Rene Truta survived after a terrible hurricane lifted her 240 meters into the air and 12 minutes later lowered her 18 kilometers from home. As a result of an incredible adventure, the unfortunate woman lost all her hair and one ear, broke her arm, and also received many minor wounds.
“Everything happened so quickly that it seems to me that it was a dream,” Rene said after being discharged from the hospital on May 27, 1997. I posed for the camera and then something caught me like a dry leaf. There was a noise like from a freight train. I found myself in the air. Dirt, debris, sticks hit my body and I felt a sharp pain in my right ear. I was lifted higher and higher and I lost consciousness.
When René Truta woke up, she was lying on top of a hill 18 kilometers from home. From above, a freshly plowed strip of land sixty meters wide was visible - this was the tornado "worked".
Police said no one else in the area was hurt by the tornado. As it turned out, such cases have already happened. In 1984, near Frankfurt am Main (Germany), a tornado lifted 64 schoolchildren into the air and lowered them unharmed 100 meters from the take-off site.
Survive in the desert
1994 Mauro Prosperi from Italy was discovered in the Sahara desert. Incredibly, the man spent nine days in the debilitating heat and survived. Mauro Prosperi took part in the marathon race. Due to a sandstorm, he lost his way and got lost. Two days later he ran out of water. Miro decided to open his veins and commit suicide, but he did not succeed, because due to the lack of water in the body, the blood began to clot very quickly. Nine days later, the athlete was found by a nomad family. By this time, the marathon runner was practically unconscious and had lost 18 kilograms.
Nine o'clock at the bottom
Incredibly lucky owner of a pleasure yacht, 32-year-old Roy Levin, his girlfriend, cousin Ken, and most importantly, Ken's wife, 25-year-old Susan. They all survived. The yacht was calmly drifting under sail in the waters of the Gulf of California, when a squall unexpectedly came from a clear sky. The ship capsized. Susan, who was in the cabin at that time, went down with the yacht. It happened not far from the coast, but in a deserted place, and there were no eyewitnesses.
"It's incredible that the ship sank without any damage," said rescuer Bill Hutchison. And another accident: while sinking, the yacht turned over again, so that it lay on the bottom in a “normal” position. The "swimmers" who were overboard did not have life jackets and belts. But they were able to hold out on the water for two hours until they were picked up by boats passing by. The owners of the boat contacted the Coast Guard, and a group of scuba divers was immediately sent to the crash site.
A few more hours passed. “We knew that one passenger remained on board, but we did not hope to find her alive,” Bill continued. “One could only hope for a miracle.”
The portholes were tightly battened down, the saloon door was hermetically sealed, but the water still seeped in, thereby displacing the air. With the last of her strength, the woman kept her head above the water - there was still an air layer under the very ceiling. “Leaning into the porthole, I saw Susan's face as white as chalk,” Bill said. Almost 8 hours have passed since the disaster!
Releasing the unfortunate was not an easy task. The yacht was at a depth of twenty meters, and handing her aqualung would mean letting water inside. Something had to be done urgently. Bill went upstairs for an oxygen tank. His colleagues signaled to Susan that she should hold her breath and open the salon door. She understood. But it turned out differently. The door opened, but a lifeless body in a fancy cocktail dress floated out. She still took water into her lungs. The count went by seconds. Bill picked up the woman, rushed to the surface and did it! The doctor on the boat literally pulled Susan from the other world.
great hover
Yogi Ravi Varanasi from the city of Bhopal, right in front of the astonished public, quite deliberately hung himself on eight hooks, catching them on the skin of his back and legs. And when, three months later, he moved from a hanging position to a standing position, he began to perform a set of physical exercises as if nothing had happened.
During the "great hover" Ravi Varanasi was one meter above the ground. To increase the effect, the students pierced the skin on his hands and tongue with needles. All this time, the yogi ate quite moderately - a handful of rice and a cup of water during the day. He hung in a structure that looked like a tent. When it rained, a tarpaulin was thrown over the wooden frame. Ravi willingly communicated with the public and was under the supervision of the German doctor Horst Groning.
