Not sure if this classifies as "strange and interesting", but I didn't feel it was worth its own thread, so I'll just toss it here.
For whatever reason, I've always found interesting the case of the hijacker known (incorrectly) as D.B. Cooper, reading the Wikipedia article about him when I have nothing better to do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._CooperI assume he's quite famous, especially in the US; long story short for those who don't know, in the '70s in NW Usa a man registered as Dan Cooper, and later incorrectly identified and therefore made famous as "D. B. Cooper", boarded a plane, alerted through a note that he had a bomb, demanded 200,000 $ as ransom money which was given to him (along with parachutes) at an airport stop, allowed everyone to leave the plane except for the pilots, took off again with the staircase open, jumped off the empty plane into the night and the chilling winds, to never ever be seen again... save for a small part of the money found out a decade later by a kid nearby a river.
Popular opinion is that he did not survive the jump, which was after all very risky and nearly suicidal (jumoing at night from a high altitude with cold chilling winds, way way below 0 degrees), even though no person matching his description went missing in the area and there are contrasting details to the whole thing, such as he being very informed about many details that the average passenger wouldn't know, but yet failing to recognize that one of the four parachutes he was supplied with was a dummy, or what was the technically superior out of the four he was given.
I too think that he was a clever man, a lot clever, but not clever enough to realize how really hard and nearly impossible was the jump from the airplane, and that he died during the freefall. The story also has a kind of a "nostalgic" vibe, it all happened before the modern regulations, before the internet, it feels almost like a period noir piece of adventure.
I don't think the truth will ever be known, but it's frun from time to time to imagine how it could have all gone down.