Prepare for a spine-tingling journey through the most chilling unsolved events of 2024. From mysterious deaths to unexplained phenomena, we'll explore the creepiest occurrences that left the world baffled. Uncover the truth behind strange monoliths, suspicious accidents, and even potential extraterrestrial encounters.
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00:00I believe we're in the midst of a multi-decade secretive arms race,
00:04one funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies.
00:11Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the most spine-chilling unsolved events to occur in 2024.
00:18And all of a sudden we just heard this big boom,
00:20and not too long after we started hearing police sirens and firetruck sirens kind of blazing through.
00:27The North Volt Saga.
00:28Some of the key features that have brought us here is obviously a very, very strong mission.
00:33A willingness among everybody in the company to make an impact.
00:38You know, be part of this transformation through delivering energy storage and batteries.
00:45The other piece is that sense of urgency.
00:48With climate change becoming an increasingly pressing concern worldwide,
00:52you couldn't blame Sweden for its optimism regarding North Volt.
00:55Founded in 2015 and commissioning its first manufacturing plant in 2021,
01:00the Swedish lithium-ion battery developer was hailed as a sign that, quote,
01:04Sweden was on its way to becoming a battery superpower,
01:07said Jönköping International Business School associate professor Christian Sandström.
01:11The region's main challenge will be skill supply,
01:15to see that we have enough people with the right skills that can take on the jobs
01:21that are created in the factory or in North Volt, but also in the surrounding society.
01:29Tragically, the company was forced to file for bankruptcy
01:32following a series of mysterious deaths that plagued its Skellefteå plant.
01:35Over the first half of 2024, three North Volt employees were inexplicably found dead at home.
01:41Swedish police have opened an investigation into the men's deaths,
01:44with some attributing them to lackluster workplace safety measures.
01:48Coming to Skellefteå always and looking at the site always make me very humble.
01:53You know, the sheer size of the factory, but also the fact that it's a hugely complex manufacturing process.
02:00I always think to myself, how do we really start this thing?
02:05Another creepy monolith.
02:07What a strange sight in Las Vegas.
02:09What is that?
02:10It doesn't have anything to do with the Vegas Raiders, but it doesn't.
02:13It's a mysterious and reflective monolith spotted in a hiking trail over the weekend.
02:18So what's the story?
02:19Well, there's been a bunch of these.
02:20So the police actually, Vegas police posted those pictures.
02:23A volunteer search team went out to it in a remote area.
02:26Aliens? A cheeky art project? Something in between?
02:29That's what visitors to a giant unexplained 2001-esque monolith in Utah wondered in November 2020.
02:36Shortly thereafter, monoliths began popping up globally.
02:39Romania, Spain, Wales, and more.
02:42The monolith marauder struck again in June 2024,
02:45when a shiny new monolith was discovered near Gas Peak in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge that sits north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
02:52These were popping up during COVID, if you remember, all over the world, actually.
02:57One was found on Fremont Street there, that one there.
03:00It's very cool.
03:01Which you would think there'd be cameras all over.
03:03We would see this if it were some sort of art installation, somebody would have been caught.
03:07The six-foot-tall monolith, which was found to be made out of folded sheet metal, was dismantled by local police four days later.
03:14Despite the discoveries of nearly 250 monoliths worldwide as of the end of 2024,
03:20authorities and truth-seekers alike are still no closer to uncovering the mystery of who's behind the installations.
03:26A guy named Craig Muir found the same exact thing in Wales, literally in the middle of nowhere.
03:31How interesting.
03:32Muir is a stonemason by trade, and he said when he examined it, it was surgical steel.
03:36Like the best craftsmanship you could imagine.
03:40So for those conspiracy theorists who think maybe this is aliens, they're very handy.
03:45Stonehenge.
03:46The death of Vladimir Shklarov.
03:48Hello, my name is Vladimir Shklarov.
03:51I was born in Leningrad. Now it's St. Petersburg.
03:55It's a very famous and beautiful city. I like it very much.
03:59Prior to his untimely end on November 16th, 2024,
04:03Shklarov was acclaimed in his native Russia as part of the famed Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg.
04:08This was in addition to having appeared in multiple productions with different companies across Europe in countries like Germany and the United Kingdom.
04:15I studied at the Russian Ballet Academy, and now I am principal dancer in Mariinsky Theater.
04:24Tragically, the beloved ballet dancer died after falling from the balcony of his 5th floor St. Petersburg apartment, aged only 39.
04:31While a Russian federal investigation ruled Shklarov's death accidental,
04:35critics of the Kremlin have suggested that it was retaliation for Shklarov's alleged anti-war stance.
04:40A 2022 Facebook post contained the following quote attributed to Shklarov.
04:45I am against the war in Ukraine. I am for the people, for a peaceful sky above our heads.
04:50My favorite ballet is Swan Lake, and every time when I come on a stage, I try to show my best.
04:57My favorite sport is soccer, and best of all, I like Japanese sushi.
05:07Hong Kong's oldest zoo loses over 10 monkeys.
05:11October 2024 found spookier and sadder stuff going on than just Halloween.
05:16In just 48 hours, the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens was forced to partially close,
05:22as well as call for the help of experts in the field.
