Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective. But in detective stories, as you know, all the secrets are revealed to the last page. And in these stories there is still a long way to go, although over some of them humanity has been racking its brains for decades. Perhaps we are not destined to find clues for them? Or will the veil of secrecy be opened someday? And what do you think?
43 missing Mexican students
In 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers College went to a demonstration in Igualu where the mayor's wife was to speak to residents. The corrupt mayor instructed the police to relieve him of this problem. On his order, the police detained the students, and as a result of the brutal detention, two students and three bystanders were killed. The rest of the students, as we found out, were handed over to the local crime syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin flayed from his face. The remains of two more students were later found. Relatives and friends of the students staged massive demonstrations, sparking a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends and the police chief tried to escape, but were detained several weeks later. The provincial governor resigned and several dozen police officers and officials were arrested. And only one thing remained a secret - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.
Oak Island Money Pit
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territory, there is small island- Oak Island, or Oak Island. The famous "money pit" is located there. According to the legend, locals they found it back in 1795. It is a very deep and complex mine, in which, according to legend, untold treasures are hidden. Many tried to penetrate there - but the design is insidious, and after the treasure hunter gets to a certain depth, the mine begins to be intensively flooded with water. They say that the daredevils found a stone tablet at a depth of 40 meters with a scrawled inscription: "Two million pounds were buried 15 meters deeper." More than one generation has tried to get the promised treasure out of the pit. Even the future president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, during his student years at Harvard, with a group of friends came to Oak Island to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there? ..
Who was Benjamin Kyle?
In 2004, an unidentified man woke up outside a Burger King diner in Georgia. He had no clothes on, there were no documents with him, but the worst thing is that he did not remember anything about himself. That is, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but could not find traces: no missing people with such signs, no relatives who would have identified him from a photo. Soon he was given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents and certificates of some kind of education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a TV program, out of pity gave him a job as a dishwasher. He still works there. The efforts of doctors to awaken his memory, and the police to find his previous traces, have not yielded results.
Severed Legs Shore
"Shore of severed legs" - the name, given to the shore on the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia. He got this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 of them have been found, and most of them are right-wing. There are several theories to explain why the legs are thrown on this shore - natural disasters, the work of a serial killer ... some even argue that the mafia destroys the bodies of their victims on this remote beach. But none of these theories looks convincing, and no one knows where the truth is.
"Dancing Death" 1518
One summer 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began to dance in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she collapsed from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that others gradually joined her. A week later, 34 people were dancing in the city, and a month later - 400. Many dancers died of fatigue and heart attacks. The doctors did not know what to think, and the churchmen, too, could not exorcise the demons who possessed the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one knew what caused it. They talked about some special type of epilepsy, about poisoning and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But the scientists of that time did not find the exact answer.
Signal from aliens
On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was tracking signals from space at the volunteer Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Civilizations, caught a signal at a random radio frequency, clearly coming from deep space, from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This signal was much stronger than the cosmic noise that Eman was used to hearing on the air. It lasted only 72 seconds and consisted of a completely certain, in the eyes of the observer, a completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was reproduced with accuracy several times in a row. Eman disciplinedly wrote down the sequence and reported it to his fellow alien searches. However, further listening to this frequency yielded nothing, as well as any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. What was it - a prank of quite earthly jokers or an attempt extraterrestrial civilization to get in touch with us - still no one knows.
Unknown from Somerton Beach
And here is another perfect murder, the secret of which has not yet been solved. On December 1, 1948, in Australia, at Somerton Beach in southern Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was found. There were no documents with him, only a note with two words: "Taman Shud" was found in one of his pockets. It was a line from Omar Khayyam's Rubai meaning "the end." It was not possible to find out the cause of death of the unknown. The forensic investigator believed that it was about poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed that it was a matter of suicide, but this statement was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case stirred up not only Australia, but the whole world. They tried to establish the identity of the unknown in almost all countries of Europe and America, but the efforts of the police were in vain, and the story of "Taman Shud" remained covered with a veil of secrecy.
