Incredible incidents from life. Mysterious facts that scientists are unable to explain

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 hard 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.

Despite all the achievements of science, there are still many blind spots in it. Look at this list of mysterious phenomena and facts that scientists are unable to explain.

Voynich manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript is an ancient book that continues to resist all attempts to decipher it. These are not just some self-invented gibberish of a schizophrenic, like, “But try to figure out what I wrote here.” No, this is a clearly structured book with obvious sequences, patterns, and detailed illustrations.

It looks like it's a real language, although no one has ever seen it before. And it really seems to make sense. Which no one can understand.

Image: Translation: “...and when you put the tennis racket in her mouth, put it in the fountain. Then draw a picture from it."

There is not even a consensus on who wrote it, or even where the manuscript was written. Needless to say, no one knows why it was written.

Try it yourself.

No, don't try. Military codebreakers, cryptographers, mathematicians, linguists, they were all left with their noses, and could not decipher a single word.

As you can probably guess, a great variety of different options were offered - from quite reasonable to the most idiotic. Some say that this code cannot be deciphered, because decryption requires a key. Some say it's just a joke. Some say that this is glossolalia - the art of speaking or writing, something that you yourself do not understand, which is transmitted to you by God, space aliens, Cthulhu or Murzilka...

Our guess: The manuscript is written in English. It’s true that this figure knew him so poorly that it’s impossible to make out anything at all in this scribbling.

Antikythera Mechanism

Riddle: The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient and complex mechanism found in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece, dating back to approximately 100 BC. It contains gears and elements that were not found for another thousand years - until the Muslims and Chinese began to invent all sorts of useful things, while the Europeans were happily crushing each other and everyone in a row.

Why can't they solve the riddle?

Firstly, there is no consensus on who created this mechanism and why. It is widely believed that it was made by the Greeks, but serious research published in serious publications suggests that the mechanism originated in Sicily.

In addition to the fact that the mechanism was quite capable of chopping off the curious finger of some particularly meticulous onlooker, it was also (sort of) intended for astronomical calculations. The problem is that at the time when this thing was invented, no one had yet discovered the laws of gravity and the movement of celestial bodies.

In other words, the Antikythera mechanism was intended for something that at the time of its invention no one had ever heard of, and none of the purposes at that time (for example, ship navigation) fit with the incredible number of functions and settings of this device.

Our guesses:

This is a part from a time machine that fell off when it arrived in the past.

Baigong pipes

In China, where no one has ever lived, let alone had any industry, on the top of a mountain there are three mysterious triangular holes containing hundreds of rusty pipes of unknown origin. Some of them go deep into the mountain. Some go into the nearby salt lake. There are more pipes in the lake, and more run along the shore of the lake from east to west. Some of them are large - about 40 centimeters in diameter, uniform in size and placed in such a way that they create a purposeful pattern.

So what's the problem? Archaeologists date the pipes to the time when people were just learning the basics of culinary art, becoming acquainted with fire, and starting to eat food cooked on fire, let alone cast iron.

Why can't they solve the riddle?

Oddly enough, the pipes are not clogged with garbage, although they themselves are older than Zeus. This suggests that they were not just taken into the ground for some hellish communal needs, but that they were actually used for something. Yes, did we say that the mountain is completely unsuitable for human life?

As usual in such cases, a party of stubborn dreamers believes that this is an ancient astronomical laboratory (where would we be without it), or even a take-off site abandoned by space aliens. This may be true because the pipes contain a fraction of silicon dioxide similar to that found on Mars. Although the hatch roof also contains silicon dioxide, it’s still not worth giving the plumbers’ laurels to aliens.

Our guesses:

Once upon a time, a bunch of frustrated fishermen with a lot of time on their hands spent their entire lives building a water and sewer system to drain a nearby lake. And then come to the lake and catch the fish of your dreams with your bare hands.

Giant stone balls of Costa Rica

Riddle: Giant stone balls are scattered throughout Costa Rica and several surrounding areas. They are smooth and perfectly spherical, or almost. Some are quite small, only a few centimeters in diameter, but others measure up to eight feet and weigh several tons.

