Mysterious themes of history. Secret and unknown
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Mysterious Murders at the Hinterkaifeck Farm
In 1922, the mysterious murder of six people committed on small farm Hinterkaifeck shocked all of Germany. And not only because the murders were committed with horrendous cruelty.
All the circumstances associated with this crime were very strange, even mystical, and to this day it remains unsolved.
During the investigation, more than 100 people were interrogated, but no one was ever arrested. Not a single motive that could somehow explain what happened was also identified.
The maid who worked in the house ran away six months ago, claiming it was haunted. The new girl arrived just a few hours before the murder.
Apparently, the attacker was on the farm for at least a few days - someone fed the cows and ate in the kitchen. In addition, neighbors saw smoke coming from the chimney during the weekend. The photo shows the body of one of the dead, found in a barn.
Phoenix Lights
The so-called "Phoenix Lights" are several flying objects that more than 1000 people observed on the night of Thursday, March 13, 1997: in the sky over the states of Arizona and Nevada in the USA and over the state of Sonora in Mexico.
In fact, two things happened that night. strange events: a triangular formation of luminous objects that moved across the sky, and several stationary lights that hovered over the city of Phoenix. However, in the latest US Air Force, they recognized the lights from the A-10 Warthog aircraft - it turned out that at that time military exercises were taking place in southwestern Arizona.
Solway Firth Astronaut
In 1964, the family of Briton Jim Templeton was walking near the Solway Firth. The head of the family decided to take a picture of his five-year-old daughter with Kodak. The Templetons claimed that there was no one else in these marshy places except them. And when the pictures were developed, one of them showed a strange figure peeking out from behind the girl. The analysis showed that the photo was not subjected to any changes.
falling body
The Cooper family has just moved into their new house in Texas. In honor of the housewarming, a festive table was laid, at the same time we decided to take some family photos. And when the pictures were developed, a strange figure was found on them - it seems that someone's body is either hanging or falling from the ceiling. Of course, the Coopers did not see anything like this during the shooting.
Too many hands
The four guys were fooling around taking pictures in the yard. When the film was shown, it turned out that one extra hand appeared on it from nowhere (peeps out from behind the back of a guy in a black T-shirt).
"Battle of Los Angeles"
This picture was published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942. To this day, conspiracy theorists and ufologists cite it as evidence of extraterrestrial visits to Earth. They claim that the photo clearly shows that the beams of searchlights fall on an alien flying ship. However, as it turned out, the photo for publication was pretty retouched - this is a standard procedure, which almost all published black-and-white photographs were subjected to to heighten the effect.
The incident itself, captured in the photo, was called a “misunderstanding” by the authorities. The Americans had just survived the Japanese attack, and in general the tension was incredible. Therefore, the military got excited and opened fire on the object, which, most likely, was a harmless weather balloon.
The lights of Hessdalen
In 1907, a group of educators, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Fires.
On a clear night, Bjorn Hauge took this picture using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object must be composed of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of the Hessdalen Lights. Scientists are still scratching their heads as to what it could be.
Time Traveler
This photo was taken in 1941 during the opening of the South Forks Bridge. The attention of the public was attracted by a young man who was considered by many to be a "time traveler" - because of his modern hairstyle, zip-up sweater, printed T-shirt, fashionable glasses and a soap camera. The whole outfit is clearly not from the 40s. On the left, a camera is highlighted in red, which was actually in use at that time.
9/11 Attack - South Tower Woman
In these two shots, a woman can be seen standing on the edge of the hole in the South Tower after the plane crashed into the building. Her name is Edna Clinton and, not surprisingly, she was on the list of survivors. How she did it is beyond me, considering everything that happened in that part of the building.
skunk monkey
In 2000, a woman who wished to remain anonymous took two photographs of the mysterious creature and sent it to the Sarasota County Sheriff (Florida). The photographs were accompanied by a letter in which the woman assured that she photographed a strange creature in the backyard of her house. The creature came to her house three nights in a row and stole the apples left on the terrace.
UFO in the painting "Madonna with Saint Giovannino"
The painting "Madonna with Saint Giovannino" is by Domenico Ghirlandai (1449-1494) and is currently in the collection Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Above Mary's right shoulder, a mysterious flying object and a man who is watching it are clearly visible.
Incident at Lake Falcon
Another encounter with a supposed extraterrestrial civilization took place near Lake Falcon on May 20, 1967.
