Play along as we untangle eight strange-sounding situations using yes-or-no questions.

Sidney Cotton risked his life to gather aerial photos during World War II.

In 1891, an unknown criminal began poisoning women in London.

Between 1856 and 1889, a mysterious leather-clad man walked the roads of Connecticut and New York.

Englishman Nathaniel Courthope spent four years defending a tiny island's nutmeg from the Dutch.

One night in July 1904, H. Rider Haggard dreamed that his daughter's dog was dying.

In 1945, a U.S. Army transport plane crashed in the highlands of New Guinea.

In the 1920, painters of luminous watch dials began to fall mysteriously ill.

Stories from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

A French spy, a transatlantic voyage, and the birth of the modern strawberry.

In 1864, two ships were wrecked on the same remote island. Unaware of each other, their crews struggled separately to survive.

In 1959, Marine pilot William Rankin parachuted through a violent thunderstorm.

Play along as we untangle six strange-sounding situations using yes-or-no questions.

In 1850, a Nile hippo created a stir when it arrived at the London Zoo.

A selection of curiosities and questions from Greg's research database.

In 1818, John Cleves Symmes Jr. declared that the earth was hollow.

In 1857, guests at Washington D.C.'s National Hotel began to come down with a mysterious illness.

It's still uncertain who fired the shot that killed Manfred von Richthofen.

In 1917 two English girls came home with a photograph of fairies.

In 1898 a Belgian ship was frozen into the ice off the coast of Antarctica.

In 1838 Frenchwoman Henriette d'Angeville set out to climb Mont Blanc despite almost universal opposition.

For nearly 50 years, Martin Couney ran a sideshow in which babies were displayed in incubators.

In 1945, a group of American soldiers set out to rescue hundreds of horses from a Nazi farm in Czechoslovakia.

In 1844, New Orleans slave Sally Miller claimed to be a free German immigrant pressed into bondage.