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From unsolved disappearances to unexplained phenomena, history is filled with chilling mysteries that defy explanation. Join us as we count down the strangest and most unsettling enigmas that continue to baffle experts today! Our countdown includes the Max Headroom Broadcast Hijacking, Dyatlov Pass Incident, Voynich Manuscript, and more! What creepy mystery keeps you up at night?
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00:00When the screen suddenly went black, then came back on with a new unruly presence,
00:05a man wearing a Max Headroom mask.
00:09Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the strangest and most unsettling mysteries
00:13throughout history. Whether it's an unsolved murder, disappearance, cryptic text, or something
00:17even more chilling, all of these remain unsolved today.
00:20At a loss, doctors dub the mysterious illness Havana Syndrome.
00:24It all began in 1971, when a woman claimed that a person's face appeared on her floor.
00:35Her family destroyed the image, thinking it would help.
00:44It returned shortly after, earning the attention of the authorities.
00:48Since then, the owners have claimed that more faces continue to pop up,
00:52and their home in Benmeth has become a tourist site.
00:55Those who visit are treated to a plethora of disfigured faces,
00:58subjecting them to the uncanny valley.
01:00Is this the work of ghosts, or merely a mass case of pareidolia?
01:04Several investigations have taken place, attempting to prove that they were created by hand.
01:09These strange faces remain an unexplained phenomenon,
01:12until we get more concrete proof.
01:15Others are convinced that they're proof of a decades-long paranormal event.
01:18You can travel there and see for yourself, if you dare.
01:22Number 29.
01:23The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
01:25What started as routine training ended in pure horror.
01:29Frederick Valentich was both an aspiring pilot and a believer in life beyond the stars.
01:33When 20-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich
01:36flies the straight in a Cessna 182L and encounters something in the sky.
01:43During a late flight to King Island in 1978,
01:46he alerted air control that there was another craft flying above him.
01:49He described it as large with several bright lights on it, and that it was following him.
01:54The last thing he said before contact was lost was that it wasn't a regular plane.
01:58A search was conducted afterward, but he was never found.
02:01Frederick Valentich has been missing now for 46 years, and yet we are still talking about him.
02:07There are plenty of believers who are adamant that Valentich was abducted that night,
02:11while those who work in the field assert that he simply became confused or staged the scene himself.
02:16Number 28. The Lead Masks Case
02:19There are some deaths that, while seemingly far-fetched, are still explainable.
02:24This was definitely not one of those cases.
02:27In 1966, the corpses of two men were found side by side.
02:31Manuel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel Joseviana matched in every aspect,
02:35from their fancy outfits and lead eye masks to the lack of any physical trauma.
02:40Near them was a set of cryptic instructions, but even that didn't help shed light on their predicament.
02:44To make things more confusing, an autopsy wasn't held for weeks,
02:48making it impossible to tell how they had passed.
02:50This has resulted in a series of unprovable assertions,
02:53ranging from foul play to an accidental overdose while searching for non-human life.
02:58Number 27. The Disappearance of the Sodder Children
03:01When a fire broke out on Christmas Eve, the victims had no idea just how much their lives would change.
03:07George and Jenny Sodder were able to escape with four of their nine children living with them,
03:11but the other five vanished. The parents asserted that foul play was at hand.
03:16They spent years searching, putting up billboards, and offering thousands of dollars for information.
03:20In 1967, an apparent photo of their son Louis was sent to them, but even that led to dead ends.
03:26George and Jenny passed decades ago, but their remaining relatives continue to look.
03:31Those most invested believe they were taken by the Sicilian mob,
03:34while others believe they sadly passed that fateful night in 1945.
03:39Number 26. The Flannan Isles Lighthouse
03:41When a ship sailed past the Flannan Isles in 1900 without a single light despite the poor weather,
03:47they knew something was wrong.
03:49A rescue team reached the island days later, shocked by their discovery.
