The Unexplained Trivia

1. Since 2007, disturbing discoveries have been made along a beach in British Columbia. What has been washing up on shore that's far out of the realm of the ordinary?

From Quiz Pass To The Unknown

Answer: severed feet

Amazingly, the human feet are found wearing running shoes. Coroners have been able to match up some of the feet that have washed up on shore in the same general vicinity. Forensic anthropologists believe that natural disasters explain the mystery. Why the coast of British Columbia? The pattern of tides and currents that occur along this Canadian province explains the proliferation of misplaced human feet.

From Quiz Unsolved Mysteries - Solved at Last?

Answer: sliding on ice that had formed underneath them

Large rocks appear to have glided along the once-lake floor with "drag marks" of their path. In 2006, scientist Ralph Lorenz found that when Death Valley temperatures drop, enough water and ice forms under the rocks to cause them to "float" or "sail" across the river. Time-lapsed video in August 2004 reportedly has confirmed the activity.

From Quiz Mysteries

Answer: Philipp Christop, Count Konigsmarck

Georg Ludwig, Crown Prince of Hanover, was married to his cousin, Sophia Dorothea. It was not a happy marriage and Sophia was never comfortable at their castle. Philipp and Sophia were childhood friends and it was not long before they became lovers. After receiving a letter from Sophia, Philipp went to see her but discovered the letter was not from her. During their meeting Philipp and Sophia planned to start a new life together and made plans to run away together the next day, but Philipp never returned for Sophia and was never seen or heard of again.

From Quiz The Psychic and Paranormal World

Answer: Spectral dog

Before the Hawaiian settlers arrived the area was said to be occupied by the Menehune. Believed to be between four inches to two feet high, these creatures inhabited the island according to folklore for centuries and were at first thought to be dwarfs.

From Quiz We know they left, but where did they go?

Answer: He was suspected of murder

After a bitter divorce John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, was suspected of murdering Sandra Rivett, the nanny of his children, and assaulting his ex-wife, Veronica Duncan. When the body was discovered Lord Lucan had fled in a borrowed car. The car was found later in East Essex but no trace of Lord Lucan was ever found.

From Quiz Perchance to Dream

Answer: sewing machine

Elias Howe was trying to invent a sewing machine. He had solved everything but how to attach thread to a needle. He had been using a needle with the hole for the thread in the middle but it wouldn't hold pieces of cloth together. In the dream, the natives were preparing to boil him alive; as he tried to get out of the big kettle they thrust their spears at him. He noticed that the spear points had holes in the ends. Thinking of the dream later, he hit upon the idea of putting the hole in the tip of the needle, rather than in the middle. And so, Mr. Howe invented the sewing machine.

From Quiz Waverly Hills: Kentucky's Most Haunted

Answer: Sanatorium

The Waverly School was originally built by the property owner as a school for his daughter. At the turn of the century, the Jefferson County area of Kentucky was beginning to see increased reports of tuberculosis. The little schoolhouse, then known as Waverly School, was rebuilt to house TB patients. The Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened its doors for the first time on July 26, 1910.

From Quiz Secrets and Lies

Answer: New York

According to the theorists, all sorts of wild stuff took place at Montauk AFB on Long Island. Scientists created teleporters and could travel anywhere in time and space meeting aliens along the way. The US government has always denied that Montauk AFB was anything more than a radar station, but after the base was closed and the park opened to the public, the military building remains strictly off limits.

From Quiz The Myrtles Plantation

Answer: St. Francisville, Louisiana

Located in St. Francisville, Louisiana, the Myrtles Plantation is sometimes called the most haunted place in the United States. It is an antebellum plantation that has survived the turmoil of war and time.

From Quiz The ABCs of EVPs

Answer: Thomas Alva Edison

Many people believe that in the 1920s, Thomas Alva Edison was reportedly building a machine to achieve spirit communication with the dead. A few years later Edison stated he was joking about the device, and that he had not been working on any spirit communication inventions.

From Quiz Weird Georgia

Answer: Mayhayley Lancaster

Mayhayley is said to have put a hand on her head and a hand on her feet and given everything between her hands to the devil for the gift of prophecy. The non-fiction novel, "The Murder in Coweta County," is about the murder in which Mayhayley helped to solve with her ability. Her tombstone today is said to be cursed. People who steal it or part of it encounter bad luck, or even death. Several people who have stolen it have died in a car accident several days later.

From Quiz Lost Continent of Atlantis

Answer: Plato

These two elements of Plato's "Dialogues" were the first accounts of the lost society of Atlantis. They made up the latter two-thirds of Plato's eighth tetralogy, "Clitophon", following the first book, "The Republic".

