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TIMELINE OF THE STRANGE

562 - Saint Columba Encounters the Loch Ness Monster: Saint Columba purportedly encounters a monster in Loch Ness or the River Ness driving it back into the waters by making the sign of a cross.
1502 - Columbus’ End of World Prediction: Book of Prophecies is published by Christopher Columbus, following his third voyage across the Atlantic. The text makes various apocalyptic claims including that the garden of Eden would be found and the world would end around 1656.
1510 - Origin of the Name ‘California’: Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián), by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, is published detailing North American wonders. The novel includes mention of the fictional, Amazon, warrior Queen Calafia, from whom California is named.
1590 - Lost Colony: August 18, Upon his return to Roanoke, John White, an associate of Walter Raleigh, finds the settlement completely deserted. The only clue in the disappearance of one-hundred plus settlers is the word “CROATOAN” carved into a post on settlement’s perimeter. Later authors and historians would speculate as to the settlers whereabouts. Some commentators have suggest that the colonist set off to live wild in the woods.
1671 - New and Unknown World, by Arnoldus Montanus, is published detailing North America. Montanus' account is not without factual inaccuracies nor depictions of monsters.
1692-1693 - Salem Witch Trials: Between February and May, mass hysteria results in fourteen women and five men being tried, convicted and hanged for witchcraft.
1735 - Jersey Devil Birth: According to tradition Mother Leeds gives birth to her thirteenth child— the Jersey Devil.
1755 - Bulletproof Washington: July 18, during the French and Indian War, a young George Washington relates in a letter to his brother how two horses had been shot beneath him and four bullets had passed through his coat, yet he remained completely unharmed.
1780 - Sky Darkens Over New England: May 19, The sky over New England darkened requiring the use of candles during daylight hours.
1816 - Year Without a Summer: Global decreases in temperatures brought on by a volcanic winter result in what would be known as the, “Year Without a Summer”
1817-1821 - Bell Witch: The Bell Witch is said to haunt the Bell family in Robertson County, Tennessee.
1820 - “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” by Washington Irving, is published in the The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent..
1820s - Territory of Poyais: Gregor MacGregor, notorious conman, issued promotional materials as part of an elaborate scheme to attract settlers to the “Territory of Poyais,” situated along the Mosquito Coast (in modern day Nicaragua and Honduras). MacGregor sold land certificates and Poyais currency to eager investors. Poyais, in reality, existed only in the imagination of MacGregor and the victims of his scam. Settlers anticipating a new life in a tropical paradise were met with an absence of governmental authority, uninhabitable land, starvation, disease and death.
1839-1849 - Crania Americana, by Samuel George Morton, is published, alleging that intellectual capacity is determined by skull size and volume corresponding to a particular race.
1842 - Fiji Mermaid: Showman and circus magnate P. T. Barnum showcases the Fiji mermaid at Barnum’s American Museum. The Fiji Mermaid was later exposed as an elaborate hoax utilizing taxidermy combing parts of a monkey and fish.
1848 - Races of Man and Their Geographical Distribution, by Charles Pickering, is published purporting that there exist eleven distinct human “races.” Pickering contends that, “Two of the races may therefore be designated as white, three as brown, four as blackish-brown, and two as black.”
1854 - Types of Mankind is published supporting polygenism (a.k.a. co-Adamism). Polygenism falsely alleges that different races do not originate from a common human ancestor but evolved from separate hominid species. The book, dedicated in the memory of Samuel George Morton, would help propel Polygenism as a dominant theory in its day.
1859 - Worldwide Electrical Outage: September 1-2, A massive solar storm shuts down all electrical devices in the world, due to the technology of the day, this is largely limited to disrupting telegraph communications.
1860s - Spirit Photography: The practice of “spirit photography” is created by William H. Mumler. Mumler operated mostly out of Boston and New York.