Someone unknown carved them out of stone, despite the fact that Costa Rica does not plan to enter the Bronze Age until 2013. There are many stones, and their purpose remains unknown.

Some of the balloons were blown up by local residents in the hope of finding gold or some other freebie. Some roll freely on the ground, while others are so heavy that even a bulldozer could not move them. However, this cannot be proven, because there are no bulldozers in Costa Rica.

Why can't they solve the riddle?

The curious thing is that there are no mining workings anywhere near the balls. Some more useless information: the stones are carved from volcanic rock.

Our guesses:

In a thousand years, the eggs of the stone monsters will mature, they will hatch, devour all people and begin to rule the world.

Baghdad batteries

The Baghdad Batteries are a collection of artifacts found in the Mesopotamian region, dating back to the early centuries AD.

When archaeologists came across the batteries, they assumed they were just regular old clay pots for storing food, but the theory was quickly thrown into the trash because each pot contained a copper rod with signs of oxidation. Well, if at school you preferred tanks to studying, let us explain - the pots probably contained a liquid that, when interacting with copper, generated electricity. If this is true, then the first batteries appeared thousands of years ago.

Why can't they solve the riddle?

Unfortunately, ancient video cameras have not yet been excavated. Some stone reliefs called "The Light of Dendera" depict, some believe, the fire of an electric arc, which required something similar to the Baghdad batteries.

More reasonable theories suggest that the batteries were used to electrolyze objects with gold. Some people think that the healers of that time could have used batteries to shock people (well, to show that they had mystical powers or something).

Our guesses:

We need to bring them to Egypt. Put it into the Sphinx's secret hole. Then he will open his eyes, stand up, and with a wild roar rush across the desert (we don’t know why, we haven’t figured it out yet).

In 1997, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded a strange sound in the ocean. Strange and loud. So loud that it was picked up by two microphones located 3 thousand miles apart (~5,000 km).

Scientists have determined that the wave pattern shows that it was an animal.

Why can't they solve the riddle?

There is no animal so large that it can produce a sound that can be heard so far away. Not a blue whale, not a howler monkey, not a screaming teenage girl.

Shortly after NOAA posted the strange sound on its website, some H.P. Lovecraft fans believed that the sound was coming from Loughcraft's famous character, Cthulhu, since the coordinates for the source of the sound were close to the location H.P. Lovecraft indicated for the underwater city of R'lyeh, where Cthulhu sleeps.

Nowadays, it is quite difficult to completely hide information about yourself, because all you have to do is type a few words into a search engine - and secrets are revealed and secrets come to the surface. With the development of science and the improvement of technology, the game of hide and seek becomes more and more difficult. It was, of course, easier before. 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 a few such 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. The letter states that the boy was taken in for training in 1812, taught to read and write, but was never allowed to "take one step out of 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, we were able to find out that his name was Kaspar Hauser and he spent his entire life in a “darkened 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 dog). A hole was made in the floor of the cell so he could relieve himself. The foundling hardly spoke, could not eat anything except water and black bread, called all people boys, and all animals horses. The police tried to find out where he came from and who the criminal was that made a savage out of the boy, but they could not find out. Over the next few years, he was cared for by one person or another, taking him into their homes and caring for him. Until on December 14, 1833, Kaspar was found with a stab wound to the chest. A purple silk wallet was found nearby, and inside it was a note made in such a way that it could only be read in a mirror image. It read:

“Hauser will be able to describe to you exactly what I look like and where I came from. In order not to bother Hauser, I want to tell you myself where I come from _ _ I came from _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ on the river _ _ I’ll even tell you my 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 a field, you find two children huddled in an empty wolf's hole. The children speak an incomprehensible language, are dressed in indescribable clothes, but the most interesting thing is that their skin is green. You take them to your home where they refuse to eat anything other than green beans.

