What's the strangest historical event you know of? In

>fucking HAPPENING! MOLASSES TANK EXPLODES!

who did it /pol/? I'm betting the it's the anarchists again.

>>2434387
CARBON DIOXIDE CAN'T BURST STEEL TANKS

The Children's Crusade, which probably didn't happen but is still fascinating.

I remember reading that two Danish scientists during WWI walked on a beach and found a beached sea mine. They proceeded to throw rocks and pebbles at the mine for 35 minutes.

>>2434525
I remember reading about this on /his/, (I think one of them was Bohr) but was unable to corroborate the story, leading me to believe it may be apocryphal.

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These two come to mind for me

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Castle_Itter

>>2434376
I remember this from 4-5 years ago being posted a lot

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>>2438126
> In 1990, he published an article which included his admission that the investigation team had no rational explanation for the accident. He also stated that, after his team reported that they had seen flying spheres, he then received direct orders from high-ranking regional officials to dismiss this claim.

Man, imagine all the crazy stuff the Soviets got up to in those Siberian wastes.

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>>2438887
>Urals
>Siberia

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>>2438899
I hadn't seen it happened in the Urals my friend.

>>2438924
>The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: Гибeль тypгpyппы Дятлoвa) refers to the mysterious unsolved deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains on February 2, 1959.
Literally the first sentence in the article dumbass.