Barbara Mackle kidnapping - Infamous case of a woman who was kidnapped and buried alive in a custom built box with an air pump while her captors awaited ransom ( en.wikipedia.org )
Sharon Lee Gallegos - American murder victim known as "Little Miss Nobody" after efforts to identify her proved unsuccessful for almost 62 years ( en.wikipedia.org )
Tunguska event - 12 megaton explosion in 1908 over East Siberia, flattened 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi). Generally attributed to a meteor air burst, no impact crater found. ( en.wikipedia.org )
1973 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bank robbery - Robber was never identified after he was sniped while surrendering and the homemade bomb he was carrying detonated ( en.wikipedia.org )
Gombe Chimpanzee War - Violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in the Kigoma region of Tanzania between 1974 and 1978 ( en.wikipedia.org )
Eight Immortals Restaurant murders - Murders over a debt which started an urban legend involving the victims and pork buns ( en.wikipedia.org )
Mokele-mbembe - Mythical water-dwelling entity that supposedly lives in the Congo River Basin sometimes described as a living creature or sometimes as a spirit ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that in 2012 a large solar storm nearly missed Earth by a margin of nine days. If it hit, it could have caused damages to a cost of around $2.6 trillion. ( en.wikipedia.org )
Tammy Lynn Leppert - American actress on Scarface and Springbreak who disappeared under mysterious circumstances at the age of 18 ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL the original word for "wolf" in Swedish was "ulv." Superstition lead to people adopting the word "varg," which originally meant "stranger." They believed that saying "ulv" would summon a wolf ( en.wikipedia.org )
H. H. Holmes, conman with a murder hotel ( en.wikipedia.org ) This is a good one I've known about for a while. He's the kind of guy who could build a batcave for Batman.
Scott Helvenston - Former reality show contestant on "Combat Missions" and Navy SEAL who was killed two years later in Fallujah by Iraqi insurgents ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL: Wikipedia.org has over 6.7 million English articles, and close to 60 million total wiki pages ( en.wikipedia.org )
Vase de Noces - 1974 Belgian arthouse film that translates to "Wedding vase" but is more popularly known as "The Pig Fucking Movie" ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that in order to avoid having to surrender to the Soviets, the German commander of Bornholm tried to get a single British soldier transferred to the island to surrender to ( en.wikipedia.org )
John Schneeberger - Evaded arrest for years by implanting a fake blood sample in his arm to confound DNA tests ( en.wikipedia.org )
Donner Party - "...But thank God we have all got through and the only family that did not eat human flesh..." ( en.wikipedia.org )
The Falling Man - Photograph taken by AP photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks ( en.wikipedia.org )
Guinea Pig - Japanese splatter film series from the 80s that gained notoriety after Charlie Sheen reported it to the FBI as a snuff film ( en.wikipedia.org )