“After hanging, he remained in excellent physical shape,” said Dr. Groning. “It is a pity that science still does not know the methodology of self-hypnosis, which is used by yoga to stop bleeding and relieve pain.”
Wing mechanic
On May 27, 1995, during tactical maneuvers, the MiG-17, having left the runway, got stuck in the mud. Ground service mechanic Pyotr Gorbanev, together with his comrades, rushed to the rescue. By joint efforts, the plane was able to push to the GDP. Freed from the mud, the MiG began to quickly pick up speed and a minute later took to the air, "grabbing" the mechanic, who was bent around the front of the wing by the air flow.
While climbing, the fighter pilot felt that the plane was behaving strangely. Looking around, he saw a foreign object on the wing. The flight took place at night, so it was not possible to consider it. From the ground they gave advice to shake off the "foreign object" by maneuvering.
To the pilot, the silhouette on the wing seemed very human-like and he requested permission to land. The plane landed at 23:27, having been in the air for about half an hour. All this time, Gorbanev was conscious on the wing of a fighter - he was firmly held by the oncoming air flow. After landing, they found out that the mechanic got off with a strong fright and a fracture of two ribs.
Girl - night lamp
Nguyen Thi Nga is a resident of the small village of Anthong, Hoan An County, in Binh Dinh Province (Vietnam). Until recently, the village itself and Nguyen did not differ in anything special - the village is like a village, a girl is like a girl: she went to school, helped her parents, picked oranges and lemons with her friends on the surrounding plantations.
But one day, when Nguyen went to bed, her body began to glow brightly, as if phosphorescent. A huge halo enveloped the head, and golden-yellow rays began to emanate from the arms, legs and torso. In the morning they took the girl to the healers. They did some manipulations, but nothing helped. Then the parents took their daughter to Saigon, to the hospital. Nguyen was taken for examination, but no abnormalities were found in his health.
It is not known how this story could have ended if Nguyen had not been examined by the well-known healer Thang in those parts. He asked if the glow bothered her. She replied that no, but only the incomprehensible fact that happened on the second day of the new year according to the lunar calendar worries.
“The most favorable time for the grace of the Almighty,” the healer reassured her. - At this time, God rewards according to merit. And if you haven’t earned anything yet, then you still deserve it.” Peace of mind returned to Nguyen, but the glow remained.
When conducting an experiment, a piece of meat and a leaf of a plant were placed in front of 29-year-old artist Jody Ostroit. Nearby stood an ordinary electron microscope. Jody studied the objects with the naked eye for a couple of minutes, then took a sheet of paper and depicted their internal structure. Then the researchers could approach the microscope and make sure that the artist zoomed in, but did not distort the essence of the depicted in any way.
“It didn’t come to me right away,” Jody said. - At first, for some reason, I began to scrupulously draw the texture of various objects - trees, furniture, animals. After that, I began to notice that I see much smaller details that are elusive to the ordinary eye. Skeptics say I use a microscope. But where can I get an electron microscope?”
Jody Ostroit sees the smallest cells of matter, photographs them, as it were, and then transfers them to paper with ultra-thin brushes and a pencil. “It would be better if my gift went to some scientist. Why is he to me? So far, my pictures are being sold out, but the fashion for them will pass. Although I see deeper than any professor, but only in the literal sense of the word.
Captain behind the windshield
Wearing a seat belt is important not only for motorists: the commander of the British Airways BAC 1-11 Series 528FL aircraft, Tim Lancaster, certainly remembered this elementary safety rule forever after June 10, 1990.
While flying the plane at an altitude of 5273 meters, Tim Lancaster relaxed his seat belt. Shortly thereafter, the windshield of the airliner burst. The captain immediately flew out through the opening, and he was pressed with his back to the fuselage of the aircraft from the outside. Lancaster's legs got stuck between the helm and control panel, and the cockpit door torn off by the air current landed on the radio and navigation panel, shattering it.
