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PECULIAR SITUATIONS THAT DID NOT GO AS EXPECTED

Added on: 17th Jul 2016

 

THE GRIM REAPER

The grim reaper

In 1961, three people died in a British retirement home when they

saw the grim reaper at the window. It turned out to be

another retiree wearing a mask.

 

 

THE BAD GOOD GUY

The bad good guy

When Los Angeles suffered a series of arson attacks in the

80’s, an intense investigation didn’t turn up any leads.

Eventually, however, it became clear as to why. The arsonist

turned out to be the lead investigator, the fire captain, 

John Leonard Orr.

 

 

THE OLDEST SKELETON

The oldest skeleton

When officials in Tokyo wanted to congratulate the oldest man

in the city for his 111th birthday (Sogen Kato), they instead

found his 30 year old skeleton. Apparently his family was

still getting money from his pension.

 

 

THE REAL BODY

The real body

When a film crew went to a Los Angeles haunted house in 1976,

they filmed a hanging mannequin…except it wasn’t a

mannequin. It turned out to be a dead body that had been

circulated among haunted houses for the past 60 years.

Actually, it was the body of Elmer McCurdy, a train robber

who was killed in a police shootout in 1911.

 

 

OOPS

Oops

In 1983, a man confessed to killing his wife when a body was

discovered outside his house. It eventually turned out to be

an ancient mummified body (the Lindow woman) but 

Peter Reyn-Bardt was convicted on account of his testimony.

 

 

HYSTERIA

Hysteria

When dozens of Palestinian girls started fainting all of a

sudden in 1983, accusations of chemical warfare were all

over the headlines. It eventually turned out that the fainting’s

were the result of mass hysteria. Today it is known as the 

1983 West Bank fainting epidemic.

 

 

TWO SOLDIERS

Two soldiers

During World War I, Henry Tandey, a British soldier stumbled

across a wounded German soldier and chose not to kill him.

That wounded soldier turned out to be Adolf Hitler.

 


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