1928
Over the village of Shuknavolok near Vedlozero (Karelia), they observed the passage of a cylindrical ten-meter body, from the tail of which a flame came out. Having broken through the ice of the lake, the mysterious object went under water. Since then, local residents began to meet on the shore a strange big-headed creature a little more than a meter tall with thin arms and legs, which, when people appeared, dived back into the water. In the photo - Vedlozero (Karelia, Russia) today
1933
The first documented sighting of the monster Nessie in the Scottish Loch Ness. To date, about 4000 observations and meetings with him have been noted. A sonar survey of the entire volume of the lake in 1992 found 5 giant lizards.
1943
In October 1943, in the United States, in an atmosphere of extreme secrecy on the destroyer Eldridge, the Philadelphia experiment, which had no analogues in history, was carried out to create a warship invisible to enemy radars. As a result of the creation of a very strong magnetic field around the ship, the ship allegedly disappeared, and then instantly moved in space for several tens of kilometers. Of the entire crew, only 21 returned unharmed. 27 people literally fused with the structure of the ship, 13 died from burns, radiation, electric shock and fear.
1945
Mass invasion of UFOs in Queensland (Australia).
1945
The mysterious disappearance of the leaders of the Third Reich (Müller, Bormann and others). No remains found. The emergence of versions of their escape to Latin America. The photo shows Martin Bormann and, presumably, his skull, whose ownership was disputed.
1947
July 7 in Magdalena (New Mexico, USA) crashed an unknown aircraft. Among the wreckage, 6 corpses of creatures similar to humans were allegedly found. In the photo - presumably one of the humanoids who died in a UFO crash in Roswell (New Mexico, USA), July 22, 1947
1952
July 1952 America is in shock. What is happening in the sky over Washington defies logical explanation and gives rise to the most incredible rumors. And the reason for this is the wave of UFO sightings that swept through the District of Columbia. Unidentified flying objects with enviable constancy appeared over Washington in the period from 12 to 26 July. In the photo: UFO squadron over the Capitol.
1955
In Hopkinsville (Kentucky, USA), after the explosion of a UFO, a small luminous man with huge eyes was seen for some time.
1955
An explosion of unknown nature that struck under the bottom of the battleship Novorossiysk on the night of October 29, 1955, claimed the lives of 608 sailors and officers. The huge ship capsized and sank in the Northern Bay of Sevastopol - in front of thousands of citizens.
1956
In August, a UFO chased a fighter for 20 minutes at a British air base, after which it disappeared into the air. The photo is believed to be a UFO. USA, California, 1957
1958
On December 14, the Youth of Yakutia newspaper wrote about a giant monster that lives in Lake Labynkyr. Local Yakut residents believe that some huge animal lives in the lake - the "Labynkyrsky Devil", as they call it. According to the descriptions of the Yakuts, this is something of a dark gray color with a huge mouth. The distance between the eyes of the "devil" is equal to the width of a raft of ten logs. According to the legend, the “devil” is very aggressive and dangerous, attacks people and animals, and is able to go ashore. In the photo - Lake Labynkyr (Oymyakonsky district of Yakutia, Russia)
1959
On February 1, a group of experienced tourists led by Igor Dyatlov began climbing to the top of "1079" (Mountain of the Dead). We didn’t manage to get up before dark and pitched a tent right on the slope. We started to settle down for the night. And then something terrible happened ... As the investigators later established, having cut the wall of the tent with knives, the tourists in panic horror rushed to run down the slope. They ran, who was in what: in underwear, half-dressed, barefoot. Later, the corpses of all nine members of the group were found down the slope. Most died of hypothermia. Several people had terrible internal injuries, while the skin was not damaged. The cause of the tragedy is still unknown. The last shot of the Dyatlov group on the Mountain of the Dead:
1963
During the maneuvers of the US Navy off the coast of Puerto Rico, a moving object was noticed, developing an unprecedented speed for a ship - about 280 km / h.
1963
On November 22, 1963, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Despite the fact that Kennedy's killer - Lee Harvey Oswald was captured a few hours later, the true motives and customers of the most high-profile assassination of the 20th century have not yet been established.
1967
In the valley of Bluff Creek, a female "Bigfoot" was captured on film (the author of the film is Roger Patterson).
1968
The official date of the death of Yuri Gagarin. Few believed in his death. The soothsayer Vanga claimed that the first cosmonaut did not die, but "was taken."
1969
The landing of the Americans on the moon. The fact itself is still disputed. The version of falsification has many supporters.