Someone Stefan Michalak was resting in these places and at some point noticed two descending cigar-shaped objects, one of which landed very close. Michalak claims to have seen the door open and heard voices coming from within.
He tried to speak to the aliens in English, but there was no answer. Then he tried to get closer, but came across an "invisible glass", which, apparently, served as a protection for the object.
Suddenly, Michalak was surrounded by a cloud of air so hot that his clothes caught fire. The man suffered severe burns.
Bonus:
This story took place on the evening of February 11, 1988 in the city of Vsevolozhsk. There was a light knock on the window of the house where a woman who was fond of spiritualism and her teenage daughter lived. Looking out, the woman saw no one. Went out on the porch - no one. And there were no footprints in the snow under the window either.
The woman was surprised, but did not attach much importance. And half an hour later there was a pop and part of the glass in the window where the invisible guest was knocking fell off, forming an almost perfectly round hole.
The next day, at the request of the woman, her Leningrad acquaintance, candidate of technical sciences S.P. Kuzionov, arrived. He carefully examined everything and took several pictures.
When the photograph was developed, it showed the face of a woman peering into the lens. Both the mistress of the house and Kuzionov himself found this face unfamiliar.
Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective. But in detective stories, as you know, all secrets are revealed by the last page. And in these stories, the solution is still far away, although humanity has been puzzling over some of them for decades. Perhaps we are not destined to find clues for them at all? Or will the veil of secrecy be lifted someday? And what do you think?
43 missing Mexican students
In 2014, 43 students from the teacher training college from Ayotzinapa went to a demonstration in Iguala, where the mayor's wife was supposed to speak to the residents. The corrupt mayor has instructed the police to rid him of this problem. On his orders, the police detained the students, and as a result of the harsh detention, two students and three bystanders were killed. The rest of the students, as it turned out, were handed over to the local criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin torn from his face. Later, the remains of two more students were found. Relatives and friends of the students organized mass demonstrations, provoking a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends, and the chief of police tried to escape, but were apprehended a few weeks later. The provincial governor resigned, and dozens of policemen and officials were arrested. And only one thing remained a mystery - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.
Oak Island money pit
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territory, there is small island- Oak Island, or Oak Island. There is the famous "money pit". According to the legend, locals found it back in 1795. This is a very deep and complex mine, in which, according to legend, countless treasures are hidden. Many tried to get there - but the design is insidious, and after the treasure hunter digs to a certain depth, the mine begins to be flooded intensively with water. They say that the daredevils found at a depth of 40 meters a stone tablet with a scrawled inscription: "Two million pounds are buried 15 meters deeper." More than one generation tried to get the promised treasure out of the pit. Even the future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his student years at Harvard, with a group of friends came to Oak Island to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there?
Who was Benjamin Kyle?
In 2004, an unidentified man woke up outside Burger King in Georgia. He had no clothes on, he did not have any documents, but the worst thing is that he did not remember anything about himself. I mean, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but could not find traces: no missing people with such signs, no relatives who would identify him from a photo. Soon he was given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents and certificates of any education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a TV program, out of pity, gave him a job as a dishwasher. He works there now. The efforts of the doctors to awaken his memory, and the efforts of the police to find his former traces, did not yield results.
Shore of Severed Legs
"Coast of Severed Legs" - name, given to the shore on the Pacific Northwest British Columbia. He got this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 pieces have been found, most of them right. There are several theories to explain why feet wash up on this shore - natural disasters, the work of a serial killer ... some even claim that the mafia destroys the bodies of their victims on this remote beach. But none of these theories looks convincing, but no one knows where the truth is.
"Dancing Death" 1518
One day in the summer of 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began to dance in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she collapsed from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that gradually others joined her. A week later, 34 people were already dancing in the city, and a month later - 400. Many dancers died from overwork and heart attacks. The doctors did not know what to think, and the churchmen also could not exorcise the demons that inhabited the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one ever found out what caused it. They talked about some special kind of epilepsy, about poisoning, and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But scientists of that time did not find the exact answer.
Signal from aliens
On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was monitoring signals from space at the volunteer Extraterrestrial Research Center, picked up a signal on a random radio frequency that clearly came from deep space, from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This signal was much stronger than the cosmic noise that Eman was used to hearing on the air. It lasted only 72 seconds and consisted of a very specific, in the observer's opinion, completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was reproduced with accuracy several times in a row. Eman dutifully wrote down the sequence and reported it to his colleagues in the search for aliens. However, further listening to this frequency did not give anything, as well as any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. What it was - a prank of quite earthly jokers or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to get in touch with us - still no one knows.
