How little we know about the world around us. Many scientists argue about amazing anomalies that are difficult to explain to mankind. Most of the inexplicable is hidden from the general public; a person is not yet ready for many facts. Despite this, below will be presented the ten most mysterious phenomena in the world, for which there was no justification. Every inexplicable fact has been verified, but international organizations have not been able to answer them.
Sleeping in the flames
A 22-year-old boy woke up abruptly from pain, according to him, he felt that he was on fire. He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with second-degree burns, there is not even a centimeter of burnt area in the room.
Doctors and scientists cannot explain where the flame came from and how it went out on its own.
man on mars
Another picture from the surface of Mars from the lunar rover shocked everyone, the shadow of a man was clearly visible. The most amazing thing is that there is not a single ledge nearby from which a shadow could fall.
The person just stood next to the apparatus for a second. Further shots of the site yielded no results, the shot was just a moment that the camera miraculously caught.
There are two theories: alien forms and photo forgery, as in the case that the Americans went down to Mars. So far none of them have been proven.
A woman cheated death a thousand times
Those who cheated death once will never die again.
Miss Gilmour, a native of Lytham St. Ann's, at 49 years of age has managed to avoid death more than a thousand times, in history this is an isolated case. Scientists cannot explain why mysterious occurrences haunt her, and how she manages to avoid them.
A woman always finds herself in the center of destruction, accidents, assassination attempts and other dangerous factors, but at the same time she rarely gets off with even minor injuries.
British law forbids her to travel by public transport, especially by plane.
Sounds of hell from the sky
On a clear day on January 9, 2012, a gloomy sound reminiscent of the "sounds of hell" from the movies was heard from the sky over Costa Rica. Such an inexplicable fact was massive, the rescue service received thousands of calls, and the line could not stand it.
The sound sounded in the head of every inhabitant, and scientists cannot explain it. You need a gigantic speaker to cover such an area. There is no such powerful device in the world.
The boy who does not know thirst and hunger
A boy from the Jones family at the age of twelve is neither thirsty nor hungry, all his physical indicators are normal.
The body does not send him a signal of hunger or thirst, the guy may not eat food for a long time.
This fact is not congenital: the lack of appetite came to the boy after a severe operation, although the operation should not have affected the child's nutrition at all.
Doctors say that this is an inexplicable fact, and carefully monitor the further development of the young man.
A stone of a thousand diamonds
A unique stone was found in Russia, which consists of approximately 30,000 diamonds.
Scientists are studying the strange properties of the stone, a one-of-a-kind discovery, an inexplicable fact that shocked the whole world.
Beach of fish
On New Year's Eve 2012, the coast of the North Sea (Norway) was completely covered with dead fish. The herring seems to have washed up on the shore, like salmon after spawning, but she does not do that, and the time is not at all right.
After the celebration of the new year, the residents did not find a single fish, although according to the photos taken by eyewitnesses, there were thousands of fish. Where so many dead fish disappeared is an inexplicable fact. The waves couldn't take them, and neither could the biggest submersible.
And everything fell from the sky
The year 2012 began strangely: on the first day in Arkansas, all the birds fell dead in the rain. The weather conditions were normal, no toxins and other things were recorded in the air.
In one second, thousands of birds just dropped dead. Why? This inexplicable fact no one can substantiate.
Precipitation from the spheres
After a severe storm in England, precipitation in the form of balls fell to the ground. The eyewitness claims that the sky turned yellow, the diameter of the spheres was no more than three centimeters.
Soft in density, odorless and colorless, they did not melt or stick. After the incident, unfortunately, there were no samples left for study; according to the description, there is no such mineral on Earth.
A man who lived more than one life
A teenager from the Golan Heights told his parents about his past life. According to the story, the guy was killed with an ax, he accurately showed the place of his alleged death, where the murder weapon was found.
Scientists could not give justification for this phenomenon, but diligently began to study the guy.
It was the ten most inexplicable phenomena in the world, which still baffle scientists and researchers.
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In some cases, people are killed or they accidentally die, and there are no witnesses at the place of their death. But still, in most of these cases, it is almost impossible to find a logical explanation.
Here are 20 of the most famous and mysterious disappearances in human history.
1 Flight MH370
One of the greatest mysteries of the 21st century is the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 en route from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing International Airport in China on March 8, 2014. Despite the most diverse versions and theories of what happened, this mystery still remains unsolved and what happened defies any logical explanation.
2 Lost Eskimo Village
One cold November night in 1930, a tired Canadian hunter, Joe Labelle, who was looking for shelter from the cold, accidentally stumbled upon one of the most mysterious places in the history of mankind. The once prosperous Inuit village on the shores of Lake Angikuni, passed by Labelle repeatedly on his travels, has vanished without a trace. All the inhabitants, as if in a hurry, suddenly left the village, leaving their affairs unfinished - somewhere on the hearth food was still being prepared, and in some houses the hunter found unfinished clothes with protruding needles. The Eskimos simply disappeared from this place in the most inexplicable way.
3 Springfield Trinity
The Missing Springfield Three - Three girls are still considered missing. Cheryl Levitt (47), her daughter Susie Streeter (19) and Susie's friend Stacey McCall (18) disappeared from the Levitt home in Springfield, Missouri. Susie and Stacey celebrated their high school graduation the day before and arrived at Cheryl Levitt's house around 2:00 am after a party. The police were unable to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the girls and the investigation is still ongoing.
