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 News Strangeness
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 Strangeness
The Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós: One of the most remarkable finds of the early European Middle Ages News Strangeness
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 Strangeness
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” News Strangeness
Beethoven’s “Elise” was the name of Therese Malfatti, incorrectly transcribed because of Beethoven’s bad handwriting News Strangeness
Ghost stories from the White House – seems that President Lincoln’s apparition has been the most frequent one News Strangeness
Decorations on the Bewcastle Cross is probably England’s finest example of pre-Norman carving News Strangeness
The earliest known story about a haunted house tells of the encounters of the Greek Philosopher Athenodorus in a haunted villa he rents in Athens News Strangeness