Well it’s more of a family story. My grandfather was around 13 during the war (ww2). We’re from a wetland area and he told me he and his friend used to hide from nazis by jumping next to the plank (lined up planks were used as roads), into the water, and breathing through a reed.

Fun fact: Everybody including kids had boats, and sleighs for the winter. Everything happened over water.

Eventually he ended up having to work for them without pay. He had to bike hours every day to get to this landing strip he had to work on for them.

No airplane ever took off there. The allies bombed the living daylights out of it! He also told me he saw dog fighting in the sky and how exciting that was.

Today it’s a nature reserve! The countless bomb craters have water in them, and are teeming with life. So I like to think he helped improve the local biodiversity 😁

In 2001 “Kuno the killer catfish” was accused of swallowing a dachshund. It was a big story at the time, people were trying to catch the fish but failed. Two years later a big ass catfish was found dead, proclaimed to be Kuno, stuffed and is displayed in a museum to this day.

In Bonn (Germany), where I lived for a few years, there was an incident not too long ago where a homeless person carried a severed head in a bag, in broad daylight, to the district court and put it in front of the entrance, then sat down across from it.

A schizophrenic man killed his parents and fled on a cross country pursuit from the police at the advice of his dog.