4 The Missing Girls In Dunes Park
Forty-nine years ago, on a sunny Saturday afternoon, three girls left their belongings on a crowded beach and, in their swimsuits, went for a walk on Lake Michigan, an hour southeast of Chicago. It happened on the afternoon of July 2, 1966, in Dunes National Park, Indiana. From that day on, they are considered missing - no trace of the girls has ever been found.
5. Spartacus
Despite numerous scientific hypotheses that this warrior was killed in battle during the Spartacus Rebellion, the body of one of the most famous slaves of antiquity, who led the uprising, has never been found, and his fate remains unknown.
6. Tara Grinstead
Tara was a high school history teacher in Oquilla, Georgia, USA. She went missing under mysterious circumstances on October 22, 2005. In February 2009, a video of the serial killer appeared on the Internet. In the video, accompanied by the caption "Catch me killer", a man tells the details of the murder of sixteen women, including Tara Grinstead, according to local authorities. However, the video was later determined to be fake, and neither police nor the Georgia FBI found any suspects in Grinstead's disappearance.
7. Richie Edwards
Rock music fans have probably heard of Richie Edwards, a Welsh musician and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, popular in the 1990s. It is known that Edwards liked to deliberately injure himself, suffered from depression, alcoholism and anorexia. In 1995, his car was found abandoned in a place known as "suicide's last resort."
8. Harold Holt
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace on December 17, 1967. Despite being regarded as one of Australia's top labor ministers, Holt has gained widespread notoriety due to his mysterious disappearance. Harold Holt went missing while swimming in Cheviot Beach, Victoria on December 17, 1967, but his body was never found. Many believe that he was probably killed because of his support for the US involvement in the Vietnam War, however this version remains unconfirmed.
9. James Thetforth
Ex-serviceman James Tetforth disappeared on December 1, 1949 from an overcrowded bus. Thetford, along with fourteen other passengers, was on his way to his home in Bennington, Vermont. He was last seen dozing in his seat. When the bus arrived at its destination, Thetford had evaporated, although all his belongings were left in the trunk, and the bus schedule lay on an empty seat. Since then, Thetford has never been seen again.
10 Martha Wright
In 1975, American Jackson Wright was driving with his wife from New Jersey to New York. After passing the Lincoln Tunnel, Wright stopped the car to wipe the fogged windows. His wife Martha got out of the car to wipe the rear window. When Wright turned around, he did not see his wife. According to the man, he did not hear or see anything unusual, and the subsequent investigation did not reveal any evidence of a violent death. Martha Wright simply disappeared.
11. Connie Converse
Connie Converse was a talented songwriter and performer of her generation, and she performed on the New York music scene in the late 50s. However, the singer never received wide public recognition. In 1974, when she was about fifty years old, a crisis came in her personal and professional life, and Connie fell into depression. One day, Connie wrote farewell letters and, having sent them along with lyrics and other records to all her friends and relatives, left in an unknown direction. She was never seen again.
12. Caesarion
Caesarion was the eldest son of Cleopatra and probably the only son of Julius Caesar. He was also the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt, who ruled the country for eleven days before being assassinated on the orders of Octavian, who later became the Roman Emperor Augustus. However, the exact circumstances and place of his death remain unknown to this day. According to the Greek historian Plutarch, he was not killed, but was sent to India by his mother.
13. Constance Manziarli
Adolf Hitler's personal chef and nutritionist, who went missing while fleeing Berlin after the Soviet invasion and the fall of Nazi Germany. Despite speculation that she was shot by Soviet soldiers in the Berlin Underground, or that she committed suicide with cyanide, some conspiracy theorists believe that she is still alive, as Constance's body has never been found.
14. Amelia Earhart
The famous American pilot was the first woman in the world to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, but her airplane was lost during a round-the-world flight near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Her disappearance is still fraught with many mysteries that none of the historians have been able to solve.
15. Adolf Hitler
The death of one of the most famous madmen of the 20th century, Adolf Hitler, is still shrouded in mystery. According to the generally accepted version, on April 30, 1945, after active street fighting, when Soviet troops were on their way to the Reich Chancellery, Hitler shot himself, and his wife Eva Braun swallowed a capsule of cyanide. Their corpses were burned, and the remains were never found, and this fact gave rise to many theories about the subsequent fate of Hitler and his wife.
16. D. B. Cooper
The legendary hijacker D. B. Cooper became famous as the mastermind of the most unusual robbery in the history of mankind. After receiving a $200,000 ransom, he parachuted out of a Boeing 727 flying at an altitude of 4 kilometers in the Oregon area on November 24, 1974. After extensive searches, the police found neither Cooper himself nor any trace of him.
17. Lieutenant Felix Moncla
On the evening of November 23, 1953, the most mysterious event in UFO surveillance occurred - Air Force radars near Lake Michigan, Wisconsin in the United States spotted an unidentified flying object. The F-89C Scorpio fighter was immediately raised to intercept it from Kingross Air Force Base. The aircraft was flown by First Lieutenant Felix Monkla, and Lieutenant Robert Wilson was the fighter's radar operator at the time. As ground operators subsequently claimed, the fighter approached an unidentified object, and then both of them, merging together, disappeared from the radar screens. A search and rescue operation was organized, but the wreckage of the aircraft could not be found.
18. Ghost ship "Joyta"
The merchant ship Joyta, carrying twenty-five passengers and crew, mysteriously disappeared in the South Pacific in 1955. The drifting ship was soon discovered in very poor condition, with rusted pipes and a working radio, which, due to damaged wiring, could only send distress signals within a radius of three kilometers. So far, nothing is known about the whereabouts of the passengers of this ship.
