The mysterious death of the silent film actress Virginia Rappe
On September 9, 1921, tragedy struck when the silent film actress Virginia Rappe passed away under mysterious circumstances.
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Discover here stories from the weird, odd and unusual things. Sometimes creepy, sometimes tragic, but all that’s very interesting.
Patient shocked surgeons with green blood like Star Trek’s Mr Spock
In October 2005, surgeons operating on a 42-year-old Canadian man at Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital got a shock when they discovered dark-green blood coursing through his arteries, like Star Trek’s…
The Boy in the Box: ‘America’s Unknown Child’ is still unidentified
The "Boy in the Box" had died of blunt force trauma, and was bruised in many places, but none of his bones had been broken. There were no signs that the unidentified boy had been raped or sexually assaulted in any way. The case remains unsolved to this day.
Black Dahlia: The 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short is still unsolved
Elizabeth Short, or widely known as the “Black Dahlia” was murdered on the 15th of January 1947. She had been mutilated and severed at the waist, with the two halves…
The ‘hairy hands’ of Dartmoor
In the early 20th-century, a spate of bizarre accidents took place on a lonesome stretch of road in Devon, England which crosses Dartmoor. Those who survived reported seeing a pair…
The jinxed Grand Paradi towers: A string of bizarre suicides!
Grand Paradi Towers, the three 28-storeyed pista green-and-white towers stand out prominently amid a crop of less imposing buildings in the South Mumbai skyline, being a well-recognized landmark of that…
The moving coffins of the Chase Vault: The historical tale that haunts Barbados
Barbados is a country that is located on an island in the Caribbean Sea, this has been a tropical paradise, but behind all the good things there are sometimes strange…
Rosalia Lombardo: The mystery of the “Blinking Mummy”
Even though mummification is still practised in some distant cultures, it is uncommon in the Western world. Rosalia Lombardo, a two-year-old girl, died in 1920 from an intensified case of…
The exorcism of Clara Germana Cele – A forgotten story from 1906
In 1906, a 16-year-old from South Africa, Clara Cele, was heard making a pact with the devil and soon began behaving erratically, tearing at her clothes, growling, speaking in tongues,…
50 most interesting and bizarre medical facts you won’t believe are true
From peculiar conditions and extraordinary treatments to bizarre anatomical quirks, these facts will challenge your concept of what is true and possible in the realm of medicine.
