Strange Events around the World
Updated Mar 23, 2024
Strange Events around the World
Throughout human history, many strange things have happened on Earth that we can't fully explain. Some people have vanished without a trace, leaving behind puzzling mysteries. For example, there's the story of the Roanoke colony that disappeared centuries ago, and the famous Bermuda Triangle mystery. These cases continue to baffle us and make us wonder what really happened.
Nature also has its own share of weird happenings, like strange lights in the sky or objects mysteriously catching fire. Stories of things like the Marfa Lights in Texas or ball lightning challenge what we think we know about how the world works. These mysteries make us curious and eager to understand more about the world we live in. Sure, here the strangest events in history
The Taos Hum
In the early 1990s, a study was done in Taos, New Mexico, about a sound called the "Taos Hum." It found that about two percent of people could hear it, each hearing it at a different frequency between 32 and 80 Hz, with a rhythm of 0.5 to 2 Hz. A similar study in Britain also found similar results. Some people who could hear the hum said they could move away from it, with one person claiming they could hear it from up to 30 miles away. Both men and women are about equally likely to hear it, but it seems more common in middle-aged people.
The Hum is a term used to describe a low-frequency sound that some people can hear but not everyone. It's often described as a persistent and annoying noise, like a hum, rumble, or drone. This phenomenon has been reported all around the world, including in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. Sometimes, it's named after the place where it's most talked about, like the "Taos Hum" in New Mexico or the "Windsor Hum" in Ontario.
Tunguska Event
The Tunguska event happened in Russia on June 30, 1908. It was a huge explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. This explosion flattened about 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 square kilometers of forest. Some people think up to three people might have died. Scientists believe it was caused by a stony asteroid about 50 to 60 meters wide exploding in the atmosphere. It came from the east-southeast at a high speed of about 27 kilometers per second. Even though it's called an impact event, the object exploded high above the ground, so there was no crater.
This Tunguska event is the biggest impact event on record, even though there were larger impacts long ago. A blast like this could destroy a big city. Many books, movies, and other stories have used the Tunguska event as inspiration because it's so mysterious and powerful. Scientists rate the impactor on the Torino scale as 8, meaning it would have caused a lot of damage if it hit a populated area.
The Wow! Signal:
Using Ohio, USA's Big Ear telescope, astronomers detected the Wow! signal, a powerful radio signal, on August 15, 1977. We utilized this telescope to scan the cosmos for any alien communications. The signal appeared to be originating from a precise location in space, close to the Sagittarius star group, and it appeared to be potentially extraterrestrial in nature. A few days later, as astronomer Jerry R. Ehman was reviewing the data, he noticed this odd signal. He wrote "Wow!" next to the signal's intensity, "6EQUJ5", on the page after circling it because he was so surprised by it. That's how its name originated.
The Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich manuscript is an old book that's written by hand and filled with drawings. It's written in a language that nobody understands, called 'Voynichese.' Experts think it was made between 1404 and 1438 in Italy. But there's a lot we still don't know about it. Some people think it might be a code or a secret message, while others think it could be a made-up language or even just a pretend storybook.
The book has about 240 pages, but some are missing. It's full of strange pictures of people, plants that don't exist, and symbols. The book is named after a man named Wilfrid Voynich, who bought it in 1912. Now, it's kept at Yale University. People have been trying to figure out what it says for a long time, but so far, nobody has succeeded.
Winchester Mystery House
The Winchester Mystery House is a big mansion in San Jose, California. It used to belong to Sarah Winchester, whose husband made guns. After Sarah died in 1922, people started visiting the house as a tourist attraction. The mansion is famous for being really big and having strange designs. There are lots of stories about the house and Sarah Winchester, which make it even more interesting for visitors.
The Blood Falls
Blood Falls is a strange place in Antarctica where reddish water comes out from the Taylor Glacier onto the ice of West Lake Bonney. This water is salty and has a lot of iron in it, which makes it look red. The water comes from a pool deep under the ice, and it flows through tiny cracks in the glacier. People first thought the red color came from algae, but later they found out it's because of the iron in the water. The place was discovered in 1911 by an Australian geologist named Thomas Griffith Taylor.
The Emu War
The Emu War, also known as the Great Emu War, happened in Australia in 1932. People were worried because emus, big birds that can't fly and are native to Australia, were destroying crops in the Campion district of Western Australia. The government decided to send soldiers armed with guns to stop the emus. Even though they killed many birds, the emu population didn't go down, and they kept causing damage to crops.
Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle, also called the Devil's Triangle, is a story about a part of the North Atlantic Ocean where planes and ships are said to vanish in strange ways. This tale started in the middle of the 20th century. Some people believe this area has a special power to make things disappear, but many experts say there's no real mystery to it.
Green Children of Woolpit
The legend of the green children of Woolpit is a story about two unusual children who showed up in the village of Woolpit in England around the 12th century, maybe when King Stephen was ruling. These children, a brother and sister, looked normal except for their green skin. They spoke a language nobody knew and would only eat raw beans. Eventually, they learned to eat other food and lost their green color, but the boy got sick and died soon after his sister was baptized.
The girl adjusted to her new life, but people thought she was bold and cheeky. She later explained that they came from a place where it was always twilight and everything was green, which some people called Saint Martin's Land.
The only old stories about these green children are found in writings from William of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall, written around the late 1100s and early 1200s. After that, the story didn't appear much until the mid-19th century. Some people think the story is just a made-up tale about meeting creatures from another world, while others believe it could be based on a real event that got mixed up over time. This story inspired the English poet Herbert Read to write a novel called "The Green Child" in 1935.
Dancing Plague of 1518
The dancing plague of 1518 happened in Strasbourg, France, a long time ago. It was when a lot of people, maybe between 50 and 400, started dancing non-stop for weeks. Some experts think it was because of a kind of mass hysteria caused by stress. Others believe it could have been because of a fungus in the bread they ate or for religious reasons. People aren't sure how many people died because of it, and there's still a debate about it.
