Dusted Files

A wave came over the top of a 110-foot cliff, bent iron railings flat, and moved a one-ton rock. It took three men with it. No ship in the area logged a storm that night.

On July 9th, 1958, a wave 1,720 feet high stripped trees from a mountainside in Alaska. It is the tallest wave ever recorded. Two fishing boats rode it out and survived.

In 536 AD the sun went dim and stayed dim for eighteen months. Snow fell in August. Crops failed from Ireland to China. No one knew why for over a thousand years.