Annemarie Schneider, a 19-year-old secretary in a law firm in Rosenheim ( a town in southern Germany ) was seemingly the unwitting cause of much chaos and controversy in the firm, including disruption of electricity and telephone lines, the rotation of a picture, swinging lamps which were captured on video ( which was one of the first times any poltergeist activity has been captured on film ), and strange sounds that sounded electrical in origin were recorded.

In the town of Dundee there exists a strange traditionary story of the plague, connected with the conversion, from dire necessity of the Arionaten, or black slug, to a use similar to that which the luxurious Romans are said to have made of the great apple-snail.

Later that afternoon, on an errand with her sister Marie and school friend Jeanne ( Mary Anderson ) to collect firewood outside the town of Lourdes, Bernadette is left behind when her companions warn her not to wade through the cold river by the Massabielle caves for fear of taking ill. About to cross anyway, Bernadette is distracted by a strange breeze and a change in the light.

Meanwhile, Theophilus Crowe, the town constable, investigates a strange suicide, the activities of his corrupt boss, and his adversely affected marijuana habit.

He grows more and more unsettled as he wanders through the empty town, looking for someone — anyone — to talk to, all the while having the strange feeling that he is being watched.

Bob tells Emily that in that dream, he lived in a weird Vermont town surrounded by strange people: a snobbish maid, her alliterative husband, a dense handyman, and three eccentric woodsmen, two of whom were mute.

One resident suggested ' Enumclaw ', which was the name of the strange sawed-off promontory north of town.

She is warned by the town crazy Ralph ( Walt Gorney ) that the camp is cursed and is also warned by Enos who tells her about the murders of 1958, among other strange happenings.

They have of late fallen into some merchandising also, occasioned by the strange great number of their shipping, and there are now some considerable merchants ; but the town is yet but young in trade.

The town's leader, Hrothgar ( voiced by Jim Cummings ), invites the player's party to take part in an expedition to the town of Kuldahar, which has recently sent word of strange happenings.

Two beautiful girls Dee ( Susan Glanville ) and Emm ( Vivian Heilbron ) refuse Mikki entrance to a small town fete, which leads Tarot into an investigation of Extra Terrestrials with strange powers.

Some foreigners may find it strange that either Hammerfest or Honningsvåg claims to be cities, given the small size of both places and it may help to know that the Norwegian language does not distinguish between city and town.

This yeare and against the assise tyme on Master Banckes, a Staffordshire gentile, brought into this town of Salop a white horsse whiche wolld doe woonderfull and strange thinges, as thesse ,— wold in a company or prese tell howe many peeces of money by hys foote were in a mans purce ; also, yf the partie his master wolld name any man beinge hyd never so secret in the company, wold fatche hym owt with his mowthe, either naming hym the veriest knave in the company, or what cullerid coate he hadd ; he pronowncid further to his horse and said, Sirha, there be two baylyves in the towne, the one of them bid mee welcom unto this towne and usid me in frindly maner ; I wold have the goe to hym and gyve hym thanckes for mee ; and he wold goe truly to the right baylyf that did so use hys sayd master as he did in the sight of a number of people, unto Master Baylyffe Sherar, and bowyd unto hym in makinge curchey withe hys foote in sutche maner as he coullde, withe suche strange feates for sutche a beast to doe, that many people judgid that it were impossible to be don except he had a famyliar or don by the arte of magicke.

Gossip about his ensuing strange behavior spreads all over town.

Set primarily in the United States and particularly in Malibu, California, an excitingly exotic locale to romantic girls trapped in a sleepy Welsh town, the stories concerned young men and women who become involved in strange and often criminal behaviour.

Somewhere near King's fictional town of Castle Rock, Nona takes him to a graveyard, where he encounters a possibly supernatural force, and is later found alone by the authorities, taken into custody, tried, and sentenced to prison, where he now writes his tale, preparing to commit suicide as he contemplates hearing strange sounds in the walls ( not unlike H. P. Lovecraft's short story " The Rats in the Walls ", or King's own earlier work, " Jerusalem's Lot ").

Linoge is imprisoned in the town's holding cell by part-time constable Michael Anderson ( Timothy Daly ), but it becomes clear that his ability to affect the town for ill is not inhibited as he sows supernatural terror in the town's populace through strange suicides and terrifying dreams.

The town frequently changed mayors, who often met strange fates:

At the prefab town, Quatermass sees that ' the mark ' and strange behaviour are associated with those who find the fallen meteorites, but before he can find out more the community police order him away.