Flight attendant Nigel Ogden, who was in the cockpit, did not lose his head and firmly grabbed the captain's legs. The co-pilot managed to land the plane only after 22 minutes, all this time the captain of the plane was outside.
The flight attendant holding Lancaster believed that he was dead, but did not let go, as he was afraid that the body would get into the engine and it would burn out, reducing the aircraft's chances of a safe landing. After landing, it was found out that Tim was alive, doctors diagnosed him with bruises, as well as fractures of his right hand, a finger on his left hand and his right wrist. After 5 months, Lancaster again sat at the helm. Steward Nigel Ogden escaped with a dislocated shoulder, frostbite on his face and left eye.
Used materials of Nikolai Nepomniachtchi, "Interesting newspaper"
In the Sahara desert in Egypt lie the oldest known, astronomically aligned, rocks in the world: the Nabta. A thousand years before the creation of Stonehenge, people built a stone circle and other structures on the shore of the lake, which has long since dried up. Over 6,000 years ago, stone slabs three meters high were dragged over a kilometer to create this place. The depicted stones are only a part of the entire complex that has been preserved. Although the Western Egyptian Desert is completely dry at present, it was not so in the past. There is good evidence that there have been several wet cycles in the past (when up to 500 mm of precipitation fell per year). The most recent dates back to the interglacial period and the time of the beginning of the last glaciation, which was approximately 130,000 to 70,000 years ago. During this period, the area was a savannah and supported the life of numerous animals such as extinct bison and large giraffes, antelopes of various species and gazelles. Starting around the 10th millennium BC, this area of the Nubian desert began to receive more rainfall, filling the lakes. Early humans may have been attracted to the region by the sources of drinking water. Archaeological finds may indicate that human activity in the area is known from at least sometime between the 10th and 8th millennium BC.
Chinese mosaic of lines.
These strange lines are located at 40°27"28.56"N, 93°23"34.42"E. There is not much information available about this "strangeness", but a beautiful mosaic of lines does exist, it carved in the desert of Gansu Sheng province in China. Some records indicate that the "lines" were created in 2004, but nothing seems to be found to officially support this assumption. It should be noted that these lines are located near the Mogao Cave, which is a World Heritage Site. The lines stretch for a very long distance, and at the same time retain their proportions, despite the curvature of the rough terrain.
Inexplicable stone doll.
In July 1889, in Boise, Idaho, a small human figure was found during a well drilling operation. The find aroused intense scientific interest in the last century. Unmistakably man-made, the "doll" was discovered at a depth of 320 feet, which allowed its age to be dated far before the arrival of man in this part of the world. The find has never been disputed, but only said that such a thing, in principle, is impossible.
Iron bolt, 300 million years old.
It was found almost by accident. The expedition of the MAI-Cosmopoisk Center searched for fragments of a meteorite in the south of the Kaluga region, in Russia. Dmitry Kurkov decided to inspect an ordinary, it would seem, piece of stone. What he found is capable of turning our ideas about earthly and cosmic history upside down. When dirt was brushed off the stone, on its chip was clearly visible somehow got inside ... a bolt! About a centimeter long. How did he get there? A bolt with a nut on the end (or - what this thing also looked like - a coil with a rod and two disks) was tight. This means that he got inside the stone back in those days when it was only sedimentary rock, bottom clay.
Ancient rocket ship.
This ancient cave painting from Japan dates back to over 5000 BC.
Moving stones.
No one, not even NASA, has yet been able to explain this. It's best to just watch and marvel at the moving rocks in this dry lake in Death Valley National Park. The bottom of Racetrack Playa is almost flat, 2.5 km north to south and 1.25 km east to west, and is covered with cracked mud. The stones move slowly along the clay bottom of the lake, as evidenced by the long footprints left behind them. The stones move on their own without the help of others, but no one has ever seen or recorded the movement on camera. Similar movements of stones were recorded in some other places. However, in terms of the number and length of tracks, the dry Lake Racetrack Playa is unique.
