26 strange, creepy and curious stories and facts about everything in the world (27 photos)

Magic, superheroes and fairy-tale creatures are all great, of course, but few are as catchy as real events. Therefore, it is not surprising that the page “Strange, Mysterious and Fascinating” is so popular, because everything here is real: from photographs of amazing animals and places to true stories from life, which sometimes make your blood run cold.





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“This is Keanu Reeves. He was abandoned by his father when he was just 3 years old and grew up with three different stepfathers. His dream of becoming a hockey player was ruined by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident, and his best friend River Phoenix died of an overdose.

No bodyguards, no luxury houses. Keanu lives in an ordinary apartment and loves to wander around the city; he can often be seen on the New York subway. While he was filming The Lake House, he overheard a conversation between two costume assistants, one of whom was crying about losing his house if he didn't pay $20,000. On the same day, Keanu transferred the required amount to his bank account.

Over the course of his career, he has donated huge sums to hospitals and charities, including $75 million of his earnings from The Matrix. In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery, bought a bun with one candle, ate it in front of the bakery and offered to buy coffee for people who stopped to talk to him. In 1997, in Los Angeles, the paparazzi caught him one morning in the company of a homeless man - Keanu listened to him for several hours and told him about his life.

It happens in life that those who are most broken inside are the most willing to help others. This man could buy everything he wants, but instead he wakes up and chooses the only thing that cannot be bought - to be a kind person."

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The sheep thanks the dog for saving it from the wolf.

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The Greek government has decided at the legislative level to prohibit overweight tourists from riding donkeys. The decision came after animal rights groups drew media attention to the mistreatment of donkeys, including carrying heavy loads. Activists pointed to spinal injuries and open wounds the donkeys suffered from carrying heavier tourists.

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This giant wolf dog was abandoned by his owner at a shelter where he had to be euthanized because he had grown too big and was becoming a liability. Fortunately, his life was saved and he was taken to the reserve. DNA analysis showed that he is 87.5% wolf, 8.6% Siberian husky, and 3.9% German shepherd.

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An unexpected illusion: this is one whole photograph, and not a collage of two.

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In December 1971, 17-year-old Juliana Koepke was thrown from a plane after it was struck by lightning. She fell from a height of about three kilometers, still strapped into her seat, and somehow survived. She then had to endure 9 days of wandering through the Amazon jungle before she was rescued by loggers. She was the only survivor of LANSA Flight 508, which killed 93 people.

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Todd Beamer was only 32 years old when his plane was hijacked by terrorists on September 11th. Beamer, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, had to think quickly. He first tried to call his phone provider AT&T, but both of his calls were dropped upon connection. Beamer then tried to call his wife, but that call also ended. Finally, he contacted the Airfone operators and was able to connect with a supervisor named Lisa Jefferson. He asked Jefferson to tell his pregnant wife and two sons that he loved them, but also laid out a heroic plan for her to fight off the terrorists along with his fellow passengers and the flight crew. This is exactly what he did, which saved a huge number of lives - this plane, although it crashed, was the only one that did not reach the target intended by the terrorists.

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Rottweiler with vitiligo.

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By the age of 17, Judy Garland had already developed an addiction to so-called “pep pills”, that is, amphetamines, and studio executives bullied her because of her weight and appearance. One of them called her a “fat hunchback” and advised her to smoke more to suppress her appetite.

Garland's grueling work schedule, coupled with the strict diet of black coffee, chicken soup and cigarettes imposed on her by her Hollywood bosses, led her to body dysmorphia and substance abuse. The star attempted suicide at least 20 times, and died at 47 from an overdose of sedatives.

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This is the hammerhead fruit bat, also known as the winged elk.

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In October 1983, Tami Oldham Ashcraft and her fiancé Richard Sharp set off on a 6,500 kilometer voyage from Tahiti to San Diego. Three weeks into their voyage, they were hit by a Category 4 hurricane, capsizing their yacht and leaving Ashcraft unconscious. ⁠

About 27 hours later, she woke up to find that her fiancé was gone and she was stranded alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. With only a sextant and a watch at her disposal, Ashcraft sailed for 41 days until she found the coast of Hawaii.

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A giant eagle photographed in British Columbia, Canada.

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Thanks to her mother, who took her to clubs in New York and Los Angeles, Drew Barrymore had already become a “party girl” by the age of 12. By the age of 14, she had already spent a year in a rehabilitation center, officially freed herself from parental care and moved into her own apartment.

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In 2005, researchers discovered a phallic-shaped stone object in a mountain cave in Germany. Upon closer inspection, the experts realized that this was the world's oldest dildo. Created approximately 28,000 years ago, this sex toy is older than civilization, religion and marriage combined.

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This is Simo Häyhä, one of the most prolific snipers in history, who eliminated more than 500 Soviet soldiers in less than 100 days of the Soviet-Finnish War. While his comrades used modern telescopic sights, Häyhä shot from an outdated rifle with open sights, which he believed allowed him to aim more accurately.

