Top 20 Mysteries You've Never Heard.!
## Creepy Unsolved Mysteries That Will Knock Your Socks Off
These shocking mysteries are guaranteed to knock your socks off. For this list, we’ll be looking at the craziest and most obscure unsolved mysteries. Our countdown includes:
1. **Havana Syndrome**: Mysterious health incidents affecting diplomats and intelligence officers in Havana, Cuba, with symptoms including headaches, dizziness, and cognitive issues.
2. **The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst**: British diplomat who vanished without a trace in Germany in 1809 under bizarre circumstances.
3. **The Aurora Incident**: Alleged crash of an unidentified flying object (UFO) in Aurora, Texas, in 1897, with claims of an alien body recovered.
4. **Bimini Road**: Underwater rock formation near Bimini Island, Bahamas, speculated by some to be a man-made structure dating back thousands of years.
5. **The Voynich Manuscript**: A mysterious manuscript from the 15th century written in an unknown script and language, baffling cryptographers and historians for centuries.
Think you know of some crazier mysteries that we’ve never heard of? Let us know in the comments below!
These shocking mysteries are guaranteed to knock your socks off. For this list, we’ll be looking at the craziest and most obscure unsolved mysteries. Our countdown includes:
1. **Havana Syndrome**: Mysterious health incidents affecting diplomats and intelligence officers in Havana, Cuba, with symptoms including headaches, dizziness, and cognitive issues.
2. **The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst**: British diplomat who vanished without a trace in Germany in 1809 under bizarre circumstances.
3. **The Aurora Incident**: Alleged crash of an unidentified flying object (UFO) in Aurora, Texas, in 1897, with claims of an alien body recovered.
4. **Bimini Road**: Underwater rock formation near Bimini Island, Bahamas, speculated by some to be a man-made structure dating back thousands of years.
5. **The Voynich Manuscript**: A mysterious manuscript from the 15th century written in an unknown script and language, baffling cryptographers and historians for centuries.
Think you know of some crazier mysteries that we’ve never heard of? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00They took the alien's body and they buried him at the cemetery and gave him a Christian burial.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 mysteries you've never heard of.
00:11The tracks even extend to rooftops, and a garden secluded behind walls 14 feet high.
00:17And all the indications are that it goes back to the end of the last ice age, and is probably around 11,000 to 12,000 years old.
00:26Two jockeys were walking their horses along the beach, and they saw what looked to be a body of a man.
00:31For this list, we're looking at the craziest and most obscure unsolved mysteries.
00:36Think you know some crazier mysteries that we've never heard of? Let us know in the comments below.
00:48What do all of these locations have in common?
00:51In all of these cities and many more, embedded in seemingly random streets, are linoleum tiles containing cryptic messages about death.
00:59New York, D.C., Boston, the person who made them was a complete mystery.
01:05The phrase, Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter is present on many of the tiles, as well as references to Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey.
01:14A couple of different theories have been put forth as to the identity of the tiler, including a 2011 documentary.
01:20But no proof or admission from the tiler has confirmed any of them.
01:24If it were one person, why go through the trouble of traveling around the world?
01:42What's in a name?
01:43Well, judging by the spooky phenomena that occurs in the Devil's Promenade west of Hornet, Missouri, sometimes a lot.
01:50Also known as the Hollis Light, the spook light is a ball or group of lights that's been sighted numerous times around the border between Missouri and Oklahoma.
01:59People have proposed explanations that range from headlights on Route 66, to atmospheric gases, to the spirits of two Quapaw lovers who ran away together.
02:13Oh yeah, and aliens, obviously.
02:16Over the years, a few investigators have laid out evidence for the headlight's explanation.
02:21But there are still true believers who think there must be something more to the tale.
02:29Any cars coming all the way down this long hill to this point could be the ambience of the spook light.
02:41Don't bring your dogs near this next mystery.
02:44The Overtoun Bridge in Scotland is a seemingly normal bridge like any other,
02:48except for the staggering amount of dogs that have jumped to their deaths from the structure.
02:53They just looked up and leapt right over the bridge.
