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

Incredible facts

History is a fairly vast subject and it is impossible to study it completely, especially in great detail.

Sometimes these seemingly insignificant details can become the very part of it.

Here are some interesting facts from history that won't be taught in class.

1. Albert Einstein could have become president. In 1952, he was offered the post of second president of Israel, but he refused.

2. Kim Jong Il was a good composer and a lifelong Korean leader composed 6 operas.

3. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has always been leaning. In 1173, the team building the Leaning Tower of Pisa noticed that the base was curved. Construction stopped for almost 100 years, but the structure was never straight.

4. Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, and Indian mathematicians.

5. Before the invention of alarm clocks, there was a profession that consisted of wake other people in the morning. For example, a person would shoot dried peas at other people's windows to wake them up for work.

6. Grigory Rasputin survived many assassination attempts in one day. They tried to poison him, shoot him and stab him, but he managed to survive. In the end, Rasputin died in the cold river.

7. The shortest war in history lasted less than an hour. The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted 38 minutes.

8. Longest war in history occurred between the Netherlands and the Scilly Archipelago. The war lasted 335 years from 1651 to 1989, and both sides suffered no casualties.

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9. This amazing species known as " Majestic Argentine bird", whose wingspan reached 7 meters, is the largest flying bird in history. It lived about 6 million years ago in the open plains of Argentina and the Andes. The bird is related to modern vultures and storks, and its feathers reached the size of a samurai sword.

10. Using sonar, researchers discovered at a depth of 1.8 km two strange pyramids. Scientists have determined that they are made of a kind of thick glass and reach enormous sizes (larger than the Cheops pyramids in Egypt).

11. These two men with the same name were sentenced to the same prison and look very similar. However, they have never met, are not related and are the reason why fingerprints began to be used in the judicial system.

12. Foot binding- An ancient Chinese tradition in which girls' toes were tied to their feet. The idea was that the smaller the foot, the more beautiful and feminine the girl was considered.

13. The strangest and most frightening mummies are considered Guanajuato mummies. Their distorted faces make you believe that they were buried alive.

14. Heroin once used as a replacement for morphine and used to relieve coughs in children.

15. Joseph Stalin may have been the inventor of Photoshop. After the death or disappearance of some people, photographs of him were edited.

16. Recent DNA tests have confirmed that The parents of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun were brother and sister. This explains many of his illnesses and defects.

17. The Parliament of Iceland is considered oldest functioning parliament in the world. It was founded in 930.

Inexplicable and mysterious facts of history

18. For many years, miners in South Africa were excavating mystery balls about 2.5 cm in diameter with three parallel grooves. The stone from which they are made belongs to the Precambrian period, that is, they are about 2.8 billion years old.

19. It is believed that Catholic saints do not decay. The oldest of the "non-decomposing" is Cecilia of Rome, who was martyred in 177 AD. Her body remains virtually the same as it was 1,700 years ago when it was discovered.

20. Encryption from Shaboro in Great Britain is one of the still unsolved mysteries. If you look closely, you can see an inscription in the form of letters on the monument: DOUOSVAVVM. No one knows who carved this inscription, but many believe it is the key to finding Holy Grail.

Sometimes the most incredible things happen on our planet. We are somehow accustomed to fantastic and mystical stories, so we don’t always believe in miracles. Mysterious phenomena happen in reality. There is irrefutable evidence of this. Just look at the megalithic structures scattered all over the planet! No matter what theories scientists put forward, they cannot explain their origin. There are other artifacts that also do not fit into existing theories and paradigms. Let's talk about them.

Ice woman

This story can surpass any other mysterious phenomena in its incredible improbability.

It was in Langby, Minnesota. It was a cold frosty day. The temperature dropped so low that it was scary to go outside. It was at such a time that Jean Hiliard, a nineteen-year-old girl, was discovered. She was completely frozen. The limbs did not bend, the skin froze. She was sent to the hospital. The doctors were amazed. The girl was an ice statue. The mystical phenomena demonstrated by the young organism were just beginning. The doctors were sure that the girl would die. And if the situation developed in a positive direction, she was threatened with amputation of limbs and a long, serious illness. However, after a couple of hours, Jean came to her senses and thawed out. She had no consequences from the “freezing”. Even the frostbite disappeared.

Delhi: Iron Column

Mysterious phenomena can occur with the most ordinary, at first glance, materials. Well, who can you surprise with iron these days? What if I tell you that it was made more than one and a half thousand years ago?

