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- 11B-X-1371
- The 1900 Flannan Lighthouse Disappearances
- 1973 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bank robbery
- 2017 Wichita swatting
- 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident
- 2020 Tarlac shooting
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- Aberfan Disaster
- ABLA Homes
- Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
- Aeroflot Flight 6502
- Akinwale Arobieke
- Albert Fish
- Alcor Life Extension Foundation
- Alice in Wonderland syndrome
- Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward
- Anatoly Moskvin
- Anencephaly
- Anglerfish
- Amelia Dyer
- America Sings accident
- Murders of Andrew Bagby and Zachary Turner
- Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell
- Amorphophallus titanum
- Aradale Mental Hospital
- Arecibo Message
- Arwin Meiwes
- Ashley Treatment
- Atacama Skeleton
- Atretochoana
- Aum Shinrikyo
- The Axeman of New Orleans
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- Baby farming
- Badge Man
- Bai Jing
- Baleroy Mansion
- Balut
- Barbara Mackle kidnapping
- Bath School Massacre
- Beast of Bray Road
- Beasts of Satan
- Bela Kiss
- Bell Witch
- Belmez Faces
- Ben McDaniel
- Bison Dele
- Black Hand (Extortion)
- Murder of Blair Adams
- Bluebelle
- Body in the Cylinder
- Book of Soyga
- Bowel Movement Bandit
- The Boy in the Box (see Joseph Augustus Zarelli)
- Brandon Vedas aka. Ripper
- Brazen Bull
- Breast Ironing
- Brian Wells (Pizza Bomber)
- Bryce Dejean-Jones
- Bugchasing
- Bunny Man
- Byron Looper
- Byford Dolphin incident
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- Candace Newmaker
- Capitol Hill's Mystery Soda Machine
- Cara Knott
- Caril Ann Fugate
- Carl Tanzler aka. Carl Von Cosel
- Carnac Stones
- Cattle Mutilation
- Centralia, Pennsylvania
- Cephalophore
- Chantal Lavigne
- Chelyabinsk meteor
- Choking Game
- Chicago Tylenol Murders
- Chris Benoit
- Christopher Wilder
- Christine Chubbuck
- Cicada 3301
- Circleville Letters
- Clinton Road, New Jersey
- Clownhouse
- Codex Gigas
- Colma, California
- The Complete Manual of Suicide
- Copiale cipher
- Cortical Homunculus
- Cotard's Syndrome
- Country Bill White
- Covina Massacre
- Crooked Forest
- Crypt of Civilization
- Curupira
- Cymothoa exigua
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- Dancing plague of 1518
- Daniel V. Jones
- Dardeen Family Homicides
- Davao Death Squad
- D. B. Cooper
- D.C. Sniper Attacks (Beltway Snipers)
- Dead (Musician)
- Dean Corll
- Death Anxiety
- Death Rattle
- Dee Dee Blanchard
- Demon Cat (Washington DC)
- Demon Core
- Denver International Airport Conspiracy Theories
- The Devil's Footprints
- Devil's Tramping Ground
- Dmitry and Natalia Baksheevy
- Donner Party
- Dunblane Massacre
- Dupont de Ligonnès murders
- Dyatlov Pass Incident
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- Ed Gein
- Eight Immortals Restaurant murders
- Elan School
- Electronic Voice Phenomenon
- Elizabeth Báthory
- Elizabeth Sugrue
- Encephalitis lethargica
- Enumclaw Horse Sex Case (Kenneth D. Pinyan)
- Equine chorionic gonadotropin
- Euthanasia Coaster
- Evil Clown
- Excited Delirium
- Execution Van
- Experiments in the Revival of Organisms
- Eyestalk ablation
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- The Falling Man
- Fatal Insomnia
- Feedback (pork industry)
- Felix Moncla
- Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
- Firmament
- Flag Building
- Flatwoods Monster
- Florida School for Boys
- Fredrick Valentich
- Freedomites
- Fremont Troll
- French frigate Méduse
- Fritzl case (Josef Fritzl)
- From Hell letter
- Futoshi Matsunaga
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- Death of Gareth Williams
- Gary Gilmore
- Gary Plauche
- Garry Hoy
- Gas gangrene
- Gay Bomb
- Genickschussanlage
- Genie (Feral Child)
- Georgia Guidestones
- Gerald Bull
- Gerald Foos
- GG Alin
- Gilles de Rais
- Gloomy Sunday
- Gloria Ramirez (The Toxic Lady)
- Goiânia accident
- Gombe Chimpanzee War
- Gong Farmer
- Great Sheep Panic of 1888
- Green Boots
- Guinea Pig (Film Series)
- Gustl Mollath
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- The Hands Resist Him
- Harlequin-type Ichthyosis
- Hammersmith Ghost Murder Case
- Harold Shipman
- Harpe Brothers
- Henry Darger
- Herbert Mullin
- Hessdalen Lights
- Hexham Heads
- HH Holmes
- Hinterkaifeck murders
- hitchBOT
- Hold your Wee for a Wii Contest
- House of Terror
- Human fat
- Human Shadow Etched in Stone
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- IBM and the Holocaust
- Ilya Ivanov
- Inokashira Park dismemberment incident
- Immurement
- Incorruptibility
- 2017 Interstate 75 rock-throwing murders
- Inunaki Village
- Isadora Duncan
- La Islas De Munecas/Island of The Dolls
- Issei Sagawa
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- Jam (TV series)
- James Arthur Ray
- The Murder of James Bulger
- Jane Toppan
- Jauhar
- Jennifer Pan
- Jenkem
- Jerry Brudos
- Jetpack Man
- Jimmy Savile
- John Allen Chau
- John Balcerzak
- John Jamelske
- John Schneeberger
- John Stonehouse
