The creepy king of rats

In Mysterious today we want to tell you about a phenomenon at least creepy .It's something that for a long time was thought to be nothing more than a legend, but now we know that it occurs in the animal world naturally, but it does not stop horrifying us.It is " the king of rats ".

The Legend of Rattenkonig, the king of the rats

The legend of the rat king or rattenkonig arises in Germany and is documented for the first time in the XVI century. It was believed that it was a being formed by several rats that formed a new living being with multiple heads and on which the dominant individual, the king , was installed.

The creepy king of rats

He got food from his subjects and everything he asked for.The Europeans of the time considered the vision of one of these phenomena as a warning of future misfortunes.

The truth behind the legends

For a long time it was believed that after this legend there was nothing true and that the specimens that were exhibited were gross manipulations .Currently it is known that this phenomenon really occurs and the reasons why it surely occurs have been studied.As a skein of wool or simply long hair, the tails of the rats would become entangled forming knots impossible to undo .The little space in which many individuals coexist, dirt, excrement and blood from small wounds, make their appendages come together hopelessly.The rats are still alive but form a new and horrifying being.It is believed that these clusters can consist of between 7 and 50 exemplary s .

Why this phenomenon does not happen today

Researchers have observed that the king of rats ceases to be mentioned in European folklore around the 18th century and that this happened at the same time that the gray rat was gradually replacing the black rat .The black rat has the much longer tail and therefore more likely to get entangled.

The creepy king of rats

Even so, there are two recent cases, one in Holland in 1963 and another in Estonia in 2005 .In the first one a farmer found a king of rats, made up of seven individuals , after a lot of spikes.In the second other farmer, after hearing a kind of strange shrieks, he discovered in his shed, in the town of Saru, in Estonia, a king of the rats.When I find him, they tried to dig the frozen ground and of 16 individuals 9 remained alive; until the farmer, horrified, I'm done with them.

The creepy king of rats

Several specimens are preserved in museums across Europe, for example, in the Mauritiaum of Altenburg (Thuringia, Germany) there is a group of 32 elements that was found in 1828 at a miller's house, specifically in his chimney.Another known king of rats is that of Nantes , in the museum of this city one of 9 heads.

As you can see there are legends that have a real background and this is one of them.If you want to know more curious legends, you may be interested in the legend of the infernal dog of the First World War.

Comments

Katrin Reedik, the woman who collects haunted dolls

As they say, there is nothing written about tastes.There are those who collect old vinyl records, articulated figures of superheroes, seals, stuffed animals or minerals.So why not collect haunted dolls ? It is not necessary to be the Warren marriage to have this interest in supposed cursed objects. Katrin Reedick , is a Scottish girl who says that there is nothing more interesting than having these unique dolls at home.Acquiring little by little from those people, who claim to have serious problems with them when experiencing strange phenomena. Surely you are interested in knowing more about this woman and her strange hobby. Ready? The 13 haunted dolls of Katrin Reedick Katrin's fondness for paranormal phenomena is relatively late.2008 when, living in Estonia, I experience in my own skin the uniqueness of seeing a presence in the house where she lived.For anyone this fact would have been enough to never wish to know anything more about the subject, to feel a chill ever...

Discovered possible indications of the existence of Atlantis

The existence of Atlantis has not yet been proven, however, we have some other testimony described in texts of Platon and in the well-known dialogues of Timeo and Critias .But, is there concrete evidence on the existence or not of this lost continent? At the moment we do not have conclusive evidence yet.We are told that Atlantis had a vast territory with great force naval, which stood very possibly in front of the Columns of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar) and which inhabited an almost "ideal" society. They had great natural resources , of a varied fauna where elephants were not lacking, for example, there is also a mountain surrounded by water, a very distinguished acropolis with a royal palace and a temple in honor of Poseidon , that god who protected them for a long time. Until one day, the Atlanteans became too much or proud and they lost the favor of their deity.Timeo tells us, among other things, that they came to dominate the existing territories from ...

Terrible! People who documented their own death

Talking about death is not an easy thing, it is one of those issues that generate discomfort, even if it is a stage in life that nobody can get rid of.Perhaps it is the fear of the unknown that baffles us most , but this is not the case of the people we will mention below, who defeated him and documented his own death , telling grim details that cover the beginning of the end, until the last breath of his existence. Learn about the following tragic cases of people who documented their own death, and have left us speechless.Of course, if you are an impressionable person, we recommend that you prepare before reading this article, since the following stories have a great impact. Content Index Cases of people who documented their own death Ricardo Lopez Ricardo Lopez was a 21-year-old American stalker, of Uruguayan origin, known for committing suicide before a homemade camera on September 12, 1996, after of confessing the macabre plan to assassinate the Icelandic singer Bjo...

Dudleytown, the "people of the damned"

Hello Mysterious ! Before reading the article we would like you to know a new way to discover our curious world, through Youtube ! We have a channel that we would love to be part of.You can subscribe and get to know it here-> YouTube Mysterious! There are places on our planet that by One reason or another is considered cursed .In Mysterious we have seen the case of 4 spooky cursed castles and that of the cursed floors in Japanese hospitals.In most of them the alleged curse sinks in time and has more of legend than reality , but most of us love to hear these stories.On this occasion we travel to the U.S.to Dudleytown, the "people of the damned."/strong> Dudleytown, the "village of the damned" In Connecticut , in the municipal district of Corwell, are the remains of Dudleytown .This small village surrounded by mountains, now almost completely disappeared, is known as the town of the damned and its ruins are a Visited only by hikers or ghost h...