After a while, these children - brother and sister - begin to speak a little English, eat more than just beans, and their skin gradually loses its green tint. The boy gets sick and dies. The surviving girl explains that they came from the "Land of St. Martin", an underground "world of darkness", where they looked after their father's cattle, and then heard a noise and found themselves in a wolf's den. The inhabitants of the underworld are green and dark all the time. There were two versions: either it was a fairy tale, or the children escaped from the copper mines.

13. The Man from Somerton

On December 1, 1948, police discovered the body of a man on Somerton Beach in Glenelg (a suburb of Adelaide) in Australia. All the labels on his clothes were cut off, he had no documents or wallet on him, and his face was clean shaven. Even the teeth could not be identified. That is, there was not a single clue at all.
After the autopsy, the pathologist concluded that “death could not have occurred due to natural causes” and assumed poisoning, although no traces of toxic substances were found in the body. Apart from this hypothesis, the doctor could not guess anything more about the cause of death. Perhaps the most mysterious thing in this whole story was that with the deceased they found a piece of paper 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. The Man from Taured

In 1954, in Japan, at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, thousands of passengers were rushing about their business. However, one passenger seemed to be taking no part in it. For some reason, this outwardly completely normal man in a business suit attracted the attention of airport security, they stopped him and started asking questions. The man answered in French, but was also fluent in several other languages. His passport contained stamps from many countries, including Japan. But this man claimed that he came from a country called Taured, located between France and Spain. The problem was that none of the maps offered to him showed 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 or movement in the room, and he could not leave through the window - it was too high. Moreover, all of this passenger’s belongings disappeared from the airport security premises.

The man, simply put, dived into the abyss and did not return.

11. Lady Grandmother

The 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy has given rise to many conspiracy theories, and one of the most mystical details of this event is the presence in photographs of a certain woman who was dubbed Lady Granny. This woman in a coat and sunglasses was in a bunch of pictures, moreover, they show that she had a camera and was filming what was happening.

The FBI tried to find her and establish her identity, but to no avail. The FBI later called on her to turn over her videotape as evidence, but no one ever came. Just think: this woman, in daylight, in full view of at least 32 witnesses (photographed and videoed by her), witnessed and videotaped a murder, and yet no one, not even the FBI, could identify her. It remained a secret.

10. D.B. Cooper

It happened on November 24, 1971 at Portland International Airport, where a man who had bought a ticket using documents in the name of Dan Cooper boarded a plane bound for Seattle, clutching a black briefcase in his hands. After takeoff, Cooper gave 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 authorities.

After landing at Seattle Airport, all passengers were released, Cooper's demands were met and the exchange was made, after which the plane took off again. As he flew over Reno, Nevada, the calm Cooper ordered all personnel on board to remain seated as he opened the passenger door and jumped into the night sky. Despite the 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 faced a problem. Its president, Katsuhiza Yezaki, was kidnapped for ransom from his home and held for some time in an abandoned warehouse, but then managed to escape. A little later, the company received a letter stating that the products were poisoned with potassium cyanide and there would be casualties 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 Unknowns - 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 hints. The next message said that they had “forgiven” Glico, and the persecution had stopped.

Not content with playing with one large corporation, the Monster organization has its eyes on others: Morinaga and several other food companies. They acted according to the same scenario - they threatened to poison the food, but this time they demanded money. During a botched money exchange operation, a police officer almost managed to capture one of the criminals, but still let him go. Superintendent Yamamoto, who was responsible for investigating this case, could not bear the shame and committed suicide by self-immolation.

Shortly after, "The Monster" sent his final message to the media, mocking the death of a police officer and ending with the words: "We are the bad guys. That means we have better things to do than harass companies. Being bad is fun. Monster with 21 faces." . And nothing more was heard about them.

8. The Man in the Iron Mask

The "man in the iron mask" had the number 64389000, as follows from prison archives. In 1669, the minister of Louis XIV sent a letter to the governor of the prison in the French city of Pignerol, in which he announced the imminent arrival of a special prisoner. The minister ordered the construction of a cell with several doors to prevent eavesdropping, to provide for this prisoner's every basic need, and finally, if the prisoner ever spoke of anything other than this, to kill him without hesitation.