02:56Local tabloids have estimated that around 600 dogs have leaped off this bridge, seemingly for no reason.
03:02I started shouting to David, Sophie's jumped off the bridge, she's jumped off the bridge.
03:08It just happened so fast, seconds.
03:12Residents tell of their dogs pausing on the bridge as if possessed before unexpectedly jumping.
03:17Some dogs have reportedly jumped twice.
03:19Paranormal theories abound, including spirits and ghosts,
03:23while the most scientific explanation is that the dogs are smelling wildlife below.
03:27They've no concept of what's on the other side. They can't see the drop.
03:31But if that's the case, why this bridge in particular?
03:38One winter morning in 1855, residents of Devon, England woke to find an eerie phenomenon.
03:44Hoof prints, some four inches long, were found across 40 to 100 miles of snow,
03:49as well as on roofs, walls, and even in drain pipes.
03:53Residents might have been able to write the markings off as belonging to a donkey or another animal,
03:57except they appeared in a variety of unreachable places.
04:00Even stranger, they were all in a single line instead of alternating left and right.
04:05No animal walks in such a unique way.
04:08To this day, no satisfactory theory exists, but residents think it was Satan himself.
04:1416. The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst
04:18Try rationalizing this one.
04:20Benjamin Bathurst was a British diplomat in the 19th century.
04:23He was traveling through Germany in November 1809 with his aide Herr Krause
04:27when something strange happened.
04:29They were walking to the carriage together, but when Krause got in,
04:32he suddenly couldn't find Bathurst.
04:34Investigations uncovered his valuable fur coat in an outhouse
04:38and pantaloons miles away in the woods.
04:40His wife spent a fortune trying to find him, but to no avail.
04:45It's thought he was murdered and a possible skeleton was found many years later.
04:49Bathurst was known to carry pistols.
04:51How could no one have seen or heard him being taken?
04:5515. The Phantom Barber
04:57There was more to worry about than World War II
04:59in the small town of Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1942.
05:03A mysterious person dressed in white began sneaking into homes
05:06and cutting off locks of people's hair in the middle of the night.
05:09This phantom seemed to prefer blonde hair and he was rarely seen in the act.
05:14Though his intrusions were usually non-violent,
05:17police think he used chloroform to knock out a victim
05:20and on one occasion, he beat a couple unconscious with an iron bar.
05:24A suspect was later arrested and then released.
05:27No definitive identity has ever been given for this ghastly figure.
05:3214. The Pollock Twins
05:34Sisters Joanna and Jacqueline Pollock were 11 and 6 years old respectively
05:38when they were killed in a car accident.
05:40The devastated parents decided to have another child and gave birth to twins,
05:44Jillian and Jennifer.
05:46These twins shared so many similarities with the deceased sisters,
05:49including birthmarks, behaviors and preferences,
05:52as well as memories from before the accident,
05:54that they seem to be perfect reincarnations.
05:57Many simply dismiss the case as a hoax,
05:59but both parents were convinced that these twins were their original daughters.
06:04The case is often touted as evidence of true resurrection.
06:0813. Sleeping Sickness
06:11This is a scary one.
06:12A sickness began sweeping through the world shortly after World War I
06:16and it would become so widespread it became an epidemic.
06:19It was called lethargic encephalitis
06:22and it put people in a sort of coma where they were conscious
06:25but unable to speak or move, like living statues.
06:29Close to a million people died
06:31and millions more were helplessly trapped in their bodies.
06:35No scientist to this day can explain what this sickness was or how it spread
06:39and it is one of the biggest medical mysteries in history.
06:4312. The Aurora Incident
06:45We've all heard of Roswell,
06:47but have you heard of the alien shipwreck in Aurora, Texas?
06:50In 1897, an airship that looked like a cigar
06:54allegedly collided with a windmill and exploded.
06:57People reported seeing a non-human pilot
06:59and papers with an unrecognizable language that resembled hieroglyphics.
07:03The pilot was supposedly buried, but the grave marker disappeared.
07:07The cemetery declined a request from the Mutual UFO Network to exhume the site.
07:11The dear lord is powerful enough
07:14that if he wanted to create another universe and other people, he could have done it.