Of course it's incredible. However, in Delhi there is a structure that already adorns the city. It is made of pure iron. This is a seven-meter high column. It is not subject to corrosion. Some experts believe that it could not have been made on earth in those days. Nevertheless, such an artifact exists. It must be indicated when describing the photo, unfortunately, does not reflect all the incredible majesty and significance of this structure. By the way, research has proven that the column is 98% iron. The ancient people were unable to obtain material of such purity. This is a complex technological process.

Carroll A. Dearing

Mystical phenomena often occur in the ocean. People have been talking about the “flying Dutchmen” for several centuries. Not all stories are true, of course. But there are also documented facts.

Thus, an interesting and mysterious fate befell the crew of the schooner named "Carroll A. Deering". It was discovered on the very last day of 1921. Since she gave the impression of a ship in distress, rescuers went to her. Their amazement, mixed with horror, is simply impossible to convey. There was not a single person on the schooner. But there were also no signs of distress or catastrophe. It looked as if the people had disappeared suddenly, without even realizing what had happened. They just evaporated. They took with them personal belongings and the ship's log, although they left the cooked food at the place. No explanation has been found for this fact.

Hutchison effect

A person creates some mysterious phenomena with his own hands, without having any idea how it happens.

So, John Hutchison was a great fan of Nikola Tesla. He tried to reproduce his experiments. The results were as unpredictable as they were incredible. He received a fusion of metal with wood, small objects disappeared during the experiment. The most significant of the effects was levitation. The scientist was even more puzzled by the fact that he could not repeat the result, that is, some mystical, nonlinear events took place. NASA specialists tried to repeat the experiments, but to no avail.

Sticky rain

There were even more incredible, mysterious phenomena on Earth. One of these can safely be considered the extraordinary rain that fell on the residents of Oakville (Washington). Instead of drops of water, they found jelly. The mysteries didn't end there. All the residents of the town fell ill. They developed cold symptoms. We decided to investigate the jelly. White bodies, which are part of human blood, were found in it. Scientists have not been able to figure out how this could happen. In addition, two types of bacteria were recognized in the jelly, which did not explain the symptoms of the illness of local residents. This phenomenon remains unsolved.

Vanishing Lake

Mysterious natural phenomena sometimes resemble the fiction of a science fiction writer. Neither mystics nor scientists can find an explanation for them. A lake in Chile threw up such a mystery in 2007. It was not a puddle with a loud name, but a fairly large body of water. It was five miles long! However, it disappeared without a trace! Two months earlier it was explored by geologists. No deviations were found. But there was no water. There were no earthquakes or other natural disasters, and the lake disappeared. Ufologists gave a more or less acceptable explanation for the event. According to their version, the aliens pumped him out and took him to their “unknown distances.”

Animals in stone

Some mysterious ones are millions of years old.

Thus, there are documented cases where frogs were found inside solid cobblestones. But we can still try to explain this. But the fact of the discovery of a turtle immured in concrete, where it lived for at least one year, is difficult to substantiate. This happened in Texas in 1976. The animal was alive and well. There were no cracks or holes in the concrete. However, this structure was poured a year ago. How and why the turtle existed in the air chamber all this time is not clear.

Donnie Decker

The existence of a boy who can generate water has been documented! His name was Donny. He could “make it rain” indoors. The first time this happened was when the boy was visiting. He went into a trance, causing water to pour from the ceiling and the entire room to be filled with fog. Another time this happened a few years later was when Donnie visited a restaurant. The owner was not impressed by the miracle and kicked the teenager out. But these two episodes could be called fiction. However, there was also a third case. It happened in prison, where Donnie ended up because the rain poured straight from the ceiling of his cell. Neighbors in the building began to complain. Donnie was not taken aback and once again demonstrated his abilities to the guards. It is unknown where he went after his release. They say he worked as a cook.

There are still many amazing things happening in the world. There are people who claim to have seen aliens. Others can sense the future. Still others see through walls. Schools dedicated to the development of superpowers in ordinary people have emerged and continue to exist. Probably, in order to “feel” this unknown, you need to believe in it. Then it will become clear that miracles exist! They are real!

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Mysterious murders at the Hinterkaifeck farm

In 1922, the mysterious murder of six people committed in the small village of Hinterkaifeck shocked the whole of Germany. And not only because the murders were committed with horrific cruelty.

All the circumstances surrounding this crime were very strange, even mystical, and to this day it remains unsolved.

More than 100 people were questioned during the investigation, but no one was ever arrested. Not a single motive that could somehow explain what happened was identified either.

The maid who worked in the house ran away six months ago, claiming that there were ghosts there. The new girl arrived just a few hours before the murder.

Apparently, the intruder had been on the farm for at least several days - someone was feeding the cows and eating in the kitchen. In addition, neighbors saw smoke coming from the chimney over the weekend. The photo shows the body of one of the dead, found in a barn.