19. Ninth Legion "Hispan"
The Ninth Legion mysteriously disappeared into foggy Britain during a military campaign. No traces of weapons indicating that the legionnaires could have been destroyed in battle were found - the five thousandth army seemed to be swallowed up by the earth.
20. Disappearance of Valentich
The "disappearance of Valentich" in 1978 is one of the most unusual events in the history of Ufology. The mysterious case of Friedrich Valentich is considered one of the most famous mysteries in Australian aviation - before the plane disappeared into the sky, the pilot managed to report on the radio that he had seen a UFO. Many representatives of the UFO subculture, as well as Valentich's father, believe that the man was abducted by aliens and may even be still alive.
Despite all the achievements of science, there are still many blank spots in it. Look at this list of mysterious phenomena and facts that scientists cannot explain.
Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is an ancient book that continues to resist all attempts to decipher it. It's not just some self-invented schizophrenic gibberish, they say, "But try to figure out what I wrote here." No, this is a clearly structured book with clear sequences, patterns, and detailed illustrations.
It looks like a real language, though no one has seen it before. And it does seem to make sense. Which no one can understand.
Image: Translation: “…and when you put a tennis racket in her mouth, put it in the fountain. Then draw a picture from it"
There is not even a consensus on who wrote it, or even where the manuscript was written. Needless to say, no one also knows why it was written.
Try it yourself.
No, don't try. Military codebreakers, cryptographers, mathematicians, linguists, they were all left with a nose, and could not decipher a single word.
As you probably guess, a great variety of options were offered - from quite reasonable to the most idiotic. Someone says that this code cannot be decrypted, because a key is needed to decrypt it. Some say it's just a prank. Some say that this is glossolalia - the art of speaking or writing, something that you yourself do not understand, what is being broadcast to you by God, space aliens, Cthulhu or Murzilka ...
Our guesses: The manuscript is written in English. True, this figure knew him so flawedly that nothing could be disassembled in this scribbling.
Antikythera mechanism
Riddle: The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient and complex mechanism found in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece and dates back to around 100 BC. It has gears and elements that haven't been found for the next thousand years - until the Muslims and the Chinese started inventing all sorts of useful things, while the Europeans rapturously crushed each other and everyone.
Why can't the riddle be solved?
First, there is no consensus on who created this mechanism and why. It is widely believed that it was made by the Greeks, but serious studies published in serious publications suggest that the mechanism comes from Sicily.
In addition to the fact that the mechanism was quite capable of chopping off the curious finger of some particularly meticulous onlookers, it was also (sort of) intended for astronomical calculations. The problem is that at the time this thing was invented, no one had yet discovered the laws of gravity and the movement of celestial bodies.
In other words, the Antikythera mechanism was intended for something that no one had ever heard of at the time of its invention, and none of the purposes of appointment at that time (for example, navigation of ships) does not fit with the incredible number of functions and settings of this device.
Our guesses:
This is a piece from a time machine that fell off when it arrived in the past.
Baigong pipes
In China, where no one has ever lived, let alone industry, there are three mysterious triangular holes on the top of the mountain, in which there are hundreds of rusty pipes of unknown origin. Some of them go deep into the mountain. Some go to the nearby salt lake. There are more pipes in the lake, and more run along the shore of the lake from east to west. Some of them are large - about 40 centimeters in diameter, the same size and placed in such a way that they create a purposeful pattern.
So what's the catch? Archaeologists date the pipes to the time when people were just learning the basics of culinary art, getting acquainted with fire, and starting to eat food cooked on fire, let alone cast iron.
Why can't the riddle be solved?
Oddly enough, the pipes are not clogged with debris, although they themselves are older than Zeus. This suggests that they were not just put into the ground for some hellish utility needs, but that they were actually used for something. Yes, we said that the mountain is completely unsuitable for human life?
As usual in such cases, a party of stubborn visionaries believe that this is an ancient astronomical laboratory (where without it), or even a take-off site left by space aliens. Perhaps so, because the pipes contain a fraction of silicon dioxide, similar to that found on Mars. Although the roof of the manhole also contains silicon dioxide, you should not give the laurels of plumbers to aliens.
Our guesses:
A long time ago, a bunch of disillusioned fishermen with lots of free time spent their entire lives building a plumbing and sewer system to drain a nearby lake. And then come to the lake and pick up the fish of your dreams with your bare hands.
Giant stone balls of Costa Rica
Riddle: Giant stone balls are scattered throughout Costa Rica and several surrounding areas. They are smooth and perfectly spherical, well, or almost. Some of them are quite small, only a few centimeters in diameter, but others are up to eight feet (~2.5m; approx. mixednews), and weigh several tons.
Someone unknown carved them out of stone, despite the fact that Costa Rica does not plan to enter the Bronze Age until 2013. There are many stones, and their purpose remains unknown.
Some of the balls were blown up by the locals in the hope of finding gold or some other freebie. Some roll freely on the ground, while others are so heavy that even a bulldozer could not move them. However, this is not provable, because there are no bulldozers in Costa Rica.
Why can't the riddle be solved?
It is curious that next to the balls and close there are no mine workings. Some more useless information: the stones are carved from volcanic rock.
Our guesses:
In a thousand years, the eggs of the stone monsters will mature, they will hatch, devour all people and begin to rule the world.
Baghdad Batteries
The Baghdad Batteries are a collection of artifacts found in the Mesopotamian region dating back to the early centuries of our era.
When archaeologists stumbled upon the batteries, they assumed they were just ordinary old clay pots for storing food, but the theory was quickly thrown into the trash because each pot contained a copper rod with traces of oxidation. Well, if at school you preferred tanks to study, let's explain - the pots probably contained a liquid that, when interacting with copper, generated electricity. If this is true, then the first batteries appeared thousands of years ago.