03:52When he opened the door, Moore realized at once that something was terribly wrong.
03:57There was no sign of the three men manning the lighthouse,
04:00James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald MacArthur.
04:03But there was evidence indicating they had been there, most notably their unmade beds.
04:08None of the three men was able to be found.
04:10While many believed they had accidentally tumbled over the side of the cliff,
04:14others had alternate ideas.
04:15Everything from a sea monster to a band of vengeful ghosts was suggested.
04:19With no sign of them dead or alive since that fateful night,
04:22it may be a mystery that's never fully solved.
04:25Number 25. The Fate of Jimmy Hoffa
04:28As the leader of the Teamsters' labor union,
04:30he made powerful friends and even more powerful enemies.
04:34Jimmy Hoffa was kind of a force of nature.
04:36It's something that really kind of caught all of our imagination.
04:39He was such a large figure.
04:42Everybody knew about Jimmy Hoffa.
04:44After a brief stint in prison that led to Jimmy Hoffa losing his role,
04:47he attempted to regain it.
04:49On July 30th, 1975, he left for a meeting and never returned.
04:53A missing person report was filed and a six-figure reward was offered,
04:57but no one came forward.
04:59In 2004, it was alleged that Hoffa's former friend Frank Sheeran was behind it.
05:03Those claims, along with those stating his remains were buried beneath Giant Stadium,
05:08have been widely deemed false.
05:09We may never know the truth behind Hoffa's fate,
05:12but to this day, it remains one of the most unsettling mysteries in American history.
05:17I wish somehow we could find out what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
05:21In 1948, reports of a strange man washed up near Somerton, South Australia,
05:28spread like wildfire.
05:30Since then, he has remained at the center of an ongoing mystery.
05:33And this is where he met his end?
05:35Right here.
05:36And to take your secrets with you.
05:38An autopsy was held, and while there was some damage done to the internal organs,
05:42there was no unnatural substance found inside him.
05:45His bag was later discovered, but the contents did not help identify him.
05:49Among the findings they'd come across,
05:51the most unsettling was an undecipherable code and a small sheet of paper,
05:55simply reading Temam Shud, or ended in Persian.
05:58In 2022, his identity was tentatively confirmed as Carl Webb.
06:03We managed to extract enough DNA from one of the summited man's hairs.
06:09And from that DNA, we were able to then find a distant cousin that is still alive.
06:15That cousin turned out to be on the paternal side of Charles Webb.
06:21Though we may know who he is, it's still unknown how he came to pass,
06:25and whether it was by his own hand or someone else's.
06:28Number 23.
06:29The Beast of Gévaudan
06:31What would you do if you were suddenly faced with a monster you'd never seen before?
06:35The citizens of Gévaudan learned firsthand when they became victims of animals they'd never seen before.
06:40Le Bête du Gévaudan, also known as the Beast of Gévaudan,
06:43was a mysterious wolf-like creature which mounted a murderous rampage
06:48over a three-year span within the 18th century.
06:52Described as being dark brown and striped with long tails,
06:55they were unlike anything observed there before.
06:57Though sources vary,
06:58it's believed that dozens of people met their grisly ends from 1764 to 1767.
07:04What species terrorized them is still debated.
07:07Though a wolf seems to be the most logical answer,
07:10its description causes that theory to fall flat.
07:12This has led others to speculate it was a hyena or even a lion.
07:16Among the many hypotheses that emerged was that the beast might be an African hyena.
07:22The hyena was this very mysterious creature
07:25that lots of naturalists and others wrote about in the 1750s and 60s.
07:30Its reported lack of fear around most humans,
07:33aggressive daytime attack, and sheer agility have also added to the debate.
07:38Number 22.
07:39The Disappearance of Flight 19
07:41In 1945, a crew of five American planes left Fort Lauderdale for training and were never seen again.
07:4727 U.S. Navy sailors lost their lives.
07:53They disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
07:55And there has still never been an adequate explanation for what happened to them.
