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From ghostly apparitions to unexplained phenomena, these images will haunt your nightmares. Join us as we explore photographs that defy explanation and logic! From the mysterious Tank Man to the eerie Tulip Staircase Ghost, these unsolved photo mysteries continue to perplex experts and fascinate believers worldwide. Can you solve what countless others couldn't?
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00:00And those photographs were published all around the world and nobody's been able to prove that
00:04the images are not real. Welcome to WatchMojo and today we're counting down our picks for the 50
00:10creepiest photos that are linked to unsolved mysteries. The camera looks down through the
00:14doorway and sees in as far as here. Number 50, the Zodiac's wanted poster. Any witnesses? Kids
00:22have called in, Sally's suspect from that window. Did they hear a shot? No, they first saw him in
00:28the front seat thought he was a drunk fighting with the driver. Oldest kid ran downstairs to get a
00:32better look from the dining room, described him as a white male, glasses, crew cut, stocky, wearing a
00:37dark jacket. If we asked you to name the most famous wanted poster in true crime history, chances are
00:42you'd think of the Zodiacs. Originally made back in 1969, this thing has lived on in pop culture for
00:48decades, his face peering at us as if begging us to catch him. The poster shows a composite sketch of
00:54the still uncaught Zodiac created from eyewitness accounts, particularly from cops who unknowingly
01:00talked to the killer and from a group of teenagers who witnessed the murder of Paul Stein. Despite the
01:05massive proliferation of the wanted poster, the mystery man was never caught. To this day, the
01:10Zodiac's wanted poster remains a startling reminder of a famous American true crime and a reminder that
01:16he got away with it. Number 49, the Calvin UFO. This photograph from the Calvin Hills in Scotland
01:35is crystal clear. It's in color. It shows this just magical looking 100 foot long diamond shaped
01:42craft that is clear as a bell. This famous photograph taken in Scotland in 1990 is often
01:49described as one of the eeriest images in ufology. It depicts a massive diamond shaped craft hovering in
01:54the sky with a military jet nearby, as if observing or intercepting it. Creepy enough, but what makes
02:00the case even more unsettling is how the case was handled. The witnesses told their story to the
02:05Glasgow-based Daily Record and handed them the original negative of the photograph, but the story was
02:10never published. The negatives were then handed over to the Ministry of Defense and subsequently
02:15vanished. It was only when journalist David Clark found the photo and published it in 2022 that it
02:20saw the light of day, and it has captivated alien enthusiasts ever since. Craig Lindsay managed to
02:26keep a print of one of those negatives, thinking at the time, you know, I might have one of the greatest
02:32photographs of all time here. He kept that in his possession and kept it quiet for over 30 years,
02:37and we've got now the clearest photo of what potentially is a craft of non-human origin.
02:42Number 48. Bigfoot.
02:44When I first saw her, she was standing upright.
02:49I thought, you know, this is unreal.
02:52Want to start an endless debate? Ask someone if Bigfoot exists. This famous photograph shows what is
02:58purported to be Bigfoot, mid-stride and looking towards the camera. This photo was taken as part of
03:03the larger Patterson-Gimlin film, which was shot in remote Northern California in 1967. The footage has
03:10sparked endless debate and analysis throughout the decades, with numerous scientific investigations
03:14trying to debunk it. However, these have never produced a satisfactory answer, and even the answers
03:20they do give are often dismissed by cryptozoologists and Bigfoot believers. That lingering uncertainty,
03:26the possibility that something unknown was genuinely captured on film,
03:30is what keeps the Patterson-Gimlin footage so haunting and compelling.
03:34All this time, I'm thinking, holy mackerel, these things do exist.
03:38Number 47. Adrian Mennevu and Felicity Loveday.
03:42In December 2019, Australian man Adrian Mennevu and his mother, Felicity Loveday,
03:47vanished after setting out on a boating trip from Frankston. Their disappearance drew widespread
03:51media attention, particularly because of the haunting last known photo of them together.
03:56Taken by Loveday's daughter, it shows Mennevu preparing the boat while Loveday sits immobile
04:01in the passenger seat. They were ruled to have died at sea, with one theory claiming that it was
04:06an intentional act from Mennevu, who reportedly wished to rid his mother of, quote, bad magic.
04:11Unfortunately, we can't show you the photo itself, as there is one further haunting possibility,
04:16that Loveday may have already been dead by the time it was captured.
04:20Number 46. The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln.
04:23And from time to time, you hear stories told about strange happenings in the middle of the
04:28night. Probably most famously, perhaps, is Ronald Reagan, whose dog Rex, would bark at the room as
04:35if there was somebody in there and would refuse to go in.
04:38This is a famous photograph created by William H. Mumler, a controversial 19th century photographer
04:44known for trailblazing the practice of spirit photography, which is said to contain ghosts.
04:48Taken in 1872, the image shows the faint apparition of the late Abraham Lincoln standing protectively
04:55behind his widow, Mary Todd. For Mary, who was still deeply grief-stricken, the photo was a source
05:00of comfort, and it reinforced her strong belief in spiritualism, which was widespread during the
05:05post-Civil War era, with hundreds of thousands dead. Critics, however, accused Mumler of fraud,
05:11arguing that he used double exposure and other photographic techniques to create his ghostly effects.
05:16While it's almost certainly a hoax, no one knows, even to this day, exactly how he pulled it off.
05:22I'm not saying I believe in ghosts Reagan wrote in his autobiography, but it nearly made me a believer.
05:27I think in some ways people might like the idea that Lincoln is still hanging around watching over us.
05:32Number 45, Tara Calico.
05:34In 1988, 19-year-old Tara Calico leaves for a morning bike ride and never comes back.
05:41This is another photo we cannot show you given its graphic nature, but rest assured that it is very creepy,
05:47not to mention very famous. A woman named Tara Calico disappeared in New Mexico on September 20th, 1988,
05:54likely the result of a kidnapping.
05:56On June 15th, 1989, a woman found a haunting photo in the parking lot of a Florida convenience store.
