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The Gnome of Girona: A Real-life Smurf Hoax
The preserved remains of the Gnome of Girona. (Image credit/source here.) Sometime in September 1989, two couples named Añaños and Pujals went camping in a forest near the Spanish city of Girona. While...
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The 1973 Pascagoula Alien Abduction
Picture of the type of alien Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed to see in Pascagoula, Mississippi. (Image credit/source here.) On the night of October 11, 1973, co-workers Charles Hickson and...
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The Case of Chris Trickle, a NASCAR Driver Killed in a Drive-by Shooting
Picture of Chris Trickle. Chris Trickle was a 25-year-old Las Vegas man who was one of the area’s most popular NASCAR drivers. He was a rising star in the world of stock-car racing, and had a...
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The House of the Tubes
The House of the Tubes. (Image credit here.) Located in Guadalupe, a city in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, the House of the Tubes is an abandoned building as infamous for its bizarre design as it is...
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The Legend of the Ghost Bus of Toluca
The Ghost Bus of Toluca. (Image source/credit here.) Before the construction of a modern highway, the only route from the Mexican cities of Toluca to Ixtapan de la Sal was a long dangerous road that...
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6 Creepy Unsolved Japanese Murders
I’ve noticed that my posts about Japan receive a lot more traffic than I usually get, so I’ve decided I’m going to embark on a series of lists about unsolved Japanese murders. Most of the cases that...
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How a Parrot Helped Solve a Murder Investigation
The Aramberri House. (Image source/credit here.) The Aramberri House, named after the street it sits on, was the site of one of Mexico’s most sensational crimes during the 1930s. Located in the...
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The Contest to Kill 100 People Using a Sword
In late 1937, Japanese soldiers Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda challenged each other to see who could kill 100 Chinese people with a sword faster. (Image source/credit here.) The Massacre of Nanking,...
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The Massacre of the Albertis
The town of Pentedattilo. (Image source/credit here.) Located in the southern Italian region of Calabria, Pentedattilo is a ghost town with a very interesting history. Its name, which means “five...
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The House of the Dogs
The House of the Dogs, located in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Image source/credit here.) The House of the Dogs, named after the two dog statues that stand on the top of the building’s roof terrace, was...
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6 Infamous Cases of People Committing Seppuku
Typically, a good seppuku performance would consist of the samurai driving a tanto sword into his abdomen and disemboweling himself by slashing the part from left to right. A second man attending him,...
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The Kofu UFO Incident
A drawing of the UFO and alien seen in the Kofu Incident. On February 23, 1975, second-graders Masato Kawano and Katsuhiro Yamahata were rollerskating in Kofu, Japan when they spotted two UFOs glowing...
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The Crow and the Unsolved Murder of Grégory Villemin
Picture of Gregory Villemin. For several years in the early 1980s, an unknown man repeatedly harassed and threatened Jean-Marie Villemin and his family in hundreds of letters and phone calls. The man,...
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Hanako-san, a Japanese Ghost who Haunts Bathrooms
Hanako-san, also known as “Hanako of the Third Toilet”, is the ghost of a young girl who’s said to haunt elementary and middle school bathrooms in Japan. Being an urban legend, the story is bound to...
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Was There a UFO Crash in Missouri Six Years Before Roswell?
Reverend William Hoffman told his family in 1941 that he saw a crashed UFO and three dead alien bodies in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The Roswell UFO Incident of 1947, whether you believe it anyway, is...
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The Nagoya Pregnant Woman Ripper Murder
The Japanese city of Nagoya was the site of a brutal murder in 1988 known as the “Nagoya Pregnant Woman Ripper Murder”. (名古屋妊婦切り裂き殺人事件 in Japanese.) On March 18, 1988, a 31-year-old man named in some...
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The Disappearance of Yuki Onishi
5-year-old Yuki Onishi disappeared in Japan’s Goshikidai Forest on April 29, 2005. Greenery Day, a national holiday in Japan meant to appreciate nature, is observed every May 4th. From its...
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The Disappearance of the Yamagamis
The Yamagami family, composed of 58-year-old Masahiro, 52-year-old Junko, 26-year-old Chie, and 79-year-old Saegusa, went missing from their home in Sera, Japan in June 2001. On June 4, 2001,...
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The Akagi Shrine Housewife Disappearance
In May 1998, Japan’s Akagi Shrine was the site of a strange missing person’s case known as “The Akagi Shrine Housewife Disappearance”. (赤城神社主婦失踪事件 in Japanese.) On May 3, 1998, 48-year-old mother and...
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