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The road linking Manali to Leh crosses high mountain passes. One of these passes is reputedly haunted by a truck driver who died of thirst and cold during a snowstorm. The "ghost" used to approach travellers and ask them for water, only to vanish into nothingness. In order to appease his soul...

A heartbreaking video has filmed a monkey mourning at the funeral of a man who fed him for months after following the body 25 miles to be there. The tear-jerking footage reportedly shows the monkey grieving the loss of the man he had formed a bond with over a few months. Local media in Amroha...

Travellers were left baffled after walking into a railway office to find a real-life monkey “working” behind the desk. One customer captured the langur monkey sitting behind the desk in an office chair on video. The footage also showed the beast typing away on the keyboard and flipping through...

India official drains entire dam to retrieve phone By Mattea Bubalo BBC News It took three days to pump millions of litres of water out of the dam, after Rajesh Vishwas dropped the device while taking a selfie. By the time it was found, the phone was too water-logged to work. Mr Vishwas...

On New York-Delhi flight again, man urinates on co-flyer INDIA (Apr 25, 2023, 02:58 IST) NEW DELHI: A person flying on Sunday night allegedly urinated on a co-passenger and was handed over to the cops on landing in the capital on Sunday night. In this case too, the accused was inebriated when...

A story that is at once tragic and ludicrous. ================================== Navrangpura Woman Abandoned Over Mango Juice CITY / TNN / Updated: Apr 24, 2023, 05:30 IST AHMEDABAD: A 29-year-old woman from the Navrangpura area of the city on Saturday filed a complaint with Paldi police...

Persian criminals who included tortoises, cats and apes in their gangs...

Uncontacted tribes and an Indian military base. Did a ‘spy’ balloon snoop on the Andaman and Nicobar islands? Analysis by Rhea Mogul and Andrew Raine, CNN Updated 8:33 PM EST, Fri February 17, 2023 When a strange white sphere appeared in the skies above the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in...

Three men arrested in India (Kochi, Kerala province) for the "brutal murder of two women in the name of ritualistic human sacrifice for financial prosperity". It appears that the mastermind behind the crime influenced his accomplices through superstition and promises of fortune, but was actually...

An interesting story with vague Fortean elements: DEATH ON THE HIPPIE TRAIL BY ARIEL SOPHIA BARDI After spending the final weeks of summer camped in a stooped, square-mouthed Himalayan cave, Justin Shetler was tired. The 35-year-old American outdoorsman had walked away from a job at a tech...

Hi, About 9-10 years ago I visited a rather unusual household while helping my father with his Reprographics business. We were delivering a Photocopier and it was a two man job to carry the machine into th customers detached semi-rural house. After setting up the copier and drinking tea I...

A report from Reuters:- Man shows crowds fallen piece of his skull Wed Jul 5, 2006 11:50 AM BST By Bappa Majumdar KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell...

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Hitler's secret Indian army By Mike Thomson BBC News In the closing stages of World War II, as Allied and French resistance forces were driving Hitler's now demoralised forces from France, three senior German officers defected. The information they gave British intelligence was...

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The wax figures of Madame Tussaud - didn't see first get fame casting wax heads during the French Revolution? Did she invent the process of showing them? Did she get any famous heads that still exist, like Marie Antionette? And/or would a wax head from so long ago actually still be...

Talking Mongoose? I seem to remember reading a story in one of those "Mysterious Britain" type books (you know the sort, covering ABCs, ghosts, crop circles, psychics etc) about a young girl who lived on a remote Scottish island (the daughter of a lighthouse keeper?) who apparently owned/lived...

East End Disappearances 1881-1890 I am trying to find information regarding unusual disappearances which began in the East End of London in 1881 and continued unsolved until January 1890. Apparently men, women and children from all classes disappeared into a 'Fortean void', never to be seen or...