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I am making this thread to post about various weird/crazy incidents worldwide.

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Starting off with this one:

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/asia/taiwan-child-kite-intl-hnk-scli/index.html.

A child in Taiwan was caught in a kite and swept high into the air​


A kite-flying festival turned terrifying in Taiwan on Sunday when a 3-year-old girl became entangled in tail of giant kite and sent flying high into the air.

The international kite festival was being held in the city of Hsinchu, south of the capital Taipei. Video of the accident, which circulated widely on social media, show several people preparing the large long-tailed pale orange kite for flight next to a crowd of viewers. The kite is already billowing from the strong wind.

Then, the organizers let the kite go – and it flies up, along with a toddler dangling from its tail. It’s not clear how close she was to the kite on the ground, or how she got caught in it.

Screams can be heard in the video as the child is lifted high into the air, being swung about wildly by the kite and wind. She was airborne for about 30 seconds before the kite was pulled low enough for audience members to grab and release her.

The child was in the air for about 30 seconds before she was lowered to the ground.

The child was in the air for about 30 seconds before she was lowered to the ground.
Facebook/@visasblog.tw via Reuters

She was immediately rushed to the hospital with her mother and festival staffers, but miraculously only suffered minor injuries with abrasions to her face and neck, according to Taiwan’s government-run Central News Agency. She has since been discharged and is home with her family.

In a statement on Facebook, Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien apologized for the incident, and said the festival was immediately suspended to ensure attendees’ safety.

“We will review the circumstances to prevent accidents like this from happening again, and hold people accountable,” he said.

The wind at the festival on Sunday afternoon was unusually strong, reaching a 7 on the Beaufort Scale – meaning wind speeds ranged from 32 to 38 miles per hour (50 to 61 kilometers per hour), according to CNA. That’s just one tier below one tier below gale-level winds on the scale.

 

Overdue book mysteriously returned to N.D. library after 51 years​



Overdue-book-mysteriously-returned-to-ND-library-after-51-years.jpg

A book was anonymously returned to the Enderlin Municipal Library in North Dakota 51 years past its due date, along with a $20 bill. Photo courtesy of the Enderlin Municipal Library/Facebook

March 26 (UPI) -- A North Dakota library said a copy of Rebecca by author Daphne du Maurier was returned anonymously through the mail 51 years after its due date.

The Enderlin Municipal Library said on social media that the book arrived recently in a media mail package with no return address, and the librarian who found the item soon determined it was checked out 51 years earlier and had been due back on Oct. 6, 1973.

"The exact number of days it would be overdue is actually 18,783 days, and if we charged a standard .10 cents per day would actually equal out to $1,878.30," the post said.

The librarian wrote that the library's board voted to do away with late fees just last month, so the return doesn't require any payment.

"This anonymous person was even nice enough to throw in a $20 bill with the book! How cool is that? According to the technical aspects of this case, I actually owe this person $20 now," the librarian wrote.

Source: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/03/26/Enderlin-Municipal-Library-overdue-51-years/2281743021165/.
 

Thai woman found alive in coffin after being brought in for cremation​


BANGKOK (AP) — A woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation.

Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple in the province of Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok, posted a video on its Facebook page, showing a woman lying in a white coffin in the back of a pickup truck, slightly moving her arms and head, leaving temple staff bewildered.

Pairat Soodthoop, the temple’s general and financial affairs manager, told The Associated Press on Monday that the 65-year-old woman’s brother drove her from the province of Phitsanulok to be cremated.

He said they heard a faint knock coming from the coffin.

“I was a bit surprised, so I asked them to open the coffin, and everyone was startled,” he said. “I saw her opening her eyes slightly and knocking on the side of the coffin. She must have been knocking for quite some time.”

According to Pairat, the brother said his sister had been bedridden for about two years, when her health deteriorated and she became unresponsive, appearing to stop breathing two days ago. The brother then placed her in a coffin and made the 500-kilometer (300-mile) journey to a hospital in Bangkok, to which the woman had previously expressed a wish to donate her organs.

The hospital refused to accept the brother’s offer as he didn’t have an official death certificate, Pairat said. His temple offers a free cremation service, which is why the brother approached them on Sunday, but was also refused due to the missing document.

The temple manager said that while he was explaining how to get a death certificate when they heard the knocking. They then assessed her and sent her to a nearby hospital.

