While there are a number of pressing business matters developing today, there were a few strange occurrences yesterday that we simply would feel remiss to not mention. Let’s dive in an take a look at all the oddities that went on this Tuesday.

As has been widely reported by many sources by this time, the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal, and United Airlines all went down almost simultaneously.

When visitors attempted to access the WSJ website, they were greeted with only the dread 404 Error. United Airline flights were grounded for hours, sending passengers clamoring for other flights, trains, and busses. And at the NYSE, all trading was halted for a span of more than year hours. All three organizations are claiming that technical errors were the culprits, but the timing has led many to speculate that some how hackers were involved. Where these hacks would have originated, or what the motivations of the hackers would be, are all pure speculation at this point. In fact, Anonymous, the hacking group of debatable effectiveness, said cryptically in a tweet Tuesday night that they “Wonder if tomorrow is going to be a bad day for Wall Street…we can only hope.”

Do you think these events were caused by hackers? If so, do you think they were related? What do you think they were trying to accomplish if the outages were caused by hackers? All we know at this point is that a very curious series of events took place yesterday, although all the organizations seem to be back up to full functionality once again.

We will update this story if there are any further developments.