- Joji Obara
- JonBenét Ramsey
- Jonestown Massacre
- Joseph Augustus Zarelli aka. The Boy in the Box
- Joseph James DeAngelo
- Joy of Satan Ministries
- Joyce Vincent
- Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
- Junko Furuta
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- Kai Tak Airport
- Karl Koch
- Karni Mata Temple
- Katherine Knight
- Kevin Underwood
- Kid Nation
- Kiki Camarena
- Kim Wall (Peter Madsen murder victim)
- Klaus Barbie
- Klerksdorp sphere
- Kryptos
- Krystian Bala
- Krzywy Domek
- Kuru (Laughing Sickness)
- Murder of Kyle Dinkheller (by Andrew Howard Brannan)
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- Lake Michigan Triangle
- Lake Nyos disaster
- Lars Mittank
- Lead Masks Case
- Leblouh
- Leo and Me
- Leucochloridium paradoxum
- The Lesser Key of Solomon
- Lingchi
- List of last words
- List of Suicides
- Lithopedion
- Live Scenes from New York (album)
- A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
- The Lottery
- Love Bug aka. I Love You virus
- Lucy Letby
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- Mad Gasser of Mattoon
- The Mad Pooper
- Manchineel
- Marquis de Sade
- Mary Kay Letourneau
- Marvin Heemeyer (Killdozer)
- Mary Celeste
- Mary Ellis grave
- Mary Lwyd
- Mary Mallon
- Max Headroom Signal Hijacking
- Mellified Man
- Men Behind The Sun
- Michael Larson
- Min Min
- MKUltra
- Mokele-mbembe
- Mona Fandey
- Mongolian Death Worm
- Monster Study
- The Monster with 21 Faces
- Moonville, Ohio
- Morgellons
- Moscow theater hostage crisis
- Murchison Murders
- Murder in Small Town X
- My Lai massacre
- Mystery airship
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- Nakem
- Nannie Doss
- Natalia Grace
- Neurocysticercosis
- New England Vampire Panic
- Nikki Catsouras
- Nine familial exterminations
- Nitrogen narcosis
- Norwegian Rocket Incident
- Numbers Station
- Nurse with Wound list
- Nutty Putty Cave
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- Ofuna Prisoner of War Camp
- Omagh bombing
- Operation Auca
- Operation Midnight Climax
- The Order of Nine Angles
- Order of the Solar Temple
- Out of the Loop (music album)
- Over The Edge (1999)
- Overtoun Bridge
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- Patokmskiy Crater
- Patterson-Gimlin Film
- Peshtigo Fire
- Peter Kurten
- Peter Scully
- Peter Stumpp
- Phaistos Disc
- Phineas Gage
- Phoenix Program
- Pinworm infection
- Piroska Jancsó-Ladányi
- Pit of Despair
- Polanski Petition
- Polybius
- Pope Lick Monster
- Portlock, Alaska
- Portal (band)
- Post Mortem Photography
- Project A119
- Protect and Survive
- Pseudacteon
- Pykrete
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- Rat King
- Raymond Robinson (Green Man)
- Death of Raymond Zack
- Red Asphalt
- Red rain in Kerala
- Remote Control Animal
- The Residents
- Resurrectionists (UK)
- Reynaldo Dagsa
- Ricardo Lopez (Bjork stalker)
- Richard Paul Pavlick
- Roanoke Colony
- Robert (Doll)
- Robert Durst
- Robert Pickton
- Robert Sandifer
- Roko's basilisk
- Romanian Orphans
- Ronald DeFeo Jr.
- Roy Sullivan
- Ruben Enaje
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- Sada Abe
- Sailing Stones
- Salema porgy
- Salish Sea Human Foot Discoveries
- Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom
- Satanic Panic
- Sawney Bean
- Scaly-foot gastropod
- Scaphism
- Schistosoma
- Schwedentrunk
- Sedlec Ossuary
- Sendaya Prison
- A Serbian Film
- Setagaya family murder
- Seven Gates of Hell
- Sharon Lee Gallegos
- Sharpe family murders
- Shell Grotto
- Shrunken Head
- Signal 30
- Silver Train of Stockholm
- Sin Eater
- Si-Te-Cah
- Slender Man
- Sloth Bear of Mysore
- Solifugae (Camel Spider)
- Somerton Man
- Sonderkommando photographs
- Song of Songs
- SOS incident
- Southern Television Broadcast Interruption
- St. James Davis chimpanzee attack
- Suicide of Takako Konishi
- Swill Milk
- Sympathetic Alphabet
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- Tammy Lynn Leppert
- Tanganyika laughter epidemic
- Tango of Death
- Tank Man
- Tarrare
- Tasaday
- Taylor Mitchell
- Tesco bomb campaign
- Theralizumab
- Tiger Parenting
- Tim McLean
- Titan Submersible Incident
- Tomorrow's Pioneers
- Tonton Macoute
- Toynbee tiles
- Traumatic Insemination
- Trepanning
- Troubled Teen Industry
- Tunga penetrans
- Tunguska event
- Tuskegee Syphillis Study
- TWA Flight 800
- Twilight Zone: The Movie
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- Vanishing Hitchhiker
- Vase de Noces
- Venereology
- Verruckt
- Victor of Aveyron
- Villisca axe murders
- Vivos (Underground Shelter)
- Vladimir Smirnov
- Voynich Manuscript
- The Vulture and The Little Girl
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- Walburga Oesterreich
- Weather Station Kurt
- Who put Bella down the Wych Elm?
- Wicked Bible
- Winchester Mystery House
- Wonderland Amusement Park (Beijing)
- Wooden Spoons Museum
- Wow! Signal
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Funeral rites of the Torajan people- includes the yearly exhumation and grooming of the deceased
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