07:18Conspiracy theorists believe the wreckage was confiscated by the military.
07:22So all that's left are accounts and memories.
07:25Was this a misconstrued event or a real alien shipwreck?
07:29He's coming!
07:3411. The Big Grey Man
07:36The Big Grey Man, known as Amfer Leamur in Scottish Gaelic, is not actually a man.
07:42It's said to be a creature or spirit living in the isolated Cairngorms Mountains in Scotland.
07:47Various accounts of the creature tell of a tall specter shrouded in mist
07:50that inflicts terrible fear and panic in the victims.
07:54Nearly all accounts report footsteps following them in the gravel
07:57before they encounter the entity.
08:04Another explanation that's been proposed is that it's a brocken specter,
08:08where the user's shadow is enlarged on a cloud bank.
08:11We sure hope so.
08:1610. The Flannan Isles Lighthouse
08:19In December of 1900, three lighthouse keepers mysteriously vanished without a trace
08:24on the uninhabited island of Eilean Mor.
08:26When people went to check on them, they found a spare oilskin and unmade beds,
08:31suggesting something suddenly aroused them from their sleep.
08:34The mechanical clocks had not been wound for some time either.
08:37No evidence of foul play was found, and the bodies were never seen again.
08:41The leading theory is that waves pulled them into the Atlantic Ocean,
08:45but it's forbidden to leave the lighthouse unmanned.
08:47So why did they all venture outside?
08:50And why did one leave his oilskin suit?
08:53It may forever be a mystery.
08:559. The Dancing Plague of 1518
08:59In 1518 in the Holy Roman Empire,
09:01the city of Strasbourg was reportedly struck with one of the strangest plagues in history,
09:06an inability to stop dancing.
09:08What started with one woman busting some moves
09:11somehow turned into mass hysteria that lasted for days.
09:14Residents found themselves unable to stop,
09:17and some sources report that many danced themselves to death.
09:20To this day, no one knows what really happened.
09:23Some believe the residents had ingested ergot, a hallucinogenic fungi,
09:27while others point to stress-induced hysteria.
09:30Oddly enough, this plague also reportedly occurred in Switzerland,
09:34Holland, and Germany, though not to the same extent.
09:388. Taman Shud
09:40This is the sort of puzzle that keeps you up at night.
09:42In 1948, an unidentified dead body washed ashore in South Australia.
09:47What ensued was a wild scavenger hunt with dead ends everywhere.
09:52In the man's pocket was a torn piece of paper that read Taman Shud,
09:55which is Persian for finished.
09:57The paper led them to the book it was torn from, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
10:01along with a phone number and cryptic message that has yet to be decoded.
10:05It was 1948-49, so they were convinced perhaps he was a communist spy or a Russian spy.
10:11But no one ever came forward to claim this man.
10:13The number was of a local nurse, who denied knowing the dead man.
10:17Investigators discovered a discarded suitcase that they believe belonged to the body,
10:21but it had a fake name.
10:23One of Australia's biggest mysteries is still an open case.
10:27And even though that picture that we saw was widely distributed around the world,
10:30his fingerprints were sent to Scotland Yard, the FBI, nobody knew who this guy was.
10:367. Bimini Road
10:38This strange rock formation is located in the Bahamas.
10:41The underwater path stretches for exactly half a mile before ending abruptly.
10:46The limestone blocks seem to have been precisely cut and stacked,
10:49leading some to claim that it must have been human-made.
10:52And all the indications are that it goes back to the end of the last ice age,
10:57and is probably around 11,000 to 12,000 years old.
11:01What makes this even stranger is that some 30 years before divers discovered it,
11:05modern prophet Edgar Cayce said that the road leading to the lost city of Atlantis was near Bimini.
11:11Geologists argue that this is a naturally occurring formation,
11:14but there are still believers who argue that it must have been built by an ancient civilization.
11:196. The Disappearance of the USS Cyclops
11:22It's one thing when a small dinghy vanishes,
11:24but how does the largest ship in the Navy suddenly disappear?
11:28That's what happened in 1918 when the USS Cyclops was making a trip to Baltimore.
