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Futility Closet

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Por Greg Ross
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125-The Campden Wonder

When William Harrison disappeared from Campden, England, in 1660, his servant offered an...

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124-D.B. Cooper

In 1971 a mysterious man hijacked an airliner in Portland, Oregon, demanding $200,000 and four...

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123-Washington D.C.'s Hidden Tunnels

  In 1924 a curious network of catacombs was discovered in Washington D.C. They were traced to...

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122-The Bear Who Went to War

During World War II a Polish transport company picked up an unusual mascot: a Syrian brown bear...

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121-Starving for Science

  During the siege of Leningrad in World War II, a heroic group of Russian botanists fought cold,...

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120-The Barnes Mystery

In 1879 a ghastly crime gripped England: A London maid had dismembered her employer and then...

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119-Lost in the Taiga

In 1978 a team of geologists discovered a family of five living deep in the Siberian forest, 150...

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118-The Restless Corpse of Elmer McCurdy

  In 1976 a television crew discovered a mummified corpse in a California funhouse. Unbelievably,...

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117-The Road to En-dor

In 1917 a pair of Allied officers combined a homemade Ouija board, audacity, and imagination to...

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116-Notes and Queries

In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll explore some curiosities and...

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115-Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier

After the Battle of Gettysburg, a dead Union soldier was found near the center of town. He bore...

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114-The Desperation of Donald Crowhurst

  In 1968 British engineer Donald Crowhurst entered a round-the-world yacht race, hoping to use...

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113-The Battle Over Mother's Day

  Anna Jarvis organized the first observance of Mother's Day in 1908 and campaigned to have the...

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112-The Disappearance of Michael Rockefeller

In 1961, Michael Rockefeller disappeared after a boating accident off the coast of Dutch New...

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111-Japanese Fire Balloons

Toward the end of World War II, Japan launched a strange new attack on the United States:...

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110-The Brooklyn Chameleon

Over the span of half a century, Brooklyn impostor Stanley Clifford Weyman impersonated everyone...

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109-Trapped in a Cave

In 1925, Kentucky caver Floyd Collins was exploring a new tunnel when a falling rock caught his...

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108-The Greenwich Time Lady

As recently as 1939, a London woman made her living by setting her watch precisely at the...

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107-Arthur Nash and the Golden Rule

In 1919, Ohio businessman Arthur Nash decided to run his clothing factory according to the...

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106-The Popgun War

During wargames in Louisiana in September 1941, the U.S. Army found itself drawn into a tense...

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