Weird Wikipedia

Dancing mania was a social phenomenon in medieval and early modern Europe in which groups of people danced compulsively for days or weeks, baffling witnesses and historians alike.

The thylacine was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of the modern era. The last known specimen died in captivity in 1936.

In July 1518, a woman began dancing fervently in a street in Strasbourg. Within a month, some 400 people had been seized by the same strange compulsion.

A mellified man was a legendary medicinal substance created by entombing a human body in honey. It was described in Chinese sources.

Nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural mountains in February 1959 under mysterious circumstances that remain debated to this day.

The Tamam Shud case involves an unidentified man found dead in December 1948 on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia, carrying an unsolved cipher.

Mary Toft was an English woman who in 1726 became the subject of widespread notoriety when she allegedly gave birth to rabbit parts.

The Kentucky meat shower was a strange phenomenon that occurred on March 9, 1876, when chunks of flesh fell from the sky over a stretch of Kentucky.

A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peatland. They often show signs of violent death and have survived for millennia.

The phantom time hypothesis is a historical conspiracy theory that claims 297 years of history were fabricated, placing the Early Middle Ages as invented fiction.