Shocking and unexplained secrets of history. Incredible incidents from life
In some cases, people are killed or accidentally die, and there are no witnesses at the scene of their death. But still, in most of these cases it is almost impossible to find a logical explanation.
Here are 20 of the most famous and mysterious cases of disappearances in human history.
1. Flight MH370
One of the greatest mysteries of the 21st century is the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing International Airport in China on March 8, 2014. Despite the most varied versions and theories of what happened, this mystery still remains unsolved and what happened defies any logical explanation.
2. The Lost Eskimo Village
One cold November night in 1930, tired Canadian hunter Joe Labelle, looking for shelter from the cold, accidentally stumbled upon one of the most mysterious places in the history of mankind. The once prosperous Eskimo village on the shores of Lake Angikuni, which Labelle passed several times during his travels, disappeared without a trace. All the residents, as if in a hurry, suddenly left the village, leaving their affairs unfinished - somewhere on the fireplace food was still being cooked, and in some houses the hunter found unfinished clothes with needles sticking out. The Eskimos simply disappeared from this place in the most inexplicable way.
3. Springfield Trinity
The missing three from Springfield - three girls are still missing. Sharyl Levitt (47), her daughter Susie Streeter (19), and Susie's friend Stacy McCall (18) disappeared from Levitt's home in Springfield, Missouri. Susie and Stacey had celebrated their high school graduation the night before and arrived at Sharyl Levitt's house around 2 a.m. the morning after a party. The police were unable to solve the mystery of the girls' disappearance and the investigation is still ongoing.
4. The girls who disappeared in Dunes Park
Forty-nine years ago, on a sunny Saturday afternoon, three girls left their belongings on a crowded beach and went for a walk in their swimsuits on Lake Michigan, which is located an hour southeast of Chicago. It happened at noon on July 2, 1966 in Dunes National Park in Indiana. From that day on, they were considered missing - no traces of the girls were ever found.
5. Spartak
Despite numerous scientific hypotheses that this warrior was killed in battle during the Revolt of Spartacus, the body of one of the most famous slaves of antiquity, who led the uprising, was never found, and his fate remains unknown.
6. Tara Grinstead
Tara worked as a history teacher at a high school in Oakilla, Georgia in the United States. She went missing under mysterious circumstances on October 22, 2005. In February 2009, a video featuring a serial killer appeared on the Internet. In the video, accompanied by the caption “Catch me, killer,” a man details the murders of sixteen women, including Tara Grinstead, according to local authorities. However, the video was later found to be faked and neither police nor the Georgia FBI unit identified any suspects in Grinstead's disappearance.
7. Richie Edwards
Rock fans have probably heard of Richie Edwards, the Welsh musician and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, popular in the 1990s. It is known that Edwards liked to intentionally harm himself and suffered from depression, alcoholism and anorexia. In 1995, his car was found abandoned in a place known as "the last refuge of suicides."
8. Harold Holt
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace on December 17, 1967. Despite being considered one of Australia's best Labor Ministers, Holt gained widespread notoriety due to his mysterious disappearance. Harold Holt disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach in Victoria on December 17, 1967, but his body was never found. Many believe he was likely killed because of his support for US involvement in the Vietnam War, however this remains unconfirmed.
9. James Thetfort
Former soldier James Thetfort disappeared on December 1, 1949 from a crowded bus. Thetford, along with fourteen other passengers, was traveling to his home in Bennington, Vermont. He was last seen dozing off in his seat. When the bus arrived at its destination, Thetford had disappeared, although all his belongings remained in the trunk, and the bus schedule lay on the empty seat. From then on, Thetford was never seen again.
10. Martha Wright
In 1975, American Jackson Wright was driving a car with his wife from New Jersey to New York. After driving through the Lincoln Tunnel, Wright stopped the car to wipe the foggy windows. His wife Martha got out of the car to wipe the back window. When Wright turned around, he did not see his wife. The man said he did not hear or see anything unusual, and a subsequent investigation found no evidence of foul play. Martha Wright simply disappeared.
11. Connie Converse
Connie Converse was a talented composer and performer of her generation, appearing on the New York music scene in the late 50s. However, the singer never received widespread public recognition. In 1974, when she was about fifty years old, a crisis occurred in her personal and professional life, and Connie fell into depression. One day, Connie wrote farewell letters and, having sent them along with song lyrics and other notes to all her friends and relatives, left in an unknown direction. They never saw her again.
12. Caesarion
Caesarion was the eldest son of Cleopatra and probably the only son of Julius Caesar. He was also the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt, who ruled the country for eleven days before being killed on the orders of Octavian, who later became the Roman Emperor Augustus. However, the exact circumstances and place of his death remain unknown today. According to the Greek historian Plutarch, he was not killed, but was sent to India by his mother.
13. Constance Manziarli
Adolf Hitler's personal chef and nutritionist, who went missing during the escape from Berlin after the Soviet invasion and the fall of Nazi Germany. Despite speculation that she was shot by Soviet soldiers in the Berlin Underground or that she committed suicide with cyanide, some conspiracy theorists believe that she is still alive, since Constance's body has never been found.
