From the lost land of Paititi to The Black Knight satellite these are 25 unexplained
mysteries that we have failed to figure out. 25. The lost land of Paititi
We're pretty sure you've heard of the lost city of Atlantis but have you ever heard of
Paititi? Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city that is supposed to be full of gold and
other riches, allegedly lies east of the Andes, hidden somewhere within the remote rain forests
of southeast Peru, northern Bolivia, or southwest Brazil.
24. The mysteries of the Parthenon The Parthenon is one of the most iconic and
prized structures of Western civilization, but there are many mysteries surrounding it.
For example, how did the ancient Athenians carry all that marble from Mount Pentelicus
and build this masterpiece with primitive tools and resources available at the time?
How did they achieve such flawless proportions and balance? How did they conceive of and
form such subtle visual elements? How did the workers work with such precision, sometimes
accurate to within a fraction of a millimeter (when even modern computers fail), without
the help of modern technology? After 2,500 years we still don’t know.
23. The Palpa Flat Mountain There are numerous mountains with features
such as flat tops, mysterious straight lines, and fascinating ancient drawings; however,
the Palpa Flat Mountain houses one of the most impressive display of such features.
The "strips" on the surface of this mountain appear as though they were literally "drawn"
by a giant with a spray gun directly from above.
22. The fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 In what is undoubtedly the biggest mystery
of this decade, MH370 vanished with 239 people on board on March 8, 2014, on its way to Beijing
from Kuala Lumpur. Despite the ongoing searches and some of the world's most powerful countries,
including Russia, China, France, and the United States, sending some of their best investigators
to shed light on the case; we still have no clue what happened that day.
21. The Devil's Footprints On the early morning of 9 February 1855, people
in towns across southern Devon, England, awoke to find a single line of hoof-like marks in
the deep snow as if they had been branded with a hot iron. The Times said the marks
were found over a distance of 40 miles on both sides of the Exe, as if "some strange
and mysterious animal endowed with the power of ubiquity" had created them during the night.
The footprints were called the “Devil’s footprints” because some people believed
that they were the tracks of Satan, as they were allegedly made by a cloven hoof. Many
theories have been put forward to explain the incident, but not one can explain all
the reported marks and the mystery remains to this day.
20. The Hinterkaifeck slaughter Hinterkaifeck was a small farmstead situated
between the Bavarian towns of Ingolstadt and Schrobenhausen in Germany that became well
known in 1922 when its six inhabitants were murdered with a mattock. The murder remains
unsolved to this day. 19. The "Dancing Plague" of 1518
In July 1518 many people-most of them unknown to each other-from the city of Strasbourg,
France (then part of the Holy Roman Empire), were struck by a sudden and seemingly uncontrollable
urge to dance. The hysteria kicked off when a woman known as Frau Troffea stepped into
the street and began to silently dance. Before she knew it dozens of people had joined her
and a month later the dancing epidemic had claimed as many as four hundred victims. With
no other possible explanation, local physicians blamed it on "hot blood," but no accurate
scientific answer has been found. 18. Where did the Wow! signal come from?
On August 15, 1977, Jerry R. Ehman received an unusual seventy-two-second signal (while
working on a Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project at the "Big Ear" radio telescope
at Ohio State) that went down in history as the "Wow! signal." Several astronomers worldwide
have tried to find the signal again. What was it exactly? We don’t know?
17. The true identity of Jack the Ripper Despite being the most notorious-even though
nowhere near the deadliest-serial killer of all time, his identity remains unknown to
date. Many theories have popped up throughout the years, with some of them being truly insane,
but no investigation has led to a safe conclusion. 16. Kenneth Arnold's "flying saucers"
On June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed he saw a string of nine shiny unidentified
flying objects flying past Mount Rainier. This sighting is considered the most popular
of the modern age and is credited with starting the paranoia over possible UFO sightings.
Arnold's description of the objects also led to the press quickly coining the terms "flying
saucer" and "flying disc," phrases that have been widely used for UFOs ever since.
15. The strange case of D. B. Cooper "D. B. Cooper" is the nickname the American
media widely used to refer to the unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 in the airspace
between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971. He took with him about
$200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,170,000 in 2016) when he parachuted from the plane
to an unknown fate. The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in American aviation history.
Cooper's real identity also remains a mystery. 14. The Dyatlov Pass incident
The Dyatlov Pass incident involved a group of nine experienced ski hikers from the Ural
Polytechnical Institute and took place on the night of February 2, 1959, in the northern
Ural Mountains. Due to the lack of survivors the chronology of events remains uncertain
and the Soviet authorities determined that an "unknown compelling force" had caused the
skiers' deaths. Some of the bodies were found barefoot, some were quite butchered, others
were physically unharmed but had severe brain damage, and a woman's tongue was missing.
Although several possible explanations have been put forward, a violent encounter with
a yeti or other unknown creature seems to be the most logical.
13. The mystery of the Somerton Beach man On the morning of December 1, 1948, a body
was found on the shore of Somerton Beach. The man was resting against the seawall, slumped
forward, with a half-smoked cigarette lying on his lapel. He was well dressed, in a suit
with shined and heeled shoes-odd attire for the beach. There was no sign of violence or
a struggle and the man's identity remains unknown to this day.
12. The lost cosmonauts of the Soviet Union At the dawn of the Space Race, the United
States and the Soviet Union were in a head-to-head race to claim technological supremacy, but
as mission after mission wrenched the secrets of the universe from the stars above, rumors
began to circulate that some of the astronauts who were rocketed into the skies above never
returned. These people became known as the Lost Cosmonauts and the whole thing became
big news when two amateur radio operators received transmissions from Sputnik and heard
Russian cosmonauts in agony saying that they were going to crash and die. Of course, the
Soviet authorities denied they had sent any cosmonauts into space and debunked the whole
thing as a hoax but no one knows what really happened.
