A masquerade ball meant to entertain an unstable king ended with four nobles burning alive on the ballroom floor.
Tag: bizarre history
WEIRD AFTER DARK: Nazis, Nessie, Sirius, and Cosmic Mysteries
The Weird After Dark “Ghost Hosts” unpack Darren Marlar’s latest episode where WWII propaganda turned deadly serious when Mussolini claimed Italy bombed and killed the Loch Ness Monster to prove Allied weakness, a 40-year career criminal’s wife disappeared in 1879 only to be found 14 years later strangled under the kitchen floorboards, and Mali’s Dogon tribe possessed impossible knowledge about Sirius B—a star invisible without telescopes—centuries before Western science discovered it, claiming fish-like aliens gave them the information. But the real bombshell? NASA astronauts have been seeing UFOs since 1962, leading the agency to institute the code-word ‘Santa Claus’ and five-second broadcast delays after Neil Armstrong allegedly radioed from the moon in 1969: ‘These babies are huge…they’re on the moon watching us.
NAZI GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON THE LOCH NESS MONSTER: Goebbels Mocks Nessie, Allies Fight Back
When Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels declared the Loch Ness Monster a hoax to mock British intelligence and Mussolini claimed Italy bombed Nessie to death, the Allies fired back with the ultimate counter-propaganda: the lake monster survived and became a war hero.