06:01It depicts a young woman and a boy bound and duct-taped and lying on a bed.
06:06The photographer has never been found, and the two victims remain officially unidentified.
06:11However, Scotland Yard concluded that it was Calico, as did Calico's own mother,
06:16who identified her daughter by the scar on her leg and the presence of her favorite book.
06:21This is Tara Calico. She is 19 years old when she vanished in 1988.
06:26Her parents have since passed away, and even the original sheriff on the case is gone.
06:31But the search for answers has not stopped.
06:34Number 44. The Anguished Man.
06:36More than 20 years ago, my grandmother left me a painting known as The Anguished Man.
06:44There have been plenty of creepy paintings throughout the years, but few quite like The Anguished Man.
06:50The painting itself is terrifying enough, depicting a stylized figure with red skin and no eyes who is seemingly screaming in agony.
06:57The painting is owned by an Englishman named Sean Robinson, but the source of the work, including the artist, is completely unknown.
07:04Even creepier, legend has it that the artist mixed the paint with his own blood while creating the piece,
07:09and that he took his own life soon after its completion.
07:12Of course, it's entirely possible that Robinson has made the whole story up, but it's impossible to say for sure.
07:18My grandma always told me the painting was evil, and after living with it myself, I understood how right she was.
07:28Number 43. The Last Photo of Chris McCandless.
07:31Outdoors, man. What's your fascination with all that stuff?
07:35I'm going to Alaska.
07:37Alaska, Alaska?
07:38Or City, Alaska, because they do have markets in Alaska.
07:42His story made famous by Into the Wild, Chris McCandless ventured into the Alaskan wilderness to live off the land,
07:49but he only lasted about 113 days before dying.
07:52In a terrifying realization, Chris knew that he wasn't going to make it, so he posed for this photo,
07:58which shows him happily waving to the camera and holding a goodbye sign.
08:01Indeed, his corpse was later found by a hunter.
08:04To this day, no one really knows what killed McCandless.
08:08It could have been simple starvation from a lack of food.
08:10He could have been paralyzed, which prevented him from scavenging.
08:14Or he could have eaten poisonous seeds, which either killed him outright
08:17or prevented his body from metabolizing the food he was eating.
08:20The climactic battle to kill the false being within
08:26and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution.
08:31Number 42. The Sodder Children.
08:33On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire raged in the Sodder home in Fayetteville, West Virginia.
08:39Five of the Sodder children were believed to have died, but their remains were never found in the rubble.
08:44George and Jenny Sodder came to believe their children had been kidnapped,
08:48and so they set up this creepy billboard along Route 16 near Fayetteville,
08:51which became a sort of macabre landmark for decades.
08:54Maybe even creepier, Jenny Sodder received a strange envelope in the mail in 1967.
08:59Inside was a photo of a grown man purported to be her missing son, Louis.
09:03The Sodders hired a private detective to investigate, but he vanished without a trace,
09:08leaving the identity of the man in the photo unknown.
09:11Number 41. The Oma Photo.
09:13We had experienced this brief period of peace, and then it was completely shattered by something so horrendous.
09:19It's amazing how a seemingly ordinary photo can hold such a devastating secret.
09:23In this famous photograph, a man in a yellow shirt is seen holding a child on his shoulders and standing next to a red car.
09:29It was taken in the town of Oma, Northern Ireland, on August 15, 1998, only moments before the very same car exploded.
09:37You see, the real IRA had placed a bomb in the vehicle as an act of terrorism,
09:42and when it exploded, it killed 29 people and injured hundreds more.
09:46The camera from which this picture was taken was retrieved from the rubble.
09:50Amazingly, reports indicate that both the man and the child survived.
09:54However, the photographer did not, and their identity remains a mystery.
09:58We just hugged each other and cried, and there was no need for words.
10:03Number 40. The Lead Masks.
10:05On August 20, 1966, a boy was playing in Niteroi when he stumbled across the bodies of Manuel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel Jose Viana.
10:14Both men were adorned in suits, and both were wearing homemade eye masks made from lead.
10:19Nearby was a mysterious note reading,
10:21Unfortunately, their mysterious deaths have never been solved.
10:34No one knows how they died or what the masks were intended for.
10:37One leading theory comes from a mutual friend,
10:39who claims that they ingested psychedelic drugs in an attempt to make contact with aliens,
10:44and the masks were made to shield them from the bright lights of the UFO.
10:47Number 39. Trunko.
11:02We've only explored 20% of Earth's oceans.
11:06So, are these mystery blobs just an undiscovered creature of the deep?
11:10If you think Trunko sounds like some kind of Lovecraftian monster, you wouldn't be far off.
11:15It was the name given to a strange sea creature sighted off the coast of Margate, South Africa in 1924.
11:21Witnesses reported seeing Trunko fight off two killer whales for hours.
11:25The fight allegedly ended with the creature's death,
11:28and its body later washed ashore where it was photographed.
11:31Witnesses claimed that it looked like, quote,
11:33a giant polar bear, complete with white fur and an elephantine trunk.
11:37However, no scientific examination was conducted, and the body eventually disappeared.
11:42To this day, no one knows exactly what it was,
11:46but many cryptozoologists consider Trunko a classic globster,
11:50a disgusting name for the large organic mass of a decayed whale carcass.
11:54After a whale dies, there's a lot of gases which build up inside their body,
11:58and there's no exit point, or at least their mouth or their bottom isn't working at this stage.
12:03So over time, they'll find an exit point for the gases to go out,
12:06and the animal will deflate and will potentially float down to the bottom of the sea.
12:12Number 38, D.B. Cooper's money.
12:15The young boy uncovers three bundles of moldy cash, with the rubber bands still intact.
12:22The father and son turn it into the FBI.
12:25In 1980, nearly a decade after the infamous D.B. Cooper hijacking,
12:29a boy named Brian Ingram discovered a decayed bundle of $20 bills
12:33along the Columbia River near Vancouver, Washington.
