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From gruesome crimes to ancient disappearances, these once-unsolvable puzzles now have real, sometimes terrifying explanations.
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The Long Island Serial Killer
🌐 The Lost Roanoke Colony
🔊 The Bloop
The Mystery of Stonehenge
🏺 The Collapse of the Maya Civilization
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From gruesome crimes to ancient disappearances, these once-unsolvable puzzles now have real, sometimes terrifying explanations.
Featured in this video:
The Long Island Serial Killer
🌐 The Lost Roanoke Colony
🔊 The Bloop
The Mystery of Stonehenge
🏺 The Collapse of the Maya Civilization
...and many more shocking revelations.
👁🗨 What do YOU think of these answers?
Let us know in the comments, and don’t forget to subscribe to WatchMojo.World for more mind-blowing mysteries and true stories!
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00:00A 50-year-old mystery was recently solved when a group of intellectuals decoded a message from the Zodiac Killer.
00:08Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most unsettling mysteries that finally received answers.
00:15But in 1937, a new written account is found, and it's a bombshell.
00:23Number 30. The Long Island Serial Killer
00:25It was one of the most absorbing mysteries of the early 21st century.
00:29Who killed all those women in New York?
00:32The Long Island Serial Killer murdered at least 11 victims since the early 1990s,
00:36and disposed of most of their bodies throughout the Gilgo Beach area.
00:40Four of them now officially listed as victims of this serial killer that's been dubbed the Long Island Ripper.
00:48The killings remained a mystery until the summer of 2023,
00:51when a 59-year-old architect named Rex Andrew Heuerman was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder.
00:58This is the man police have taken into custody.
01:01DNA has officially linked Heuerman to many of the victims.
01:04As of June 2024, he's been charged with six of the murders, and is currently pleading not guilty.
01:10His court-appointed attorney entering a not-guilty plea on his behalf.
01:15Number 29. The Burial Place of Richard III
01:18Mysterious deaths will always be intriguing and a little creepy,
01:21especially when they involve someone as famous as Richard III.
01:25The King of England was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485,
01:29making him the final English king to die in battle.
01:33Conducted with conspicuous bravery,
01:36Richard became the last King of England to die on the battlefield.
01:41And then we just sort of forgot where he was.
01:43Oops.
01:44Richard's body was buried in the Greyfriars Church in Leicester,
01:47but the tomb was lost and erased from history when the church was demolished in 1536.
01:52Time passed on.
01:53A king was lost, and the old church grounds were turned into a parking lot.
01:57But it was in this parking lot that Richard was finally found in 2012,
02:01476 years after his tomb was turned to rubble.
02:06Number 28. The Case of Margie Jelovic
02:08While working at her mother's Indiana tavern,
02:11Margie Jelovic met a biker named Randy Yeager,
02:14who rode with a gang called the Outlaws.
02:16What's your name? I haven't seen you here before.
02:18My name's Margie.
02:19Margie, how do you do?
02:20My name's Randy.
02:21The gang was reportedly incredibly violent
02:24and under numerous investigations for the likes of racketeering,
02:27robberies, and even various bombings and murders.
02:30Jelovic devoted herself to and defended Yeager,
02:33becoming paranoid that the police were after them.
02:35In September of 1997, she up and vanished.
02:39Wherever she is gone, she has not traveled there in her car.
02:43Her family is as perplexed as they are worried.
02:47Her asthma inhaler was left behind,
02:49suggesting that she had been taken against her will.
02:52But that was not the case.
02:53It wasn't until October of 2014 that Jelovic and Yeager
02:57were found living together in Mexico.
02:59Unfortunately, Jelovic was killed while driving away from the police.
03:03Yeager was caught and given a 15-year prison sentence.
03:06Yeager has been on the run since 1997.
03:09Number 27. The Disappearance of Stardust
03:13Airplanes simply up and disappearing will always be a disturbing subject.
03:17A famous case occurred on August 2nd, 1947,
03:20when a plane named Stardust vanished while flying from Argentina to Chile.
03:24Then the plane sent one final mysterious Morse code message.
03:28Stendek.
03:29The plane never arrived at the airport,
03:32and a search and rescue operation ended in failure
03:34when they couldn't locate the aircraft.
03:36It was simply gone.
03:37After that, nothing more was heard from the plane.
03:41And it would remain missing for over five decades.
03:44After years of conspiracy theories,
03:46the wreck of Stardust was found by two mountaineers
03:49in Mount Tupungato in the late 90s.
03:51Further study seemed to show that the pilots
03:53likely became mistaken about their location,
03:55having encountered a jet stream
03:57and accidentally flew into the cloud-obscured mountain.
04:00The crash then started an avalanche,
04:02which buried the plane and prevented rescuers from finding it.
04:05After the devastating crash,
04:08Stardust was buried within seconds.