Stranger from Somerton Beach
And here is another perfect murder, the mystery of which has not yet been solved. December 1, 1948 in Australia, on Somerton Beach in South Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was discovered. He did not have any documents with him, only a note with two words was found in one of the pockets: “Taman Shud”. It was a line from Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat meaning "the end". The cause of death of the unknown could not be determined. The forensic investigator believed that it was poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed that it was about suicide, but this statement was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case excited not only Australia, but the whole world. They tried to establish the identity of the unknown in almost all countries of Europe and America, but the efforts of the police turned out to be in vain, and the history of Taman Shud remained shrouded in a veil of secrecy.
Treasures of the Confederates
This legend still haunts American treasure hunters - and not only them. According to legend, when the northerners were already close to victory in civil war, Treasurer of the Confederate government, George Trenholm, in desperation decided to deprive the winners of the legitimate booty - the treasury of the southerners. This mission was personally undertaken by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. He and his guard left Richmond with a huge cargo of gold, silver and jewels. Where they went, no one knows, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, there were no jewels with him, and 4 tons of Mexican gold dollars also disappeared without a trace. Davis never revealed the secret of the gold. Some believe that he distributed it to the planters of the South, so that they buried it until better times, others that it was buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that a secret society of the Knights of the Golden Circle laid a paw on him, secretly preparing revenge in the Civil War. Some even say that the treasure is hidden at the bottom of the lake. Dozens of treasure hunters are still looking for him, but none of them can get to the bottom of money or the truth.
Voynich Manuscript
The enigmatic book, known as the Voynich Manuscript, is named after Wilfred Voynich, an American second-hand bookseller of Polish origin, who bought it from an unknown person in 1912. In 1915, after taking a closer look at the find, he told the whole world about it - and since then, many have not known peace. According to scholars, the manuscript was written in XV-XVI centuries in central Europe. The book contains a lot of text written in small handwriting, hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown to modern science. The signs of the zodiac, medicinal herbs are also drawn here, accompanied by a text, apparently, of recipes for their use. However, the content of the text is only the speculation of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language that is still unknown on Earth, moreover, it is almost impossible to decipher. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even after centuries.
Karst wells in Yamal
In July 2014, an inexplicable explosion was heard in Yamal, as a result of which a huge well appeared in the ground, the width and height of which reached 40 meters! Yamal is not the most populated place on the planet, so no one was hurt from the explosion and the appearance of the failure. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon required an explanation, and a scientific expedition set off to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful for studying a strange phenomenon - from geographers to experienced mountain climbers. However, when they arrived, they failed to understand the causes and nature of what had happened. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared on Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have been able to express only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal sinkholes remain a mystery.
Antikythera mechanism
Discovered by treasure hunters on a sunken ancient Greek ship at the beginning of the 20th century, this device, which at first seemed like just another artifact, turned out to be nothing less than the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze discs, made with precision and accuracy unthinkable in those days, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, the time according to different calendars and the dates of the Olympic Games. According to the results of the analyzes, the device was made at the turn of the millennium - about a century before the birth of Christ, 1600 years before the discoveries of Galileo and 1700 before the birth of Isaac Newton. This device was more than a thousand years ahead of its time and still amazes scientists.
sea people
The Bronze Age, which lasted approximately from the 35th to the 10th century BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations at once - Greek, Cretan, Canaan. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments tools became more complex. It seemed that humanity was advancing by leaps and bounds towards prosperity. But everything collapsed within a few years. The civilized peoples of Europe and Asia were attacked by a horde of "people of the sea" - barbarians on countless ships. They burned and destroyed cities and villages, burned food, killed and took people into slavery. After their invasion, ruins remained everywhere. Civilization was thrown back at least a thousand years ago. In the once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, many secrets of construction and work with metals were lost. The most mysterious thing is that after the invasion, the "sea people" disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. Scientists are still guessing who and where this people came from and what was their fate. But there is no clear answer to this question yet.
Murder of the "Black Dahlia"
Books were written about this legendary murder and films were made, but it was not possible to unravel it. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Her naked body was subjected to cruel abuse: it was practically cut in half and bore traces of many mutilations. At the same time, the body was washed clean and completely devoid of blood. This story of one of the oldest unsolved murders was widely disseminated by journalists, giving Short the nickname "black dahlia". Despite an active search, the police could not find the killer. The Black Dahlia case is considered one of the oldest unsolved murders in Los Angeles.