Why can't the riddle be solved?
Unfortunately, the ancient video cameras have not yet been excavated. Some of the stone reliefs called "Light of Dendera" depict, some believe, the fire of an electric arc, which required something similar to the Baghdad batteries.
More reasonable theories suggest that the batteries were used to electrolyze items with gold. Someone thinks that the healers of that time could use batteries to shock people (well, like to show that they have mystical power, or something).
Our guesses:
We must bring them to Egypt. Stick the Sphinx in the secret hole. Then he will open his eyes, get up, and rush through the desert with a wild roar (we don’t know why, we haven’t figured it out yet).
In 1997, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded a strange sound in the ocean. Weird and loud. So loud it was picked up by two microphones 3,000 miles (~5,000 km) apart.
Scientists have determined that the wave pattern shows that it was an animal.
Why can't the riddle be solved?
There is no such large animal capable of producing a sound that can be heard so far away. Not a blue whale, not a howler monkey, not a wailing teenage girl.
Shortly after NOAA posted the strange sound on their website, some Howard Lovecraft fans thought the sound was from Lovecraft's famous character Cthulhu, since the coordinates for the source of the sound are not far from the location Howard Lovecraft indicated for the underwater city of R'lyeh, where sleeping Cthulhu.
These days, it's pretty hard to completely hide your personal data, because just typing a few words in a search engine - and the secrets are revealed, and the mysteries come to the surface. With the development of science and the improvement of technology, the game of hide and seek is becoming increasingly difficult. It used to be easier, of course. And there are many examples in history when it was impossible to find out what kind of person he was and where he came from. Here are some of these mysterious cases.
15. Kaspar Hauser
May 26, Nuremberg, Germany. 1828. A teenager of about seventeen wanders aimlessly through the streets, clutching a letter addressed to Commander von Wessenig in his hand. The letter states that the boy was taken to school in 1812, taught to read and write, but he was never allowed "to take a single step out the door." It was also said that the boy should become "a cavalryman like his father" and the commander could either accept him or hang him.
After meticulous questioning, they managed to find out that his name was Kaspar Hauser and he spent his whole life in a "blacked out cage" 2 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.5 meters high, in which there were only an armful of straw and three toys carved from wood (two horses and dogs). A hole was made in the floor of the cell so that he could relieve himself. The foundling hardly spoke, could not eat anything but water and black bread, he called all people boys, and all animals - horses. The police tried to find out where he came from and who the criminal was, what made the boy a savage, but this was never found out. For the next few years, some people took care of him, then others, taking him into their house and caring for him. Until December 14, 1833, Kaspar was found stabbed in the chest. A purple silk purse was found nearby, and in it was a note made in such a way that it could only be read in a mirror image. She said:
"Hauser will be able to describe to you exactly how I look and where I came from. In order not to bother Hauser, I want to tell you myself where I _ _ I came from _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ on the river _ _ I'll even tell you the name: M .L.O."
14. Green Children of Woolpit
Imagine that you live in the 12th century in the small village of Woolpit in the English county of Suffolk. While harvesting in the field, you find two children huddled in an empty wolf hole. Children speak an incomprehensible language, dressed in indescribable clothes, but the most interesting thing is their green skin. You take them to your house where they refuse to eat anything but green beans.
After a while, these children - brother and sister - begin to speak a little English, eat not only beans, and their skin gradually loses its green tint. The boy falls ill and dies. The surviving girl explains that they came from "St. Martin's Land", an underground "world of dusk" where they looked after their father's cattle, and then they heard a noise and ended up in a wolf den. The inhabitants of the underworld are green and dark all the time. There were two versions: either this is a fairy tale, or the children ran away from the copper mines.
13. Somerton Man
On December 1, 1948, on Somerton Beach in the town of Glenelg (a suburb of Adelaide) in Australia, the police discovered the body of a man. All the labels from his clothes were cut off, he had neither documents nor a wallet, and his face was clean-shaven. Even the teeth could not be identified. That is, there were no clues at all.
After the autopsy, the pathologist concluded that "death could not have occurred due to natural causes" and suggested poisoning, although no traces of toxic substances were found in the body. In addition to this hypothesis, the doctor could not suggest anything more about the cause of death. Perhaps the most mysterious thing in this whole story was that a piece of paper was found with the deceased, torn from a very rare edition of Omar Khayyam, on which only two words were written - Tamam Shud ("Tamam Shud"). These words are translated from Persian as "finished" or "completed". The victim remained unidentified.
12. Man from Taured
In 1954, in Japan, at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, thousands of passengers were hurrying about their business. However, one passenger did not seem to take part in this. For some reason, this outwardly perfectly normal man in a business suit attracted the attention of airport security, he was stopped and began to ask questions. The man answered in French, but was also fluent in several other languages. His passport had seals from many countries, including Japan. But this man claimed to have come from a country called Taured, located between France and Spain. The problem was that on none of the maps offered to him there was any Taured in this place - Andorra was located there. This fact greatly saddened the man. He said that his country had existed for centuries and that he even had its stamps in his passport.
Discouraged, airport officials left the man in a hotel room with two armed guards outside the door while they tried to find more information about the man. They didn't find anything. When they returned to the hotel for him, it turned out that the man had disappeared without a trace. The door did not open, the guards did not hear any noise and movement in the room, and he could not leave through the window - it was too high. Moreover, all the belongings of this passenger disappeared from the airport security service.
The man, simply put, dived into the abyss and did not return.
