Jessica Vincent visited a Goodwill store in Hanover County, Virginia, and found a striking red and green vase for $3.99. Her curiosity was piqued by an “M” stamp on the base, leading her to believe it might be from Murano, Italy.

Portlock, located on the southern coast of Alaska, thrived as a fishing and canning port in the early 20th century. Established around 1786 and named after British Captain Nathaniel Portlock, it grew significantly after a salmon cannery was built in the 1900s.

In September 1791, while in Prague for the premiere of his opera La clemenza di Tito, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began to feel ill. He was plagued by numerous health issues throughout his life, such as smallpox and rheumatic fever. This time, however, he believed he had been poisoned, specifically with Aqua Tofana, an Italian poison. He later recovered and dismissed his suspicions.

In 1964, French embassy employee Bernard Boursicot met opera singer Shi Pei Pu at a Christmas party in Beijing. They began an 18-year-long secret affair, despite Mao Zedong’s ban on Chinese-foreigner relationships. Boursicot traded embassy secrets to the Chinese government to maintain contact with Shi.

Pablo Escobar, the notorious Colombian drug lord, imported four hippos to his private zoo in the 1980s. After his death in 1993, these hippos were left to roam free, resulting in a rapidly growing population now exceeding 150.

After Napoleon Bonaparte’s death in 1821 on the island of St. Helena, his doctor, Francesco Antommarchi, performed an autopsy. During this, he cut off Napoleon’s penis and gave it to a priest named Abbé Anges Paul Vignali, who smuggled it to Corsica.

In 1970, a young nurse named Donna received a Raggedy Ann doll as a gift. Strange occurrences began soon after, with the doll appearing in different rooms and leaving eerie notes. Donna’s friend, Lou, experienced physical attacks, prompting a medium to claim the doll was inhabited by a spirit named Annabelle Higgins.

Just 16 days after he was last seen alive, a 34-year-old man was found near a railway in Sofia, Bulgaria, in a stage of complete mummification. The man’s brain and other organs had become structureless masses, leaving researchers baffled at the rapid decay. His organs were dried and brownish-black, with fat tissue almost entirely gone. No traumatic injuries were found, though small lesions indicated maggot activity postmortem.

Nestled in the Archuleta Mesa near the town of Dulce, New Mexico, lies a facility shrouded in mystery and intrigue. The Dulce Base is rumored to be an underground complex jointly operated by humans and extraterrestrials, according to numerous reports and alleged eyewitness accounts.

In the mid-19th century, workers at the Santa Paula Cemetery in Guanajuato, Mexico, made an astonishing discovery. As they exhumed bodies to make room for new burials, they found that many corpses had naturally mummified. The first mummy was exhumed in 1865, and more followed, each remarkably preserved.