The Strangest Things Happening In Kansas Right Now 25 Unhinged Kansas Facts

In 1874 a cloud of locusts 1,800 miles long descended on Kansas, blocked out the sun for days, and ate the clothes off people's backs. A Civil War veteran in a town of 393 people mummified himself and is still on display in a glass coffin on his own lawn. And in 1989 a photographer developed a roll of film she shot in an abandoned Kansas cemetery — the photograph showed something standing behind her that was not there when she pressed the shutter. She has never gone back. Everyone thinks Kansas is flat and empty. Kansas is flat because an inland sea covered it for 85 million years and left behind one of the most extraordinary unhinged secrets on Earth. Flat it is. Empty it is not. This video is about to show you everything hiding underneath. In this video you will discover: The 1874 grasshopper plague — a cloud of locusts 1,800 miles long that blocked out the sun for days and ate the clothes off people's backs The Western Interior Seaway — the shallow tropical ocean that covered Kansas for 85 million years and left behind mosasaurs, giant sharks, and chalk pyramids that still smell like the ocean after rain The Hutchinson Gas Explosions of 2001 — geysers of natural gas erupting 300 feet into the air across a Kansas city for days while geologists struggled to predict where the next one would appear Boston Corbett — the man who shot Lincoln's assassin, lived in a hole in the ground in Kansas, escaped from an asylum, and was never seen again Stull Cemetery outside Lawrence Kansas — documented, investigated, and never explained 🔔 Subscribe to Unhinged America — new wild geography video every week. 💬 WE KNOW WE MISSED A LOT OF KANSAS — tell us in the comments where in Kansas is so horrible, so dangerous, so abandoned, or so boring that you should never stop there. Drop your best fact below. We might just feature you in our next Kansas video. Hit subscribe so you find out if you get your shout out. 💬 VOTE FOR THE NEXT VIDEO: Option 1: The Best Hot Springs Road Trip in America Option 2: 15 Places Where Time Stood Still Option 3: The Dark Side of New York City Most votes wins. Drop yours below.