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@PvtSoloOct 17
A secret 1955 CIA file holds a photo labeled "Adolf Schüttelmayer, Tunja, Colombia, 1954." An ex-SS man swore it was Hitler. CIA headquarters said drop it. Decades later, a journalist says forensics back him up. 🧵👇
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One Japanese plane. Two bombs. Roughly 800 men killed, a 13-degree list, dead in the water about 50 miles off Japan, and USS Franklin still made it home to New York. Would YOU have stayed aboard?
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Oct. 25, 1944, off Samar. Japan's battleships come over the horizon. Only small ships stand in their way. Cmdr. Ernest Evans, Cherokee and Creek, turns his destroyer Johnston and charges alone. He was last seen ordering abandon ship.
The destroyer USS Johnston (DD-557), hull number 557, off Seattle on Oct. 27, 1943, crew lining the rails. U.S. Navy photo NH 63495, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

ALT The destroyer USS Johnston (DD-557), hull number 557, off Seattle on Oct. 27, 1943, crew lining the rails. U.S. Navy photo NH 63495, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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July 11, 1979. Skylab falls out of orbit and scatters across Western Australia. The town of Esperance fines NASA A$400 for littering. The fine finally got paid in 2009, by a radio DJ and his morning-show listeners.
Overhead view of the Skylab space station in Earth orbit above the clouds, photographed by the departing Skylab 4 crew, 1974. NASA photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

ALT Overhead view of the Skylab space station in Earth orbit above the clouds, photographed by the departing Skylab 4 crew, 1974. NASA photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Nov. 2, 1932. Australian soldiers with two Lewis guns and 10,000 rounds go after 20,000 emus raiding Western Australia's wheat farms. Their commander compared the birds to tanks. Who won?
100%The emus
0%The army
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Nov. 28, 1953. An Army scientist falls from a 13th-floor New York hotel window, nine days after his CIA supervisor secretly dosed him with LSD. In 1973 the CIA ordered the MKUltra files destroyed. 20,000 pages survived. Misfiled.
A declassified MKUltra subproject proposal page describing brain-stimulation experiments on animals, stamped "Released." CIA document, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

ALT A declassified MKUltra subproject proposal page describing brain-stimulation experiments on animals, stamped "Released." CIA document, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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March 1, 1954. 23 Japanese tuna fishermen watch the western sky light up like a sunset. Hours later, white ash falls on their deck. It was a U.S. H-bomb test. Their radioman died that September. That November, Godzilla hit theaters.
The Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb fireball rises over Bikini Atoll, March 1, 1954. U.S. Department of Energy photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

ALT The Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb fireball rises over Bikini Atoll, March 1, 1954. U.S. Department of Energy photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Oct. 21, 1805. A French sharpshooter in the Redoutable's rigging shoots Nelson on deck. He lives three more hours. Last words: "Thank God I have done my duty." His fleet takes 20 ships, loses none. They sailed him home in a barrel of brandy.
Denis Dighton, The Fall of Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805: Nelson collapses on the deck of HMS Victory amid smoke and close fighting. Painting, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Royal Museums Greenwich).

ALT Denis Dighton, The Fall of Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805: Nelson collapses on the deck of HMS Victory amid smoke and close fighting. Painting, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Royal Museums Greenwich).

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Did the Nazis hide a secret base under the Antarctic ice? Theorists say the US Navy went to war over it. Dec 1938: the German ship Schwabenland sails south under Captain Alfred Ritscher, carrying two seaplanes, Boreas and Passat. They photograph roughly 250,000 km² of what's now Queen Maud Land and find mountains nobody had ever seen. Germany names it "Neuschwabenland." Two real details that sound made up: Norway learned about the trip when a deputy leader's wife mentioned it on a phone call to geologist Adolf Hoel, so Norway claimed the region on Jan 14, 1939. And the crew brought live emperor penguins home to the Berlin Zoo. The legend: "Base 211," heated by hot springs, fed by U-boats carrying leaders and scientists, guarded by flying saucers. Much of it was pushed in the 1970s by Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel. Believers point to five clues: 1. Two U-boats surfaced in Argentina in summer 1945. U-977 had been at sea 107 days. 2. Operation Highjump, 1946–47: Admiral Byrd takes 4,700 men and 13 ships to Antarctica. 3. Four aircraft lost, including "George 1," which crashed on Thurston Island and killed three men. 4. Byrd told Chile's El Mercurio a future enemy could strike the US over the poles. 5. In 1958 the US set off three nuclear blasts high over the South Atlantic (Operation Argus). The real story: a 2007 Polar Record paper showed the U-boats couldn't have reached Antarctica, and the Argus blasts were over 2,000 km north of Queen Maud Land. Byrd was talking about Cold War airpower. Highjump built Little America IV, mapped the coast and trained the Navy for polar war with the USSR. No German document shows any activity there after 1939. What's left is penguins, a phone call and a tragic crash.
USS Sennet, a US Navy submarine, surrounded by Antarctic pack ice during Operation Highjump in 1947.

