Despite all the achievements of science, there are still many blind spots in it. Look at this list of mysterious phenomena and facts that scientists are unable to explain.
Voynich manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is an ancient book that continues to resist all attempts to decipher it. These are not just some self-invented gibberish of a schizophrenic, like, “But try to figure out what I wrote here.” No, this is a clearly structured book with obvious sequences, patterns, and detailed illustrations.
It looks like it's a real language, although no one has ever seen it before. And it really seems to make sense. Which no one can understand.
Image: Translation: “...and when you put the tennis racket in her mouth, put it in the fountain. Then draw a picture from it.”
There is not even a consensus on who wrote it, or even where the manuscript was written. Needless to say, no one knows why it was written.
Try it yourself.
No, don't try. Military codebreakers, cryptographers, mathematicians, linguists, they were all left with their noses, and could not decipher a single word.
As you can probably guess, a great variety of different options were offered - from quite reasonable to the most idiotic. Some say that this code cannot be deciphered, because decryption requires a key. Some say it's just a joke. Some say that this is glossolalia - the art of speaking or writing, something that you yourself do not understand, which is transmitted to you by God, space aliens, Cthulhu or Murzilka...
Our guess: The manuscript is written in English. It’s true that this figure knew him so poorly that it’s impossible to make out anything at all in this scribbling.
Antikythera Mechanism
Riddle: The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient and complex mechanism found in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece, dating back to approximately 100 BC. It contains gears and elements that were not found for another thousand years - until the Muslims and Chinese began to invent all sorts of useful things, while the Europeans were happily crushing each other and everyone in a row.
Why can't they solve the riddle?
Firstly, there is no consensus on who created this mechanism and why. It is widely believed that it was made by the Greeks, but serious research published in serious publications suggests that the mechanism originated in Sicily.
In addition to the fact that the mechanism was quite capable of chopping off the curious finger of some particularly meticulous onlooker, it was also (sort of) intended for astronomical calculations. The problem is that at the time when this thing was invented, no one had yet discovered the laws of gravity and the movement of celestial bodies.
In other words, the Antikythera mechanism was intended for something that at the time of its invention no one had ever heard of, and none of the purposes at that time (for example, ship navigation) fit with the incredible number of functions and settings of this device.
Our guesses:
This is a part from a time machine that fell off when it arrived in the past.
Baigong pipes
In China, where no one has ever lived, let alone had any industry, on the top of a mountain there are three mysterious triangular holes containing hundreds of rusty pipes of unknown origin. Some of them go deep into the mountain. Some go into the nearby salt lake. There are more pipes in the lake, and more run along the shore of the lake from east to west. Some of them are large - about 40 centimeters in diameter, uniform in size and placed in such a way that they create a purposeful pattern.
So what's the problem? Archaeologists date the pipes to the time when people were just learning the basics of culinary art, becoming acquainted with fire, and starting to eat food cooked on fire, let alone cast iron.
Why can't they solve the riddle?
Oddly enough, the pipes are not clogged with garbage, although they themselves are older than Zeus. This suggests that they were not just taken into the ground for some hellish communal needs, but that they were actually used for something. Yes, did we say that the mountain is completely unsuitable for human life?
As usual in such cases, a party of stubborn dreamers believes that this is an ancient astronomical laboratory (where would we be without it), or even a take-off site abandoned by space aliens. This may be true because the pipes contain a fraction of silicon dioxide similar to that found on Mars. Although the hatch roof also contains silicon dioxide, it’s still not worth giving the plumbers’ laurels to aliens.
Our guesses:
Once upon a time, a bunch of frustrated fishermen with a lot of time on their hands spent their entire lives building a water and sewer system to drain a nearby lake. And then come to the lake and catch the fish of your dreams with your bare hands.
Giant stone balls of Costa Rica
Riddle: Giant stone balls are scattered throughout Costa Rica and several surrounding areas. They are smooth and perfectly spherical, or almost. Some are quite small, only a few centimeters in diameter, but others measure up to eight feet and weigh several tons.
Someone unknown carved them out of stone, despite the fact that Costa Rica does not plan to enter the Bronze Age until 2013. There are many stones, and their purpose remains unknown.
Some of the balloons were blown up by local residents in the hope of finding gold or some other freebie. Some roll freely on the ground, while others are so heavy that even a bulldozer could not move them. However, this cannot be proven, because there are no bulldozers in Costa Rica.
Why can't they solve the riddle?
The curious thing is that there are no mining workings anywhere near the balls. Some more useless information: the stones are carved from volcanic rock.
Our guesses:
In a thousand years, the eggs of the stone monsters will mature, they will hatch, devour all people and begin to rule the world.
Baghdad batteries
The Baghdad Batteries are a collection of artifacts found in the Mesopotamian region, dating back to the early centuries AD.
