pilots’ plans and even interfere with the planes electronics.
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Weirdo
A man won the right to a retrial as members of the jury used a Ouija board to contact the victims.
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Jane
Piles of ancient corpses, vitrified rock, and intense radiation have all been observed in the Indus River Valley. While not a mainstream theory, this evidence suggests that the mysterious Indus Valley Civilization was destroyed with some kind of atomic weapon.
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Jane
Tiny, spiral-shaped metal objects have been found in Russia that have been dated to be around 20,000 years old. Since humans are thought to have discovered metalworking only 6,000 years ago, no one can explain where these objects came from.
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Jane
The ruins of several massive castles, temples, and other ancient buildings have been found in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, indicating a large, advanced civilization was present in sub-Saharan Africa from the Iron Age all the way up to the 17th century. However, a lack of writing and the presence of very few artifacts makes the civilization impossible to investigate.
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Weirdo
There were two twins named Jennifer and June who only spoke to each other in a secret language, isolated themselves from the outside world, tried to kill each other and wound up in a mental hospital and decided together that one of them must die for the other to live a normal life.
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Weirdo
One of the participants in the Boston Marathon said runners were warned they were “going to die if they participated in the event” by a crazy-looking woman in downtown Boston two days before the twin bombings which killed three and injured more than 140 people on April 15, 2013.
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Weirdo
Never mind aliens in outer space. Some scientists believe we may be sharing the planet with ‘weird’ lifeforms that are so different from our own they’re invisible to us: Prof Cleland calls this ethereal dimension the shadow biosphere.
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Weirdo
When you crumple up gift wrapping it makes a shape so complex that it will defeat even the most sophisticated computers.
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In 1964, a man photographing his daughter in a marsh captured what appears to be an astronaut standing behind her; he claims no one else was present in the shot other than the girl.