ALT USS Sennet, a US Navy submarine, surrounded by Antarctic pack ice during Operation Highjump in 1947.

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Here's original Operation Highjump footage from the US National Archives. Thirteen ships, 4,700 men, and not one secret base 👇
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What Highjump actually left behind: Little America IV, a tent-and-hut camp on the Ross Ice Shelf, photographed from the air in 1947. What polar mystery should we chase next? Reply 👇
Aerial view of Little America IV, the US Navy camp on the Ross Ice Shelf, 1947.

ALT Aerial view of Little America IV, the US Navy camp on the Ross Ice Shelf, 1947.

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Oct. 21, 1966, 9:15 a.m. In Aberfan, Wales, teachers are calling the register on the last day before half-term. A rain-soaked coal tip slides down the mountain onto the school. 116 children and 28 adults die. 60 years ago today.
Aerial view of Aberfan in the valley below the Merthyr hills, with the village cemetery on the hillside at left, 2024. Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

ALT Aerial view of Aberfan in the valley below the Merthyr hills, with the village cemetery on the hillside at left, 2024. Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Mynwent Aberfan Cemetery, Sept 2024)
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@TheRedPillHQOct 20
Anyone remember the naked person who tied bed sheets together to escape the Royal Palace? Yeah... They buried this story real good...
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133 days alone on an 8-foot raft. A U-boat crew reportedly laughed and left him, so he made fish hooks from a flashlight spring and a nail, and beat a shark to death with a water container. Would YOU have survived day one?
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Dec. 27, 1941. The ramps drop at Vågsøy, Norway, and a British officer charges out playing the bagpipes. Millions say "Mad Jack" Churchill killed a German with a longbow. He said a lorry crushed his bows. He did take 42 prisoners with a sword.
British commandos storm ashore from a landing craft during a training exercise at Inveraray, Scotland, Oct. 9, 1941. Jack Churchill, far right, charges with a sword in hand. War Office photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

ALT British commandos storm ashore from a landing craft during a training exercise at Inveraray, Scotland, Oct. 9, 1941. Jack Churchill, far right, charges with a sword in hand. War Office photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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May 5, 1945. In an Austrian castle, U.S. tankers, German soldiers and French prisoners fight the SS side by side. A German major is killed pulling France's ex-prime minister to safety. A tennis star vaults the wall to get help.
Schloss Itter, a stone castle with a square tower above the village of Itter in the Austrian Tyrol, surrounded by forest and mountains. Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

ALT Schloss Itter, a stone castle with a square tower above the village of Itter in the Austrian Tyrol, surrounded by forest and mountains. Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Itter - Schloss)
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Nov. 24, 1971. A man in a business suit orders a bourbon and 7-Up, hands a flight attendant a note, and jumps out of a 727 with $200,000. Never found. In 1980 a kid found about $6,000 of it by the Columbia River. Did D.B. Cooper survive?
0%Died in the jump
0%Got away with it
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April 30, 1943, 4:15 a.m. A British sub surfaces off Spain and slips a dead Royal Marines major into the sea, a briefcase of secret plans chained to him. He was a homeless Welshman who died of rat poison. Hitler's spies believed every word.
The fake Royal Navy identity card for "Major William Martin," dated Feb. 2, 1943, made for Operation Mincemeat. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (from Montagu, The Man Who Never Was).

ALT The fake Royal Navy identity card for "Major William Martin," dated Feb. 2, 1943, made for Operation Mincemeat. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (from Montagu, The Man Who Never Was).

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July 2, 1937. Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan take off for Howland Island, a speck of land 2,556 miles away. They never arrive. In 1940, 13 bones turned up on Nikumaroro. This week a team checked a "wreck" in its lagoon. It was trees.
Amelia Earhart smiles in front of the nose of her Lockheed Electra 10-E, 1937. Underwood & Underwood photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

ALT Amelia Earhart smiles in front of the nose of her Lockheed Electra 10-E, 1937. Underwood & Underwood photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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