1977
"Petrozavodsk Miracle": On September 20 at 4 am a UFO in the form of a bright star, from which rays of red color departed, was seen above the main street of Petrozavodsk - Lenin Street. The phenomenon was accompanied by mass sightings of UFOs in the northern regions of the USSR and in Finland. Later, large holes with very sharp edges were found in the glass of the upper floors. In the photo is a copy of the only known photograph of the "Petrozavodsk diva" - the stage of fiery rain and fig. V. Lukyants "Solovki" (magazine "Technology - Youth" No. 4, 1980)
1982
In the Tsemess Bay (Black Sea), on one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, all the clocks stopped on board. In the photo - Tsemesskaya Bay today
1986
On January 29, a UFO crashed near Dalnegorsk. In the photo - the crash site and part of the "exhibits" from the crash site: metal drops of various nature with holes inside, black vitreous particles weighing up to 30 mg, as well as loose scales in the form of a mesh of quartz fibers 30 microns thick, each of which is twisted from even thinner quartz flagella, each of which, in turn, is inserted with a gold thread.
1987
Mass suicide of 2000 dolphins - they threw themselves on the coast of Brazil. Pictured: pilot whale dolphins that washed ashore in New Zealand in 2009.
1989
140 whales have died off the southern coast of Chile. Mass suicide occurs for the fourth time.
1991
Explosion on April 12 in Sasovo (Ryazan region), when UFOs were observed over the city. Until now, anomalies have been recorded near the funnel - the reprogramming of calculators and the failure of electronic devices. In the photo - the place of the explosion in 91 and in our time.
1993
For 10 months, 48 ships and more than 200 sailors have disappeared in the so-called "Pacific Triangle" near Western Micronesia.
1994
Near the Czech city of Celakovice, a "cemetery of vampires" was found - a strange burial site dating back to the end of the 10th - beginning of the 11th century. In 11 pits lay the remains of 13 people, bound with leather straps and with aspen stakes stuck in the heart. Some of the dead also had their hands and heads cut off. According to pagan beliefs and rituals, this was done with vampires who rise from their graves at night and drink human blood.
1996
In the Movil cave (Romania), a closed ecosystem was first discovered, not connected with the earth. 30 species of plants and animals (crustaceans, spiders, centipedes and insects) have been found here, living in isolation in the dark for 5 million years.
1996
A strange half-dead creature was discovered in a cemetery in the village of Kaolinovy near Kyshtym by a lonely pensioner Tamara Vasilievna Prosvirina. The creature became known as the "Kyshtym dwarf". The creature ate human food and looked and smelled strange. The body length of the creature was approximately 30 cm, it had a torso, arms, legs, a head with a high frontal lobe, a mouth and eyes. The pensioner gave the creature a baby name - "Alyoshenka". "Alyoshenka" lived in the pensioner's house for about a month.
Alyoshenka was also seen by other people: Tamara Prosvirina's daughter-in-law, as well as some acquaintances. Subsequently, Tamara Prosvirina was placed in a psychiatric hospital due to an exacerbation of schizophrenia. In the end, the creature died, and the causes of death have not been finally established, among them death from improper feeding and lack of care, or murder under unclear circumstances, is most often indicated. Tamara Prosvirina died on August 5, 1999 - she was hit by two cars at night. At this time, representatives of a Japanese television company were going to interview her, who were filming a documentary about this phenomenon. The house where the Kyshtym humanoid lived:
The creature's mummy was discovered in August 1996 by police captain Yevgeny Mokichev (pictured) during his investigation of the theft of an electric cable. The policeman who discovered the mummy handed it over to his colleague, Vladimir Bendlin, who began his own investigation into the origin and nature of the creature, but soon the mummy "Alyoshenka" disappeared under strange circumstances. Her whereabouts are currently unknown.
The world is full of mysteries and secrets. Some of them have been unraveled. But there are also such, reasonable explanation, which has not yet been found. Below is a list of ten unsolved mysteries of the world.
D. B. Cooper is the pseudonym of an unknown criminal who on November 24, 1971 hijacked a Boeing 727 with 42 passengers on board, flying from Portland to Seattle. After receiving a $200,000 ransom, he released the passengers, forced the pilots to take off, and bailed out. Despite an extensive investigation by the FBI, it was not possible to obtain any information about the whereabouts of the perpetrator, his real name and further fate. Of the ransom received, only $5,800 was found on the banks of a river in Washington state.
There are several theories regarding the circumstances of the crime and the fate of D. B. Cooper. According to the FBI, Cooper died after the jump, but no physical evidence was found to support this theory. This terrorist attack remains the only unresolved case of air piracy in American aviation history.
