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Marine scientists have discovered an underwater cave filled with fossils of bus sized ichthyosaurses (pictured above) The arrangement of the bones along with the condition of the fossils implies they were victims of a much larger predator that brought them back to the underwater cave and purposefully rearranged their bones. 

Ora Blue and Charley Wilson showing reporters the approximate size of the turtle. 

In July 1948, two men, Ora Blue and Charley Wilson, claimed to see a giant turtle (weighing an estimated 500 pounds) while fishing on Fulk Lake in Churubusco, Indiana. 

When word of the sighting got around town, older locals recalled how in 1898, a farmer reported seeing the same thing in the same lake and was ridiculed by friends for his claim. The man who owned the lake, Gale Harris backed up the others claims, saying he had seen the turtle as well. 

Local news picked up the story and a UPI reporter from Fort Wayne relayed the reports out on the wire services, causing the turtle to become a national sensation. 

The Beast of Busco as it was dubbed by the media, attracted mobs of sightseers to the lake but despite so many curious onlookers there was no further reports of the massive turtle, causing skeptics to question the authenticity of the earlier sightings. To vindicate his good name, Gale Harris made several attempts to catch the beast. These included having fisherman drudge the lake from end to end several times and eventually escalated to Harris having deep-sea divers search the pond, though this attempt failed when the wrong equipment was delivered to Harris.

Belle Gunness was an American serial killer who from 1900 to 1908 murdered between 25–42 men. Gunnes would run advertisements in the matrimonial columns of local newspapers looking for suitors whom soon ended up as her victims. Her crimes went undiscovered until mounting pressure from the police over her connection to a number of disappearances resulted in Gunness emptying her bank account just before her home was destroyed by arson and then fleeing the state. When police went to her home they unearthed approximately a dozen bodies buried on the property, most of which were never identified. 

The Wild Hunt is a European folk myth involving a ghostly or supernatural group of huntsmen passing in wild pursuit. The hunters may be either elves or fairies or the dead, and the leader of the hunt is often a named figure associated with Norse Mythology, but may variously be a historical or legendary figure like Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, biblical figures such as Herod, Cain, Gabriel or the Devil, or an unidentified lost soul or spirit either male or female.

The blue star tattoo legend was an urban myth that occasionally surfaced in American elementary and middle schools in various parts of the country throughout the 80s and 90s in the form of photocopied flyers distributed (often through fax) to parents and school officials. The flyers claimed that a temporary lick-and-stick tattoo soaked in LSD and made in the form of a blue star (the logo of the Dallas Cowboys is often mentioned), or of popular children's cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Bart Simpson, is being distributed to children in the area in order to get them addicted to LSD. 

In 1997 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) detected a strange sound near one of its autonomous hydrophone array. The sound was made at an ultra-low frequency and picked up by underwater recording devices across the Pacific. Even being detected from recording stations that were over 5,000 km apart. The sound was dubbed as “The Bloop.”

The sound's source was roughly triangulated to around the Oceanic pole of inaccessibility which is the ocean point farthest away from any land. By coincidence the coordinates of the sound also matched up to the coordinates given for the location of the fictional lost city of R'lyeh which appeared in the short story “The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P Lovecraft. 

NOAA's Dr. Christopher Fox, said he did not believe the sounds origin was man-made, such as a submarine or bomb, nor a familiar geological event such as a volcano or an earthquake. Fox stated that while the audio profile of Bloop does resemble that of a living creature, the source was a mystery because it would be "far more powerful than the calls made by any animal on Earth." Fox initially speculated Bloop to be ice calving in Antarctica, but later came to believe the sound to be likely that of an animal in origin.

In 2002, Journalist David Wolman writing for the journal, New Scientist interviewed several experts and after some analysis of the recording found the noise to be consistent with that of a large marine animal. Though no known animal could have been large enough to produce a noise of that caliber. 

The source of the sound had been studied by many since it was first recorded with some scientists such as Dr. Yunbo Xie theorizing that the angular frequency of the sound caused an alteration of waveforms causing whatever was recorded to be distorted from its original form. 

Reconstruction of The Saint Patrick's Battalion's flag as described by John Riley.

Between 1845 and 1852 The Great Famine killed 1 million people and caused another million to flee the starvation and poverty they faced Ireland.

Many of these refugees went to the United States only to be handed a gun and a uniform the moment they stepped off the boat and told that they had a duty to help their new country and fight in the war against Mexico.

Thousands of conscripted Irish and European soldiers deserted the army on the march across Texas but one Irishman named John Riley refused to do so after becoming morally conflicted upon the realization he had become apart of the same type of conquering army that oppressed his people back in Ireland. Instead deciding to convince 200 other soldiers to defect with him and join the Mexican Army.

This group was composed primarily Irish immigrants but also included other Europeans from 8 countries and even escaped slaves from the Southern United States. They called themselves The Saint Patrick's Battalion.

During the battle of Monterrey The Battalion pushed back 3 separate assaults by US soldiers to take the town. This victory caused many more soldiers, even ones they fought against during the previous assault to defect from the US army and join their ranks. By some estimates up to 500 new soldiers enlisted in The Saint Patrick's Battalion. 

In the Battle of Buena Vista an enraged U.S. Commander Zachary Taylor ordered a Cavalry Regiment to charge on the Battalion and take their position. This failed and the Cavalry Regiment was forced to retreat after heavy casualties. After the battle, General Francisco Mejia described the Battalion as “worthy of the most consummate praise because the men fought with daring bravery.” Several Irishmen were awarded the War Cross by the Mexican government for their conduct in Buena Vista, and many received field promotions.

With the hopes of causing more US soldiers to rethink the morality of their situation the Mexican government began producing desertion handbills which said:

"You must not fight against a religious people, nor should you be seen in the ranks of those who proclaim slavery of mankind as a constitutive principle. Liberty is not on the part of those who desire to be lords of the world, robbing properties and territories which do not belong to them and shedding so much blood in order to accomplish their views."

The Battalion continued to fight with distinction in several battles against US soldiers. 

Pushing back the enemy in Matamoros after John Riley discovered the U.S soldiers had been raping the nuns. 

At the Battle of Cerro Gordo when the Mexican troops realized they were out matched and broke rank to run the Saint Patrick’s Battalion stayed and fought the U.S. troops in hand-to-hand combat.

During the Battle of Churubusco while hopelessly outnumbered and under-equipped, the Mexican army repelled the attacking U.S. forces with heavy losses until their ammunition ran out and a Mexican officer raised the white flag of surrender. Officer Patrick Dalton of the Saint Patrick's Battalion tore the white flag down, and proclaimed the men to fight on, with their bare hands if necessary.

After the Battle of Churubusco 50 captured Battalion members were hanged for treason in what was the largest mass execution in United States History. 

It is said that while negotiating the end of the war the Mexican President was told that the U.S would not accept a peace treaty unless his government gave all members of the Saint Patrick's Battalion over to US custody so they could be executed for treason. The Mexican President purportedly responded that if he gave them a single soldier the war would never end because the citizens of Mexico would be so outraged he betrayed those heroes that they would hang him and then pick up rifles to carry on the Battalion’s mission. 

After the end of the war the remaining members of the Battalion immigrated into Mexican life, many of them starting families and remaining in Mexico for the rest of their lives, with their descendants still residing in the hillsides of Mexico to this day.