Kanita Bajrami
Kanita is a wanderlust-fueled traveler with an inclination for unraveling the mysteries of history, the paranormal, and the bizarre world of medicine. As a true crime buff, Kanita's nights are often spent delving into the depths of chilling mysteries. Yet, it's not just the paranormal that captivates her—her background in medicine fuels a fascination with the weird and wonderful world of medical oddities, from twisted historical practices to the myths and legends that shroud the field. From exploring haunted locales to uncovering the strange and morbid tales of medical history, Kanita is your guide to the unconventional, the unexplained, and the downright eerie.
Midway Island’s Weirdest Facts: Wisdom the 74-Year-Old Bird, a Bowling Alley, and 20 Tons of Plastic a Year
Midway Atoll is a speck of land roughly 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu, so remote that if there were a bridge, it would take you over 52 hours of straight driving from Seattle to reach it. It’s home to the oldest known wild bird on Earth. It hosted one of the most decisive naval battles…
Read More 
Death Valley’s Petroglyphs: The Ancient Rock Art Hiding in Plain Sight Across America’s Hottest National Park
Everyone talks about Death Valley in terms of extremes. Hottest recorded temperature on Earth. Lowest point in North America. Salt flats that stretch out until your eyes give up trying to find the edge. What almost nobody mentions is that tucked into the canyons of this same brutal landscape, carved into rock faces that have…
Read More 
Han van Meegeren: The Forger Who Sold a Fake Vermeer to the Nazis and Had to Paint in Court to Prove It
In May 1945, Allied investigators tracking down art looted by the Nazis arrived at the door of a wealthy Amsterdam painter named Han van Meegeren. They had traced a painting recovered from Hermann Göring’s personal collection, a previously unknown Vermeer titled Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery, directly back to him. The charge waiting…
Read More 
Christmas Island’s Red Crab Migration: When 50 Million Crabs Take Over an Entire Island
Every year, around October or November, the first real rain of the wet season hits Christmas Island, and something switches on. Somewhere between 40 and 50 million bright red crabs walk out of the island’s interior forests. All at the same time, they march toward the ocean. Roads disappear under a moving red carpet. Cars…
Read More 
Kowloon Walled City: The Densest Place That Ever Existed and the Strange Order Inside Its Chaos
At its peak, somewhere around 50,000 people lived inside Kowloon Walled City, packed into 2.6 hectares of Hong Kong, roughly the footprint of two rugby fields. That works out to something close to 1.9 million people per square kilometer. Tokyo, one of the densest cities on Earth today, holds around 6,300 people per square kilometer.…
Read More 
The Night Witches: The Soviet Women Who Bombed Nazis in Plywood Planes With the Engines Cut Off
German soldiers on the Eastern Front learned to dread a specific sound: a faint whooshing, like wind through canvas, arriving out of total darkness with no engine noise to warn them. By the time they heard it, the bombs were already falling. They called the source of that sound Nachthexen, the Night Witches, and offered…
Read More