08:00The night they disappeared,
08:01their planes were fueled and their lead pilot was in contact with air traffic control.
08:06He grew more confused the longer they remained airborne,
08:09before ceasing communication with one last message about how they would go down together.
08:13They eventually did,
08:14but neither the crafts nor the men inside were found.
08:17Many believe the pilot was merely confused after his compass stopped working.
08:21Taylor, who was the flight lead, was talking about the compass didn't look right.
08:25He started to get confused.
08:26Don't they know they have to get back?
08:28Taylor thought that they needed to fly to the northeast
08:31because he thought they were over the Florida Keys.
08:33Others are convinced that he and his crew fell victim to the Bermuda Triangle
08:36and that it had a hand in their eventual demise.
08:39The truth may be somewhere in the middle, but we may never know for sure.
08:44Number 21.
08:45The Dyatlov Pass Tragedy
08:46In January of 1959, a group of nine hikers left and never came back.
08:51It wasn't until February that they were found and the horror truly began.
08:55When rescuers arrive on scene at the Dyatlov Pass weeks after the incident,
08:59the first thing they discover is the group's empty tent and cold weather gear.
09:04Their tent was cut from the inside and their winter clothes were left behind in a hurry.
09:09At first, it was believed they had passed from hypothermia.
09:12It wasn't until a further investigation was conducted
09:15and three of them were found with skull or chest damage that the narrative began to shift.
09:19Things went from bad to worse when others were found without their tongue or eyes.
09:23The theories range from sudden natural events to stumbling into a military testing area.
09:28It remains one of the largest global mysteries of all time,
09:32with the answer remaining out of reach.
09:34Do you think that this case can ever truly be solved?
09:37I think if we can get real cooperation from the authorities, we may finally get answers.
09:43Number 20.
09:44Bimini Road
09:44Just off the coast of North Bimini Island in the Bahamas lies a half a mile underwater path
09:50made up of large rectangular limestone blocks.
09:52The Bimini Road has inspired fascination since the 1960s.
09:57Due to the unusual precision and regularity of the blocks,
10:00many have questioned its natural formation.
10:03One popular theory suggests that it could be a long-lost road to Atlantis.
10:07Conditions are near perfect.
10:09The team are able to examine what actually lies beneath this fascinating structure.
10:14It seems like there are two layers to some of the road.
10:18Further lending credence to this theory is the fact that about 30 years before it was discovered,
10:23American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce talked about a road to Atlantis being discovered near Bimini.
10:28Geologists argue that it is a naturally occurring formation,
10:32but there are still some in the scientific community who dispute that.
10:35As such, the true origin of the Bimini Road remains a captivating enigma.
10:40I don't think anybody can dive in Bimini and not believe that these are man-made artifacts.
10:45Number 19.
10:46The Jameson Family Deaths.
10:48In October 2009, Bobby Jameson, his wife Cheryl Lynn, and their daughter Madison
10:53disappeared from their hometown of Eufaula, Oklahoma under mysterious circumstances.
10:57But when relatives discovered they hadn't returned after four days, they started to panic.
11:03A few days later, authorities found their abandoned truck in a remote location,
11:07but no signs of the family.
11:09Discovered in the truck were the Jameson's malnourished dog,
11:12their phones and IDs, and a large amount of cash.
11:15Police also retrieved security footage from their home,
11:18showing the couple loading up their truck in an eerily silent and strange manner.
11:22It took them an extremely long time to load the truck.
11:26They made 30, 40 trips, it seemed like.
11:29Multiple theories have been put forward,
11:31including a faked death situation and a drug deal gone awry,
11:35but none has been substantiated.
11:37The family's remains were discovered four years later,
11:40but the true circumstances around their disappearance and death remain a mystery.
11:44I do think that they must have seen something they shouldn't have seen,
11:49because nothing else makes sense.
11:52Number 18.