Motor ship "Ourang Medan"
In early 1948, the Dutch ship Ourang Medan gave an SOS signal while in the Mallak Strait off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and ended with the chilling words: "And I'm dying." The captain of the ship "Silver Star", having heard a distress signal, went in search of "Ourang Medan". Having discovered the ship in the Strait of Malacca, the sailors from the Silver Star boarded and saw that it was indeed full of corpses, and the cause of death was not visible on the bodies. Soon, the rescuers noticed suspicious smoke coming from the hold and, just in case, preferred to return to their ship. And they did the right thing, because soon the Ourang Medan spontaneously exploded and sank. Of course, because of this, the possibility of investigation became zero. Why the crew died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.
Baghdad Battery
Until recently, it was believed that mankind mastered the production and use of electric current only at the end of the 18th century. However, an artifact found by archaeologists in the region of ancient Mesopotamia in 1936 casts doubt on this conclusion. The device consists of a clay pot containing the battery itself: an iron core wrapped in copper, which is believed to have been filled with some kind of acid, after which it began to generate electricity. For many years, archaeologists have been arguing about whether the devices were really related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they assembled the same primitive products - and managed to get an electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to arrange electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since there are no written sources of that era, this mystery will now probably haunt scientists forever.
Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective story. But in detective stories, as you know, all secrets are revealed by the last page. And in these stories, the solution is still far away, although humanity has been puzzling over some of them for decades. Perhaps we are not destined to find clues for them at all? Or will the veil of secrecy be lifted someday? And what do you think?
43 missing Mexican students
In 2014, 43 students from the teacher training college from Ayotzinapa went to a demonstration in Iguala, where the mayor's wife was supposed to speak to the residents. The corrupt mayor has instructed the police to rid him of this problem. On his orders, the police detained the students, and as a result of the harsh detention, two students and three bystanders were killed. The rest of the students, as it turned out, were handed over to the local criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin torn from his face. Later, the remains of two more students were found. Relatives and friends of the students organized mass demonstrations, provoking a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends, and the chief of police tried to escape, but were apprehended a few weeks later. The provincial governor resigned, and dozens of policemen and officials were arrested. And only one thing remained a mystery - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.
Oak Island money pit
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territory, there is a small island - Oak Island, or Oak Island. There is the famous "money pit". According to legend, local residents found it back in 1795. This is a very deep and complex mine, in which, according to legend, countless treasures are hidden. Many tried to get there - but the design is insidious, and after the treasure hunter digs to a certain depth, the mine begins to be flooded intensively with water. They say that the daredevils found at a depth of 40 meters a stone tablet with a scrawled inscription: "Two million pounds are buried 15 meters deeper." More than one generation tried to get the promised treasure out of the pit. Even the future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his student years at Harvard, with a group of friends came to Oak Island to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there?
Who was Benjamin Kyle?
In 2004, an unidentified man woke up outside Burger King in Georgia. He had no clothes on, he did not have any documents, but the worst thing is that he did not remember anything about himself. I mean, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but could not find traces: no missing people with such signs, no relatives who would identify him from a photo. Soon he was given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents and certificates of any education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a TV program, out of pity, gave him a job as a dishwasher. He works there now. The efforts of the doctors to awaken his memory, and the efforts of the police to find his former traces, did not yield results.
Shore of Severed Legs
Severed Leg Coast is the name given to a coast on the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia. He got this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 pieces have been found, most of them right. There are several theories as to why feet wash up on this beach - natural disasters, the work of a serial killer... some even claim that the mafia destroys the bodies of its victims on this remote beach. But none of these theories looks convincing, but no one knows where the truth is.
"Dancing Death" 1518
One day in the summer of 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began to dance in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she collapsed from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that gradually others joined her. A week later, 34 people were already dancing in the city, and a month later - 400. Many dancers died from overwork and heart attacks. The doctors did not know what to think, and the churchmen also could not exorcise the demons that inhabited the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one ever found out what caused it. They talked about some special kind of epilepsy, about poisoning, and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But scientists of that time did not find the exact answer.
