In the life of every person there are such incidents and stories, telling which palms sweat, and hair stand on end. Of course, in fact, most of them are ordinary coincidences, but it is not always possible to believe in this. In fact, there is enough mysticism in our world, therefore another story, out of the ordinary, can happen to absolutely anyone. Next, we will talk about the most mysterious and terrible cases that have happened to people.
The case took place in Latvia, namely in Riga. The young man recently got married. He decides to get together with friends and chat a little. Of course, it was not without alcohol. All night long friends buzzed to the fullest and had fun like the last time. A lot of alcohol and drugs were present at the party.
After a few hours of fun, everyone began to disperse to their rooms to rest and sleep. One of the friends decides to stay in the kitchen with the hero of the occasion in order to spend the night behind dialogues "according to concepts." When all the alcohol had already been drunk, and the friends could barely stand on their feet, it was decided to go to bed. Young man, who had recently become a husband, went to his wife's room, and the friend went to another, where there was no one.
This is where the mysterious story begins, based on real events. As soon as the guy lay down on the sofa, he immediately felt something was wrong: strange squeaks and exclamations, obscene words uttered in a whisper. Of course, this situation could scare anyone. Then a shadow flickered in the mirror opposite the bed, which pretty much frightened the young man. He was afraid to get up, because it is not known what will be expected of him. Then such knocks were heard, similar to driving a nail with a hammer. Immediately there was such an idea that alcohol and drugs made themselves felt. This could be considered true, if not for a strong knock, after which the guy could not stand it and turned on the light.
What he discovers then is simply mind-blowing. There was a hammer on the floor, the knocks of which had been heard earlier. A strong fear and a sense of self-preservation took over, and the guy ran away to sleep in another room. Waking up, he told a story friends. But they weren't laughing. It turns out that this house was built by an adult man who traveled the world. Soon he hanged himself from a tree next to the estate. How and why he did this is still unknown. And his ghost still haunts the house.
Reading this mysterious story based on real events, goosebumps appear on the skin, and the hair simply stands on end. Sometimes you are amazed at what happens to people.
A young girl who works in the office all day long, practically did not appear in her apartment, as the work absorbed her from head to toe. The only thing she did while at home was washing in the shower, cooking and sleeping. There was simply no time for other things. The girl did not have fun and did not invite friends to visit, as the malicious boss did not give rest to the young lady.
And once such a moment came that the apartment had to be sold. It was removable, and the owner found a buyer. Consequently, the girl had to move out of the living area belonging to another person. According to the rental agreement, there was only one week left until the next payment. That's how long it took to find a new apartment.
Hire realtors there was no money, no time. Therefore, the young lady went to friends who could help her. And, it would seem, a good opportunity turned up to live in a friend's apartment for a small cost. But there is one problem - grandfather recently died at this place, and a year before his grandmother. For some reason, the landlady decided not to tell this to her own friend. Apparently she wanted more money.
Having packed her bags, the girl still moves to a new apartment. Of course, she again appeared there very rarely, since it was the end of the year, and it was necessary to draw up various reports for the entire working period. There were no outings at all.
One day the chef decided to make a gift, giving the girl a day off. She spent the whole day cleaning the apartment. In the evening, tired of all the fuss, she drank a glass of red wine and turned on the TV, which showed cartoons. Suddenly young lady heard her lock open. A strong fear gripped her. Then the men's steps went to the kitchen. For several minutes the tenant of the apartment lay in perplexity. Later, having gained strength, she still decides to go check. But there was no one there.
The next day, she told this story to her friend, who rented her an apartment. She could not restrain herself and said that it was on the sofa where the girl was sleeping that both grandfather and grandmother died. Most likely, it was their spirits that traveled around the house. A few days later, the resident packed her things and left. She didn't talk to her friend anymore.
mystical real story from the life of real people originates in the nineties of the last century. Perestroika is in the yard, no one has money, everyone survives as best they can. And now the unremarkable family lived absolutely like everyone else: a small apartment, two children, an unloved and low-paid job.
But one day the head of the family declares that bought a new car. There were many quarrels on the basis of this purchase, since there was no money even for food, and my father buys transport. The new purchase was an old Audi 80 with over 200,000 miles on it. And from the first day, for some reason, the car disliked its owner: it constantly broke down, some parts fell off, rust "ate" the body.
My father spent days and nights in the garage, trying to fix a new problem. Every day presented miracles: a puncture of a wheel is already such a common thing that the new owner did not lose heart at all, but dutifully repaired his “swallow”.
And one day, when patience was just running out, it was decided sell car. Before preparing for the sale, the family decides to wash the car inside and out to create a more or less presentable appearance. The children decided to clean up the trash under the seats, where some kind of package was found.
In this bag were various letters in which there were all kinds of curses and conspiracies. Of course, this inspires great fear. It is not known who and why left these inscriptions in the car, but they made me very nervous. It was decided to dispose of all curses by burning. So they did.
After that, some strange things started. For example, someone stole a wallet from a mother. Gradually, the problems only gained momentum. One of their major problems was work. For some reason, the boss became so angry with the husband and wife that he decides to deprive them of their salaries. Accordingly, it was necessary to look for new sources of income, because a family with children would simply die of hunger.
And here is the buyer for the car. Having arrived at the appointed time at the right place and after inspecting the vehicle, he decides to still buy a car. After spending small test drive, the buyer drove into the pit and punctured the wheel. This is just where his problems begin. Still, he decides to buy a "cursed" car, unaware of its past. The deal went through, the money was received, the buyer left.
