Category: Strange Stories
Retired Glasgow-born actor Arthur Furguson was a terrific salesperson. However, like many other such people, he was unaware of his talent until one inspiring day when the perfect opportunity presented itself to him. His moment happened in Trafalgar Square, one…
Is James Leininger reincarnation of Second World War fighter pilot? At a very young age, James Leininger started to remember his life as a navy fighter pilot. Airplanes were the only toys he would play with, and after a time…
An eerie Place The Bennington Triangle, centered around Glastenbury Mountain in Vermont, has long been known for strange events including UFO activity, bigfoot sightings, strange lights and sounds, and the location where five people disappeared in the 1940’s and 1950’s. The area is…
Natasha Ryan, known as “The Girl Who Hid in the Closet” let her family think she was dead for five years before they discovered she had run away from home and had been living in her boyfriends closet. Natasha…
With hundreds of years of feuds, battles, murders, curses and broken love affairs, it is no surprise that Scottish castles have more than their fair share of ghost stories. The vampire story of Annan castle is perhaps one that…
UVB-76, also known as The Buzzer, is the nickname given by radio listeners to a shortwave radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz. It broadcasts a short, monotonous buzz tone repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones…
People around the world have reported hearing strange sounds from the skies over the past month. Sometimes they describe it as a hum or low rumble; other times it’s a whine, thump, or even a melody. Often the sounds…
In a quiet, unremarkable area in a Salt Lake City cemetery sits a modest gravestone bearing an epitaph so bizarre that for many years it has inspired rumors, speculation, curiosity, and fear in everyone who comes across its eerie message.…
One of the strangest attempts to climb Mount Everest was by Maurice Wilson (1898-1934), an eccentric Englishman, who tried to climb Everest after flying to the mountain–despite knowing nothing about mountaineering or flying. Wilson decided to climb Everest while recuperating…
Manubu Mabe was a Japanese-Brazilian painter. In the late 1950s, Mabe won the top award in São Paulo’s Contemporary Art Salon, the top award as Brazil’s best painter in the São Paulo Bienal, and the top honors for artists under 35…
This strange mystery from the heart of the USA The Dighton Rock, known for its puzzling petroglyphs, stands as one of the greatest mysteries in Massachusetts. The 40-ton boulder that once jutted out of the Taunton River, close to Dighton,…
Sagawa, a Sorbonne student in the ‘80s, noticed a pretty young Nordic classmate of his and then one day thought, “I wonder if I could eat her.” He went on to entice her to his home, where he killed her,…