04:10Number 26.
04:11Young Monica Bonilla
04:12The marriage of Guillermo and Rosemary Bonilla
04:15began to collapse after the murder of John Lennon in 1980.
04:18Not long after,
04:19Guillermo Bonilla began dressing and acting like Lennon,
04:22telling Rosemary that he was the reincarnated musician.
04:25On September 22, 1982,
04:27Rosemary finished work and came home to find nothing in it anymore,
04:31including furniture, belongings,
04:33Guillermo, and their young daughter Monica.
04:35Years later,
04:36an episode of Unsolved Mysteries
04:37told of the disappearance of one Nyleen Marshall.
04:40For over seven years,
04:41Nyleen's family has been trapped by the agony
04:43of not knowing what happened to her.
04:45A school official in Vancouver contacted the producers,
04:48claiming that a student named Mary Ann Kelly
04:50may be the missing marshal.
04:52The FBI investigated Kelly
04:54and discovered that she was not Nyleen Marshall,
04:56but the also missing Monica Bonilla instead.
04:59She was safely returned to her mother,
05:01who called the bizarre coincidence God's will.
05:04Number 25.
05:05The Mary Celeste
05:06It's probably the most famous ghost ship
05:09in North American history.
05:10On December 4, 1872,
05:12the Mary Celeste was found floating
05:14and abandoned off Western Europe.
05:16The boat was in fair condition,
05:17while both its cargo and the crew's belongings
05:19were mostly accounted for.
05:21Ten persons,
05:22the captain,
05:23his family,
05:24and crew
05:24had vanished without trace.
05:27While we're still not 100% sure what happened,
05:30many commentators believe
05:31that something very, very worrying
05:33had to have occurred.
05:34The men found working charts,
05:36but not the ship's papers,
05:38nor her navigational instruments or maps.
05:41The explosive theory
05:42is one of the most popularly accepted ones.
05:44Carrying over 1,700 barrels of alcohol,
05:47it's likely that the barrels started seeping,
05:49causing either an intense smell of gas
05:51or a small pressure wave explosion
05:53that would have left behind
05:54no scorching or soot.
05:56Either way,
05:57it's likely that the captain
05:58ordered the crew into the yawl
06:00and in a panic,
06:01failed to secure it to the boat.
06:02The ship then drifted away,
06:04leaving the men to die on the open ocean.
06:07Now with the help of an international team of experts,
06:10the true story of the Mary Celeste
06:12can finally be told.
06:14Number 24.
06:15The Freeman Arson
06:16At 5.30 a.m. on the morning of December 30th, 1999,
06:21police were notified of a fire
06:22at the house of Danny and Kathy Freeman.
06:25It's a cold, dark morning
06:26when the volunteer fire department
06:28is called to extinguish a devastating trailer fire.
06:32Inside, they found the corpses of Kathy and Danny,
06:34both of whom had been shot.
06:36Missing was the Freeman's teenage daughter Ashley
06:38and Ashley's friend, Laura Bible,
06:40who was sleeping over that night.
06:42The crime wasn't solved for nearly 20 years.
06:44The girls literally fell off the face of the earth.
06:48There is no clothes, no phone calls, nothing.
06:53In April of 2018,
06:5466-year-old Ronnie Busick was arrested
06:57and charged with four counts of murder,
06:59including those of Bible and Ashley Freeman.
07:01It's believed that Busick and two others,
07:04Warren Welch and David Pennington, both dead,
07:06killed the Freemans,
07:07torched their house, and kidnapped the teens.
07:10Busick pled guilty
07:11and served just 38 months of his 10-year sentence,
07:13thanks to, quote, good behavior.
07:16He was sentenced to 10 years in prison
07:18and Friday morning was released.
07:20Number 23.
07:21A Zodiac cipher is finally cracked.
07:23The story of the Zodiac killer continues to intrigue
07:26owing to his elusive nature
07:28and the bizarre ciphers he produced.
07:30The Zodiac made four of these cryptograms,
07:32and before 2020, only one had been solved.
07:36The first was quickly cracked back in 1969,
07:38but for the next several decades,
07:41the remaining three continued to stump
07:42even the most professional codebreakers.
07:45That is, until December 2020,
07:47when another cipher was solved by private citizens.
07:50Dubbed Z340,
07:51the puzzle was originally sent on November 8th, 1969,
07:55and references the Zodiac's welcoming of death.
07:58It reads in part,
07:59I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me.
08:02He claims that his new life
08:04will be an easy one in paradise,
08:06and that he is not afraid of the gas chamber
08:08because it will send him to paradise all the sooner.
08:12There are still two remaining ciphers from Zodiac
08:14that have yet to be decoded.
08:16Number 22.
08:17The Lost Roanoke Colony.