14. Amelia Earhart
The famous American aviator was the first woman in the world to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, but her airplane disappeared during a flight around the world near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Her disappearance is still fraught with many mysteries that none of the historians have been able to solve.
15. Adolf Hitler
The death of one of the most famous madmen of the twentieth century, Adolf Hitler, is still shrouded in mystery. According to the generally accepted version, on April 30, 1945, after active street fighting, when Soviet troops were approaching the Reich Chancellery, Hitler shot himself, and his wife Eva Braun swallowed a cyanide capsule. Their corpses were burned and their remains were never found, a fact that has given rise to many theories about the subsequent fate of Hitler and his wife.
16. D.B. Cooper
Legendary hijacker D.B. Cooper became known as the mastermind behind the most unusual robbery in human history. Having received a ransom of $200,000, he parachuted from a Boeing 727 flying at an altitude of 4 kilometers in the Oregon region on November 24, 1974. After a thorough search, the police found neither Cooper nor any trace of him.
17. Lieutenant Felix Moncla
On the evening of November 23, 1953, the most mysterious event in UFO sightings occurred - Air Force radars in the area of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin in the USA detected an unidentified flying object. An F-89C Scorpion fighter was immediately scrambled from Kingross Air Force Base to intercept it. The plane was flown by First Lieutenant Felix Moncla, and Lieutenant Robert Wilson was the fighter's radar operator at the time. As ground operators subsequently claimed, the fighter approached an unidentified object, and then both of them, merging together, disappeared from the radar screens. A search and rescue operation was organized, but the wreckage of the plane could not be found.
18. Ghost ship "Joyta"
The merchant ship Joyta, carrying twenty-five passengers and crew, mysteriously disappeared in the South Pacific in 1955. Soon the drifting ship was discovered in very poor condition, with rusted pipes and a working radio, which, due to damaged wiring, could only send distress signals within a radius of three kilometers. Until now, nothing is known about the whereabouts of the passengers of this ship.
19. Ninth Legion "Hispan"
The Ninth Legion mysteriously disappeared in foggy Britain during a military campaign. No traces of weapons were found to indicate that the legionnaires could have been destroyed in the battle - the army of five thousand seemed to be swallowed up by the earth.
20. Disappearance of Valentich
The “disappearance of Valentich” in 1978 is one of the most unusual events in the history of ufology. The mysterious case of Friedrich Valentich is considered one of the most famous mysteries in Australian aviation - before the plane disappeared in the sky, the pilot managed to radio that he had seen a UFO. Many representatives of the ufological subculture, as well as Valentich’s father, believe that the man was abducted by aliens and may even still be alive.
When it comes to strange, seemingly inexplicable things, ghostly anomalies that have no scientific or other sound explanation, we attribute mysterious and even magical qualities to these things. I would like to present you with a list of 10 strange, unsolved cases from life, for which no one has found an explanation.
10th place. Coal poltergeist
January 1921
When purchasing coal for his fireplace in winter, Mr. Frost from Hornsey (London) had no idea how dangerous this purchase was and how much trouble coal, which seemed ordinary at first glance, could bring. After the first portion of solid fuel was sent into the fireplace, it immediately became obvious that it was somehow “wrong”. Hot coal pebbles exploded in the furnace, thereby destroying the protective grate and rolling out onto the floor, after which they disappeared from sight and appeared only in the form of bright sparks in another room. The matter did not end there. The Frost family began to notice strange things in their house; knives and forks were floating through the air, as if they were in outer space. The unusual and frightening phenomenon was witnessed by Reverend Al Gardiner and Dr. Herbert Lemerle.
There were several versions regarding the devilry happening in the Frost house. Skeptics attributed all the blame to the sons, who allegedly decided to play a prank on their parents. Others were sure that these were the tricks of miners who mixed dynamite with coal (this version was later verified and refuted). Still others believed that the raging spirit of the dead miners, resting in the coal and disturbed by the Frosts, was to blame.
The latest news available about the Frosts is disappointing. On April 1 of the same year, five-year-old Muriel Frost died, allegedly from fright at seeing a poltergeist. Her brother Gordon was so shocked by his sister's death that he was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown. The further fate of the family is shrouded in mystery...
9th place. Rain of seeds
February 1979
The coal incident is not the only curiosity in England. For example, in 1979 it rained seeds in Southampton. Seeds of watercress, mustard, corn, peas and beans fell straight from the sky, covered with an incomprehensible jelly-like shell. Amazed by what he saw, Roland Moody, who was in his home mini-conservatory with a glass roof, ran out into the street to get a better look at what was happening. There he met his neighbor Mrs. Stockley, who said that this was not the first time that something like this had happened last year. As a result of the seed rain, Moody's entire garden, as well as the gardens of his three neighbors, were covered with seeds. The police were unable to find out what was causing the strange atmospheric phenomenon.