Confederate treasures
This legend still haunts American treasure seekers - and not only them. According to legend, when the northerners were already close to victory in Civil war, the treasurer of the Confederate government, George Trenholm, in desperation decided to deprive the winners of their legitimate booty - the treasury of the Southerners. This mission was taken over personally by the President of the Confederates Jefferson Davis. He, along with his guards, left Richmond with a huge load of gold, silver and jewelry. Where they went, no one knows, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, no jewelry was with him, and 4 tons of Mexican gold dollars also disappeared without a trace. Davis never revealed the secret of gold. Some believe that he gave it to the planters of the South so that they would bury it until better times, others - that it was buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that the secret society of the "Knights of the Golden Circle", secretly preparing a revenge in the Civil War, laid their paws on him. Some even say that the treasure is hidden at the bottom of the lake. Dozens of treasure hunters are still looking for him, but none of them can get to the bottom of either the money or the truth.
Voynich manuscript
The mysterious book, known as the Voynich Manuscript, is named after the Polish American second-hand bookseller Wilfred Voynich, who bought it from an unknown person in 1912. In 1915, after taking a closer look at the find, he told the whole world about it - and since then, many have not known peace. According to scientists, the manuscript was written in XV-XVI centuries v central Europe... The book contains a lot of text written in small handwriting, hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown modern science... Here are also drawn the signs of the zodiac, medicinal herbs, accompanied by text, apparently, recipes for their use. However, the content of the text is just the speculation of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language that is still unknown on Earth, and, moreover, is practically indecipherable. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even after centuries.
Karst wells of Yamal
In July 2014, an inexplicable explosion occurred in Yamal, as a result of which a huge well appeared in the ground, the width and height of which reached 40 meters! Yamal is not the most populated place on the planet, so no one was hurt from the explosion and the appearance of the failure. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon demanded an explanation, and a scientific expedition set off to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful for studying a strange phenomenon - from geographers to experienced mountain climbers. However, when they arrived, they did not manage to understand the reasons and nature of the incident. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared on Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have managed to express only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal gaps remain a mystery.
Antikythera mechanism
Discovered by treasure seekers on a sunken Greek ship at the beginning of the twentieth century, this device, which at first seemed like another artifact, turned out to be, no less, the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze discs, made with precision and accuracy, unthinkable in those distant times, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, time in accordance with different calendars and dates of the Olympic Games. According to the results of analyzes, the device was made at the turn of the millennium - about a century before the birth of Christ, 1600 years before the discoveries of Galileo and 1700 before the birth of Isaac Newton. This device was more than a thousand years ahead of its time and still amazes scientists.
Sea people
The Bronze Age, which lasted from about the XXXV to the X century BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations at once - Greek, Cretan, Canaan. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments, the tools of labor became more complicated. It seemed that humanity is moving by leaps and bounds towards prosperity. But it all collapsed in a few years. The civilized peoples of Europe and Asia were attacked by a horde of "people of the sea" - barbarians on countless ships. They burned and destroyed cities and villages, burned food, killed and took people into slavery. After their invasion, ruins remained everywhere. Civilization was thrown back at least a thousand years ago. In the once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, many secrets of construction and working with metals were lost. The most mysterious thing is that after the invasion, the "sea people" disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. Scientists are still wondering who and where this people was and what it was. further destiny... But there is no intelligible answer to this question yet.
Murder of the "Black Dahlia"
Books and films were written about this legendary murder, but it was not possible to unravel it. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Her naked body was brutally mistreated: it was almost cut in half and bore the marks of many injuries. The body was washed clean and completely devoid of blood. This story was widely disseminated by journalists, giving Short the nickname "black dahlia". Despite an active search, the police were never able to find the killer. The Black Dahlia case is considered one of the oldest unsolved murders in Los Angeles.
Motor ship "Ourang Medan"
In early 1948, the Dutch ship Ourang Medan gave a COC signal from the Mallack Strait off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and it ended with chilling words: "And I am dying." The captain of the Silver Star vessel, having heard the distress signal, went in search of the Ourang Medan. Having found the ship in the Strait of Malacca, sailors from Silver Star boarded and saw that it was indeed full of corpses, and the cause of death was not visible on the bodies. Soon the rescuers noticed suspicious smoke coming from the hold and, just in case, preferred to return to their ship. And they did the right thing, because soon "Ourang Medan" spontaneously exploded and sank. Of course, this made the possibility of investigation null and void. Why the team died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.
Baghdad battery
Until recently, it was believed that mankind mastered the receipt and use of electric current only at the end of the 18th century. However, an artifact found by archaeologists in the region of ancient Mesopotamia in 1936 casts doubt on this conclusion. The device consists of a clay pot, in which the battery itself is hidden: an iron core wrapped in copper, which is believed to have been filled with some kind of acid, after which it began to generate electricity. For many years, archaeologists have debated whether the devices were actually related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they collected the same primitive products - and managed to get an electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to arrange electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since no written sources of that era have survived, this mystery will now probably excite scientists forever.
