Syd Barrett. Disappeared due to bad LSD trips and when he turned up years later at Abbey Road where Pink Floyd was recording, they didn’t recognize him.

I feel like we are all watching it happen live right now. Britney Spears.

Maybe not as bizarre but it always fascinates me how the Olsen twins managed to go from some of the most famous people in the world to private mythical beings. Good for them tho.

I think Sam Cooke deserves mentioning.
The singer was found dead - shot I believe - outside of a cheap motel, wearing only a blazer and 1 shoe.

Daniel Day Lewis quit acting to be a cobbler in Italy.

I didn’t see Jesse Smollet but faking your own beating for publicity is up there.

Duffy, the singer from Wales. Apparently she was abducted. Poor girl.

It has to be Rick Moranis, but for the most wholesome and heartbreaking reason.


The man was at the absolute peak of his career—we're talking Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. He was everywhere. Then, in the early 90s, he basically just vanished from Hollywood overnight.


For years, people thought he just got bored or "retired" because he made enough money. The reality was way heavier: his wife passed away from cancer, and he decided to walk away from the fame entirely to be a full-time single dad. He didn't want his kids being raised by nannies or in the spotlight.


It’s "bizarre" in the sense that it’s so rare to see someone in Tinseltown choose their family over a multi-million dollar career at its zenith. Most people would have tried to juggle both, but he just chose to be a dad. Honestly, he's a legend for that.

Björk. Back in the nineties, she had a stalker named Ricardo López. He got angry when she started dating a black man, so he made an acid explosive (and filmed himself naked for 20+ hours while making it) then sent it to her in the mail. He painted himself red and green then ended himself in his apartment. Four days later his friends found him, saw what was on the tapes, and the police intercepted the package en-route. Björk kept making music, but she was so shaken by the incident that she stepped all the way out of public life.

Rick Moranis.

Because it was actually done for such a rarely genuine, deeply personal, and heartfelt manner. You just don't see that. What a great father.

I visited St. Augustine when I was about 9 years old with my family and some friends. While we were there we went to the Castilo de San Marcos, a Spanish fort built in the late 1600's. In the fort there is a corner room with no windows called the "black room". It was used to store weapons but was walled up for a few hundred years, and when they opened it up again they found human skeletons in the room-meaning that they had been walled up alive.

So I was alone in this part of the fort with my mom. As she was reading the description of the room I was crouching down and looking into the room (there was a small arch to go into it). There was clearly no one else in the room, and as I said before no windows. I suddenly felt a powerful burst of wind come shooting out of the room and go right through me. I'm not exaggerating, it felt like it went in one side of my body and out the other. I ran from one side of the fort to the other in about 30 seconds. I probably would have set a world record if someone had been timing me. I was really scared. Anyway a bit after that we went into the room with a big group of people and nothing scary happened.

Years later I was watching the travel channel around Halloween time and they had a documentary about Halloween attractions around the world. After that was done Ghost Adventures came on. I usually don't watch shows like that because I've never found them very interesting, but this episode was about the Castillo de San Marcos so I decided to watch it. In the episode they go into the same room and while in the room the host stops talking mid-sentence and says "oh my god I just felt like a burst of wind go through me." Needless to say I had goosebumps all over after seeing that on TV. I still get goosebumps while talking about it.

I get it if you don't believe me, because I probably wouldn't believe it if it hadn't happened to me. But that was the creepiest thing that has happened to me that I can't explain.