11:54The Strange Disappearance of Paula Jean Weldon.
11:56Paula Jean Weldon, a sophomore at Bennington College in Vermont,
12:00disappeared on December 1st, 1946, while hiking on Vermont's Long Trail.
12:04She was reported missing by her roommate after failing to return to her room.
12:09Multiple people spotted her along the trail, including other hikers.
12:13Yet she seemingly vanished without a trace.
12:16An extensive search was launched afterwards,
12:18with her school even shutting down for days to allow staff and students to participate.
12:23The investigation into Weldon's disappearance was,
12:26however, hampered by the fact that there was no statewide police in Vermont at the time.
12:30Till today, no one knows what happened to Weldon,
12:33but the case led to the creation of the Vermont State Police the following year.
12:38Number 17.
12:39The Curious Case of Mary Reeser.
12:42Throughout history, there have been multiple reported cases of spontaneous human combustion,
12:47but perhaps none has gained more attention than that of Mary Reeser.
12:51On July 2nd, 1951, Reeser was discovered almost completely incinerated in her St. Petersburg, Florida apartment.
12:59All that was left of her were a couple of bone fragments and her left foot.
13:02Mysteriously, the rest of her apartment was largely undisturbed,
13:06with only a few nearby items affected by the heat.
13:09This inexplicable level of destruction puzzled investigators,
13:13leading to the rise of the theory of spontaneous human combustion.
13:17However, the FBI argued that the fire was ignited by a cigarette Reeser was smoking,
13:22with her body fat and nightgown acting as fuel for the fire.
13:26Number 16.
13:27The Mysterious Fate of the USS Cyclops.
13:30It's quite a strange occurrence for the largest ship in the U.S. Navy to just disappear without a trace.
13:35But that was indeed what happened during World War I when the USS Cyclops departed Brazil for Baltimore.
13:41One day out of port, she enters some of the deepest waters in the Bermuda Triangle area and simply disappears.
13:51The 542-foot-long collier, which was transporting tons of manganese ore,
13:56vanished alongside the 306 persons on board.
13:59It was initially believed that the vessel was sunk in an attack by the Germans,
14:04but they have maintained no knowledge or involvement in its fate.
14:07There was a Washington, D.C. newspaper that claimed that she had been taken over
14:13and had been turned into a pirate ship.
14:15Since then, one lingering theory is that the USS Cyclops must have fallen prey to the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
14:21More than a century later, the disappearance remains unsolved,
14:25eluding the mind of anyone who contemplates the fate of the USS Cyclops.
14:29So did the Triangle's turbulent seas produce a freak wave large enough to sink the Cyclops?
14:37Number 15. The Oakville Blobs
14:40In the summer of 1994, residents of the small town of Oakville, Washington,
14:44woke up to find tiny blobs that seemed to have rained down from the sky.
14:48No one was really concerned until they realized that it wasn't raining rain.
14:55It was raining tiny blobs of gelatinous goo.
14:58These translucent, gelatinous substances were described as being half the size of a grain of rice.
15:04As strange as they were, what made them particularly creepy were the bizarre effects they seemed to have on the town.
15:10Residents experienced flu-like symptoms and respiratory infections,
15:14and some animals were said to have died.
15:16I got sick, my wife got sick, my daughter, everybody that lived here got sick.
15:21Upon testing, the blobs were found to contain two species of bacteria,
15:25although both are usually known to be harmless.
15:29Multiple theories have since been suggested,
15:31but no definitive conclusion has been reached as to the origins of the Oakville Blobs.
15:35Maybe we were a biological experiment of some kind, a small one, maybe just get people a little bit sick.
15:41Number 14. The Pollock Sisters
15:43The idea of reincarnation has long been heavily debated,
15:47and some proponents tout this case as evidence for it.
15:50In May 1957, two sisters, Joanna and Jacqueline Pollock, lost their lives in a car accident.
