Strangeness | Vintage News
The Day the Music Died: The plane crash which killed Buddy Holly
Before Radar, they used these giant concrete “Sound Mirrors” to detect incoming enemy aircraft
Bill Millin, the British army piper who played his bagpipes on Sword Beach during D-Day while under enemy fire, German soldiers didn’t shoot him because they thought he was crazy
There was a secret society for Catholics called “The Order of the Pug.” Novices were initiated wearing a dog collar and had to scratch at the door to get in
The Towers of Silence: Ancient reminders of an eerie Zoroastrian burial ritual
The Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós: One of the most remarkable finds of the early European Middle Ages
Agatha Christie disappeared for ten days in 1926. 1,000 officers and 15,000 volunteers searched for her until she was found in a hotel, registered under a different name
The death of Boney M’s singer Bobby Farrel has occurred on the same day and in the same city as the death of Rasputin, the “lover of the Russian queen”
Ned Kelly – The most famous Australian Bush Ranger
Beethoven’s “Elise” was the name of Therese Malfatti, incorrectly transcribed because of Beethoven’s bad handwriting