The unusual rain repeated several more times, after which it did not occur again. Mr. Moody alone collected 8 buckets of watercress on his property, not counting the seeds of other plants. He later grew them into watercress and claimed that it tasted excellent.
One of the episodes of the series “The Mysterious World” by Arthur C. Clarke, aired in 1980, is dedicated to this incident. There is still no adequate opinion regarding the strange rain.
8th place. The mysterious death of Netta Fornario
November 1929
The main character of the next strange story is Nora Emily Edita "Netta" Fornario, a writer who considered herself a healer, a resident of London. In August or September 1929, she left London and went to Iona, an island off the west coast of Scotland, where she died under mysterious circumstances. Among the versions of her death are mental murder, heart failure, and the action of hostile spirits.
Arriving on Iona, Netta began exploring the island. She traveled during the day, and at night she looked for traces of the spirits of the island, with whom she tried in every possible way to contact. Her search lasted for several weeks, after which, from November 17, her behavior changed dramatically. Netta hastily packed her things and intended to head back to London. She told her friend, Mrs. McRae, that she had been telepathically wounded after receiving messages from other worlds. It happened at night, so Mrs. McRae, apparently looking at the healer’s luxurious silver jewelry and fearing for her health, persuaded her to hit the road in the morning.
The next day Netta went missing. Her body was later found on a “fairy mound” near Loch Staonaig. The corpse lay on a cross made of turf, was completely naked under a black cloak, covered with scratches and abrasions. There was a knife nearby. The legs were beaten and bloody as a result of running over rough terrain. It is unknown whether Netta was killed by a maniac, died from hypothermia or by an absurd accident. Discussions on this matter have not yet ended.
7th place. Fireman poltergeist
April 1941
After finishing breakfast, farmer William Hackler, a resident of Indiana (USA), went outside to get some fresh air. After leaving the house, he felt that his clothes smelled of smoke. Without paying much attention to this, he went to the barn. A few minutes later he returned back to the house, where we discovered a fire in the bedroom (the house was without electricity) - the walls were burning. The local fire brigade quickly arrived on the scene and put out the fire. But this was only the beginning of a difficult day for the Hacklers...
Immediately after the fire truck left, a mattress in the guest room caught fire. The source of the fire was located directly inside the mattress. Fires occurred in various places (including under the cover of the book) and rooms throughout the day. By evening, the number of fires extinguished reached 28. Having played enough, the fiery poltergeist no longer disturbed Mr. Hackler and his family. They, in turn, demolished the old wooden house and built a new one in its place, made of non-combustible lumber.
6th place. Third eye
November 1949
Students from one of the universities of South Carolina in the city of Columbia (USA) were returning from the theater on Longstreet late at night. At one point, they froze in place, colliding with a strange man in a silver suit, who then moved the cover of the nearest hatch and disappeared into the sewer. From that moment on, the strange man received the nickname “sewer man.” A little later, this “character” again made his existence known, but in a more terrible incident. In April 1950, in one of the alleys, a policeman noticed a man near a pile of mutilated chicken carcasses. It happened in the dark, the policeman pointed a flashlight in the direction of an incomprehensible object, and was stunned when he saw a man with three eyes. The third eye was located right in the center of the forehead. While the policeman came to his senses and called for reinforcements on the radio, the mysterious creature disappeared from sight.
The third meeting with the “sewer man” took place in the 60s in the tunnels under one of the universities. Afterwards, the tunnels were carefully examined, but no clear evidence of the existence of a three-eyed man was found. Who or what is he? Human? Ghost? Alien? Nobody knows, but random meetings continued until the early 90s.
5th place. Connecticut stiletto
February 1925
For months, women in Bridgeport, Connecticut, have been terrorized by a "phantom stiletto" that strikes the chest and buttocks before disappearing in an unknown direction. The victims of an unknown, but very real criminal, were 26 individuals, whose bodies felt all the pain and torment from the powerful blows of a sharp weapon.
The attacker did not adhere to a specific type of victim; the women were chosen spontaneously and by chance. While the victim screamed in pain and came to, the criminal quickly ran away, not allowing himself to be identified. Police investigations led nowhere; the identity of the “stiletto torturer” was never identified. In the summer of 1928, the attacks changed dramatically and were never repeated. Who knows, maybe the maniac got old and began to suffer from artosis...
4th place. Electric girl
January 1846
Do you think people "X" are a fiction? You're wrong, some of the characters are very real. At least one. A fourteen-year-old resident of La Perriere in Normandy began to frighten her comrades with unusual abilities: when people approached her, they received an electric shock, chairs moved away when she tried to sit down, some objects flew into the air as if they were light and weightless floats. Angelina later received the nickname "electric girl."
Not only those around her, but also the girl herself suffered from the unusual abilities of her body. She was often tormented by convulsions. In addition, by attracting various objects to herself, Angelina received painful injuries. The parents considered their daughter possessed by the devil and took her to church, but the priest convinced the unfortunate people that the reason for their child’s abnormality lay not in spirituality, but in physical characteristics.
