To paraphrase a popular saying, nothing in this world is certain except that socks disappear in the laundry and taxes. It's why we bring an umbrella even when the highest-paid weatherman predicts blue skies.
To illustrate this point, the members of the subreddit 'Strange Earth' share unsettling conspiracy theories, bizarre coincidences, unexpected animal behaviors, and everything else that challenges our understanding of reality.
After all, you can't write surreal without real. Life imitates art imitates life imitates art imitates...
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On July 9, 2020, 6-Year-Old Bridger Walker Saved His Little Sister From A Dog Attack. He Had 90 Stitches All Over His Body, But Saved His 3-Year-Old Sister From Certain Death
He stated, “If anyone has to die, it's me. I'm the big brother.” The World Boxing Council recognized him as a world champion
In 1996, Binti Jua, A Then 8-Year-Old Female Gorilla, Rescued A 3-Year-Old Boy Who Fell 25 Feet Into Her Enclosure And Broke His Hand
She carried him near a service door and handed him over to the paramedics. Binti is still alive today and has also become a grandmother.
And Harambe was killed before he did anything. So much distrust.
Judith Love Cohen Was American Aerospace Engineer Who Helped Create Abort-Guidance System That Rescued Apollo 13 Astronauts
When she went into labor, she took her work to the hospital, printed out the problem, called her boss, and said she finished it before giving birth to Jack Black.
In 2017, A 10-Year-Old Florida Girl Juliana Ossa Fought Off A Deadly Alligator Attack By Sticking Her Two Fingers Up The Alligator's Nose
This forced the alligator to open its mouth to breathe, which freed the girl's leg and she escaped. She had learned the trick from Gatorland
In 2015, A Father Saved His Son's Life When Doctors Wrongly Declared Him Brain-Dead And Were Taking Him Off Life Support
He barricaded himself with a gun in the hospital and had a stand-off with SWAT until his son squeezed his hand. The son made a full recovery
minutes Before The 2004 Tsunami Hit Thailand, Tilly Smith, 10 Y.o. Girl Warned Her Parents It Was Coming
While on beach, she recognized the warning signs of a tsunami as she had learned them in geography class just two weeks earlier. She is credited with saving the lives of hundreds of tourists.
In 2019, Fred Pepperman, A 53-Year-Old Father Swam Out To Rescue His Daughters When Grace (16), Olivia (20), & Kathryn (24) Caught In A Riptide On A Florida Beach
When his daughters were saved, he fell unconscious. He died on his way to the hospital. His last words to them were “I got you.”
A Local Fisherman Chito In Costa Rica Nursed A Crocodile Back To Health After It Had Been Shot In Head, And Released The Reptile Back To Its Home
The next day, Chito discovered “Pocho” had followed him home and was sleeping on the man’s porch. For 20 years Pocho became part of the man’s family.
That turned out better then they guy who saved a hippo cub and six years later was eaten by it.
Today I Learned Scientists Discovered A Dinosaur Tail Perfectly Preserved In Amber. It Is Full Of Feathers
In 1999, Harvard Physicist Lene Hau Was Able To Slow Down Light To 17 Meters Per Second. In 2001, She Was Able To Stop Light Completely
In 2005, Professor Lene Hau did something that Einstein theorized was impossible. Hau stopped light cold using atoms and lasers in her Harvard lab
Aleksander Doba Kayaked Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean (5400 Km, Under His Own Power) Three Times, Most Recently In 2017 At Age Of 70
He died in 2021 while climbing Kilimanjaro. After reaching top asked for a two-minute break before posing for photo. He then sat down on a rock & "just fell asleep"
15yo Mary Vincent, Who In 1970's Hitched A Ride With A Stranger. She Was Then Brutally Assaulted In The Van, Had Both Of Her Arms Chopped Off, And Was Then Thrown Down A 30 Ft Cliff
She packed the stumps with mud and climbed back up to run naked in the street to flag down help.
Nice to see a more current photo of her this time. Usually only the first photo is posted.