When archaeologists came across the batteries, they assumed they were just regular old clay pots for storing food, but the theory was quickly thrown into the trash because each pot contained a copper rod with signs of oxidation. Well, if at school you preferred tanks to studying, let us explain - the pots probably contained a liquid that, when interacting with copper, generated electricity. If this is true, then the first batteries appeared thousands of years ago.
Why can't they solve the riddle?
Unfortunately, ancient video cameras have not yet been excavated. Some stone reliefs called "The Light of Dendera" depict, some believe, the fire of an electric arc, which required something similar to the Baghdad batteries.
More reasonable theories suggest that the batteries were used to electrolyze objects with gold. Some people think that healers of that time could have used batteries to shock people (well, to show that they had mystical powers or something).
Our guesses:
We need to bring them to Egypt. Put it into the Sphinx's secret hole. Then he will open his eyes, stand up, and with a wild roar rush across the desert (we don’t know why, we haven’t figured it out yet).
In 1997, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded a strange sound in the ocean. Strange and loud. So loud that it was picked up by two microphones located 3 thousand miles apart (~5,000 km).
Scientists have determined that the wave pattern shows that it was an animal.
Why can't they solve the riddle?
There is no animal so large that it can produce a sound that can be heard so far away. Not a blue whale, not a howler monkey, not a screaming teenage girl.
Shortly after NOAA posted the strange sound on its website, some H.P. Lovecraft fans believed that the sound was coming from Loughcraft's famous character, Cthulhu, since the coordinates for the source of the sound were close to the location H.P. Lovecraft indicated for the underwater city of R'lyeh, where Cthulhu sleeps.
The history of human civilization reliably holds many secrets, many of which will never be solved. But the last two centuries have presented the world with many mysteries that researchers are puzzling over. The most mysterious incidents in the world of the XX-XXI centuries - today we’ll talk about ten secrets of modern human history.
Crop Circles
The most mysterious incidents in the world include mysterious ones. These are various geometric shapes formed by crushed plants in agricultural fields. The drawings are created perfectly smoothly and can form complex pictograms. Their size varies: they can be small or huge, fully visible only from an airplane. They began to attract a lot of attention in the 1970s in England. In 1972, in the south of the country, two eyewitnesses, watching the sky on a moonlit night in the hope of seeing a UFO, noticed how the grass in the field lay down, forming a circle. The peak of interest in the mysterious phenomenon occurred in the 1990s. The earliest mentions of the appearance of such pictograms (drawings) in the margins date back to the 17th century.
The most varied hypotheses for the origin of crop circles are put forward: the activities of an alien civilization, micro-tornadoes, ball lightning and hoaxes of interested parties. Thus, the Englishmen David Chorley and Douglas Bauer admitted in 1991 that the appearance of the first circles was their doing. They claim that they have created about 250 pictograms since 1978. But many continue to believe that the mysterious phenomenon of amazing drawings in the fields is not a hoax, but unsolved messages from mysterious forces. Crop circles are in 10th place among the most mysterious incidents on Earth.
The fall of the Tunguska meteorite
On June 30, 1908, at 7 o’clock in the morning, in the Podkamennaya Tunguska region (the right tributary of the Yenisei, Central Siberia), local residents witnessed the flight of a celestial body, which left a trail behind it, like a falling meteorite. The sound of the fall was heard at a distance of more than a thousand kilometers from the crash site. A powerful shock wave knocked down trees within a radius of 30 kilometers. This mysterious incident became known to the world as. But what kind of object exploded in the Podkamennaya Tunguska area, and whether it was really a meteorite, is still unknown. Thousands of researchers have been working on the solution to this phenomenon for over years. Many hypotheses have been put forward, none of which have received documented confirmation. The famous Tunguska meteorite, the mystery of which has never been solved, is in 9th place on the list of the most mysterious incidents in the world.
It is also associated with space, causing a huge resonance in the world. In 1947, a catastrophe allegedly occurred near the city of Roswell - the fall of a cosmic body of artificial origin. This incident became one of the most mysterious incidents in the world. There is still fierce debate over the nature of the fallen object. The authorities, represented by the country's air force, claim that a weather balloon crashed, which local residents mistook for the wreckage of a UFO. The Roswell incident is number eight on our list.
The mysterious disappearance of the ship's crew is in seventh place among the most mysterious incidents in the world. In 1872, the sailing ship was found by an English brig. From the trajectory of its movement it was clear that no one was controlling it. Not a single crew member or passenger was found on board. Things were untouched, as were the supply of water and provisions. From the entry in the logbook it followed that the ship reached almost the point where it was found. What happened to the crew is still unknown. The commission that investigated the case suggested that the crew for some reason abandoned the ship, leaving behind all their belongings and provisions. There was simply no other explanation for what happened.