Mystic stories from life, which are very difficult to explain in terms of logic.
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The other day there was a quarrel with a relative. Personally, I would have reduced communication with her to a minimum a long time ago, but my mother stubbornly clung to her, because “there are no more relatives”, “it’s so bad”, “what if we need help, and besides her, there will be no one to help” .
About 20 years ago, when our family had difficult times, we often borrowed money from this relative. Everything was returned. She also helped several times to solve some organizational issues. Gave me expensive gifts as a child. I considered her the ideal of a woman and dreamed of being like her: beautiful, charming, popular with men, kind, rich. When I grew up, things turned out a little different.
I have never been particularly naive, believing in dreams and miracles, but the incident that happened 2 years ago made me think and change my outlook on life.
The fact is that I have had poor eyesight for a long time, and I have already come to terms with this. But exactly 2 years ago, on the night of July 6-7 (the famous holiday of Ivan Kupala), a miracle happened. When I woke up on the morning of July 7, I again saw with my own eyes 100% on my own! I no longer needed glasses or lenses. By the way, medicine cannot explain such a case. And I considered it that very miracle, an award, a gift from higher powers. Of course, the next day my vision fell again and now the same.
I’ll make a reservation right away that I am an incorrigible materialist, but the story that happened to me still causes confusion in me. It is quite relatively connected with mysticism, but it actually happened, nothing was invented.
After seventh grade in 1980, my family decided to move from Kirov region to Rostov, closer to our relatives, where there was a lot of sun, heat and fruit abundance. My aunt, my mother's sister and her family lived three kilometers from Kamensk-Shakhtinsky on the banks of the Seversky Donets. My cousin, who was a year older than me, was an avid fisherman and was lost on the river from morning to night. I am also addicted to fishing. And so my brother and I once decided to organize night fishing.
I want to dedicate my confession to a man under the well-known, or almost everyone, nickname "Stranger". I will try to tell in detail what prompted me to write my story.
More than six months ago, when quarrels began with my husband, trying to find answers to my problems on the Internet, I accidentally found the Confession website. Reading the comments, I saw the Stranger, not so much his mysterious avatar, but his statements, his points of view at some point came into contact with mine, touching the soul. I'm not talking about love, I love one man in my life, it's something spiritual to some extent or at the level of energy coming from a person.
I will not say that I consider myself one of his admirers, since my attitude towards him is still twofold: I understood some of his statements, and sometimes resented others, but I learned from many of his views on life for myself. Has my personal life improved? It's not perfect yet, but it probably won't be. A stranger, like a kindred spirit, not seeing his face, appearance, not knowing his age, just from his very presence on the site, even the site lives, in my opinion, a different life (women are fascinated, men argue for interruption). His comments are read by a special voice inside me. And for all the time on the site, I could no longer feel what you feel when the Stranger commented.
This story happened to my father. It was several years ago. My parents have a dacha in the Krasnokutsky district of the Kharkov region. My father loves to roam the forest and knows it well. The forest where he walks, not far from the cottage, is pine.
So, he says that he somehow walked through the forest, and where he had often been before. And now he sees that he is walking not through a pine forest, but through an oak forest! He also saw a pond there, which he had never seen in those places, but he knew for sure that there was no pond there. He was frightened, began to look for a way out, guided, as he said, by the sun. After some time, he again found himself in a pine forest.
I sometimes have prophetic dreams. Some of them are about how and who takes someone from relatives or friends to the next world.
I had a very strange and memorable dream about my mother-in-law. As if the mother-in-law is lying on something, and a beautiful young woman is bending over her and scolding her for something, pointing at me. I woke up and began to analyze. I remembered another dream related to my mother-in-law. I dreamed of some kind of pit or grave, earth, and my mother-in-law buried my photograph. I thought, maybe that young beautiful woman scolded her for this act?
This story happened literally tonight, and since then I have been looking at my cat with different eyes. In some ways, it even resembles a horror movie.
Actually the point is this. At night I had a nightmare, and with the participation of this cat, by the way. Of course, there is nothing unusual in this, everyone has nightmares sometimes. And, in general, the nightmare, as it usually happens, reaches its climax and I woke up in the middle of the night and I hear that purring at my feet! That is, as if he was enjoying the fact that I had a nightmare. In general, a cat never purrs so easily, only if you stroke it or take it in your arms, and so that you just lie and purr, this never happens.
I have a serious problem. I absolutely do not know how to control my thoughts, or rather, these are not even thoughts, but obsessions. Moreover, my favorite places and things can be associated with negative thoughts.
For example, I look at some place and immediately before my eyes some kind of terrible picture (as if something bad is happening in this place). And it begins to seem to me that this place is now connected with what I imagined. I really don't want this place to be associated with something bad now, but diametrically opposed sentences come to mind, like "I really want this to be like this."
I am 27 years old, I have two daughters, my husband, thank God, I have a place to live and what to do, but there is one “but”.
I grew up in a large and very poor family. We have five parents, I'm middle. I did not go to kindergarten, but I studied very well at school. Then college, university and family.
My paternal grandmother was kind of like a good man, but few people talked to her, everyone was afraid of her and considered her a witch (and a black one). Even my mother and father himself somehow shunned her. When my grandmother fell ill (she was 75 years old), her parents had to take her to their place, and I had to help, take care of her, and I even made friends with her. She died 6 months later and that's where it all started.
Mystical and unexplained stories told by eyewitnesses.