This prison was known for incarcerating "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 removed his iron mask. The imprisonment lasted until the prisoner's death in 1703. The same fate befell the things he used: the furniture and clothes were destroyed, the walls of the cell were scraped and washed, and the iron mask was melted down.

Many historians have since fiercely debated the identity of the prisoner in an attempt to find out whether 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, London first heard about him 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 all of them had their throats cut (in one of the cases, the cut went right up to the spine). All victims had at least one organ cut out of their bodies, and their faces and body parts were mutilated almost beyond recognition.

What's most suspicious is that these women were clearly not killed by a novice or amateur. The killer knew exactly how and where to cut, and he knew the 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 appeared to be letters from the Ripper himself, signed “From Hell.”

None of the many suspects and none of the countless conspiracy theories have been able to shed any light on the case.

6. Agent 355

One of the first spies in US history, and a female spy, was Agent 355, who worked for George Washington during the American Revolution and was 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 might 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. The Zodiac Killer

Another serial killer who remains unknown is the Zodiac. This is practically an American Jack the Ripper. In December 1968, he shot and killed two teenagers in California - right on the side of the road - and attacked five more people the following year. Only two of them survived. One victim described the attacker as a pistol-waving man wearing a cloak with an executioner's hood 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 crazy threats, and at the end of the letter there was always a crosshair symbol. The main 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 photograph 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, called Tank Man, has never been established. An unidentified rebel single-handedly held off a column of tanks for half an hour during the Tiananmen Square riots in June 1989.

The tank was unable to avoid the protester and stopped. This prompted Tank Man to climb onto the tank and talk to the crew through the vent. After some time, the protester got down from the tank and continued his standing strike, preventing the tanks from moving forward. Well, then he was carried away by people in blue. It is unknown what happened to him - whether he was killed by the government or forced into hiding.

3. Woman from Isdalen

In 1970, the partially burned 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 like gasoline were found on her. The woman suffered serious burns and carbon monoxide poisoning, 50 sleeping pills were found inside her, and she may have been hit in the neck. The tips of her fingers were cut off so that she could not be identified by her prints. And when the police found her luggage at a nearby train station, it turned out that all the labels on the clothes had also been cut off.

Upon further investigation, it turned out that the deceased had a total of nine aliases, a whole collection of different wigs and a collection of suspicious diaries. She also spoke four languages. But this information did not greatly help in identifying 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 discovered 5 days later.

But this evidence was not very helpful.

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 along the road towards the barrier at night 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 a grin and small prickly eyes that constantly followed the frightened boys with their gaze. The boys were then questioned separately and in great detail, and their stories matched exactly.

Some time later, reports of such a strange Grinning Man appeared again in West Virginia, in large numbers and from different people. Grinning even talked to one of them, Woodrow Dereberger. He identified himself as "Indrid Cold" and asked if there had been any reports of unidentified flying objects in the area. In general, he made an indelible impression on Woodrow. Then this paranormal entity was still encountered here and there until he disappeared completely.

1. Rasputin

Perhaps no other historical figure can compare with Grigory Rasputin in terms of the degree of mystery. And although we know who he is and where he comes from, his personality is surrounded by rumors, legends and mysticism and is still a mystery. Rasputin was born in January 1869 into a peasant family in Siberia, where he became a religious wanderer and “healer,” claiming that a certain deity gave him visions. A series of controversial and bizarre events led to Rasputin's employment as a healer in the royal family. He was invited to treat Tsarevich Alexei, who was suffering from hemophilia, in which he was even somewhat successful - and as a result acquired enormous power and influence over the royal family.

Rasputin, associated with corruption and evil, suffered countless unsuccessful assassination attempts. Either they sent a woman with a knife to him under the guise of a beggar, and she almost gutted him, or they invited him to the house of a famous politician and tried to poison him there with cyanide mixed into his drink. But that didn't work either! In the end, he was simply shot. The killers wrapped the body in sheets and threw it into the icy river. It later turned out that Rasputin died from hypothermia, and not from bullets, and was even almost able to extricate himself from his cocoon, but this time luck did not smile on him.