Science and technology are developing incredibly fast - we fly into space, land on other planets and come close to solving the riddle eternal life... However, the world still has something to surprise a person with. Some of the mystical oddities presented below have frightened and baffled scientists for decades - and there is not the slightest sign that they will ever be resolved.
Yeti
A legendary creature seen by many hunters in the mountains. Yeti, Bigfoot, Bigfoot - what is it? A missed step in evolution? Mirage?
Sounds of Taos
In the small town of Taos, New Mexico, residents often hear a strange, inexplicable sound. It is described as the work of a diesel engine - but, and this is the strangest thing, no electronic devices can record it. For audio equipment, sound simply does not exist, but ordinary people hear it very well.
Voynich manuscript
This strange manuscript was written in a language that has not been deciphered for many centuries, moreover, professional linguoanalysis has shown that on the pages of the manuscript there is a real language, and not some kind of gibberish. In addition, the drawings depict strange creatures and strange plants that simply do not exist in nature.
Jack the ripper
You've probably heard the story of the maniac who killed 11 women. The mystery of this psychopath was never solved, although all the best minds of that time fought over it.
Bermuda Triangle
The end points of the triangle are Miami Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Ships and planes disappeared here, but scientists still do not understand the reasons.
Tamam Shud
Back in December 1948, an unknown man was found dead in the suburbs of the small town of Adelaide, Australia. In his pocket, the police found a leaflet with the inscription Tamam Shud - this is a part of the rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which can be translated as “The End”. The identity of a man could not be established by any state in the world.
Zodiac
And one more maniac, never found by the authorities. This madman liked to send encrypted letters to the police - most of the messages have not yet been decrypted.
Rongorongo
Easter Island, where mysterious monuments have been discovered, also contains another mystery - a set of Rongorongo glyphs. Scientists from many countries fought over deciphering ancient symbols, but all without the slightest result.
Loch Ness monster
For centuries, people have heard the history of Loch Ness. There is definitely something inhabited here that we have not yet seen - only we can not catch it.
Shroud of Turin
A piece of cloth with an imprint (allegedly) of the face of Jesus Christ. Scientists, in principle, admit the possibility that the face of a dead person could in fact be imprinted on cotton - but they cannot make any precise statements about the identity of the deceased.
Atlantis
Most of the scientific community agree on a single thought - Atlantis was just an allegory in the mouth of Plato, describing an ideal state. And, nevertheless, the search for a sunken civilization does not stop.
Wow
Technician Jerry Ehman was working on a project at Wesleyan University in Ohio when he received a strong signal directly from space - more precisely, from the constellation Sagittarius. The broadcast lasted for 72 seconds and was named WOW (analogous to the Russian "Wow!"). Unfortunately, the signal was not repeated a second time.
D.B. Cooper
The perfect crime that has baffled all US forensic scientists. D.B. Cooper hijacked the plane and demanded a ransom of $ 200,000 and several parachutes. The authorities decided to cooperate. Having received everything he needed, the criminal jumped out of the plane - he was never seen again.
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Mysterious murders at the Hinterkaifeck farm
In 1922, the mysterious murder of six people on a small farm called Hinterkaifeck shocked the whole of Germany. And not only because the murders were committed with horrific cruelty.
All the circumstances associated with this crime were very strange, even mystical, and to this day it remains unsolved.
During the investigation, more than 100 people were interrogated, but no one was arrested. Not a single motive that could somehow explain what happened was also not identified.
The housemaid ran away six months ago, claiming that there were ghosts. The new girl arrived just hours before the murder.
Apparently, the attacker was on the farm for at least several days - someone was feeding the cows and eating in the kitchen. In addition, neighbors saw smoke coming out of the chimney during the weekend. In the photo - the body of one of the killed, found in a barn.
Phoenix lights
The so-called "Phoenix Lights" are several flying objects that were observed by more than 1000 people on the night of Thursday, March 13, 1997: in the skies over the states of Arizona and Nevada in the United States and over the state of Sonora in Mexico.
Actually, two strange events happened that night: a triangular formation of luminous objects that moved across the sky, and several stationary lights hovering over the city of Phoenix. However, in the latter, the US Air Force recognized the lights from the A-10 Warthog aircraft - it turned out that at that time a military exercise was taking place in southwestern Arizona.