After listening to the abbot, the parents took their daughter to the scientists in Paris. After examination, the famous physicist Francois Arago concluded that the girl’s unusual qualities are associated with electromagnetism. Scientists offered Angie participation in research and tests that were supposed to make her normal. In April 1846, a few months after the start of the program, the “electric girl” said goodbye to her amazing abilities forever.
3rd place. Another fire poltergeist
January 1932
Housewife Mrs. Charlie Williamson from Blandenboro (North Carolina, USA) was terrified when her calico dress burst into flames for inexplicable reasons. At this point, she was not standing near a fireplace, stove or other heat source, and she was not smoking or using any flammable substances. Luckily, her husband and teenage daughter were at home and ripped off her flaming dress before it caused burns to the unfortunate woman.
Mrs. Williamson's adventures did not end there. That same day, the trousers in her closet burned to the ground. The ordeal by fire continued the next day, when in the presence of witnesses, for unknown reasons, the bed and curtains in another room caught fire. The spontaneous combustion continued for three days, after which the Williamsons surrendered to the unknown elements and left the house. The home was inspected by firefighters and police, but no cause was identified. On the fifth day, the fires stopped on their own and no longer disturbed the owners of the house. Fortunately, no one was hurt by the fire.
2nd place. Blind reading
January 1960
Let us immediately note that we are not talking about blind people who learned to read special books by moving their fingers along the bulges on paper, but about a completely ordinary girl, sighted and healthy. Margaret Fus's uniqueness was that she could read ordinary books blindfolded. Her father called this phenomenon psychic vision through the skin. He himself taught his daughter this incredible skill and hastened to prove the uniqueness of the method to scientists.
In 1960, Mr. Foos arrived with his daughter in Washington DC to participate in scientific research. During the experiment, psychiatrists put “foolproof protection” over Margaret’s eyes—a tight bandage. For the purity of the experience, the father was taken to the next room. Blindfolded, using only her fingers, the girl was able to read the pages of the Bible, kindly provided by scientists. After that, she was asked to play checkers and recognize different pictures, which Margaret successfully completed.
Despite the fact that the girl managed to pass all the tests, psychiatrists could not explain how she managed to do this. They insisted on their own, arguing that it was impossible to see without eyes, that what was happening was a deception.
1st place. Ghost Sniper
1927-1928
For two years, a mysterious "ghost sniper" terrorized the residents of Camden, New Jersey. The first incident occurred in November 1927, when Albert Woodruff's car was fired upon. The car windows were riddled with bullets, but the investigation did not yield any results - not a single cartridge case was found at the scene. Later, two city buses, house windows and shop windows were damaged by mysterious shelling. As in the first case, the perpetrators and the shell casings were not found. The good news is that no one was harmed by the actions of a ghost or a real criminal.
The mysterious sniper was active not only in Camden; residents of the cities of Lindenwood and Collingswood in New Jersey, as well as Philadelphia and Pennsylvania suffered from his tricks. Most often, the victims were private cars and urban transport (buses, trolleybuses), and residential buildings. In only one of many cases, the witness heard shots, but saw nothing and no one.
The attacks stopped abruptly in 1928. Later, people suffered only from abnormal imitators who wanted to play the role of the famous “ghost sniper”.
People all over the world are witnessing strange and sometimes inexplicable paranormal phenomena. Our country is rich not only in natural resources, but also in strange places and mysterious phenomena. Today I will tell you about 11 of the most interesting and famous of them.
Meeting of astronauts with a UFO
The pioneers of space exploration had a hard time: the technologies of the beginning of the space era of mankind left much to be desired, so emergency situations arose quite often, like the one that Alexey Leonov encountered when he almost ended up in outer space.
But some of the surprises that awaited space pioneers in orbit were not related to the equipment at all. Many Soviet cosmonauts who returned from orbit spoke about unidentified flying objects that appeared near earthly spacecraft, and scientists still cannot explain this phenomenon.
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalyonok said that during his stay at the Salyut-6 station in 1981, he observed a bright luminous object the size of a finger rapidly encircling the Earth in orbit. Kovalenok called the crew commander, Viktor Savinykh, and he, seeing the unusual phenomenon, immediately went to get a camera. At this time, the “finger” flashed and split into two objects connected to each other, and then disappeared.
It was never possible to photograph it, but the crew immediately reported the phenomenon to Earth.
Sightings of unknown objects were also repeatedly reported by participants in Mir station missions, as well as employees of the Baikonur Cosmodrome - UFOs appear quite often in its vicinity.
Chelyabinsk meteorite
On February 15 of this year, residents of Chelyabinsk and surrounding settlements observed an extraordinary phenomenon: a celestial body entered the Earth’s atmosphere, which was 30 times brighter than the Sun when it fell. As it turned out later, it was a meteorite, although various versions of the phenomenon have been put forward, including the use of secret weapons or the machinations of aliens (many still do not exclude this possibility).