The Taman Shud case is an unsolved criminal case involving the murder of an unknown man who was found dead on December 1, 1948 on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. There were no visible wounds on the body of the deceased. In addition, an autopsy showed that before his death he was completely healthy. In the men's pockets, they found a bus ticket, chewing gum, cigarettes, coins, matches, and several other items. The greatest resonance was caused by a piece of paper discovered with him, torn from a copy of a very rare edition of Omar Khayyam, on which only two words were written - Tamam Shud (“Tamam Shud”). The investigation has so far failed to establish either the identity of the deceased, or to accurately determine the method of his killing.
Atlantis
One of the unsolved mysteries of the world is "Atlantis" - the legendary island, perhaps a civilization (an archipelago or even a continent), the existence and location of which are uncertain. The lost city became known thanks to the mentions and comments of the ancient Greek historians Herodotus, Posidonius, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Proclus. According to the records of the philosopher Plato, Atlantis was located west of the Pillars of Hercules, opposite the mountains of Atlanta, and was swallowed up by the sea in one day (probably by an earthquake or tsunami) around 9500 BC. e. However, most modern historians believe that Atlantis is a typical philosophical myth.
The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious, undeciphered book written in the 15th century (1404-1438) by an unknown author in an unknown language using an unfamiliar alphabet. The thickness of the book is 5 cm, it contains about 240 pages, measuring 16.2 by 23.5 cm. During its existence, the manuscript was intensively studied by many professional cryptographers, including those recognized all over the world, and none of them managed to decipher a single word . There is a theory that this book is just a collection of meaningless random characters that make no sense, but there are those who believe that the manuscript is a ciphered message.
In sixth place in the ranking of unsolved mysteries of the world is the signal "Wow!" - a strong narrow-band space radio signal recorded by Dr. Jerry Eyman on August 15, 1977 while working on the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University. The anomaly lasted 72 seconds and never happened again. There are many versions explaining the origin of the signal. The most interesting of these is the theory that the signal was sent from an alien starship that was moving.
"Taos rumble"
"Taos hum" - unsolved anomalous sound phenomena coming from the desert near the city of Taos, New Mexico, USA. The sound is similar to the movement of heavy equipment on the highway, although there are no major roads in the area of the town. It is interesting that only local residents hear it and extremely rarely visitors. The scientists who investigated it failed to find the source of the hum.
Similar phenomena have been known since the early 60s of the XX century and have been observed almost all over the world, but they are most often heard in North America, Europe and Australia. Sometimes "noises" are accompanied by other sounds, hissing, whistling, etc. With prolonged listening, they can cause headaches, dizziness, nausea, indigestion and other unpleasant sensations.
The Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) is a mysterious animal or group of animals supposedly living in the mysterious Scottish lake Loch Ness, the depth of which in some places reaches 250 meters. Numerous eyewitness accounts describe this mysterious creature as an animal 40 feet long, with four fins and a long neck with small tubercles, which occasionally appears on the surface of the lake. There are several theories explaining the nature of the alleged animal, one of them says that the Loch Ness Monster is nothing more than a plesiosaur that has survived to this day. Today, scientists can neither confirm nor deny its existence.
Amelia Mary Earhart is an American pilot, journalist, and poet. The first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. In 1937, while trying to make a round-the-world flight, Amelia went missing in the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Despite an immediately organized search and rescue operation, for which the US government spent about $ 4 million (the most expensive and massive operation in the history of the US Navy), no trace of either the aircraft or the pilot was found. The search for the famous female pilot continues today, but the mystery of the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, her navigator and the plane remains unsolved to this day.
Jack the Ripper is the nickname of an unknown serial killer (or killers) active in the Whitechapel area of London in the second half of 1888. His victims were prostitutes from poor neighborhoods, mostly middle-aged, whose throats were slit by the killer before opening the abdominal cavity. The cutting out of some organs from the bodies of the victims was explained by the assumption that the killer had some knowledge of anatomy or surgery. However, all the names, the exact number of victims, as well as the identity of Jack the Ripper are still a mystery.
The first place in the list of unsolved mysteries of the world is occupied by the Bermuda Triangle - a geographical area of 4 thousand km2. sq. in the Atlantic Ocean. It is believed to be the site of many (over 100) unexplained disappearances of ships, yachts and aircraft. To explain the mysterious accidents, most put forward various hypotheses from unusual weather phenomena, magnetic anomalies, giant rogue waves, to abductions by aliens or the inhabitants of Atlantis. The most famous case related to the Bermuda Triangle is the disappearance of five Avenger-class torpedo bombers. These aircraft took off on December 5, 1945 from the US Naval Forces base in Fort Lauderdale and did not return back. Their wreckage has never been found.
Human civilization has existed on Earth for a very long time, and the Earth has existed for millions of years. So it is not surprising that there are secrets left by ancient civilizations that modern man is unable to understand and explain.