The abbot said the temple would cover her medical expenses, according to Pairat.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/thailand-coffin-temple-woman-alive-c8463969db288c356d76ec189b3c3cec
 

Horrific video shows teen powerlifting champion being fatally crushed under 600-pound weight​


nypost.com

Horrific video shows teen powerlifting champion being fatally crushed under 600-pound weight

Yashtika Acharya, 17, was seen being bent over double by the huge weight that snapped her neck in a training session Tuesday.
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Horrific video shows a teenage powerlifter being crushed to death while failing to squat 600 pounds during a training session in India.

Yashtika Acharya, a 17-year-old gold medal winner, was seen trying to lift the massive weight out of a squat rack Tuesday with a trainer standing behind her as a spotter, according to NewsX.

But her legs almost immediately buckled, with her spotter powerless to stop her from falling backward — while the bar fell down and snapped her neck as she was bent over double under it.

“During the attempt, she suddenly lost balance, and the bar came crashing down on her neck,” local officer Vikram Tiwari said of the tragedy during a training session at the gym in the Bikaner district of Rajasthan, close to India’s border with Pakistan.

“Fellow gym members quickly rushed to remove the weight, while her coach tried CPR, but she showed no signs of life.”

Acharya, a gold medalist in the National Bench Press Championship in the southern Indian state of Goa last October, was declared dead shortly after being rushed to a nearby hospital Tuesday,

:cry:

 

A Man Survived Two Atomic Bombs (1945)​


Source : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...ived-both-atomic-bombs-80-years-ago/105630948


Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business when the first atomic bomb exploded, suffering severe burns but surviving the blast.Incredibly, he returned to his home in Nagasaki just in time to experience the second atomic bombing three days later.
Yamaguchi survived both nuclear attacks and lived until 2010, reaching age 93.
His story highlights human resilience and the civilian impact of nuclear weapons, making him an unlikely double survivor of humanity’s most destructive weapons.here are not many people who have survived a nuclear attack.

There is only one person who officially survived two.
On this day, 80 years ago, young engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was telling his boss about the horrors he had seen in the Japanese city of Hiroshima when the room went blindingly white.

"I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima," he told UK Newspaper

Yamaguchi was an engineer with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Yamaguchi, then 29, was in Hiroshima for a business trip when the bomb known as 'Little Boy' was deployed, killing tens of thousands in a flash, and leaving scores with burns so severe their skin draped off their bodies.
The young engineer was around 3 kilometres from ground zero and suffered temporary blindness and deafness in one eardrum.After staying in a bomb shelter the first night with other survivors, he quickly made his way back to his hometown of Nagasaki.

Then on August 9, 1945, he went to work and told his colleagues about the horrors he saw.

"When they realised that I had returned from Hiroshima, everyone gathered around me and said, 'I'm glad you're alive,' and 'great that you have survived,'" he recounted to Japanese broadcaster NHK.

But his boss did not believe him.

"He replied, 'you're badly injured, aren't you? Your head must be damaged too. I can't believe what you're saying. How could a single bomb destroy such a vast area like Hiroshima?'"

Just at that moment, the United States dropped its second atomic bomb, known as 'Fat Man', killing some 40,000 people instantly.

"I immediately recognised it as an atomic bomb," he told NHK.

"I hid under a desk right away."

Too 'healthy' to speak out​

The city of Nagasaki will pause today to remember the atomic blast that inflicted so much horror on the unsuspecting city.
Within months, 74,000 people were dead after radiation sickness took hold.The bombing of Nagasaki is often overshadowed by the deadlier and earlier attack on Hiroshima, which killed some 140,000 people by year's end.Part of the tragedy of Nagasaki is it was not the original intended target.

Two B-29 bombers were sent to destroy the industrial city of Kokura, which was a major hub for ammunition manufacturing.
But the city was hidden under cloud cover, so the pilots diverted to their secondary target: Nagasaki.About 165 people are thought to have survived both atomic blasts, known as nijyuu hibakusha.But Yamaguchi is the only person to be officially recognised by the local governments of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.For decades, he kept his unique story under wraps and worked a blue-collar job.

Many atomic bomb survivors, known as hibakusha, feel compelled to speak out, hoping their experiences will spur the world to abandon nuclear weapons.But the family of Yamaguchi feared he looked too healthy, which would undermine the message of survivors."My entire family opposed it," his daughter Toshiko Yamasaki explained at a peace conference in 2011."If my father, who had survived two atomic bombings, engaged in peace activities, people might think, 'even after being exposed to radiation twice, he's still healthy, so the atomic bomb isn't scary.

But Yamaguchi did suffer a lifetime of health problems, as is often the case for hibakusha due to radiation exposure.