Exploding in the air, the meteorite split into many parts, the largest of which fell into Lake Chebarkul near Chelyabinsk, and the remaining fragments scattered over a wide area, including some regions of Russia and Kazakhstan. According to NASA, this is the largest space object to fall to Earth since the Tunguska bolide.
The “guest” from space caused quite significant damage to the city: the blast wave broke the glass in many buildings, and about 1,600 people received injuries of varying severity.
The series of “space” adventures for Chelyabinsk residents did not end there: a few weeks after the meteorite fell, on the night of March 20, a huge luminous ball hovered in the sky above the city. It was observed by many townspeople, but there is no exact explanation of where the “second Sun” suddenly appeared, especially at night. However, some believe that the ball arose due to the reflection of city lights on specifically located ice crystals in the atmosphere - that night Chelyabinsk was covered with thick cold fog.
Sakhalin monster
The remains of an unknown creature were found by Russian army personnel on the coast of Sakhalin Island in September 2006. In terms of the structure of the skull, the monster is somewhat reminiscent of a crocodile, but the rest of the skeleton is completely unlike any reptile known to science. It also cannot be classified as a fish, and the local residents to whom the soldiers showed the find could not identify it as any creature living in these waters. Remains of animal tissue were preserved, and judging by them, it was covered with wool. The corpse was quickly taken over by representatives of the special services, and its further study took place “behind closed doors.”
Now most experts are inclined to believe that these were the remains of some kind of cetacean, according to some versions - a killer whale or a beluga whale, but others object that the creature differs in its skeleton from both of them. An alternative to the “accepted” point of view is that the remains belonged to a prehistoric animal, which were probably still preserved in the depths of the World Ocean.
Seeing off the mermaid
Mermaids are one of the main characters of Russian folklore. According to legend, these spirits living in reservoirs are born as a result of the painful death of women and children, and rumor says that meeting a mermaid does not bode well: they often seduce men, luring them into the abyss of a lake or swamp, steal children, They scare animals and generally behave in a manner that is not very decent. According to tradition, in order for the year to be successful and fertile, villagers brought various gifts to the mermaids, sang songs about them and held dances in honor of these restless souls.
Of course, now such beliefs are not nearly as widespread as in the old days, but in some parts of Russia, rituals associated with mermaids are still held. The most significant of them is considered the so-called Rusal Week (also known as Trinity Week or Farewell to the Mermaid) - the week preceding Trinity (50th day after Easter).
The main part of the ritual is the making and destruction of a stuffed mermaid, accompanied by fun, music and dancing. During Rusal Week, women do not wash their hair to protect themselves from perfume, and men carry garlic and walnuts with them for the same purpose. Of course, at this time it is strictly forbidden to go into the water - so as not to be dragged away by some bored mermaid.
Russian Roswell
The military missile range near the village of Kapustin Yar in the north-west of the Astrakhan region is often found in reports of the most strange and inexplicable incidents. Various UFOs and other curious phenomena are observed here with amazing regularity. Because of the most notorious case of this kind, Kapustin Yar received the nickname Russian Roswell by analogy with the city in the American state of New Mexico, where, according to some assumptions, an alien ship crashed in 1947.
Almost a year after the Roswell incident, on June 19, 1948, a silvery object shaped like a cigar appeared in the sky above Kapustin Yar. On alert, three MiG interceptors were scrambled into the air, and one of them managed to shoot down a UFO. “Cigar” immediately fired a certain beam at the fighter, and it crashed to the ground; unfortunately, the pilot did not have time to eject. A silver object also fell in the vicinity of Kapustin Yar, and was immediately transported to the test site bunker.
Of course, many have repeatedly questioned this information, but some documents of the State Security Committee, declassified in 1991, indicate that the military more than once saw something over Kapustin Yar that does not yet fit into the framework of modern science.
Ninel Kulagina
During the Second World War, then Nina Sergeevna Kulagina served as a radio operator in a tank and participated in the defense of the Northern capital. As a result of her injury, she was discharged, and after the blockade of Leningrad was lifted, she got married and gave birth to a child.
In the early 1960s, she became famous throughout the Soviet Union as Ninel Kulagina, a psychic and owner of other paranormal abilities. She could heal people with the power of her thoughts, determine color by touching her fingers, see through fabric what was in people's pockets, move objects at a distance, and much more. Her gift was often studied and tested by specialists from various institutions, including secret scientific institutes, and many testified that Ninel was either an extremely clever charlatan or actually possessed anomalous skills.
There is no convincing evidence of the first, although some of the former employees of Soviet research institutes claim that when demonstrating “supernatural” abilities, Kulagina used various tricks and sleight of hand, which was known to the KGB experts investigating her activities.
Until her death in 1990, Ninel Kulagina was considered one of the most powerful psychics of the 20th century, and the inexplicable phenomena associated with her were called the “K-phenomenon.”