Phoenix Lights

The so-called “Phoenix Lights” are several flying objects that were observed by more than 1,000 people on the night of Thursday, March 13, 1997: in the skies over the states of Arizona and Nevada in the United States and over the state of Sonora in Mexico.

Actually, two strange events happened that night: a triangular formation of luminous objects that moved across the sky, and several motionless lights hovering over the city of Phoenix. However, the latest US Air Force recognized the lights from the A-10 Warthog aircraft - it turned out that at that time military exercises were taking place in southwest Arizona.

Astronaut from Solway Firth

In 1964, the family of Briton Jim Templeton was walking near the Solway Firth. The head of the family decided to take a Kodak photograph of his five-year-old daughter. The Templetons assured that there was no one else in these swampy places except them. And when the photographs were developed, one of them revealed a strange figure peeking out from behind the girl’s back. The analysis showed that the photograph had not been subject to any changes.

Falling body

The Cooper family just moved into their new home in Texas. In honor of the housewarming, a festive table was set, and at the same time they decided to take several family photos. And when the photographs were developed, a strange figure was revealed on them - it seemed that someone’s body was either hanging or falling from the ceiling. Of course, the Coopers didn’t see anything like this during filming.

Too many hands

Four guys were fooling around, taking pictures in the yard. When the film was developed, it turned out that out of nowhere one extra hand appeared on it (peeking out from behind the back of a guy in a black T-shirt).

"Battle of Los Angeles"

This photograph was published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942. To this day, conspiracy theorists and ufologists refer to it as evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth. They claim that the photo clearly shows that the beams of the searchlights are falling on the alien flying ship. However, as it turned out, the photo for publication was heavily retouched - this is a standard procedure that almost all published black and white photographs were subjected to for greater effect.

The incident itself, captured in the photo, was called a “misunderstanding” by authorities. The Americans had just survived the Japanese attack, and in general the tension was incredible. Therefore, the military got excited and opened fire on the object, which, most likely, was a harmless weather balloon.

Lights of Hessdalen

In 1907, a group of teachers, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Lights.

Björn Hauge took this photo one clear night using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object should consist of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of the “Lights of Hessdalen”. Scientists are still scratching their heads as to what it could be.

Time Traveler

This photo was taken in 1941 during the opening ceremony of the South Forks Bridge. The public's attention was attracted by a young man whom many considered a "time traveler" - due to his modern hairstyle, zip-up sweater, printed T-shirt, fashionable glasses and point-and-shoot camera. The whole outfit is clearly not from the 40s. On the left, highlighted in red is a camera that was actually in use at that time.

9/11 attack - South Tower woman

In these two photographs, a woman can be seen standing on the edge of the hole left in the South Tower after a plane crashed into the building. Her name is Edna Clinton and, not surprisingly, she ended up on the list of survivors. How she managed this is beyond comprehension, considering everything that happened in that part of the building.

Skunk monkey

In 2000, a woman who wished to remain anonymous took two photographs of a mysterious creature and sent it to the Sarasota County (Florida) Sheriff. The photographs were accompanied by a letter in which the woman claimed that she had photographed a strange creature in the backyard of her house. The creature came to her house three nights in a row and stole the apples left on the terrace.

UFO in the painting “Madonna with Saint Giovannino”

The painting “Madonna with Saint Giovannino” belongs to the brush of Domenico Ghirlandai (1449-1494) and is currently in the collection of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. A mysterious flying object and a man watching it are clearly visible above Mary's right shoulder.

Incident at Lake Falcon

Another meeting with an alleged extraterrestrial civilization occurred at Lake Falcon on May 20, 1967.

A certain Stefan Michalak was relaxing in these places and at some point noticed two descending cigar-shaped objects, one of which landed very close. Michalak claims he saw the door open and heard voices coming from inside.

He tried to speak to the aliens in English, but there was no response. Then he tried to get closer, but came across “invisible glass”, which apparently served as protection for the object.

Suddenly, Michalak was surrounded by a cloud of air so hot that his clothes caught fire. The man received serious burns.

Bonus:

This story happened on the evening of February 11, 1988 in the city of Vsevolozhsk. There was a light knock on the window of the house where a woman who was fond of spiritualism lived with her teenage daughter. Looking out, the woman saw no one. I went out onto the porch - no one. And there were no footprints in the snow under the window either.

The woman was surprised, but did not attach much importance. And half an hour later there was a bang and part of the glass in the window where the invisible guest was knocking collapsed, forming an almost perfectly round hole.

The next day, at the woman’s request, her Leningrad acquaintance, candidate of technical sciences S.P. Kuzionov, arrived. He examined everything carefully and took several photographs.

