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Title: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: redsniper on January 20, 2009, 01:58:50 pm

Seeing this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518) on IRC reminded me of this list I found on /x/ a few months ago. Enjoy. :D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Spear
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_reply
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Laughter_Epidemic
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete-Encased_High_School_Girl_Murder_Case
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Man
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbly_Creek
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Spanish_Kitchen
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet_syndrome
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markovian_parallax_denigrate
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-body_transplant
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._White
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_rat
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamster_zona-free_ovum_test
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_immortality
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandre_Oram
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_Man
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-75
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atuk
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Curse
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cure_for_Insomnia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pripyat%2C_Ukraine
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_flying_saucer
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tofts
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanation
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Goo
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grinning_Man
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawfordsville_monster
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_Base
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Furuta
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hermitage_%28Ontario%29
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starchild_skull
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_of_belmez
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parker_Ray
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_information_awareness
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PENIS_panic
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mahavishnu_Orchestra
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Footprints
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Thunderstorm%2C_Widecombe
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bloop
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_place_artifacts
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowpeople
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dog_(ghost)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ararat_anomaly
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_big_cats
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatman_%28cryptozoology%29
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greys
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Heeled_Jack
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owlman
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous_phenomenon
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_triangle
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_Accident
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_stations
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grinning_Man
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invunche
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidebehind
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Bones
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachzehrer
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyak
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontianak_%28folklore%29
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapinguari
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokurokubi
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_of_belmez
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_experiment
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtoun_Bridge
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupa_%28anomaly%29
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpilen
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Dutchman%27s_Gold_Mine
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Lick_Monster
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_tunnel_incident
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moll_Dyer
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belchen_Tunnel
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scout_Lane
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Footprints
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Vault
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_pass_accident
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borley_Rectory
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Wood_Mystery
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_shift
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moberly-Jourdain_incident
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_Frog
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_UFO_Incident
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentich_Disappearance
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Night_Stalker
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kroll
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_K%C3%BCrten
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Vacher
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melonheads
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Devil
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allagash_Abductions
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midgetville#Vienna.2C_Virginia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gef_the_talking_mongoose
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca%2C_Iowa
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taos_hum
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods_monster
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_lights

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: ssmit132 on January 20, 2009, 05:42:43 pm

I've heard of some of those, although I don't know why you need the Tunguska Event there three times. :wtf:

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: General Battuta on January 20, 2009, 05:47:22 pm

Awesome, I love this stuff. Thank you for the linkspam.

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: Tyrian on January 20, 2009, 06:47:17 pm

I love stuff like this! :D

Here's another to add to the list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_glocke

EDIT:  And another:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_computer

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: redsniper on January 20, 2009, 10:01:26 pm

Quote from: ssmit132 on January 20, 2009, 05:42:43 pm

I've heard of some of those, although I don't know why you need the Tunguska Event there three times. :wtf:

I just copypasta'd this from some posts on 4chan. I haven't even looked at half of the links yet, so I don't know what is or isn't there.

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: blackhole on January 21, 2009, 04:25:04 am

Quote from: That String Theory Article

In fact, Kaluza's early work demonstrated that general relativity in five dimensions actually predicts the existence of electromagnetism.

 :wtf:

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: Flipside on January 21, 2009, 09:08:25 am

Alien Hand syndrome was always quite interesting to me, I remember seeing a documentary on it ages ago, it's kind of weird, and very scary, like being a two-person schizophrenic, but with motor control being shared between both personae...

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: NGTM-1R on January 21, 2009, 01:59:18 pm

Not the Phildelphia Experiment again...

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: BengalTiger on January 21, 2009, 05:53:12 pm

Sailing stones and Battle of LA are pretty good reads, I didn't have time to read either what I've of heard before, or 75% of the other things...

Also search for Mary Celeste, and then there's a whole category related to it.

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: DarthWang on January 21, 2009, 08:06:30 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Laughter_Epidemic

Someone must have told Monty Python's funniest joke in the world....

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: IceFire on January 21, 2009, 10:39:32 pm

Quote from: DarthWang on January 21, 2009, 08:06:30 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Laughter_Epidemic

Someone must have told Monty Python's funniest joke in the world....

I didn't see anywhere saying that anyone died...so probably just a couple of words from it.

:D

Weird tho!

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: BengalTiger on January 22, 2009, 06:04:00 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality <-of all the strange, stranger and strangest things on the Wiki that look like or smell like Bull$**t, this one might be true.

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: Flipside on January 22, 2009, 06:20:16 pm

What would happen if reality BSoD'd?

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: Polpolion on January 22, 2009, 08:06:42 pm

Quote from: Flipside on January 22, 2009, 06:20:16 pm

What would happen if reality BSoD'd?

You ever divided by zero?

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: ssmit132 on January 22, 2009, 08:46:41 pm

It doesn't work.

(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/6/6a/Divide.gif)

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: BengalTiger on January 23, 2009, 10:45:54 am

Quote from: Flipside on January 22, 2009, 06:20:16 pm

What would happen if reality BSoD'd?

We'd be paused until the next restart, where our saved progress would be reloaded, and we wouldn't notice a thing.

In other words, if Windows is running reality, it's happening all the time.

Title: Re: Strange and Unnerving Things in Real Life
Post by: Bobboau on January 23, 2009, 09:39:49 pm

Quote from: Flipside on January 22, 2009, 06:20:16 pm

What would happen if reality BSoD'd?

maybe, stuf like this:

Quote from: redsniper on January 20, 2009, 01:58:50 pm

Seeing this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518) on IRC reminded me of this list I found on /x/ a few months ago. Enjoy. :D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Spear
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_reply
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Laughter_Epidemic
 ...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods_monster
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_lights