Conspiracy theories? What theories are true, it’s just that governments keep it secret from us, scientific researchers are deceivers, and the media manipulates us - this is what millions of people all over the world think. They truly believe even the craziest conspiracy theories. Want to know which ones? Read our 20 incredible conspiracy theories and laugh heartily.

20 PHOTOS

1. According to the most incredible theory, the entire 2000 years of Christianity were based on lies. Jesus had a wife and they had a child. It’s just that the Apostle Peter could not come to terms with this and did not want to agree to equality of the sexes. That's why we have what we have. The mystery of Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus, as well as their child, we will never know. Although, as you know, her descendants are members of the Merovingian family. Ask Dan Brown... (Pictured: Alexander Ivanov’s painting “The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection,” 1835).
2. According to another crazy theory, Hitler survived World War II... in a basement. The murder of the Fuhrer was only a cover for his disappearance. At first he fled to Barcelona, ​​from there he moved to South America, and then to Antarctica. He was hiding in a secret base, which is located under the ice, with his closest employees and planning a grand return. It was! Proof? Just a year ago, in Antarctica, in the images available on Google Earth, strange pits were visible that were very similar to the entrance to the base... (Photo: Das Bundesarchiv/CC BY-SA 3.0 DE).
3. The death of Princess Diana touched people all over the world. However, the behavior of members of the royal family in the first days after the accident caused more comment than the tragedy itself. The aura of mystery, scraps of information and attempts to cover up the circumstances of the death of Princess Diana led to the fact that strange conspiracy theories began to grow like mushrooms after rain.

One theory suggests that the royal family was responsible for the accident. "This is murder!" - as the father of the princess's lover, Mohammed al-Fayed, believed for many years. He claimed that Princess Diana was pregnant at the time of the accident, which was allegedly unacceptable for the royal family because the child's father was Muslim. Supporters of this theory believe that the autopsy results were falsified, and the British secret intelligence service, MI6, was involved in this tragedy. (Pictured: Princess Diana's last post).

Or was the landing just a production at a film studio in Hollywood? Why are there no stars visible in the photo? How does the American flag miraculously flutter when there is “supposedly” no wind on the moon? You can continue asking questions like this ad infinitum. To this day, many people believe that the moon landing never actually happened. (Photo: Neil Armstrong/NASA)

Nothing is known about Area 51 except that it exists - this was confirmed in 2013 by the CIA. Currently, due to the fact that Base 51 has become too famous, it has been disbanded and many small centers have been created located throughout the United States. (Photo: Jim Trottier/CC BY-SA 2.0).

Well, who wants to believe that humanity itself can lead to the destruction of the planet. This is not true! People are so small, but the Earth is huge. After all, we are like ants in an anthill. How can we influence the functioning of the entire planet? This is impossible, unproven and unlikely. Many people think so... (Photo: Brocken Inaglory/CC BY-SA 3.0).

The aliens arrived in large flying saucers and landed in places that were marked by pyramids around the world. During the landing, all the dinosaurs were killed, then the aliens created us humans and... flew away, ceasing to be interested in us at all. That's exactly how it happened! (Photo: imgur.com).

And the electrical impulses sent by the chips will control our actions. How will we install these chips? It’s as simple as that, every person visits a doctor at least once in their life, and that’s where these devices will be implanted. Information about us is already being collected, and we don’t even know that we are just a number in a giant database... (Photo: Amal Graafstra/CC BY-SA 2.0).

Renee Truta survived after a terrible hurricane lifted her 240 meters into the air and 12 minutes later dropped her 18 kilometers from her home. As a result of the incredible adventure, the unfortunate woman lost all her hair and one ear, broke her arm, and also received many minor wounds.

“Everything happened so quickly that it seems to me that it was a dream,” Renee said after being discharged from the hospital on May 27, 1997. I was posing in front of the camera and then something picked me up like a dry leaf. There was a noise like a freight train. I found myself in the air. Dirt, garbage, sticks hit my body and I felt a sharp pain in my right ear. I was lifted higher and higher and I lost consciousness.”