Signal from aliens
On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was monitoring signals from space at the volunteer Extraterrestrial Research Center, picked up a signal on a random radio frequency that clearly came from deep space, from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This signal was much stronger than the cosmic noise that Eman was used to hearing on the air. It lasted only 72 seconds and consisted of a very specific, in the observer's opinion, completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was reproduced with accuracy several times in a row. Eman dutifully wrote down the sequence and reported it to his colleagues in the search for aliens. However, further listening to this frequency did not give anything, as well as any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. What it was - a prank of quite earthly jokers or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to get in touch with us - still no one knows.
Stranger from Somerton Beach
And here is another perfect murder, the mystery of which has not yet been solved. December 1, 1948 in Australia, on Somerton Beach in South Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was discovered. He had no documents with him, only in one of his pockets was found a note with two words: "Taman Shud". It was a line from Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat meaning "the end". The cause of death of the unknown could not be determined. The forensic investigator believed that it was poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed that it was about suicide, but this statement was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case excited not only Australia, but the whole world. Almost all countries of Europe and America tried to establish the identity of the unknown, but the efforts of the police turned out to be in vain, and the history of Taman Shud remained shrouded in a veil of secrecy.
Treasures of the Confederates
This legend still haunts American treasure hunters - and not only them. According to legend, when the Northerners were already close to victory in the Civil War, the Treasurer of the Confederate government, George Trenholm, in desperation decided to deprive the winners of their legitimate booty - the treasury of the Southerners. This mission was personally undertaken by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. He and his guard left Richmond with a huge cargo of gold, silver and jewels. Where they went, no one knows, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, there were no jewels with him, and 4 tons of Mexican gold dollars also disappeared without a trace. Davis never revealed the secret of the gold. Some believe that he distributed it to the planters of the South, so that they buried it until better times, others that it was buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that a secret society of the "Knights of the Golden Circle" laid a paw on him, secretly preparing revenge in the Civil War. Some even say that the treasure is hidden at the bottom of the lake. Dozens of treasure hunters are still looking for him, but none of them can get to the bottom of money or the truth.
Voynich Manuscript
The enigmatic book, known as the Voynich Manuscript, is named after Wilfred Voynich, an American second-hand bookseller of Polish origin, who bought it from an unknown person in 1912. In 1915, after taking a closer look at the find, he told the whole world about it - and since then, many have not known peace. According to scientists, the manuscript was written in the XV-XVI centuries in Central Europe. The book contains a lot of text written in small handwriting, hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown to modern science. The signs of the zodiac, medicinal herbs are also drawn here, accompanied by a text, apparently, of recipes for their use. However, the content of the text is only the speculation of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language that is still unknown on Earth, moreover, it is almost impossible to decipher. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even after centuries.
Karst wells in Yamal
In July 2014, an inexplicable explosion was heard in Yamal, as a result of which a huge well appeared in the ground, the width and height of which reached 40 meters! Yamal is not the most populated place on the planet, so no one was hurt from the explosion and the appearance of the failure. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon required an explanation, and a scientific expedition set off to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful for studying a strange phenomenon - from geographers to experienced mountain climbers. However, when they arrived, they failed to understand the causes and nature of what had happened. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared on Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have been able to express only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal sinkholes remain a mystery.
Antikythera mechanism
Discovered by treasure hunters on a sunken ancient Greek ship at the beginning of the 20th century, this device, which at first seemed like just another artifact, turned out to be nothing less than the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze discs, made with precision and accuracy unthinkable in those days, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, the time according to different calendars and the dates of the Olympic Games. According to the results of the analyzes, the device was made at the turn of the millennium - about a century before the birth of Christ, 1600 years before the discoveries of Galileo and 1700 before the birth of Isaac Newton. This device was more than a thousand years ahead of its time and still amazes scientists.
sea people
The Bronze Age, which lasted approximately from the 35th to the 10th century BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations at once - Greek, Cretan, Canaan. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments, and tools became more complex. It seemed that humanity was advancing by leaps and bounds towards prosperity. But everything collapsed within a few years. The civilized peoples of Europe and Asia were attacked by a horde of "people of the sea" - barbarians on countless ships. They burned and destroyed cities and villages, burned food, killed and took people into slavery. After their invasion, ruins remained everywhere. Civilization was thrown back at least a thousand years ago. In the once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, many secrets of construction and work with metals were lost. The most mysterious thing is that after the invasion, the "sea people" disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. Scientists are still guessing who and where this people came from and what was their fate. But there is no clear answer to this question yet.