Dragon from Brosno
Lake Brosno, located in the Tver region, is the deepest freshwater lake in Europe, but it is known throughout the world mainly because of the mysterious creature that local residents believe lives in it.
According to numerous (but, unfortunately, not documented) stories, an animal about five meters long, resembling something like a dragon, has been seen in the lake more than once, although almost all observers describe it differently. One of the local legends says that a long time ago, the Tatar-Mongol warriors who made a halt on the shore of the lake were eaten by the “dragon from Brosno”. According to another story, in the middle of Brosno one day an “island” suddenly appeared, which disappeared after some time - it is assumed that it was the back of a huge unknown beast.
Although there is no reliable information about the monster supposedly living in the lake, many agree that some strange things do sometimes happen in Brosno and its environs.
Space Defense Forces
Russia has always sought to protect itself from all possible external (and internal) threats, and more recently, the defensive interests of our Motherland include the security of its borders. To repel an attack from space, the Space Forces were created in 2001, and in 2011, the Space Defense Forces (SDF) were formed on their basis.
The tasks of this type of troops include mainly organizing missile defense and controlling the military satellites that coordinate it, although the command is also considering the possibility of aggression from alien races. True, at the beginning of October of this year, answering the question whether VKO is ready for an alien attack, Sergei Berezhnoy, assistant to the head of the Main Test Space Center named after German Titov, said: “Unfortunately, we are not yet ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations.” . Let's hope the aliens don't know about this.
Ghosts of the Kremlin
There are few places in our country that can compare with the Moscow Kremlin in terms of mystery and the number of ghost stories that are found there. For several centuries it has served as the main citadel of Russian statehood, and, according to legend, the restless souls of the victims of the struggle for it (and with it) still roam the Kremlin corridors and dungeons.
Some say that in the Bell Tower of Ivan the Great you can sometimes hear the crying and lamentations of Ivan the Terrible, atoning for his sins. Others mention that they saw the spirit of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in the Kremlin, three months before his death, when the leader of the world proletariat was seriously ill and no longer left his residence in Gorki. But the most famous ghost of the Kremlin is, of course, the spirit of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, who appears whenever the country is in for a shock. The ghost smells cold, and sometimes he seems to be trying to say something, perhaps warning the leadership of the state against mistakes.
Black Bird of Chernobyl(although not Russia, it also deserves attention)
A few days before the infamous accident of the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, four plant employees reported seeing what looked like a huge dark man with wings and glowing red eyes. Most of all, this description is reminiscent of the so-called Mothman - a mysterious creature that allegedly appeared repeatedly in the city of Point Pleasant in the American state of West Virginia.
The Chernobyl plant workers who met the fantastic monster claimed that after the meeting they received several threatening calls and almost everyone began to have vivid, incredibly scary nightmares.
On April 26, the nightmare happened not in the dreams of the employees, but at the station itself, and the amazing stories were forgotten, but only for a short time: while they were putting out the fire that raged after the explosion, survivors of the flames said that they clearly saw a 6-meter black bird that flew out from the clouds of radioactive smoke pouring out of the destroyed fourth block.
Well to Hell
In 1984, Soviet geologists launched an ambitious project to drill an ultra-deep well on the Kola Peninsula. The main goal was to satisfy scientific research curiosity and test the fundamental possibility of such deep penetration into the thickness of the planet.
According to legend, when the drill reached a depth of about 12 km, the instruments recorded strange sounds coming from the depths and most of all resembling screams and moans. In addition, at great depths, voids were discovered, the temperature in which reached 1100 °C. Some even reported a demon flying out of a well and a flaming "I Win" sign appearing in the sky after eerie screams were heard from a hole in the ground.
All this gave rise to rumors that Soviet scientists had drilled a “well to hell,” but many of the “evidences” do not stand up to scientific criticism: for example, it is documented that the temperature at the lowest point that the drill reached was 220 °C.
Perhaps, David Mironovich Guberman, one of the authors and managers of the Kola superdeep well project, spoke best about the “well”: “When they ask me about this mysterious story, I don’t know what to answer. On the one hand, stories about the “demon” are bullshit. On the other hand, as an honest scientist, I cannot say that I know what exactly happened here. Indeed, a very strange noise was recorded, then there was an explosion... A few days later, nothing similar was found at the same depth.”
Ice woman
Nature sometimes goes beyond the normal, but the worst thing is when it happens to people. It was a very cold morning in Langby, Minnesota, when a man found his 19-year-old neighbor, Jean Hiliard, lying in the snow. Her entire body was frozen. Jean was apparently trying to get to a neighbor to ask for help after her car went off the road. When she was discovered, she was immediately sent to a local hospital, where her condition amazed all the doctors. Her body seemed to be made of ice. Jean was severely frostbitten and none of her limbs were moving or bending. The doctors did everything possible, but the situation remained critical. Even if Jean had come, she would likely have suffered severe brain damage and her legs would have had to be amputated. Her family hoped for a miracle. 2 hours later, the patient began to have seizures and regained consciousness. Jean felt good physically and mentally. Even frostbite, to the surprise of the doctors, slowly disappeared from her legs. She was discharged 49 days later without losing a single finger.