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Harry Haft was still a teenager when he was sent to Auschwitz. Once he arrived at the camp, the Nazi guards learned that he had some boxing experience and ordered him to fight other prisoners in boxing matches, after which the loser was executed. Forced to literally fight for his life, Haft did not lose a single match, although he knew many of his opponents, because the Nazis often sent people from the same city to the same concentration camps. From 1943 to 1945 he had to fight at least 76 prisoners.

Only in April 1945 did Haft manage to escape - during a death march he killed a Nazi soldier and stole his uniform. Haft then went into hiding for weeks, running from village to village. Accustomed to fighting to the death, he even killed an elderly couple who offered him refuge, suspecting that they realized he was not a Nazi. By the time he reached Allied-controlled Germany, he weighed just 50 kilograms and spent the next two years recovering in a refugee camp. But by 1947, he decided to fight again and immigrated to America to become a professional boxer, eventually taking on the best in the sport.

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On September 30, 1999, Hisashi Ouchi was exposed to the highest dose of radiation in human history. A 35-year-old laboratory technician at the Tokaimura Nuclear Plant in Japan, Ouchi was mixing a uranium solution by hand just above an open tank when he accidentally added too much uranium, causing a massive explosion. Over the next 83 days, Ouchi suffered unimaginable agony as radiation worked its way through his body, destroying his DNA and causing his skin to melt. And although he begged for death, the doctors refused to listen and kept him alive against his will for almost three agonizing months.

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Accused of murdering two white girls in 1944 without a shred of physical evidence, 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person in US history to be executed by electric chair. When he was executed, he was so small that an electrician had trouble attaching a contact to his right leg. He even had to place a phone book on the seat for the electric execution to work properly. Stinney survived the first shock of 2400 volts, during which the hood, which was too big for him, slipped and exposed his tears. It took two more hits before he died.

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In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter photographed a vulture chasing a little Sudanese girl who had been reduced to a skeleton by the country's famine. Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for his photography, but tragically committed suicide soon after.

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In 1986, firefighter Vasily Ignatenko heroically participated in extinguishing radioactive fires caused by the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. He put out most of the fires in a couple of hours, but spent too much time near the radiation source. After several weeks of suffering, he would die from radiation sickness. After his death, Ignatenko's body was so radioactive that he had to be buried under layers of zinc and concrete to protect the public from his body.

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In 1989, Billy Idol threw a three-week party in his penthouse at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok. Sex, drugs and property damage eventually prompted the hotel to bill Idol for $250,000. But he still refused to leave, and the hotel staff had to call the military to subdue the British rocker. Idol was eventually shot with a tranquilizer dart and taken away on a stretcher.

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Actor Joe Pichler landed his first role at just six years old, starring in a Seattle department store commercial. Soon after, he moved to Los Angeles, where he first starred in 1999's Varsity Squad and then landed a starring role in two installments of the Beethoven franchise. Pichler then returned to his hometown of Bremerton, Washington to attend high school. He planned to return to Hollywood after the braces were removed, but this never happened: in the early morning of January 5, 2006, Pichler mysteriously disappeared without a trace, and the police still cannot solve the case of his disappearance.

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Towards the end of Bob Marley's life, a doctor told him that he had "more cancer than he had ever seen in a living person" and that he only had a few months to live, so he "might as well go back to touring and die there." Three years earlier, the reggae legend was diagnosed with melanoma under his toenail in 1977. Doctors removed the nail and nail bed, but Marley refused to amputate the finger itself to stop the spread of the disease because it went against his Rastafarian religious beliefs. By 1980, the cancer had spread throughout his body, affecting his liver, lungs and even his brain. Marley played his last show on September 30, 1980 in Pittsburgh, performing Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" during soundcheck, to the amazement of his roadies, who were unaware that anything was wrong with him. He died eight months later at the age of 36.

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“4 days ago, my friends and I went to Murree [Pakistan]. We were walking in the Murree hills at 2 or 3 am when this happened. We were all together. One friend suggested we take a group photo and did it with flash because the lighting was almost non-existent. When I looked at the photos later, I was shocked to see a man standing right behind one of my friends. He had a pale white face, and if you look closely at his legs, you can see that they do not look human. None of us knew this man standing third from the left.”

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In 1993, lawyer Harry Hoy fell to his death from the 24th floor while trying to demonstrate the strength of his office windows to students on a field trip. This type of window checking was his signature trick, which ultimately proved fatal. Hoy would regularly "throw himself" through a window in front of onlookers and bounce safely off the solid glass, but this time the prank ended in disaster when the glass accidentally popped out of the frame and sent "one of the best and brightest" lawyers flying off a skyscraper.

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Between 2000 and 2003, biologist Amy Huguenard spent three summers in Alaska with her boyfriend Timothy Treadwell, studying and filming grizzly bears. Treadwell, known by his nickname "Grizzly Man," met Huguenard during a book tour in 1996, and the two immediately bonded over their love of animals. But then, in October 2003, the couple was brutally mauled and gnawed by a half-ton bear that attacked them at their camp. In this case, all sounds were recorded.

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