Murder of the "Black Dahlia"
Books were written about this legendary murder and films were made, but it was not possible to unravel it. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Her naked body was subjected to cruel abuse: it was practically cut in half and bore traces of many mutilations. At the same time, the body was washed clean and completely devoid of blood. This story was widely disseminated by journalists, giving Short the nickname "black dahlia". Despite an active search, the police could not find the killer. The Black Dahlia case is considered one of the oldest unsolved murders in Los Angeles.
Motor ship "Ourang Medan"
In early 1948, the Dutch ship Ourang Medan gave an SOS signal while in the Mallak Strait off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and ended with the chilling words: "And I'm dying." The captain of the ship "Silver Star", having heard a distress signal, went in search of "Ourang Medan". Having found the ship in the Strait of Malacca, the sailors from the Silver Star boarded and saw that it was indeed full of corpses, and the cause of death was not visible on the bodies. Soon, the rescuers noticed suspicious smoke coming from the hold and, just in case, preferred to return to their ship. And they did the right thing, because soon the Ourang Medan spontaneously exploded and sank. Of course, because of this, the possibility of investigation became zero. Why the crew died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.
Baghdad Battery
Until recently, it was believed that mankind mastered the production and use of electric current only at the end of the 18th century. However, an artifact found by archaeologists in the region of ancient Mesopotamia in 1936 casts doubt on this conclusion. The device consists of a clay pot containing the battery itself: an iron core wrapped in copper, which is believed to have been filled with some kind of acid, after which it began to generate electricity. For many years, archaeologists have been arguing about whether the devices were really related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they assembled the same primitive products - and managed to get an electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to arrange electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since there are no written sources of that era, this mystery will now probably haunt scientists forever.
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Incredible Facts
These mysteries still raise questions from scientists and researchers.
1. Holes in the ground on Yamal in Siberia
In July 2015, a 100-meter crater appeared on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia. Despite the fact that a team of researchers was sent there in November 2015, the reason remained unknown. Since then, two more craters have opened in the Tazovsky district and on the Taimyr Peninsula.
There is an assumption that the formation of dips in the ground is associated with a gas explosion or an eruption from within the permafrost.
2. Walrus at St. Pancras
The walrus at St. Pancras was discovered by archaeologists in the old church of St. Pancras in 2003. This site was used for a mass grave due to a series of epidemics in the early 19th century.
One of the graves contained the remains of eight people, along with the bones of a Pacific walrus.
Scientists have not been able to find an explanation for how the remains of the walrus got there.
3. D. B. Cooper
In 1971, a man known only by the name D.B. Cooper boarded a Boeing 727-100 at International airport Portland. The flight, which took place on Thanksgiving Day, was bound for Seattle. During the flight, Cooper gave the flight attendant a note saying he had a bomb, demanding $200,000 and four parachutes.
The flight was delayed by two hours to give the FBI time to collect the ransom and parachutes.
The plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma Airport, and once all of Cooper's demands were met, the passengers were released except for one flight attendant. Cooper ordered the pilots to take off again and head for Mexico City. On the way, he jumped out and disappeared.
4. Invasion of the Air by Max Headroom
During the airing of an episode of the television series "Doctor Who", the signal of the television station was interrupted and a man in the mask of Max Headroom appeared on the screen, who made inarticulate sounds.
The reason for this and the identity of the masked man remains unknown, although there are several theories.
The shutdown lasted just over 90 seconds and occurred on November 22, 1987, which some attribute to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on the same day in 1963.
Earlier that day in 1987, the same person silently interrupted a news program on another television channel.
5 Meat Rain in Kentucky
In the spring of 1876, in Bath County, Kentucky, pieces of meat fell from the sky within minutes, as reported in several major media outlets. According to some eyewitnesses of the event, the meat tasted like lamb.
There is speculation that the phenomenon is related to nostoc, a type of cyanobacteria present in the ground that swell into a jelly mass when it rains.
6. The Man in the Iron Mask
You may have heard about this story in the book and movies, but the historical truth about this man may seem even stranger.
For more than three centuries, people are still trying to figure out the identity of a man who was mysteriously imprisoned and forced to wear a mask to hide his identity.
7 Hinterkaifeck Farm Incident
This incident has all the hallmarks of a horror movie: a strange house in the village, complaints about ghosts, footsteps in the attic and, finally, the brutal murder of an entire family by an unknown person.
