Mystery
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The Bermuda Triangle’s reputation as a boat and plane-devouring chasm was first sealed in December 1945, when a group of five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers known as “Flight 19” vanished in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida. No sign of the Avengers was ever found, and a Navy seaplane sent to rescue them
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Glenn Miller, an American big band leader, disappeared under mysterious circumstances during World War II. On December 15, 1944, his plane vanished over the English Channel en route from England to Paris. Official records attribute his death to bad weather and an overloaded small aircraft. However, conspiracy theories surrounding his disappearance have persisted. Among these,
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The B-17 That Landed ItselfOn a chilly November day in 1944, an anti-aircraft crew stationed in Belgium spotted something unusual. A large plane was heading toward them, its silhouette unmistakable—it was an American B-17, the legendary “Flying Fortress.” The sight was immediately strange: the landing gear was down, and the aircraft was descending fast. There
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Early on the morning of Sunday, August 16, 1942, a U.S. Navy blimp prepared to take off from Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay to search for enemy submarines. The United States had entered World War II only nine months earlier, but Japanese subs had sunk at least half a dozen Allied ships off the
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This may sound like a joke, but it was deadly serious. Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St John’s Dance and, historically, St. Vitus’s Dance) was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time.
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One afternoon a day before Thanksgiving in 1971, a guy calling himself Dan Cooper (the media mistakenly called him D.B. Cooper) boarded Northwest Airlines flight #305 in Portland bound for Seattle. He was wearing a dark suit and a black tie and was described as a business-executive type. While in the air, he opened his
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