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Get ready to dive into some seriously strange unsolved mysteries, like metal monoliths that randomly pop up and vanish around the world, and the elusive Florentine diamond. These are the kind of mind-bending facts of life that will leave you wondering what's really going on out there.
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00:06A loaded Boeing 777 bound for China vanishes into thin air.
00:12An eerie monolith suddenly appears in the middle of Utah's desert,
00:19only to disappear just as mysteriously.
00:25And one of Hollywood's most famous cars, James Bond's iconic Aston Martin DB5, has been missing since 1997.
00:36But one burning question remains.
00:39How can such massive things just disappear without a trace?
00:45Buckle up, because we're about to dive into these wild mysteries
00:49and explore what might be hiding right under our noses.
00:57The 18.5-inch high bust of Queen Nefertiti is housed in the Neuse Museum in Berlin.
01:04Apparently, she was like the Beyonce of ancient Egypt.
01:08Absolutely flawless, with high cheekbones, a slender nose, and that mysterious smile,
01:14all carved in limestone.
01:16But wait, where's her eyeball?
01:19Or rather, her iris?
01:22Yep, her left eye is just an empty socket staring into eternity.
01:27But, take a closer look at the iris of the right eye.
01:32That, my friend, is quartz.
01:34At first, the archaeologist who found it assumed that the crystal had fallen out.
01:39So, the team tried their absolute best to get it back.
01:43But, they couldn't find it anywhere, which opened up space for other mysterious theories about its disappearance.
01:52Specialists thought that maybe, in real life, Nefertiti had some ancient eye infection or a rare disease.
01:59But, it turns out, nah.
02:02This theory probably isn't right, because other statues of her show the left eyeball.
02:09So, maybe the artist got lazy and only finished one eye.
02:13Or, they just abandoned their studio.
02:16I mean, who doesn't feel like ditching work sometimes, saying, I quit?
02:20Or, maybe this bust was just a demo model for official portraits, showing future sculptors how to carve the internal
02:27structure of the eye.
02:29I know it's hard to believe that this beautiful bust was just a prop for an art class.
02:35After all, it is ranked as a masterpiece of craftsmanship.
02:39But, this theory has some backing.
02:42The unpainted sides of the shoulders are listed as the second clue that this bust was meant to be a
02:48model.
02:49But, was it really?
02:50Well, nobody can prove it.
02:53All we know is that when the bust was found, the eye was already missing.
02:57As if it never even had one.
03:00So, the mystery is still very much alive.
03:08From one ancient queen to another, but more modern.
03:12Yep, I guess we can say that.
03:14I'm talking about Queen Victoria.
03:16More precisely, about her missing parliamentary mace.
03:20A symbol of authority that's been lost since 1891.
03:26Here's the scoop.
03:27The five-foot-long staff, made of silver and topped with a thin overlay of gold, was securely locked away
03:34after a late-night assembly.
03:36But, by the afternoon, it had vanished without a trace.
03:40The prime suspect was Thomas Jeffrey, an engineer who was seen leaving the Parliament House with a large, noisy package.
03:48Jeffrey claimed it was just scrap metal for his workshop.
03:51Then, there's a theory about a builder using an open window to sneak in and open the case, though the
03:58fingerprints on the windowsill led nowhere.
04:01And let's not forget the prankster rumour.
04:04Apparently, someone might have borrowed the mace for a joke and forgotten where they had left it.
04:11Finally, there's this wild tale of a group of Melbourne ladies supposedly taking it and tossing it into the Mary
04:19Burnong River.
04:20Despite all the wild theories, the mace is still missing.
04:24We still don't know who took it or if any of those suspects were actually involved.
04:30But, whoever grabbed it probably thought it was some kind of valuable treasure.
04:35In reality, it was almost worthless, costing Parliament less than £300.
04:41Sure, that's about $50,000 today, which is not bad at all.
04:46But what I'm saying is, if the suspect was trying to get rich,
04:50it would have been a lot easier and more profitable to take any silverware or plates from the speaker's room.
04:59In 2020, a shiny metal monolith suddenly appeared in the Utah desert, like a sci-fi prop that got lost.
05:08Standing about 9.8 feet tall, it looked like it was waiting for cosmic entities or a film crew to
05:15show up.
05:16But instead of that, the monolith took centre stage in a real-life mystery.
05:22The monolith was found by a helicopter pilot doing an annual bighorn sheep count above a rugged area in the
05:29desert.
05:30Soon after, the monolith's eerie appearance grabbed the media's attention, sparking all sorts of wild theories.