Lost in time
I started working as a guard four years ago, right after my military service. Work - do not beat the recumbent. The schedule is three days later. You sit in your little room, you watch TV shows. It is not forbidden to take a nap at night, the main thing is to call the central office every two hours, saying that everything is in order at the facility.
Four years ago, most of the rooms in the building were empty. There was only one company of Internet providers based there. At 6 pm, all the installers locked their office and went home. I was completely alone. And then, during my third shift, something unexpected happened...
In the evening, when everyone had dispersed, I heard a strange noise. Yorzane, muffled blows and a rough male voice. I tensed up, took out a stun gun from the table and left my closet. The noise was coming from the right wing of the second floor. As if someone is banging on the door and yelling something vicious. Only swear words could be made out. Climbing the stairs, I, of course, was a coward. Where will you go from your work?
It wasn't dark outside yet, but upstairs there was only one window at the end of the wing, and the corridor was full of twilight. I pressed the switch, but the light didn't come on. That day the electricity worked intermittently. This is rare in our building, but it happens. They always explain it the same way: “The building is old, what do you want? There's always something to break."
I approached the place where the noise was coming from. These were the doors of the technical room. On the other side, someone was swearing and furiously pounding with their fists. A yellowed piece of paper was pasted on the door with the inscription “Room No. 51. The watchman has the key. But there was no castle! And a thick piece of reinforcement was inserted into the lock ears.
- Hey! - I shouted, as firmly as possible, so as not to give out a tremor in my voice.
- Finally! someone on the other side blurted out irritably and stopped banging on the door.
- Who's there? I asked.
- A horse in a coat! Open up, come on! What are you wondering?
The door staggered again, I realized that it was better to open it before it was broken. It was difficult to pull out a piece of reinforcement. He rusted hard. From this it became clear to me that it was not locked yesterday. After fiddling for a minute, I finally pulled out a piece of metal from the ears. A disheveled, unshaven man jumped out of the room, almost knocking me off my feet. He goggled his eyes at me and yelled:
“Tell me, why did you do it, huh?”
- What? - I thought that this man would explain everything to me, and he accused me.
- Why is the door closed? - still rudely he asks. Saliva splashes. The eyes are wicked.
- How should I know? It has always been closed! - I say.
- Are you completely stupid? the peasant said more calmly, and it seemed to me that his face became frightened.
He said nothing more, turned to the exit and walked away.
- Hey! Where are you going? I came to my senses when he had already left the wing. I ran after him, and he, without looking back, quickly descended the stairs and went out into the street.
I rushed to my closet. He took the key and locked the main entrance. He returned again and, having called the central office, reported that there was an outsider at the facility. The dispatcher conferred with someone, then told me to inspect everything and called again in five minutes.
I did everything as ordered. I went up to the second floor, studied room number 51. There was nothing to see there: just a long cramped room. An electrical panel with red letters "SCHO-3" and a ladder to the attic. When I saw the stairs, the key to the "mystery of the closed room" immediately became clear to me. I put together this version of events: some lunatic made his way into the building, wandered around the second floor, then climbed into the attic through one of the stairs in the hallway, and after crying down those stairs, he was trapped.
I called the dispatcher exactly five minutes later. He reassured me that all the locks were intact, nothing was missing, there was no one else in the building. And then I sat down at the table, opened the magazine and described the whole story on two pages. And he also described his guesses.
In the morning, when I had to turn in my shift, my boss showed up. I got nervous. He is a strict man - a former military man. He walked in, said hello and sat down to read my report. Then he asked to see the scene. We went with him to room number 51.
The chief inspected everything there, closed the doors and inserted a piece of reinforcement into place. After he announced that I was well done. He acted clearly and according to instructions. I got proud of myself. Only it was in vain. The next day, the shift worker called me and said that I needed to come to the city. The boss calls. He warned that everyone would be reprimanded.
I came. For the first time I saw all my colleagues. Among them, I was the youngest.
It turned out that after my shift, someone climbed into the building again. And again in room number 51. The security guard missed this case. Only in the morning I noticed that a piece of reinforcement was lying on the floor, and the doors of the room were open wide. There was no one inside, nothing was stolen, but the chief did not like this case very much.
He demanded that henceforth not a single fly fly into or out of the building without our knowledge. He said that that company has several million worth of equipment here and everything is under our responsibility. He ordered that the main entrance be locked immediately after the last worker left. And so that we sit and stare at the monitor for the whole day, as we should.
In short, the boss specifically told us. On the same day, instead of a piece of reinforcement, a lock was hung on the door. The keys to it were placed on a stand in the security room. Even a new piece of paper was printed on the printer and pasted on the door. Almost nothing was changed in the text - "The key is at the guard post (Room No. 51)", and now it was true. For a month after this event, the chief came twice a shift. Sometimes he personally called at night so as not to lose vigilance. But there were no more cases, and the severity of the guard post diminished.
Much time has passed since that incident. New firms have appeared in the building. Almost all the premises were occupied. A magnetic lock was placed on the main entrance. Now I let people into the building by pressing a button. At night, for fidelity, the door was locked with a key. It became very easy to work.
And then a year and a half ago something else happened. Admittedly, I was the only one who gave it any importance. A new installer got a job at the same Internet provider company. When I first saw him, I almost swore. He looked very much like that locked-in guy. Only this one smiled modestly, behaved as if he were seeing me for the first time and as if everything was unfamiliar to him.
For a long time, I was sure that this was the same psycho who caused a stir here during my first shifts. I kept thinking about who to say quietly. Even the burden of guilt on myself felt that I was silent about it. Suddenly, he had something bad in mind: he sniffed out something, and now he got a job ...
