Akshay's Strange Corner

At the 2000 Paralympic Games, the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team won gold. So what's strange about that, you say? Well, there was a small little problem: 10 of the team's 12 players had no disability. Proving to the world that, sometimes, Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. Also, wash your hands.

Area 51, an American military base has been the focal point of alien conspiracy theories in America for decades. But what if I told you that India has its own version of Area 51 tucked in the Himalayas? With numerous eye witness accounts, including photographs and video captures of UFOs or extraterrestrials. Various military officials, scientists, and the general public have claimed to have seen the other life-form. Welcome to India's Area 51.

The true story about the Great Imposter, Ferdinand Waldo Demara.

The true story about the Max Headroom Incident, a news channel hack that still remains unsolved.

The story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese holdout whose World War ended after 30 years.

A stranger than fiction story about a NASA intern who did it all for love.