"My father had cataracts, was deaf in one ear, suffered from leukopenia, lost his hair for 15 years after the war, and had after-effects from burns," Toshiko explained.

His family endured sickness, too. His wife and son died of cancer.

t was only in his final decade that Yamaguchi started to speak more openly, hoping his ordeal would help in the fight against nuclear weapons.

"I have walked and crawled through the bottom of hell," he told the ABC in 2009.

"I should be dead. But it was my fate to keep on living."

Irish journalist David McNeill was one of the last journalists to interview him before his death.

"What struck me was how modest he was," he explained.

"Like many hibakusha, he really didn't want to discuss his extraordinary life. He had to be pressed into it because he thought he was better off than many of the people who surrounded him, who were getting sick and dying from cancer."

Yamaguchi died in 2010, aged 93.

The legacy of the twin bombs​

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were one of the final and most devastating acts of World War II.
After the first nuclear attack, Japan would still not surrender, instead deciding to send a fact-finding team to the city after communications went dark.
The second attack on Nagasaki was part of the American strategy to make Japan believe it had unlimited supplies of such bombs.Many historians argue the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan was more influential in securing Japan's surrender, as it suddenly exposed its entire unprotected north.
Making a single uranium bomb that exploded over Hiroshima was incredibly challenging and chewed up much of the budget and resourcing of the multi-year Manhattan Project.
Japan knew how challenging it would be.

But the United States had also developed a plutonium bomb — far easier and cheaper than a uranium bomb.This is what detonated over Nagasaki.And the commander of the Manhattan Project boasted the United States could then create two or three atomic bombs a month to assist in the planned land invasion of Japan, scheduled for November 1945.

"They had the capacity to make two or three bombs a month by that point," Professor Mordecai Sheftall from Shizuoka explains.

"Because the plutonium production facilities in Hanford, Washington State, were going at full tilt."

Japan finally surrendered on August 15, but only after the emperor intervened and broke a deadlock in his war council.
The army still wanted to fight on.There are few hibakusha left old enough to remember the blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But the survivors are still determined to keep telling their stories.

After all, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

"As a double atomic bomb survivor, I experienced the bomb twice," Yamaguchi told The Independent in 2010.

"I sincerely hope that there will not be a third."
 
finalfantasy7 said:

A Man Survived Two Atomic Bombs (1945)​


Source : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...ived-both-atomic-bombs-80-years-ago/105630948


Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business when the first atomic bomb exploded, suffering severe burns but surviving the blast.Incredibly, he returned to his home in Nagasaki just in time to experience the second atomic bombing three days later.
Yamaguchi survived both nuclear attacks and lived until 2010, reaching age 93.
His story highlights human resilience and the civilian impact of nuclear weapons, making him an unlikely double survivor of humanity’s most destructive weapons.here are not many people who have survived a nuclear attack.

There is only one person who officially survived two.
On this day, 80 years ago, young engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was telling his boss about the horrors he had seen in the Japanese city of Hiroshima when the room went blindingly white.

"I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima," he told UK Newspaper

Yamaguchi was an engineer with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Yamaguchi, then 29, was in Hiroshima for a business trip when the bomb known as 'Little Boy' was deployed, killing tens of thousands in a flash, and leaving scores with burns so severe their skin draped off their bodies.
The young engineer was around 3 kilometres from ground zero and suffered temporary blindness and deafness in one eardrum.After staying in a bomb shelter the first night with other survivors, he quickly made his way back to his hometown of Nagasaki.

Then on August 9, 1945, he went to work and told his colleagues about the horrors he saw.

"When they realised that I had returned from Hiroshima, everyone gathered around me and said, 'I'm glad you're alive,' and 'great that you have survived,'" he recounted to Japanese broadcaster NHK.

But his boss did not believe him.

"He replied, 'you're badly injured, aren't you? Your head must be damaged too. I can't believe what you're saying. How could a single bomb destroy such a vast area like Hiroshima?'"

Just at that moment, the United States dropped its second atomic bomb, known as 'Fat Man', killing some 40,000 people instantly.

"I immediately recognised it as an atomic bomb," he told NHK.

"I hid under a desk right away."

Too 'healthy' to speak out​

The city of Nagasaki will pause today to remember the atomic blast that inflicted so much horror on the unsuspecting city.
Within months, 74,000 people were dead after radiation sickness took hold.The bombing of Nagasaki is often overshadowed by the deadlier and earlier attack on Hiroshima, which killed some 140,000 people by year's end.Part of the tragedy of Nagasaki is it was not the original intended target.

