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How did all those bodies get into a tiny lake in an isolated Himalayan valley? And you’ll never guess how old they were. Then find out if it is a good idea to drill for oil in a lake above a mine. Hint: It’s not.
Sources:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/skeleton-lake-of-roopkund-india
The Mystery of the Himalayas’ Skeleton Lake Just Got Weirder by Robin George Andrews, Aug 20, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/science/skeleton-lake-archaeology-roopkund.html
It was part man, part bat, part kangaroo, part light-emitting unicorn, and bulletproof. And it apparently really hated Van Meter, Iowa.
Was Natalia Grace a six year old from Ukraine when she was adopted by an American family? Or 14? Or 22? Was she even from Ukraine? This is the story of the strangest adoption since “Orphan.”
Okay, now for the 10 weirdest wildly popular songs of all time. Songs that millions of people inexplicably said, “I will pay money to hear that song over and over again.”
There are tons of strange songs, but here we stick to songs that topped the charts despite their strangeness. First up - the 20 runners up, then next week the Weirdest 10.
The case takes a turn when Constable Godfrey "remembers" what happened to him after he saw something hovering in the early morning mist. And we try to figure out what happened to Zigmund for five days and how he wound up dead on a coal pile.
Sources:
https://www.historicmysteries.com/zigmund-adamski/
https://www.darkhistories.com/zigmund-adamski-alan-godfrey-a-tale-of-two-halves/
http://www.theironskeptic.com/articles/zygmund/zygmund.htm
http://www.theparanormalguide.com/blog/alan-godfrey-and-zigmund-adamski-part-two
https://wearethemutants.com/2017/08/23/the-alan-godfrey-abduction-case-1980/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski
Read moreZigmund Adamski goes missing in 1980. Five days later he is found dead, but weirdly clean atop a pile of coal. Police are baffled - until one of them sees something that makes him wonder if Zigmund had been abducted by some from far, far away…
Doctor, count, husband, lover, Carl Tanzler was so many things. It was just that those last two things involved a dead woman. Happy Halloween!
Sources:
Carl Tanzler: In Love with the Dead
https://www.historicmysteries.com/carl-tanzler-in-love-with-the-dead/
Carl Tanzler Kept a Corpse Bride for 7 Years in an Actual American Horror Story, Moriah Gill, June 28, 2019
https://rare.us/people/carl-tanzler-elena-hoyos-florida/
Morbid Monday: The Macabre Romance of a Man and a Mummy, Jessica Guerra, October 27, 2014
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-the-macabre-romance-of-a-man-and-a-mummy
Extraterrestrials don’t just need us for our access to phones. They also want to have sex with us. A lot, if you go by how many humans claim to have been nailed by ETs. Warning: Listener discretion is advised, as in we advise you to listen to this episode.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_encounter
https://www.paranormal-encyclopedia.com/u/ufo/close-encounters/
https://curiosity.com/topics/the-hynek-scale-is-a-six-item-system-for-classifying-ufo-sightings-and-alien-contact-curiosity/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Villas_Boas
https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/19/sex-with-an-alien-was-the-most-pleasure-i-ever-had-et-lovers-reveal-secrets-in-new-book-7959148/
https://www.vice/com/en_us/article/9bzp37/the-paranormal-portraitist-0000576-v22n2
https://livescience.com/20250-alien-abductions-origins.html
https://www.wired.com/2010/12/pl-column-alieninvasion/
Meet the man who invented the word moron. Hitler absolutely loved him, and he influenced American science for decades. Thank you, Dr. Moron.
Sources:
The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness (1912) by Henry Goddard
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987907/
Who Was Deborah Kallikak? Article by J. David Smith
Podcast – Science VS. by Gimlet Media
When a crazed man started stabbing women in the butts with pins in 1788, the city was in an uproar. But when he started slashing their dresses with a knife, well, that’s a panic.
Ethan Couch was drunk and high when he drove his truck at 70 mph into a group of people, killing four. It was not his fault, though, he was suffering the dread disease “affluenza.” Warning: This episode will piss you off.
Sources:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-gender-ourselves/201601/is-affluenza-real
http://thescienceexplorer.com/brain-and-body/affluenza-teen-s-psychological-condition-even-real
You don’t have to be a sports fan to appreciate these weird tales from the world of sports. Enjoy these little nuggets of soccer wars, ear biting, knee capping, bird killing, and on-field explosions - you deserve it.
From 2005 to 2009, eight women were murdered in Jennings, Louisiana. It might have been a serial killer. It might have been something far worse. These murders are the subject of the new Showtime series, Murder in the Bayou.
Sources:
Dark Truth Behind 8 Sex Workers Murdered in the Bayou, Rolling Stone article by Cady Drell - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/dark-truth-behind-8-sex-workers-murdered-in-the-bayou-113264/
Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8, Medium article by Ethan Brown - https://medium.com/matter/who-killed-the-jeff-davis-8-d1b813e13581
Murder in Jeff Davis Parish - https://jdpkiller.wordpress.com/
A six year old girl and her grandmother were attacked in their home. She fled to her neighbor’s house after the killer left. She shouldn’t have.
Sources:
Maurice Possley, National Registry of Exonerations - https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3202
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Elkins
https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/clarence-elkins/
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-54-melinda-and-clarence-11-4-2016/
NBC news - Killer Instinct on Dateline
Before you join your significant other for a romantic spin in an outdoor bathtub, you might want to check with Dr. Brinkley. His diagnosis might be painful and insane, but what procedure involving goat testicles isn’t?
Are goat-like humanoid creatures running around the woods and train tracks of the U.S. countryside doing terrible things to people? Probably.
Elon Musk wants to hit Mars with nuclear warheads. Not long ago, some slightly more serious people wanted to nuke the Moon and even got a young Carl Sagan to help them do it.
In 12th Century rural England, two children were found by a wolf pit. They wore strange clothes, couldn’t speak English, had green skin, loved fava beans, and had an amazing story to tell. Did we mention they had green skin?
You look across a room only to see yourself looking back at you. That’s your doppelganger, and - if the experience of Abraham Lincoln is any guide - this might not end well.