Many mysterious incidents are associated with crimes. The most famous story is the Jack the Ripper case, which was never solved. The 20th century made its contribution to the history of serial killers. From 1918 to 1919, a criminal nicknamed "The Woodman" operated in New Orleans. The murder weapon was an ax, with which the maniac broke open the doors of the victims' houses. Like Jack the Ripper, the Woodcutter wrote letters to newspapers reporting future murders. The crimes suddenly stopped, and the Woodcutter's identity was never established. The New Orleans murder mystery ranks sixth on the list of the most mysterious incidents in the world.
One of the most mysterious stories in the world is the criminal case of the discovery in 1948 of the body of an unidentified man on the beach of Adelaide (Australia). The case received a great public outcry for a number of reasons: it was not possible to establish either the identity of the unknown person or the cause of death. In addition, a piece of paper with a strange inscription “Taman Shud” was found in a secret trouser pocket. As it turned out, the paper was torn from a rare edition of the works of Omar Khayyam. The mysterious story that happened on the beach in Somerton is in fifth place as the most mysterious incidents in the world. This incident inspired Stephen King to write "The Colorado Boy."
In fourth place among the most mysterious incidents in the world is history "Kyshtym dwarf". In 1996, an elderly woman in a village near Kyshtym discovered a living creature of an unknown biological species. Outwardly, it looked like a small humanoid - about 30 centimeters in length. The woman named him Alyoshenka and nursed him for about a month. Then the creature died. His mummified remains were later discovered by the police. Then the body of the “Kyshtym Dwarf” mysteriously disappeared.
- in third place on the list of the most amazing and mysterious incidents in the world. Since the 1970s, a program to search for extraterrestrial civilizations began in the United States. For this, a radio telescope was used to scan different parts of the sky. With its help, scientists were able to detect signals from other civilizations. In 1977, at a frequency at which no earthly transmitter operates, a signal was received from the constellation Sagittarius. It lasted 37 seconds. Its origin is still unknown.
Ship "Marlboro"
History - the new "Flying Dutchman" ranks second among the most mysterious incidents in the world. The ship left a port in New Zealand in 1890 with a cargo of frozen lamb. He did not reach his destination, disappearing in the area of Cape Horn. There were 23 crew members and several passengers on board. It was decided that the sailboat sank during a storm. But 23 years later he appeared off the coast of Tierra del Fuego. It was well preserved, and skeletons in rotting clothes were found on board. True, there were ten fewer of them than were listed in the logbook. What happened to the crew, why people died and where ten people disappeared from the sailing ship is unknown. Due to bad weather, the ship could not be brought to port. The Marlboro still plows the seas.
The most mysterious incident in the world is the mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group. This tragic story is known to everyone and haunts those who want to reveal the truth about what happened more than 50 years ago. In 1959, a tourist group led by Igor Dyatlov died mysteriously in the mountains of the Northern Urals. The causes of the terrible death of nine people have not yet been established.
Our world is full of miracles. They surround each of us from the first minutes of our birth. If we think more deeply, then the very fact of our life is already an incredible and supreme miracle. Scientists have calculated that the birth of a person is one chance out of a billion billion that falls 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'll tell you about them.
Place 10. Crop circles
Crop circles are geometrically correct circles with a diameter from 1 to several tens of meters. It's incredible, but true! As a rule, they are formed by ears of corn growing in fields, involuntarily laid on the ground in one single direction. It should be especially noted that the ears do not break, but simply press together, continuing their natural growth. Crop circles are a massive phenomenon; usually there are from 3 to 70 of them within one section of the field.
Incredible stories of farmers associated with the appearance of crop circles, as well as various observations, have more than once 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 of grain so accurately and not damage their stems. Of course, crop circles are a mysterious and still inexplicable phenomenon, either of Mother Nature or of third-party forces.
Ufologists put forward several versions that at least 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 influence of air vortices on field vegetation. Some farmers even say that these are traces of mating games arranged by field hedgehogs and badgers.
Currently, the military has also become involved in this problem. They are considering a version with field testing of some new type of secret weapon. In general, the phenomenon of the appearance of crop circles is still a mystery of humanity. It is worth noting that in 1980 a record was set for the number of circles that appeared on the field: more than 500 circles were recorded in the UK at that time!
Place 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. And its boundaries have expanded significantly.
Currently, a whole area located in the Atlantic Ocean between these same islands: Puerto Rico, the Florida Peninsula and Bermuda is considered a dangerous zone. This zone got its name - the Bermuda Triangle. This is where the disappearances of ships, planes and people occur. It has been noted that it is in the area of the Bermuda Triangle that the conditions of sea and air navigation bring significant difficulties to people.
