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October 9th is Curious Events Day #CuriousEventsDay and for once I’m a day ahead of time but that gives you the opportunity to figure out what you want to do to celebrate Curious Events Day. This is another #Holiday that could be associated with #Homeschooling. As you and your students try to find curious objects to study today.
Curious Events Day is the day to wonder about everything we’ve ever wondered about. Including theyget those clipper ships inside the bottles? Which I didn’t even remember until I was online. How about you? Do you know someone with one of those #Ships you can share with your family?
Who figured out how to tie shoelaces? What’s the most recent sighting of Bigfoot in North America? Why can’t we find out what happened at Roswell? Be inquisitive. Be persistent and be careful, but don’t forget that adage curiosity killed the Cat.
Curious Events Day is aptly named since it is itself is a curiosity. Did you know nobody knows how Curious Events Day was originated, or when, and certainly not why. All of which makes Curious Events Day an appropriate subject for curiosity or at least conjecture.
Some people have theorized that Curious Events Day was intended as a day when we could feel free to not sweat the small stuff. The annoying squeak in the door of the medicine chest. Those hard-to-open blister packs. The speed with which refrigerated Strawberries appear to have attracted dryer lint. With all of that off our minds, we could concentrate on things really worthy of our mental ability.
Everyone, for example, is curious about the Loch Ness Monster. Somebody saw something. We have photos. There is Scientific instruments. All this time and nobody has an answer? What about those big stone heads on Easter Island? Archaeologists have researched moving them on sledges and walking them side-to-side on ropes. But we’re still curious.
Don’t forget crop circles. What explanation will we accept for that? Aliens who drop in after midnight to prepare a landing field? Artistic Cows who need something to do besides chew their cud? A PR stunt for a tractor that can turn on a dime?
We can’t forget the massive 780-foot crop circle appearing in 2001 at the remote area of Milk Hill in Wiltshire, England. The elaborate design is composed of 409 circles. The mystery has inspired countless books, blogs, fan groups and even Hollywood films. This, and other crop circles, remain a mystery to date.
In fact, Curious Events Day may be a PR stunt. Or Curious Events Day may have been born in a late-night Session involving too much drinking, with participants waxing silly, wondering if there is a Guinness record for a large number of Sumo wrestlers jumping on bubble wrap, and why some people insist that Cilantro tastes like soap. Which if you ask me it does. What do you think about Cilantro and why? Nevertheless, Curious Events Day is a digital holiday now, and National Curious Day is the perfect day to be curiously baffled about ancient mysteries, modern conspiracy theories, and the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
How to Celebrate Curious Events Day
- Watch “The Search for D.B. Cooper” and make up your own mind about what you think happened to the legendary skyjacker who parachuted out of a Boeing 727 with a bag full of cash. Read “D.B. Cooper & Me: A Criminal, A Spy, My Best Friend” and learn about another theory of who Cooper was.
- Tell 10 people that you heard Bill Gates is using the pandemic to implant chips in people with the testing swabs and see how many of them accept that as truth. Find out how many of them have been tested. Try to tell them this is just a crazy story that went viral.
- The actress we remember from “Miracle on 34th Street” drowned mysteriously in 1981. Recently, her case has been reopened, and her husband, Robert Wagner, now 90, was named “a person of interest” in her death. Isn’t that just crazy?
Facts About Curious Deaths And Disappearances
- American Jim Thompson, who revitalized the silk industry in Thailand in the 1950s and supplied the fabric for the costumes in Broadway’s “The King and I,” simply vanished while taking a walk in the Jungle when he was visiting friends in Malaysia in 1967.
- Phar Lap, the racehorse who won the Melbourne Cup in Australia in 1930 just hours after surviving an assassination attempt, collapsed and died in California two years later, and rumors of poisoning swirled.
- There was no trace of English settlers who arrived on Roanoke Island, Virginia, in 1587, when the ship that was to resupply them returned three years later.
- Theories of cannibalism, going native, and drowning have competed since 1961 when Michael Rockefeller, son of Nelson Rockefeller, was dumped off a Catamaran off the Coast of Indonesia, set out to swim ashore with two jerry cans attached to his belt, and was never seen again.
- In 1840, Edgar Allan Poe found delirious in shabby clothes in a Baltimore gutter, lingered for several days, hallucinating, and calling out for a mysterious “Reynolds.”
Why People Love Curious Events Day
- We’ve all been curious about what was in the huge box delivered across the street two days ago. Why wonder? Curious Events Day is the day to ask.
- When is the last time you checked in with Voyager 1 and 2, the interstellar explorers that left Earth 43 years ago because people on our planet are curious about what’s out there beyond the Sun? Go to the Jet Propulsion Lab’s website and see the latest photos from the Voyager Interstellar Mission. Don’t you wonder if creatures on another heavenly body are looking for us?
- Everything we know today is the result of someone’s curiosity. It was William Harvey in the 16th Century who wondered how your blood circulates. The Wright brothers were curious about being able to control a flying craft that was heavier than air. Curiosity builds our mental muscle and improves our lives. What have you been noodling about?
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