12:35The money matched the serial numbers of the $200,000 ransom
12:39given to the mysterious hijacker back in 1971,
12:42who had parachuted from an airplane with the money.
12:44He was never seen again.
12:46The find was intriguing, but it only accounted for about $5,800,
12:51leaving the vast majority of the ransom, like the man himself, still untraced and unfound.
12:56Despite extensive searches,
12:58no additional money or definitive evidence of Cooper's fate has ever surfaced.
13:01Yeah, he probably died, but it's more fun to imagine him getting away with it.
13:06The money is found more than 20 miles from Dan Cooper's drop zone
13:10and in the opposite direction from where the wind was blowing.
13:16To add to the confusion,
13:19geologists determine that the money is sitting above an area dredged in 1974.
13:25Number 37, Foo Fighters.
13:27Make my way back home and I learned to fight
13:30No, not those Foo Fighters.
13:34Foo Fighters were actually mysterious aerial phenomena reported by Allied pilots during World War II.
13:39These glowing orbs, lights, or shapes would appear near aircraft,
13:43sometimes pacing or maneuvering with remarkable agility.
13:46Pilots often described them as bright spheres that seemed to defy known technology,
13:50performing sudden stops, rapid turns, or high-speed chases.
13:53Classic UFO behavior.
13:56But unlike enemy planes,
13:57they showed no hostile action,
13:59leaving airmen confused and uneasy.
14:02Initially, some believed they were secret German weapons or advanced Japanese aircraft,
14:06but no evidence has ever supported this.
14:09After the war,
14:10scientists speculated they might be atmospheric effects,
14:13ball lightning,
14:14or visual illusions caused by stress and fatigue.
14:17In other words,
14:18no one has any idea what they were.
14:20My father would refer to the Foo Fighters as sort of an example of something that
14:24there's something fairly serious that we should look into.
14:27Number 36,
14:29The Burnham Family House.
14:30This is the Burnham family home of Colorado Springs,
14:33surrounded by a gaggle of onlookers.
14:36The photo was taken in September 1911,
14:38shortly after May Alice Burnham and her two children were found dead in the house.
14:42Three members of the nearby Wayne family were also murdered that same night.
14:46These were the first Midwestern victims of Billy the Axeman,
14:50a still-unidentified serial killer who plagued the American Midwest in the early 20th century.
14:55Nothing is known about the man himself,
14:57aside from the fact that he often targeted families
15:00and likely used the American rail system to get around.
15:03Not even his victim count is truly known.
15:05Some estimates say as little as 24,
15:08others as high as 94.
15:11Number 35,
15:12The Black Dahlia Murder Letter.
15:13Hey, listen up.
15:15No reporters view the body.
15:16Photo men, finish taking your pictures now.
15:19Current men, put a sheet on the body as soon as they're done.
15:22We set up a perimeter six feet back.
15:24Any reporter crosses it, arrests.
15:26Shortly after the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short,
15:30her killer allegedly sent numerous letters to various Los Angeles newspapers.
15:34These messages, often written in a mix of cut-out magazine clippings,
15:38mocked police efforts and gloated about the crime.
15:41One infamous letter read,
15:42Here is Dahlia's belongings,
15:44and included Short's birth certificate and business cards,
15:47seemingly confirming the sender's involvement.
15:50And in this one sent to the Herald Express,
15:52the killer says,
15:53I will give up on Dahlia killing if I get 10 years.
15:56Don't try to find me.
15:57Despite extensive analysis,
15:59the authenticity of the letters remains disputed,
16:02with many investigators believing they were hoaxes from opportunists.
16:05Either way,
16:06neither Short's killer nor the author of these threatening letters have ever been found.
16:10Abdominal cavity reveals no free-flowing blood,
16:14intestines, stomach, spleen, liver, all removed.
16:18Number 34.
16:19Hinterkaifeck
16:20In March 1922,
16:22the quiet Hinterkaifeck farmstead in Bavaria became the scene of one of Germany's most infamous unsolved crimes.
16:28Six people,
16:29Andreas and Cecilia Gruber,
16:31their daughter Victoria,
16:32her two children,
16:33and the family maid,
16:34were brutally murdered with a mattock.
16:36Four family members were lured one by one into the barn,
16:39where they were slaughtered by a still-unknown assailant.
16:42The maid and young Yosef were then killed inside the house.
16:45Strangely,
16:46the killer stayed on the farm for several days after,
16:49feeding the livestock,
16:50cooking meals,
16:51and keeping the homestead in order,
16:53suggesting eerie familiarity and composure.
16:55In this chilling photo taken by Andreas Biglieder,
16:58the Hinterkaifeck farm sits quiet and abandoned five days after its owners were killed.
17:03Number 33.
17:05The Voynich Manuscript
17:06But then there are various pages that are just entirely paragraphs and paragraphs of running text.
17:12So we have no other examples of this script anywhere.
17:16We don't know what it's about.
17:18We can't read any of it.
17:19This illustrated book defies all logic.
17:22It's believed to have been created in the early 15th century,
17:25and it's written in an unknown script that has resisted all attempts at translation.
17:29Its pages are filled with strange drawings of plants that don't exist,
17:34bizarre diagrams,
17:35and unsettling human figures interacting with odd machinery and bathing in green liquid.
17:40Despite centuries of academic study,
17:42no one has managed to crack its code,
17:44leading to endless speculation about its nature.
17:46Some think it's an elaborate hoax or meaningless ramblings,
17:50while others believe it encodes forgotten knowledge or an unknown language.
17:54It sits at the edge of the known and the unknowable,
17:56a tangible object meticulously crafted,
18:00yet taunting us with secrets we cannot know.
18:02The fact that the manuscript is written in a way that nobody else could read it
18:08suggests that it is preserving knowledge that someone wanted to keep secret.
18:14Number 32.
18:15The Time-Traveling Hipster
18:17Wow! Way to go, guys!
18:18Have a galerine pra pala.
18:20Hey!
18:21Hey!
18:21Hey!
18:21Hey!
18:23It's original!