08:19One of America's biggest mysteries
08:20is also one of its simplest.
08:22A number of colonists settled
08:24in what's now North Carolina in 1585.
08:27This was known as the Roanoke Colony.
08:29Explorer John White left the colony in 1587,
08:31meaning to get more supplies in England.
08:35White soon sailed back to England
08:36for much-needed supplies,
08:38but when he returned,
08:39he found the settlement eerily abandoned.
08:42When he finally returned in 1590,
08:44having been delayed by war,
08:46the colony was gone,
08:47the only clue being the word Croatoan
08:49carved into the palisade.
08:51White deduced, likely correctly,
08:53that the colonists left for nearby Croatoan Island.
08:56While we don't know for sure,
08:58there is tons of circumstantial evidence
09:00showing that it's most likely
09:01the colonists moved out
09:02and assimilated with the local tribes,
09:04having lost hope of White's return.
09:06They eventually make it to safety
09:08after a 500-mile journey to Georgia.
09:14Indeed, the present-day Hatteras tribe
09:16considers themselves descendants
09:17of the Lost Europeans.
09:19Perhaps the colonists survived,
09:21and together with the Croatoan tribe,
09:23went on to thrive in their adoptive land.
09:26Number 21.
09:27Diatlov Pass.
09:28Avalanches seem to account for many mysteries.
09:31The 1959 Diatlov Pass one
09:33has long been a famous one,
09:35with nine hikers fleeing the safety of their tent
09:37in the dead of night
09:38and dying under puzzling conditions.
09:40Their deaths were initially attributed
09:42to a, quote,
09:43compelling natural force,
09:45and questions abounded for many decades.
09:48And in the end,
09:49investigators are left with no explanation
09:51as to what happened.
09:52But advancements in technology
09:54led to a sound answer in 2020.
09:56Avalanche.
09:57It's likely the hikers heard the rumblings
09:59of an imminent avalanche
10:00and fled the tent in a panic.
10:02Further study suggests
10:03some got hit by a slab avalanche,
10:06hence their devastating physical injuries,
10:08and the rest got lost in the dark
10:09and passed on through hypothermia.
10:11This answer has been supported
10:13by numerous independent bodies,
10:15all of whom agree
10:16that it's the most likely scenario.
10:17Being in this location
10:19really brought home to me
10:21just how terrifying it was for them.
10:23Number 20.
10:24The fate of the Franklin Expedition.
10:26I will not lose another man.
10:28Francis may lose all our men.
10:31For centuries,
10:32explorers sought out a northwest passage
10:34between the Atlantic and Pacific
10:36through the Arctic Ocean,
10:37but their expeditions often ended in disaster.
10:40It's the ice, Georgie.
10:42It's only the ice.
10:44One of the most famous
10:45was British Royal Navy officer
10:46John Franklin's in 1845.
10:49His expedition's ships,
10:50HMS Erebus and HMS Terror,
10:52never returned.
10:54Search parties recovered
10:55only artifacts and human remains.
10:57With the passing of time, however,
10:59we've pieced together the full story.
11:01The ships got trapped in pack ice
11:03and the crew died from starvation,
11:05hypothermia, and disease.
11:07The sunken Erebus and Terror
11:08were finally found in 2014
11:10and 2016, respectively.
11:13Number 19.
11:14Pierre April.
11:15Some lumps of things come back
11:17that are not especially pleasant.
11:23Imagine waking up in a ditch
11:25with only $17 in your pocket
11:27and no idea who you are
11:29or where you came from.
11:30That's what happened
11:31to amnesiac Pierre April in May 1992.
11:35April was found wandering the streets of San Diego
11:37and taken to a shelter.
11:39Pieces of his life started coming back to him,
11:41including faces and talents,
11:42but nothing came of his attempts
11:44to connect to his past life.
11:46In September,
11:47his case was featured
11:48on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
11:50I was so sure this city
11:51would bring everything back
11:52and it did not.
11:53This episode was seen
11:54by an old colleague of April's
11:56named Carol.
11:57She phoned the show's tip line
11:58and told them all they needed to know.
12:00April was happily reunited with his family
12:03and his memory has since recovered.
12:04It is strange to be told
12:07who you are and what you did.
12:10I'm someone again.
12:12Number 18.
12:13Umbrella Man
12:13The assassination of John F. Kennedy
12:23in November 1963
12:24prompted countless conspiracy theories.
12:27Some of the more interesting ones
12:28were about a figure spotted
12:29in photos and films of the event
12:31who had been brandishing an umbrella
12:32despite the sunny weather.
12:34In all of Dallas,
12:36there appears to be
12:37exactly one person
12:40standing under an open black umbrella.
12:44Could he have been complicit
12:45in the assassination?
12:47He remained a mystery for 15 years
12:49until 1978
12:50when Louis Stephen Witt came forth.