Solway Firth Astronaut
In 1964, the family of Briton Jim Tumpleton took a walk near Solway Firth. The head of the family decided to photograph his five-year-old daughter with Kodak. The Templons insisted that there was no one else in these swampy places besides them. And when the pictures were developed, one of them showed a strange figure peeping out from behind the girl's back. The analysis showed that the photo was not subjected to any changes.
Falling body
The Coopers have just moved into their new home in Texas. In honor of the housewarming, a festive table was laid, at the same time they decided to take several family photos. And when the pictures were developed, a strange figure was revealed on them - it seems that someone's body is either hanging or falling from the ceiling. Of course, the Coopers did not see anything like this during the shoot.
Too many hands
Four guys were fooling around, taking pictures in the yard. When the film was developed, it turned out that one extra hand appeared out of nowhere (peeking out from behind the back of a guy in a black T-shirt).
"Battle of Los Angeles"
This photograph was published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942. To this day, conspiracy theorists and ufologists refer to it as proof of the visit of the Earth by extraterrestrial civilizations. They state that the photo clearly shows that the beams of the searchlights are falling on the alien flying ship. However, as it turned out, the photos for publication were pretty much retouched - this is a standard procedure that almost all published black-and-white photos were subjected to to heighten the effect.
The incident itself, captured in the photo, was called a "misunderstanding" by the authorities. The Americans had just survived the Japanese attack, and in general the tension was incredible. Therefore, the military got excited and opened fire on the object, which, most likely, was a harmless weather balloon.
Lights of Hessdalen
In 1907, a group of teachers, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the "Lights of Hessdalen".
On a clear night, Björn Hauge took this picture using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object should be composed of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of Hessdalen's Lights. Scientists are still puzzling over what it could be.
Time traveller
This photograph was taken in 1941 during the opening ceremony of the South Forks Bridge. Public attention was drawn to the young man, who was considered by many to be a "time traveler" - because of his modern hairstyle, a zip sweater, a T-shirt with a print, fashionable glasses and a camera-soap dish. The whole outfit is clearly not from the 40s. On the left, a camera is highlighted in red, which was really in use at that time.
9/11 Attack - South Tower Woman
In these two images, a woman can be seen standing on the edge of a hole in the South Tower after an airplane crashed into a building. Her name is Edna Clinton and, surprisingly, she ended up on the list of survivors. How she did it is incomprehensible, considering everything that happened in that part of the building.
Skunk monkey
In 2000, a woman who wished to remain anonymous took two photographs of the mysterious creature and sent it to the Sarasota County Sheriff, Florida. Attached to the photographs was a letter in which the woman claimed that she had photographed a strange creature in the backyard of her house. The creature came to her house for three nights in a row and stole the apples left on the terrace.
UFO in the painting "Madonna with St. Giovannino"
The painting "Madonna and Saint Giovannino" is by Domenico Ghirlanda (1449-1494) and is currently in the collection of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Above Maria's right shoulder, a mysterious flying object and a man watching him are clearly visible.
Falcon Lake case
Another encounter with the alleged extraterrestrial civilization took place at Lake Falcon on May 20, 1967.
Someone Stefan Michalak was resting in these places and at some point noticed two descending cigar-shaped objects, one of which sank very close. Michalak claims to have seen the door open and heard voices coming from within.
He tried to speak to the aliens in English, but there was no answer. Then he tried to get closer, but came across "invisible glass", which apparently served as a protection for the object.
Suddenly, Michalak was surrounded by a cloud of air so hot that his clothes caught fire, and the man suffered serious burns.
Bonus:
This story took place on the evening of February 11, 1988 in the city of Vsevolozhsk. There was a light knock on the window of the house where a woman who was fond of spiritualism lived with her teenage daughter. Looking out, the woman saw no one. I went out onto the porch - no one. And there were no tracks in the snow under the window either.
The woman was surprised, but did not attach much importance. And half an hour later, there was a clap and part of the glass in the window where the invisible guest was knocking collapsed, forming an almost perfectly round hole.
The next day, at the request of the woman, her Leningrad acquaintance, Candidate of Technical Sciences S.P. Kuzionov arrived. He examined everything carefully and took several pictures.
When the photo was developed, it showed the face of a woman peering into the lens. Both the mistress of the house and Kuzionov himself looked unfamiliar with this face.
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Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective story. But in detective stories, as you know, all the secrets are revealed to the last page. And in these stories there is still a long way to go, although over some of them humanity has been racking its brains for decades. Perhaps we are not destined to find clues for them? Or will the veil of secrecy be opened someday? And what do you think?