1864 ∨ 1865 - Paul Bunyan & The Round River Drive: Lumberjacks tell that Paul Bunyan is said to have floated a great quantity of lumber down the Round River in order to transport them to a saw mill. However, as days passed the river was discovered to be a complete 360 degrees having no mouth. Thus, Bunyan was forced to abandon the timber. Recounted in Douglas Malloch’s poem “The Round River Drive” (1914) published in the American Lumberman.
1870 - Lost Ship of the Desert: Newspapers publish the first report of a lost ship stranded in the middle of the Colorado Desert. Afterwards, the legend would be repeated with descriptions varying from a Spanish galleon to a Viking canoe with a serpent neck.
1870 - Hodag Mill: The yet earliest known mention of the creature the Hodag is recorded in History and Directory of Kent County, Michigan, Containing a History of Each Township and the City of Grand Rapids. The account states that a steam saw mill, called hodag mill, was named after “an unknown and mysterious animal” that “was heard, seen and even fired at, in the woods near here, some years ago.” Hodag mill was erected in June 1869 along Little Cedar Creek in Kent County, Michigan.
1870-1872 - John Henry: Traditional holds that, in a race between man and machine, John Henry beat a steam drill in a tunneling contest during the construction of the The Big Bend Tunnel near Talcott, West Virginia. Stories tell that John Henry won the contest but lost his life in the struggle.
1871 - Gloucester Sea Serpent: A sea serpent is sporadically reported in Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts.
1880s - Lulu Hurst: Early in the decade, teenage Lulu Hurst tours the United States performing various feats of superhuman strength attributing this ability to mysterious powers.
1883 - Bonilla Observation: August 12, José Bonilla, astronomer, in Zacatecas Observatory, Zacatecas, Mexico, reported observing more than 300 objects passing across the sun. Bonilla took multiple photographs.
1886 - Thunderbird Photograph: Tradition holds that the newspaper The Tombstone Epitaph published a photograph of a “Thunderbird,” or giant flying creature, nailed to a wall with wings outstretch. Reports note that several persons were included in the photograph to provide a sense of proportion. However, no trace of the alleged photograph has ever been found.
1889 - Cardiff Giant: October 16, The Cardiff Giant is unearthed from the property of William C. Newell in Cardiff, New York. The Cardiff Giant was a supposed corpse of a colossal human being standing ten feet tall. The “giant” was, in fact, a colossal hoax carved from gypsum.
1893 - Hodag: Eugene Shepard purportedly captures the hodag in Rhinelander, Wisconsin
1893 - “Paul Bunion [sic] is getting ready while the water is high to take his drive out,” this single-line, inside joke, published in The Gladwin County Record, on March 17, 1893 , marks the first yet known mention of the Paul Bunyan name in print.
1896 - St. Augustine Monster: November, remains of an unidentified creature wash up on a beach in St. Augustine, Florida.
1897 - On This Site: On this site in 1897 nothing happened.
1897 - Aurora Airship Crash: April 17, an airship purportedly crashes in Aurora, Texas. The pilot was reported dead and noted to be “... an inhabitant not of this world.”
1897 - The Gowrow is reported in Blanco, Calf Creek Township in Searcy County, Arkansas,
1898 - Ice Worms: E. J. “Stroller” White writes about the emerging ice worms in Dawson, Alaska in the Klondike Nugget
1898 - The Kensington Runeston, a large stone slab with alleged viking runes, is unearthed in Solem, Minnesota by Olof Ohman. The stone is largely debunked as a hoax.
1899 - Harry Houdini, through various cunning escapes, begins his rise to fame and rapidly becomes one of the top vaudeville performers.
1900s - Radionics is created early in the decade by Albert Abrams. The practice aims in applying electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves, to cure diseases.
1903 - Nature Faker Controversy: John Burroughs, American nature essayist, condemns poetic and romanticized character common in contemporary natural histories in “Real and Sham Natural History.” Burroughs’ articles sparks controversy and the creation of the prerogative “nature faker/fakir” being applied to those who naturalistic writings are called into question. Notably, American President Theodore Roosevelt would lend his thoughts on the debate.
