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7. The Prophet Hen Of Leeds

Apparently, there was not much to do in early 19th-century Leeds, England, because in 1806, a chicken rose to fame as the prophet of the second coming of Christ.

The hen freaked the residents of Leeds, which was back then just a small town, by laying eggs with the words "Christ Is Coming" emblazoned on them. Scottish author Charles Mackay in 1841, recalled that the eggs caused a “panicked terror” and “great number of visitors” flooded the area to visit this feathered messiah.

You'll be unsurprised to learn that the whole thing was actually a hoax, perpetrated by a woman named Mary Bateman, more commonly known as the “Yorkshire Witch”. She had taken it upon herself to write the words in acid on the freshly laid eggs then shove them back up the chickens. It is unclear as to exactly why she did this and, more importantly, what the chickens thought of it.