In 2013, Harrison Okene Spent 60 Hours Underwater, In Total Darkness, After His Vessel Capsized 20 Miles Off The Coast Of Nigeria And Sunk To The Bottom Of The Sea
He was discovered alive by divers sent to recover dead bodies
A 9,000-Year-Old Skeleton Was Found In 2018 Inside A Cave In Cheddar, England, And Was Nicknamed “Cheddar Man”
His DNA was tested and it was concluded that a living relative was teaching history about a 1/2 mile away, tracing back nearly 300 generations.
It's amazing how much they look alike, despite the genes being diluted over the centuries. I'm not being sarcastic, I mean it. It is amazing how long genes "live".
In 1948, A Man Wore 30-Pound, Three-Toed Lead Shoes & Stomped Around A Florida Beach During The Night
The footprints lead people to believe that a 15-foot-tall penguin was roaming their lands. He kept up the prank for 10 years, visiting various beaches. The hoax wasn't revealed until 40 years later
From A Million Miles Away, Nasa Captures Moon Crossing Face Of Earth. (Yes, This Is Real) Credit: Nasa/Noaa
She Is The Youngest New Zealand Mp And Performs The Traditional Māori Haka Dance In Parliament. Her Ancestry Dates Back 5,000 Years
In 1999, Skydiver Joan Murray’s Parachutes Malfunctioned, Leaving Her To Free-Fall 14,500 Feet Above North Carolina, Landing Directly On A Fire Ants' Mound
Miraculously, she survived. Doctors believe that being stung over 200 times by ants triggered a surge of adrenaline, keeping her heart beating
That is why I carry a handful of fireants with myself. Who knows when I will need that rush.
62-Year-Old Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Found Dead In His Truck After He Didn't Show Up For A Legal Interview Linked To A Case Against Boeing
Barnett worked for Boeing for 32 years and retired in 2017. After retiring, Barnett spoke out about how Boeing was cutting corners on their airplanes
Nikola Tesla's Last Message To His Mother: "All These Years That I Had Spent In The Service Of Mankind Brought Me Nothing But Insults And Humiliation."
Tesla was an innate genius but also a deeply troubled man. At this point in his life his mind was just not there anymore. Not that this quote was wrong, mind you, but it was the point in his life where he had already squandered tons of investors money in endeavors that were clearly scientifically impossible (wireless "free" energy transmission and "death rays"), he alienated most of his friends -including Einstein- through petty comments and was used to to wild claims just to get some money from newspapers and speeches. At that point the research world had caught up and expanded his intuitions, and had mastered scientifically the concepts that Tesla had handled with just a practitioner grasp.
Ancient Babylonian Tablet Reveals Pythagorean Theorem -
I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility that people before Pythagoras noticed the relationship between the lengths of different sides of a triangle. It's likely that Pythagoras is just the one whose description of it survived.
This Is Point Nemo, The Spot Farthest Away From Any Land In The World. You Are Closer To Astronauts Aboard The Iss Than Humanity
A Japanese Man Named Yasuo Takamatsu Lost His Wife In The 2011 Earthquake And Has Not Stopped Looking For Her Body For More Than 10 Years
He has dived more than 800 times into the ocean in an attempt to retrieve her
New Analysis Of Ancient Footprints From White Sands Confirms The Presence Of Humans In North America During The Last Glacial Maximum 21,500 Years Ago
The Lost Girl, 1874 Blanche Monnier Was A Parisian Socialite, Known For Her Beauty
She wished to marry an old lawyer that her mother disapproved of, so she locked her in a small dark room in her attic for 25 years. the left one's taken in the 1870's, the right in 1901 after she was discovered.
A Bible Believed To Be 1,500 Years Old Challenges The Crucifixion Of Jesus Christ, Proposing That It Was Judas Who Was Crucified By Roman Soldiers
This ancient text, known as the Gospel of Barnabas, recently surfaced in Turkey's Ethnography Museum of Ankara, causing significant controversy.
