Column Chronicles: The mystery files released

The mystery files released

Frank Cotolo
January 25, 2024

Throughout history mankind has secretly recorded events no one can explain. These files are now public. We list some of them in no particular order for your amazement.

Mystery 53.5, 1958
Three people living in three different cities somehow find themselves on the same roller coaster ride an hour after being reported missing.

Mystery 185.7, 1962
A Buick automobile with two flat tires is driven over three hundred miles on the surface of Lake Ontario before it sinks. The driver is never found. The auto is located twelve years later on a highway near Calgary. The word HELP is painted on the roof.

Mystery 773.8, 1987
A man in Idaho strikes a match to light his cigarette and sixteen farm animals burn to a crisp on a farm in Iowa.

Mystery 45.6, 1955
A truck carrying crates of oranges makes a wrong turn on a street in Franklin, Ohio and does not make a correct turn in its destination. It is never reported missing.

Mystery 254.7, 1977
A construction worker in Chicago is seen eating a flytrap.

Mystery 45.5, 1944
A group of Detroit scientists deny the Sun exists and then prove it.

Mystery 85.8, 1985
Rebel soldiers in Sudan shed their uniforms to invade Chad.

Mystery 753.3, 1997
Twins are born to two women whom are twins from the same mother whom was a twin from a set of twins. No one could do the genealogical math.

Mystery 1156.4, 1971
An asteroid heading for Earth alarms astronomers until it crashes in Utah and does no damage whatsoever.

Mystery 946.3, 1924
Seven rare breeds of canine across the world begin to howl at the same time during a full moon in August. In harmony.

Mystery 222.8, 1936
Cuba floats east.

Mystery 478.7, 2003
Every man, woman and child is afraid to wear a beret after a sixteen-hour blackout in Paris.

Mystery 377.1, 1996
Visitors to a cemetary in Poland are shocked when they find every gravestone reads ERNST GILDERFODDER.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.