What really happened on Easter Island?

Easter Island .The ocean bathes its shores while the gigantic Moai observe sightings with their serious expressions and their petty glances, as if they were watching a horizon from another time guarding in turn an indecipherable secret. What really happened to the Rapanui? An entire civilization dissolved from our history books without knowing that it really happened, without Let us understand that he made them escape leaving such a peculiar legacy populating this famous island. Easter Island guards Easter Island is undoubtedly one of the sites more enigmatic of our world.Located halfway between Chile and Tahiti, this triangle-shaped land wakes up every day with the silence of the ocean attending it expectantly, fearful even for those stone giants called Moai .They are symmetrical faces of profiled lips and unique monkeys d e red stone called Pukao; time has stopped them a bit but you can still see in them this hue decorating those elaborate tufa sculptures of the Rano Rar...

Do you know what Hum or murmur is heard on the entire planet?

If you search the Internet for "unusual low frequency hum", you will find realize that others have done the same search. You may be part of the small fraction of people who can hear what is called «Worldwide Hum» or simply «Hum».The question now is: "What is its cause?" Do you know what Hum is or the murmur that is heard all over the planet? The classic description of Hum is that Sounds like an idling truck engine .For some, it is a dull noise or distant hum.It may appear and disappear suddenly or increase and decrease over time.For others, the snoring is loud, relentless and disrupts daily life. In 2004 the geoccientist David Deming (also a Hum listener) wrote an article about it.According to this, the Hum was documented by first time in the late 1960s, around Bristol, England .It first appeared in the United States in the late 1980s, in Taos, New Mexico. Different sources have pointed to the network of cell phones or electric towers.But this theory h...

There is a website to know if someone has died in your home

They say that curiosity killed the cat and knowing if someone has died in your home can be one of those cases in which the remedy can be worse than the disease.And having this type of information can wake up, and in fact, we are awake, our fear of living in a haunted house and that there may be ghosts swarming through our kitchen or our rooms, although, if we see it from the rational side, fear will be rather economical since it will always be a factor that devalue its price in future sales. There is a website to know if someone has died in your home But is there really a way to know if someone has died in our house or in the house we want to buy? If the neighbors or the administrators of the owners' community do not tell us, it is not an easy task.In United States a website called DiedInHouse.com was created in 2013, a website designed by a software engineer called Roy Condrey . He had the idea of creating such a page to receive the question of the tenants of his ho...

4 Chilling Latin American Legends (Part IV)

We invite you to take a tour of some of the legends of Latin American folklore most famous and terrifying of all time.Are there any truth in all of them or are they simple road stories? Latin American Legends 1.El Patetarro (Colombia) Legend has it that a very tall man and of strong context, he wanders through the farms and crops.This man is missing a leg from the knee down and the supplant with a guadua stick whose bottom looks like a jar, well, in that The man makes his needs, when the container is filled with dirt, the Patetarro empties it into a plantation planting a worm and damaging the entire crop. It is said to appear in the dark rainy nights, with a deafening scream cedor or a malevola laugh announcing his presence.Patetarro is omen of bad luck , floods and all kinds of misfortunes. 2.La Viuda (Chile and Argentina) It is said that the soul in sorrow of a malevolent woman seeks revenge on every man who crosses the rural roads that lurks.Her motivatio...

Are we alone in the universe? The answer is scary ...

"Are we alone in the Universe?" This is a universal question, a question we have all asked ourselves and that since human beings have looked at stars for the first time, we are round in the head. Throughout history there have been many answers to this question, but every time the scientific advances take another step in this direction...we new questions arise. In this article I do not want (and I cannot) give an answer, each one later can draw their own conclusions.In this article I want to explain the Fermi Paradox , a paradox about life outside the earth whose consequences are so overwhelming that they can leave you in shock and make you think for a long time. Fermi's Paradox "opens Pandora's box" and fills us head with possible answers to ask about life outside the earth, some of them really terrifying.Do you want to know more? Read on... Fermi's paradox Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist who worked on the Manhattan project (the pr...

Autism and telepathy: the case of a 9 year old girl

Not long ago we talked to you in Mysterious of Savantism, a disorder included in the autistic spectrum that despite having some occasional limitation due to previous development problems, usually develop in turn some exceptional nuance: photographic memory, ability math... There are many interindividual differences, and as you know, no person diagnosed with autism is equal to another. Some will be more skilled and autonomous, and others will make a life more limited and dependent. Be that as it may, Autism has always been the focus of great scientific and psychological interest. Therefore, it would undoubtedly be a challenge to unravel what is in the inside those personalities on occasions so hermetic that they seem to see the world in a very special way. On this occasion, we want to bring you the curious work of a neuropsychiatrist.According to your research, you could the possibility of that many autists will also enjoy of a hidden virtue: telepathy. We do not intend ...

Mystery Unsolved

Search This Blog