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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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