When the photograph was developed, the face of a woman appeared on it, peering into the lens. This face seemed unfamiliar to both the housewife and Kuzionov himself.

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 awarded 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.

Ice woman

Iron pillar in Delhi

Iron, the king of all metals, is used in almost everything from the foundation of a house to the chain on a bicycle. Unfortunately, iron cannot escape its fate, slowly turning into rust. Besides this phenomenal structure: The Iron Column from Delhi. 7 meters high and weighing more than 6 tons, this iron giant was able to resist corrosion for 1600 years! How did something made of 98% iron last so long? Scientists have found the answer to this question, but how ancient blacksmiths discovered this fact so many years ago still baffles archaeologists.

Carroll A. Dearing

Fifty years after the mysterious disappearance of the crew of the ship Maria Celeste, a similar event occurred when the schooner Carroll A. Deering was discovered off the coast of North Carolina on January 31, 1921. When the rescue ships finally reached the ship, they saw to their horror that there was no crew on board. Although it was noted that food had been prepared for the next day, nothing else was found to indicate the presence of a crew. No personal belongings, no ship's log, no traces, just like in the case of Maria Celeste. Theories about paranormal phenomena were put forward due to the fact that the ship was located in the Bermuda Triangle area. Others believed it was the work of pirates or Russians.

Hutchison effect

The Hutchison Effect refers to a series of eerie phenomena that occurred when inventor John Hutchison attempted to recreate several of Nicolas Tesla's experiments. Some cases include levitation, the merging of things of different textures (wood and metal), and the disappearance of small objects. Even stranger, after his experiment, Hutchison was unable to repeat it with the same result. This experiment became so popular that it even aroused the interest of NASA and the military, but they were not able to succeed.

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Vanishing Lake

In May 2007, a lake in Patagonia, Chile, literally disappeared, leaving behind a 30-meter hole, icy mountains and dry land. This was not some small lake. The lake was 5 miles long! When geologists last examined the lake in March 2007, they found nothing strange. However, something happened during these 2 months that not only made the lake disappear, but also turned the river flowing from it into a small stream. Geologists wonder how such a large lake simply disappeared. This could have been due to an earthquake, although no tremors were observed in the region. Ufologists claim that it was a spaceship that dried up the lake. This mystery has never been solved.

Sticky rain

On August 7, 1994, residents of Oakville, Washington, were in for a surprise. Instead of the usual rain, people saw jelly falling from the sky. When this rain passed, almost everyone developed severe flu-like symptoms that lasted anywhere from 7 weeks to 3 months. Finally, after the mother of one of the city's residents fell ill after touching the substance, he sent a sample of it for testing. The results shocked all scientists. The drops contained human white blood cells. The substance was then taken to the State Department of Health in Washington for further testing. Here they discovered that the gelatin drops contained two types of bacteria, one of which was also present in the human digestive system. However, no one was able to identify the substance and how it was connected to the mysterious illness that was sweeping the city.

Black helicopter

On May 7, 1994, in Harahan, Louisiana, a black helicopter chased a teenager for 45 minutes. The frightened child explained that people had descended from a helicopter and pointed guns at him. To this day, the boy does not know why he was pursued and why they later released him. A week later, a similar thing happened to people driving past Washington. Unable to escape, they saw men in black uniforms with guns descending a rope ladder. However, to their dismay, the travelers were released. Black helicopters appear in UFO reports, and while some sightings have a simple explanation, other cases (see above) remain unsolved.

Animals in stone

There are several documented cases where frogs, toads and other small animals were found alive in solid stone. The strange thing is that people have found animals not only in natural formations such as stone or trees, but also in artificial ones. In 1976, Texas workers found a living green turtle in concrete in an air sac shaped like the small reptile. If somehow she got there a year ago when the concrete was being poured, then how could the turtle survive so long? After all, there were no holes or cracks in the concrete for a turtle to crawl through.

Donnie Decker

He was nicknamed Rain Boy in 1983. Donnie was visiting his friend when suddenly he went into a trance. Immediately, water began to flow from the ceiling and fog filled the room. His friends called the owner, who was disturbed by what he saw. Some time later, Donnie was sitting in a restaurant with his friends when the rain started pouring down on their heads. The restaurant owner immediately kicked him out onto the street. Years later, a minor infraction landed Donnie in jail, where he too caused chaos when it rained in his cell. After complaints from his fellow inmates, Donnie explained that he could make it rain at will, and promptly demonstrated this by dousing the guard on duty. Finally, he was released and found work as a cook at a local restaurant. Donnie's real whereabouts are unknown, as is the cause of the mysterious rain[c]