But after a while, I realized that this new installer and that crazy man cannot be the same person. This guy turned out to be completely adequate, simple and non-conflict. Once we got into a conversation, and I finally buried my doubts. It was his first year in the city. Came from the Astrakhan region. Never been to these places before.
His name was Dima, by the way. I had no reason not to believe him. And I decided that this guy would not throw out any oddities, but everything turned out to be completely different. 7 months ago, he disappeared under very strange circumstances ... It happened, as if on purpose, on my shift. That day there were again problems with electricity. This didn't give Dimka any rest. He's an electrician by trade, and gets really annoyed when something doesn't work.
- Come on. Everything will be fine in a day. How many times has this happened, - I told him, and he calmed down a bit. Stopped running around.
After 6 pm, when there was almost no one left in the building, Dima came to me, smiled and asked for the key to the 51st.
- I was already going home, and it just dawned on me that there is another shield there. Let me see what's there, he says. - 10 minutes, no more.
I nodded at the stand with the keys, they say, take it. He put his bag on my sofa, took the key and left. I was fascinated by the series and did not attach any importance to all this ...
It's been about an hour. I folded my laptop, deciding it was time to make a detour and lock the building. And then, getting up from a chair, I saw Dima's bag on the sofa and immediately remembered that he had not returned, although he promised to bring the key in 10 minutes.
Then I didn't suspect anything. You never know, a man got carried away with repairs. I left the room, checked the first floor, went up to the second. I see: the doors of room No. 51 are ajar, and there is dead silence in the wing ...
I called Dima, he didn't answer. And then fear churned in my stomach. I remembered that case with room number 51 and that guy who looked like Dima. And it began to seem to me that Dima was just as unshaven today, and his clothes were similar.
I called Dima again. Silence. Oh, and I got scared. I timidly crept up to the door ... The open lock hung on one ear, but there was no one inside. He flipped the switch and the light went on. Then a crazy idea came into my head. But I pushed those thoughts away. Dimka left, forgot about the bag, did not return the key. So what? Happens! Didn't report anything.
Only three days later I found out that Dima had not appeared at work since that day. His boss kept walking, lamenting: “Where did he go? After all, he's not a drinker." I realized that I saw him last, and every shift I asked about him. I thought he would show up and dispel my stupid suspicions. And he wasn't there. Contacted the police - to no avail.
And now I'm sitting in my shifts, I think. But what if the end of this disappearance story is somewhere in the past? Then you shouldn’t be surprised why Dima began to yell at me ... Of course, suddenly being locked up, I would have thought that it was I who closed it ...
I also remember the case when, the next day, someone again made his way into room No. 51. Suddenly, this is also Dimka, when he realized that “he didn’t go out there”? There is also a spare key for that lock, but I did not hang the lock on the door. He put it in a drawer. And I loosely bandaged the doors of room No. 51 with a thin wire so that it could be easily opened from the inside. There is nothing to steal anyway. And Dima, maybe even come back?
Prophetic dream with mosquitoes
My mother graduated from a technical school and, by the will of fate, was assigned to work in the glorious city of Chelyabinsk. The events described below refer to 1984-1985.
The girls worked together and did not live in a hostel, but in a rented apartment on the ground floor of a high-rise building. Four girls, two rooms, lived together and cheerfully. All were from different cities, and for the next new year holidays went home. Everyone except Gali, whose parents died a long time ago. So Galina stayed in the apartment alone for the holidays.
My mother met the holiday in a warm family circle, but she dreamed on the night from the first to the second number of a strange and horrible dream. Galya stands in a dark room and brushes off mosquitoes. And mosquitoes - whole clouds swarm. Galya is already crying with annoyance, she can’t drive them away from her.
Returning to Chelyabinsk, the girls warmly congratulated each other and shared their impressions of the trips, but for some reason Gali was not at home. She did not come either on the second or on the third day, and everyone was terribly worried - everyone had already gone to work, and it was not in the nature of the girl to play truant.
It was also noteworthy that when my mother told her friends about her dream, the rest confirmed that they saw the same thing in a dream, maybe in a slightly different scenery. But Galina and mosquitoes were present in all three dreams. By the way, after the arrival, the tenants noticed that mosquitoes began to appear at home in an unusual amount for winter, but they attributed everything to possible dampness in the basement, where the central heating pipes run.
The statement to the police about the disappearance of Galya was written by my mother and her neighbors. The search began. We also checked the basement. There Galina's body was found in a very unsightly condition. And it was full of mosquito larvae. Heat, humidity, nutrient medium - insects have bred incredibly.
During the investigation, it was established that her friend came to the girl. Apparently, they quarreled at the door of the apartment, and he firmly put his head on her. The lifeless body in a dressing gown hid in the basement. Apparently, Gali did not have people closer to her friends in the world, so she dreamed about them, tried to tell where she was. From the loss of the unfortunate to the discovery of the body, it took about two weeks or a little more.
Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective story. But in detective stories, as you know, all secrets are revealed by the last page. And in these stories, the solution is still far away, although humanity has been puzzling over some of them for decades. Perhaps we are not destined to find clues for them at all? Or will the veil of secrecy be lifted someday? And what do you think?
