The Internet's Rabbit Hole: Weird Wikipedia Articles I Love
the one where I share some of my fav weird wikipedia articles for spooky season
Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all my Canadian readers! It’s been a hectic couple of weeks with my new job and hockey. It’s been hard to find time to write, but I’ve found a bit of it. I’ve also been busy romanticising October. I found a lovely little routine that is working for me and my anxiety and I’m truly thriving in both my personal and work life.
📖 currently reading: Fall I Want by Lyra Parish
🎧 currently listening to: Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl (duh!)
📺 currently watching: The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror episodes with my daughter
Note: Some of these articles contain details that might shock some people.
The Dancing Plague of 1518: a dancing epidemic that happened to one city where somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for weeks in the streets without being able to stop. There are many theories on why this happened.
The Hinterkaifeck Murders: Considered one of the most gruesome and puzzling crimes in German history, the murders remain unsolved of a family of six in their house.
The Atari Video Game Burial: A mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site undertaken by the American video game and home computer company Atari, Inc. in 1983.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo: A grammatically correct sentence in English.
Capitol Hill Mystery Soda Machine: A vending machine in Capitol Hill, Seattle, notable for its “mystery” buttons which dispensed unusual drink flavors. It is unknown who restocked the machine.
Carroll A. Deering: An American five-masted commercial schooner launched in 1919 and found run aground without its crew off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in January 1921.
The Disappearance of Walter Collins: Five months after Walter went missing, a different boy claimed he was Walter. The inspiration behind The Changeling with Angelina Jolie.
Thanks,
Kirsten