Here are 12 mysterious and strange discoveries made in the field of archeology. Science still cannot fully explain them.
1) Baltic Sea Anomaly: A crew of Swedish divers have discovered a large, disk-shaped object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. No one is sure of the origin of this object.
2) Baghdad batteries: These terracotta pots were created in Mesopotamia and are regarded as ancient galvanic cells, created 2000 years before the birth of their inventor Alessandro Volta.
3) Crystal Skulls: These are artifacts from pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Aztec or Mayan civilization) made from clear or white quartz.
4) Ancient aircraft: These are small models of flying aircraft. However, man first took to the air only in 1780, and then in a hot air balloon. So how did ancient civilizations learn enough about flight to make models and sketches of flying machines?
5) Coexisting dinosaur and human footprints: While many of the fossils have been proven to be fakes, there are some examples of human and dinosaur fossil footprints in ancient rock formations that remain a mystery. If they are indeed real, then this would violate the theory of evolution.
6) Radioactive remains found in ancient cities: In the ruins of the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, the level of radiation is so high that it is believed that around 1500 BC the population of these cities died from the explosion of an atomic bomb
7) Puma Punku Stonework: In Bolivia, there is a large megalithic complex built from huge blocks of stone, connected together like Lego blocks.
8) Voynich Manuscript: This has been proven to be a genuine copy of a manuscript from the Middle Ages, but no one has yet been able to decipher it. This is the most famous case in the history of cryptography.
9) Antikythera Mechanism: This is a mechanism from the Hellenistic period, it is an ancient analogue of the modern computer, which was developed to predict astronomical events and eclipses. The biggest mystery is that nothing like this has been created in two thousand years. What happened to technology?
10) Cocaine and Tobacco Residues on Mummies: Residues from these drugs have been found on Egyptian mummies. How they got the drugs remains a mystery.
11) Pipes in Bai Gong Mountain: These pipes are evidence of plumbing communications in ancient China. Many people believe that these technological advances are traces of an extraterrestrial civilization visiting our planet.
12) Stone Spheres in Costa Rica: Their diameter reaches 2 meters, and their weight is 16 tons. There are many myths surrounding these stones. Some claim they came from Atlantis itself.
The most frustrating thing is that no matter how much scientific research is done, we will never solve these mysteries.
People have been struggling with the mysteries of the past for centuries, but they still remain unsolved. Mysterious artifacts, mysterious personalities and mysteries of history - no matter how annoying, but apparently no one will ever know the explanation for these facts.
Mummies from peat bogs
In the peat bogs and swamps of Denmark, Germany, Holland, England and Ireland, people found well-preserved human mummies. About the first find made in Germany, it is said: "In the summer of 1640, a dead man was dug up in the swamps of Schalholtingen." Only a few of the swamp mummies found are so well preserved that they can be exhibited in museums. All the bodies show signs of violent death: strangulation marks, broken bones, slashed throats, and sometimes all together. On the body of the so-called "man from Lindow" traces of blows were found, his skull was pierced with an axe. The executioners tightened the veins of the unfortunate animal around the neck, after which they cut the throat. Under the long braids of the young "woman from Elling" on the back of the head was found a deeply depressed inverted letter V. A teenager of 10-14 years old, who was taken from a swamp near Kayhausen in Lower Saxony, was tied up so skillfully that he could not even move.
It is still unclear whether it was an execution or a sacrifice. Why were these people treated so cruelly? Archaeologists believe that the swamps served as a place of ritual actions, because since ancient times they were known as sacred. However, this mystery, apparently, will remain unsolved.
Geoglyphs of Nazca
A geoglyph is a giant pattern on the earth's surface. In Nazca, such figures depict either geometric figures or silhouettes of animals. They seem to be scratched on stony soil and from the height of human growth are only an intricacies of yellow lines. Only by rising into the air, you can see their true outlines. And then a fifty-meter spider appears to the eyes, then a condor with a wingspan of 120 meters, then a lizard 180 meters long.
The age of geoglyphs lends itself only to approximate dating. Archaeological studies have shown that they were created at different times. The latest dates back to the 1st century AD, the most ancient - the 6th century BC.
These grandiose stone sculptures, moai, the enigmatic remains of a little-known ancient civilization, are different from those found on other Pacific islands. The inhabitants of Easter themselves have long forgotten about their purpose. They were first seen by the Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeven, who landed on this island on Easter Day.