43 missing Mexican students
In 2014, 43 students from the teacher training college from Ayotzinapa went to a demonstration in Iguala, where the mayor's wife was supposed to speak to the residents. The corrupt mayor has instructed the police to rid him of this problem. On his orders, the police detained the students, and as a result of the harsh detention, two students and three bystanders were killed. The rest of the students, as it turned out, were handed over to the local criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin torn from his face. Later, the remains of two more students were found. Relatives and friends of the students organized mass demonstrations, provoking a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends, and the chief of police tried to escape, but were apprehended a few weeks later. The provincial governor resigned, and dozens of policemen and officials were arrested. And only one thing remained a mystery - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.
Oak Island money pit
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territory, there is a small island - Oak Island, or Oak Island. There is the famous "money pit". According to legend, local residents found it back in 1795. This is a very deep and complex mine, in which, according to legend, countless treasures are hidden. Many tried to get there - but the design is insidious, and after the treasure hunter digs to a certain depth, the mine begins to be flooded intensively with water. They say that the daredevils found at a depth of 40 meters a stone tablet with a scrawled inscription: "Two million pounds are buried 15 meters deeper." More than one generation tried to get the promised treasure out of the pit. Even the future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his student years at Harvard, with a group of friends came to Oak Island to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there?
Who was Benjamin Kyle?
In 2004, an unidentified man woke up outside Burger King in Georgia. He had no clothes on, he did not have any documents, but the worst thing is that he did not remember anything about himself. I mean, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but could not find traces: no missing people with such signs, no relatives who would identify him from a photo. Soon he was given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents and certificates of any education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a TV program, out of pity, gave him a job as a dishwasher. He works there now. The efforts of the doctors to awaken his memory, and the efforts of the police to find his former traces, did not yield results.
Shore of Severed Legs
Severed Leg Coast is the name given to a coast on the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia. He got this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 pieces have been found, most of them right. There are several theories to explain why feet wash up on this shore - natural disasters, the work of a serial killer ... some even claim that the mafia destroys the bodies of their victims on this remote beach. But none of these theories looks convincing, but no one knows where the truth is.
"Dancing Death" 1518
One day in the summer of 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began to dance in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she collapsed from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that gradually others joined her. A week later, 34 people were already dancing in the city, and a month later - 400. Many dancers died from overwork and heart attacks. The doctors did not know what to think, and the churchmen also could not exorcise the demons that inhabited the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one ever found out what caused it. They talked about some special kind of epilepsy, about poisoning, and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But scientists of that time did not find the exact answer.
Signal from aliens
On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was monitoring signals from space at the volunteer Extraterrestrial Research Center, picked up a signal on a random radio frequency that clearly came from deep space, from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This signal was much stronger than the cosmic noise that Eman was used to hearing on the air. It lasted only 72 seconds and consisted of a very specific, in the observer's opinion, completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was reproduced with accuracy several times in a row. Eman dutifully wrote down the sequence and reported it to his colleagues in the search for aliens. However, further listening to this frequency did not give anything, as well as any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. What it was - a prank of quite earthly jokers or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to get in touch with us - still no one knows.
Stranger from Somerton Beach
And here is another perfect murder, the mystery of which has not yet been solved. December 1, 1948 in Australia, on Somerton Beach in South Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was discovered. He did not have any documents with him, only a note with two words was found in one of the pockets: “Taman Shud”. It was a line from Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat meaning "the end". The cause of death of the unknown could not be determined. The forensic investigator believed that it was poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed that it was about suicide, but this statement was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case excited not only Australia, but the whole world. They tried to establish the identity of the unknown in almost all countries of Europe and America, but the efforts of the police turned out to be in vain, and the history of Taman Shud remained shrouded in a veil of secrecy.
Treasures of the Confederates
This legend still haunts American treasure hunters - and not only them. According to legend, when the Northerners were already close to victory in the Civil War, the Treasurer of the Confederate government, George Trenholm, in desperation decided to deprive the winners of their legitimate booty - the treasury of the Southerners. This mission was personally undertaken by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. He and his guard left Richmond with a huge cargo of gold, silver and jewels. Where they went, no one knows, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, there were no jewels with him, and 4 tons of Mexican gold dollars also disappeared without a trace. Davis never revealed the secret of the gold. Some believe that he distributed it to the planters of the South, so that they buried it until better times, others that it was buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that a secret society of the Knights of the Golden Circle laid a paw on him, secretly preparing revenge in the Civil War. Some even say that the treasure is hidden at the bottom of the lake. Dozens of treasure hunters are still looking for him, but none of them can get to the bottom of money or the truth.
Voynich Manuscript
The enigmatic book, known as the Voynich Manuscript, is named after Wilfred Voynich, an American second-hand bookseller of Polish origin, who bought it from an unknown person in 1912. In 1915, after taking a closer look at the find, he told the whole world about it - and since then, many have not known peace. According to scientists, the manuscript was written in the XV-XVI centuries in Central Europe. The book contains a lot of text written in a small handwriting, hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown. modern science. The signs of the zodiac, medicinal herbs are also drawn here, accompanied by a text, apparently, of recipes for their use. However, the content of the text is only the speculation of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language that is still unknown on Earth, moreover, it is almost impossible to decipher. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even after centuries.
Karst wells in Yamal
In July 2014, an inexplicable explosion was heard in Yamal, as a result of which a huge well appeared in the ground, the width and height of which reached 40 meters! Yamal is not the most populated place on the planet, so no one was hurt from the explosion and the appearance of the failure. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon required an explanation, and a scientific expedition set off to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful for studying strange phenomenon, - from geographers to experienced climbers. However, when they arrived, they failed to understand the causes and nature of what had happened. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared on Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have been able to express only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal sinkholes remain a mystery.
