A Screaming Ghost of a Beheaded Queen, a 500,000-Year-Old Spark Plug, Why Friday the 13th Is Cursed | #MWD

A Screaming Ghost of a Beheaded Queen, a 500,000-Year-Old Spark Plug, Why Friday the 13th Is Cursed | #MWD

Today we’ve got a date so loaded with bad luck that some people literally refuse to leave the house. There are arrests that may have cursed an entire day of the week forever, a ghost that hasn’t stopped screaming in almost five hundred years, a spark plug that shouldn’t exist, and a diamond so big it makes the Hope Diamond look like something you’d find in a gumball machine. Oh — and an entire city blew up. Happy Friday the 13th! | IT HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY 13 | The Morning Weird Darkness #MWD

Shadow Sorcerers, a Cave of Secrets, and a Furry Rodent Who’s Constantly Wrong About The Weather

Shadow Sorcerers, a Cave of Secrets, and a Furry Rodent Who’s Constantly Wrong About The Weather

Some dates in history collect oddities the way a junk drawer collects batteries and old keys — you open it up and wonder how all of this ended up in the same place. Today’s date is one of those. We’ve got soldiers looking up at an impossible sky, archaeologists crawling into a forgotten tomb full of mummies, a castaway whose stubbornness saved his life, a secret society that terrorized an island for decades, and a beloved rodent whose job performance would get anyone else fired. As usual, this is going to be a WEIRD and DARK morning.