drtdale, Author at Odd or What?Odd or What?

The Girl Who Mailed Herself to The Beatles
— March 12, 2026

In June 1966, at the peak of Beatlemania, a 12 year old schoolgirl from…
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The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic: When Laughter Turned into an Outbreak
— March 9, 2026

In January 1962, something extraordinary—and deeply unsettling—began at a small mission-run boarding school for…
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The Kentucky Meat Shower: When Flesh Fell From a Clear Blue Sky
— March 6, 2026

In the rolling hills of Bath County, Kentucky, an ordinary spring day in 1876…
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The Dyatlov Pass Incident: One of History’s Enduring Mysteries
— March 4, 2026

In late January 1959, ten experienced hikers from the Ural Polytechnical Institute in Sverdlovsk…
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The Hinterkaifeck Farm Murders: Bavaria’s Enduring Nightmare
— March 3, 2026

In the isolated woods of rural Bavaria, just 70 kilometers north of Munich, a…
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The Hanging of “Murderous Mary”
— March 2, 2026

The hanging of “Murderous Mary” in 1916 remains one of the most unusual and…
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The Great Boston Molasses Flood: When Sweetness Turned Deadly
— February 26, 2026

On January 15, 1919, the North End of Boston—a vibrant immigrant neighborhood near the…
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The Tunguska Event: The Day the Sky Exploded Over Siberia
— February 24, 2026

On the morning of June 30, 1908, at approximately 7:17 a.m. local time, a…
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The Mysterious Vanishing of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers (1900)
— February 23, 2026

On December 26, 1900 — Boxing Day — the lighthouse tender ship Hesperus steamed…
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The Strange Craze of Goldfish Swallowing: A Peculiar College Fad of the 1930s
— March 1, 2024

In the annals of college history, there have been some truly bizarre trends and…
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