1909 - The Snallygaster, a large bird-reptile creature with iron claws, tentacles, and an eye in the center of its forehead, is reported in Middletown, Maryland.
1910 - Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, with a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts, by William T. Cox, is published.
1910 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic, receives national attention for his claims of foreseeing past lives and diagnosing illness by means of a trance-like state.
1916 - Snake Oil: June 15, Clark Stanley, self-proclaimed “rattlesnake king,” of the Clark Stanley Snake Oil Liniment Co., Providence, Rhode Island, enters into a plea of no contest after his flagship product was determined to be misbranded containing no snake-based ingredients. Stanley was fined $20.00 ($466.68 in 2018). Afterwards, “Snake oil” became a catch-all term for useless medicine.
1919 - The Book of the Damned the first of four nonfiction works by Charles Fort examining anomalous phenomena is published.
1920 - The “Spirit Wireless,” an apparatus designed to communicate with the deceased through scientific means is announced to be in the works by Thomas Edison.
1920 - The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, by Lothrop Stoddard, infamous Klansman, is published predicting the fall of the “white world” due to increasing populations of people of color. The collapse of society through integration, as Stoddard predicated, has not come to pass and never will.
1921 - “Abominable Snowman”: Lt. Col. Charles Howard-Bury relates, following a reconnaissance expedition to Mount Everest, that he observed human-like tracks left in the snow but which were likely formed by a wolf. Howard-Bury added that guides immediately suggested that the prints were of "The Wild Man of the Snows." Howard-Bury notes the local name given for the creature as "metoh-kangmi," later interpreted as “Abominable Snowman” by Henry Newman, a contributor to The Statesman, a newspaper out of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
1923 - New Lands second work in Charles Fort’s series on anomalistics is published.
1923 - Weird Tales arguably the most renown and influential fantasy magazine is first published in March.
1924 - Ape Canyon Bigfoot Attack: An incident is reported between several miners and a group of Bigfoot in Ape Canyon
1924 - The Crystal Skull: Anna Mitchell-Hedges finds a crystal skull in British Honduras, present-day Belize. The artifact was recovered in Lubaantun among the ruins of a destroyed altar. The discovery would not be made public until roughly a decade later.
1926 - Ogopogo is first sighted in Okanagan Lake, British Columbia.
1930s - NYC Sewer ’Gators: First reports of alligators discovered in sewers come out of New York City; however, the phenomenon of sewer gators were reported previously in cities such as Baltimore and Miami decades earlier.
1931 - Lo! third work in Charles Fort’s series on anomalistics is published.
1931 - Universal Classic Monster Series takes new shape with the dual successes, in 1931, of Dracula, staring Bela Lugosi, and Frankenstein, staring Boris Karloff. Universal would follow up with other entries featuring iconic monsters such as: the mummy, wolf man, creature from the black lagoon, invisible man, etc. Films would continue to be produced, the majority throughout the thirties and forties, with the series' last major achievement in the fifties.
1932 - Wild Talents fourth and final work in Charles Fort’s series on anomalistics is published.
1933 - Loch Ness Monster Sightings: First modern accounts realting sightings of a strange, marine animal living in Loch Ness, Scotland start to appear.
1935 - Manipogo, a lake monster, is first sighted in Lake Manitoba, Manitoba.
1938 - The Addams Family is created by American cartoonist Charles Addams in single-panel cartoons for The New Yorker.
1938 - War of the Worlds Broadcast: October 30, actor/director Orson Welles adapts H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds for radio. It is said that the broadcast caused confusion and panic among a few who mistook the play for an actual news alert of a Martian invasion.
1939 - The Glawackus is reported in Glastonbury, Connecticut,
1939 - 1945 - Foo Fighters: During the height of World War II various pilots report sighting “foo fighters,” mysterious lights rumored to be extraterrestrial or top secret aircraft.