11. Ancient paintings that portray aliens When someone takes a look at the photos of
some ancient paintings that clearly depict aliens and/or alien spacecraft they can't
help but think either science fiction fandom has been around since the dawn of humankind
or there were real ancient astronauts, aliens, and spacecrafts out there in the universe
before our own space journeys began in the 1950s. We don't know which is true really,
but we have to admit it's a lot harder to disbelieve that something otherworldly once
lived and walked among us than the sci-fi fandom scenario.
10. Pyramid on the moon Is there really a pyramid on the moon? Looking
at the original image taken during Apollo 17's 1972 mission, you can easily notice a
triangular-shaped object, but is this enough evidence to say that there is a pyramid on
the moon? If, however, there is a pyramid on the moon then we should ask two important
questions: Who made it? And what is its connection, if any, to the pyramids here on Earth?
9. The Black Knight satellite The theory of the "Black Knight satellite"
emerged after several NASA pictures were released following the 1998 Endeavor space shuttle
mission to the International Space Station. According to some people, the Black Knight
satellite is an object approximately thirteen thousand years old of extraterrestrial origin
orbiting Earth in a near-polar orbit. Critics and many academics have called it a conspiracy
theory and an urban legend. 8. The abandoned lifeboat at world's end
Bouvet Island is an uninhabited subantarctic volcanic island located in the South Atlantic.
It is the most remote island in the world and all you can find there are miles of volcanic
basalt groaning under several hundred feet of glacier, scraped raw by gales and shrouded
by sea fog. The strange thing about this unearthly landscape is that an abandoned lifeboat was
found there, raising a number of questions. Who managed to get there with a lifeboat?
When did this happen? What happened to the person or people on the boat since no human
remains have been found there? 7. The identity of the Babushka Lady
The identity of "the Babushka Lady" may never be truly pinned down, despite being the only
person who might have photographed the events that occurred at Dallas' Dealey Plaza when
John F. Kennedy was shot. There's no photograph that shows her face, and we still don't know
if her presence there was coincidence or if she played a significant role in the assassination.
6. The fate of Hitler's "treasure" Hitler's "stolen treasure" is supposed to
be one of the biggest caches of all time. It includes gold bars, jewelry, and foreign
currency, with an estimated value of $4 to $5 billion. However, the stolen Nazi treasure
disappeared in the blink of an eye from the vaults of the German Reichsbank. In the years
that followed World War II, it was reported that part of the treasure was found in Portugal,
Switzerland, and Spain, among other places, but these pieces hardly compare in value to
the supposed hoard as a whole. 5. The identity of the Man in the Iron Mask
On November 19, 1703, a tomb in the Bastille's Saint Paul Cemetery welcomed the corpse of
a man who had spent almost all of the last four decades of his life in various prisons
in France. He is without a doubt the most famous prisoner in French history, even though
nobody knows why he had to spend over thirty-five years in jail, reportedly in near-perfect
isolation and often with his face covered. Who was this man and why did he have to endure
this long, terrible imprisonment? Was he the older twin of France's king (and thus the
legitimate king of France) as some theories suggest?
4. The curious case of Rudolph Fentz Rudolph Fentz was the main and controversial
character of "I'm Scared," an early 1950s science fiction short story by Jack Finney,
which was later revealed to be based on true events. The story tells of a man who's dressed
in nineteenth-century clothes when he is hit by a car and killed in New York City in 1950.
A subsequent investigation revealed that the man had disappeared without a trace in 1876,
and the items in his possession appeared to reveal that the man had traveled through time
from that year to 1950. Truth or fiction? We will never know for sure.
3. The Archanthropus of Petralona Back in 1959 a shepherd came across a small
opening to a cave in northern Greece, which became visible when a thick covering of snow
finally melted. Surprisingly, one of the findings included a human skull embedded in the wall,
the so-called Archanthropus of Petralona, as it has been termed. It was found to be
700,000 years old, making it the oldest human europeoid. The biggest surprise of this discovery
was that Dr. Poulianos, a member of UNESCO's International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), found that the Archanthropus of Petralona evolved separately
in Europe and was not related to any species that came out of Africa, thus challenging
the "out of Africa" theory. What's the strangest thing of all, though? Every Greek government
has banned further research regarding this incredible discovery and has closed the case.
2. The Roman Ninth Legion's mysterious vanishing One of the most enduring legends of Roman
Britain concerns the disappearance of the Ninth Legion. The idea that five thousand
of Rome's finest soldiers were lost in the swirling mists of Caledonia as they marched
north to put down a rebellion sounds unbelievable, but the fact remains that not a trace of one
has ever been found, nor has any spear, shield, or anything else turned up to indicate that
there had been a battle. 1. The mystery of the man without a country
In July 1954 a Caucasian man who looked pretty normal arrived at the airport in Tokyo. When
he had his passport checked, however, the Japanese authorities were stunned to find
that he hailed from a country called Taured, a country that doesn't exist. His passport
looked genuine and when they asked him to show them his country on a map, he automatically
pointed at the Principality of Andorra. When he saw that his homeland of Taured wasn't
on the map he became furious and insisted that his country existed for more than a thousand
years. Japanese police took him to a local hotel and placed him in a room with two guards
outside until they could get to the bottom of the mystery. A few hours later when they
went into his room the man was gone, even though the guards never left and the room
had no balcony or another exit for him to escape through. Was the man from Taured lost
in our world from another parallel universe or dimension? We will never know since he
was never seen again. Thumbs up and thank you for watching!