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*This is a work of nonfiction based on actual events I experienced firsthand; used with permission. According to scientists, there are 6 other people in the world that look identical to you but I always scoffed at the idea, thinking it was something that tabloids cooked up in terms of celebrity lookalikes. That was until I bumped into another woman who literally looked like me even though we were not related in any way.

In 2008, coal miners were going about their business in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk when they made a shocking discovery of what appeared to be an ancient wheel that was embedded in the sandstone. Though they did try to extract the wheel using tools at their disposal, they found it impossible to extricate it from the rock.

For more than a century, scientists have been stumped by a perplexing phenomenon - the mass hysteria of thousands of sheep. It's often assumed that these shy and timid animals can easily get scared away by sudden changes or noises.

***This is a true story that was reported in medical journals as well as the 1939 edition of Time. According to reports, when Tiburelo Medina and Victoria Losea noticed that their 5-year-old’s belly was swelling, they became fearful that it was a tumor and quickly took her to the doctor where they received the shock of their lives. After examining the child, the doctor informed the stunned parents that she was 7 months pregnant.

Octavia Smith of Pikeville, Kentucky married a wealthy businessman by the name of James Hatcher in 1889 and had a baby whom the couple named Jacob. Due to the high infant mortality rates that existed during those times, Jacob did not live long and his mother slipped into depression as a result.

After four decades of observations, a Pennsylvania dentist recently detailed three extraordinary cases in The Dental Cosmos — the first major journal for American Dentistry. WH Atkinson's report showcases an astounding phenomenon that has captivated readers since its introduction last month.

When Max Hahn of London, Texas, and his wife went out for a walk in 1936, they were not expecting to stumble upon a hammer embedded in a rock that is purportedly 400 million years old. The artifact dubbed the 'London Hammer' has had people scratching their heads ever since wondering whether humans have been around far longer than was thought.

For a few years after 1989, the Belgian skies have seen strange events as hundreds of ordinary citizens have reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects. Shockingly, in 1991 a UFO was even pursued by military fighters and tracked on their radar screens - marking it an incident officially confirmed to media representatives by high-ranking members of Belgium's armed forces.

A video taken by Jim Mills in 2001 is the most extended documented footage of what many are calling ¨Bigfoot ¨. Jim was leading a youth group, Campus Life, on an annual backpacking trip in the Marble Mountains in northern California, when the group came across what looked like a campsite.

Kap Dwa was a two-headed 12 foot tall, Patagonian giant, living in the forest of Argentina. In 1673, the two-headed giant was captured by Spanish sailors; however, when the giant escaped and fought back, it was killed and staked through the heart.

The urban legend of 'The Well to Hell', believed by many to be a hoax, debuted at the end of the 1980s, when Russian scientists located in Siberia succeeded in a massive project to drill the deepest borehole on earth. The legend says that once they drilled deep enough, the engineers came across an extremely hot cavity from where they could hear tormented screams, believed to be the screams of the damned in Hell.

After almost 50 years, a skull discovered in Alaska in 1997 has been identified as Gary Frank Sotherden, a man from Clay, New York who went missing in the Arctic Circle. The DNA analysis matched the skull with his brother, giving a sense of closure.

The erstwhile Soviet Union is credited with drilling the deepest hole on the planet which is named the Kola Superdeep Borehole. At an astounding depth of 40,000 feet, the hole which is located near the borders of Russia and Norway is equivalent to Mt. Everest and Mt. Fuji placed one atop the other.

Vishnu Viswanath, 29, and Meenakshi Moorthy, 30, plummeted 800 feet to their death in October 2018 all for the sake of the ultimate selfie. The tragedy occurred at Yosemite National Park in California where the bodies were found below Taft Point, a scenic overlook that has no protective railings.

The deep ocean's midwater realm, also known as the "twilight zone," is a mysterious and little-explored region that lies between the sunlit surface waters and the dark abyssal depths. This region spans from around 660 to 3,300 feet below the surface and is home to an array of unique and delicate creatures. Despite its beauty and significance, much of the twilight zone remains shrouded in mystery, with much still to be discovered and understood.

When the two-headed baby was born in a village in India in 1783, the sight of it frightened the midwife so much that she immediately tried to kill the baby. However, the baby was rescued from the fire into which it was thrown with minor burn injuries.

The Bennington Triangle is a mysterious region located in Vermont, USA, that has been the site of numerous unexplained disappearances over the years. This area, situated between the towns of Bennington, Glastenbury, and Manchester, has become known for its strange and unsettling history. Despite many theories and investigations, the truth behind the Bennington Triangle remains a mystery to this day.

In the heart of the American Southwest, nestled amongst the towering red rock cliffs and plateaus of the Four Corners region, lies the remnants of a long-lost civilization. The Anasazi people were a Native American culture that thrived in the region for over a thousand years, leaving behind a rich legacy of intricate cliff dwellings, ceremonial kivas, and intricate rock art. But despite their impressive architectural feats, the Anasazi suddenly vanished from the region, leaving behind a mystery that has puzzled archaeologists and historians for centuries.