1943 - Philadelphia Experiment: October 28, The alleged Philadelphia Experiment is alledged to have taken place. The rumored incident was purported to involve the USS Eldridge wherein the ship was to be rendered invisible at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Pennsylvania. However, claims of the suppoused incident relate that members of the experiment went back into time.
1943 - Shaver Mystery concerned Richard Sharpe Shaver writing to Amazing Stories magazine regarding “Mantong.” Shaver purported that Mantong was the source tongue of all languages and could be applied as to decode the inner meaning of any word in any language. Shaver’s claims were published resulting in a significant boost in the magazine’s circulation.
1943 - Gremlins, fanciful little creatures that damage aircraft, are introduced to the American public after Walt Disney Productions commissions British author Roald Dahl to write The Gremlins, a promotional story for an animated feature that was never developed. Previously, reports of gremlins were largely limited to the European theater particularly within Britain’s Royal Air Force.
1945 - Curse of the Billy Goat: William Sianis was directed to remove his billy goat from Wrigley Field during game four of the 1945 World Series. Sianis announced that the Cubs would not win anymore. Coincidentally, the Cubs did not receive another World Series Championship until 2016
1947 - Roswell UFO Crash: On June 14, William Brazel uncovered debris of unknown origin scattered across a field in Roswell, New Mexico later speculated to be the remains of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
1947 - Mount Rainer UFO Sighting: June 24, Kenneth Arnold reports sighting nine metallic objects flying near Mount Rainer, Washington. It was Arnold’s description of the objects’ odd locomotion that led the press to coin the term, “flying saucer.&rdquo.
1949 - Beast of Busco, a giant turtle, is reported in Churubusco, Indiana
1951 - Island of the Dolls: After discovering the body of a girl drowned in the Xochimico canals, Don Julian Santana Barrer hangs a doll washed up on a small island to a tree. Barrer continues these practice with other dolls until his death in 2001. The area later becomes known as Isla de las Munecas, Island of the Dolls. Tradition holds that the area is one of the most haunted in Mexico City.
1952 - Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force begins the first of several investigations into UFO phenomenon entitled project Blue Book. This project would later by followed up by two others, Project Sign in 1947 and Project Grudge in 1949, respectively.
1952 - George Adamski claims to have made contact with the pilot of a Venusian scout ship in the Colorado Desert. This would be the first of several of assertions regarding Adamski’s interactions with otherworldly beings. George Adamski would later become a prominent speaker often elaborating on the topic of UFOs and his own “Space Brothers” philosophies, which outline peaceful contact with extraterrestrial visitors. The following year, Adamanski, with co-author Desmond Leslie, would pen Flying Saucers Have Landed based on Admanski’s on his supposed experiences with people from other planets.
1952 - Flatwoods Phantom, also known as "The Green Monster," is reported in Flatwooods, West Virginia,
1953 - Project MKUltra, a project conducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, is begun to test the effects of various illegal drugs with the objective of mind control.
1954 - Seduction of the Innocent, by Fredric Wertham, psychiatrist, is published. The text is critical of comic books and attempts to link the industry to juvenile delinquency. A U.S. Congressional inquiry was launched soon after resulting in the creating of the Comics Code Authority.
1954 - Vampira, a character created and protrayed by actress Maila Nurmi, makes her first appearance on The Vampira Show on KABC-TV in Los Angeles, CA. The program which features the titular character hosting horror movies marks the introduction of the television horror host.
1958 - Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine debut issue is released in February.
1955 - Loveland Frogs, giant amphibians, are reported in Loveland, Ohio, U.S.A
1958 - El Santo, the Mexican luchador, marks his film debut upon staring in two Cuban film productions, Cerebro del Mal (Brian of Evil), and Santo contra Hombres Infernals (Santo against the Infernal Men). These pictures would launch El Santo’s career as an icon of the Mexican wrestling-fantasy/horror genre. El Santo would star in over fifty films, from 1958 to 1981, as a silver-masked strongman battling villains ranging from zombies, head hunters, mummies, vampire women, the mafia, Martians and even Count Dracula. For More Info Visit : The Films of El Santo
1959 - Twilight Zone: Television’s The Twilight Zone exploring paranormal, unexplained, and physiological themes, is first broadcast. The term “Twilight Zone” would later enter into the English vocabulary to refer to the feeling of being in any situation beyond ’normal’ reality.