12:53Witt identified himself
12:54as the Umbrella Man
12:56and said that the umbrella
12:57was meant as a symbolic protest
12:59against Kennedy.
13:00An umbrella had been
13:01the trademark accessory
13:02of British Prime Minister
13:03Neville Chamberlain
13:04infamous for initially appeasing
13:06the Nazi party.
13:07It was a reference
13:08to Neville Chamberlain's umbrella.
13:11And with that,
13:12one of the world's
13:13most tantalizing mysteries
13:14fizzled out
13:15with a disappointing answer.
13:17Oh, I see.
13:18Then everything is wrapped up
13:19in a neat little package.
13:22Really, I mean that.
13:23Number 17.
13:25The Paulding Light of Michigan.
13:26Speaking of horribly
13:28disappointing answers,
13:29let's discuss
13:30the Paulding Light.
13:34We came out here
13:35because somebody
13:36had heard about it.
13:36We were just sitting around
13:37at night
13:38and some local people
13:39that we knew
13:40had heard about this.
13:41Paulding is a small community
13:42in western Michigan
13:43that houses a famous
13:44piece of folklore.
13:46One popular legend
13:46says that the light
13:47is produced by the wayward spirit
13:49of a train conductor
13:50killed when his locomotive derailed.
13:52Just outside of town,
13:53onlookers can spot
13:54a bright light flashing
13:55on and off
13:56at the end of a valley.
13:57The people of Paulding
13:58have many supernatural
14:00explanations for this light,
14:01including ghosts.
14:03One particularly creepy story
14:05claims that it's a grandparent
14:06looking for their lost grandchild
14:07with a flickering lantern.
14:09But the truth
14:10is far more boring.
14:12Turns out,
14:12it's actually just headlights
14:14from a nearby highway.
14:15So, yeah.
14:17Bummer.
14:17Had people standing here
14:18having the pictures
14:20of the vehicles
14:20on the screen
14:21of the computer
14:22and it's like,
14:23well, that's it
14:24and they still won't believe it.
14:26Number 16.
14:27The Somerton Man
14:28One of Australia's
14:29enduring mysteries
14:30may have been finally solved
14:32in the summer of 2022.
14:34On December 1st, 1948,
14:36a body was found
14:37in Adelaide Somerton Park.
14:39He was wearing American clothes
14:41embroidered with the name Keen.
14:43Inside his pocket
14:44was a scrap of paper
14:45reading Tammam Shud,
14:46Persian for is finished.
14:48The book that this paper
14:49was torn from
14:50was eventually located
14:51and investigators found
14:52cryptic text
14:53written on the cover.
14:54We looked for people
14:55with no date of death
14:57on that tree
14:58and there was one
15:00that stood out.
15:01In July 2022,
15:03DNA helped identify
15:05the man as Carl Webb.
15:06It's also now believed
15:08that the cryptic text
15:09found in the book
15:10were the names of horses
15:11as Webb often gambled
15:13on horse racing.
15:14And finally,
15:15the clothes were likely
15:16passed down
15:17from his nephew
15:17who once lived
15:18in the United States.
15:20Number 15.
15:21The Bloop.
15:22Many people have a fear
15:24of the deep ocean
15:24and it's because
15:26of things like this.
15:28The Bloop was a very loud
15:30underwater noise
15:30captured in 1997
15:32by the U.S. National Oceanic
15:34and Atmospheric Administration.
15:38It was so loud
15:39that it was detected
15:40by sensors
15:41over 3,000 miles away.
15:43It doesn't sound like much
15:44at normal speed,
15:46but it takes on
15:46its signature Bloop noise
15:48when sped up.
15:48Believers in Cthulhu
15:57immediately went
15:58to giant underwater monster.
16:00But once again,
16:01the truth is more mundane.
16:03It wasn't a massive creature,
16:05but an ice quake
16:06as a result
16:06of glacial movements.
16:08And science can't
16:09let us have any fun.
16:10Number 14.
16:12Anastasia's Fate.
16:13In the grave,
16:13there was supposed
16:14to be 11 bodies,
16:16but only nine were there.
16:18On July 17, 1918,
16:20far-left revolutionaries
16:21the Bolsheviks
16:22murdered the Russian
16:23Imperial Romanov family.
16:25In the aftermath,
16:26rumors circulated
16:27that Grand Duchess Anastasia,
16:29who was 17,
16:30had somehow escaped
16:31and survived.
16:32Her body could not
16:33be located,
16:34and several people
16:35came forward
16:36claiming to be
16:36the lost Anastasia.
16:38However,
16:38these stories
16:39turned out to be
16:40outright lies
16:41or the result
16:41of mental health issues,
16:43as was the case
16:44with famous imposter
16:45Anna Anderson.
