Favorite Weird Cases
These are strange events, people, places, objects, and ideas that especially interest me. I don't necessarily like them (some of them are about murder, for example), and I'm skeptical of a lot of them, but I'm interested in my reactions to them and in the issues they involve.
This list is for historical and fringe science weirdness. Philosophical and religious weirdness and strange fiction will go in other lists.
Finding weird cases
There's no shortage of places on the Internet to find weird things. Here are a few I like.
- Category:Mysteries - Wikipedia
- Category:Fringe theory - Wikipedia
- Paranormal - DMOZ
- Anomalies and Alternative Science - DMOZ
- Conspiracy - DMOZ
- Stuff They Don't Want You to Know
- Paranormal Phenomena - About.com
- UFOs and Aliens - About.com
- Unresolved Mysteries - Reddit
- /x/ (Paranormal) - 4chan
- Meet 4chan's /x/philes, investigators of the Internet's strangest mysteries - The article that led me to the board.
- Strange Mysteries - YouTube
Mysterious people
Deaths
The Taman Shud Case
The Lead Masks Case
Elisa Lam
The Ourang Medan
Isdal Woman
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Disappearances
The Bermuda Triangle
- Bermuda Triangle - Wikipedia
- 5 Terrifying & Mysterious Bermuda Triangle Stories - Top5s - YouTube
- Bruce Gernon's electronic fog theory
Frederick Valentich
Unknown identities
Benjaman Kyle
Time travelers
John Titor
Mysterious artifacts
Toynbee tiles
Georgia Guidestones
Bouvet Island lifeboat
- Abandoned Boat Baffles Scientists for 70 Years - Strange Mysteries - YouTube
- An abandoned lifeboat at world's end - A Blast from the Past
Mysterious places
Oak Island
Codes and puzzles
The Voynich manuscript
- Voynich manuscript - Wikipedia
- The Voynich Manuscript: Full Color Photographic Edition - Amazon - A print replica you can buy.
Kryptos
Numbers stations
Reddit codes
Cicada 3301
Crime
The Dark Web
Alternative science
Physics
The Reciprocal System of Theory
Cosmology
The Flat Earth
Cryptozoology
Cryptids
The Bridgewater Triangle
- Bridgewater Triangle - Wikipedia
- Spooky Southcoast - A paranormal radio show located near the Bridgewater Triangle. Each year they have an episode about it.
Living dinosaurs
The Jersey Devil
Skinwalker Ranch
The Mothman
The Loch Ness Monster
Bigfoot
- Patterson–Gimlin film - Wikipedia - I don't care much about Bigfoot in general, but this film is intriguing.
Cryptid researchers
Loren Coleman
Psychology
ESP
Diane Hennacy Powell
Rupert Sheldrake
The pineal gland
- The Pineal Gland: A Third Eye? - Stuff They Don't Want You to Know Podcast
- DMT: You Cannot Imagine a Stranger Drug or a Stranger Experience - Vice - I don't condone the illegal use of hallucinogens and have no plans to try them, but this research is interesting.
Conspiracies
The New World Order
The shadow government
The JFK assassination
UFOs and aliens
UFO sightings
The Phoenix Lights
The 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
UFO researchers
Jacques Vallée
Hugh Ross
Steven Greer
Alien races
The Dutch
It is widely known that the Netherlands is on another planet and that the country's border is a portal to that planet. The Dutch, contrary to popular belief, are not humans who colonized this alien planet long ago but are aliens who visit Earth whenever they travel to other countries.
Spirit beings
Ghosts
Country House Restaurant in Clarendon Hills
A local haunting. Chicagoland doesn't seem to have many.
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery
Another Chicagoland haunting.