1959 - Plan 9 from Outer Space is released in theaters throughout North America. The film, directed by Ed Wood, has afterwards been regarded as the “worst movie ever made.” It should stressed, however, that the movie is not considered bad by its entertainment value. Rather, the title held by the film is reflective of its many idiosyncrasies, unconventional methods, unintentional flaws and the manner in which the director address difficulties in production. Still, today, it is these same characteristics that make the film a cult classic rather than forgotten failure.
1960s - Minnesota Iceman: Throughout the decade, carnival showman Frank Hansen toured county and state fairs showcasing the supposed remains of a Homo pongoides encased in ice. The creature, only partially visible through the ice, resembled a brown-haired hominid about six feet tall. Hansen’s iceman was an alleged missing-link and billed to have been discovered in the Siberian tundra.
1961 - Hill Abduction: September 19-20, Barney and Betty Hill claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrial beings from the Zeta Reticuli binary star system while driving near Lancaster, New Hampshire.
1966-1967 - Mothman, a vaguley humanoid winged creature, is first reported in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
1967 - The Patterson-Gimlin Film, by Roger Patterson and Robert “Bob” Gimlin, is filmed allegedly depicting a bigfoot in Bluff Creek near Willow Creek, California.
1967 - Shag Harbour UFO incident: October 4, A large unknown object crashes into Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia and is reported by various members of the Canadian military and civilians.
1971 - Goatman surges in popularity after a dog’s death is attributed to a satyr-like creature in Prince George County, Maryland
1976 - Face on Mars: July 25, Viking 1 orbiter photographs the Cydonia region of the Martian surface revealing geological formations resembling a giant face. This feature would be commonly referred to in popular culture as, “The Face on Mars.”
1980s - D&D Controversy: Backlash by multiple groups, notably Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons (BADD), against the tabletop role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, increases as such associations alleged that the role-playing game promoted witchcraft, diabolism, and suicide. It, however, does not.
1981 - Polybius, a mysterious arcade machine, is rumored to make its first and only appearance in Portland, Oregon. Later, the game is said to have been abruptly pulled out of arcades due to the adverse mental side-effects it induces. The game is legend to have been designed as a government mind experiment. Stories have it that strange persons clad in black would frequent the machines to collect data on a regular basis. Since rumors first were circulated, no evidence of the game’s existence has been verified.
1983 - Atari Video Game Burial: September, amid the video game crash of the same year, hundreds of cartridges for the Atari 2600 are disposed of at a landfill site in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Most notably among them, copies for the game E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, based on the movie of the same name, are buried. The game was an immense commercial failure taking a sizable toll on the video game industry at large.
1988 - Elvis Sightings: Elvis Presley is alleged to be seen at a supermarket and a Burger King in Kalamazoo, Michigan eleven years following his death. This incident would trigger a wave of Elvis sightings.
1992 - Bat Boy: June 23, “Bat Boy” first hits newsstands in the tabloid Weekly World News’s headline story, “Bat Child Found in Cave.” The account details the discovery of a humanoid creature, with the bulging eyes and pointed ears suggestive of a bat. This would be the first of many Bat Boy stories.
1995 - Alien Autopsy, a seventeen minute short subject purportedly showing the filmed dissection of an extraterrestrial, recovered after the Roswell incident, is released.
1995 - Chupacabra: In March, numerous sheep discovered drained of blood are reported in Puerto Rico. This is later attributed to the infamous goat-vampire, El Chupacabra.
