Get Ready to Be Weirded Out: 45 Bizarre Facts

The Icelandic Elf School in Reykjavík, Iceland offers lectures and guided tours about Icelandic folklore. The organization teaches about the hidden people and the 13 different kinds of elves that the organization believes inhabit the country of Iceland.

Benjamin Franklin once wrote a letter to the Royal Academy of Brussels titled "Fart Proudly". The letter discussed the health benefits of passing gas and even included fart related puns.

Liver-eating Johnson was an American mountain man rumored to have killed, scalped, and/or eaten the livers of up to 300 Crow Indians after a group of Crow braves murdered his wife. He ate the liver because it had significance for Crow beliefs about the afterlife.

The Bonnacon was a medieval mythical beast that had curling horns and a mane and took down enemies with a jet of caustic feces.

In the early 1930s, the Irving family on the Isle of Man claimed to be haunted by Gef the Talking Mongoose who would throw stones, ride the bus for the gossip and sing bawdy renditions of "Home on the Range." He described himself as “the fifth dimension...the eighth wonder of the world!”