16:46The long-standing rumor
16:47was officially put to rest
16:48when the remains
16:49of the royal family
16:50were identified with DNA.
16:52Grand Duchess Anastasia
16:53was among them,
16:55proving that she died
16:56with the rest
16:56of the Romanovs.
16:58Number 13.
16:59Lady Be Good.
17:00The World War II bomber
17:01Lady Be Good
17:02was used to conduct
17:03a raid on Naples
17:04on April 4, 1943.
17:06However,
17:07it disappeared
17:08on its way back to Libya,
17:09in both the plane
17:10and its crew
17:11were considered lost.
17:12No one knew
17:13what happened,
17:14and the plane
17:14was not recovered.
17:16That is,
17:16until 1958,
17:18when the crashed aircraft
17:19was spotted
17:19in the Libyan desert.
17:21This raised
17:21even more questions,
17:23as the plane
17:23was remarkably preserved
17:25and showed
17:25no signs of the crew.
17:27Where's the pilot?
17:29I don't understand!
17:32Where's the crew?
17:34Hey!
17:34All the questions
17:35were subsequently answered
17:37after an investigation.
17:38The pilots
17:39had gotten lost
17:39in a sandstorm
17:40and ejected
17:41from the craft
17:42when it ran out of fuel.
17:43The plane crashed
17:44and the men died
17:46while walking
17:46through the desert.
17:48Number 12.
17:49Sailing Stones.
17:50It's one of the most
17:51bizarre sights
17:52that can be seen
17:53in nature.
17:54A lone rock
17:55stands in the middle
17:55of the desert.
17:57A massive trail
17:58snakes behind it,
17:59as if it's been pushed
18:00across the ground.
18:01However,
18:02no footsteps
18:03and no signs
18:04of animal activity
18:05can be found.
18:06These stones
18:06are especially notable
18:08in the racetrack playa
18:09of California's
18:10Death Valley.
18:10You know,
18:11all these funny
18:11parallel trails
18:12that are clearly
18:15there's some sort
18:15of common force
18:16involved.
18:17So just what the heck
18:18is going on
18:19with these rocks?
18:20The phenomenon
18:20has tantalized
18:21researchers for decades,
18:23but the mystery
18:24has only recently
18:25been cracked.
18:26The valley floor
18:27produces a very thin
18:28layer of ice,
18:29and the rocks
18:30slide across these sheets
18:31when the ice
18:32starts to melt.
18:33The movement
18:33leaves indentations
18:35in the ground,
18:35resulting in
18:36their signature trails.
18:38Number 11,
18:39The Death of Jun Lin.
18:40His mother still
18:41worried about him
18:42living in a big
18:43foreign city.
18:44So he'd walk
18:45the streets
18:45with his cell phone
18:46and stream images
18:47back to her.
18:49His message to her
18:50and their daily
18:50conversations
18:51was always the same.
18:53Don't worry,
18:54he told her.
18:55I'm safe.
18:56One of the most
18:56notorious videos
18:57in the history
18:58of the internet
18:59was uploaded
19:00on May 25, 2012.
19:02Titled,
19:03One Lunatic,
19:03One Ice Pick,
19:04it depicts
19:05an Asian male
19:06getting killed
19:06and dismembered
19:07by an unidentified figure.
19:09So you could see
19:10that clearly
19:11the murder
19:12happened on the bed.
19:16Various body parts
19:17were then sent
19:17to schools
19:18and federal offices
19:19across Canada,
19:20and these remains
19:21were linked
19:21to the man
19:22who was killed
19:22in the video.
19:23The case made
19:24international headlines
19:25and remained a mystery
19:27for several days.
19:28But investigators
19:29quickly traced
19:30the grisly homicide
19:31to a man named
19:32Luca Magnata,
19:33who had already
19:34fled the country.
19:35An international
19:36manhunt ensued
19:37and Magnata
19:37was finally captured
19:39in Berlin
19:39on June 4th,
19:41about a week
19:41and a half
19:42after uploading
19:43the infamous video.
19:44Luca Rocco Magnata
19:45who's been the focus
19:46of an international
19:46manhunt
19:47since fleeing
19:48Canada last week
19:49was arrested
19:49by police
19:50at an internet
19:51company.
19:51Eventually face
19:52Canada's justice
19:52system
19:53and is expected
19:54to go before
19:54a judge tomorrow.
19:56Number 10,
19:57the face on Mars.
19:58Was there once
19:59an advanced
20:00civilization on Mars?
20:02Some of the features
20:03on the planet's surface
20:04definitely make you wonder.
20:06This is one of the most
20:08popular space images
20:09of all time.
20:10Taken by the Viking
20:11orbiters back in the
20:12mid-70s.
20:13The picture depicts
20:14the Sedonia region
20:15of Mars.
