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Prepare to have your mind blown by history's most chilling unsolved cases! Join us as we explore bewildering events that continue to baffle experts centuries later. From unexplained disappearances to supernatural phenomena, these historical enigmas will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about our past.
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00:00Only three of us left on the ship.
00:03When the next man goes, I'll know who it is.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:08Today we're looking at the most haunting mysteries in history,
00:11many of which are unlikely to ever be solved.
00:14These were, after all, kids.
00:17Capable kids.
00:18But not above making a mistake in an unforgiving frontier.
00:22Number 10. Kentucky Meat Shower.
00:25Mrs. Crouch and Mr. Crouch were quoted to say
00:28and they thought it was a sign from God.
00:30It quickly, for them, was solved in that way.
00:33Kentucky is best known worldwide for its fried chicken,
00:36which comes from farmed chickens.
00:38But you'd be forgiven for wondering if it came from the sky.
00:41In 1876, the state had an extremely bizarre storm of red meat.
00:46No one has any idea what type of meat it was or where it came from.
00:49You may have seen a meteor shower,
00:51but you've never seen a shower meatier than this.
00:54It lasted only a few minutes, with not a cloud in the sky,
00:57landing near the house of Alan Crouch.
01:00The pieces were around two by two inches,
01:03supposedly tasting like venison or mutton.
01:05Some thought it was bacteria.
01:07Others claimed it was buzzard vomit.
01:09The latter is favored,
01:11since they all disgorged together as a defense mechanism.
01:14DNA testing of the meat has been inconclusive.
01:16Theories range from winds picking up small fish and frogs
01:19to vultures regurgitating meals.
01:23Yuck.
01:24Number 9. Count of St. Germain.
01:26No one knows where he came from,
01:28but according to him, the count was over 500 years old.
01:32Maybe even two millennia old.
01:34Voltaire called him the Wonder Man,
01:36and he was famous for knowing alchemy and magic.
01:38He also said he'd seen Jesus turn water into wine,
01:41with other tall tales that made him highly agreeable with high society.
01:45I liked and admired the man.
01:48In his way, he was brilliant.
01:51A scientist and a historian.
01:54He was a talented musician, philosopher,
01:56and could even create gemstones.
01:58He also told one of his closest friends
02:00that he was the son of Francis II Rakowski,
02:03making him 93 when he died.
02:05Most of what he said was probably made up,
02:07but people claim he's still alive.
02:09Was he a spy or simply a commoner?
02:11No one will ever know.
02:12Number 8. The Legend of the Bell Witch.
02:15To many, the story of the Bell Witch is history and folklore.
02:19The legend is taught in many elementary history classes in Tennessee.
02:24To others, it's a terrifying tale of a sinister poltergeist.
02:28One of America's most famous hauntings happened from 1817 to 1821
02:33in Robertson County, Tennessee.
02:35Legend says the area and home of farmer John Bell
02:38were attacked by an invisible entity which could hauntingly shapeshift.
02:42Bell and his daughter were the primary targets,
02:45but numerous folk in the area reported sightings, even their slaves.
02:49One man named William Porter tried to throw it in the fire,
02:52but it was too heavy and repugnant.
02:54John Bell died in 1820, and the hauntings began to subside after.
02:58On December 20th, 1820, John Bell died
03:01when the family found a mysterious black liquid in a vial near his body.
03:06When the Bell Witch spoke in a disembodied voice,
03:09I gave old Jack a big dose of that last night, which fixed him.
03:13Many logical explanations have since been proposed,
03:16like his daughter suffering sleep paralysis, natural causes, or even a hoax.
03:21It's widely been embellished over time,
03:23so separating fact from fiction is nigh impossible.
03:267. The Haunted Chateau de Brissac
03:37This beautiful chateau is France's tallest,
03:40and potentially its most haunted, with only one ghost.
03:43Her name was Charlotte de Brésil,
03:45the illegitimate daughter of King Charles VII.
03:47She ended up marrying Jacques de Brésil,
03:49who killed her after finding her sleeping with a huntsman.
03:52Soon after, he fled the castle because he was terrified of the ghosts.
03:56Charlotte always wears a green dress, giving her the name The Green Lady, or La Dame Verde.
04:01She is spotted most frequently at the chapel, with holes instead of eyes and a nose,
04:06usually in the morning.
04:08Logical explanations include natural optical illusions and physical explanations,
04:12plus most chateaus have at least one ghost, likely for tourism purposes.
04:17Number 6. Dyatlov Pass Incident
04:20In 1959, nine Soviet hikers perished in the Ural Mountains in particularly gruesome circumstances.
04:27For some reason, they fled their tent in the night,
04:30cutting it out with a knife, in poor clothing for the temperatures.
04:33Six died from hypothermia, with the other three being killed by physical trauma.
04:49One's skull was destroyed, and the other two had chest trauma,
04:52with two of them missing eyes and a tongue.
04:54Many theories were proposed, like it being an animal attack, the military, or a group panic.
04:59Eventually, an investigation in 2020 revealed it was caused by a slab avalanche,
05:05which has since been confirmed by simulations.
05:07Still, it doesn't explain everything, and rescuers found no evidence of an avalanche,
05:13causing many to remain skeptical.
05:14This is the last photo taken by the hikers before they died.
