In 1599, a royal physician decided to put a demonically possessed woman to the test — and what he discovered raised questions that science still can’t fully answer.
Tag: strange history
A Grave-Robbing Bomber, A Ghost In The Dam, And Babe Ruth’s Best Year
A man robs a grave, murders a hermit, and then decides to take up bombing. A ghost has been standing in the same flooded tunnel for over 160 years. Workers may still be sealed inside one of America’s most famous landmarks. A gunman holding dozens of hostages picks up the phone and calls a radio station. A soldier walks off base in the middle of the night — and keeps walking. And a real boy named Ken becomes the most famous plastic man in history.
Harriet Tubman’s Visions: The Part of Her Story They Left Out of the Textbooks
A two-pound iron weight fractured her skull as a teenager, and the visions it triggered guided every decision she made on the Underground Railroad — yet this part of her story almost never gets told.
Japan’s Last WWII Soldier, a Cannibal’s Waiting List, and Barbie’s Dirty Secret
On March 9, a soldier in the Philippine jungle kept a thirty-year war going on sheer loyalty alone, a cannibal in Germany discovered his hobby wasn’t technically illegal, and someone in Baltimore set out punch and balloons for time travelers who never showed up. | The Morning Weird Darkness
They Threw a Party for Time Travelers — Nobody From the Future Showed Up
In 1982, a group in Baltimore sent invitations to a party two years in advance — and also, theoretically, millions of years into the future.
The Monster of London | Britain’s First Serial Predator!
For two years, a knife-wielding predator terrorized the women of London — but when authorities finally made an arrest, the evidence was shakier than anyone wanted to admit. “The Monster” terrorized fashionable women by slashing their clothing and flesh, leading to a sensational manhunt that captured a suspect – but was he really the culprit?
A Haunted Murder Island, a Vampire Panic, and the Virus That Ruined Michelangelo’s Birthday
From ax murders on a haunted island to a mother who smuggled a gun into a courtroom — plus a computer virus that chose the worst possible birthday to go off — it’s Friday, March 6, 2026 on the Morning Weird Darkness.
Worst School Fire Ever, Spy Poisoned on a Park Bench, A U.S. President Killed By His Own Speech
One man’s completely ordinary sick day on this date would go on to cost tens of millions of people their lives. A school full of children goes up in flames. Two people were found poisoned on a park bench. Something was launched into orbit from a US military space shuttle and we still don’t know what it was. A film was screened for the first time on this date that gave the world its first vampire. And it’s a day to triple-check your grammar. | The Morning Weird Darkness
PRIORITY EARLY RELEASE! West Point’s Sealed Room, Dillinger’s Haunted Jail & the Murdered Exorcist
Four Mounties ambushed in a barn, a bank robber who escaped an escape-proof jail whose ghost never did, a murdered exorcist, a barracks room sealed shut for fifty years, and meat falling from a clear Kentucky sky — just another March 3rd.
SPRING-HEELED JACK: The Fire-Breathing Demon That Terrorized Victorian England
For nearly seven decades, a clawed, flame-spewing figure in a tight white suit and a black cloak terrorized the streets of England — and no one was ever convicted of being him.
Spring-Heeled Jack, a White House ghost, Hoodie Hoo Day, and more February 20th Creeps and Weirdness
A fire-breathing creature that terrorized London for decades and was never identified, a child who died in the White House in 1862 and by credible report has been seen in the hallways ever since, and a sold-out concert in Rhode Island that turned into one of the deadliest nightclub fires in American history — plus an opera composer who hid under his blankets for a day and woke up a legend. | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD
A Country That Erased Today, A Murder 610 Feet Underwater, A Stolen Chopper on the White House Lawn
A missing day on the calendar, a future Tarzan in the pool, a superhero who fought Nazis, a philosopher burned alive for imagining other worlds, and a stolen helicopter the Secret Service couldn’t stop. | IT HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY 17 | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD
A Cursed Tomb, a Ghost Ship With No Crew, and the Worst Way a President Has Ever Died | #MWD
A woman famous for being covered head-to-toe in hair, a ghost ship that drifted the Atlantic for eighteen months with no one aboard, an unsolved triple murder on a frozen lakeshore, and a world leader whose staff had to use scissors to separate him from his mistress. | IT HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY 16 | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD
The Devil’s Hoof Prints, a Copilot’s Last Scream, a Ship Sunk by Firemen, a Date-Specific Killer
The devil went for a walk in 1855 and left his footprints across an entire county, a copilot screamed the most chilling words in aviation history, sixty fireballs flew in formation across the sky, a serial killer only struck on one date, and the world’s largest ship was sunk by the people trying to save it. | IT HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY 9TH | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD
A King Blinded By His Own Family, a Princess Became Queen in a Tree House, And a Tesla In Orbit
On this date, a Persian king lost his throne and his eyesight courtesy of his in-laws, a secret alliance changed the course of a revolution, a famous impostor fooled the world for decades, and a princess found out she was queen while sitting in a tree. | IT HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY 6TH | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD
A Kidnapping, a Parachute Fail, America’s Unanimously Voted President, And America’s Only Emperor
From mass ritual suicide to mass hysteria, unanimous elections to ancient manuscripts that proved the Bible’s accuracy, February 4th has a body count — and a weirdness count — that spans centuries and continents.
A Ship Vanishes Without a Trace, Son of Sam’s Demonic Dog, and a Corpse That Was Executed Twice!
An unsinkable ship disappears into the Arctic void, a serial killer blames his neighbor’s possessed Labrador, laughter becomes a contagion, and England decides that being dead isn’t a good enough excuse to avoid punishment. IT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE, JANUARY 30TH | The Morning Weird Darkness
The Night the Party Caught Fire, the Sky Boomed, and Speeding Was Basically Walking | #MWD
From a royal dance floor that turned into a fire trap to a man fined for driving 8 miles an hour, history really woke up confused on this day. | IT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE, JANUARY 28 | The Morning Weird Darkness
Contaminated Vaccines, the Vampire of Sacramento, and Michael Jackson’s Flaming Hair #MWD
When a plumber’s death gives us bathroom slang and a pop star’s pomade turns him into a human torch, you know it’s going to be a weird morning. | IT HAPPENED ON THIS DATE, JANUARY 26 | The Morning Weird Darkness