These Historic Facts Are So Strange, They Sound Entirely Made Up

Germans Set Up a Weather Station in Canada During WWII, But Nobody Noticed Until 1977

In 1943, the Germans set up a weather station in northern Labrador, which is part of Newfoundland, Canada. At the time, Canada was still a part of the British Dominion. German U-boats were tasked with sinking enemy warships and supply ships in the North Atlantic Ocean. But in order to sink the ships, they needed to have the right weather conditions. Most of the mobile weather stations that the Germans set up were destroyed, but one that was secretly planted in Labrador survived the entire war. Labrador is sparsely populated, so no one ever crossed paths with it, despite the fact that it was out in plain sight. No one ever bothered to take it down when the war was over. It wasn’t discovered again until 1977, and no one even figured out that it belonged to the Germans until 1981.