15:57The following year, the parents welcomed twin girls Jillian and Jennifer,
16:01despite only one heartbeat being detected during the pregnancy.
16:04These twins shared many similarities with their deceased sisters,
16:08including birthmarks, preferences, and behaviors.
16:10They also seemed to recollect memories only their sisters knew,
16:15and developed a strange fear of cats.
16:18The girls were profiled by a professor of psychiatry as an example of reincarnation,
16:22but many have dismissed the case as a hoax,
16:25arguing that the family simply fed the past memories to the twins.
16:29Number 13. The Overton Bridge
16:31Located near Dumbarton in Scotland,
16:34the Overton Bridge was constructed in 1895.
16:36What makes this seemingly ordinary bridge so creepy
16:40is the inexplicable phenomenon of dogs leaping to their deaths from it.
16:48It's been reported that since the 1950s,
16:51about 600 dogs have jumped off this bridge,
16:54seemingly for no reason,
16:56with some of them suffering fatal injuries.
16:58Some local residents believe that the structure,
17:01and the Overton house that it leads to,
17:03are haunted by spirits who call out to the dogs.
17:05They're being, in a sense,
17:06lured to the edge of the bridge walls by this figure.
17:09Another possible explanation suggests
17:12that the canines are attracted to the smell of certain animals underneath the bridge.
17:16With no definitive cause found yet,
17:18we'll advise just keeping your dogs off this bridge.
17:22Could some overpowering smell at the bottom of the bridge be driving dogs to jump?
17:27Number 12. The Toynbee Tiles
17:29Located in several cities across North and South America,
17:33The Toynbee Tiles are a series of linoleum blocks
17:36embedded in the asphalt of seemingly random streets.
17:39It was this tile, like a floor tile or whatever,
17:43embedded in the asphalt in the crosswalk that bears this message on it.
17:48These enigmatic tiles contain cryptic messages that often refer to death,
17:52and have confounded people since they began popping up in the 1980s.
17:56They take their name from their usual inscription found on them,
17:59which is believed to be a reference to the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee.
18:03The Toynbee referenced is almost definitely the historian Arnold Toynbee.
18:09Who installed these tiles,
18:11how they were able to achieve that without detection,
18:13and what they actually mean still remain a mystery to this day.
18:18The peculiar nature of the tiles and their random placements have sparked numerous theories,
18:22some of which were addressed in a 2011 documentary film.
18:27I would walk over the tiles over and over and over and over again,
18:29so I would think about them every single day,
18:31and, you know, I would just constantly think, like,
18:34I wonder how long they've been there, I wonder what they mean.
18:36Number 11. The Circleville Letters
18:38Beginning in the late 1970s,
18:40an unknown individual reigned terror on the residents of Circleville, Ohio.
18:45This still unidentified figure began sending out threatening letters
18:48that exposed alleged secrets of the town's residents.
18:51The first target of the letters was the bus driver,
18:54a woman named Mary Gillespie,
18:56who was alleged to have had an affair with the local school superintendent.
19:00In addition to allegations of an affair,
19:02the letter carried an ominous threat.
19:05Gillespie's husband, Ron, was also targeted.
19:08In the following year, he died in a mysterious accident
19:10after receiving a call from someone believed to be the letter writer.
19:14Somewhere in between leaving the house and hitting that tree,
19:17his gun, had fired one shot.
19:20Ron's brother-in-law was eventually named as the writer
19:23and sent to prison for attempting to murder Gillespie.
19:26But the letters continued.
19:28To date, no one knows for sure who was behind the Circleville letters.
19:32Paul Freshour was finally granted parole after serving 10 years.
19:37To this day, he maintains his innocence,
19:39and he's sure that the real criminal is still at large.
19:43Number 10. The Severed Feet Mystery
19:45It'll probably not make headlines if one human foot washes up ashore.
19:50But when 21 feet, usually still wearing sneakers,
19:54are found on the shores of the same sea,
19:56it is sure to raise a few eyebrows.