18:24You all know it.
18:25It's one of the most famous photos on the internet.
18:27It was taken in 1941 at the South Fork Bridge in Goldbridge, British Columbia,
18:32and it depicts what looks like a modern man in a period setting.
18:35While everyone else seems to be in old-timey outfits,
18:38the so-called time-traveling hipster is wearing sunglasses and what looks like a t-shirt,
18:43and he's carrying a curiously small camera.
18:46The mystery remains as to who this is and why he's dressed so differently from the rest.
18:50But as for the clothes, those actually did exist in the early 40s.
18:54So while he's certainly out of place stylistically,
18:57he wouldn't have been branded as a man from the future.
19:00Look, I am not stupid, you know.
19:03They cannot make things like that yet.
19:06Not yet.
19:08Not for about 40 years.
19:12Are you saying it's from the future?
19:14Number 31.
19:15The Utah Monolith
19:16A giant piece of metal sticking out of the rocks,
19:19and no one, this is the weird part,
19:21has any idea how it got there or who put it there.
19:25This mysterious metal pillar was discovered in November 2020
19:28in a remote desert canyon in southeastern Utah.
19:31Standing just under 10 feet,
19:33the sleek triangular structure was embedded in the ground
19:35and resembled something out of science fiction,
19:38quickly drawing comparisons to 2001 A Space Odyssey.
19:41Its origins sparked widespread speculation.
19:43Was it an art installation, a prank,
19:46or something more otherworldly?
19:49And while it wasn't discovered until 2020,
19:51it had actually been sitting there since 2016,
19:54its very existence unremarked upon.
19:57Within days, curious visitors flocked to the site,
20:00and just as suddenly as it appeared,
20:02the monolith vanished.
20:03It now sits in the custody of the Bureau of Land Management,
20:06but countless questions still remain,
20:08like who made it and what it was for.
20:10Nobody knows for sure when it showed up.
20:12I mean, there's evidence that it has probably been there
20:15for a handful of years,
20:17and then it mysteriously vanished,
20:19just as mysterious as it appeared.
20:21So what do we investigate?
20:23Number 30, the Baltic Sea Anomaly.
20:26People love them some underwater mysteries,
20:28and the Baltic Sea Anomaly has to be one of the most famous.
20:32This strange, odd thing just turned up on the monitor.
20:37The widely circulated sonar image depicts a large structure
20:41at the bottom of the ocean,
20:42and may we say it looks suspiciously like the Millennium Falcon.
20:46It was almost perfectly round,
20:48180 feet in diameter,
20:50and it looked like a UFO.
20:53This picture was taken in 2011
20:54by a Swedish diving team looking for underwater treasure.
20:58Many people assumed it was a sunken UFO,
21:01while others speculated that it was some type of giant human-made structure
21:04that was long lost to history.
21:06Others have provided more down-to-earth suggestions,
21:09like a school of fish or a simple rock formation.
21:12But in my eyes, I see a crash site.
21:17Number 29, the Mysterious Hand.
21:20Back in 2016, Belfast Live was sent a creepy photograph
21:24by a woman named Linda.
21:26Dated from 1900,
21:28it shows a group of female factory workers
21:30with their arms crossed.
21:32One of the women is Linda's grandmother,
21:33Ellen Donnelly,
21:34and over Donnelly's shoulder
21:36is what looks like a disembodied hand
21:38with clear, prominent fingers.
21:40This photo was quickly disseminated through the media,
21:44with Inside Edition calling it a, quote,
21:46mysterious ghost hand.
21:47Check out those fingers resting on the girl's shoulder.
21:51It even made its way to Snopes,
21:53but they were unable to properly debunk the photo.
21:56The likely answer is that the mystery hand
21:59resulted from a long camera exposure.
22:01The supernatural answer is, of course,
22:04well, we don't want to think about that.
22:06So far, no one's confirmed either were ghosts,
22:09but the new Ghostbusters movie is coming out.
22:11Maybe they can weigh in.
22:13Number 28, Michael Rockefeller.
22:16In November of 1961,
22:1823-year-old Michael Rockefeller
22:20ventured into the jungles of modern-day South Papua
22:22and never returned.
22:23He was declared legally dead in 1964,
22:27and the common opinion is that he was killed by the natives.
22:30Despite such an intensive search,
22:32nothing was found.
22:33But that doesn't explain this eerie photo
22:35of a man who looks suspiciously like
22:37a bearded Michael Rockefeller
22:39spending time with the locals.
22:40Is it possible this is Michael Rockefeller?
22:44Well, we don't know.
22:45This footage was taken by a videographer
22:47hired by journalist Milt Macklin,
22:49who was investigating the disappearance in 1969.
22:52The photo was finally shared in the documentary
22:55The Search for Michael Rockefeller,
22:57inciting more than a few raised eyebrows.
22:59The more you blow something up,
23:00the grainier it becomes.
23:02Number 27, the Moon Pyramid.
23:05Obviously, there's not a secret pyramid
23:07hidden on the moon, right?
23:08Right, guys?
23:09Apollo 17 was the final mission
23:11of the iconic Apollo program,
23:13occurring over 12 and a half days
23:15in December of 1972.
23:16We'd like to dedicate the first step
23:19of Apollo 17
23:21to all those who made it possible.
23:24The astronauts ventured to an area
23:26known as Geophone Rock
23:27and took a number of photos,
23:29one of which was simply labeled blank.
23:32But if you turn up the contrast,
23:34you can clearly see what appears to be a pyramid.
23:37Simple trick of the eye,
23:38the result of film grain and bad lighting?
23:41Some other pyramid-shaped device or structure?
23:44Maybe a genuine pyramid?
23:46You be the judge.
23:47We're just saying,
23:48this was the last time
23:49that humans stepped foot on the moon.
23:51Look at that!
23:52Look at that!
23:53Look at that!
23:54Number 26, the Cooper Family Photo.
23:57This is one of the most famous
23:59paranormal photographs circulating the web.