05:39Most of them, of course, involved extraterrestrials.
05:43But my absolute favourite is that this piece was created by an avant-garde artist who's really into 2001 A
05:50Space Odyssey.
05:52While everyone was scratching their heads, a photographer reported seeing four guys come in,
05:58break the monolith apart, and make off with the pieces in a wheelbarrow.
06:02Yep, they literally rolled away with it.
06:05One of them even said,
06:07Leave no trace, as if they were auditioning for a secret agent role.
06:12That means that while some were dreaming of interstellar visitors,
06:16the real action was probably much more down-to-earth.
06:20Still, the Utah monolith mystery remains unsolved.
06:25Nobody knows exactly who took it, and no one has seen it since.
06:30Yeah, that's right.
06:31Although people claim to have seen it being destroyed,
06:34one theory suggests that this strange piece might still be intact in the backyard of one of the suspects.
06:44The Florentine diamond is a pale yellow gem, weighing a whopping 137 carats.
06:51That's about the size of a small walnut,
06:54which makes it huge compared to the typical diamonds you find in jewellery stores.
07:00Unfortunately, this historical gem is missing,
07:03and its story sounds like it was ripped straight from an adventure novel.
07:08It all started in the 15th century, with Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
07:13I mean, we think so because its origins are still disputed.
07:18Theory number one says that when Charles met his unfortunate end,
07:23he was wearing the diamond.
07:25Then, a peasant or a soldier allegedly saw the yellow rock and thought it was just glass,
07:31selling it at a very cheap price.
07:34Not a great deal, especially since if this diamond were auctioned today,
07:38it could be worth more than $20 million.
07:43Some people think that this story is just a tale,
07:46because the first historical reference to the diamond comes much later, in 1657,
07:51when French traveler Jean-Baptiste Tavernier described a large gem
07:56owned by Ferdinand II de Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
08:02So, that takes us to theory number two.
08:05When the last Medici passed away,
08:08the Hasberg family put their hands on the gem,
08:10making it part of the Austrian crown jewels.
08:13When the empire collapsed,
08:16Emperor Charles I of Austria allegedly took the diamond with him into exile.
08:22In 1918, someone close to the imperial family decided to borrow the diamond,
08:28if you know what I mean,
08:29and took it to South America, along with other crown jewels.
08:34So, the Florentine diamond could have been part of a royal gem heist,
08:38but as a victim, I guess.
08:41Rumor has it that in the 20s,
08:43the diamond somehow made its way to the United States,
08:46received a bit of a makeover by being recut,
08:49and was sold off.
08:51But, was it really?
08:52Well, no one knows.
08:58From priceless diamonds to cold Coke.
09:01Honestly, on a scorching summer day,
09:04a refreshing drink feels just as valuable.
09:07Next on our list is a mystery soda machine.
09:10This vintage gem popped up in Capitol Hill, Seattle,
09:14sometime in the late 90s.
09:16And let me tell you,
09:18it was like no other.
09:20People used to say that it had a bunch of mystery buttons
09:24that instead of your usual Coke or Sprite,
09:27dispensed some pretty strange and elusive flavors.
09:31Imagine the fun of pressing a button
09:33and wondering if you'd get ginger ale,
09:36grape soda,
09:36or something bizarrely new.
09:39No one knew exactly who stalked the machine.
09:43Over time,
09:44locals spun legends that it was haunted
09:47or had a mind of its own.
09:49This mysterious Coke machine
09:51became so famous in Seattle
09:53that it had its own Facebook page
09:55with over 24,000 followers.
09:58Then, in June 2018,
10:01it vanished with a note saying,
10:04went for a walk.
10:05Theories flew about where the soda machine went
10:08from the Space Needle
10:09to a secret life somewhere else.
10:12Unfortunately,
10:14despite a few faux sightings,
10:16the machine remains lost.
10:18If that's not the coolest,
10:19most enigmatic vending machine ever,
10:22I don't know what is.
10:26Let's suppose you're strolling along the beach
10:29in Hamamatsu City, Japan,
10:31soaking up the sun
10:32and listening to the waves,
10:34when, out of nowhere,
10:35you spot a 5-foot-wide metal sphere.
10:40Most people would probably freak out,
10:42thinking it's a spy balloon,
10:44a mysterious aircraft,
10:46or, I don't know,
10:47a dragon ball.
10:49This exact scenario
10:51happened to one guy last year.
10:53He probably thought
10:54it was just a weird beach ball,
10:56so he tried to push it.
10:58Naturally,
10:59it didn't move one bit.