In 1955 Thor Heyerdahl managed to raise one of the statues in 12 days with the help of the inhabitants of the island. Armed with beams, the workers lifted one side of the statue and placed stones from below. Then they lifted the statue a little higher and placed stones again. The operation was repeated until the sculpture stood upright. But Heyerdahl could not explain how the "hats" weighing several tons were put on the statues. Popess Joanna
According to medieval biographers, Popess Joanna was born in 882. Hungry for knowledge, she went to Athens. In those days, theological education was not available to women, so she pretended to be a young man and took the name John the Englishman. When Joanna arrived in Rome, she was immediately noticed for her learning, piety, and beauty. Having become a cardinal, after the death of Pope Leo IV, she was appointed his successor. From the outside, she seemed absolutely worthy of her dignity, but suddenly, during the festive procession of John, right on the road, she gave birth to a child and soon died.
A kind of confirmation of this story is the fact that from about 1000. and for almost five centuries, the sex of each elect to the papacy was checked.
The veracity of the story of a female pope, repeated since the 13th century, was first challenged in the 15th century. Beginning in the middle of the 16th century, historians no longer doubted the fiction of this story. The legend probably arose in mockery of pornocracy - the period of female domination in the pope's court, from John X to John XII (919-963). A similar phenomenon was also noted under Pope Alexander VI Borgia (1492-1503), who appointed his mistress Giulia Farnese to the post of chief treasurer (accountant-auditor) of the curia, and her younger brother Alessandro Farnese, without a spiritual order, a little later, in 1493 , at the age of 25 he received the post of cardinal treasurer of the curia and at the same time bishop of three dioceses at once; moreover, it was this cardinal who subsequently (through two popes) occupied the papal throne under the name of Paul III (1534-1549). An interesting fact is also known related to the military campaign of Alexander VI during the civil strife with the Sforza family, when his youngest daughter Lucrezia Borgia was in loco parentis, that is, “in the place of the parent” - she occupied the throne of St. Peter in the absence of her father by his own appointment .
Tomb of Genghis Khan
It is still unknown where the grave of Genghis Khan is located. This, one of the greatest mysteries of human civilization, no one has been able to unravel for the past eight hundred years. The burial place attracts not only with its historical value, but also with countless riches buried in the ground along with the deceased. According to the most conservative estimates, taking into account the historical value, the cost of precious stones, gold coins, expensive dishes, skillfully made weapons is estimated at no less than two billion dollars. Kush is quite decent and deserves to devote years and even decades to the search for the grave of Genghis Khan.
After the death of Genghis Khan, his body was returned to Mongolia, apparently to the place of his birth in the territory of modern Khentii aimag; he was buried, as is supposed, somewhere near the river Onon. According to both Marco Polo and Rashid ad-Din, the funeral escort killed anyone they met along the way. The slaves who performed the burial were put to the sword, and then the soldiers who executed them were also killed. The mausoleum of Genghis Khan in Ejen-Khoro is a memorial that is not the place of his burial. According to one of the folklore versions, a river bed was laid over his grave so that this place could not be found. According to other legends, many horses were driven over his grave, trees were planted there. Origin of the Basques
The Basques are one of the most amazing mysteries of history: their language has nothing to do with other European languages. In addition, genetic studies have established the uniqueness of the people we are considering. Basques are the people who have the highest proportion of negative Rh factor in their blood among all Europeans (25 percent) and one of the highest proportions of type O blood (55 percent). There is a very sharp genetic difference between representatives of this ethnic group and other peoples, especially in Spain.
Most scientists agree that the Basques are the indigenous inhabitants of Europe, directly descended from the Cro-Magnons, who came to European lands from Africa 35 thousand years ago and remained there. The Cro-Magnons probably did not participate in any subsequent migrations of peoples, since archaeologists have not found a single piece of evidence that allows us to talk about a change in the population in this area throughout the entire time, until the appearance of the Romans. This means that all those people who today call themselves Europeans are just children compared to the Basques. Amazing, isn't it?
Time Travelers
Is time travel possible? Science does not give a definite answer. But the world has accumulated a lot of, to put it mildly, strange facts that no one can explain. Here are some of them.
This photograph was taken in 1941 at the opening of the South Fork Bridge in British Columbia, Canada. A man who clearly stands out from the crowd with his extraordinary appearance got into the frame. Short haircut, dark glasses, wide-necked knitted sweater over a T-shirt with some kind of symbolism, a massive camera in his hands. Agree, the appearance is quite familiar to our days, but not for the early 40s! And he really stands out from the rest. This photo was investigated. Found a participant in these events. But he couldn't remember the man at all.
Swiss Watches
This item, found in a Ming Dynasty tomb, has puzzled researchers. The tomb was opened in 2008 in the Guangxi region (China) during the filming of a documentary. To the surprise of archaeologists and journalists. in the burial were found ... a Swiss watch!