1995 - “Superman Curse”: Following a horse-riding accident in May, speculation builds of an alleged “Superman Curse” as the tragic paralyzing incident suffered by Christopher Reeve, actor who played the titular character in the 1978 Superman film, seems to mirror the unfortunate death of George Reeves, television’s Superman during the fifties. Later, other actors would take up the mantle without further incident.
1997 - Heaven’s Gate: March 26, all members of the Heaven’s Gate cult are found dead. All thirty-nine members had committed suicide to rid themselves of their “physical vessels” and attain to a spaceship predicted to trail behind the Hale-Bopp Comet.
1997 - Miss Cleo, a psychic onscreen personality portrayed by Youree Dell Harris, begins appearing for a series of commercials for the pay-for-call hotline Psychic Readers Network. While Miss Cleo was never really more than a spokesperson, the Psychic Readers Network, itself, was shrouded in controversy as its operators were later found to be reading off scripts and overcharging customers.
1997 Phoenix Lights: March 13, unexplained lights appeared over the skies of Arizona and Nevada, in the U.S.A., as well as in the adjacent Mexican state of Sonora. Countless eyewitness described what appeared to be a V-shape pattern of lights moving in a southward trajectory.
1998 - “Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus” is a faux internet campaign created by Lyle Zapato depicting a a variety of octopus that had adapted to living in trees. After the hoax's creation, the website has habitually been used as a source-validity test for students.
1999 - Y2K Scare: Efforts within the technology sector increase in an attempt to address the year 2000 (Y2K) problem. Among certain members of the public, however, Y2K led to a scare, as speculation rose amid fears of catastrophic failure in computer systems and networks. However, the devastation resulting from Y2K was greatly overestimated by proponents of the cataclysm. The Y2K scare, itself, was often quelled with little more than the byline, “Y2K compliant” inserted into technology ads.
2000 - eBay Haunted Painting: The Hands Resist Him, a 1972 oil painting by Bill Stoneham, for auction on eBay, sells for $1,025.00 in February. The auction purported that the painting was haunted and that the figures depicted would speak to one another or leave the painting.
2001 - "Moon Landing Hoax" special: February, the televsion network FOX airs the forty-five minute "documentary" Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? The special presented inteviews, commentary and suppoused "evidence" to support claims that the moon landing was fabricated. The special was watched by approxiamtely 15 million viewers.
2000-2001 - “All Your Base are Belong to Us”: A line of poorly translated dialog from the English version of Zero Wing, a 1989 Japanese arcade game, is brought into popular uses as the phrase, “All your base are belong to us,” is digitally edited into various otherwise normal settings posted online via Something Awful forums. The phrase would surge in popularity as it was set to animation and a pounding, techno track. Subsequently, the phrase would crop up in unexpected places both on and off the web.
2000-2001 - John Titor: Under the handle TimeTravel_0, an individual identifying himself as John Titor purports to be from the year 2036 over an online forum. Titor elaborates that he had traveled back to 1974 in order to obtain an IBM5100 needed to debug systems in 2036. Titor provided various images to support his claims and expressed that he made a stop in 2000 for personal reasons.
2005 - Creepy-chan: The first in a series of seemingly eerie photos from a MySpace user start appearing on 4chan forums. The subject of the images dubbed, "Creepy-chan," was Allison Harvard who would later go on to modeling and appear on the twelfth season of the television series America's Next Top Model.
2006 - Lumberwoods: An electronic copy of Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, by William T. Cox, is published online via the free hosting site Angelfire. Later, a domain is added (fearsomecreatures ofthelumberwoods.com) and shortned a couple years later to lumberwoods.com as additional e-texts are added to an expanding library.
2007 - Fresno Nightcrawlers: A home security camera captures two unidentified non-descripts resembling a round-headed entities with two leg-like appendages seemingly walking across a residential yard in Fresno, California. Curiously, the beings appear to flail as if to be a living pair of pants. Speculation continues to mount on what the objects are. A later sighting at Yosemite National Park would only add to the confusion on whether the entities are genuine beings, puppets on wire or something different altogether.