From Quiz A Curse Be Upon You

Answer: Chicago Cubs

Sianis had two tickets to the 4th game of the 1945 World Series between the Cubs and the Detroit Tigers. He decided to bring his goat with him, and they were allowed to enter Wrigley Field and sit in the box seats that they had tickets for. However, Phillip Knight Wrigley had the two ejected because of the goats "objectionable odor." Sianis was outraged by the ejection, and placed a curse upon the Cubs, that they would never play in a World Series at Wrigley again.

From Quiz Monsters, Maniacs, and Mysteries

Answer: Ed Gein

Ed Gein was a grave robber. He usually stole the bodies of dead women and liked to experiment with their sexual organs because his mother would not let him have any contact with women. This is where we get the "Norman Bates" model. He also wore a mask made of human skin and his furniture and his dishes and other such stuff were made from human bones. This is where we get "Leatherface". It was reported that Gein also made a woman suit from the skin of the dead women that he dug up. This is where we get the character "Buffalo Bill" from. According to the movie of his life ("Deranged"), he dug up his mother but she would not talk to him, so he figured she was unhappy and started to dig up her bridge club in an effort to lift up her spirits. When he saw no one was playing cards he surmised that they needed fresh skin so he killed and skinned a waitress. Then he tried to put her skin on his mother's. It was the killing of the waitress that led authorities to him and his activities. He also killed his best friend's fiance and tried the same thing.

From Quiz You're the Parapsychologist

Answer: You are experiencing psychokinesis.

Psychokinesis or telekinesis is the ability of the mind to move objects.

From Quiz Just a Coincidence?

Answer: A fisherman caught a cod with Mr Stoop's teeth inside it

After hearing on the radio that a fish had been caught with a set of false teeth inside, Mr Stoop realised what had happened and was reunited with his teeth.

From Quiz The Greatest Mysteries

Answer: Atlantis

Theories as to where Atlantis was located range from the Atlantic Ocean to the Island of Crete.

From Quiz Atlantis

Answer: It remains unknown

All of the above answers are theories, however this "legend" remains just that... a legend. It is not in our history books.

From Quiz Strange Things That Fell From The Sky 3

Answer: The stone had been struck by lightning, tossed up, and fallen down.

The committee, who investigated the still warm rock, came to the conclusion that there was no way a rock could exist in the sky. Their theory was that lightning had struck the ground, exposed the rock, heating it up and hurling it up into the sky, and what the peasants saw was the rock coming back down. It was commonly thought in the 17th century that stones that fell from the sky were hoaxes. Actually, in all probability, it was a meteorite that put fear in the peasants of Luce, in the province of Maine.

From Quiz More Strange Things That Fell From The Sky

Answer: Lizards

The water lizards that fell on Sacramento, California in August 1870, were two to eight inches in length. They covered the roof of the opera house and were scurrying over the pavement in the nearby vicinity. Several hundred survived for several days in a partially dug earthern basement. This article appeared in the "Sacramento Reporter" on Aug. 6, 1870.

From Quiz Strange Things That Fell From The Sky

Answer: 990 cubic ft. block of ice

In the reign of Charlemagne (ninth century AD), an enormous block of ice, 990 cubic feet (15 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 11 feet thick) fell from the sky in France according to the book "The Atmosphere" by Camille Flammarion.

From Quiz Near-Death Experiences

Answer: Raymond Moody

The others have also written about death and near-death, but Dr. Moody started the ball rolling in modern times.

From Quiz Bachelor's Grove!

Answer: A house

There is an old, white, Victorian style house that appears in the middle of the woods with a little white picket fence, and a porch swing, and an inviting light coming from within - though there is no record of a house ever being there. So if you see it, DON'T GO IN!

From Quiz Dreams

Answer: Sigmund Freud

1899 or 1900. Then, he was on his way ...

From Quiz Current and Unsolved: Crimes and Disappearances

Answer: House Democrat

What was the relationship? An affair? Why did she disappear? Who was involved - and what was the motive? Questions only - no answers.

From Quiz Famous Searches

Answer: Ponce De Leon

I've heard it said that there are some natural lithium springs ...

From Quiz Another Look At the 'Curious'

Answer: Pacific Northwest

He-she-it roams the Northwest and Western Canada.

From Quiz More from the Unknown

Answer: Whitechapel

Whitechapel was an extremely poor part of town.Life was cheap and people were extremely vulnerable.

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