13. This eerie abduction case:
Disappearance of Asha Degree. She was a shy nine-year-old girl who randomly left her house around 2 am on Valentine’s Day, 2000, in pouring rain. Her backpack was found later, but she never was. It’s even stranger because some of the more common explanations for child disappearances don’t apply here. For example, there was no computer in her house, so she couldn’t have met some stranger who lured her out. She did well in school and she had a supportive family, so none of the typical reasons children run away. She was also extremely afraid of dogs, so it was out of character for her to go walking around alone.
There were never any real clues to her disappearance, and the trail went cold basically the day it happened.
14. This strange affliction:
The Dancing Plague of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg in July 1518. Around 400 people took to dancing for days without rest and, over the period of about one month, some of those affected collapsed or even died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.
Historical documents, including “physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council” are clear that the victims danced. It is not known why these people danced, some even to their deaths.
15. This case, which sounds eerily similar to the London Spy storyline:
The death of Gareth Williams really unnerves me for some reason. He was a mathematician who worked for MI6 and went missing in about 2010. When they investigated his apartment they found a gym bag in the bath, padlocked shut, and his body was curled up inside. There was no evidence that anyone else had been inside the house, and on his computer history there was a bunch of fetish stuff about being locked in small spaces, but they got a bunch of people to try and lock themselves in a bag. Some people tried hundreds of times and even if they could get the bag closed none of them could lock it. Nobody knows whether his death was an accident or murder.
16. These f*cking frightening footprints:
The Hinterkaifeck Murders. German farmer found footprints leading from the woods to his farm, but no footprints going back. Days later he was murdered along with his whole family.
17. This unnerving disappearance:
The disappearance of Brandon Lawson. He left his home after an argument with his wife and was heading to his dads home. He ran out of gas along a highway in TX. He called his brother to bring him gas and when his brother showed up all he found was Brandon’s truck parked haphazardly. Shortly before he disappeared he also called 911 saying he was in a field and had run into someone. They have yet to find any trace of him.