11:33The last message sent from the ship is simple,
11:35quote,
11:36Weather fair, all well.
11:38Normally, when ships disappear, some remnant or flotsam of the vessel washes ashore,
11:43but nothing whatsoever has been found of the Cyclops.
11:46Even more eerily, it vanished within the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
11:51No enemy ships were ever reported in the region.
11:54The Navy has called it one of the most confusing mysteries in its history.
11:585. The Ghost Blimp
12:00Picture it, 1942 off the coast of California.
12:04Two U.S. Navy pilots command the Navy's L-8 Blimp
12:07in search of Japanese submarines in waters not so far from San Francisco.
12:21They radio flight control about an oil slick on the water,
12:29and are never heard from again.
12:31A few hours later, that very same L-8 Blimp crashes into a cliff,
12:35with no one on board.
12:37Everything in or about the craft was working normally,
12:40the throttles were idle, and more eerily,
12:43the parachutes and lifeboat were still on board.
12:45To this day, no one knows what happened,
12:48and the personnel involved were never found.
12:514. The Bay of Jars
12:53Brazil's Guanabara Bay contains a lot of trash,
12:56but the trash that people cannot explain
12:58is the 200 or so Roman ceramic jars found submerged in an underwater field,
13:03an underwater field the size of three tennis courts.
13:06According to experts, these jars trace back to the 3rd century.
13:10However, European explorers didn't even reach Brazil until 1500,
13:14and the Romans themselves had little to no incentive to travel that far out.
13:18Thus, it's a complete mystery why their artifacts would be found there.
13:22Meanwhile, Brazil closed off the area in 1983,
13:25so it's unlikely an answer will ever be found.
13:283. The Voynich Manuscript
13:30If you haven't heard of this one, strap in.
13:33The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious 250-page book
13:37written in a completely unknown language,
13:39and containing odd, otherworldly sketches.
13:48Or that an alien wrote it while being held captive in a monastery.
13:53Or that Leonardo da Vinci wrote it as a child.
13:56Its origin is unable to be fully traced,
13:58so no one knows who created it, let alone why,
14:01but carbon dating puts it in the early 15th century.
14:04Cryptologists say the writing has all the characteristics of a real language,
14:08just one that no one's ever seen before.
14:10What makes it seem real is that in actual languages,
14:14letters and groups of letters appear with consistent frequencies,
14:17and the language in the Voynich Manuscript
14:19has patterns you wouldn't find from a random letter generator.
14:23So far, no one has been able to decode the script it's written in,
14:26despite being worked on by professional codebreakers
14:29from both World War I and World War II.
14:32What strange message lies inside this uncrackable book?
14:35The truth is, after decades of dedicated study to try and solve the mystery,
14:40this strange book seems likely to remain
14:43one of our most enduring historical codes to crack.
14:472. The Max Headroom Hijack
14:49In 1987, two television stations in Chicago were hijacked
14:53in perhaps the most surreal act of video piracy ever recorded.
15:07Both instances featured an unidentified man
15:10dressed as obscure TV personality Max Headroom
15:13dancing to distorted audio.
15:15The second video, significantly longer,
15:17saw the man rambling incoherently in a distorted voice
15:20and being swatted on the behind by an off-screen accomplice.
15:39The segments lasted no more than a couple of minutes,
15:41but have gone down as among the most notorious incidents in television history.
15:45No one has ever identified who pulled it off or even why.
15:49We can only hope someone comes forward after all this time to put an end to this mystery.
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16:201. The Green Children of Woolpit
16:22According to legend, in the 12th century,
16:25two children were found in the village of Woolpit, England.
16:28Their skin was green, they spoke gibberish, and they only ate broad beans.
16:33Eventually, they learned to eat normal food and speak English,
16:36and they claimed they were from a different world where there was no sun.
16:39The boy soon died of a mysterious illness, but the girl lived on.
16:44A few accounts from around the same time reference the tale.
16:47One leading theory proposes that the children were lost and malnourished
16:50Flemish immigrants from another town in Suffolk.
16:53Others claim they were extraterrestrials, or from inside the Earth itself.
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