05:19It's out of focus, but it seems to show mysterious lights in the sky.
05:23Number 5. Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery
05:25There was no shortage of theories.
05:28One, that all three had fallen into the sea while fighting over a woman.
05:32Another, that they had been killed by a sea monster.
05:35In the Outer Hebrides of Western Scotland, the Flannan Isles Lighthouse resides.
05:40It's famous for a mysterious disappearance in 1900,
05:44when a ship, the Archtor, noticed the lighthouse was behaving unusually.
05:48Poor weather delayed the response, which found the three men stationed there had vanished entirely.
05:55Extensive hunts found no signs of them.
05:57No bodies washed ashore, with conditions implying they hadn't planned on leaving.
06:02But no matter how hard he searched,
06:04the only sign of life he could find was a half-starved canary in its cage.
06:08One theory is they left their equipment on the west landing,
06:11and then two went to protect it, since you'd be fine for losing equipment.
06:15When the third keeper noticed a dangerous wave approaching,
06:18he went out to warn them, but ultimately all three perished.
06:21Or it was a sea serpent, as some of their contemporaries believed.
06:34Number 4. Green Children of Woolpit
06:36Now for the oldest mystery on our list, coming from 12th century England.
06:41Once upon a time, in the village of Woolpit, two children appeared out of nowhere,
06:45speaking a foreign language with an appetite for nothing but raw broad beans.
06:50The locals taught them to eat other food, but the boy grew ill and died soon after.
06:55They didn't care about me.
06:57They just cared about saving other children.
07:01They didn't care what happened to me.
07:02His sister grew healthy, learned English,
07:05and told the locals they came from a peculiar world where everything was green,
07:09but it was forever twilight.
07:11Take this mystery with a massive grain of salt,
07:14since it was so long ago, and little to no contemporary sources exist.
07:18Number 3. Mary Celeste
07:27A small crowd witnessed the launch of the shipyard's very first vessel,
07:32the trim, little, tall ship Amazon.
07:35Bad luck plagued her from the beginning.
07:38The most famous maritime mystery of all time is undoubtedly the Mary Celeste.
07:42It was a merchant ship launched in 1861,
07:45which was found completely deserted in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872.
07:50Her lifeboat was missing, but was still in perfectly fine condition,
07:53with the crew's personal belongings left behind.
07:56The scenario suggested an orderly evacuation,
07:59which was likely due to a miscalculated emergency.
08:03Hmm.
08:04Never finished this letter.
08:07Never ate the chicken.
08:09Looks like they left in a hurry.
08:11It was carrying 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol,
08:15with nine of them empty.
08:17So the most popular theory is that the crew worried about leaking fumes,
08:21which made them panic, thinking an explosion was imminent.
08:24Then the lifeboat simply drifted too far, or was lost in a storm.
08:29Inquiry failed to discover what occurred.
08:32And years later, the Mary Celeste took her secrets to a watery grave.
08:37Number 2. Roanoke Colonists
08:39The colonists in 1587 carved out the word Croatoan on a palisade.
08:44And a palisade is a circle of what looks like telephone poles or trees
08:48that went around where the settlement was to protect them.
08:51In 1584, the colony of Roanoke was founded.
08:55But by 1590, all settlers unsettlingly vanished.
08:59They suffered from poor supplies.
09:01Plus, the locals were unhappy with their settlement.
09:03After a supply run, they found the place empty,
09:06with nothing left but the word Croatoan scratched onto a palisade.
09:10The Croatoans were a friendly tribe.
09:12They lived on Hatteras Island.
09:14Conditions didn't allow for the search to go on for long,
09:17with them returning to England the same year.
09:19No signs of struggle imply the starving colonists
09:22assimilated with the local Croatoan people.
09:25This is supported by tales of blue-eyed,
09:27English-speaking Native Americans being spotted in the region.
09:30Still, many remain sceptical,
09:32with some theories saying it was a Spanish attack
09:34or an otherworldly spirit.
09:37Thou shalt hang.
09:39I shall live.
09:41As we all shall when we travel inland.
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10:001. The Dancing Plague of 1518
10:03There have been many incidents of dancing mania throughout history,
10:13but the outbreak in Strasbourg in 1518 is easily the most famous.
10:18Between 50 and 400 people danced for weeks,
10:22starting with a woman called Frau Troffia.
10:24Numerous dancers died due to exhaustion, heart attacks, and starvation.
10:29One theory is that it was food poisoning caused by a psychoactive grain.
10:33Many refute this idea.
10:35Instead, claiming it was stress-induced psychosis caused by mass famine and illness.
10:40Gravure emblématique datant du XVIe siècle
10:43montre comment un médecin extrait les idées noires de l'esprit d'impatient.
10:49À défaut de cette machine,
10:51les Strasbourgeois de 1518
10:53auraient utilisé la danse comme moyen exutoire.
10:56When someone began dancing,
10:58others thought it was a curse or a form of divine punishment.
11:01Thus, they were compelled to join in.
11:04This is supported by its stopping through a spiritual cure at the Shrine of St. Vitus.
11:09Which historical mystery creeps you out the most?
11:21Leave it in the comments below.
11:22I imagine the dance is to resemble any other ecstatic dance.
11:28Somewhat wild, somewhat constantly moving.
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