Stokes Castle, a strange three-story stone tower, is located just outside of town.

She ends up taking a bus to the strange town of Astaroth, where people have the " Astaroth Look.

In 2002 A ' Hern played Kate Henley in Disappearance a movie about a strange old ghost town.

At the age of sixteen, Krishnamacharya had a strange dream in which his ancestor, the legendary yogi and Sri Vaishnava saint Nathamuni directed him to go to the town of Alvar Tirunagari, in the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu.

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

His writing was remarkable in its time for its directness ( he frequently uses a strange second-person voice, telling you — the reader — what you are seeing and smelling as you follow a recipe ) and for his general disdain for upper-class elaborate French cuisine.

This is also the title given in the Bible to Eve, the Hebrew Khavvah ( חוה ), the Aramaic Hawwah, who was made from the rib of Adam, in a strange reflection of the Sumerian myth, in which Adam — not Enki — walks in the Garden of Paradise.

After all, this was the expression of some sort of belief ; it had candour, it had conviction, it had a vibrating note of revolt in its whisper, it had the appalling face of a glimpsed truth — the strange commingling of desire and hate "-" he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot.

Among the most noticeable of its qualities were its intricate visual style — often with high levels of background detail — its vivid colours, fast pace of movement from panel to panel and the huge variety of strange characters and scenery.

The general form — that of a journey into strange lands, told in a light-hearted mood and interspersed with songs — may be following the model of The Icelandic Journals by William Morris, an important literary influence on Tolkien.

: From time to time a strange vehicle drew near to the place where they stood — such a vehicle as the lady at the window, in spite of a considerable acquaintance with human inventions, had never seen before: a huge, low, omnibus, painted in brilliant colours, and decorated apparently with jingling bells, attached to a species of groove in the pavement, through which it was dragged, with a great deal of rumbling, bouncing, and scratching, by a couple of remarkably small horses.

Rossini's opera, now known as Il barbiere di Siviglia, is now acknowledged as Rossini's greatest work, while Paisiello's opera is only infrequently produced — a strange instance of poetical vengeance, since Paisiello himself had many years previously endeavoured to eclipse the fame of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi by resetting the libretto of his famous intermezzo, La serva padrona.

The Bellman supporting the Banker by a finger entwined in his hairAfter crossing the sea guided by the Bellman's map of the Ocean — a blank sheet of paper — the hunting party arrive in a strange land.

* Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 – 1968 ) – The Martians at war with Earth are the Mysterons — an invisible race of superbeings hell-bent on revenge after an unprovoked attack on their Martian city by Captain Black, a Spectrum agent investigating strange alien signals.

Boromir was unnerved by the thought of entering the elvish forest — he pleads with Aragorn to find another way " though it led through a hedge of swords ", citing the stories of elvish witchcraft he had heard about in Gondor, and the " strange paths " they had been taking which had already caused them to lose one Companion.

Stebbins has many strange mannerisms, often talking in riddles to Garraty to teach him a vital lesson — and then later recanting them as lies.

* Cistern 5 ( located under the south eastern corner of the upper platform ) — a long and narrow chamber, with a strange anti-clockwise curved section at its north western corner, and containing within it a doorway currently blocked by earth.

Witten had pointed out that it bore strong resemblances to a map made in the 1430s by Italian mariner Andrea Bianco, but others found some of the similarities and differences very strange — the map cuts off Africa where Bianco's map has a page fold, but distorts shapes, and includes major revisions in the far east and west.

Also included are devices called " Psionic Amps " that can be used to create strange effects on the player or on the world around them — e. g. one type of Psionic Amp can be used underwater to create an area of air so human characters can breathe.

He had spoken highly of " his rough charm, his swing, his drive, his rhythmic surprises, his strange power of harmonic and tonal relationships — and especially his constant unpredictability.

The plant's strange UFO-like appearance — approximately 500 feet long per side and location in a secluded and heavily wooded area — in satellite imagery on Google Earth has evoked the curiosity of many locals, who have nicknamed the site the " Giant Triangle " and speculated on its purpose.

Thomas has argued that it was strange for a successful businessman like Cushing to be so aggressive rhetorically against a successful corporation, but Mount Royal College historian Patricia Roome has suggested that Cushing was soured by his own experience as a Calgarian living under the monopoly, hostile to what he saw as a symbol of " eastern capitalism ", and hopeful that bringing telephone service to rural areas would guarantee continued Liberal success.