r/HolyShitHistory

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Where history’s wildest, weirdest, and most unbelievable moments will make you say, "Holy shit!"

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This is a before and after photo of Brenda Heist, who dropped her kids at school in 2002 and was reported missing later that day. She walked into a Florida police station in 2013 and said she was alive after eleven years.

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26579914 days ago

In 1986, Hofmann and her boyfriend, Marco, took a trip to Kenya. There, she met a Samburu warrior named Lketinga Leparmorijo and found him instantly irresistible. She left Marco, returned to Switzerland to sell her possessions, and in 1987 went back to Kenya, determined to find Lketinga.

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213642263a month ago

In 2018, sixteen year old Karlie Guse had a bad reaction after smoking weed at a party and begged her stepmother to bring her home. By sunrise she was gone from the house without her phone, shoes, or glasses. She has never been found.

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1955328385 days ago

Dutch medical student Sophia Koetsier’s underwear was found hanging in a tree after she vanished in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park.

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188543236a month ago

On Sept 5, 1942, during WWII, Petty Officer Charles Jackson French swam 6–8 hours off Guadalcanal Island, towing a raft of 15 wounded sailors after USS Gregory was sunk. He used a rope around his waist and pulled them through shark-infested waters.

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1547836210 days ago

On April 1, 2014 — Dutch tourists Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon vanished while hiking the El Pianista trail in Panama. It was discovered that Froon’s cell phone had been used until April 11, with her camera full of photos taken in the dark. Their partial skeletons were found a few months later.

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1351618103 days ago

The UK built a special glass cell for a man who killed child predators in prison. He’s been in it for 45 years.

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13515104014 days ago

Timothy Leary arrived at California Men's Colony prison in 1970 facing twenty years behind bars. He was fifty years old, a former Harvard psychologist turned counterculture icon, sentenced for marijuana possession in an era when the establishment treated drug advocacy as existential threat.

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124204245 days ago

In 1974, a woman was found carefully placed on a blanket in the sand. Her hands were gone. Her teeth were removed to prevent ID. She became known as the Lady of the Dunes. In 2022, forensic genealogy finally revealed her name.

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999874319 days ago

There was a disease that left people awake but unable to move or speak. Many were trapped inside their own bodies, and it vanished without anyone ever understanding why.

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