“When we were removing the soil, a piece of rock suddenly bounced off the surface of the coffin and hit the floor with a metallic sound,” said Jiang Yan, a former curator of the Guangxi Museum who participated in the excavation. We have picked up the item. It turned out to be a ring. But, having cleared it from the ground, we were shocked - a miniature dial was found on its surface.
Inside the ring was an engraved inscription "Swiss" (Switzerland). The Ming Dynasty ruled China until 1644. The fact that in the 17th century they could create such a miniature mechanism is out of the question. But Chinese experts claim that the tomb has never been opened over the past 400 years.
Ancient computer?
On the remote peninsula of Kamchatka, 200 km from the village of Tigil, St. Petersburg University of Archeology discovered strange fossils.
According to archaeologist Yuri Golubev, the discovery surprised scientists by its nature, it is able to change the course of history. This is not the first time ancient artifacts have been found in this region. But this find is special. Analysis has shown that the mechanism is made of metal parts that seem to combine to form a mechanism that could be something like a clock or a computer. The most amazing thing is that all the pieces have been dated at 400 million years.
Voynich manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious, undeciphered book written in the 15th century (1404–1438) by an unknown author in an unknown language using an unknown alphabet. The thickness of the book is 5 cm, it contains about 240 pages, measuring 16.2 by 23.5 cm. During its existence, the manuscript was intensively studied by many professional cryptographers, including those recognized all over the world, and none of them managed to decipher a single word . There is a theory that this book is just a collection of meaningless random characters that make no sense, but there are those who believe that the manuscript is a ciphered message.
Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is the nickname of an unknown serial killer (or killers) active in the Whitechapel area of London in the second half of 1888. His victims were prostitutes from poor neighborhoods, mostly middle-aged, whose throats were slit by the killer before opening the abdominal cavity. The cutting out of some organs from the bodies of the victims was explained by the assumption that the killer had some knowledge of anatomy or surgery. However, all the names, the exact number of victims, as well as the identity of Jack the Ripper are still a mystery.
crystal skulls
The riddle of fossil crystal skulls (from rock crystal) has long been trying to solve by experts in various fields of science. Where could they come from? Who was able to create them? What were they for and who did they serve?
A total of 13 crystal skulls are known, and according to some sources, even 21. They are kept in museums and private collections. These are very accurate copies of human skulls and mask portraits made of quartz. They were found in Central America and Tibet. All these amazing objects were made in ancient times, but the skill of their execution testifies to the highest level of technical knowledge that the ancestors of modern mankind possessed.
The Incas and other peoples of the Americas of the pre-Columbian era left behind a lot of very curious mysterious little things. Some of them have been called "ancient planes" - these are small gold figurines that are very reminiscent of modern aircraft. Initially thought to be animal or insect figurines, it was later revealed that they had strange details that looked more like fighter jet parts: wings, tail stabilizer, and even a landing gear. It has been suggested that these models are copies of real aircraft. The version that these figurines are just an artistic representation of bees, flying fish or other earthly creatures with wings is also quite real.
Phaistos Disc
The mystery of the Phaistos Disc, a round-shaped clay tablet found by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier in 1908 in the Minoan Palace, also remains unsolved.
The Phaistos disk is made of baked clay and contains mysterious symbols that may represent an unknown language. It is believed that this language was developed sometime in the second millennium BC. Some scholars believe that the hieroglyphs resemble symbols once used in ancient Crete. However, this does not provide a clue to their decryption. Today, the disc remains one of the most famous puzzles in archeology. Case of Taman Shud
"Taman Shud" or "The Case of the Mysterious Somerton Man" is a still unsolved criminal case following the discovery of the body of an unknown man on December 1, 1948 at 6:30 am on Somerton Beach in the Australian city of Adelaide.
Despite the fact that the best policemen of the whole world were involved in the identification of the person who died from barbiturate poisoning or sleeping pills, it was not possible to establish who the unknown person was ...
In addition, a piece of paper discovered with the deceased (in a secret pocket of his trousers) caused a great resonance, torn from a very rare copy of the book by Omar Khayyam, on which only two words were written - “Taman Shud”.
After persistent searches, the police managed to find one of the copies of the book with Khayyam's poems and with the last page torn out. On the back of the book were several words written in pencil that looked like a cipher.
All numerous attempts to understand the inscriptions were in vain. Thus, the Taman Shud case remains one of the most intricate and mysterious cases still unsolved by the police.
Many scientists have spent decades trying to unravel the mysteries of the past by putting the pieces of the puzzle together. But there are such artifacts and historical moments that are still shrouded in secrets.
1. Geoglyphs of Nazca
A geoglyph is a drawing on the surface of the earth. In Nazca, similar images are made in the form of geometric figures or animals. One gets the feeling that they were carved on a hard surface.