24:01Known as the Cooper Family Photo,
24:03it shows the family sitting by a table,
24:06having just moved into a new Texas home.
24:08To the right of the family
24:09is what appears to be
24:10a clear human body falling from the ceiling.
24:13Despite valiant attempts to debunk the photo,
24:16no clear consensus has been reached.
24:19If it's fake,
24:20it was likely staged by the family themselves,
24:22as the photo is poorly framed
24:24to include negative space for the body.
24:26Some have also theorized double exposure.
24:29Whatever the case,
24:30it is still creepy as hell.
24:33Number 25,
24:34the photos of Chris Kramers and Lissana Frone.
24:37Blank photos are not inherently scary,
24:40but they take on fear
24:41when context is taken into account.
24:43On April 1st, 2014,
24:46Dutch hikers Chris Kramers and Lissana Frone
24:48went missing while hiking in Panama.
24:50Official Panamanian conclusion,
24:52they fell off a bridge while crossing river.
24:5410 weeks later,
24:56a local woman found Frone's backpack
24:57and reported it to police.
24:59Inside was a camera,
25:01and investigators discovered 90 photos
25:03taken between 1 and 4 a.m.
25:05on the morning of April 8th.
25:07Which are like something out of a horror movie.
25:09Most of these photos are blank,
25:10having been taken in complete darkness.
25:13But a few show objects like a twig
25:15and the back of Kramer's head.
25:17Unfortunately,
25:17their bones were later found scattered on a riverbank,
25:20proving that the two had perished.
25:22The reason for the 90 photos is still unclear.
25:26These photographs to me look like
25:27they're taken from inside a nightmare.
25:31There's something definitely peculiar
25:37and not right about this location.
25:39Located 20 miles south of Chicago
25:41is Bachelor's Grove Cemetery,
25:43which is said to be
25:44one of the most haunted cemeteries in America.
25:46One particular ghost said to be haunting the grounds
25:49is the Madonna or the Lady in White.
25:51And if you believe this photo,
25:53the Lady in White was captured on film back in 1991.
25:56None are more famous
25:58than the iconic photo of the woman
26:00sitting on the tombstone.
26:01Judy Huff-Fells was exploring the cemetery
26:04with the local ghost research society
26:06when she felt a presence.
26:07She took a photo with an infrared camera
26:09and captured what is clearly a woman
26:11sitting on a nearby stone.
26:13If this is real,
26:15it is solid proof of the paranormal.
26:17Of course, it could also be staged.
26:20What do you think?
26:21Spiritual.
26:22Terrifying.
26:23Haunted.
26:24All right, Kubrick fans,
26:28get in here
26:28because we have a real monolith on our hands.
26:31Okay, it's probably just a rock,
26:33but hey, one can dream.
26:35Back in 2005,
26:36the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
26:38was launched from Cape Canaveral
26:39with the objective of finding water
26:41on the dry red planet.
26:43What they found instead
26:44was the Mars Monolith,
26:45a giant structure
26:46in the middle of a barren plain.
26:48The photo was taken
26:49from a distance of 180 miles
26:52and depicts a massive rectangular structure
26:54casting a huge shadow.
26:56This bears a very close resemblance
26:58to another monolith
26:59found on Mars' moon Phobos,
27:01which experts theorize
27:02is just a giant rock.
27:04So what do you think?
27:05Rock or magic interdimensional structure?
27:08Buzz Aldrin,
27:09the second man to walk on the moon,
27:11made a really big deal out of this
27:12and basically claimed
27:14that it was artificial.
27:15Number 22.
27:16Fairy Circles.
27:17Found primarily in the Namib Desert of Africa,
27:21but also appearing in Western Australia,
27:23fairy circles make for striking
27:25and difficult-to-explain photos.
27:27The odd patches are large circles of barren land
27:30in the middle of an otherwise grassy area.
27:32There are various local myths
27:34that attempt to explain the phenomenon.
27:36According to some,
27:38there is a dragon that lives underground,
27:40and its poisonous breath
27:41has killed the vegetation above.
27:43And according to the Himba people,
27:45they may be the footprints of gods.
27:47As for the scientific explanation,
27:49well, no one really knows.
27:52Some blame termites,
27:53others an echo hydrological feedback,
27:56in which the circle acts as a water reservoir
27:58for the surrounding grass.
28:00Number 21.
28:01The Battle of Los Angeles.
28:03It's one of the most famous photographs
28:05in UFO lore.
28:06A number of spotlights shoot from the darkness
28:08and pierce through the night sky,
28:10illuminating some type of object
28:12hundreds of feet above the ground.
28:14If this wasn't an aircraft,
28:16what was it?
28:17This retouched photo graced the front page
28:19of the Los Angeles Times
28:20on February 26th, 1942.
28:23The so-called battle occurred
28:25over the night of February 24th and 25th,
28:28with anti-aircraft forces attacking an object
28:30that was flying over LA.
28:32But were these objects Japanese planes?
28:34Or could they have been something else?
28:37The attack is officially attributed
28:39to a stray weather balloon
28:40that caused panic in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor,
28:42which occurred just three months earlier.
28:45However, many people are not convinced,
28:48with some insinuating that it was a UFO
28:50or a Japanese aircraft
28:52that was covered up by officials.
28:54People still debate whether a firefight
28:56with extraterrestrials actually took place.
28:59Number 20.
29:00The White Lady of Worsted Church.
29:03A couple's trip to Norfolk's Worsted Church
29:05produced what's arguably one of the most convincing
29:07ghost pictures in modern history.
29:10Peter Bertolo snapped a photo of his wife
29:12praying alone on one of the church benches.
29:15When the photo was developed,
29:16it showed that the wife was not alone at all,
29:19as there appears to be a whitish figure
29:22sitting behind her.
29:23Further investigation revealed
29:24that the ghost of an 1800s healer
29:27called the White Lady
29:28was long believed to haunt the church grounds,
29:31and that the photo apparently captured the entity.
29:34Diane Bertolo believed in the validity of the photo
29:37so much that it resurrected her religious verve.