Two B-29 bombers were sent to destroy the industrial city of Kokura, which was a major hub for ammunition manufacturing.
But the city was hidden under cloud cover, so the pilots diverted to their secondary target: Nagasaki.About 165 people are thought to have survived both atomic blasts, known as nijyuu hibakusha.But Yamaguchi is the only person to be officially recognised by the local governments of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.For decades, he kept his unique story under wraps and worked a blue-collar job.

Many atomic bomb survivors, known as hibakusha, feel compelled to speak out, hoping their experiences will spur the world to abandon nuclear weapons.But the family of Yamaguchi feared he looked too healthy, which would undermine the message of survivors."My entire family opposed it," his daughter Toshiko Yamasaki explained at a peace conference in 2011."If my father, who had survived two atomic bombings, engaged in peace activities, people might think, 'even after being exposed to radiation twice, he's still healthy, so the atomic bomb isn't scary.

But Yamaguchi did suffer a lifetime of health problems, as is often the case for hibakusha due to radiation exposure.

"My father had cataracts, was deaf in one ear, suffered from leukopenia, lost his hair for 15 years after the war, and had after-effects from burns," Toshiko explained.

His family endured sickness, too. His wife and son died of cancer.

t was only in his final decade that Yamaguchi started to speak more openly, hoping his ordeal would help in the fight against nuclear weapons.

"I have walked and crawled through the bottom of hell," he told the ABC in 2009.

"I should be dead. But it was my fate to keep on living."

Irish journalist David McNeill was one of the last journalists to interview him before his death.

"What struck me was how modest he was," he explained.

"Like many hibakusha, he really didn't want to discuss his extraordinary life. He had to be pressed into it because he thought he was better off than many of the people who surrounded him, who were getting sick and dying from cancer."

Yamaguchi died in 2010, aged 93.

The legacy of the twin bombs​

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were one of the final and most devastating acts of World War II.
After the first nuclear attack, Japan would still not surrender, instead deciding to send a fact-finding team to the city after communications went dark.
The second attack on Nagasaki was part of the American strategy to make Japan believe it had unlimited supplies of such bombs.Many historians argue the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan was more influential in securing Japan's surrender, as it suddenly exposed its entire unprotected north.
Making a single uranium bomb that exploded over Hiroshima was incredibly challenging and chewed up much of the budget and resourcing of the multi-year Manhattan Project.
Japan knew how challenging it would be.

But the United States had also developed a plutonium bomb — far easier and cheaper than a uranium bomb.This is what detonated over Nagasaki.And the commander of the Manhattan Project boasted the United States could then create two or three atomic bombs a month to assist in the planned land invasion of Japan, scheduled for November 1945.

"They had the capacity to make two or three bombs a month by that point," Professor Mordecai Sheftall from Shizuoka explains.

"Because the plutonium production facilities in Hanford, Washington State, were going at full tilt."

Japan finally surrendered on August 15, but only after the emperor intervened and broke a deadlock in his war council.
The army still wanted to fight on.There are few hibakusha left old enough to remember the blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But the survivors are still determined to keep telling their stories.

After all, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

"As a double atomic bomb survivor, I experienced the bomb twice," Yamaguchi told The Independent in 2010.

"I sincerely hope that there will not be a third."
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He is the only person in human history to survive 2 atomic bombs. Incredible.
 
finalfantasy7 said:

The TERRIFYING Khamar Daban Hiking Disaster | Korovina Incident​




@sweep_shot ^ - which theory
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This is yet to be resolved after all these years.

Here is from Google:

The Dyatlov Pass incident is the mysterious 1959 deaths of nine experienced Soviet hikers in the Ural Mountains, who fled their tent in extreme cold, poorly dressed, to die from hypothermia, trauma (skull/chest fractures), and unusual injuries (missing tongue/eyes), leading to decades of speculation about a "compelling natural force," with recent scientific analysis pointing towards a rare, powerful slab avalanche triggered by wind, explaining the strange injuries and panic.

Missing tongue and eyes. Were they attacked by other humans, other animals, or maybe something supernatural happened?

Many unanswered questions.
 
sweep_shot said:
I think they encountered jinns. That's my theory (if this is true).
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that could be

I've just watched the 1hr YT video, and i think they made it all up, and some issues, personally think that jumped the fashion on alien conspiracy - didn't want all the attention, hence the husband was quiet, i think they wanted soe local news media attention thrill but are also oddly weird personalities themselves,


just like how they went for hypnosis - is was a beginning of a fashion craze at that time.

They would fit into India society with thr strange claims = be considered as normal people in India :ROFLMAO:
 
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