To a person on the ground, they seem to be a plexus of yellow lines. Only once in the air, you can see full-fledged figures: fifty-meter monkeys and spiders, condors 120 meters wide or lizards one and a half times longer.
How old are the geoglyphs - no one can say for sure. They lend themselves only to approximate dating. It is proved that all this was created at different times. The first of them appeared in the VI century. BC e. And the last - in the 1st century AD. e.
2. Mummies from the swamps of Europe
As early as the 17th century, references appeared that human mummies were found in the peat bogs of Denmark, Germany, Ireland and neighboring countries, which were perfectly preserved. Some even look worthy to be displayed in museums.
Each found body was carefully studied by many experts. All showed signs of violent death: a slashed throat, affected areas from strangulation and blows, broken main bones, a pierced head. Sometimes all at once.
So, for example, "the man from Lindow" lost his life because of an ax that ended up in the skull. The "Elling Woman" died because of the letter V, which was found deep in the back of her head. The "teenager from Kayhausen", who was no more than 15 years old, was found bound so tightly that he could not even move.
Until now, many experts argue what exactly it was: execution or sacrifice. After all, each of those found was dealt with cruelly.
3. Statues of Easter Island
It is known that graceful stone creatures are the remains of an ancient civilization. They are markedly different from those seen in other parts of the Pacific. 
For the first time, the structures were noticed by the Dutch traveler Jacob Roggeveen, who ended up on the island on Easter day.
In 1955, Thor Heyerdahl, with the help of local residents, was able to put one such statue upright in two weeks. They, using the bars, lifted a block a few meters and placed large stones under it. This was repeated until the sculpture was in the right position. But how exactly the hats of several tons ended up on their heads is not yet known.
4. Popess Joanna
Medieval biographers report that Popess Jonna was born in 882. She loved to study since childhood and as a teenager she went to Athens to obtain the necessary knowledge. Then any education related to religion was not available for the fair half. So she decided to impersonate the young man John the English. 
When the girl was in Rome, they drew attention to her thanks to her learning, beauty and piety. After some time, she managed to become a cardinal. And after Pope Leo IV was appointed successor. From the outside, no one knew about the catch. But during the next festive procession, Joanna suddenly gave birth to a child right in front of everyone. She died soon after.
After that, starting from the 1000s and for five centuries, an obligatory ceremony was held, during which the gender of the chosen one to the throne was checked.
This story was believed to be true as early as the 13th century. Already in the 15th century, it was decided to challenge it. In the XVI - historians had little doubt that this was all fiction. It was believed that the legend appeared as a result of someone's joke, when women dominated the court of the Pope - 920-965.
Similar phenomena were noted at the end of the 16th century, when Alexander VI Borgia appointed his mistress as a "medieval accountant". At the same time, her brother, at the age of 25, without having the appropriate dignity, became the cardinal-treasurer and bishop of three dioceses. After that, he took the throne under the name Paul III.
It is also known that during the military campaign of Alexander VI, according to his own appointment, the youngest daughter was on the throne.
5. Tomb of Genghis Khan
Until now, the best minds in the world have not been able to figure out exactly where the grave of the famous Genghis Khan is located. This place attracts many. It has a unique historical value. In addition, according to legend, incredible riches are hidden in the ground along with the deceased. According to some estimates, two billion dollars worth of precious stones, weapons and gold can be found in the grave.
After death, the body of Genghis Khan was returned to his birthplace. Now it is Khentii aimag. It is assumed that the great commander is buried next to the river Onon. Along the way, everyone who met the funeral escort was killed. The slaves who performed the burial were massacred. And then the executioners who staged the execution also died.
There are several legends that explain why the searchers fail to find the grave. According to one of them, adherents of Genghis Khan laid the riverbed directly above the burial. According to another, a thousand horses were driven over the dug-up ground, and then trees were planted on top.
6. Origin of the Basques
The Basques are considered one of the most incredible historical mysteries. At one time they occupied a small part of modern Spain and France. The first thing that is noted is that this people had a unique language that did not intersect with others present in neighboring regions. Also, geneticists managed to establish that these are people who had the highest percentage of the Rh factor in their blood - 25. The difference between this people and others living in the neighborhood stands out noticeably. 
Most scientists believe that the Basques can be safely called the indigenous people of Europe. They came from the Cro-Magnons, who appeared in these places 35 thousand years ago. Presumably, this people no longer decided to change their location, since so far no evidence has been found to refute this, until the arrival of the Romans.
7. Time Travelers
Scientists have recently become more and more confident that time travel is possible. And there are many facts to back it up.
For example, this photo shows the opening of the South Fork Bridge in British Columbia in 1941. In the frame you can see a person who clearly stands out from the rest.