Electricity in the pyramids.
Teotihuacan, Mexico. Large sheets of mica have been found embedded in the walls of this ancient Mexican city. The nearest place is a quarry where mica is mined, located in Brazil, thousands of kilometers away. Mica is currently used in energy production technology. In this regard, the question arises as to why the builders used this mineral in the buildings of their city. Did these ancient architects know some long forgotten energy sources to use electricity in their cities?
Dog Death
Suicide of dogs on a bridge in Overtown, near Milton, Dumbarton, Scotland. Built in 1859, the Overtown Bridge became famous for a number of unexplained cases in which dogs apparently committed suicide by jumping from it. These incidents were first recorded in the 1950s or 1960s, when dogs - generally of the long-nosed species, like collies - were observed to quickly and unexpectedly jump off a bridge and fall fifty feet to their death.
fossil giants
The fossilized Irish giants were discovered in 1895 and are over 12 feet (3.6 m) tall. The giants were discovered during mining in Antrim, Ireland. This image is from the British magazine Strand, December 1895. “Height 12' 2", bust 6' 6", arm 4' 6". There are six toes on the right foot." The six fingers and toes are reminiscent of some characters from the Bible, where six-fingered giants are described.
Pyramids of Atlantis?
Scientists continue to explore the ruins of megaliths in the so-called Yucatan channel in the Cuban region. They have been found for many miles along the coast. The American archaeologists who discovered this site immediately declared that they had found Atlantis (not for the first time in the history of underwater archeology). Now the place is sometimes visited by scuba divers to admire the majestic underwater structures. All other interested parties can only enjoy the filming and computer reconstruction of the millennium-old city buried under water.
Giants in Nevada
A Nevada Indian legend about 12 foot red giants that lived in the area when they arrived. According to American Indian history, the giants were killed in the cave. During excavations in 1911, this human jaw was discovered. Here's what an artificial human jaw looks like next to it. In 1931, two skeletons were found at the bottom of the lake. One of them was 8 feet (2.4 m) high, the other - just under 10 (3 m).
inexplicable wedge
This aluminum wedge was found in Romania in 1974, on the banks of the Mures River, near the city of Aiud. They found it at a depth of 11 meters, next to the bones of Mastodon - a giant, elephant-like, extinct animal. The find itself is very reminiscent of the head of a huge hammer. At the archaeological institute of the city of Cluj-Napoca, where the artifact supposedly went, it was determined that the metal from which this wedge was made is an aluminum alloy coated with a thick layer of oxide. The alloy contained 12 different elements, and the find was classified as strange, since aluminum was discovered only in 1808, and the age of this artifact, given its presence in the layer along with the remains of an extinct animal, is determined at approximately 11 thousand years.
"Loladoff's Plate"
Loladoff's Plate is a 12,000 year old stone dish found in Nepal. It seems that Egypt is not the only place visited by aliens in ancient times. This clearly demonstrates the disk-shaped UFO. There is also a drawing on the disc. The character bears a striking resemblance to the aliens known as Grey.
