THIS DAY IN UNEXPLAINED HISTORY
©Copyrighted by Dave Ayotte & Caty Bergman
To read more about a specific event, click on that event:
(not every day in the month has an "on this day in history" event
--but I'm working on it)
April
April 1st
1997: HISTORIC ASTRONOMICAL EVENT (Hale-Bopp Comet) - Solar System
April 2nd
1980: UFO ABDUCTION - Pudasjarvi, Finland
April 3rd
1860: The Pony Express Began Today - USA
1871: EXCORCISM EVENT (Theobald Bruner) - Illfurth, France
1953: TV Guide Began Publication Today - USA
April 4th
1846: WEIRD STUFF FROM THE SKY (Gray Lumps) - Vilna, Lithuania
1968: Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated today - USA
April 5th
1966: HISTORIC UFO EVENT (Gerald Ford And L. Mendel Rivers) - Washington D.C., USA
April 6th
April 7th
1938: UFO/ SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION (Greely, Turner, And Bruik) - Ireland And England
April 8th
1980: MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE (Mr And Mrs. Romer) - Brunswick City, Georgia USA
April 9th
April 10th
1934: HAUNTED HOUSE EVENT (1140 Royal Street) - New Orleans, Louisiana USA
April 11th
1925: WEIRD STUFF FROM THE SKY (Ball Of Limestone) - Bleckenstad, Sweden
April 12th
1671: ANTI-SCIENCE/ FAIRIES (P. Rahm) - Sweden
1879: UFO SIGHTING, Continued on April 13th - Jersey City, New Jersey USA
April 13th
1879: UFO SIGHTING, Continued from April 12th - Jersey City, New Jersey USA
1983: Chicago's First Black Mayor (Harold Washington) - Chicago, Illinois USA
April 14th
1912: The Titanic Sinks, Continued On April 15th - North Atlantic Ocean
1959: BIG BIRD SIGHTING - Jacksonville, Illinois USA
April 15th
1897: UFO SIGHTING - Linn Grove, Iowa USA
1912: The Titanic Sinks, Continued From April 16th - North Atlantic Ocean
April 16th
1875: WEIRD WEATHER EVENT (Tornado) - Walterborough, South Carolina USA
1974: SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION - San Francisco, California USA
April 17th
1680: MIRACLE (Kateri Tekhawitha) - Kahnawake, Canada
April 18th
1961: UFO SIGHTING - USA
1962: UFO SIGHTING - Mesquite Range, Nevada USA
April 19th
1897: UFO SIGHTING - Yates Center, Kansas USA
1934: LOCH NESS MONSTER SIGHTING (Surgeon's Photo) - Loch Ness, Scotland
1993: WACO DISASTER - Waco, Texas USA
1995: OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA
April 20th
1925: MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE (Percy Fawcett And His son) - Mato Grosso, Brazil
April 21st
1977: DOVER DEMON SIGHTING - Dover, Massachusetts USA
April 22nd
1883: WEIRD WEATHER EVENT (Tornado) - Beauregard, Mississippi USA
April 23rd
1960: LOCH NESS MONSTER SIGHTING - Loch Ness, Scotland
April 24th
1978: CATTLE MUTILATION EVENT - Dulce, New Mexico USA
April 25th
1885: MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE/ URBAN LEGEND (Issac Martin) - Salem, Virginia USA
April 26th
1812: UFO SIGHTING - Normandy, France
April 27th
April 28th
1908: MURDER MYSTERY/ MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE (Belle Gunness) - Laporte, Indiana USA
April 29th
1945: SYNCHRONICITY EVENT (Warren Felty And Bill Miller) - Moosburg, Germany
April 30th
1945: MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE (Adolph Hitler And Eva Braun) - Berlin, Germany