20:16People immediately
20:17noticed that one
20:17of the features
20:18bore a striking
20:19resemblance to a human face
20:20or maybe one of those
20:22old-school hockey masks.
20:24Everything is proportional.
20:25The face is a mile
20:27and a half,
20:27two miles long.
20:29The eye's a quarter mile.
20:31The nose,
20:31about a half a mile.
20:33So it's not small structure.
20:34It's very large structure.
20:36Speculation immediately
20:37flew to aliens
20:37or some kind of
20:38human habitation
20:39on the supposedly
20:40barren planet.
20:41But nah,
20:42the answer is
20:43much more boring.
20:44Turns out this was
20:45just an optical illusion.
20:46The result of lighting,
20:48angle,
20:48and a low-resolution picture.
20:50More recent
20:51and much better photos
20:52have been taken
20:52of the same location
20:53and they reveal
20:54nothing but a boring hill
20:56with face-like characteristics.
20:58Number 9.
20:59The Construction
21:00of the Pyramids
21:01The Giza Pyramids
21:03are arguably
21:03the most famous
21:04landmarks in the world.
21:06They continue
21:07to stand tall
21:07literally
21:08after thousands of years.
21:10Their construction
21:11has baffled people
21:12for millennia,
21:13leading some to suggest
21:14that aliens
21:15must have been involved.
21:16After all,
21:17humans couldn't possibly
21:18drag and lift
21:19those stones into place,
21:20right?
21:20Well,
21:21yes,
21:21they could.
21:22Researchers believe
21:23that workers
21:23loaded the blocks
21:24onto sledges
21:25and wet the sand
21:26to make them
21:26easier to drag.
21:28They raised the blocks
21:29using ramps
21:30and levering techniques.
21:31This took tens
21:32of thousands of people
21:33decades to complete.
21:35But hey,
21:36no one said
21:36building a wonder
21:37of the world
21:37was easy.
21:39Number 8.
21:39The Tunguska Event
21:41In the early morning
21:42of June 30, 1908,
21:44a remote area
21:45of Russia
21:46was hit with
21:46a massive
21:47and mysterious blast.
21:48In one hour,
21:49the explosion
21:50and the great fire
21:51that followed
21:52destroy a region
21:53of forest
21:53the size
21:54of Greater London.
21:56People who observed
21:57that thought
21:58the end of the world
21:59had come,
22:00Judgment Day,
22:01Divine Intervention.
22:02This blast
22:03completely leveled
22:04over 800 square miles
22:05of forest
22:06and flattened
22:0780 million trees.
22:09No source
22:09could be found
22:10for the explosion,
22:11so no one knew
22:12what exactly happened.
22:14It's an event
22:14and it's a mystery
22:15that would take
22:15105 years of research
22:18before we could
22:19finally write
22:20the words
22:20the end.
22:22Thousands
22:22of scientific papers
22:23have been written
22:24about the incident
22:24and the area
22:25has been studied
22:26for decades,
22:27with many trying
22:28to crack
22:29the bizarre case.
22:30It is now
22:30generally agreed
22:31that a 200-foot meteor
22:33traveling 60,000 miles
22:35per hour
22:36exploded in midair
22:37over the area,
22:38resulting in what's
22:39called a meteor airburst.
22:41This airburst
22:42then leveled
22:42everything below
22:43the meteor's
22:44detonation site.
22:45If it was a meteorite
22:46and the Earth
22:47had turned a bit further,
22:48it would have destroyed
22:49St. Petersburg.
22:51An hour later,
22:52it would have destroyed
22:53Helsinki.
22:54One hour later,
22:55Stockholm,
22:55and after that,
22:56Oslo.
22:56Number 7.
22:58The death
22:58of Ryan Stallings.
23:00Patricia Stallings
23:01brought her sick baby
23:02Ryan to the hospital.
23:03The doctors found
23:04what they thought
23:04was ethylene glycol
23:06in the baby's blood,
23:07leading them to conclude
23:08that he had been poisoned.
23:10He recovered,
23:11but Patricia was suspected
23:12of the poisoning,
23:13and Ryan was sent
23:14to live elsewhere.
23:15And I was just,
23:16I was devastated.
23:18I was blown away.
23:20I just could not believe
23:21that they could even think,
23:22I mean,
23:22Ryan was my world.
23:24Following a future visit,
23:25Ryan fell sick again
23:27and died.
23:28Patricia was again blamed
23:29for poisoning Ryan
23:30and charged with homicide.
23:31His mother,
23:32Patty,
23:32was now charged
23:33with first-degree murder
23:34and held without bail.
23:36She was not allowed
23:37to attend Ryan's funeral.
23:39She later gave birth
23:40to another son,
23:41and he exhibited
23:42the same symptoms.