This crime remains one of the most mysterious in the history of Germany.
8. Real night hunter
The unidentified serial killer, also known as the "golden state hitman" and "rapist from the east," committed a string of crimes in Sacramento County over the course of a decade, including robbing more than 120 homes, raping 45 people, and killing 12.
It is known that he called the victims in advance, and sometimes after, mocking them.
It is believed that the perpetrator of these crimes is still alive, and the FBI recently launched a campaign in the hope of finding a man who managed to avoid justice for so long.
9. Hum
We really appreciate the silence when it disappears, especially when it comes to some incomprehensible sounds.
A hum is a constant low frequency noise heard by people in different parts of the world from the UK to New Zealand. However, the source of the sound cannot be explained.
10. Ship "Mary Celeste"
The Mary Celeste is one of the most famous examples of ghost ships, a ship with a crew that disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
The ship was found abandoned off the coast of Portugal, leading to much speculation as to what happened to her crew.
11. Signal "Wow!" 1977
Signal "Wow!" is a radio signal that got its name from astronomer Jerry Eyman, who discovered it by writing "Wow!" on its printout.
The unexplained radio signal is believed to indicate the existence of extraterrestrial beings. Despite many attempts, the signal was never received again.
12. Tarrare
Tarrare was an 18th-century Frenchman famous for his strange eating habits and voracious appetite.
During the performances, he ate stones, live animals and a whole basket of apples, but he never satisfied his appetite. Despite his gluttony, he was of average weight.
13. Silent twins
Twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were born in Wales in the 60s and did not communicate with other people, talking only to each other and sometimes in a way that was not clear to everyone else.
The story got even weirder when the twins grew up and ended up in a psychiatric hospital. They had an agreement that if one of them died, the other should start talking to the rest of the people. Jennifer soon died suddenly from acute myocarditis, but doctors could not detect any signs of poison or drugs in her system, and her death remains a mystery.
After her death, June, as agreed, began to communicate with others.
14. Tunguska meteorite
On June 30, 1908, there was a major explosion in the Podkamennaya Tunguska area. The nearest city was 60 km away, but still felt the effects. The explosion produced 85 times more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and leveled about 80 million trees.
Although the destruction is believed to have been the result of a meteorite impact, no impact crater has been found, leading to many hypotheses.
15. Cicada 3301
Every year since 2012, a secret organization puzzles the Internet by anonymously publishing complex puzzles online. Whether this is some kind of tactic of the secret services or hackers, or the tricks of some kind of cult, is still not known.
16. Green Children of Woolpit
This event took place in 12th century England when two green-skinned children visited the village of Woolpit. They spoke in a strange language and claimed to have come from underworld where other green people live.
17. Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is a manuscript written in an unknown language with an unknown alphabet, containing diagrams and drawings, dating from around the 15th century. Researchers have been trying to decipher the strange book for centuries, but they have never been able to do it.
18. Case of Taman Shud
The Taman Shud case involves the discovery of a dead man on the coast of Australia. He did not have a passport and could not be identified. An autopsy showed that he had been poisoned, but there were no traces of poison.
The case became even more confusing when, 4 months after death, an expert examined the body of a man. In his pocket he found a small piece of paper with the inscription "Taman Shud".
These were the last words in the collection of poems "Rubaiyat" by Omar Khayyam, which translates as "completed". A piece of paper was torn from a book that was in a car near the beach. The book had phone numbers nurses and a coded message that the police could not decipher.
The nurse said she had given the book to a man named Albert Boxall. Some time later, however, Boxall reappeared alive and had the same book with the last words.
19. Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
One of unsolved mysteries remains Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014. On board international flight from Malaysia to Beijing there were 277 passengers and 12 crew members. The last contact with ground services was made less than an hour after takeoff, and the plane itself disappeared from the radar screens a few minutes later.
Military radar followed the plane for an hour after the incident, watching it veer off course until it disappeared into the Andaman Sea.
No distress signals were received, warnings of bad weather conditions, or reports of technical problems. The plane is believed to have crashed into Indian Ocean but the wreckage was never found. Disappearance theories range from black holes to alien abductions.
20. Serial killer Zodiac
The Zodiac is one of the most famous unsolved murders in history. In 1969, he killed at least five people in San Francisco.
Zodiac himself sent coded letters to newspapers and confessed to several murders, but he was never found. Several suspects have been interviewed, but the crime remains unsolved.