11. Lady Granny
The 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy spawned many conspiracy theories, and one of the most mystical details of this event is the presence in the photographs of a certain woman, who was dubbed Lady Grandmother. This woman in a coat and sunglasses got into a bunch of pictures, moreover, they show that she had a camera and she was filming what was happening.
The FBI tried to find her and identify her, but to no avail. The FBI later approached her to provide her videotape as evidence, but no one ever came. Just think: this woman, in broad daylight, in full view of at least 32 witnesses (whom she was photographed and videotaped), witnessed the murder and filmed it, and yet no one could identify her, not even the FBI. She has remained a secret.
10. D. B. Cooper
It happened on November 24, 1971 at Portland International Airport, where a man boarded a plane bound for Seattle, clutching a black briefcase, who bought a ticket under the documents in the name of Dan Cooper. After takeoff, the Cooper handed the flight attendant a note saying that he had a bomb in his briefcase and his demands were $200,000 and four parachutes. The flight attendant notified the pilot, who contacted the authorities.
After landing at the Seattle airport, all passengers were released, the Cooper's demands were met and an exchange was made, after which the plane took off again. As it flew over Reno, Nevada, the imperturbable Cooper ordered all personnel on board to remain in place, while he himself opened the passenger door and jumped out into the night sky. Despite a large number of witnesses who could identify him, "Cooper" was never found. Only a small portion of the money was found - in a river in Vancouver, Washington.
9. 21-faced monster
In May 1984, a Japanese food corporation called "Ezaki Glico" ran into a problem. Its president, Katsuhiza Ezaki, was kidnapped for ransom right from his home and held for some time in an abandoned warehouse, but then he managed to escape. A little later, the company received a letter stating that the products were poisoned with potassium cyanide and there would be victims if all products were not immediately recalled from food warehouses and stores. The company's losses amounted to $21 million, 450 people lost their jobs. The unknown - a group of people who took the name "21-faced monster" - sent mocking letters to the police, who could not find them, and even gave clues. Another message said that they "forgave" Glico and the persecution stopped.
Not satisfied with playing with one large corporation, the Monster organization has its eyes on others: Morinaga and a few other food companies. They acted according to the same scenario - they threatened to poison the products, but this time they demanded money. During a failed money exchange operation, a police officer almost managed to grab one of the criminals, but still missed him. Superintendent Yamamoto, in charge of investigating the case, could not bear the shame and committed suicide by setting himself on fire.
Shortly thereafter, "Monster" sent his final message to the media, poking fun at the death of a police officer and ending with "We're the bad guys. It means we have more to do than bait companies. Being bad is fun. Monster with 21 faces." . And nothing more was heard from them.
8. The Man in the Iron Mask
The "man in the iron mask" had the number 64389000, according to prison records. In 1669, the minister of Louis XIV sent a letter to the head of the prison in the French city of Pignerol, in which he announced the imminent arrival of a special prisoner. The minister ordered a cell to be built with several doors to prevent eavesdropping, to provide this prisoner with all his basic needs, and finally, if the prisoner ever spoke of anything other than this, to kill him without hesitation.
This prison was famous for putting "black sheep" from noble families and the government. It is noteworthy that the "mask" received special treatment: his cell was well furnished, unlike the rest of the prison cells, and two soldiers were on duty at the door of his cell, who were ordered to kill the prisoner if he took off his iron mask. The conclusion lasted until the death of the prisoner in 1703. The same fate befell the things he used: the furniture and clothes were destroyed, the walls of the cell were scraped off and washed, and the iron mask was melted down.
Many historians have since argued bitterly over the identity of the prisoner in an attempt to find out if he was a relative of Louis XIV and for what reasons he was destined for such an unenviable fate.
7. Jack the Ripper
Perhaps the most famous and mysterious serial killer in history, who London first heard about in 1888, when five women were killed (although it is sometimes said that there were eleven victims). All the victims were connected by the fact that they were prostitutes, as well as the fact that they all had their throats cut (in one of the cases, the cut was right up to the spine). All of the victims had at least one organ cut out of their bodies, and their faces and body parts were mutilated almost beyond recognition.
Most suspiciously, these women were clearly not murdered by a novice or amateur. The killer knew exactly how and where to cut, and he knew anatomy perfectly, so many immediately decided that the killer was a doctor. The police received hundreds of letters in which people accused the police of incompetence, and there seemed to be letters from the Ripper himself with the signature "From Hell".
None of the many suspects and none of the countless conspiracy theories have been able to shed light on this case.
6. Agent 355
One of the first spies in US history, and a female spy, was Agent 355, who worked during the American Revolution for George Washington and is part of the Culper Ring spy organization. This woman provided vital information about the British army and its tactics, including plans for sabotage and ambushes, and if not for her, the outcome of the war could have been different.
Supposedly in 1780, she was arrested and sent aboard a prison ship, where she gave birth to a boy, who was named Robert Townsend Jr. She died a little later. However, historians are suspicious of this story, stating that women were not sent to floating prisons, and there is no evidence of the birth of a child.
5. Killer named Zodiac
Another serial killer who remains unknown is the Zodiac. It's practically the American Jack the Ripper. In December 1968, he shot dead two teenagers in California - right on the side of the road - and attacked five more people the following year. Of these, only two survived. One of the victims described the assailant as brandishing a gun wearing a hooded cape like an executioner's and a white cross painted on his forehead.
Like Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac maniac also sent letters to the press. The difference is that these were ciphers and cryptograms along with insane threats, and at the end of the letter there was always a crosshair symbol. The prime suspect was a man named Arthur Lee Allen, but the evidence against him was only circumstantial and his guilt was never proven. And he himself died of natural causes shortly before the trial. Who was the Zodiac? No answer.