29:41Number 19.
29:42The Extra Hand.
29:50Back in 2013,
29:52Reddit hosted a thread about glitch in the Matrix events
29:54that its users had experienced.
29:56One of the most popular stories from the thread
29:58came from user The Forbidden One.
30:01They included a photo of four young boys,
30:03each of whom can be seen making a hand gesture.
30:06On the right side of the photo,
30:08between the shirtless boy and the one in black,
30:10is a mysterious hand giving a thumbs up.
30:13The hand obviously does not belong to any of the boys,
30:16and the poster claimed to have no idea who it belonged to.
30:21So how the heck did that mystery thumb come to be?
30:24Or do we even want to know?
30:26I know exactly what you mean.
30:29Number 18.
30:30The Grand Canyon Grim Reaper.
30:32This photo surfaced on Reddit in the early 21st century,
30:35and has been the subject of much scrutiny ever since.
30:39The poster claimed that the photo,
30:41taken sometime in the 70s or 80s,
30:43shows his uncle standing on a rock ledge
30:46overlooking the Grand Canyon.
30:48What they didn't realize,
30:49until the photo was developed that is,
30:51was that a figure was standing in the foliage behind him.
30:54The person appears to be wearing a black cloak,
30:57looks much taller than a human,
30:59and very much resembles...
31:00It's the Grim Reaper, dude.
31:03The uncle, and his friends who took the photo,
31:06claimed that they never saw the figure,
31:08and were the only ones occupying that spot of the canyon.
31:12Anybody else have goosebumps?
31:14Number 17.
31:15The Sulway Firth Spaceman.
31:17An astronaut?
31:18A ghost?
31:19A beekeeper?
31:20This mysterious figure in white,
31:22has fascinated people for decades.
31:24On May 23rd, 1964,
31:27English firefighter Jim Templeton
31:28was on a day trip in Cumbria
31:30with his wife Annie and daughter Elizabeth.
31:32He snapped three photos of his daughter,
31:34only to discover that the middle photo
31:36included someone standing behind her.
31:38After he brought it to the press,
31:39the photo went viral,
31:41and naturally, we guess,
31:42a lot of people concluded
31:43that extraterrestrials must be to blame.
31:46Investigative journalist David Clark
31:48has suggested the figure was Templeton's wife,
31:50and that her dress showed up as white
31:52due to overexposure.
31:54A trick of the camera, or aliens?
31:57We'll let you decide.
31:58Number 16.
32:00The Hook Island Sea Monster.
32:02Located off the coast of Queensland, Australia,
32:04Hook Island is one of the beautiful Whitsunday Islands.
32:06It made international news in 1964
32:09after a man named Robert Le Cirec
32:12released a series of photos he took
32:13in Hook Island's Stonehaven Bay.
32:15The photos seem to depict
32:16a massive tadpole-like creature
32:18under the surface of the water.
32:20A small boat with a human passenger
32:22can be seen near the monster's tail,
32:24giving the photo a sense of scale.
32:26It is by far one of the most popular photographs
32:28in cryptozoology,
32:30and has been widely discussed
32:31and theorized about for decades.
32:33Number 15.
32:35The Hampton Court Ghost.
32:37By the River Thames in the greater London area
32:39is Hampton Court,
32:41a popular royal court palace
32:42dating back to the early 16th century.
32:45Many have lived and died here.
32:47Small wonder then that it is often considered
32:49to be one of the most haunted buildings in Britain.
32:52In the winter of 2003,
32:53security was continuously called
32:55to the palace's clock court,
32:57as a fire-escape door kept opening on its own.
33:00Upon looking at the security footage,
33:01they were met with a horrifying sight.
33:04A figure,
33:05a rather strange,
33:06tall,
33:07spare figure,
33:08appears after the doors open
33:10and closes them.
33:11What looks like a cloaked
33:13and skeletal figure
33:14can be seen opening
33:15and closing the doors.
33:17That very same day,
33:18a tourist had reported
33:20seeing a ghostly figure
33:21in the exact same area.
33:23If this is indeed a ghost,
33:25then the Hampton Court Palace
33:26needs an exorcist.
33:28What's important,
33:28and what's interesting
33:29is not who closed these doors,
33:32but what opened them.
33:34Number 14,
33:35the Falcon Lake Incident.
33:36Canada is home
33:37to one of the most documented
33:39and convincing UFO stories
33:40in modern history.
33:42A man named Stefan Michalak
33:44claimed to have been burned
33:45by a UFO
33:46near Manitoba's Falcon Lake
33:47in May 1967.
33:49According to Stephen,
33:50the craft rotated counterclockwise,
33:53knocking him backwards
33:54and setting his shirt on fire.
33:55In fact,
33:56the supposed attack
33:57has become such an integral part
33:59of Canadian legend
34:00that it was depicted
34:01on the Royal Canadian Mint's
34:02$20 silver coin.
34:04The famous picture
34:05shows Michalak
34:06sitting in a bed
34:07with numerous circles
34:08burned into a skin
34:09in a grid-like pattern.
34:11One skeptic believes
34:12that Michalak was injured
34:13while prospecting for ore
34:15and that he lied about a UFO
34:17to scare other prospectors away.
34:19However,
34:19that's just one theory of many.
34:22The truth remains unknown.
34:24Stephen still is not sure
34:26what it was he saw
34:27back in 1967.
34:29Number 13.
34:30The Skunk Ape
34:31Every region has its own
34:33unique cryptozoological creature
34:34and Florida has the Skunk Ape.
34:37As its name suggests,
34:38the Skunk Ape is said
34:40to resemble a walking ape,
34:41specifically an orangutan,
34:43and carries a horrible odor.
34:45They got a smell.
34:46It's a definite odor.
34:47Smells like a wet dog
34:49or a goat maybe.
34:51It's essentially
34:51the Sasquatch of the East
34:53and a stinky one at that.