Iron pillar in Delhi
Iron, the king of all metals, is used in almost everything from the foundation of a house to the chain on a bicycle. Unfortunately, iron cannot escape its fate, slowly turning into rust. Besides this phenomenal structure: The Iron Column from Delhi. 7 meters high and weighing more than 6 tons, this iron giant was able to resist corrosion for 1600 years! How did something made of 98% iron last so long? Scientists have found the answer to this question, but how ancient blacksmiths discovered this fact so many years ago still baffles archaeologists.
Carroll A. Dearing
Fifty years after the mysterious disappearance of the crew of the ship Maria Celeste, a similar event occurred when the schooner Carroll A. Deering was discovered off the coast of North Carolina on January 31, 1921. When the rescue ships finally reached the ship, they saw to their horror that there was no crew on board. Although it was noted that food had been prepared for the next day, nothing else was found to indicate the presence of a crew. No personal belongings, no ship's log, no traces, just like in the case of Maria Celeste. Theories were put forward about paranormal phenomena due to the fact that the ship was located in the Bermuda Triangle area. Others believed it was the work of pirates or Russians.
Hutchison effect
The Hutchison Effect refers to a series of eerie phenomena that occurred when inventor John Hutchison attempted to recreate several of Nicolas Tesla's experiments. Some cases include levitation, the merging of things of different textures (wood and metal), and the disappearance of small objects. Even stranger, after his experiment, Hutchison was unable to repeat it with the same result. This experiment became so popular that it even aroused the interest of NASA and the military, but they were not able to succeed.
Belmes faces
Is it just me, or does that spot on the wall look like a person looking at you? This is one of the Belmes faces that were in the Pereira family home. For 20 years now, these faces have resembled men and women. They appear each time with a different facial expression. The strange thing is that the faces only stay in the house for a short time and then they disappear. Research has been conducted into what causes this effect. During one of them, a human body was dug up from under a house, but faces continued to appear. No answer was ever found.
Vanishing Lake
In May 2007, a lake in Patagonia, Chile, literally disappeared, leaving behind a 30-meter hole, icy mountains and dry land. This was not some small lake. The lake was 5 miles long! When geologists last examined the lake in March 2007, they found nothing strange. However, something happened during these 2 months that not only made the lake disappear, but also turned the river flowing from it into a small stream. Geologists wonder how such a large lake simply disappeared. This could have been due to an earthquake, although no tremors were observed in the region. Ufologists claim that it was a spaceship that dried up the lake. This mystery has never been solved.
Sticky rain
On August 7, 1994, residents of Oakville, Washington, were in for a surprise. Instead of the usual rain, people saw jelly falling from the sky. When this rain passed, almost everyone developed severe flu-like symptoms that lasted anywhere from 7 weeks to 3 months. Finally, after the mother of one of the city's residents fell ill after touching the substance, he sent a sample of it for testing. The results shocked all scientists. The drops contained human white blood cells. The substance was then taken to the State Department of Health in Washington for further testing. Here they discovered that the gelatin drops contained two types of bacteria, one of which was also present in the human digestive system. However, no one was able to identify the substance and how it was connected to the mysterious illness that was sweeping the city.
Black helicopter
On May 7, 1994, in Harahan, Louisiana, a black helicopter chased a teenager for 45 minutes. The frightened child explained that people had descended from a helicopter and pointed guns at him. To this day, the boy does not know why he was pursued and why they later released him. A week later, a similar thing happened to people driving past Washington. Unable to escape, they saw men in black uniforms with guns descending a rope ladder. However, to their dismay, the travelers were released. Black helicopters appear in UFO reports, and while some sightings have a simple explanation, other cases (see above) remain unsolved.
Animals in stone
There are several documented cases where frogs, toads and other small animals were found alive in solid stone. The strange thing is that people have found animals not only in natural formations such as stone or trees, but also in artificial ones. In 1976, Texas workers found a living green turtle in concrete in an air sac shaped like the small reptile. If somehow she got there a year ago when the concrete was being poured, then how could the turtle survive so long? After all, there were no holes or cracks in the concrete for a turtle to crawl through.
Donnie Decker
He was nicknamed Rain Boy in 1983. Donnie was visiting his friend when suddenly he went into a trance. Immediately, water began to flow from the ceiling and fog filled the room. His friends called the owner, who was disturbed by what he saw. Some time later, Donnie was sitting in a restaurant with his friends when the rain started pouring down on their heads. The restaurant owner immediately kicked him out onto the street. Years later, a minor infraction landed Donnie in jail, where he too caused chaos when it rained in his cell. After complaints from his fellow inmates, Donnie explained that he could make it rain at will, and promptly demonstrated this by dousing the guard on duty. Finally, he was released and found work as a cook at a local restaurant. Donnie's real whereabouts are unknown, as is the cause of the mysterious rain[c]
This list includes the most famous “mysteries of the century,” from stones sliding across the desert to incomprehensible underwater sounds, which people still managed to solve.
