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Odd News Stories From 2020 That Prove This Year Was The Weirdest Yet

Dennis Fujimoto/The Garden IslandA police officer in Kauai, Hawaii stands guard as Love Has Won cult members pack up their belongings. Residents of Hawaii have little tolerance for those trying to profit off of the islands spiritual appeal. In this next piece of odd news, locals in Kauai protested the arrival of a religious cult

Stockholm Syndrome And The Strange Bank Robbery Behind It

Wikimedia CommonsThe Kreditbanken building, where Jan-Erik Olsson took his hostages. In 1973, Swedish criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot coined a most interesting psychiatric phenomenon. He called it Norrmalmstorgssyndromet, after Norrmalmstorg, the area of Stockholm where the phenomenon had originated. To people outside of Sweden, however, it became known as Stockholm syndrome.

Sunspot Solar Observatory Reopens 10 Days After Mysterious Evacuation

NSO/AURA/NSFA telescope on site at the Sunspot Solar Observatory. After being mysteriouslyevacuated and closed for 10 days, a solar observatory in New Mexico is finally open again. According to a statement, the Sunspot Solar Observatory in Sacramento Peak, N.M. has opened its doors once again, allowing employees to return to work and residents of the

The '60s Movement That Changed America

Source: Some Killer Stories In the mid-1960s, a never before seen hippie counter-culture blossomed throughout the United States, inciting both the Flower Power movement as well as the general revulsion of more straight-laced, Ward Cleaver-esque Americans.

The Cult Members Who Butchered 9 People

Getty ImagesManson Family members Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkle, and Leslie Van Houten in custody following the Tate-LaBianca murders of August 1969. On August 8, 1969, members of the Manson Family broke into the home of actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of film director Roman Polanski, at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles. They then