Weirdest Events in History | People Stories #351

serious what historical event from way back is just plain bizarre to you rasputin's whole life the idea that this scraggly wizard priest maybe not even a real priest was able to influence the russian royal family is just so wild to me the only interesting thing is that he had a way of helping with alexa's hemophilia although it may have been something as simple as stopping them from giving him aspirin the presidency of chester a arthur this was a man neck deep in the political corruption machine back in the day every step of his career was built on the spoils system of the time including how he became vice president he enjoyed it too building fabulous wealth during his time at the new york custom house and giving favors to his associates as vice president you would think that this man would only continue this as president but no in his very first address to congress he specifically requested civil service reform he wanted to dismantle the very machine that got him his wealth and power he was perfectly happy doing favors as a vp and being the recipient of other favors but the second he became the big man he wanted to change the whole system for the better in a little under two years after garfield's assassination arthur signed the reform bill that mandates government positions are awarded based on merit my history teacher loved to go on these little asides he was convinced president arthur had brain tumor or a stroke because there was such a change in his outlook he had no evidence of this of course but arthur did a 180 on lots of things from native treatments to corruption the lost army of cambyses around bce the persian king cambises 2 sent an army of 50 000 men out into the african desert to subdue a rebellious outpost resisting the king's conquest of egypt and surrounding areas the army supposedly encountered a massive dust storm which completely engulfed them and covered them with fatal dunes of sand they were never heard from and never found in modern times some archaeologists have claimed to find remains but their claims are not universally accepted by their peers wojtek the bear he was a bear taken in by the watch skeletal polish army in world war ii and he helped move ammunition his favorite thing to drink was beer and he was taught to salute when greeted he was enlisted into the polish army at a basic private so that they could keep him had his own pay book and everything lived out his retirement in edinburgh zoo and died sometime in the late 1950s and as of 2015 there is a statue of him in edinburgh's prince's street gardens even though he was living in the zoo i can't seem to find many post-war photos of him one of the weirdest historical events was the dancing mania that happened in europe between the 14th and 17th centuries people suddenly started to dance and couldn't stop it could be up to thousand people just dancing and not stopping they danced until they got exhausted and just collapsed no one is sure why this happened heard about that there's a theory that it was caused by ergot a fungus that grows on grains and causes severe hallucinations and mania if i recall correctly rape of nanking how can you rape a baby even if it is your enemies baby all humanity must be lost for you to insert your dong into a human baby that is what confuses me about the torture style of this event there's a book by that name it's really good it doesn't try to explain why but offers a few possible reasons the soldiers also made the men rape their own sisters and mothers it was just pure rape murder torture and misery for those people the punishment surrounding being accused of witchcraft or magic i mean self-preservation tells me if they can do magic for real season i try to burn them i'm very much the one gonna be on fire or turned into a sentient butt plug and lodged in a goat's butt for eternity comma turned into a sentient butt plug deus vault l ron hubbard the creator of scientology was big into black magic and used to hang out with aleister crowley and his whole crew he had a weird battle of egos with jack parsons a rocket scientist and they all performed the moon child ritual to summon the antichrist and the details of the ritual came to pass after performing the ritual a scarlet woman was supposed to appear and give birth to the antichrist the next day a random red-headed woman showed up at their place insisting she be involved in their magical sexual escapades coincidence or not that she was there they knocked her up thus fulfilling the requirements of the ritual then hubbard parsons and his wife banded together to flip yachts for a profit hubbard stole the investment money and parson's wife and disappeared to start scientology later on michelangelo the man's whole life was him being a badass he was literally like an italian cowboy with the profound ability to create mesmerizing sculptures in the 19th century a british man named joshua norton came to los angeles san francisco and proclaimed himself naughty night emperor of the united states protector of mexico the latter title being in response to the french invasion of mexico his rule lasted from 1859 to 1881 as emperor some of norton's accomplishments included but weren't limited to getting spurned by queen victoria being recognized as the only legitimate leader of the united states by king kamehameha of hawaii of declaring both republican and democratic parties dissolved having tea with emperor pedro two of brazil the bizarre part isn't that he existed the bizarre part was that he was basically the 19th century parallel to sexy vegan and that clearly he was doing much more than any president we've had between lincoln and tr the best part is that everyone in town just kind of ran with it it's not a single event but it's amazing to me how much trouble people used to have crossing the english channel starting with william the conqueror and effectively ending with jon english kings held lands in both england and france but even for royalty it was difficult and risky to cross the channel and when they did cross they were never quite sure where on the coast they'd land the one timer pope dug up another pope to put his corpse on trial this is called a cadaver synod which i must mention because it is objectively the most metal band name possible the live pope yelled at the dead pope's body for a while and then the trial concluded with a guilty verdict which one would expect the types of trials that are fair and legitimate and give the accused a chance to defend themselves are by and large not anywhere close to the types of trials where one of the parties has been dead for a few years the live pope had the dead pope's blessing hand cut off had his papacy annulled meaning he was unpoped and was reburied in a pauper's grave of course putting your dead rivals corpse on trial is not the thing done by someone with restraint or a sense of moderation so