FBI Agent Robert Hanssen Was Tasked To Find A Mole Within The FBI After The FBI's Moles In The Kgb Were Caught
Robert Hanssen was the mole and had been working with KGB since 1979. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history.
16 Years After The Death Of Nicole Van Den Hurk, Her Stepbrother Andy Falsely Confessed To Ki****g Her To Get Her Body Exhumed For DNA Testing Which Lead To The Arrest And Prosecution Of Her Attacker
Andy believed that his father was responsible for Nicole's death.
It was not, in fact, Nicole's stepfather, but a man named "Jos de G." was arrested and found guilty of rape and manslaughter.
Turkey Is Home To Over 200 Ancient Underground Cities
The largest, the Derinkuyu underground city, is nearly 445 square kilometers and could house an estimated 20,000 inhabitants within its 18 levels of tunnels.
1991: A Man Vanishes After Telling His Family He's Going On A Business Trip. 2021: A Car Stops In Front Of This Man's Home And Drops Him Off
He is wearing the same clothes, can't remember where he's been all these years & is looking like he was very well taken care of. The curious case of Mr Gorgos
In 1998, A Married Couple Was Left Behind During A Diving Trip To The Great Barrier Reef. Two Days Passed Before Anyone Realized What Had Happened
Despite a 5-day search, the couple was never found. A dive slate was later recovered which read "... rescue us before we die..."
The Platypus Is Possibly The Weirdest Animal: It's A Mammal But Lays Eggs, It's Duck-Billed, Beaver-Tailed, Otter-Footed And Venomous
It has electroreceptors for locating prey, eyes with double cones, no stomach, and 10 chromosomes. It's fluorescent and glows under UV light.
I would love to know what horrific natural predators they had to deal with back in the evolutionary scale to have developed these... Interesting... Traits
In 2006, This Argentinian Police Officer Was Found After An 18-Hour Search In A State Of Complete Shock
He said "short beings with red eyes" had taken him and he had "memories like he was in his mother's womb." He was found 20km away he was last seen with his clothes dry despite heavy rain.
In 2013, A Florida Man, Jeff Bush, Was Sleeping In His Bedroom When A Large Sinkhole Opened Up Directly Underneath His Bed, Swallowing Him And His Entire Bedroom
His brother heard him scream, but was unable to see or reach him in time. Bush’s body was never recovered.
Sheldon Johnson, Ex-Con Who Appeared On Joe Rogan Advocating For Rehabilitative Justice, Has Been Arrested After Police Found A Torso In His Apartment
In May 2019, Amanda Eller Was Lost For 17 Days In The Forests Of Maui After A Three-Mile Hike Turned Into A Harrowing Ordeal
She set out on foot without a cell phone, food, or water, as she only planned to be out for a short jaunt. After venturing off the trail, she wasn’t able to find her way back. She suffered from severe sunburn, leg injuries, and the loss of her shoes but survived by eating berries, drinking stream water, and sleeping among leaves. After more than two weeks, a rescue helicopter spotted her atop a waterfall.
Always bring water and be prepared, you may never know what can happen during a hike
Martin Pistorius Slipped Into A Coma Aged 12 But He Could Not Move, Communicate, Or Do Anything For Himself For 10 More Years
His mind was awake when was 14 or 15 y.o but trapped in his lifeless body. He heard his mother saying 'I hope you die' to him. Everybody lost hope but he survived.
"Locked-in" syndrome. He survived and recovered partially. He got married, became a web designer and developer, competed in wheelchair racing, and wrote a book about his experience ("Ghost Boy"). He said he forgave his mother and was trying to focus on the present, rather than the past.
The Very Last Photo Of Chester Bennington (The Lead Singer Of Linkin Park) Taken By His Wife Just One Day Before He Tragically Took His Own Life
In 1998, Michael Hill Was Stabbed In The Brain With An 8-Inch Serrated Blade When Answering Door At Friend’s House.
"After 7 days, he left the hospital with memory loss & a paralyzed left hand. The knife caused permanent memory damage, but it was the largest object ever removed from a human brain."
