On This Day in Weird, January 30...
1911: Ivan Terence Sanderson, credited by some with coining
the term "cryptozoology," is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1921: Despite a lack of victims' remains, a French court
convicts "Bluebeard" serial killer Henri-Desire Landru of murder,
sentencing him to death.
1948: The Avro Tudor Star Tiger airliner vanishes
with 25 passengers and six crew aboard, en route from the Azores to Bermuda,
fueling legends of the "Bermuda Triangle."
1962: The Tanganyika "laughter epidemic" begins at
a mission-run boarding school for girls in Kashasha.
1982: A trawler nets a female giant squid at 600 meters, off
New South Wales, Australia (33°44′S 153°00′E). Its mantle measures 16½ inches.
No other measurements are recorded.
2010: Ed Ragozzino, producer of the 1977 film Sasquatch,
the Legend of Bigfoot, dies at age 79 in a Eugene, Oregon, medical center.
2013: Bigfoot historical researcher and archivist Scott
McClean dies from cancer in Southern California.
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