naturally he dug up the old pope again who this time was not a pope anymore put him on trial again declared him guilty again and threw his body in a river the living pope was eventually deposed arrested and strangled to death in a jail cell in part due to rumors that the dead pope's body had washed up on shore and started performing miracles meaning that he's not just a dead-on pope but in fact an undead poop there was some instability in the church over the following years and various factions allied with and against the corpse prosecuting pope successively attained the papacy the prosecuting pope had several of his acts rolled back and then reinstated the firstly dead knot pope had his papacy restored then the restoration was annulled all the original annulment was reinstated and then re-restored all the annulment was announced and during this time his body was exhumed and rey buried at least two more times accounts differ on whether there was another trial the catholic church now has a rule prohibiting putting corpses on trial this is what you get when you have a charlie chaplin for a pope and everyone in his court is at charlie chaplin dimitri the tsar of russia was killed mysteriously reappeared killed mysteriously reappeared killed then mysteriously reappeared then killed then reappeared then killed before they finally decided that he was really dead and no one after that could possibly be dimitri i might be exaggerating a little but only by one death and reappearance not really bizarre but more amazing was the siege of vicksburg by grant during the civil war the fortifications on the mississippi river were dang impressive but they didn't take into account that if you got close to the river's edge the guns angle couldn't reach that far down so by hugging the river's edge closest to vicksburg grant essentially had a free shot of the city and allowed him to take out the last heavily fortified city on the mississippi the siege lasted like a month the siege lasted 47 days and ended when the city surrendered on the 4th of july 1863 independence day celebrations were not held in the city for decades afterwards a man named diego maradona scored a goal using his hand even though that's an illegal move on football it was counted and his reputation around the world escalated immensely after that move which would be called the hand of god i mean rest in peace diego but come on that was illegal i don't know why i laughed at that last sentence i just imagined some piaf fan who just never got over that place saying yeah he was a great guy and a great player but let's be real for a second he cheated us bad the archduke ferdinand was assassinated almost by accident his killer had missed him earlier then when the archduke's car made a wrong turn the assassin was sitting in a cafe when he happened to come down the street unfortunate history unfolded and boom there goes world war i the rampant child abuse is pretty shocking dan carlin has a podcast that talks about it basically if you accept what we know now about child abuse and how it affects people as adults it really explains a lot of the whack crap that has happened throughout history child abuse you're abusing your kid no i'm disciplining my kid oh i'm sorry carry on then my husband and i were just talking about the whole river to rosie we can do it mentality and then backslid once the men came back into the balls about women not doing things besides in the house it's stunning the work women were encouraged to do in heavy industry during world war ii only to be shamed into not doing it the next decade in both instances though a woman's purpose was to support men at home or abroad i thought that the petty coat was were bizarre when i learned about them in high school but now i know that some politicians are just children with a lot of power so of course a president fired most of his cabinet because their wives wouldn't sit with someone else's wife all humans are just children who like to pretend otherwise the el dorado myth was started by captives to let conquistadors on wild goose chases and it worked at least five times the baldesardans or the bull of the burning men man charles vi of france 1368-1422 and some of his friends crashed the third wedding of his wife's lady in waiting by wearing suits made of tar-soaked linen and strands of dried hemp unfortunately charles's own brother drunk as ever brought a torch into the ceremony which had been forbidden one of the men went up in flames before it spread to almost every single one of them apart from charles charles seeing his friends go up in flames hid underneath his 15 years old aunt joan ii countess other then s dress four of the other five dancers died save one who managed to jump into a barrel of wine in time to save himself from being too badly burned got a couple james strang after joseph smith was killer most of his second-in-command followers were fighting about which one of them would be the new mormon leader during all this chaos in walks this nobody named strang who claims to have found another set off hidden plates and a forge letter from smith saying he is a new leader he ended up taking about a third of the mormons up to michigan where he declared himself king of beaver island he ended up getting shot by his own followers because he was nuts william walker ever think it would be cool to have your own country so did walker only he actually tired to do it with some success he first tried to invade mexico that did not pan out though then he tried nicaragua where he became president for a little over a year before the neighboring states kicked him out he tried one more time to take over honduras but they caught him and killed him because it was pretty clear he was never going to stop baron on jeon sternberg you know how the mongolian empire was pretty badass while sternberg attempted to bring it back he was a general white russian army during the russian civil war but decided that he wanted to take his army to mongolia once there he teamed up with some local tribes and the buddhist leader and chased the communists out him and his ragtag group held out for a decent amount of time before being put down the aids epidemic used to really seem strange to me they just let so many people die because they didn't want to do anything about it because it mostly affected gay men i used to think how could anyone just let something like that kill so many people and not care about but i've learned especially now that people are buttholes it wasn't malicious during the epidemic no one had any idea of how to treat it or even understood what was happening to people at first for years it was considered incurable and fatal i'm still blown away that it became no big deal to treat it later huge medical breakthrough the amount of incest you would think they would have noticed things were off with the practice a lot sooner than they did oh easily the war of the bucket this