4. Unknown rebel (Tank Man)
This picture of a protester facing a column of tanks is one of the most famous anti-war photographs and also contains a mystery: the identity of this man, who is called Tank Man, has never been established. An unknown rebel held back a column of tanks alone for half an hour during the unrest in Tiananmen Square in June 1989.
The tank was unable to bypass the protester and stopped. This prompted Tank Man to climb onto the tank and talk to the crew members through the vent. After a while, the protester got down from the tank and continued his stand-up strike, preventing the tanks from moving forward. Well, then it was carried away by people in blue. It is not known what became of him - whether he was killed by the government or forced into hiding.
3. Woman from Isle
In 1970, the partially charred body of a naked woman was discovered in the Isdalen Valley (Norway). More than a dozen sleeping pills, a lunch box, an empty liquor bottle, and plastic bottles that smelled of gasoline were found on her. The woman suffered serious burns and carbon monoxide poisoning, in addition, 50 sleeping pills were found inside her, and she may also have received a blow to the neck. The tips of her fingers were cut off so that she could not be identified by fingerprints. And when the police found her luggage at the nearest railway station, it turned out that all the labels on the clothes were also cut off.
During further investigation, it turned out that the deceased had a total of nine pseudonyms, a whole collection of different wigs and a collection of suspicious diaries. She also spoke four languages. But this information did not help much in establishing the identity of the woman. A little later, a witness was found who saw a woman in fashionable clothes walking along the path from the station, followed by two men in black coats - towards the place where the body was found 5 days later.
But even this testimony did not help much.
2. Grinning Man
Usually paranormal events are difficult to take seriously and almost all phenomena of this kind are exposed almost immediately. However, this case seems to be of a different kind. In 1966, in New Jersey, two boys were walking at night along the road towards the barrier and one of them noticed a figure behind the fence. The towering figure was dressed in a green suit that shimmered in the lantern light. The creature had a wide grin or grin and small prickly eyes that relentlessly followed the frightened boys with their eyes. The boys were then questioned separately and in great detail, and their stories matched exactly.
Some time later, in West Virginia, reports of such a strange Grinning Man appeared again, and in large numbers and from different people. With one of them - Woodrow Dereberger - Grinning even talked. He identified himself as "Indrid Cold" and asked if there were any reports of unidentified flying objects in the area. In general, he made an indelible impression on Woodrow. Then this paranormal entity was still met here and there, until it disappeared completely.
1. Rasputin
Perhaps no other historical figure can be compared with Grigory Rasputin in terms of the degree of mystery. And although we know who he is and where he came from, his identity has become overgrown with rumors, legends and mysticism and is still a mystery. Rasputin was born in January 1869 to a peasant family in Siberia, where he became a religious wanderer and "healer", claiming that some deity gave him visions. A whole series of controversial and bizarre events led to the fact that Rasputin, as a healer, ended up in the royal family. He was invited to treat Tsarevich Alexei, who was suffering from hemophilia, in which he even succeeded somewhat - and as a result acquired enormous power and influence over the royal family.
Associated with corruption and evil, Rasputin was the subject of countless unsuccessful assassination attempts. Either a woman was sent to him with a knife under the guise of a beggar, and she almost gutted him, then they invited him to the house of a well-known politician and tried to poison him with cyanide mixed into the drink. But that didn't work either! In the end, they just shot him. The killers wrapped the body in sheets and threw it into the icy river. Later it turned out that Rasputin died from hypothermia, not from bullets, and even almost managed to get out of his cocoon, but this time his luck did not smile at him.
Our world is full of wonders. They surround any of us from the first minutes of our birth. If you think more deeply, then the very fact of our life with you is already an incredible and supreme miracle. Scientists have calculated that the birth of a person is one chance in a billion billion that has fallen to the lot of people who have ever lived, are living and have not yet been born into this world. But if the birth of a person has long been explained biologically, then Bigfoot, UFOs, brownies, crop circles, Chupacabra, Nessie, the Bermuda Triangle are still inexplicable facts! We will tell about them.
Place 10. Crop circle
Crop circles are geometrically correct circles with a diameter from 1 to several tens of meters. It's unbelievable, but true! As a rule, they are formed by ears of corn growing in the fields, involuntarily laid on the ground in one single direction. It should be especially noted that the ears do not break, but simply press down, continuing their natural growth. Crop circles are a mass phenomenon, usually there are from 3 to 70 of them within one section of the field.
The incredible stories of farmers associated with the appearance of crop circles, as well as various observations, have repeatedly forced ufologists to doubt the natural origin of this phenomenon. After all, not a single person, with all his diligence and desire, can lay the ears so accurately and not damage their stems. Of course, crop circles are a mysterious and still inexplicable phenomenon of either Mother Nature, or third-party forces.
Ufologists put forward several versions that somehow explain these inexplicable facts. Some say that this is the result of an overdose of fertilizers or a peculiar effect of a fungal infection on them. Others suggest that crop circles are formed due to the effect of air vortices on field vegetation. Some farmers even say that these are traces of mating games arranged by field hedgehogs and badgers.
The military is also getting involved in this issue. They are considering a version with a field test of some new type of secret weapon. In general, the phenomenon of the appearance of crop circles is still a mystery of mankind. It is worth noting that in 1980 the record for the number of circles that occurred on the field was set: in the UK, more than 500 circles were recorded at that time!