Hammer made of the purest iron alloy
A puzzling riddle for science is ... an ordinary-looking hammer. The metal part of the hammer is 15 centimeters long and about 3 centimeters in diameter. It has literally grown into limestone about 140 million years old, and is stored along with a piece of rock. This miracle caught the eye of Mrs. Emma Hahn in June 1934 in the rocks near the American town of London, Texas. The experts who examined the find came to a unanimous conclusion: a hoax. However, further research conducted by various scientific institutions, including the famous Battele laboratory (USA), showed that everything is much more complicated. Firstly, the wooden handle on which the hammer is mounted has already petrified on the outside, and inside it has completely turned into coal . So, its age is also calculated in millions of years. Secondly, specialists from the Metallurgical Institute in Columbus (Ohio) were amazed by the chemical composition of the hammer itself: 96.6% iron, 2.6% chlorine and 0.74% sulfur. No other impurities could be identified. Such pure iron has not been obtained in the entire history of terrestrial metallurgy. Not a single bubble was found in the metal. The quality of iron, even by modern standards, is exceptionally high and raises many questions, since the content of metals used in the metallurgical industry in the production of different grades of steel (as, e.g. manganese, cobalt, nickel, tungsten, vanadium or molybdenum). There are also no foreign impurities, and the percentage of chlorine is unusually high. It is also surprising that no traces of carbon have been found in iron, while iron ore from terrestrial deposits always contains carbon and other impurities. Generally speaking, from a modern point of view, it is not of high quality. But here's the detail: the Texas hammer's iron doesn't rust! When in 1934 a piece of rock with an ingrown tool was chipped off the rock, the metal was badly scratched in one place. And over the past sixty-plus years, not the slightest sign of corrosion has appeared on the scratch ... According to Dr. K. E. Buff, director of the Museum of Fossil Antiquities, which houses this hammer, the find comes from the early Cretaceous period - from 140 to 65 million years ago. According to the current state of scientific knowledge, humanity learned to make such tools only 10 thousand years ago. Dr. Hans-Joachim Zilmer from Germany, who studied the mysterious find in detail, concludes: "This hammer was made using an unknown technology."
The highest technology of stone processing
The second group of finds that pose mysteries to scientists are artifacts created after the time of the appearance of man on Earth, accepted today. But the technologies that were used in their creation became known to us relatively recently or are still unknown. The most famous find of this group can be called a crystal skull, found in 1927 in Belize during excavations of the Mayan city of Lubaantuma. The skull is carved from a piece of pure quartz and measures 12x18x12 centimeters. In 1970, the skull was analyzed in the Hewlett-Packard laboratory. The results were stunning. The skull was created without respecting the natural crystal axis, which is impossible in modern crystallography. When working on the skull, no metal instruments were used. According to the restorers, quartz was first cut with a diamond chisel, after which silicon crystalline sand was used for more thorough processing. It took about three hundred years to work on the skull, which can be taken as an incredible example of patience or recognize the use of high technology unknown to us. One of the Hewlett-Packard experts said that the creation of a crystal skull is not a matter of skill, patience and time, but that it is simply impossible.
fossil nail
However, most often, objects are found in the rock that are similar in appearance to nails and bolts. In the 16th century, the Viceroy of Peru kept in his office a piece of rock, which firmly held an 18-centimeter steel nail found in a local mine working. In 1869, in Nevada, a metal screw 5 centimeters long was found in a piece of feldspar, raised from a great depth. Skeptics believe that the appearance of these and many other objects can be explained by natural causes: a special kind of crystallization of mineral solutions and melts, the formation of pyrite rods in voids between crystals. But pyrite is iron sulfide, and at the break it is yellow (which is why it is often confused with gold) and has a clearly defined cubic structure. Eyewitnesses of the finds clearly speak of iron nails, sometimes covered with rust, and pyrite formations can be called gold rather than iron. There is also an assumption that the rod-shaped NIOs are the fossilized skeletons of belemnites (invertebrate marine animals that lived at the same time as dinosaurs). But the remains of belemnites are found only in sedimentary rocks and never in bedrocks, such as feldspar. In addition, they have a pronounced skeletal shape, and it is impossible to confuse them with something else. It is sometimes argued that nail-like NIOs are molten fragments of meteorites or fulgurites (thunderbolts) obtained by lightning strikes into rocks. However, finding such a fragment or trace left millions of years ago is extremely problematic. If the origin of the nail-shaped NIOs can still be argued, then some of the finds can only be shrugged.