Richard III's grave found
The remains of Richard III, the last English king to die in battle, have been discovered under a car park in the British city of Leicester. It was one of the most amazing archaeological finds of recent decades.
Source of the Nile
This may seem too obvious, but even an answer like “Lake Victoria” was not so easy to get. It took the use of the most modern technologies to obtain a final solution, because the true location of the source of the Nile remained a mystery for a long time.
Why is the temperature of the “solar atmosphere” higher than the surface temperature of the Sun?
The answer sounds too scientific, however, one way or another, the mystery was solved in 2009 thanks to a study by a group of European scientists. They managed to find an explanation for the fact that the temperature of the solar “atmosphere” reaches several million degrees Celsius, while the surface of the sun is much “colder” - only 5 thousand degrees Celsius. The answer is that it is the magnetic field that is the source of energy that causes solar flares and coronal plasma ejections.
Finding a flooded
The discovery of the sunken ship in 1985, more than 70 years after the disaster, was completely accidental and can only be explained by the greatest luck of the researchers.
Loch Ness monster
After decades of countless controversy and speculation, the photographer behind the world-famous original image of the Loch Ness Monster recently admitted that it was a hoax.
Troy
For centuries, humanity considered Troy a mythical city and the Trojan War mostly a legend. This was the case until the self-taught German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the remains of an ancient city, also called Ilion.
"Magic" circles in the Namib Desert
For a long time, people associated this phenomenon with everything from radioactive radiation to space aliens. Only relatively recent studies have led to the final conclusion that the “culprits” of such a long intrigue are... termites! (However, there are other explanations that we wrote about earlier)
The fate of Martin Bormann
One of the top leaders of the Nazi Reich has not been found since World War II, despite an intensive search around the world. According to the most famous version, he managed to escape retaliation and hide somewhere in South America, of which there was numerous evidence that was circulated in the press for many years. However, in 1999, his corpse was found in an unmarked grave, not far from the bunker where Hitler committed suicide.
“Fish flatulence” instead of Russian submarines
In the 1980s, Swedish naval sailors discovered underwater sounds of unknown origin. Many experts attributed them to Russian submarines threatening the free world. The solution caused an explosion... of laughter - the source of the mystical underwater sounds turned out to be the secretions of digestive gases from aggregations of fish. The Swedes were subsequently given the so-called Ig Nobel Prize.
Tutankhamun's tomb
A story reminiscent of the “Trojan” was associated with this most “popular” ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Before the discovery of the completely untouched tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, it was the subject of countless legends and hoaxes.
Eternal Roar
When researchers from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered a low-frequency sound of unknown origin in the summer of 1997 in the South Pacific Ocean, its origin was initially attributed to some mysterious, incredibly large and loud animal. Later, however, most scientists agreed that this Roar (The Bloop) was caused by the movement of ice masses.
Why do corals pulsate?
The pulsation of coral colonies remained an impenetrable mystery and the subject of much speculation for several decades of the last century. This movement could not be explained by any pressing need. In the end, scientists were able to establish that in this way the corals maintain a low oxygen content in the surrounding waters and thereby attract a certain type of migrating seaweed, which forms the basis of their nutrition.
In what direction does the Earth's core rotate?
For a very long time, scientists could not understand how the solid inner core of our planet rotates in one direction, while the liquid outer core rotates in another. Researchers from the University of Leeds in the UK recently finally found the answer: the reason lies in the “equally opposite” interaction of near-Earth magnetic fields.
Do women blush in the dark?
This question may seem stupid to you, but even Charles Darwin tried to answer it. After all, if you think sensibly, in the dark it is impossible to see whether she has turned red, and if you turn on the light, then what happens next will no longer happen in the dark, regardless of the result. Fortunately, German researchers came up with the idea of using special cameras that react to thermal radiation to put an end to painful doubts. Yes, women blush in the dark, how!
Antikythera Mechanism
The fact that this ancient Greek “computer” was probably used for navigation purposes was known for a very long time (since the device was discovered precisely among the wreckage of a ship). But the fact that a device of a comparable level of complexity was next built by people only a thousand years later is indeed difficult to explain.
Causes of stomach ulcers
For many years, the pharmaceutical industry made very good money selling anti-stress drugs to treat stomach ulcers. This continued until Australian scientists discovered that ulcers are often caused by a bacterial factor and are very easily cured.
The nature of absolutely black bodies is inexplicable within the framework of classical physics
Classical physics states that an ideal black body in a state of thermal equilibrium will radiate an infinite amount of energy. This is inconsistent with what actually happens in the real world. To explain this phenomenon, the laws of quantum mechanics were required.
Sliding stones
In case you're not aware, in various deserts around the world there are rocks that "glide", meaning they move on their own. After several experiments, this effect received the following explanation: the movement of stones is most likely caused by wind and the presence of ice on the desert surface.