34:55The most famous photo
34:56of the Skunk Ape
34:56is known as the Mayaka photo
34:58and it depicts a large,
35:00black, and hairy creature
35:01with red eyes
35:02and sharp bottom teeth.
35:04The photo was taken
35:05by a Florida woman
35:06who noticed that a creature
35:07was stealing apples
35:08from her backyard.
35:09Believing it to be
35:10an escaped orangutan,
35:11the woman notified the police.
35:13However,
35:14the creature had escaped
35:15by the time they arrived.
35:16There are a lot of people
35:18who went into the woods
35:20around here
35:21and never came out.
35:22Number 12.
35:23The Backseat Ghost
35:24In 1959,
35:26Mabel Chinnery took
35:27one of the most famous
35:28ghost photographs
35:29of all time.
35:30Chinnery was visiting
35:31her mother's grave
35:32and had brought along
35:33a camera.
35:34She took a spontaneous
35:35photo of her husband
35:36who was waiting
35:37in the car nearby.
35:39When the picture
35:39was developed,
35:40the couple noticed
35:41the eerie visage
35:42of a mysterious person
35:43sitting in the backseat.
35:45The person appears
35:46to be wearing glasses
35:47and their white-collar shirt
35:49is readily apparent.
35:50Chinnery claimed
35:51that the mystery person
35:52looks exactly like
35:54her deceased mother.
35:55Some skeptics believe
35:56this is a case
35:57of double exposure
35:58or some type of reflection
36:00or trick of the light.
36:01But others
36:02are not so sure.
36:03Number 11.
36:09The SS Watertown Haunting
36:10In 1924,
36:12two crew members
36:13of the SS Watertown
36:14died mysteriously
36:15while cleaning
36:16a cargo tank.
36:17The deaths were attributed
36:18to leaked gas fumes
36:19in the closed quarters
36:20and since the ship
36:21was nowhere near land,
36:23the bodies
36:23were buried at sea.
36:25In the days
36:25following the burial,
36:26the crew reported
36:27seeing the faces
36:28of the dead
36:29in the waves
36:29and several photos
36:31were taken of the water.
36:32All of them
36:33came out normal
36:34except for this one.
36:36What's more,
36:37this photo reportedly
36:38survived several investigations
36:39by experts
36:40who concluded
36:41it has never been doctored.
36:43While a few articles
36:44like those
36:45in the Fortean Times
36:46claim to debunk the photo,
36:48conclusive evidence
36:49against its veracity
36:50has yet to be agreed upon.
36:52Number 10.
36:53The Hessdalen Lights
36:54Since at least
36:55the 1930s,
36:57strange lights
36:57have appeared
36:58in the skies
36:59around Norway's
37:00Hessdalen Valley,
37:01balls of light
37:02of different colors
37:03that hover
37:03or move sharply
37:04across the night skies.
37:06Occurring with
37:07alarming regularity
37:08between 1981
37:09and 1984,
37:10the lights
37:11attracted tourists
37:12who could see the lights
37:1315 to 20 times
37:15a week on average.
37:16One photo captured
37:17the phenomenon
37:18incredibly,
37:19with the lights
37:20appearing as a giant
37:21ethereal cluster
37:22with a prismed rainbow
37:23reflected underneath.
37:25Though UFOs
37:26are often cited
37:27as the supposed culprit,
37:29scientists have come up
37:30with several hypotheses
37:31ranging from
37:32the combustion
37:32of natural elements
37:33to the ionization
37:35of certain particles.
37:37The lights still occur
37:38in the early 21st century,
37:39but less frequently
37:40than before.
37:41The picture remains
37:43unexplained.
37:44Number 9.
37:45The Spectre of Newby Church
37:47This 1963 photo
37:49taken of the Newby Church
37:50in North Yorkshire, UK
37:51features an unexpected figure
37:53in the right corner.
37:55The spectre,
37:56the supposed ghost
37:56of a 16th century monk,
37:58appears to have a shroud
38:00over his face
38:00and his hands
38:01in a position
38:02of worship or mourning.
38:04Experts have examined
38:05the photo,
38:06and though the figure
38:06was theorized
38:07to be a case
38:08of double exposure,
38:09it was concluded
38:10that this is not the case
38:12and that the photo
38:13is genuine.
38:14But that's not even
38:15the spookiest part.
38:16In relation to the items
38:17in the photo,
38:18the figure would be
38:199 feet tall.
38:21Number 8.
38:22Goddard's Squadron Ghost,
38:24also known as
38:25the Ghost of Freddie Jackson.
38:27If you're a connoisseur
38:27of ghost photos,
38:29this is your holy grail.
38:31Freddie Jackson
38:31was reportedly
38:32an air mechanic
38:33who was accidentally killed
38:35by an airplane propeller.
38:36Two days after the accident,
38:38the squadron of Sir Victor Goddard
38:39took a photo together
38:41without Freddie.
38:42But sure enough,
38:43Freddie turned up
38:43when the photo was developed.
38:45In the back row
38:46on the left side,
38:47the face of the dead mechanic,
38:49not wearing a hat,
38:50appears behind
38:51one of the soldiers' heads.
38:53Believers insist
38:54that this photo
38:55is evidence
38:55of the presence of spirits
38:56in our physical world,
38:58especially considering
38:59it was produced in 1919,
39:01many years before
39:02modern photo tampering software
39:04could have rendered
39:04such a believable fake.
39:06Number 7.
39:07The Babushka Lady
39:08No JFK conspiracy
39:10would be complete
39:11without the Babushka Lady.
39:13Many photos
39:13and videos
39:14of the assassination
39:15capture the lady
39:16in close proximity
39:17to the attack,
39:18including one
39:19taken moments
39:20after the shooting.
39:21Curiously,
39:22she doesn't duck
39:23or flee
39:23when it occurs.
39:25Instead,
39:25she's shown filming
39:26from a valuable point
39:28that would have provided
39:29priceless footage,
39:30which is why
39:31everyone tried
39:32to find her.
39:33Despite numerous claims
39:34by individuals,
39:35the Babushka Lady's
39:36identity
39:36has never been confirmed.