Location 9. Bermuda Triangle
Once upon a time, a Spanish navigator named Bermudez discovered islands in the Atlantic, surrounded on all sides by reefs and shoals that pose a danger to ships. He was lucky: he passed them safely, calling them the Devil's Islands. Later they were called Bermuda. Currently, this place has a bad reputation: it is a dangerous area for navigation and air travel. Yes, and its boundaries have expanded significantly.
Currently, a whole area located in the Atlantic Ocean between these same islands is considered a danger zone: Puerto Rico, the Florida Peninsula and Bermuda. This zone got its name - the Bermuda Triangle. It is here that the disappearances of ships, planes and people take place. It has been noticed that it is in the region of the Bermuda Triangle that the conditions of sea and air navigation bring people significant difficulty.
We repeat, this place found its sad glory due to the mysterious disappearances of aircraft, ships and inexplicable deaths. For example, in December 1945, a whole flight of US Air Force patrol planes fell into this zone at a time. The commander of this link only managed to transmit the following on the radio: “All the instruments on board failed! Our planes are off course! God, the ocean looks strange!” After that, communication with the crews of all these aircraft was cut off.
The investigation carried out turned up absolutely nothing. The Bermuda Triangle has remained an eternal mystery of mankind. In the future, there were more and more cases of the disappearance of ships and aircraft that fell into the zone of the mysterious triangle. In the second half of the 20th century, this natural phenomenon began to be taken seriously. The inexplicable things happening in the Atlantic between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico force scientists to come up with new hypotheses.
However, there is still a sign of mystery in this place. And this is due either to a lack of facts, or to a deliberate distortion of certain evidence. Be that as it may, scientists do not exclude manifestations of yet unexplored natural anomalies in this zone. Some experts believe that the Bermuda Triangle is a giant pathogenic and uncomfortable zone in which hurricanes are born, as well as unusual atmospheric phenomena that generate electrical interactions of water and air.
Location 8. The mystery of the Egyptian pyramids
Pyramids are the tombs of the pharaohs who once ascended the throne. The richer and more powerful the ruler was, the more majestic was his tomb. The inexplicable facts of history are primarily associated with the mysterious construction of the ancient Egyptian pyramids. According to historians, their construction lasted from 2700 to 1800 BC. But the mystery lies not at all in this! Scientists say that mere mortal people in those days would not have been able to build such serious and practical structures.
The total weight of stone blocks specially processed for the pyramid and laid in it was calculated. This weight is equal to 6.5 million tons! While some scientists believe that the construction of one such tomb took 20 years with the participation of 100,000 people, others refuse to believe it at all. According to the second, even such a huge army of builders without special equipment would not have been able to cope with such a task in two decades.
Skeptical scientists claim that such a task would be too much for them, saying that all this is just incredible facts. In addition, it is assumed that the construction of the ancient Egyptian pyramids was not carried out all year round, but only during those intervals when the Nile River overflowed, suspending the work of builders related to agriculture. Today, many hypotheses have been put forward, but none of them stand up to criticism and testing for strength.
Location 7. Bigfoot
Many incredible stories that excite the imagination of the inhabitants are associated with their meetings with the so-called yeti, or bigfoot. This is certainly one of the most amazing mysteries of cryptozoology - the science of unusual animals and people ever seen on our planet. At present, a great many different testimonies have been collected about the meetings of people with these huge and shaggy humanoid creatures.
A lot of indirect evidence of the existence of the yeti has been collected, all kinds of prints of allegedly his paws on snow and soft ground. Some witnesses even brought pieces of wool allegedly torn from Bigfoot. Scientists have already created a whole database based on the classification of certain evidence (not evidence!) of the existence of Bigfoot. Many of them are so picturesque that scientists have little doubt about their authenticity.
But, oddly enough, the more reports of meetings with the yeti appear, the more doubts arise in scientists about its existence: some seemingly inexplicable materials of the meeting with the yeti are, it turns out, fakes! Casts from the footprints of these creatures turn out to be artificial, and photo and video filming is made through editing and special effects. Even pieces of wool, allegedly belonging to the Yeti, after appropriate laboratory tests and analyzes, are recognized as gross fakes. Therefore, the sensation has not yet happened.
Location 6. Nessie
"Unbelievable but true!" - so say cryptozoologists about the legend associated with the existence in one of the Scottish lakes of a certain monster from prehistoric times. This lake is called Loch Ness, and it is located in the north-west of Scotland among many mountain ranges. originated approximately 300,000,000 years ago. Its maximum depth is 300 meters. According to urban legend, a strange creature of enormous size settled in its depths. Scientists dubbed this monster a very cute name - Nessie.
This problem was attended not only by cryptozoologists, but also by paleontologists, because the Loch Ness monster is not a monster from fairy tales, but just a plesiosaur, which miraculously survived to our times. Messages about meetings with Nessie accumulated at a tremendous speed: someone watched the monster go ashore, someone saw his head sticking out of the water along with his neck. There are also such eyewitnesses who allegedly saw Nessie with a whole brood of cubs. The mystery of Loch Ness attracted and continues to attract tourists from all over the world.
Inexplicable cases of people meeting with Nessie still fuel the professional interest of scientists in this legendary lake. Until now, paleontologists and cryptozoologists come there, they take samples of soil and water, trying to catch at least some relationship with Nessie. Currently, scientific expeditions are conducting serious research, capturing the underwater world of the lake on video cameras and with the help of sonars. A video filmed in one day showed only the water column with indeterminate moving objects, which in most cases turn out to be
In fairness, we note that sometimes objects that vaguely resemble flippers attached to some huge carcass fall into the camera lens. On the shore, traces are also visible from time to time, similar to those that a massive animal leaning on flippers can leave behind. The surface of the lake is monitored around the clock, data are verified, and reports are compiled. But all this cannot be called irrefutable facts, so the mystery of Loch Ness has not yet been solved.