Let us repeat, this place gained its sad fame due to the mysterious disappearances of planes, ships and the inexplicable death of people. For example, in December 1945, an entire flight of US Air Force patrol aircraft entered this zone at one time. The commander of this flight only managed to radio the following: “All instruments on board have failed! Our planes are off course! God, the ocean looks weird!” After this, contact with the crews of all these aircraft was lost.
The investigation clarified absolutely nothing. The Bermuda Triangle has remained an eternal mystery of humanity. Subsequently, more and more cases of disappearances of ships and planes that fell into the zone of the mysterious triangle occurred. In the second half of the 20th century, this natural phenomenon began to be studied seriously. Inexplicable things happening in the Atlantic between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico are forcing scientists to come up with new hypotheses.
However, there is still a sign of mystery at this place. And this is due either to a lack of facts, or to the deliberate distortion of certain evidence. Be that as it may, scientists do not rule out the manifestation of as yet unstudied natural anomalies in this zone. Some experts believe that the Bermuda Triangle is a giant pathogenic and uncomfortable zone in which hurricanes originate, as well as unusual atmospheric phenomena that generate electrical interactions between water and air.
Place 8. The mystery of the Egyptian pyramids
Pyramids are the tombs of pharaohs who once ascended the throne. The richer and more powerful the ruler was, the more magnificent his tomb was. 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 that’s not where the mystery lies at all! 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 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 be able to cope with such a task in two decades.
Skeptical scientists claim that such a task would be impossible for them, saying that all this is simply 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 flooded, stopping the work of human builders associated with agriculture. Today many hypotheses have been put forward, but none of them stand up to criticism and strength testing.
Place 7. Bigfoot
Many incredible stories that excite the imagination of ordinary people 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. Currently, a great variety of different evidence has been collected about people’s encounters 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 supposedly its paws on the 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 encounters with the Yeti appear, the more scientists have doubts about its existence: some seemingly inexplicable materials from the encounter with the Yeti turn out to be fakes! Casts of the tracks of these creatures turn out to be artificial, and photographs and videos are made through editing and special effects. Even pieces of wool allegedly belonging to the Yeti, after appropriate laboratory tests and analyzes, are recognized as crude fakes. Therefore, there has been no sensation yet.
Place 6. Nessie
"Unbelievable but true!" - this is what cryptozoologists say about the legend associated with the existence of a certain monster from prehistoric times in one of the Scottish lakes. This lake is called Loch Ness, and it is located in the north-west of Scotland among many mountain ranges. arose approximately 300,000,000 years ago. Its maximum depth is 300 meters. According to urban legend, a strange creature of enormous size has settled in its depths. Scientists have dubbed this monster a very cute name - Nessie.
Not only cryptozoologists, but also paleontologists are concerned with this problem, because the Loch Ness monster is not a monster from fairy tales, but just a plesiosaur, which by some miracle has survived to our times. Reports of encounters with Nessie accumulated with great speed: someone saw the monster come ashore, someone saw its head sticking out of the water along with its neck. There are also eyewitnesses who allegedly saw Nessie with a whole litter of cubs. The mystery of Loch Ness has attracted and continues to attract tourists from all over the world.
Inexplicable cases of people meeting Nessie even today fuel the professional interest of scientists in this legendary lake. Until now, paleontologists and cryptozoologists come there, they take soil and water samples, trying to discern at least some connection with Nessie. Currently, scientific expeditions are conducting serious research, recording the underwater world of the lake with video cameras and using sonars. Video footage taken in one day showed only the thickness of the water with vague moving objects, which in most cases turn out to be
To be fair, we note that sometimes objects that vaguely resemble flippers attached to some huge carcass get caught in the lens of video cameras. On the shore, too, from time to time, traces are visible, similar to those that could be left behind by a massive animal resting on its flippers. The surface of the lake is monitored around the clock, data is verified, and reports are compiled. But all this cannot be called irrefutable facts, so the mystery of Loch Ness has not yet been solved.
Place 5. Chupacabra
Those who inhabit our planet are not limited to Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. A striking example of this is the Chupacabra. The first part of this word is translated as “suck”, and the second is “goat”, literally “goat vampire”. There are already legends all over the world about this mysterious animal: this creature kills domestic animals (sheep and goats) by sucking their blood.
Currently, the Chupacabra has become the heroine of books, various feature films, TV series 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 encountered this, but we have all heard more than once that sometimes inexplicable things can happen in the house: spoons fall from tables, dishes that are level on the table break, some sounds are heard, etc. .d. It is generally accepted that all this is the doing of the brownie. Of course, no one knows for sure what he looks like, but his image has become firmly entrenched in Russian folklore, which is what 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 a brownie is a thinking creature that can read the thoughts of the owners of the house in which it lives. One of the phenomena of the brownie is the inexplicable cases of his meetings with small children. Psychics say that in a house where there are children, this clot of energy can take the form of a large toy. Children often see it, but cannot explain anything to adults.
