Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 28, 2020

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 5 years ago

    anything to serve your country, huh, Graham? (if I recall, even Cotton Hill enlisted in the Army during WW2 also at 13; he lost his shins to “Tojos”)

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    Bilan  almost 5 years ago

    Calvin forgot that mothers outrank Sarges.

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    Sassy's Mom  almost 5 years ago

    Calvin was born about 90 years too late. I believe the Civil War was the last time children were allowed to join the military.

    How is it that nobody noticed he was a kid?!

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    Gent  almost 5 years ago

    Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that strange extraterrestrials were involved in this skeleton lake racket.

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    hawgowar  almost 5 years ago

    Why was he dishonorably discharged? I knew a guy in the Marines who had enlisted at 15, was caught later, honorably discharged, then rejoined when he was 18. No dishonorable discharge.

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Wikipedia has an article on Calvin Graham. It’s worth reading!

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    joeatwork212  almost 5 years ago

    Is there perhaps some religious reason the lake is filled with skeletons?

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    Leeroy  almost 5 years ago

    Roopkund Lake: Apparently centuries ago a group of travelers got caught out on the open plains in an enormous hailstorm, and all died (the skulls all show damage that fits the theory). The floods from the rain and melting hailstones washed the bodies down into the lake which preserved them.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 5 years ago

    He should have not been dishonorably discharged. Mustered out, yes. Perhaps with a general discharge or undesirable, at the most.

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    I knew a 14 year old who was 6’2" and 190 lbs.

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    jvn  almost 5 years ago

    I didn’t even know India had a mafia.

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    Jogger2  almost 5 years ago

    How big a lake is it, if 500 human skeletons can fill it? And if it is full of bones, is it still considered a lake?

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    heathcliff2  almost 5 years ago

    Destroy those spiders. They deserve death for appropriation.

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    heathcliff2  almost 5 years ago

    13 or not, he did not turn himself in.

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    Taracinablue  almost 5 years ago

    Man, I did not need to know that factoid about spiders… I hope none of those sneaky arachnids live in New England. I don’t like bugs, but I’ve always felt like the common black ant is one of the few trustworthy insects (along with ladybugs, of course).

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