PECULIAR SITUATIONS THAT DID NOT GO AS EXPECTED
Added on: 17th Jul 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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