43 missing Mexican students
In 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers College went to a demonstration in Igualu where the mayor's wife was to speak to residents. The corrupt mayor instructed the police to relieve him of this problem. On his order, the police detained the students, and as a result of the brutal detention, two students and three bystanders were killed. The rest of the students, as we found out, were handed over to the local crime syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin flayed from his face. The remains of two more students were later found. Relatives and friends of the students staged massive demonstrations, sparking a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends and the police chief tried to escape, but were detained several weeks later. The provincial governor resigned and several dozen police officers and officials were arrested. And only one thing remained a secret - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.
Oak Island Money Pit
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territory, there is a small island - Oak Island, or Oak Island. The famous "money pit" is located there. According to legend, the locals found it back in 1795. It is a very deep and complex mine, in which, according to legend, untold treasures are hidden. Many tried to penetrate there - but the design is insidious, and after the treasure hunter gets to a certain depth, the mine begins to be intensively flooded with water. They say that the daredevils found at a depth of 40 meters a stone tablet with a scrawled inscription: "Two million pounds were buried 15 meters deeper." More than one generation has tried to get the promised treasure out of the pit. Even the future president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, during his student years at Harvard, with a group of friends came to Oak Island to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there? ..
Who was Benjamin Kyle?
In 2004, an unidentified man woke up outside a Burger King in Georgia. He had no clothes on, there were no documents with him, but the worst thing is that he did not remember anything about himself. That is, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but could not find traces: no missing people with such signs, no relatives who would have identified him from a photo. Soon he was given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents and certificates of some kind of education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a TV program, out of pity gave him a job as a dishwasher. He still works there. The efforts of doctors to awaken his memory, and the police to find his previous traces, have not yielded results.
Severed Legs Shore
Severed Legs Shore is the name given to a shore on the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia. He got this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 of them have been found, and most of them are right-wing. There are several theories explaining why the legs are thrown on this shore - natural disasters, the work of a serial killer ... some even argue that the mafia destroys the bodies of their victims on this remote beach. But none of these theories looks convincing, and no one knows where the truth is.
"Dancing Death" 1518
One summer 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began to dance in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she collapsed from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that others gradually joined her. A week later, 34 people were dancing in the city, and a month later - 400. Many dancers died of fatigue and heart attacks. The doctors did not know what to think, and the churchmen, too, could not exorcise the demons who possessed the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one knew what caused it. They talked about some special type of epilepsy, about poisoning and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But the scientists of that time did not find the exact answer.
Signal from aliens
On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was tracking signals from space at the volunteer Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Civilizations, caught a signal at a random radio frequency, clearly coming from deep space, from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This signal was much stronger than the cosmic noise that Eman was used to hearing on the air. It lasted only 72 seconds and consisted of a completely certain, in the eyes of the observer, a completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was reproduced with accuracy several times in a row. Eman disciplinedly wrote down the sequence and reported it to his fellow alien searches. However, further listening to this frequency yielded nothing, as well as any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. So far, no one knows what it was - a prank of completely earthly jokers or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to contact us.
Unknown from Somerton Beach
And here is another perfect murder, the secret of which has not yet been solved. On December 1, 1948, in Australia, at Somerton Beach in southern Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was found. There were no documents with him, only a note was found in one of his pockets with two words: "Taman Shud". It was a line from Omar Khayyam's Rubai meaning "the end." It was not possible to find out the cause of death of the unknown. The forensic investigator believed that it was about poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed that it was a matter of suicide, but this statement was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case stirred up not only Australia, but the whole world. They tried to establish the identity of the unknown in almost all countries of Europe and America, but the efforts of the police were in vain, and the story of "Taman Shud" remained covered with a veil of secrecy.
Confederate treasures
This legend still haunts American treasure seekers - and not only them. According to legend, when the northerners were already close to victory in the Civil War, the treasurer of the Confederate government, George Trenholm, in desperation decided to deprive the winners of their legitimate booty - the treasury of the southerners. This mission was taken over personally by the President of the Confederates Jefferson Davis. He, along with his guards, left Richmond with a huge load of gold, silver and jewelry. Where they went, no one knows, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, no jewelry was with him, and 4 tons of Mexican gold dollars also disappeared without a trace. Davis never revealed the secret of gold. Some believe that he gave it to the planters of the South so that they would bury it until better times, others - that it was buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that the secret society of the "Knights of the Golden Circle", secretly preparing revenge in the Civil War, laid their paws on him. Some even say that the treasure is hidden at the bottom of the lake. Dozens of treasure hunters are still looking for him, but none of them can get to the bottom of either the money or the truth.
