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STRANGE SITUATIONS THAT DID NOT GO AS EXPECTED

Added on: 11th Oct 2016

 

THE SERIAL KILLER

The serial killer

When Cheryl Bradshaw appeared on the Dating Game,

she chose to go on a date with Rodney Alcala. Afterwards she

changed her mind when she said he started to “act creepy”.

Years later it turned out that Rodney was a serial killer

who was in the middle of a vicious killing spree.

 

 

THE BATTLE OF THE WATERS

The battle of the waters

After Fiji water ran an ad in 2006 that said “it’s called Fiji because

it’s not bottled in Cleveland”, the city of Cleveland took

offense and ran some test. It turns out that Cleveland’s

tap water is cleaner than Fiji’s bottled water.

 

 

THE NON-SURVIVOR

The non-survivor

Alicia Esteve Head is a Spanish woman who claimed to have

been on the 78th floor of the South Tower when it was hit. 

She even became the president of the World Trade Centre’s

Survivor Network. It was eventually revealed that she was

studying in Barcelona when the attacks happened.

 

 

THE OLDEST TREE

The oldest tree

In 1964, Donald Rusk Currey a graduate student at UNC cut

down a tree in the mountains of Nevada to study it. It was

only revealed later that he had accidentally cut down the

oldest living organism on Earth, a tree known as 

Prometheus that was more than 5,000 years old.

 

 

THE WOODCHUCK BEAR

The woodchuck bear

In 1900, a bear was donated to the city of Toledo, Ohio. The city

decided to start a zoo. It was only later that the bear

was determined to in fact be a woodchuck.

 

 

FISH FARTS

Fish farts

In 1980 the Swedish Navy detected underwater sounds off its

coast that it thought were coming from the Russian Navy.

Tensions escalated between the two countries until a

researcher discovered that the sounds were actually fish farts.

 

 

THE ROBOT COUPLE

The robot couple

People in the Chinese city of Yiwu were astounded by a

local couple that managed to run a diner for nearly

24 hours a day all by themselves. Eventually it turned

out that the diner was run by two pairs of twins

that had married each other.

 

 

A MOON ROCK…OR NOT

A moon rock...or not

The moon rock that was given to the Prime Minister of the

Netherlands in 1969 turned out to be nothing more than

petrified wood. It is still on display as a curiosity.

 

 

DISAPPOINTMENT

Dissapointment

In 1897, when Frank Hann was looking for a fresh water lake in

Australia, he followed several freshwater rivers to their end

where he found a saltwater lake. Perhaps not surprisingly

he named it Lake Disappointment.

 


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