Con Spiracy

This proud Aboriginal elder traveled 1864 miles to be at his granddaughter's graduation.

In 1980, when a group of loggers were cutting off the top of a chestnut oat tree, they noticed the mummified remains of a hunting dog. Experts believe that it chased its prey up the tree in the 1960s, only to get stuck and eventually die. He was posthumously named Stuckie.

This is how the population of American Buffalo dropped from 30 million to 300 in just 50 years. Most were killed by the US military to deprive Native Americans of their primary food source.

For centuries, the feet of Chinese women were tightly bound from a young age as part of a traditional custom, causing the breaking and bending of the bones of the toe. This resulted in extremely disfigured feet that resembled the hooves of animals.

After being diagnosed with polio at age 3, Diane O’Dell spent nearly 60 years encased in a 750lb iron lung. She only died when a power outage shut down the machine that had been keeping her alive for decades.

In 1979 billionaire Richard Branson released a hot air balloon shaped like a UFO over the streets of London. The next morning, local police forces were mobilized and even the army was alerted. When it landed, Branson had also paid a little person to walk out dressed as ET.

A boy born with just 2% of his brain completely defied doctors’ predictions after it grew back to 80% the average size. Doctors had told the parents to terminate the pregnancy not once, not twice, but 5 times. He celebrated his 11th birthday earlier this year.

Some people are born with an extra hole in their ear called a pre-auricular pit. It’s connected to an unusual sinus tract under the skin, and many scientists believe this hole might be an evolutionary remnant of gills.

In 2011, The red-crested tree-rat had been extinct for 113 years until it casually appeared on the handrail of an ecolodge in Columbia. It let researchers photograph it for 2 hours before dissappearing into the night, never to be seen again.

In 2012, French beekeepers couldn’t solve the mystery of the blue and green colored honey in their beehives. After a few months of investigating, it was discovered that the bees were visiting a local factory that produces m&ms.