On January 17, 1949, the Star Ariel passenger plane disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle in route to Kingston, Jamaica from Bermuda. It is widely known as one of the first major passenger airline disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle area. To this day it is still unclear as to what may have happened or transpired during this fateful flight. One thing is for sure though, it makes for one Whack Story.
The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen (r. 1135–1154). The children, found to be brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green colour of their skin. They spoke in an unknown language and would eat only raw broad beans. Eventually, they learned to eat other food and lost their green colour, but the boy was sickly and died around the time of his and his sister's baptism. The girl adjusted to her new life, but she was considered to be "very wanton and impudent". After she learned to speak English, the girl explained that she and her brother had come from a land where the sun never shone, and the light was like twilight. According to one version of the story, she said that everything there was green; according to another, she said it was called Saint Martin's Land. The only near-contemporary accounts are contained in William of Newburgh's Historia rerum Anglicarum and Ralph of Coggeshall's Chronicum Anglicanum, written in about 1189 and 1220, respectively. Between then and their rediscovery in the mid-19th century, the green children seem to surface only in a passing mention in William Camden's Britannia in 1586, and in two works from the early 17th century, Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy and Bishop Francis Godwin's fantastical The Man in the Moone. Two approaches have dominated explanations of the story of the green children: that it is a folktale describing an imaginary encounter with the inhabitants of another world, perhaps subterranean or extraterrestrial, or it presents a real event in a garbled manner. The story was praised as an ideal fantasy by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read in his English Prose Style, first published in 1928, and provided the inspiration for his only novel, The Green Child, published in 1935.
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon (also known as the "Anesthetic Prowler", the "Phantom Anesthetist", or simply the "Mad Gasser") was the name given to an event of alleged mass hysteria in which a person or people allegedly committed a series of apparent gas attacks in Mattoon, Illinois, during the mid-1940s. More than two dozen separate cases of gassings were reported to police over the span of two weeks, in addition to many more reported sightings of the suspected assailant. The gasser's supposed victims reported smelling strange odors in their homes which were soon followed by symptoms such as paralysis of the legs, coughing, nausea and vomiting. No one died or had serious medical consequences as a result of the gas attacks.
Police remained skeptical of the accounts throughout the entire incident. Many reported gassings had simple explanations, such as spilled nail polish or odors emanating from animals or local factories. Victims made quick recoveries from their symptoms and suffered no long-term effects. Nevertheless, local newspapers ran alarmist articles about the reported attacks and treated the accounts as fact.
In 1928, a family in Poona, India was terrorized by unrelenting poltergeist activity. From fruit being eaten with teeth marks left behind, items miraculously being hurled across rooms to items disappearing and reappearing out of thin air. Over a 3 year period the Kohn household was tortured and hundreds of documented supernatural incidents were recorded. To this day it is unclear and uncertain as to what was truly going on, but it left a lasting impression on both the family and the paranormal field.
"The Cursed Kimono" is a legend from Japan, most famously associated with the 1657 Great Fire of Meireki that devastated Edo (modern-day Tokyo). The story claims the fire started when a priest attempted to burn a cursed furisode (a long-sleeved kimono) belonging to a girl who died before she could wear it. The flames from the burning kimono, fanned by a strong wind, spread uncontrollably, burning a significant portion of the city.
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