11:00A month later,
11:02this giant metal ball
11:03was making headlines worldwide
11:05because no one had any clue
11:07where it came from.
11:09The local police,
11:11suspecting it might be dangerous,
11:13closed off the beach
11:14and got busy with x-rays.
11:16Eventually,
11:17once they realized
11:18it wasn't dangerous,
11:20the officials just decided
11:21to move the mysterious ball
11:23out of there.
11:24They said it would be stored
11:26for a certain period of time
11:28and then disposed of,
11:30but people are still scratching their heads
11:33about where it ended up.
11:34I mean,
11:35those words were pretty vague
11:37and the authorities
11:38never exactly said
11:39what they did with it.
11:44I know,
11:45we've been chatting
11:45about single items
11:47up to this point,
11:48but things are about to escalate.
11:50Over a dozen sculptures,
11:52murals,
11:53and installations
11:54have vanished in Baltimore,
11:56and nobody seems
11:58to have a clue why.
11:59Take The Guide,
12:01for example,
12:02a 15-foot-tall sculpture
12:04that stood proudly
12:05outside Baltimore City College
12:07for more than 30 years.
12:09One day,
12:10in 2014,
12:12the city's art conservator
12:13shows up
12:14and,
12:14surprise,
12:15surprise,
12:15the sculpture is gone.
12:17But wait,
12:18how does a massive steel sculpture
12:21just disappear like that?
12:23Did no one see this happen?
12:25Well,
12:26apparently not,
12:27and this wasn't a one-off.
12:29Since 1992,
12:3014 artworks have disappeared
12:33or been found
12:35in a sad state.
12:36Although some people
12:38have been investigating the case,
12:40so far,
12:41nobody has any idea
12:43what happened
12:44or where the works are.
12:46Maybe they were taken
12:47by some high-stakes art collectors,
12:49or perhaps someone thought
12:52they could use them
12:53as fancy garden gnomes.
12:58It's hard to think
12:59of anything more mysterious
13:01than an airplane disappearing
13:03without a trace.
13:05You have probably heard
13:06of Amelia Earhart,
13:08the groundbreaking American aviator
13:10who became a true legend.
13:12In 1932,
13:15she became the first woman
13:16to fly solo
13:17non-stop
13:18across the Atlantic Ocean,
13:20making a daring trip
13:21from Canada
13:22to Northern Ireland.
13:24Then,
13:25in 1935,
13:26she was the first person
13:28to fly solo
13:29from Hawaii
13:30to the U.S. mainland,
13:31completing a dangerous
13:332,408-mile flight
13:36that had already claimed
13:37several lives.
13:39She also became
13:41the first female
13:42vice president
13:42of the National Aeronautic Association.
13:45Her list of records
13:47goes on.
13:48So,
13:48let's just say
13:49she's got a bit obsessed
13:51with pushing boundaries.
13:52But,
13:54her ultimate goal
13:55was to be the first woman
13:56to fly all the way
13:58around the world.
13:59So,
14:00in 1937,
14:01she took off
14:02on this epic journey
14:03in a Lockheed Electra 10E.
14:06But,
14:06things went horribly wrong.
14:08During a flight
14:09from Leigh to Honolulu,
14:11communication problems
14:12and faulty tracking
14:13led to her disappearing
14:14over the Pacific Ocean.
14:17Despite tons
14:18of sea and air surges,
14:20neither she nor her plane
14:22was ever found,
14:24making it one of
14:25aviation's biggest mysteries.
14:30Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
14:33is kind of like
14:34today's version
14:35of Amelia Earhart's
14:36missing plane.
14:38On March 2014,
14:40a Boeing 777
14:41took off
14:42from Kuala Lumpur,
14:44heading for Beijing.
14:45But,
14:46it never made it.
14:48It vanished
14:48from air traffic control screens.
14:51But,
14:51military radar
14:52briefly picked it up
14:53when it strayed off course
14:54before disappearing completely.
14:57Picture a massive,
14:59high-tech search operation
15:01stretching
15:01from the South China Sea
15:03all the way
15:04to the Indian Ocean.
15:06What's really weird
15:08about this whole thing
15:09is that,
15:10even with a huge search effort,
15:12both in the air
15:14and at sea,
15:15we still don't know
15:17exactly what happened.
15:19Theories range
15:20from the pilot
15:21intentionally crashing
15:22the plane
15:23and mechanical failure
15:24to an elaborate hijacking,
15:27but nothing concrete
15:28has turned up.
