Humans go into deep trouble in the search of certainty. Looking for clues and explanations
to define what otherwise are labeled as mysteries. Here we take a look at 8 mysteries never explained.
In 1933, George Spicer and his wife were driving around the loch when, suddenly, they saw “a
most extraordinary form of animal. 4 feet high and 25 feet long”. That was the beginning
of the modern fascination for the cryptid nicknamed Nessie, the creature believed to
be a surviving marine reptile from the Mesozoic. Since then: more sightings, photos, hoaxes,
attempts to hunt it and the establishment of Loch Ness as the mythical place we know
today. "Loch Ness - the monster hunt goes on. With
"craft like the one-man Yellow Submarine, preparing to scout the depths with Dan Taylor at the
"controls, Nessie is no longer safe."
"Pathé News Foreign Correspondence, recently secured quite remarkable films of Voodoo observances."
In Haitian Voodoo the possession or trance state is the result of the Iwa, or spirits
entering the person's body. Most people who claim to have been possessed by the spirit
describe the experience as a feeling of blackness or energy flowing through their body as if
they were being electrocuted. Self-suggestion? Or a real connection with the world of ghosts?
Although scientists have given both biological and psychological reasons to explain these
possessions, the truth is that the mystery remains intact.
During the evening of March 1st 1932, Charles Linderbergh's one-year-old son was abducted
from his bedroom while his parents were resting. A ransom note asking for $50,000 was the beginning
of the ordeal. The press quickly covered the case as the “The Crime of the Century”.
Once the police and several intermediaries got involved the asked ransom went up to $70,000.
However, in the end, only the original sum was paid. Horror struck a month and a half
later, when the body of the toddler was found badly decomposed and with a fractured skull.
More than two years later, the police tracked down the marked notes of the ransom money.
"The house where Hauptmann lived in the East Bronx, New York. And this is Bernard Richard
"Hauptmann, 35, whose arrest as Lindbergh's ransom collector in the kidnapping has aroused
"America." Even today, some voices question the police procedure and the trial
that followed, claiming that Hauptmann was innocent.
"I'm absolutely sure my husband had nothing to do with the Lindbergh kidnapping case."
"- … because you knew, didn't you?" "- I didn't know anything."
He was sentenced to death by electric chair in 1936.
Can we really know what happened in a case that seemed to be more driven by media attention
than by the thoroughness of its procedures? The answer remains a mystery.
Since the 1950s, airplanes and ships have been reported to disappear in the area known
as the devil's triangle. Miami, Puerto Rico and the island of Bermuda are the three vertices
of this place. Soon, the Bermuda Triangle started to be known as a the area where mysterious
disappearances and accidents happened. Some give it a supernatural explanation, while
others refer to natural reasons such as violent weather or magnetic alterations to explain
the claimed phenomena. "About two miles off the Southern coast of Bermuda,
"the transport's wing tips touch and the planes burst into flames and plunge into the sea.
"Of the 24 people on board, 7 are rescued, 17 are killed."
"Death Shall Come on Swift Wings To Him Who Disturbs the Peace of the King..."
Those are the words supposedly engraved on the exterior of King Tut's tomb when Howard
Carter and Lord Carnarvon opened it in 1922. Mere superstition you say? The truth is that
Carnarvon, the wealthy backer of the excavation, died just a few month after the tomb's opening
from an infection started by a insect bite. He was 57.
By 1929, 11 people connected to the opening of the tomb had died early and of unnatural
causes. Was there really a curse? Or was it all just sensational press work?
Many legends around the world talk about tiny towns where people with dwarfism built small
sized houses. These villages are given mythological qualities, often enhanced for tourism purposes.
One of them tells that in 1939, with the success of the movie "The Wizard of Oz", many of the
little people employed for the roles of the munchkins had become so wealthy that they
built a "Midgetville" in Long Beach, California. The truth is that most of these myths are
offensive and controversial, but as with any successful urban legend, people keep looking
for them, just in case they truly exist.
The legend says that the Abominable Snowman is an ape-like monster that lives in the Hymalayans.
Already before the 19th century, pre-Buddhist beliefs in the region talked about the “Glacier
Being” whose blood had use for mythical ceremonies. However, it was in the 20th century
when legends about the Yeti started to really become popular in Western culture, mainly
because of the numerous attempts to climb the Himalayan mountains. Even Edmund Hillary
and Tenzing Norgay reported seeing large footprints in the snow while scaling Mount Everest. A
lost breed of monkey? The nearly extinct Tibetan blue bear? Or another, darker creature hiding
in the snow? The answer to that, we don't know.
"The flying saucer mystery makes headlines. A young man photographed this flying saucer.
"Or is it?" Until the year 2013, the CIA had never publicly
acknowledged the existence of Area 51 Air Force Base. This secrecy turned it into a
central part of the UFO mythology. The main urban legend says that it was in this area
where the US Army examined the technology and the bodies recovered in the Roswell alien
spacecraft crashes. And although we know now that it exists, Area 51 and its surroundings
are still a popular destination for people eager to know more about the mysteries of
other worlds.