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In some parts of the world, strange news stories become so well known, that they become a part of national folklore and legend. Even stranger is that even though these stories gain such prominance in one country, they are seldom heard in others.
One such case has become a major talking point for the people of Spain, but is virtually unheard of outside of the country. It is the true story of what happened to the boy from Somosierra?
It was the 24th June 1986. Andres Gomez was a truck driver who made his living delivering highly combustible and corrosive compounds to Madrid. On this particular day he was excited because his delivery was a little different – he had brought his family along for the ride.
His wife, Carmen Gomez, and their son, Juan Pedro Martinez Gomez had never been to Madrid before and as his delivery was in that part of Spain, he decided to bring them along with him. They were all excited about the trip and the next day they had decided that on the way home, they would stop off to see the amazing scenery at the Somosierra mountain pass in the Sierra de Guadarrama north of Madrid in Spain. But fate would have a different plan.
The Volvo F-12 refueled near the town of Cieza, Murcia. At 00:12, the family was seen by the staff of the petrol station. After taking a nap at a rest area, they returned to the 301 national highway to Madrid. At 5:30 am, they made their last stop at the Aragon Inn. Witnesses who saw them there said that the family looked happy and nothing was amiss. But shortly afterwards things changes drastically.
Witnesses on the road reported seeing the truck accelerating to speeds of over 140 km/h, stopping suddenly before speeding off again at high speed. It wasn’t long before the police received a call that a major accident had occured. The truck has collided with another car, overturned in a ditch and the tanker had ruptured, spilling the explosive, corrosive liquid all over the road.
Authorities rushed to the scene to contain the environmental damage. Specialist clean-up crews arrived at the scene and started cleaning up the spill. When they managed to get to the cab of the truck, they found that the liquid had penetrated it and the two bodies inside has suffered terrible burns, but were otherwise intact.
Everything looked like a tragic accident. That was until the grandparents asked authorities: Where is my grandson, Juan Pedro?
Fearing that the boy was perhaps injured, the crews and police scoured the site of the crash but there was no trace of the 10 year old boy. The only indication that he had even been in the cab with his parents was one lone shoe.
People immediately speculated that his body had been dissolved by the corrosive liquid, but this was quickly dismissed by the forensics team who said that even if his body had come in contact with large amounts of the fluid, bones and other biological materials would still have been evident.
The police interviewed witnesses to the events leading up to the accident. It as then that the true bizarre nature of the story became evident.
Read more: Strange News Daily Blog
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THE mystery of three lighthouse keepers who vanished from a bleak Scottish island has been solved – nearly a century later.
A descendant of one of the men has pieced together a jigsaw of clues to crack the puzzle of Flannan Isle.
And it is now accepted that the trio at the centre of one of the greatest sea riddles were washed to their deaths by a monster wave that could have towered more than 100ft high.
Retired Lewis lobster fisherman Donald Macaulay, 74, delved into the history of the lighthouse built in 1899 and situated 20 miles west of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
On December 15, 1900 a passing ship reported the light was not lit and the Northern Lighthouse Board sent a boat to investigate.
Because of severe storms the boat was unable to reach Flannan until Boxing Day.
When relief keeper Joseph Moore and crew members landed they could find no sign of keepers James Ducat, Thomas Marshall and Donald McArthur.
When they climbed to the top of the 75ft lighthouse the lamp was full of fuel, trimmed and ready to be lit. In the men’s living quarters everything was in place, tidy and shipshape, but the last entry in the log was for the morning of Saturday, December 15.
For three days the men searched every nook and cranny on the tiny 40-acre island for the missing men.
Over the years bizarre theories sprang up to explain the mystery.
After the discovery of strange seaweed on the island some said they had been taken by a sea monster, others said they must have been murdered by pirates.
In their official report into the disappearance the Lighthouse Board “failed to come to a conclusive decision”.
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Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.
Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada’s head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada’s western Arctic.
“The ship is standing upright in very good condition. It’s standing in about 11 meters (36 feet) of water,” he said. “This is definitely of the utmost importance. This is the ship that sailed the last leg of the Northwest Passage.”
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Has the search for Amelia Earhart coming to an end? Will the mystery of her fate finally be solved once and for all? A group claim that this is just the case!
“It has been 72 years since famed aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared while attempting to fly around the world. But the mystery remains unsolved: Nobody knows exactly what happened to Earhart or her plane.
Now researchers at the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, or Tighar, say they are on the verge of recovering DNA evidence that would demonstrate Earhart had been stranded on Nikumaroro Island (formerly known as Gardner Island) before finally perishing there.”
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ABC News: Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved? ‘Investigation Junkies’ to Launch New Expedition