2008 - Post-Racial America: The election of American President Barrack Obama leads numerous commentators to declare the start of a “post-racial America,” an America wherein the country is devoid of racial prejudice and intolerance.
2009 - Slender Man makes his debut in several brief accounts and doctored photographs distributed online via the Something Awful forum. These accounts depict a thin-bodied, bogeyman with indiscernible features, vaguely reminiscent of the hidebehind. The character was created by Eric “Victor Surge” Knudsen and rapidly grows into a fixture of internet culture.
2012 - Mayan Apocalypse: Due to the ending of the Mayan calendar cycle, it is speculated that the world would come to an end.
2015 - I'm Poppy: Unblinking with a disproportionate degree of social confidence, YouTuber and singer Poppy begins producing surreal videos featuring herself making unusual statements or behaving oddly. Poppy exhibits the tonal and behavioral quirks more expected of an automaton than a human being. The videos range from outright bizarre to providing subtle social commentary; a notable example of her videos being an early entry wherein she repeatedly declares "I'm Poppy" or "I am Poppy" for ten minutes straight.
2015 - Trump Wall: American President Trump elaborates on his construction of a “great wall” between the U.S.A. and Mexico. Likewise, President Trump boasted that he is the best at constructing walls, that the wall would be inexpensive and Mexico would pay for it. However, Trump had little background in barrier fabrication, the project was estimated at least at 21 Billion USD and Mexico directly refused to pay for such a wall. Accordingly, the project never made it past any inital stages.
2016 - Deez Nuts for President: During the American presidential race, an independant canidate enters under the assumed name “Deez Nuts.” It would later be revealed that the candidate was, in fact, a fifteen year old from Iowa. Due to mounting opposition against forerunners, Deez Nuts garnered as much as 10% of the polls in certain states.
2016 - Clown Sightings: Sightings surge throughout North America of individuals dressed in clown makeup and regalia. The sightings first originated in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Afterwards, sightings of clowns would spread to other continents as well.
2018 - Sirenhead: Trevor Henderson, artist and graphic designer, creates an image of a vaguely humanoid towering creature sporting two protrusions resembling vintage air-raid sirens from a telephone-pole-like neck. The being's unsettling combination of organic and inorganic features, coupled with a backstory of blaring random sounds and words, attracted much attention online. The creature would later grow in popularity in 2020 after being featured prominently across YouTube and other social media.
2019 - Trump’s National State of Emergency: February, American President Donald Trump declares a national “emergency” despite no such emergency existing.
2019 - Birds Work for the Bourgeoise: July, a faux conspiracy theory is circulated purporting that all species of birds were actually eradicated under the Reagan administration and subsequently substituted with spies that closely monitor the activities of citizens. The phrase originated with Kendrick Smith, an internet comedian, who ended a social media video on the infamous line sounded through a megaphone.
2019 - Lumberwoods, Unnatural History Museum: August 4, In its thirteenth year, the website Lumberwoods evolves into the Lumberwoods, Unnatural History Museum transforming into a virtual arena of exhibition as well as adding hundreds of pages to preexisting ones.
2019 - US Navy Confirms UFOs: September, US Navy confirms the existence of UFO as reported by US Navu personnel.
2020 - Beaver Dams with Satellite Dishes: August, satellite dishes, and habitually Canadian flags, start appearing atop beaver dwellings in dams across Canada.
2020 - Utah Monolith: November, scientists with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, while tracking bighorn sheep, observed a three-sided, reflective, metallic pillar juxtaposed against the remote desert expanses of Lockhart Basin near Bears Ears National Monument. The mystery surrounding the structure was never accounted for, the piece having been erected in 2016 without its existence known. Subsequently, what has been since dubbed as the “Utah monolith” was taken down by a group four only to have other “monoliths” appear in random areas around the world.
2021 - Pentagon Verifies UFO Footage: April 2021, Pentagon verifies autenticity of a video showing a UFO or UAP (Uidentified Aerial Phenomenon) taken by US Navy personnel.

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