On May 31, 2014, 12-Y.o. Payton Leutner Was Lured Into Waukesha Woods, Wi By Her Friends, Morgan & Anissa. Morgan Stabbed Leut 19 Times With A Kitchen Knife As Anissa Looked On
Their aim: to please Slender Man. Despite grave injuries, she crawled to a path, flagged down a cyclist & survived.
Man With Radium Poisoning, Chelyabinsk Region, Russia
Chelyabinsk is the place of the first nuclear disaster generated by a nuclear plant. But it happened during the cold war, the soviets denied having any nuclear plants there and turned the area into natural reservation with restricted access. If the lessons of Chelyabinsk had been learned, perhaps Chernobyl could have been avoided.
Dr. Irving Finkel With A 3,770-Year-Old Tablet Containing Instructions From The God Enki To Sumerian King Atram-Hasis
(Noah figure in earlier versions of the flood story) to build a 220 ft diameter round ark coracle.
A Group Of Six Teenagers Were Discovered Living On A South Pacific Island, Named Ata
The man who found them, an Australian adventurer named Peter Warner, was shocked to learn that they'd gone missing 15 months earlier (1966)
Bit more info here, as the title leaves things pretty sparse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_castaways
Just A Reminder That There’s A Perfect Hexagon Cloud Formation Over Saturn’s North Pole
In The Year 1912, 4 Year Old Boy Named Bobby Dunbar Went Missing While On Family Trip. 8 Months Later, Bobby Was Found & Reunited Him With His Family
Almost 100 years later, DNA evidence proved that child who they found wasn’t actually Bobby. No one knows what happened to the real Bobby Dunbar.
Want To Hear Something Insane? A Japanese Man Noticed His Food Going Missing So He Set Up A Webcam And Found That A Woman Had Been Secretly Living In His Closet For A Year
Ivan Lester Mcguire, An Experienced Skydiver, Was Documenting A Tandem Jump On Apr 2, 1988
He was so engrossed in his filming that he made a critical error: He forgot to equip himself with parachute when jumped. Ivan continued filming, with his last words captured on camera being, "Oh my God, no!"
Can you imagine getting to the point when the tandem jump have opened their chute and, from your perspective, shot up into the air, and you then reach around to pull your own ripcord... only to find there isn't one? That must be an awful feeling.
Genie Wiley, Girl Who Was Raised In A Dark Isolated Room With No Indication Of An Outside World For The First 13 Years, Her Father Was Incredibly Abusive, & She Was Rescued Her In 1970
She couldn't speak at all & only made infantile noises. She lived 10 years of her life chained to the potty chair.
In 1992, Annette Herfkens Survived Crash That Killed Everyone Else On Board, Including Love Of Her Life. Merely 50 Mins Into Their Flight, Plane Crashed Into Mountainous Vietnamese Jungle
She was trapped with dead bodies for 192 hours & had thoughts of cannibalizing bodies around her to survive.
Here is a decent article that goes a little more in-depth into things. She had been with her fiancé for 13 years :( https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/25/how-we-survive-i-was-the-sole-survivor-of-a-plane-crash
In 2018, 26-Year-Old Missionary John Chau Tried To Convert His Killers After Attempting Contact With The World’s Most Isolated People In The Indian Ocean
At least five of these were bollocks.the kubrik one got under my skin but saying crop circles weren't made by man shows ineptitude, they were debunked years ago.and nobody found alexander the great so that was poppycock.
The farmers who own the fields lose thousands due to crop loss - stupid jokes causing pain
Load More Replies...Love these types of lists, even if some are not correct. They still trigger me to investigate such as the American Stone Henge. I looked that up separately.
At least five of these were bollocks.the kubrik one got under my skin but saying crop circles weren't made by man shows ineptitude, they were debunked years ago.and nobody found alexander the great so that was poppycock.
The farmers who own the fields lose thousands due to crop loss - stupid jokes causing pain
Load More Replies...Love these types of lists, even if some are not correct. They still trigger me to investigate such as the American Stone Henge. I looked that up separately.