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What's the strangest true story from YOUR town? The weirder and more local, the better — we're collecting topics for future documentaries. 👇

Coming Oct 15: the L-8. In 1942 a Navy blimp drifted back over California and crash-landed — engines running, radio working, crew of two gone without a trace. The Navy never solved it. Our next film tells the full story.

New documentary: Flight 19. Five Navy bombers took off from Florida in December 1945 on a routine training flight — and never came home. The rescue plane sent after them vanished too. Five planes. No trace. https://youtu.be/n9RtCyxVJJ0

In 1919, a 25-foot wave of molasses tore through Boston's North End — 21 dead, 150 injured, and the streets reportedly smelled of molasses for decades. Our short on it is the channel's breakout so far. The full strange story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLVpGWWXrwo

New documentary: the Mary Celeste (1872). Ten people vanished from a sound ship — no distress call, no wreckage, no answers. Watch: https://youtu.be/dIBlKPMDZ2w

A bus driver in Circleville, Ohio got anonymous poison-pen letters in 1976. Her husband died in a suspicious crash. A sign on her bus route was rigged with a loaded pistol. A man went to prison — but the letters kept coming. The writer was never caught: youtu.be/Q1GjuRvpUZE

On October 8, 1871 — the same night Chicago burned — a second fire 250 miles north killed five times as many people. America's deadliest wildfire, and almost nobody remembers its name. The 155th anniversary is next week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOhH...

The SS Baychimo was abandoned in Arctic ice in 1931. For the next 38 years, she kept being sighted — crewless, drifting, refusing to sink. The Arctic's ghost ship: www.youtube.com/watch?v=08JH...

In 1876, chunks of raw meat fell from a clear Kentucky sky. Scientists confirmed it was real tissue. 150 years later, nobody has fully explained it. The full story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd3H...

We're Footnotes History — researched mini-documentaries on history's strangest true stories, with AI-assisted visuals and human-researched scripts. New films every few days on YouTube. Come get weird with us: www.youtube.com/@FootnotesDocs