05:25As noted by the Associated Press, quote,
05:27The deceased animals are the de Braz's monkey, a common squirrel monkey,
05:31four white-faced sakhis, and three cotton-top tamarins,
05:34the last of which has been named critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
05:40The zoo concluded that the first 11 monkeys died from coming in contact with contaminated soil,
05:45but could not at the time determine the cause of death for the remaining monkey, who died over that weekend.
05:50How the soil became contaminated in the first place remains unclear.
05:54The Fort Worth Hotel Explosion
05:56We're going to turn now to the breaking news from Texas at this hour,
05:59this explosion at a hotel in downtown Fort Worth.
06:02The windows blown out, debris spread across the streets.
06:05Reports of at least 11 people injured there, and they are searching at this hour,
06:09going from room to room inside that hotel.
06:12Authorities warning people to stay away from the area.
06:14Thankfully, no one lost their lives in this suspected gas explosion
06:18that injured 21 people in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.
06:21On an otherwise ordinary afternoon in January 2024,
06:25the Sandman Hotel at 810 Houston Street had a hole blown all the way through into the street outside.
06:30And all of a sudden we just heard this big boom,
06:32and not too long after we started hearing police sirens and firetruck sirens kind of blazing through.
06:38Two hotel employees were hospitalized, instigating an OSHA investigation.
06:43However, the investigation never took place as planned.
06:46As noted in OSHA's case documentation, the officer assigned to the case,
06:50quote, did not provide any notes, narrative, interviews, photos, or any information for this investigation.
06:56It appears that the case was simply dropped, which begs the question,
07:00what's going on at the Sandman Hotel?
07:02We were getting reports that it would have started in the restaurant.
07:05We do know that there was some construction that was being done down at the restaurant,
07:09but we're not 100% sure that that's where it actually started at this point in time.
07:13The Pentagon UAP reports.
07:15Let me be clear.
07:16UAP are real.
07:18Advanced technologies not made by our government or any other government
07:22are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe.
07:25Furthermore, the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries.
07:30On November 13th, a hearing convened by the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
07:35heard the testimonies of four men who warned of UAPs, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
07:41Timothy Gallaudet, Luis Elizondo, Michael Gold, and Michael Schellenberger
07:45all attested that the U.S. government is perpetuating a wide-scale cover-up of information
07:50and sought greater transparency and disclosure from politicians on both sides of the aisle.
07:54During this exercise, I received an email on Navy Secure Network
07:58from the operations officer of U.S. Fleet Forces Command.
08:01The email was addressed to all the subordinate commanders,
08:04and the subject line read in all capital letters,
08:07URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE.
08:09The text of the email was brief but alarming, with words to the effect,
08:13If any of you know what these are, tell me ASAP.
08:16The kicker? If what the men testified to seeing is accurate,
08:19then we could be looking at groundbreaking evidence of extraterrestrial life.
08:23One has to wonder, then, how incoming President Donald Trump will tackle the subject upon his 2025 inauguration.
08:30And since my reporting on this immaculate constellation last month,
08:33another source came forward who told me that they saw a roughly 13-minute long,
08:37high-definition, full-color video of a white orb UAP coming out of the ocean
08:42approximately 20 miles off the coast of Kuwait.
08:44The Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump assassination attempt.
08:47That's a little bit old, that chart. That chart's a couple of months old.
08:51Speaking of President-elect Trump, this near-miss by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks
08:56almost ended his 2024 presidential campaign and his life early.
09:01Crooks, a resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania,
09:04drove an hour to nearby Butler in an attempt to end the 45th president's life.
09:08While he was obviously unsuccessful, losing his own life in the process,
09:12the creepiest part is that Crooks' motive remains unclear.
09:16Based on the way he dressed, I mean, you know how kids are nowadays.
09:19If you don't fit in with the clique, they're going to come after you.
09:22And that's kind of like how he was. He would sit by himself, play games on his computer.
09:27Records of Crooks' political beliefs are scant and hard to find,
09:30and even the evidence that does exist is contradictory.
09:33However, experts in criminal behavior have very tentatively suggested
09:37that his actions were a way to carry out his goal of killing only Trump
09:41and that Crooks was not planning a mass shooting.
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10:14Chances are, if you're watching this video,
10:16you probably have some idea of the disgraced financier's crimes.
10:19For the uninitiated, Epstein was arrested for a second time in July 2019
10:24on truly heinous trafficking charges.
10:26Just a month later, Epstein was found dead in his cell,
10:29raising ongoing alarm bells and skepticism as to the circumstances.
10:33Much has been made of the late Epstein's relationship with future U.S. President Donald Trump.
10:57Although the president-elect has repeatedly disavowed Epstein,
11:00an October 2024 revelation by ex-model Stacey Williams
11:04has many questioning Trump's statements on the matter.
11:07Specifically, Williams claimed that in addition to being assaulted by Trump in Epstein's presence,
11:12the two were inseparable.
11:14As reported by ABC News,
11:16Flight logs released as evidence showed that Trump was listed as a passenger on Epstein's private jets
11:21at least seven times in the 1990s.
11:23Which mystery creeped you out the most in 2024?
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