23:43It was later found
23:44that both children
23:45suffered from a disorder
23:46called methylmalonic acidemia.
23:49An acidic byproduct
23:50of the disorder
23:51can be mistaken
23:51for ethylene glycol.
23:53It would be very simple
23:54to confuse the diagnosis
23:56of MMA
23:56with multiple poisonings
23:58because the symptoms
23:59are very similar.
24:01Patricia was released
24:02from prison
24:02and successfully sued
24:04the lab that tested
24:05Ryan's blood.
24:06Number 6.
24:07Stonehenge.
24:08The awe-inspiring
24:10Stone Circle
24:11is an enduring mystery.
24:16Despite centuries
24:17of intense scrutiny.
24:18One of humanity's
24:20greatest marvels.
24:21Stonehenge has been standing
24:22for thousands of years.
24:24The widely accepted theory
24:25is that the Stonehenge landscape
24:28was a large cemetery,
24:30a place to bury
24:31and worship the dead.
24:33But where exactly
24:34did the giant stones come from?
24:36They're all pretty much symmetrical.
24:3813 feet high,
24:397 feet across,
24:40and each weighing 25 tons.
24:43Experts have been trying
24:44to crack the case
24:45for hundreds of years.
24:46Some will have you believe
24:47that it was aliens,
24:48but no.
24:49It was really just
24:50the nearby woods.
24:51In 2019,
24:53researchers were able
24:54to do tests
24:55on a small area
24:56of extracted stone
24:57and sourced it
24:58to the nearby Westwoods
24:59in Wiltshire.
25:00The location
25:01has finally been pinned down.
25:03But one tantalizing
25:04question remains.
25:05How did they drag
25:07these 25-ton boulders
25:0915 miles to the south?
25:10Clearly some very,
25:11very powerful people
25:12around at that time
25:13who were being able
25:14to control resources,
25:16control the labor force,
25:18to create some of the
25:19largest monuments
25:20we've ever seen.
25:21Number 5.
25:22The Centennial Olympic Park
25:24Criminal.
25:24The North Carolina Mountains,
25:26crown zero for the largest,
25:28most expensive fugitive search
25:30in United States history.
25:31On July 27, 1996,
25:34Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park
25:36was bombed
25:36during the Summer Olympic Games.
25:38The blast injured hundreds,
25:40but thanks to the heroic efforts
25:42of security guard Richard Jewell,
25:44direct deaths
25:44were limited to two people.
25:46Move away from the town!
25:48Go toward the street
25:49anything but here!
25:51Are you kidding me?
25:52We gotta move!
25:53There's a bomb!
25:56Jewell himself
25:57was initially pegged
25:58as the culprit,
25:59but he was eventually cleared
26:00and the case remained
26:01a mystery for several years.
26:03The FBI was eventually led
26:05to a man named Eric Rudolph,
26:06who had committed
26:07various other bombings
26:08across the American South.
26:10Rudolph was finally arrested
26:11in 2003
26:12and pleaded guilty
26:13to all charges.
26:15He was given
26:15four life sentences
26:16and is currently held
26:18in a supermax prison
26:19in Colorado.
26:20He had one live bomb
26:21and 250 pounds
26:22of explosives
26:24buried in the mountains here.
26:25He agreed to tell
26:26the government
26:27where it all was
26:28in exchange
26:28for life sentences.
26:30Number four,
26:31the disappearance
26:32of Jamal Khashoggi.
26:33Trump administration
26:34touched off
26:35a new storm of criticism
26:36over the killing
26:37of Saudi writer
26:39Jamal Khashoggi.
26:40The U.S. has sanctioned
26:41some Saudis in response,
26:42but the crown prince
26:43has yet to face
26:44any punishment.
26:45The case of journalist
26:46Jamal Khashoggi
26:47was all over the news
26:49in the fall of 2018.
26:51On October 2nd of that year,
26:53Khashoggi went missing
26:54while visiting
26:55the Saudi consulate
26:56in Istanbul.
26:57At the time,
26:58Khashoggi was living
26:59in exile
26:59as he was penning
27:00scathing articles
27:01that criticized
27:02the Saudi Arabian rulers.
27:03And I think
27:04his knowledge of the regime
27:06added credibility
27:07to his profession
27:08as a journalist
27:08when he spoke out.
27:10While his fate
27:11remained a mystery
27:12for weeks,
27:13most people
27:13had a good idea
27:14what happened.
27:15Khashoggi was killed
27:16inside the consulate.
27:18It was eventually revealed
27:19that Khashoggi
27:19did indeed die
27:20inside the building.
27:21And on October 25th,
27:23Saudi Arabia's
27:24attorney general
27:25admitted that it was
27:26a premeditated homicide.