Place 3. Dreams and visions
Inexplicable mysteries lie not only in nature, but also in the consciousness of man himself. These are, for example, our dreams. In the old days, a person believed that his soul at night embarked on some kind of journey through the outside world. There she supposedly receives either a 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 developed intuitively, which allows it to “draw” warning dreams in our minds.
Often dreams have some kind of chaotic character: a person who wakes up after this remembers only a specific episode or excerpt from what he dreamed. In this regard, there is an inexplicable, but quite common phenomenon: often in a short moment between sleep 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” of reality and illusion.
Place 2. UFOs and aliens
Many unexplained facts of the world are not (and will never be) as popular as UFOs or unidentified flying objects. Someone jokingly remarked: “While scientific minds around the world are tracing the paths of the evolutionary development of organisms, studying meteorites and taking samples of lunar soil, ordinary people are habitually watching UFOs.” On the one hand, objects of extraterrestrial origin are fables, but on the other hand, where do their photographs published on the pages of magazines, newspapers and on the Internet come from?
According to the concept outlined in the popular television series: “NASA. Unexplained Materials,” over the past decades, world researchers together with ufologists have done a tremendous amount of work: 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 suggests, representatives of the first group are similar to earthly humans. They are considered anthropomorphic and their height 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 the habit of imitating the person they like in everything.
According to the data presented in the same series “NASA. Unexplained materials,” researchers include all other extraterrestrial beings as representatives of the second group. These aliens can have completely different appearances, and their bodies can take any shape. These creatures 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 residents of the entire planet Earth. After all, it may turn out that our “neighbors” in the galaxy, and perhaps throughout the Universe, are flying towards us! But is it worth blindly believing numerous eyewitness accounts, more than half of which are empty fakes? We will probably disappoint you, but so far terrestrial scientists do not have any reliable evidence of the existence of aliens.
Place 1. Life after death
The afterlife, or the life of the soul after a person's death, is a philosophical and religious concept of the continuing conscious life of people after their death. Inexplicable facts and related situations are perhaps the most important theme of human spiritual existence today. In principle, people from century to century were interested in knowing what would happen after their physical death.
Currently, this aspect of human spiritual existence is strictly prescribed in each of the existing religions. Curiosity about 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 conditioned by a person’s belief in immortality and the reincarnation (transmigration) of his soul, in the resurrection from the dead, in posthumous retribution. It is these inexplicable facts that are reflected in religious and philosophical-religious worldviews.
The immortality of the soul is closely related to the well-known phenomenon of clinical death. Scientists and doctors pay special attention to it. Many people who have experienced 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 ahead 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 controversy and debate among scientists. There is an opinion that all of these are processes occurring at the moment of clinical death directly in our brain. However, even this today is just a hypothesis.
Here are the strangest events of the 20th century. Some of them raise doubts about their reliability. However, judge for yourself.
1900
On Flannan Island (UK), the entire watch of the Eileen Moore lighthouse keepers disappeared without a trace. Pictured is the Eileen Moore Lighthouse today.
1902
On the night of December 29-30, at 1:05 a.m., clocks stopped in many places in Paris. The causes of the Paris Glitch remain unclear. The photo from the beginning of the last century shows the clock tower decorating the Gare de Lyon in Paris.
1908
The fall of the Tunguska meteorite presumably caused an air explosion that occurred in the area of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, with a capacity of 40-50 megatons. The explosion on Tunguska was heard 800 km from the epicenter, the blast wave felled a forest over an area of 2,100 sq. km, and the windows of some houses were broken within a radius of 200 km. Soon after the explosion, a magnetic storm began that lasted 5 hours.
1911
On July 14, a pleasure train left the Rome railway station for a trip organized by the Sanetti company for wealthy Italians. Along the way, the three-car train and its 106 passengers disappeared as they entered a tunnel.
1911
On January 31, the legendary Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga was born, receiving the gift of prophecy at the age of 12 after she was carried away and blinded by a tornado.
1913
Off the coast of Tierra del Fuego, the sailing ship Marlborough was discovered - the new Flying Dutchman - which left New Zealand in early 1890, but did not enter any port. The remains of 20 people were found on the bridge and in the premises.
1916
In the summer, during the melting of the glaciers on Ararat, pilot Lieutenant Roskovitsky and his co-pilot on a reconnaissance aircraft of the Imperial Air Force discovered something similar to the remains of Noah's Ark on the mountainside.
1920
An ancient Slavic monument was found - the “Book of Veles”, the authenticity of which is still disputed in our time.
1922
A huge animal with a snake-like neck and a large head, reminiscent of a relict lizard, was spotted on the Paint River (USA). Pictured is the Paint River (Michigan, USA) today.