When Renee Truta came to, she was lying on a hilltop 18 kilometers from home. From above, a freshly plowed strip of land about sixty meters wide was visible - this was the work of the tornado.
Police said no one else in the area was injured by the tornado. As it turned out, similar cases have already happened. In 1984, near Frankfurt am Main (Germany), a tornado lifted 64 schoolchildren into the air and dropped them unharmed 100 meters from the take-off site.

Survive in the desert

1994 Mauro Prosperi from Italy was discovered in the Sahara Desert. Incredibly, the man spent nine days in the sweltering heat and survived. Mauro Prosperi took part in the marathon race. Due to a sandstorm, he lost his way and got lost. Two days later he ran out of water. Mayro decided to open his veins and commit suicide, but he did not succeed, because due to a lack of water in the body, the blood began to clot very quickly. Nine days later, the athlete was found by a family of nomads. By this time, the marathon runner was practically unconscious and had lost 18 kilograms.

Nine o'clock at the bottom

The owner of the pleasure yacht, 32-year-old Roy Levin, his girlfriend, cousin Ken, and most importantly, Ken’s wife, 25-year-old Susan, were incredibly lucky. They all survived. The yacht was calmly drifting under sail in the waters of the Gulf of California when a squall suddenly came from a clear sky. The ship capsized. Susan, who was in the cabin at that time, sank along with the yacht. It happened not far from the coast, but in a deserted place, and there were no eyewitnesses.

“It’s incredible that the ship sank without being damaged,” said rescuer Bill Hutchison. And one more accident: while diving, the yacht turned over again, so that it lay on the bottom in a “normal” position. The “swimmers” who ended up overboard did not have life jackets or belts. But they were able to stay on the water for two hours until they were picked up by a boat passing by. The owners of the boat contacted the coast guard, and a group of scuba divers was immediately sent to the scene of the disaster.

Several more hours passed. “We knew that one passenger remained on board, but we did not expect to find her alive,” Bill continued. “You could only hope for a miracle.”

The portholes were tightly battened down, the cabin door was closed hermetically, but water still seeped in, thereby displacing the air. With the last of her strength, the woman kept her head above the water - there was still an air gap right at the ceiling. “Looking to the porthole, I saw Susan’s chalk-white face,” said Bill. Almost 8 hours have passed since the disaster!”

Freeing the unfortunate woman was not an easy task. The yacht was at a depth of twenty meters, and handing over scuba gear to it would mean letting water inside. Something had to be done urgently. Bill went upstairs to get an oxygen tank. His colleagues indicated to Susan that she should hold her breath and open the salon door. She understood. But it turned out differently. The door opened, but a lifeless body in an elegant cocktail dress floated out. She still took some water into her lungs. Seconds counted. Bill grabbed the woman, rushed to the surface and made it! The doctor on the boat literally pulled Susan out of the other world.

Great Hanging

Yogi Ravi Varanasi from the city of Bhopal, right in front of the amazed public, quite deliberately suspended himself from eight hooks, hooking them on the skin of his back and legs. And when, three months later, he moved from a hanging position to a standing position, then, as if nothing had happened, he began to perform a set of physical exercises.

During the "great hanging" Ravi of Varanasi was one meter above the ground. To increase the effect, the students pierced the skin of his hands and tongue with needles. All this time, the yogi ate quite moderately - a handful of rice and a cup of water throughout the day. He was hanging in a tent-like structure. When it rained, a tarpaulin was thrown over the wooden frame. Ravi willingly communicated with the public and was under the supervision of the German doctor Horst Groning.

“He remained in excellent physical shape after hanging,” Dr. Groening noted. “It’s a pity that science still does not know the methodology of self-hypnosis, which is used by yogis to stop bleeding and relieve pain.”

Mechanic on the wing

On May 27, 1995, during tactical maneuvers, the MiG-17 left the runway and got stuck in the mud. Ground service mechanic Pyotr Gorbanev and his comrades rushed to the rescue. Through joint efforts they were able to push the plane onto the GDP. Freed from the dirt, the MiG began to quickly pick up speed and a minute later rose into the air, “grabbing” the mechanic, who was bent around the front part of the wing by the air flow.

