The Vanished Battalion of Sandringhams – Unexplained Mysteries

Three soldiers were witnesses to the bizarre disappearance of an entire battalion in 1915. The three said they watched from a clear vantage point as a battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment marched up a hillside in Suvla Bay, Turkey. The hill was shrouded in a low-lying cloud that the soldiers marched straight into. After the last of the battalion had entered the cloud, it slowly lifted. The entire battalion was gone.

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Unexplained Mysteries – The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak

In 1937, Doc Noss—part-adventurer, part-conman—and his wife Babe discovered fabulous treasure inside the caverns of New Mexico’s Victorio Peak. They dynamited the tunnel to hide the treasure from other treasure hunters. At least that’s what they said happened.

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Whipping Tom: The Weird, Serial Spanker Of London

Whipping Tom was a mysterious man who wandered the streets of London in 1680. He shocked 17th-century society by lunging at women, lifting their dresses, and spanking their bums while shouting “Spanko!” before escaping capture. At one point, things got so bad that armed men would patrol the streets dressed as women in the hopes of drawing him out.

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Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia – The Crime Library

Yakuza (also known as gokudo), are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them boryokudan (‘violence group’), while the yakuza call themselves ‘ninkyo dantai’ (‘chivalrous organizations’). The yakuza are notorious for their strict codes of conduct and very organized nature. They are very prevalent in the Japanese media and operate internationally with an estimated 80,900 members in 2009, the last year for which an estimate is available

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