1924
Not far from the village of Taung (South Africa), the “skull of the Taung child” was found, whose age is estimated at 2.5 million years, and which is attributed to extraterrestrial origin. The photo shows anthropologist Philip V. Tobias with the skull of the “Child of Taung.”
1928
Over the village of Shuknavolok near Vedlozero (Karelia), a cylindrical ten-meter body was observed flying, with flames coming out of its tail. Having broken through the ice of the lake, the mysterious object went under water. Since then, local residents began to meet on the shore a strange big-headed creature a little more than a meter tall with thin arms and legs, which dived back into the water when people appeared. In the photo - Vedlozero (Karelia, Russia) today.
1933
The first documented sighting of the Nessie monster in Scotland's Loch Ness. To date, there have been about 4,000 sightings and encounters with him. A sonar survey of the entire volume of the lake in 1992 discovered 5 giant lizards.
1943
In October 1943, in the United States, in an atmosphere of special secrecy, the Philadelphia experiment, which had no analogues in history, was carried out on the destroyer Eldridge to create a warship invisible to enemy radar. As a result of the creation of a very strong magnetic field around the ship, the ship allegedly disappeared and then instantly moved in space several tens of kilometers. Of the entire crew, only 21 people returned unharmed. 27 people literally became fused with the structure of the ship, 13 died from burns, radiation, electric shock and fear.
1945
Massive UFO invasion in Queensland (Australia).
1945
The mysterious disappearance of the leaders of the Third Reich (Müller, Bormann and others). No remains found. The emergence of versions of their escape to Latin America. The photo shows Martin Bormann and what is believed to be his skull, the identity of which is disputed.
1947
On July 7, an unknown aircraft crashed in Magdalena (New Mexico, USA). Among the debris, 6 corpses of human-like creatures were allegedly found. The photo shows presumably one of the humanoids who died in a UFO crash in Roswell (New Mexico, USA), July 22, 1947.
1952
July 1952. America is in shock. What is happening in the skies over Washington defies logical explanation and gives rise to the most incredible rumors. And the reason for this is the wave of UFO sightings that swept across the District of Columbia. Unidentified flying objects appeared over Washington with enviable regularity from July 12 to July 26. In the photo: a UFO squadron over the Capitol.
1955
An explosion of unknown origin that occurred under the bottom of the battleship Novorossiysk on the night of October 29, 1955, claimed the lives of 608 sailors and officers. A huge ship capsized and sank in the Northern Bay of Sevastopol - in front of thousands of citizens.
1955
In Hopkinsville (Kentucky, USA), after a UFO explosion, a small glowing man with huge eyes was visible for some time. 
1956
In August, at a British airbase, a UFO chased a fighter jet for 20 minutes before disappearing into thin air. The photo is presumably a UFO. USA, California, 1957.
1958
On December 14, the newspaper “Youth of Yakutia” wrote about a giant monster living in Lake Labynkyr. Local Yakut residents believe that a certain huge animal lives in the lake - the “Labynkyr Devil”, as they call him. According to the descriptions of the Yakuts, this is something dark gray in color with a huge mouth. The distance between the eyes of the “devil” is equal to the width of a raft of ten logs. According to the legend, the “devil” is very aggressive and dangerous, attacks people and animals, and is capable of going ashore. In the photo - Lake Labynkyr (Oymyakonsky district of Yakutia, Russia).
1959
On February 1, a group of experienced tourists led by Igor Dyatlov began climbing to the top of “1079” (Mountain of the Dead). We didn’t have time to get up before dark and pitched our tent right on the slope. We began to triple up for the night. And then something terrible happened... As investigators later established, having cut the wall of the tent with knives, the tourists, in panic, rushed to run down the slope. They ran, whoever was wearing what: in underwear, half naked, barefoot. Later, the corpses of all nine group members were discovered further down the slope. Most died from hypothermia. Several people suffered terrible internal injuries without breaking the skin. The cause of the tragedy is still unknown. The last photo of the Dyatlov group on the Mountain of the Dead.
1963
During maneuvers of the US naval forces off the coast of Puerto Rico, a moving object was spotted developing an unprecedented speed for a ship - about 280 km/h.
1963
On November 22, 1963, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Despite the fact that Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was captured a few hours later, the true motives and those who ordered the most notorious murder of the 20th century have not yet been established.
1967
A female Bigfoot was captured on film in the Bluff Creek Valley (filmed by Roger Patterson).
1968
Official date of death of Yuri Gagarin. Few people believed in his death. The soothsayer Vanga claimed that the first cosmonaut did not die, but “was taken.”
1969
American landing on the moon. The fact itself is still disputed. The version of falsification has many supporters.