19:59The first discovery was made in August 2007 in British Columbia, Canada,
20:03with some others found in multiple towns in the U.S. state of Washington.
20:06It's the 13th foot found in British Columbia since 2007.
20:10Some of the feet have since been linked to people
20:12who were either declared missing or had mental health issues.
20:15It's been posited that the occurrence of the severed limbs
20:18is due to a combination of body decomposition
20:20and the buoyancy of New Age sneakers.
20:23Regardless, questions still linger about why this seems to only occur in this particular sea.
20:29Without much to work with,
20:30DNA and the brand and manufacturing date of the shoes
20:34are the best clues investigators have in what is a growing mystery.
20:38Number 9. The Unexplained Phoenix Lights
20:41On March 13, 1997,
20:44thousands of people in Arizona and Nevada
20:46reported seeing a series of lights appear in the sky.
20:49They were white like stars when they were coming towards us.
20:52These lights were arranged in a V formation
20:54and spanned a vast area,
20:56silently moving across the cities.
20:58The phenomenon was observed for about three hours that night,
21:02with some people taking pictures and videos.
21:04The official explanation given by the authorities
21:07was that the lights belonged to military aircraft
21:09that were engaged in training exercises.
21:12But this was met with a lot of skepticism.
21:15I've seen them from the ground,
21:16I've seen them from the air,
21:18and these weren't flares.
21:20Even the then governor of Arizona,
21:23Fife Symington,
21:24who was a pilot himself,
21:25described the event as, quote,
21:27otherworldly.
21:28It remains one of the most notable
21:30and perplexing UFO events in modern history.
21:34Did the phoenix lights come from somewhere beyond the stars?
21:38Number 8.
21:39The Mysterious Sleeping Sickness
21:41Throughout history,
21:42there have been multiple pandemics
21:44that have brought the entire world to a standstill.
21:47One of the least known ones
21:48is the sleeping sickness pandemic
21:50of the early 20th century.
21:52Between 1915 and 1926,
21:55around the same time the influenza pandemic
21:57ravaged the world,
21:58a sleeping disease claimed the lives
22:00of more than 500,000 people.
22:02Known scientifically as Encephalitis Lethargica,
22:05this disease left sufferers
22:07in a statue-like condition,
22:08unable to speak or move their bodies.
22:11In fact,
22:12some patients who survived the pandemic
22:14reportedly never regained full control
22:16of their motor functions.
22:17Although the disease mysteriously disappeared
22:20in 1927,
22:21scientists remain puzzled
22:23over its origin and cause,
22:25as well as how it can be transmitted.
22:27Number 7.
22:28The Havana Syndrome
22:29Starting sometime in 2016,
22:32diplomatic personnel in Cuba
22:33began to experience
22:34a weird range of health problems
22:36such as memory loss,
22:37hearing loss,
22:38and nausea.
22:39Doctors said that diplomats' brain matter
22:41had actually changed.
22:43What started out as a mysterious nuisance
22:45became a suspected instrument of attack.
22:49Follow-up studies found
22:50that there was evidence of brain injuries.
22:53However, when questioned,
22:54the victims said that they'd heard
22:55a strange noise like a grating sound
22:57or marbles rolling on the floor,
22:59although others nearby did not hear this.
23:01A source says starting last December,
23:03the U.S. officials were exposed
23:05to a sonic device,
23:07which experts suggest
23:08could produce sound waves
23:10below and above human hearing,
23:12which could cause these symptoms.
23:14Quasi-unusual,
23:15but when recordings of the sound
23:17were captured,
23:18the closest thing researchers could find
23:19were Jamaican field crickets,
23:21which are harmless.
23:22The recording is just one
23:26of the many sounds taken in Cuba
23:28that led investigators
23:29to initially believe
23:30it was a sonic weapon.
23:32No cause has been found,
23:33and theories range
23:34from microwave weapons
23:35to pesticides.