15:29The only thing we know
15:31is that the last
15:32confirmed signals
15:33from the plane
15:34pointed to a remote part
15:36of the Indian Ocean.
15:37And that's pretty much it.
15:42The next mode
15:44of transportation
15:44on our list
15:45became legendary
15:47thanks to the movies.
15:48There it is.
15:50It's James Bond's
15:51iconic
15:52Aston Martin DB5
15:54from Goldfinger.
15:55This wasn't just any car.
15:57It was a superstar,
15:59complete with
16:00a hidden telephone,
16:01an ejector seat,
16:03tire shredders.
16:04It had more tricks
16:05up its sleeve
16:06than Bond himself.
16:07But on June 18, 1997,
16:11this famous DB5
16:13vanished from a hangar
16:14in Florida.
16:15That's right.
16:16It just disappeared
16:18like a magic trick
16:19gone wrong.
16:20At that time,
16:21the car was owned
16:22by businessman
16:23and car collector
16:24Anthony Pugliese III
16:26and was worth
16:27a whopping
16:287 to 10 million dollars.
16:31It wasn't the best
16:32disappearing act, though.
16:34Tire drag marks
16:35on the floor
16:36leading out of the hangar
16:37made investigators think
16:39the car was probably
16:41hauled out
16:41by its axles
16:42and loaded onto
16:43a flatbed truck.
16:45If that was the case,
16:47the thieves likely waited
16:49until after dark
16:50to make their move.
16:52Now,
16:53on to the theories.
16:54Some folks think
16:56it was shipped off
16:56to a secret lair,
16:58maybe a swanky palace
17:00in the Middle East.
17:01Others believe
17:02it might have been
17:03sunk into the ocean,
17:04Bond style.
17:05There's even a rumor
17:07that Pugliese himself
17:09hid the DB5
17:10in a warehouse
17:11in New Jersey.
17:12Despite a six-figure reward
17:14and a detective
17:16hot on the case,
17:17the legendary car's
17:18whereabouts
17:19are still a mystery.
17:24The list of missing
17:26Hollywood props
17:27doesn't stop there,
17:28and Tony Stark
17:29might need to file
17:30a police report.
17:31In 2018,
17:34the original Iron Man suit
17:35worn by Robert Downey Jr.
17:37simply vanished
17:38from a warehouse
17:39in Los Angeles.
17:41That iconic
17:42red and gold suit
17:44from the 2008
17:45Iron Man film,
17:46valued at $325,000,
17:50just,
17:50poof,
17:51disappeared.
17:52You'd think
17:53if someone took it
17:54for the money,
17:55they'd grab more stuff
17:56from the prop storage,
17:57right?
17:58Come on,
17:59that place was full
18:00of objects from Hollywood.
18:02But nope,
18:03the suit was the only thing
18:05that disappeared.
18:06With no suspects in sight
18:08and no other items
18:10reported missing,
18:11this possible heist
18:12feels like it could have
18:14been pulled off
18:14by Thanos himself.
18:16You know,
18:17if he wasn't,
18:18well,
18:18fictional.
18:24The last item
18:25on our list
18:26is out of this world.
18:28And I mean,
18:29quite literally.
18:30Back in the 70s,
18:32after Apollo 17,
18:34astronauts Eugene Cernan
18:36and Harrison Schmidt
18:37picked up a moon rock
18:39and decided
18:40to share a piece
18:41with the world.
18:42I mean,
18:43why not, right?
18:47So authorities
18:48chopped up the rock.
18:50Actually,
18:51there were three
18:51different sources
18:52and sent 270 pieces
18:55as gifts
18:56to different nations
18:57around the globe.
18:59Fast forward to today
19:01and over half
19:02of these goodwill moon rocks
19:04have vanished.
19:08Some of them
19:09simply disappeared,
19:10while others
19:11just got tossed
19:12in the trash.
19:16As strange
19:17as it might sound,
19:18Ireland's moon rock
19:19ended up
19:20in Dublin's garbage dump
19:22after a fire
19:23at an observatory.
19:29Joseph Guthines,
19:30a former NASA agent
19:31who became
19:32a moon rock detective,
19:34has been on a quest
19:35to recover
19:36those cosmic gifts.
19:38He even offered
19:40$10,000
19:41for Malta's
19:42missing moon rock.
19:43But it still
19:44hasn't been found.
19:46Apparently,
19:47the moon rocks
19:48are like
19:48celestial treasures.
19:50So,
19:51if you've got
19:52a rogue moon rock
19:53hanging around,
19:53you might want to check
19:55if it's on
19:56Guthines' radar.
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