1977
“Petrozavodsk Miracle”: On September 20 at 4 o’clock in the morning, a UFO in the form of a bright star, from which red rays emanated, was spotted above the main street of Petrozavodsk - Lenin Street. The phenomenon was accompanied by mass UFO sightings in the northern regions of the USSR and in Finland. Later, large holes with very sharp edges were discovered in the glass of the upper floors. The photo shows a copy of the only known photograph of the “Petrozavodsk Diva” - the stage of the fiery rain and rice. V. Lukyants “Solovki” (magazine “Technology for Youth” No. 4 1980)
1982
In Tsemes Bay (Black Sea) on one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, all the clocks on board stopped. In the photo - Tsemes Bay today.
1986
On January 29, a UFO crashed near Dalnegorsk (hill “Height 611”). The photo shows the crash site and part of the “exhibits” from the crash site: metal drops of different nature with holes inside, black glassy particles weighing up to 30 mg, as well as loose scales in the form of a mesh of quartz fibers 30 microns thick, each of which is twisted from even thinner quartz flagella, each of which, in turn, has a gold thread inserted into it.
1987
Mass suicide of 2,000 dolphins - they washed up on the coast of Brazil. Pictured: Pilot whales stranded on a beach in New Zealand in 2009.
1989
140 whales died off the southern coast of Chile. This is the fourth time a mass suicide has occurred.
1991
Explosion on April 12 in Sasovo (Ryazan region), when UFOs were observed over the city. Anomalies near the funnel are still being recorded - reprogramming of calculators and failure of electronic devices. The photo shows the site of the explosion in 1991 and in our time.
1993
Over the course of 10 months, 48 ships and more than 200 sailors disappeared in the so-called “Pacific Triangle” near Western Micronesia.
1996
A strange half-living creature was discovered in a cemetery in the village of Kaolinovy near Kyshtym by a lonely pensioner Tamara Vasilyevna Prosvirina. The creature became known as the “Kyshtym dwarf”. The creature ate human food and looked and smelled strange. The creature's body length was approximately 30 cm, it had a torso, arms, legs, a head with a high frontal lobe, a mouth and eyes. The pensioner gave the creature a child's name - “Alyoshenka”. “Alyoshenka” lived in the pensioner’s house for about a month.
Other people also saw Alyoshenka: Tamara Prosvirina’s daughter-in-law, as well as some acquaintances. Subsequently, Tamara Prosvirina was admitted to a psychiatric hospital due to worsening schizophrenia. In the end, the creature died, and the causes of death have not been definitively established; among them, death from improper feeding and lack of care or murder under unclear circumstances are most often indicated. Tamara Prosvirina died on August 5, 1999 - she was hit by two cars at night. At this time, she was going to be interviewed by representatives of a Japanese television company who were filming a documentary about this phenomenon. The house where the Kyshtym humanoid lived.
The creature's mummy was discovered in August 1996 by police captain Evgeniy Mokichev (pictured) during his investigation into the theft of an electrical cable. The policeman who discovered the mummy handed it over to his colleague, Vladimir Bendlin, who began his own investigation into the origin and nature of the creature, but soon the mummy of “Alyoshenka” disappeared under strange circumstances. Currently her whereabouts are unknown.
1994
Near the Czech city of Celakovice, a “vampire cemetery” was found - a strange burial dating back to the end of the 10th - beginning of the 11th century. In 11 pits lay the remains of 13 people, tied with leather belts and with aspen stakes stuck in the heart. Some of the dead also had their hands and heads cut off. According to pagan beliefs and rituals, this was done with vampires who rose from their graves at night and drank human blood.
1996
In the Movile Cave (Romania), a closed ecosystem not connected with the earth’s was discovered for the first time. Here, 30 species of plants and animals (crustaceans, spiders, centipedes and insects) were discovered living in isolation in the dark for 5 million years.
Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective story. But in detective stories, as you know, all the 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 answers for them at all? Or will the veil of secrecy ever be lifted? And what do you think?
43 missing Mexican students
In 2014, 43 students from the College of Education from Ayotzinapa went to demonstrate in Iguala, where the mayor's wife was scheduled to speak to residents. The corrupt mayor ordered 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 died. The remaining students, as we found out, were handed over to the local crime syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin torn off his face. Later, the remains of two more students were found. Relatives and friends of the students organized mass demonstrations, triggering a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends and the chief of police tried to escape, but were detained a few weeks later. The provincial governor resigned, and several dozen police officers and officials were arrested. And only one thing remains a mystery - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.
Oak Island Money Pit
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, on 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 have tried to get into it - but the design is treacherous, and after the treasure hunter has dug to a certain depth, the mine begins to be intensively filled with water. They say that brave souls found at a depth of 40 meters a stone tablet with the scrawled inscription: “Two million pounds are buried 15 meters deeper.” More than one generation has tried to get the promised treasure out of the hole. Even the future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, during his student years at Harvard, came to Oak Island with a group of friends to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there?..