23:36Who or what caused it?
23:38A mystery.
23:39The United States government
23:40is still not sure
23:42who or what is responsible
23:44for those health attacks.
23:45Number six,
23:46the ghost blimp.
23:48Picture it.
23:491942 off the coast of California.
23:51Two U.S. Navy pilots
23:53command the Navy's L-8 blimp
23:54in search of Japanese submarines
23:56in waters not so far
23:57from San Francisco.
23:58There were known
23:59to be Japanese submarines
24:00operating off the coast.
24:02There had been an attack
24:03on an oil refinery
24:05down near Santa Monica,
24:07Los Angeles.
24:09There was a great fear
24:11that there would be more attacks.
24:13They radio flight control
24:15about an oil slick on the water
24:16and are never heard from again.
24:19A few hours later,
24:20that very same L-8 blimp
24:21crashes into a cliff
24:22with no one on board.
24:24Everything in or about the craft
24:26was working normally,
24:27the throttles were idle
24:29and more eerily,
24:30the parachutes and lifeboat
24:31were still on board.
24:33To this day,
24:34no one knows what happened
24:35and the personnel involved
24:36were never found.
24:38Number five,
24:39the Ourang Medan.
24:40In 1947,
24:42American vessels picked up
24:43an SOS call
24:44from a Dutch vessel,
24:45the SS Ourang Medan.
24:46The message was a chilling one.
24:48SOS from Ourang Medan.
24:50We float.
24:51Probably whole of crew dead.
24:53I die.
24:55Finding the ship
24:56also meant finding corpses
24:57with gaping eyes and mouths.
24:59Soon after,
25:00while under tow,
25:00the ship caught fire
25:01and exploded.
25:02Stranger still,
25:13there are apparently
25:14no registration records
25:15for the ship,
25:16while the Coast Guard
25:17didn't report the story
25:18until the mid-50s.
25:19Theories tend to focus
25:20on government cover-ups
25:21due to possible
25:22chemical weapons on board.
25:24This story even served
25:25as the basis
25:25for the 2019 video game
25:27The Dark Pictures Anthology,
25:28The Man of Medan.
25:30Number four,
25:31the Tunguska event.
25:33On the morning
25:33of June 30th, 1908,
25:35a large explosion
25:36blasted the area
25:37near the Tunguska River
25:38in Russia,
25:39flattening some 80 million trees
25:41over some 800 square miles
25:43of forest.
25:44Millions of pine trees,
25:45larches, and birches
25:46are destroyed
25:47by the pressure wave
25:48and the fires.
25:51A shock wave circles the world,
25:53leaving its mark
25:54on seismographs everywhere.
25:56But no one can understand
25:58where it has come from.
25:59For years,
26:00scientists debated
26:01what could have caused
26:02such an explosion.
26:04Shockwaves rippled
26:05across Europe.
26:06The night sky
26:07was illuminated
26:09for weeks after
26:11and people were able
26:12to read their newspapers
26:13in the middle of the night
26:14from London to Asia.
26:16It's classified
26:17as the largest impact event
26:19ever recorded,
26:20but no impact crater
26:21was ever found.
26:22Instead,
26:23researchers found
26:24five miles of scorched trees
26:26directly in the center
26:27that were somehow
26:28still standing.
26:29In 2013, however,
26:31a team from
26:32the National Academy
26:33of Sciences of Ukraine
26:34analyzed rock samples
26:35from the site
26:36and concluded
26:36it was likely a meteor
26:38exploding in midair.
26:39Researchers studied
26:40microscopic fragments
26:41of decayed vegetation
26:42dating back
26:43to the time of the event
26:44and discovered
26:45mineral combinations
26:46perfectly consistent
26:47with other meteorite
26:48impact sites,
26:49like the 50,000-year-old
26:50meteor crater
26:50in Arizona.
26:51Number 3.