Antikythera mechanism
Discovered by treasure hunters on a sunken ancient Greek ship at the beginning of the 20th century, this device, which at first seemed like just another artifact, turned out to be nothing less than the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze discs, made with precision and accuracy unthinkable in those distant times, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, time in accordance with different calendars and the dates of the Olympic Games. According to the results of the analyzes, the device was made at the turn of the millennium - about a century before the birth of Christ, 1600 years before the discoveries of Galileo and 1700 before the birth of Isaac Newton. This device was more than a thousand years ahead of its time and still amazes scientists.
sea people
The Bronze Age, which lasted approximately from the 35th to the 10th century BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations at once - Greek, Cretan, Canaan. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments tools became more complex. It seemed that humanity was advancing by leaps and bounds towards prosperity. But everything collapsed within a few years. The civilized peoples of Europe and Asia were attacked by a horde of "people of the sea" - barbarians on countless ships. They burned and destroyed cities and villages, burned food, killed and took people into slavery. After their invasion, ruins remained everywhere. Civilization was thrown back at least a thousand years ago. In the once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, many secrets of construction and work with metals were lost. The most mysterious thing is that after the invasion, the "sea people" disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. Scientists are still guessing who and where this people came from and what was their fate. But there is no clear answer to this question yet.
Murder of the "Black Dahlia"
Books were written about this legendary murder and films were made, but it was not possible to unravel it. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Her naked body was subjected to cruel abuse: it was practically cut in half and bore traces of many mutilations. At the same time, the body was washed clean and completely devoid of blood. This story of one of the oldest unsolved murders was widely disseminated by journalists, giving Short the nickname "black dahlia". Despite an active search, the police could not find the killer. The Black Dahlia case is considered one of the oldest unsolved murders in Los Angeles.
Motor ship "Ourang Medan"
In early 1948, the Dutch ship Ourang Medan gave an SOS signal while in the Mallak Strait off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and ended with the chilling words: "And I'm dying." The captain of the ship "Silver Star", having heard a distress signal, went in search of "Ourang Medan". Having discovered the ship in the Strait of Malacca, the sailors from the Silver Star boarded and saw that it was indeed full of corpses, and the cause of death was not visible on the bodies. Soon, the rescuers noticed suspicious smoke coming from the hold and, just in case, preferred to return to their ship. And they did the right thing, because soon the Ourang Medan spontaneously exploded and sank. Of course, because of this, the possibility of investigation became zero. Why the crew died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.
Baghdad Battery
Until recently, it was believed that mankind mastered the production and use of electric current only at the end of the 18th century. However, an artifact found by archaeologists in the region of ancient Mesopotamia in 1936 casts doubt on this conclusion. The device consists of a clay pot containing the battery itself: an iron core wrapped in copper, which is believed to have been filled with some kind of acid, after which it began to generate electricity. For many years, archaeologists have been arguing about whether the devices were really related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they assembled the same primitive products - and managed to get an electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to arrange electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since there are no written sources of that era, this mystery will now probably haunt scientists forever.
These days, it's pretty hard to completely hide your personal data, because just typing a few words in a search engine - and the secrets are revealed, and the mysteries come to the surface. With the development of science and the improvement of technology, the game of hide and seek is becoming increasingly difficult. It used to be easier, of course. And there are many examples in history when it was impossible to find out what kind of person he was and where he came from. Here are some of these mysterious cases.
15. Kaspar Hauser
May 26, Nuremberg, Germany. 1828. A teenager of about seventeen wanders aimlessly through the streets, clutching a letter addressed to Commander von Wessenig in his hand. The letter states that the boy was taken to school in 1812, taught to read and write, but he was never allowed "to take a single step out the door." It was also said that the boy should become "a cavalryman like his father" and the commander could either accept him or hang him.
After meticulous questioning, they managed to find out that his name was Kaspar Hauser and he spent his whole life in a "blacked out cage" 2 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.5 meters high, in which there were only an armful of straw and three toys carved from wood (two horses and dogs). A hole was made in the floor of the cell so that he could relieve himself. The foundling hardly spoke, could not eat anything but water and black bread, he called all people boys, and all animals - horses. The police tried to find out where he came from and who the criminal was, what made the boy a savage, but this was never found out. For the next few years, some people took care of him, then others, taking him into their house and caring for him. Until December 14, 1833, Kaspar was found stabbed in the chest. A purple silk purse was found nearby, and in it was a note made in such a way that it could only be read in a mirror image. She said:
"Hauser will be able to describe to you exactly how I look and where I came from. In order not to bother Hauser, I want to tell you myself where I _ _ I came from _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ on the river _ _ I'll even tell you the name: M .L.O."
14. Green Children of Woolpit
Imagine that you live in the 12th century in the small village of Woolpit in the English county of Suffolk. While harvesting in the field, you find two children huddled in an empty wolf hole. Children speak an incomprehensible language, dressed in indescribable clothes, but the most interesting thing is their green skin. You take them to your house where they refuse to eat anything but green beans.
After a while, these children - brother and sister - begin to speak a little English, eat not only beans, and their skin gradually loses its green tint. The boy falls ill and dies. The surviving girl explains that they came from "St. Martin's Land", an underground "world of dusk" where they looked after their father's cattle, and then they heard a noise and ended up in a wolf den. The inhabitants of the underworld are green and dark all the time. There were two versions: either this is a fairy tale, or the children ran away from the copper mines.
