Rima's Collection

A butcher from rural Australia convinced a grieving mother he was her long-lost aristocratic sonand it took nearly two hundred days in court to prove he wasn't.

The Voice Almost Cut From the Broadcast.

The station manager said listeners wouldn't take her seriously.

She talked him into one trial broadcast.

The Boston Tea Party, 1773, (USA)

In 1773, roughly a hundred colonists boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water.

The Morning the Sky Exploded

In 1908, something exploded above Siberia with the force of a thousand Hiroshima bombs.

A Toronto millionaire died in 1926 with a bizarre clause in his will:

his fortune would go to whoever had the most babies in the next ten years.

THE WAR AUSTRALIA LOST TO BIRDS

In 1932, Australia sent soldiers with machine guns after 20,000 emus. After a month and thousands of rounds fired, fewer than 1,000 birds were killed. Historians widely consider the emus the winners. This actually happened. 🦤🇦🇺

The Balloon That Never Flew

In 1844, Edgar Allan Poe convinced all of New York a man had flown across the Atlantic. He hadn't.

Piltdown Man Hoax, 1912–1953 (UK)

For over forty years, the biggest fossil discovery in Britain sat in a museum as scientific fact, until someone finally ran the right test and found out it had been faked from the start.

In 1837, something was leaping over London's rooftops at night — clawed hands, glowing eyes, and no explanation.

For weeks in 1944, a small Illinois town was terrorized by a smell .

No one could explain — and a gasser no one ever caught.