39:38The mystery
39:39surrounding her identity,
39:41attire,
39:41and actions
39:42puts her in the center
39:43of the conspiracy,
39:45with some thinking
39:45she might have had a role
39:47in the assassination itself.
39:49Number 6.
39:50The Black Knight Satellite
39:51This photo,
39:52released by NASA
39:53in 1998,
39:55shows a large,
39:56irregularly shaped object
39:57orbiting the Earth.
39:59Conspiracy theorists
40:00believe this is
40:01an alien satellite
40:02that's been surveying
40:03our planet
40:03for 13,000 years.
40:06Their evidence
40:06runs all the way
40:07back to Nikola Tesla's
40:081899 radio experiment,
40:10in which extraterrestrial
40:12sounds were recorded,
40:13and the supposed satellite
40:15has been the supposed
40:16culprit for nearly
40:17every unexplainable
40:18radio signal
40:19in the years since.
40:20Space journalist
40:21and former NASA engineer
40:23James Oberg
40:23offers a much more
40:25reasonable explanation.
40:26It's a thermal blanket
40:27confirmed lost
40:29on one of the space missions,
40:30or some other type of debris,
40:32but this has yet to be proven.
40:35Number 5.
40:36The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
40:38For 400 years,
40:40Raynham Hall
40:40in Norfolk, England
40:41has served as the seat
40:43of the Townsend family.
40:44Within its walls
40:45is the purported ghost
40:46of Lady Dorothy Walpole,
40:48the sister of Britain's
40:49first prime minister,
40:50and wife of the violent
40:52Charles Townsend.
40:53It is also the setting
40:54of what's perhaps
40:55the most famous
40:56ghost photograph
40:57of all time.
40:58Taken by Hubert C.
41:00Provind
41:00and Indra Shira,
41:01the photo seemingly
41:02depicts the ghost
41:03of Lady Dorothy Walpole
41:04descending the estate's
41:06main staircase.
41:06It was spontaneously taken
41:08after Shira noticed
41:09a misty form
41:11on the stairs.
41:12The famous photograph
41:12was published
41:13in Country Life magazine
41:14in December 1936
41:16and became a sensation.
41:19Number 4.
41:20The Deceased Husband
41:21This famous photograph
41:22shows an elderly woman
41:24sitting on a chair
41:24and posing for the camera.
41:26Standing directly behind her
41:28is an elderly man.
41:29The story goes
41:30that the woman
41:30had been suffering
41:31from dementia
41:32and had been speaking
41:33out loud
41:34to her long-deceased husband.
41:35The woman's daughter
41:37took a photo
41:37of her mother
41:38and upon development
41:39saw the ghostly image
41:41of her deceased father.
41:42She also uploaded
41:43a black and white photo
41:44of her mother and father
41:45from their younger years
41:47and the man in question
41:48shares an eerie resemblance
41:50to the one seen
41:50in the ghost photo.
41:52Number 3.
41:53The Tulip Staircase Ghost
41:54In 1966,
41:56a former clergyman
41:57from White Rock,
41:58British Columbia
41:59paid a visit
42:00to the Queen's House
42:01in the National Maritime Museum
42:02in Greenwich, England.
42:03Believing he was alone,
42:05he took a photo
42:06of the historic
42:07Tulip Staircase.
42:08But after development
42:10of said photo,
42:11a mysterious figure
42:12is seen.
42:13An unmistakable entity,
42:15shrouded and despaired,
42:16looks like it's
42:17holding onto the railing
42:18and trying to climb
42:20the staircase.
42:21This section of the museum
42:22has long been rumored
42:23to be haunted,
42:24with strange paranormal phenomena
42:26having been reported
42:27in prior years.
42:28The photo was reportedly
42:30submitted for examination
42:31and the findings stated
42:33that no alterations
42:34had been made.
42:36Number 2.
42:37The McMinnville UFO Photos
42:38They're among the most
42:39iconic UFO photos
42:41ever taken.
42:42In 1950,
42:44Paul and Evelyn Trent
42:45noticed a mysterious object
42:46hovering over their farm
42:47in McMinnville, Oregon.
42:49Paul was able to snap
42:50several photos
42:51before it zipped off.
42:52The photos caused
42:53quite a stir,
42:54appearing in Life magazine
42:56and newspapers,
42:57and igniting a debate
42:58that's never really ended.
43:00Various explanations
43:01have been suggested.
43:03Physicist Bruce McAbee
43:04argues that the UFO
43:05was a, quote,
43:06real physical object.
43:08Skeptics are nonetheless
43:10convinced they were faked.
43:12The truth may be out there,
43:14but for now,
43:14it remains a mystery.
43:16No, and they've taken
43:17another look at it
43:18as recently as 1999,
43:20and the government
43:21is still unable
43:22to debunk it.
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43:39Number 1.
43:39The Tank Man
43:40One of the most famous
43:42photographs in human history
43:43depicts an unknown man
43:45standing in front
43:46of a column of tanks
43:47in China's Tiananmen Square.
43:49Taken in June of 1989,
43:51the photo remains
43:52censored in China,
43:53as is all mention
43:54of the Tiananmen Square massacre,
43:56in which hundreds
43:57to thousands
43:58of civilians were killed.
44:00Despite being
44:00an iconic photograph,
44:02the fate and identity
44:03of the Tank Man
44:04remains unknown.
44:05And I looked
44:06and I said,
44:06this guy's crazy.
44:07Some people believe
44:08he was taken
44:09and executed
44:09by the Chinese Communist Party.
44:11Others believe
44:12he escaped to Taiwan
44:13and became an archaeologist.
44:15Yet others believe
44:16that he was never in danger
44:17and continued to live
44:19a normal life
44:19on the Chinese mainland.
44:21It remains
44:21a tantalizing,
44:23fascinating mystery.
44:24It really wasn't
44:25until years later
44:26that I realized
44:27what I had,
44:28which is an iconic photo.
44:29Do you think
44:30you have the answers?
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