While climbing, the fighter pilot felt that the plane was behaving strangely. Looking around, he saw a foreign object on the wing. The flight took place at night, so it was not possible to see it. They gave advice from the ground to shake off the “foreign object” by maneuvering.

The silhouette on the wing seemed very human-like to the pilot and he requested permission to land. The plane landed at 23:27, having been in the air for about half an hour. All this time, Gorbanev was conscious on the wing of the fighter - he was held tightly by the oncoming air flow. After landing, they found out that the mechanic escaped with severe fright and two broken ribs.

Girl - night lamp

Nguyen Thi Nga is a resident of the small village of An Theong in Hoan An County, in Binh Dinh Province (Vietnam). Until recently, both the village itself and Nguyen were not distinguished by anything special - a village like a village, a girl like a girl: she studied at school, helped her parents, and picked oranges and lemons from the surrounding plantations with her friends.

But one day, when Nguyen went to bed, her body began to glow brightly, as if phosphorescent. A huge halo enveloped the head, and golden-yellow rays began to emanate from the arms, legs and torso. In the morning they took the girl to the healers. They did some manipulations, but nothing helped. Then the parents took their daughter to Saigon, to the hospital. Nguyen was examined, but no abnormalities were found in her health.

It is unknown how this story could have ended if Nguyen had not been examined by the well-known healer Thang in those parts. He asked if the glow was bothering her. She replied that no, but that she was only worried about the incomprehensible fact that happened on the second day of the new year according to the lunar calendar.

“The most favorable time for the grace of the Almighty,” the healer reassured her. – At this time, God rewards what he deserves. And if you haven’t earned anything yet, then you will still deserve it.” Nguyen's peace of mind returned, but the glow remained.

During the experiment, a piece of meat and a plant leaf were placed in front of 29-year-old artist Jody Ostroit. Nearby stood an ordinary electron microscope. Jody carefully examined the objects with the naked eye for a couple of minutes, then took a sheet of paper and depicted their internal structure. Researchers could then go up to the microscope and see that the artist had enlarged the scale without distorting the essence of what was being depicted in the least.

“It didn’t come to me right away,” Jody said. – At first, for some reason, I began to meticulously draw the texture of various objects - trees, furniture, animals. Then I began to notice that I was seeing much finer details, elusive to the ordinary eye. Skeptics say that I use a microscope. But where can I get an electron microscope?

Jody Ostroit sees the smallest cells of matter, as if photographing them, and then transfers them to paper with ultra-thin brushes and a pencil. “It would be better if my gift went to some scientist. Why do I need it? For now my pictures are selling out, but the fashion for them will pass. Although I see deeper than any professor, but only in the literal sense of the word.”

Captain behind the windshield

It's not just motorists who need to wear a seat belt: the captain of the British Airways BAC 1-11 Series 528FL, Tim Lancaster, probably remembered this basic safety rule forever after June 10, 1990.

While flying the plane at an altitude of 5273 meters, Tim Lancaster relaxed his seat belt. Shortly thereafter, the airliner's windshield burst. The captain immediately flew out through the opening, and his back was pressed against the outside of the plane's fuselage. Lancaster's legs were caught between the wheel and the control panel, and the cockpit door, torn off by the airflow, landed on the radio and navigation panel, breaking it.

Flight attendant Nigel Ogden, who was in the cockpit, was not taken aback and firmly grabbed the captain’s legs. The co-pilot managed to land the plane only after 22 minutes, all this time the captain of the plane was outside.

The flight attendant holding Lancaster believed he was dead, but did not let go because he was afraid that the body would get into the engine and it would burn out, reducing the plane's chances of landing safely. After landing, they found out that Tim was alive, doctors diagnosed him with bruises, as well as fractures of his right hand, a finger on his left hand and his right wrist. After 5 months, Lancaster took the helm again. Steward Nigel Ogden escaped with a dislocated shoulder and frostbite on his face and left eye.

Materials used by Nikolai Nepomnyashchiy, “Interesting Newspaper”