26:52The Bay of Jars
26:54Brazil's Guanabara Bay
26:55contains a lot of trash,
26:57but the trash
26:58that people cannot explain
26:59is the 200 or so
27:00Roman ceramic jars
27:01found submerged
27:02in an underwater field,
27:04an underwater field
27:05the size of
27:05three tennis courts.
27:07According to experts,
27:08these jars trace
27:09back to the 3rd century.
27:11However,
27:11European explorers
27:12didn't even reach
27:13Brazil until 1500,
27:15and the Romans themselves
27:16had little to no incentive
27:18to travel that far out.
27:19Thus,
27:19it's a complete mystery
27:20why their artifacts
27:21would be found there.
27:23Meanwhile,
27:23Brazil closed off
27:24the area in 1983,
27:26so it's unlikely
27:27an answer will ever
27:28be found.
27:29Number 2.
27:30The Voynich Manuscript
27:31If you haven't heard
27:32of this one,
27:33strap in.
27:34The Voynich Manuscript
27:35is a mysterious
27:36250-page book
27:38written in a
27:38completely unknown language
27:40and containing
27:41odd, otherworldly sketches.
27:43There are theories
27:44that the book
27:45might have been written
27:45in a kind of
27:46encoded Latin,
27:47or that an alien
27:50wrote it
27:50while being held
27:51captive in a monastery.
27:52or that Leonardo da Vinci
27:55wrote it as a child.
27:56Its origin
27:57is unable to be
27:58fully traced,
27:59so no one knows
28:00who created it,
28:01let alone why,
28:02but carbon dating
28:03puts it in the
28:03early 15th century.
28:05Cryptologists say
28:06the writing has all
28:06the characteristics
28:07of a real language,
28:09just one that
28:09no one's ever seen before.
28:11What makes it seem real
28:12is that in actual languages,
28:15letters and groups
28:15of letters
28:16appear with
28:17consistent frequencies,
28:18and the language
28:19in the Voynich manuscript
28:20has patterns
28:21you wouldn't find
28:22from a random
28:22letter generator.
28:24So far,
28:24no one has been able
28:25to decode the script
28:26it's written in,
28:27despite being worked on
28:28by professional
28:29code breakers
28:30from both World War I
28:31and World War II.
28:33What strange message
28:34lies inside this
28:35uncrackable book?
28:36The truth is,
28:37after decades
28:38of dedicated study
28:39to try and solve
28:40the mystery,
28:41this strange book
28:42seems likely to remain
28:43one of our most
28:44enduring historical codes
28:46to crack.
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29:03Number 1.
29:04The Max Headroom Hijack
29:06In 1987,
29:08two television stations
29:09in Chicago
29:09were hijacked
29:10in perhaps the most
29:12surreal act of video piracy
29:13ever recorded.
29:15Take some pretty
29:15significant
29:16equipment,
29:18technical equipment
29:19and some knowledge
29:19of broadcast frequencies,
29:22microwave frequencies
29:22and a lot of power.
29:25Both instances
29:26featured an unidentified man
29:27dressed as obscure
29:28TV personality
29:29Max Headroom
29:30dancing to distorted audio.
29:32The second video,
29:33significantly longer,
29:34saw the man rambling
29:35incoherently
29:36in a distorted voice
29:37and being swatted
29:38on the behind
29:39by an off-screen accomplice.
29:40The segments lasted no more
29:57than a couple of minutes,
29:58but have gone down
29:59as among the most notorious
30:00incidents in television history.
30:03No one has ever identified
30:04who pulled it off
30:05or even why.
30:06We can only hope
30:07someone comes forward
30:08after all this time
30:09to put an end
30:10to this mystery.
30:11Do you know of any
30:22little-known creepy mysteries?
30:24Share them in the comments.
30:25The story is,
30:27it's sad,
30:28it's tragic,
30:29it's macabre,
30:30but there's something
30:31really mysterious about it.
30:34And the more you read,
30:35the weirder it gets.
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