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 January 20 - 26: Approx. 830,000 people are killed during a massive earthquake in China. - Japanese sergeant Shoichi Yokoi is discovered hiding on Guam... 27 years after the Second World War had ended. - The third of the 'Cleveland Torso Murderer' victims is discovered.
Three unrelated stories of a strange, unusual or dark nature.
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 January 13 - 19: 21 people are killed and 150 injured as a wave of molasses tears through a neighbourhood. - An English haberdasher is fined for breaching the peace and disturbing the balance of society... due to his hat. - A farmer finds a 'UFO nest' in Queensland, Australia.
Three unrelated stories of a strange, unusual or dark nature.  January 6 - 12: A strange organic mass washes up on Four Mile Beach, Tasmania. - A South African council worker escapes from a pythons grasp... by biting it. - A strange man, speaking a strange language, holding a strange book, appears in East Anglia.
 December 30 - January 5: King William III introduces the 'window tax' causing a strange change to many buildings. - French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier hypothesises another planet in our solar system. - The first traffic signal explodes injuring the operator.
 December 16 - 22:
The women of Weinsberg, Germany, bring about a peaceful end to a siege. - Hundreds of people in Japan, mainly children, are hospitalised after watching an episode of Pokémon. - A packed circus tent is destroyed by fire in Niterói, Brazil, killing many.  November 11 - 17: Residents of the Lough Mask area of County Mayo, Ireland, stage a boycott. - 'Pillars of light' are seen in the early morning skies over Hereford, England. - Edward Gein the 'Plainfield Ghoul' kills his final victim and his crimes are uncovered.
 November 4 - 10: Merchant ship 'Mary Celeste' is found abandoned, the cause of which is speculated for many decades. - Bram Stoker, author of 'Dracula' is born. - John Emil List murders his mother, wife and three children. It is nearly 18 years before he is brought to justice.
 October 28 - November 3: Orson Welles panics a nation as his all too real 'The War of the Worlds' radio play goes to air. - Harry Houdini dies a much agonising death. - A group of not very geographically educated convicts, attempts to walk from Australia to China, in a bid for freedom.
 October 21 - 27: A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan, burying houses and a junior school. - Annie Edson Taylor takes a trip over the Niagara Falls in a barrel - 19 year old John McCollum shoots himself, parents blame the lyrics to Ozzy Osbournes 'Suicide Solution'.
 October 14 - 20: Ronald Defeo Jr goes on trial for the mass murder of his family in their Amityville home. - After much preperation and planning, the innermost sarcophagus of Tutankhamun is opened. - Mata Hari, the 'female spy seductress' is executed after being found guilty of espionage.
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