13. Somerton Man
On December 1, 1948, on Somerton Beach in the town of Glenelg (a suburb of Adelaide) in Australia, the police discovered the body of a man. All the labels from his clothes were cut off, he had neither documents nor a wallet, and his face was clean-shaven. Even the teeth could not be identified. That is, there were no clues at all.
After the autopsy, the pathologist concluded that "death could not have occurred due to natural causes" and suggested poisoning, although no traces of toxic substances were found in the body. In addition to this hypothesis, the doctor could not suggest anything more about the cause of death. Perhaps the most mysterious thing in this whole story was that a piece of paper was found with the deceased, torn from a very rare edition of Omar Khayyam, on which only two words were written - Tamam Shud ("Tamam Shud"). These words are translated from Persian as "finished" or "completed". The victim remained unidentified.
12. Man from Taured
In 1954, in Japan, at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, thousands of passengers were hurrying about their business. However, one passenger did not seem to take part in this. For some reason, this outwardly perfectly normal man in a business suit attracted the attention of airport security, he was stopped and began to ask questions. The man answered in French, but was also fluent in several other languages. His passport had seals from many countries, including Japan. But this man claimed to have come from a country called Taured, located between France and Spain. The problem was that on none of the maps offered to him there was any Taured in this place - Andorra was located there. This fact greatly saddened the man. He said that his country had existed for centuries and that he even had its stamps in his passport.
Discouraged, airport officials left the man in a hotel room with two armed guards outside the door while they tried to find more information about the man. They didn't find anything. When they returned to the hotel for him, it turned out that the man had disappeared without a trace. The door did not open, the guards did not hear any noise and movement in the room, and he could not leave through the window - it was too high. Moreover, all the belongings of this passenger disappeared from the airport security service.
The man, simply put, dived into the abyss and did not return.
11. Lady Granny
The 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy spawned many conspiracy theories, and one of the most mystical details of this event is the presence in the photographs of a certain woman, who was dubbed Lady Grandmother. This woman in a coat and sunglasses got into a bunch of pictures, moreover, they show that she had a camera and she was filming what was happening.
The FBI tried to find her and identify her, but to no avail. The FBI later approached her to provide her videotape as evidence, but no one ever came. Just think: this woman, in broad daylight, in full view of at least 32 witnesses (whom she was photographed and videotaped), witnessed the murder and filmed it, and yet no one could identify her, not even the FBI. She has remained a secret.
10. D. B. Cooper
It happened on November 24, 1971 at Portland International Airport, where a man boarded a plane bound for Seattle, clutching a black briefcase, who bought a ticket under the documents in the name of Dan Cooper. After takeoff, the Cooper handed the flight attendant a note saying that he had a bomb in his briefcase and his demands were $200,000 and four parachutes. The flight attendant notified the pilot, who contacted the authorities.
After landing at the Seattle airport, all passengers were released, the Cooper's demands were met and an exchange was made, after which the plane took off again. As it flew over Reno, Nevada, the imperturbable Cooper ordered all personnel on board to remain in place, while he himself opened the passenger door and jumped out into the night sky. Despite a large number of witnesses who could identify him, "Cooper" was never found. Only a small portion of the money was found - in a river in Vancouver, Washington.
9. 21-faced monster
In May 1984, a Japanese food corporation called "Ezaki Glico" ran into a problem. Its president, Katsuhiza Ezaki, was kidnapped for ransom right from his home and held for some time in an abandoned warehouse, but then he managed to escape. A little later, the company received a letter stating that the products were poisoned with potassium cyanide and there would be victims if all products were not immediately recalled from food warehouses and stores. The company's losses amounted to $21 million, 450 people lost their jobs. The unknown - a group of people who took the name "21-faced monster" - sent mocking letters to the police, who could not find them, and even gave clues. Another message said that they "forgave" Glico and the persecution stopped.
Not satisfied with playing with one large corporation, the Monster organization has its eyes on others: Morinaga and a few other food companies. They acted according to the same scenario - they threatened to poison the products, but this time they demanded money. During a failed money exchange operation, a police officer almost managed to grab one of the criminals, but still missed him. Superintendent Yamamoto, in charge of investigating the case, could not bear the shame and committed suicide by setting himself on fire.
Shortly thereafter, "Monster" sent his final message to the media, poking fun at the death of a police officer and ending with "We're the bad guys. It means we have more to do than bait companies. Being bad is fun. Monster with 21 faces." . And nothing more was heard from them.
8. The Man in the Iron Mask
The "man in the iron mask" had the number 64389000, according to prison records. In 1669, the minister of Louis XIV sent a letter to the head of the prison in the French city of Pignerol, in which he announced the imminent arrival of a special prisoner. The minister ordered a cell to be built with several doors to prevent eavesdropping, to provide this prisoner with all his basic needs, and finally, if the prisoner ever spoke of anything other than this, to kill him without hesitation.
This prison was famous for putting "black sheep" from noble families and the government. It is noteworthy that the "mask" received special treatment: his cell was well furnished, unlike the rest of the prison cells, and two soldiers were on duty at the door of his cell, who were ordered to kill the prisoner if he took off his iron mask. The conclusion lasted until the death of the prisoner in 1703. The same fate befell the things he used: the furniture and clothes were destroyed, the walls of the cell were scraped off and washed, and the iron mask was melted down.
Many historians have since argued bitterly over the identity of the prisoner in an attempt to find out if he was a relative of Louis XIV and for what reasons he was destined for such an unenviable fate.
