Real-Life “Unbreakable,” Unsolved Case of the Sodder Family, & San Diego Dragon

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5. You can almost never go wrong with vanilla ice cream; it seems like everyone likes it. But would you eat vanilla ice cream made from plastic? A UK designer claims to be the first person to ever make ice cream with vanilla flavoring sourced from recycled plastic.

4. Surgeons were listening to violin music while operating on their patient to remove a brain tumor. This may not be that strange in and of itself, but it was WHO was playing the violin for the doctors that made it fit into the Weirdest News in History. 

3. M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable starring Bruce Willis was a hit in the 2000s, and was based on someone whose bones couldn’t break. Now, a family has been found to have a genetic mutation that means their bones never break, just like Willis’ character, the Overseer.

2. In June 1890, a San Diego boy was playing on the hills of Balboa Park when he saw an enormous and monstrous half-bird, half-beast flying through the air. This dinosaur looking creature had bat-like wings, a long bill and a tail twisted like a doughnut. What was it? 

1. The disappearance of the Sodder children is one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries in American history. On Christmas Eve in 1945, Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jennie, and Betty Sodder, aged from 14 down to 5, all died in a fire that consumed their home. However, their remains couldn’t be found, leading to all kinds of theories about what really happened to them.