27:27The CIA later concluded
27:29that Khashoggi
27:30was assassinated
27:31on the orders
27:32of Saudi Arabia's
27:33crown prince,
27:33Mohammed bin Salman.
27:35There was credible evidence
27:36that crown prince
27:37Mohammed bin Salman
27:38and other Saudi
27:40senior officials
27:41were liable
27:41for the killing.
27:42Number 3.
27:43The Golden State Killer
27:44One of the most
27:45notorious criminals
27:46in American history,
27:48the Golden State Killer
27:49has gone by many names.
27:51He terrorized California
27:52throughout the 70s
27:53and 80s,
27:54sexually assaulting
27:55at least 51 women,
27:56burglarizing over 100 homes,
27:59and murdering 13 people.
28:01He was given different names
28:02in different areas,
28:03including the Visalia Ransacker
28:05and the Night Stalker.
28:07Only with time
28:08did it become apparent
28:08that these crime sprees
28:10were the work
28:10of one person.
28:12The name Golden State Killer
28:13was coined in 2013
28:14by crime writer
28:15Michelle McNamara.
28:17The case helped inspire
28:18the creation
28:18of California's
28:19DNA database,
28:21and it was DNA evidence
28:22that eventually nabbed
28:23Joseph James D'Angelo
28:25in 2018,
28:26who by then
28:27was 72 years old.
28:29He was sentenced
28:30to life in prison.
28:31I think we all
28:31had come to terms
28:32that we would never
28:33see justice
28:33in this case.
28:34Neither one of them
28:35in any way,
28:36shape, or form
28:37should have ever
28:37died this way.
28:38Number two,
28:39the collapse
28:40of the Maya civilization.
28:41The largest
28:42and most sophisticated
28:43pre-Columbian civilization
28:45of the Americas,
28:46the Maya flourished
28:47for thousands of years.
28:48They mastered mathematics
28:50and astronomy,
28:52perfected the first
28:54written language
28:55of the Western Hemisphere,
28:57and produced
28:59stunning works of art.
29:00The civilization
29:01entered its so-called
29:02classic period
29:03in the year 250,
29:05and this lasted
29:06until 900.
29:07It was around then
29:08that the entire
29:09political system collapsed,
29:10and the Maya
29:11abandoned their most
29:12important cities
29:13to move north.
29:14With this,
29:15the Maya civilization
29:16entered what is called
29:17its post-classic period.
29:19So what the heck happened?
29:20It's a mystery
29:21that has plagued
29:22historians for years.
29:24The answer
29:24was finally found
29:25in the 21st century.
29:27It turns out
29:27the Maya were
29:28so overpopulated
29:29that they damaged
29:30the environment
29:31and created
29:32a devastating drought.
29:34The extreme intensity
29:35of these droughts
29:36was disastrous,
29:38making a carefully
29:40managed response
29:42their only hope.
29:43With their agriculture
29:44thoroughly destroyed,
29:45the Maya were forced
29:46to abandon
29:47their most populous cities.
29:49Today,
29:50the empty jungles
29:51of the Yucatan
29:52serve as a reminder
29:54that even great civilizations
29:56can fail.
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30:13Number 1.
30:14The Vampire Clan
30:15One of the creepiest episodes
30:17of Unsolved Mysteries
30:18involves Rod Farrell
30:19and his so-called
30:20Vampire Clan.
30:22Farrell and his clan
30:23reportedly liked to play vampire
30:24at various places around town.
30:27One favorite hangout
30:28was an abandoned building
30:29they called
30:30the Vampire Hotel.
30:31In November of 1996,
30:34Jennifer Wendorf
30:34found her parents
30:35beaten to death
30:36inside their Florida home.
30:38The case went unsolved
30:39for weeks,
30:40although police
30:41immediately suspected
30:42Farrell in the killing
30:43as he was close
30:44to the Wendorf's
30:45other daughter, Heather.
30:46Farrell was the leader
30:47of a Kentucky cult
30:48centered around vampirism
30:50and allegedly
30:51had prospective members
30:52drink his blood
30:53in order to join.
30:54That he would cut his arm
30:56and let others
30:57suck his blood
30:58as sort of
30:59some kind of ritualistic,
31:01they call it being embraced,
31:02embraced into the family.
31:04The grandmother
31:04of a member
31:05helped police
31:06apprehend the cult
31:07and both Farrell
31:08and a man named
31:09Scott Anderson
31:09were found responsible
31:10for the Wendorf's deaths
31:12and given life sentences.
31:14While the couple's
31:14daughter, Heather,
31:15was arrested
31:15along with Farrell,
31:17Howard Scott Anderson,
31:18Dana Cooper,
31:19and Charity Kesey,
31:21all who were sent
31:21to prison.
31:22A grand jury believed
31:23Heather was unaware
31:24of the murder plot
31:25and she was not tried.
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