Location 5. Chupacabra
Inhabiting our planet, are not limited to Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. A good example of this is the Chupacabra. The first part of this word is translated as "suck", and the second - "goat", literally - "goat vampire". There are already legends all over the world about this mysterious animal: this creature kills domestic animals (sheep and goats), sucking blood from them.
Currently, the Chupacabra has become the heroine of books, various feature films, TV shows and cartoons. Outwardly, this animal resembles either a dog or a jackal. Often, evidence proving the existence of the Chupacabra turns out to be photographs of some mutated animals: wolves, foxes, dogs. There is currently no reliable information about the existence of this inexplicable animal.
Place 4. Evil spirits
Not every one of us, of course, has come across this, but we have all heard more than once that sometimes some inexplicable things can happen in the house: spoons fall from the tables, dishes that are evenly standing on the table break, some sounds are heard, etc. .d. It is generally accepted that all this is the tricks of the brownie. How he looks, of course, no one knows for sure, but his image has firmly entered Russian folklore, which made him such a sweet and charming "old man".
From the point of view of scientists, a brownie is a paranormal phenomenon concentrated in an invisible clot of energy. Parapsychologists are sure that the brownie is a thinking creature that can read the thoughts of the owners of the house in which it lives. One of the brownie phenomena is inexplicable cases of his meetings with young children. Psychics say that in a house where there are children, this bundle of energy can take the form of some big toy. Children often see it, but cannot explain anything to adults.
Place 3. Dreams and dreams
Inexplicable mysteries lie not only in nature, but also in the mind of man himself. Such are, for example, our dreams. In the old days, a person believed that his soul embarked on some kind of journey through the outside world at night. There she allegedly receives either Divine revelation or a corresponding warning of danger. Today, such dreams are called prophetic, or prophetic. Scientists still cannot explain this nature of dreams. Most likely, our brain is very well intuitively developed, which allows it to “draw” warning dreams in our minds.
Often dreams are of some kind of chaotic character: a person who wakes up after this remembers only a certain episode or passage from what he dreamed about. In this regard, there is an inexplicable, but rather frequent phenomenon: often in a short moment between dream and reality, we, without realizing what is happening, attract some phantasmagoric image to everyday problems, and vice versa. As a result, we get a real "vinaigrette" from reality and illusion.
Location 2. UFOs and aliens
Many unexplained facts of the world do not have (and never will have) such popularity as UFOs, or unidentified flying objects. Someone jokingly remarked: “While the scientific minds of the whole world are tracing the paths of the evolutionary development of organisms, studying meteorites and taking samples of lunar soil, ordinary people habitually watch UFOs.” On the one hand, objects of extraterrestrial origin are fiction, but on the other hand, where do their photographs come from, published on the pages of magazines, newspapers and on the Internet?
According to the concept outlined in the popular television series: “NASA. Inexplicable Materials”, over the past decades, world researchers, together with ufologists, have done a tremendous job: they have compiled a catalog of possible representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. This allowed them to divide all space aliens into two groups:
- humanoids,
- non-humanoids.
What is the difference between them? As the name implies, representatives of the first group are similar to an earthly person. They are considered anthropomorphic and their growth ranges from 0.7 to 3.5 meters. Parts of the body do not always have a proportional shape: the head is large, the limbs are thin and long. They can be dressed in both ordinary and strange clothes and have a habit of imitating the person they like in everything.
According to the data presented in the same series “NASA. Inexplicable materials”, researchers include all other extraterrestrial beings to the representatives of the second group. These aliens can have a completely different appearance, and their body can take any form. It was these creatures that were the favorite characters of many famous Hollywood directors who shot such blockbusters as Alien, Critters, etc.
Incredible facts about UFOs and aliens constantly excite the minds of not only ufologists, but also the inhabitants of the entire planet Earth. After all, it may turn out that our “neighbors” fly to us in the galaxy, and possibly throughout the Universe! But is it worth it to blindly believe the numerous eyewitness accounts, more than half of which are empty fakes? We will probably disappoint you, but so far earth scientists do not have authentic evidence of the existence of aliens.
Place 1. Life after death
The afterlife, or the life of the soul after the death of a person, is a philosophical and religious idea of the continuing conscious life of people after their death. Unexplained facts and related situations are today, perhaps, the most important topic of the spiritual existence of man. In principle, people from century to century have been interested to know what will happen after their physical death.
At present, this aspect of the spiritual being of a person is strictly prescribed in each of the existing religions. The curiosity associated with the afterlife never ceases to excite our minds and tickle our nerves. In the overwhelming majority of cases, all ideas about a new life are due to a person's belief in immortality and the reincarnation (transmigration) of his soul, in resurrection from the dead, in posthumous retribution. It is these inexplicable facts that are reflected in religious and philosophical-religious worldviews.
The phenomenon of near-death experience, well-known to all of us, is closely connected with the immortality of the soul. Scientists and physicians pay special attention to it. Many people who have suffered so-called clinical death talk about certain visions that visited them at that moment. Here's what's important: all of them are characterized by a spot of light in front and a feeling of flying / falling towards it. The question of the nature of the origin of such near-death visions is still the subject of scientific disputes and discussions among scientists to this day. There is an opinion that all these are processes occurring at the moment of clinical death directly in our brain. However, even this today is only a hypothesis.