Voynich manuscript
The mysterious book, known as the Voynich Manuscript, is named after the Polish-American second-hand bookseller Wilfred Voynich, who bought it from an unknown person in 1912. In 1915, after taking a closer look at the find, he told the whole world about it - and since then, many have not known peace. According to scientists, the manuscript was written in the 15th-16th centuries in central Europe. The book contains a lot of text, written in small handwriting, hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown to modern science. Here are also drawn the signs of the zodiac, medicinal herbs, accompanied by text, apparently, recipes for their use. However, the content of the text is just the speculation of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language that is still unknown on Earth, and, moreover, is practically indecipherable. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even after centuries.
Karst wells of Yamal
In July 2014, an inexplicable explosion occurred in Yamal, as a result of which a huge well appeared in the ground, the width and height of which reached 40 meters! Yamal is not the most populated place on the planet, so no one was hurt from the explosion and the appearance of the failure. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon demanded an explanation, and a scientific expedition set off to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful for studying a strange phenomenon - from geographers to experienced mountain climbers. However, when they arrived, they did not manage to understand the reasons and nature of the incident. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared on Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have managed to express only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal gaps remain a mystery.
Antikythera mechanism
Discovered by treasure seekers on a sunken Greek ship at the beginning of the twentieth century, this device, which at first seemed like another artifact, turned out to be, no less, the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze discs, made with precision and accuracy, unthinkable in those distant times, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, time in accordance with different calendars and dates of the Olympic Games. According to the results of analyzes, the device was made at the turn of the millennium - about a century before the birth of Christ, 1600 years before the discoveries of Galileo and 1700 before the birth of Isaac Newton. This device was more than a thousand years ahead of its time and still amazes scientists.
Sea people
The Bronze Age, which lasted from about the XXXV to the X century BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations at once - Greek, Cretan, Canaan. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments, tools of labor became more complicated. It seemed that humanity is moving by leaps and bounds towards prosperity. But it all collapsed in a few years. The civilized peoples of Europe and Asia were attacked by a horde of "people of the sea" - barbarians on countless ships. They burned and destroyed cities and villages, burned food, killed and took people into slavery. After their invasion, ruins remained everywhere. Civilization was thrown back at least a thousand years ago. In the once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, many secrets of construction and working with metals were lost. The most mysterious thing is that after the invasion, the "sea people" disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. Scientists are still wondering who and where this people was from and what their future fate was. But there is no intelligible answer to this question yet.
Murder of the "Black Dahlia"
Books and films were written about this legendary murder, but it was not possible to unravel it. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Her naked body was brutally mistreated: it was almost cut in half and bore the marks of many injuries. The body was washed clean and completely devoid of blood. This story of one of the oldest unsolved murders was widely circulated by journalists, giving Short the nickname "black dahlia". Despite an active search, the police were never able to find the killer. The Black Dahlia case is considered one of the oldest unsolved murders in Los Angeles.
Motor ship "Ourang Medan"
In early 1948, the Dutch ship Ourang Medan gave a COC signal while in Mallack Strait off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and it ended with chilling words: "And I'm dying." The captain of the Silver Star, having heard the distress signal, went in search of the Ourang Medan. Having found the ship in the Strait of Malacca, sailors from Silver Star boarded and saw that it was indeed full of corpses, and the cause of death was not visible on the bodies. Soon the rescuers noticed suspicious smoke coming from the hold and, just in case, preferred to return to their ship. And they did the right thing, because soon Ourang Medan exploded and sank spontaneously. Of course, this made the possibility of investigation null and void. Why the team died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.
Baghdad battery
Until recently, it was believed that mankind mastered the receipt and use of electric current only at the end of the 18th century. However, an artifact found by archaeologists in the region of ancient Mesopotamia in 1936 casts doubt on this conclusion. The device consists of a clay pot, in which the battery itself is hidden: an iron core wrapped in copper, which is believed to have been filled with some kind of acid, after which it began to generate electricity. For many years, archaeologists have debated whether the devices were actually related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they collected the same primitive products - and managed to get an electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to arrange electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since no written sources of that era have survived, this mystery will now probably excite scientists forever.