He has short hair, tinted glasses, a sweater over a T-shirt, and is holding a modern camera.
Such an image can often be found today. But for the 40s, it seemed strange. Specialists conducted their own investigation, during which they managed to find a person who participated in those events. But, unfortunately, he did not remember the "strange" stranger.
The authenticity of the photo has been proven several times with the help of various analyses.
8 Ancient Swiss Watches
This small item was found in a tomb from the Ming Dynasty. The tomb was opened in 2008 when a documentary was filmed. To the surprise of the operator and archaeologists, a Swiss watch was found inside.
The former head of the Guangxi Museum, who was on the expedition at the time, shared, “We were removing soil from the surface of the lid when a small piece of rock suddenly bounced off and fell to the floor with a metallic sound. The item looked like a ring. But when we cleaned it of dust, we found a miniature dial.” 
At the same time, we even managed to see the Swiss inscription inside. The Ming dynasty ruled China until 1644. In those days, they did not even guess that such technologies would someday become a reality. At the same time, experts say that this tomb has been closed for the last 400 years and there has never been anyone in it.
9 Ancient Computer
In Kamchatka, a few hundred kilometers from the village of Tigil, St. Petersburg University of Archeology found inexplicable fossilized remains. 
According to the head of the excavation, this discovery surprised scientists, but could completely change history. A special analysis showed that initially these were metal parts that form a mechanism that is not yet clear. The most surprising thing is that the find dates back 400 million years.
10. Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious 15th-century book that no one has yet been able to decipher. It was written between 1404 and 1438 by an unknown author. In addition, the words inside have still not been translated. They are made up of a strange alphabet that no one knows about either.
Book size: 23.5 × 16.2 × 5 cm. It has about 240 pages. The manuscript has been repeatedly studied by many cryptographers, archaeologists and historians. No one could even come close to deciphering even a single word. 
After futile attempts, some experts came to the conclusion that the pages contain random characters that are not related to each other. Others adhere to the theory that not only information is printed on paper that tells in detail about that time, but also data about the future.
11. Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is a serial killer (or killers) who committed several high-profile crimes in London in 1888. All of his victims are girls of easy virtue from the poorest neighborhoods. The maniac cut their throats, after which they opened the abdominal cavity. He took some organs. It is believed that the killer had a good knowledge of anatomy. 
Only recently, a collector who purchased a shawl allegedly belonging to one of the victims handed it over to specialists. With the help of careful analyzes, they isolated the DNA of the alleged maniac. It turned out to be the Pole Aaron Kosminsky, who came to England to work as a hairdresser. Despite this, many have criticized this method, as it does not accurately prove the immigrant's involvement in the murders.
12. Crystal skulls
Many experts have been trying to solve the mystery of the origin of crystal skulls for a long time. No one knows yet who could create them and how? 
Scientists talk about 13 rock crystal heads. All of them are kept in museums or private collections. Artifacts have been found in Tibet and Central America. The exact time of their production has not yet been established. In addition, there are no known tools that can be used to do this.
13. Ancient aircraft
The Incas, Aztecs and other peoples living on the territory of pre-Columbian America are known not only for amazing pyramids and strange rituals. They also left behind many small statuettes. One of them turned out to be the so-called "ancient aircraft", which, by similar elements, resemble modern aircraft. 
Initially, experts believed that these were simply figurines of insects or birds. However, it turned out that they have details that are more similar to modern aircraft: stabilizers, landing gear, and so on. Large aircraft of that time could not be found. What the ancient tribes wanted to show by this is not yet known.
14. Phaistos Disc
The Phaistos Disc is a small clay circular tablet that was found in 1908 in the Minoan Palace in Italy. Her secret still remains unsolved. 
The plate bears various unknown symbols. It is believed that this language was created in II c. BC. Some people think that the drawings resemble the hieroglyphs of Crete. However, they cannot find the decryption key. This disc is one of the most famous mysteries of archeology today.
15. Taman Shud case
So far, the best inspectors have failed to solve the Taman Shud case. It has also been called "The Case of the Mystery Man from Somerton".
The case was opened when at half past six in the morning in Australia in the city of Adelaide they found the body of a man. He was on Somerton Beach. Who the deceased was has never been established. Then the experts found out that the death occurred as a result of poisoning with medicines.
In addition, a piece of paper found in a secret trouser pocket caused a resonance. Only two words were written on it - "Taman Shud". These were torn words from a rare book by Omar Khayyam. 
The police still managed to find the right copy, which was missing the last page. On the back, several words resembling a cipher were applied in pencil. What exactly was written there, it was not possible to find out.
Until now, this case remains one of the most confusing and mysterious.
