The SS Baychimo is a famous ghost ship that was abandoned in 1931 but continued to be sighted along the Alaskan coastline through 1969. It was originally a ship that served on trade routes for the Germans in World War I but was given to the United Kingdom as war reparations. On a voyage in 1931, the ship became trapped in pack ice and the crew disembarked. A few days later, it was sighted 45 miles away. Eventually, the ship was abandoned entirely, and was seen 300 miles away a few months later. It was never able to be completely salvaged, and these sightings continued over the years until it’s last confirmed sighting in 1969.

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Mock execution is a method of torture where victims are made to believe they are about to executed in order to get them to confess. It has been used on multiple occasions by governments and military organizations as a form of capital punishment inflicted on suspected criminals in the hopes of traumatizing the person to the point that he will “spill it”. Mock execution has also been dramatized many times in literature and film, such as the written works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the novel and film Fight Club.

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In 1995, Norway and the United States launched a rocket with equipment to study the Aurora Borealis. The rocket reached over 900 miles in altitude and was detected by Russian radar operators — who had not received the information of the planned and announced scientific study — and interpreted as a missile launched from a submarine. The Russian government immediately activated its nuclear protocol and alerted President Boris Yeltsin, who had ten minutes to decide whether or not to launch a counter-attack. The military determined that the rocket was heading away from Russia and was therefore not an incoming attack.

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The Canadian caper is the nickname for the rescue of six Americans who had been able to avoid capture during the Iran Hostage Crisis. The diplomats were not caught during the initial invasion of the United States Embassy in Tehran, and through a joint effort between the governments of the United States and Canada, were smuggled out of the country and to safety. A cover story was concocted by the CIA where the six diplomats were given fake Canadian passports and posed as filmmakers scouting locations for a fictitious science fiction movie named “Argo”.

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