ancient battery
In 1936, the German scientist Wilhelm Koenig, who worked at the Archaeological Museum of Baghdad, was brought a strange object that was found at the excavations of an ancient Parthian settlement near the Iraqi capital. It was a small clay vase about 15 centimeters high. Inside it was a cylinder made of sheet copper, its base was closed by a cap with a seal, on top of the cylinder was covered with a layer of resin, which also held an iron rod directed to the center of the cylinder. From all this, Dr. Koenig concluded that he had before him an electric battery, created almost two thousand years before the discoveries of Galvani and Volta. Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht made an exact copy of the find, poured wine vinegar into a vase and connected a measuring device that showed a voltage of 0.5 V. Presumably, the ancients used electricity to apply a thin layer of gilding to objects.
The Antikythera mechanism (other spellings: Antikythera, Andythera, Antikythera, Greek Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων) is a mechanical device discovered in 1902 on an ancient shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera (Greek. Αντικύθηρα). Dated to around 100 BC. e. (perhaps before 150 BC). It is stored in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The mechanism contained 37 bronze gears in a wooden case, on which dials with arrows were placed and, according to reconstruction, was used to calculate the movement of celestial bodies. Other devices of similar complexity are unknown in Hellenistic culture. It uses a differential gear, which was previously thought not to have been invented before the 16th century, and the level of miniaturization and complexity is comparable to mechanical watches of the 18th century. Approximate dimensions of the mechanism assembly 33×18×10 cm.
Figurines of astronauts from Ecuador
Figurines of ancient astronauts found in Ecuador. Age > 2000 years. In fact, there are plenty of such testimonies, if you want, read Erich Von Denikin. He has many books, one of the most famous is "Chariots of the Gods", there are both physical evidence and deciphering of cuneiforms and so on, in general, quite interesting. True, it is contraindicated for ardent believers to read.
Mystery happens not only in the movies. It happens in real life, and it happens even on a particularly large scale. Historical documents record many inexplicable cases that occurred during the war. Under mysterious circumstances, people, tanks, planes and ships disappeared. Until now, many of these events have no logical explanation.
Philadelphia experiment, the mystery of the destroyer "Eldridge"
There are many urban legends around this event, and information about what really happened is still classified. From the available information, the following is known: in 1943, scientists decided to conduct an experiment to demagnetize the ship, or, as they say, "degaussing", making the ship invisible to the magnetic fuse of mines and torpedoes. To do this, four powerful generators of electromagnetic oscillations were installed on board the destroyer Eldridge, which, according to the scientists, were supposed to create an invisible "electromagnetic cocoon" around the ship.
But something went wrong: first, the ship was enveloped in a caustic haze, then the Eldridge simply disappeared. In some incredible way, four hours later, the ship materialized at a distance of tens of kilometers from the test site at the Norfolk base.
From the crew of 181 people, only 21 sane sailors remained, the rest went crazy, either grew into the bulkheads and structural elements of the ship (27 people), or died from radiation, burns and electric shock (13 people).
The US Navy does not confirm or deny the information about the experiment, and the sailors themselves, who served on the destroyer Eldridge, say that there was no experiment.
3,000 Chinese soldiers never seen again
Almost an entire division of Chinese soldiers disappeared without a trace during the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Chinese General Li Fu Shi sent a division of 3,000 men to stop the Japanese advance on Nanjing. And in the morning the orderly reported to the commander that there was not a single soldier in the positions. At the same time, there were no traces of a night battle, no corpses. Such a number of soldiers simply could not leave their positions unnoticed and at the same time not leave any traces. After the war, the Chinese government initiated an investigation into this incident, but to no avail.
Disappearance of a battalion of the Norfolk Regiment
An entire battalion of the Norfolk Regiment disappeared on August 12, 1915 during the Dardanelles operation. Moreover, this inexplicable phenomenon happened in front of eyewitnesses - soldiers of the New Zealand unit, who were on the front line in the area of \u200b\u200b"Hill 60" when the Norfolk were preparing to attack Turkish positions.