7. Jack the Ripper
Perhaps the most famous and mysterious serial killer in history, who London first heard about in 1888, when five women were killed (although it is sometimes said that there were eleven victims). All the victims were connected by the fact that they were prostitutes, and also by the fact that they all had their throats cut (in one of the cases, the cut was right up to the spine). All of the victims had at least one organ cut out of their bodies, and their faces and body parts were mutilated almost beyond recognition.
Most suspiciously, these women were clearly not murdered by a novice or amateur. The killer knew exactly how and where to cut, and he knew anatomy perfectly, so many immediately decided that the killer was a doctor. The police received hundreds of letters in which people accused the police of incompetence, and there seemed to be letters from the Ripper himself with the signature "From Hell".
None of the many suspects and none of the countless conspiracy theories have been able to shed light on this case.
6. Agent 355
One of the first spies in US history, and a female spy, was Agent 355, who worked during the American Revolution for George Washington and is part of the Culper Ring spy organization. This woman provided vital information about the British army and its tactics, including plans for sabotage and ambushes, and if not for her, the outcome of the war could have been different.
Supposedly in 1780, she was arrested and sent aboard a prison ship, where she gave birth to a boy, who was named Robert Townsend Jr. She died a little later. However, historians are suspicious of this story, stating that women were not sent to floating prisons, and there is no evidence of the birth of a child.
5. Killer named Zodiac
Another serial killer who remains unknown is the Zodiac. It's practically the American Jack the Ripper. In December 1968, he shot dead two teenagers in California - right on the side of the road - and attacked five more people in next year. Of these, only two survived. One of the victims described the assailant as brandishing a gun wearing a hooded cape like an executioner's and a white cross painted on his forehead.
Like Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac maniac also sent letters to the press. The difference is that these were ciphers and cryptograms along with insane threats, and at the end of the letter there was always a crosshair symbol. The prime suspect was a man named Arthur Lee Allen, but the evidence against him was only circumstantial and his guilt was never proven. And he himself died of natural causes shortly before the trial. Who was the Zodiac? No answer.
4. Unknown rebel (Tank Man)
This picture of a protester facing a column of tanks is one of the most famous anti-war photographs and also contains a mystery: the identity of this man, who is called Tank Man, has never been established. An unknown rebel held back a column of tanks alone for half an hour during the unrest in Tiananmen Square in June 1989.
The tank was unable to bypass the protester and stopped. This prompted Tank Man to climb onto the tank and talk to the crew members through the vent. After a while, the protester got down from the tank and continued his stand-up strike, preventing the tanks from moving forward. Well, then it was carried away by people in blue. It is not known what became of him - whether he was killed by the government or forced into hiding.
3. Woman from Isle
In 1970, the partially charred body of a naked woman was discovered in the Isdalen Valley (Norway). More than a dozen sleeping pills, a lunch box, an empty liquor bottle, and plastic bottles that smelled of gasoline. The woman suffered serious burns and carbon monoxide poisoning, in addition, 50 sleeping pills were found inside her, and she may also have received a blow to the neck. The tips of her fingers were cut off so that she could not be identified by fingerprints. And when the police found her luggage at the nearest railway station, it turned out that all the labels on the clothes were also cut off.
During further investigation, it turned out that the deceased had a total of nine pseudonyms, a whole collection of different wigs and a collection of suspicious diaries. She also spoke four languages. But this information did not help much in establishing the identity of the woman. A little later, a witness was found who saw a woman in fashionable clothes walking along the path from the station, followed by two men in black coats - towards the place where the body was found 5 days later.
But even this testimony did not help much.
2. Grinning Man
Usually paranormal events are difficult to take seriously and almost all phenomena of this kind are exposed almost immediately. However, this case seems to be of a different kind. In 1966, in New Jersey, two boys were walking at night along the road towards the barrier and one of them noticed a figure behind the fence. The towering figure was dressed in a green suit that shimmered in the lantern light. The creature had a wide grin or grin and small prickly eyes that relentlessly followed the frightened boys with their eyes. The boys were then questioned separately and in great detail, and their stories matched exactly.
Some time later, in West Virginia, reports of such a strange Grinning Man again appeared, and in large numbers and from different people. With one of them - Woodrow Dereberger - Grinning even talked. He identified himself as "Indrid Cold" and asked if there were any reports of unidentified flying objects in the area. In general, he made an indelible impression on Woodrow. Then this paranormal entity was still met here and there, until it disappeared completely.
1. Rasputin
Perhaps no other historical figure can be compared with Grigory Rasputin in terms of the degree of mystery. And although we know who he is and where he came from, his identity has become overgrown with rumors, legends and mysticism and is still a mystery. Rasputin was born in January 1869 to a peasant family in Siberia, where he became a religious wanderer and "healer", claiming that some deity gave him visions. A whole series of controversial and bizarre events led to the fact that Rasputin, as a healer, ended up in the royal family. He was invited to treat Tsarevich Alexei, who was suffering from hemophilia, in which he even succeeded somewhat - and as a result acquired enormous power and influence over the royal family.
Associated with corruption and evil, Rasputin was the subject of countless unsuccessful assassination attempts. Either a woman was sent to him with a knife under the guise of a beggar, and she almost gutted him, then they invited him to the house of a well-known politician and tried to poison him with cyanide mixed into the drink. But that didn't work either! In the end, they just shot him. The killers wrapped the body in sheets and threw it into the icy river. Later it turned out that Rasputin died from hypothermia, not from bullets, and even almost managed to get out of his cocoon, but this time his luck did not smile at him.