Who was Benjamin Kyle?
In 2004, an unknown man woke up outside a Burger King in Georgia. He had no clothes on, there were no documents with him, but the worst thing was that he didn’t remember anything about himself. That is, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but were unable to find any traces: neither missing people with such characteristics, nor relatives who could identify him from a photo. He was soon given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents or certificates of any education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a television program, out of pity, gave him a job as a dishwasher. He still works there now. The efforts of doctors to awaken his memory, and the police to find his previous traces, did not yield results.
Shore of Severed Legs
"Severed Legs Coast" is the name given to a beach on the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia. It received this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 of them have been found, with the majority being right-wing. There are several theories to explain why legs 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, and no one knows where the truth is.
"Dancing Death" 1518
One day in the summer of 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began dancing in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she fell from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that gradually others joined her. A week later, 34 people were 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 possessing the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one ever knew what caused it. They talked about some special type of epilepsy, about poisoning, and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But scientists of that time did not find an exact answer.
Signal from aliens
On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was monitoring signals from space at the volunteer Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Civilizations, picked up a signal at a random radio frequency, clearly coming 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 completely definite, in the eye of the observer, completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was accurately reproduced several times in a row. Eman disciplinedly recorded the sequence and reported it to his colleagues in the search for aliens. However, further listening to this frequency did not yield anything, as did any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. What it was - a prank by completely earthly jokers or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to contact us - no one still knows.
Unknown from Somerton Beach
Here's another perfect murder, the mystery of which has still not been solved. On December 1, 1948, in Australia, on Somerton Beach in southern Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was discovered. There were no documents with him, only a note with two words: “Taman Shud” was found in one of his pockets. This was a line from Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat, meaning "the end." The cause of death of the unknown man could not be determined. The forensic investigator believed that it was a case of poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed it was a suicide, but this claim was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case has alarmed not only Australia, but the whole world. They tried to establish the identity of the unknown person in almost all countries of Europe and America, but the efforts of the police were in vain, and the history of Taman Shud remained shrouded in secrecy.
Confederate Treasures
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 victors of their rightful spoils - the treasury of the southerners. Confederate President Jefferson Davis personally took on this mission. He and his guards left Richmond with a huge cargo of gold, silver and jewelry. No one knows where they went, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, he had no jewelry 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 could bury it until better times, others believe that it is buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that the secret society “Knights of the Golden Circle”, who were secretly preparing revenge in the Civil War, laid their paws on him. 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 either the money or the truth.
Voynich manuscript
The mysterious book, known as the Voynich manuscript, is named after the Polish-born American bookseller Wilfred Voynich, who bought it from an unknown person in 1912. In 1915, having taken 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 15th-16th centuries in central Europe. The book contains a lot of text, written in neat handwriting, and hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown to modern science. The signs of the zodiac and medicinal herbs are also drawn here, accompanied by text, apparently, of recipes for their use. However, the contents of the text are just speculations of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language still unknown on Earth, which is also practically indecipherable. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even in centuries.
Karst wells of 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 injured from the explosion and the appearance of a sinkhole. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon required an explanation, and a scientific expedition went to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful in studying the strange phenomenon - from geographers to experienced mountain climbers. However, upon arrival, they were unable to understand the reasons and nature of what had happened. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared in Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have been able to come up with only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal failures remain a mystery.
Antikythera Mechanism
Discovered by treasure hunters on a sunken ancient Greek ship at the beginning of the twentieth century, this device, which at first seemed like just another artifact, turned out to be, no less, the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze disks, made with precision and accuracy unimaginable in those distant times, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, time in accordance with different calendars and the dates of the Olympic Games. According to the results of the analyses, 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 XXXV to the X century BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations - Greek, Cretan, Cananese. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments, and tools became more complex. It seemed that humanity was moving 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 once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, and many secrets of construction and working 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 wondering who and where this people came from and what their future fate was. But there is no clear answer to this question yet.
Murder of the Black Dahlia
Books were written and films were made about this legendary murder, but it was never solved. 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 injuries. 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 circulated by journalists, giving Short the nickname “black dahlia.” Despite an active search, the police were unable to 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 sent an SOS signal while in the Strait of Mallaka off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and it ended with the chilling words: “And I am dying.” The captain of the Silver Star, having heard the distress signal, went in search of the 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, chose 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 an investigation became zero. Why the crew died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.
Baghdad battery
Until recently, it was believed that humanity 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 in which the battery itself is hidden: 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 debated whether the devices were actually related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they collected the same primitive products - and managed to generate electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to install electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since written sources from that era have not survived, this mystery will now probably forever excite scientists.