After the war, New Zealand veterans said that on that day 6 or 8 clouds hung over "Hill 60" in the form of "round loaves of bread", which did not change their location, despite the wind. Another cloud, 800 feet long, 200 feet high and wide, was almost on the ground. The Norfolk sent to reinforce the British units on "Hill 60" entered the cloud without hesitation. As soon as the last soldier disappeared in it, the cloud slowly rose and, having collected the rest, clouds similar to it, flew away. No one else saw the soldiers of the Norfolk Regiment.
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All 267 missing servicemen are still considered missing. The British government tried to find its subjects and even turned to the Turkish authorities for help, but to no avail.
Missing "Unebi"
The disappearance of ships in the ocean is a fairly common phenomenon, especially in the Bermuda Triangle. However, the armored cruiser Unebi stands alone in this list. The ship went missing while sailing from Singapore to the South China Sea in December 1886, the only time in the history of the Japanese Navy that it disappeared without a trace.
No wreckage or dead bodies were found at the site of the alleged loss of the ship. The armored cruiser was well armed and could stand up for itself, and its crew included from 280 to 400 experienced sailors. To this day, not a single fragment of the Unebi has been found, so the ship is considered missing, and a monument to sailors has been erected at the Aoyama cemetery in Tokyo.
Link 19 Mystery
Under mysterious circumstances, five Avenger torpedo bombers and a PBM-5 Martin Mariner seaplane sent to search for them disappeared.
Events unfolded as follows: On December 5, 1945, a group of Avengers received a training mission to fly east from the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to bomb near Bimini Island, and then fly some distance to north and back.
The link took off at 14 hours 10 minutes, the pilots were given two hours to complete the task, during which time they had to cover about 500 kilometers. At 1600, when the Avengers were supposed to return to base, the controllers intercepted disturbing conversations between the commander of Flight 19 and another pilot - it seems that the pilots lost their bearings.
Later, the commander contacted the base, saying that compasses and clocks were out of order on all bombers. And this is very strange, because the Avengers had quite serious equipment at that time: gyrocompasses and AN / ARR-2 radio semi-compasses.
However, the flight commander, Lieutenant Charles Taylor, reported that he was unable to determine where the west was, and the ocean looked unusual. Further negotiations did not lead to anything, only at 17.50 at the air base they were able to detect a weak signal from the flight aircraft. They were east of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and moving away from the mainland.
Somewhere around 20.00, the torpedo bombers ran out of fuel, and they were forced to splash down, the further fate of the Avengers and their pilots is unknown.
The Martin Mariner plane sent to search for the missing also disappeared, however, on one of the ships that was in the search area, they saw an explosion in the air, perhaps this was the ill-fated PBM-5. However, the pilots themselves called the "Martin Mariner" a "flying gas tank", so its loss is quite understandable.
But there is a lot of obscurity in what happened to the Avengers: what caused the failure of navigation instruments operating on different principles? What was wrong with the ocean and why did the pilots get lost in places they knew? There is also a legend that a radio amateur intercepted a message from the commander of Flight 19: "Do not follow me ... They look like people from the Universe ..."
By the way, in 2010, the Deep Sea search vessel discovered four Avengers lying in formation at a depth of 250 meters, 20 kilometers northeast of Fort Lauderdale. The fifth torpedo bomber lay two kilometers from the crash site.
The side numbers of two of them were FT-241, FT-87, and on two more, only the numbers 120 and 28 could be seen, the designation of the fifth could not be identified. After the researchers raised the archives, it turned out that five Avengers disappeared only once - on December 5, 1945, but the identification numbers of the vehicles found and Unit 19 did not match, except for one - FT-28, the aircraft of commander Charles Taylor, but what's the most. the rest of the planes were not among the missing.
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 recounts 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.
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 human 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 fins 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. Of course, no one knows for sure what he looks like, 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.