was between bologna and modena it was over a wooden bucket that was stolen from one of the city hitler attacking the ussr just made no sense at that part of the war in line with that even though japan figured the us would get involved in the war at some point the attack on pearl harbor was insanity i think both point out how little countries knew about each other's intentions back then it was even worse in the build-up to ww1 as tuckman brilliantly points in the guns of august the whole concept of colonization let's show up in a foreign country plant a flag and announce that we're in charge now and all your lands belong to us i'm homeschooling this year explaining world history to my 9yo and it feels like colonization is all we talk about he thought it was particularly funny that columbus died believing he was in india the whole time and then just for funsies we kept calling the natives indians for centuries after finding out they weren't anything of the sort a swedish king killed himself by eating too much pudding and a french noble had to be removed from his own court because he couldn't stop masturbating for more than a half hour to add to this one time the swedish asked napoleon for a new king and he sent them a martial he disagreed with to this day they still have that royal family because the marshal went on to side against napoleon 16th century royals just crapping and pee all over their castles then going to stay at someone else's castle while theirs was cleaned and fumigated china's great famine completely mind-blowing tens of millions of people suffer from famine and die at the hands of the government and people still find it taboo or unthinkable to talk about as an american kid the reaction to princess diana's death especially when i read the suicide rate in women her age increased after her death that crap is just bizarre to me not just one historical fact but the abundance of genocides in the 20th century and our inability as a species to learn from them and prevent them the dancing plague in france in 1518 it began with one woman breaking out in dance in the town square records vary with some saying 50 others up to 300 people danced until they died like they couldn't or wouldn't stop dancing and died of exhaustion and dehydration doctors and priests could find no explanation for it it only stopped when the people were forcibly taken to a hospital and restrained that the kiss we now do at the end of the wedding ceremony comes from people long ago having to consume it do the horizontal tango their marriages in front of family and friends if you did not do it with witnesses there your marriage was deemed illegitimate while royals were often required to have witnesses to consummation they weren't just dropping trowel in the church unit 731 japanese human experimentation on chinese and allied civilians and pows joseph mengele nazi doctor obsessed with twins and wharfs even sowing people together attempting to create conjoined twins was never caught died swimming off the coast of argentina in the 80s the jonestown mass suicide jim jones american cult leader who took his church to guyana to avoid scrutiny from the u.s government and followers families when the web closed in around him he had his followers commit mass suicide by drinking poisoned kool-aid some not wanting to were forced at gunpoint he then killed himself the opium wars great britain invaded china because they didn't want to buy our opium which is what h is made from so we invaded and were given certain port cities like hong kong which we owned until the 90s loads of mad pieces of history but these are the ones that came to mind flavor aid not kool-aid how an entire southern part of the u.s tried to secede failed are still part of the union and still think they won somehow spartan schools encouraged stealing but only if you didn't get caught how'd they know to give good grades in stealing class sherman's march to the sea when general sherman decided that the way to win the civil war was to break the back of the south supply lines by burning every farm and factory they came across between the mason dixon line and the gulf of mexico this was a little scorched earth campaign honestly the assassination of archduke ferdinand simply because it didn't come across as a tragedy but just this three stooges skit where the entire planet stumbles dong first into annihilation the mongols being able to create the largest empire by landmass encompassing most of asia and the middle east also the shortest lasting empire the sheer logistics strategy and physicality of the mongols to do this in two generations is busily terrifying the huge dust storms in north or south dakota i don't remember but if you didn't have a mask you would suffocate from crazy amount of dust in your lungs oh yeah and i also read a book on a molasses flood in boston many people drowned in the molasses and it's told that you can still smell molasses on the ground not even an event but just you talk to women from the greatest silent generations about how they met their husbands and it seems like it's almost always a variation of well i kept turning him down but he wouldn't take no for an answer hr departments hadn't been invented yet so after a few weeks of this i finally gave and agreed to go on a date with him long story short we have five children and a platoon of grandkids the pearl harbor attack was absolutely delusional oh we'll just blow up their pacific fleet and then we'll win should have checked the resources available to the usa before signing off on that idea tojo san i really used to doubt that stalin really existed that was probably shortly after reading 1984 nevertheless i simply couldn't believe that someone with so much power could have ruled an actual 20th century progressive world power and keep every mouth shut with a grip so tight that men are leftist in the west actually saw him as a hero and it took three years of time for the soviet communists to come to a conclusion that the stalinist era was actually kinda in the wrong and that they shouldn't maybe depend on an authority so much i got a chance to visit the stalin museum in his hometown in gore georgia absolutely fascinating so here's a bit of trivia stalin's one arm was shorter than the other and that was a point of insecurity for him so in most photos you'll see one hand in a pocket to avoid comparing arm lengths a lot of oral history talks about a great flood scientists have said this would have been roughly 14k years ago and yet multiple native cultures have remembered this via just talking i'm really intrigued by whatever went on with jeff the mongoose was he a hoax a shared hallucination something paranormal most of the evidence points to him being a hoax but there were just so many details if he was a hoax the family sure put a heck of a lot of effort into it if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Published: Wed Mar 03 2021