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clearleaf@lemmy.world to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Great Sheep Panic of 1888. The day tens of thousands sheep across Oxfordshire broke from their enclosures and scattered in terror. Nobody knows what scared them.

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Great Sheep Panic of 1888. The day tens of thousands sheep across Oxfordshire broke from their enclosures and scattered in terror. Nobody knows what scared them.

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clearleaf@lemmy.world to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Airburst meteor

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      Someone would have noticed an airburst over 200sqmi.

      Clearly the answer is chupacabra.

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        Manbearpig

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        In 1921 the scientific journal Nature noted that the 3 November 1888 had been “an intensely dark night, with occasional flashes of lightning”

        Could have been metors

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