they say the past is like
a foreign country. they do things differently there.
I think that's true the past can be a very strange place indeed
We're slowly figuring out what people were like long ago, but there's still a lot
We don't know the good news is we have messages from the past the bad news is it's often
Mysterious a little bit creepy are you ready for this this is the top 10 scary messages from the past?
Coming out at number 10 now
We have the 98 rock at the start of World War 2 Japan captured 98 American Soldiers on a small Pacific island the U.S.
struck back in an attempt to free the soldiers Japan knew they were going to lose the battle and so they decided to kill the
98 Soldiers instead of letting them go free one of the soldiers managed to escape and hide in his last moments
He found a rock on the beach and carved 98 us prisoners of war and the day's date when he was found the Japanese admiral
beheaded him personally
However his message made sure the 98 were never forgotten by the people who found it next up at number 9 now we have the message in
a bottle in 2016 a demolition crew in New Mexico found a time capsule from
1968 it was a bottle containing letters Written by
little kids a lot of it was normal stuff about their favorite TV shows at the time
But one message stood out as pretty creepy it was written by a boy who said he was called Greg Lee Youngman
It read I am dead I go to Montgomery school. This is the olden school name
I was born in 1900 you auto now i dead my favorite subject is spooking the police
I play the guitar in case you don't know what it is. It is a board with strings on them
I am 10 years old see you later savages
What do you guys make of that was it the ghost of a ten-Year-old boy who liked to scare police?
Or is it just some kids being a real savage?
Really weird either way next up at number 8 we have been at the time capsule in 2016
archeologists in Poland found a time capsule from Hitler's third Reich
It was buried by the Nazis in 1934 before the second World War started
They wanted it to be dug up in the distant future by people living in a utopian Nazi world
Obviously that didn't happen which makes the contents of the time capsule that much more chilling inside there were newspapers
Two copies of Hitler's Mein kampf documents from Nazi Germany and a letter to future generations
the contents were put in a polish museum and are now a
Scary reminder of what could have been moving on to number seven now. We have the voynich manuscript
This is easily one of the most mysterious things in human history
It's a codex that has been carbon dated to the 15th century
It contains hundreds of pages of illustrations and diagrams of plants people and astronomical images
But here's the strange thing every page contains text written in an unknown language
It's been over a hundred years now since it's surfaced and in that time every genius
Codebreaker and
linguistic expert in the world
Has tried to decipher what the word say and they have all failed the pictures seem to show that it's a complex
analysis of Life and The Universe
Who wrote it if they had a language surely they couldn't have been the only one of their kind
What do you guys think of this mystery coming out number six now? We have the emerald tablet
This is an incredible mystery because it doesn't actually exist anymore
It was said to be like the Philosopher's stone
Containing the key to turning any metal into pure gold it was mentioned in an arabic book around the 7th century it was then
Translated into latin in the 12th century and even Isaac
Newton himself
Made a copy of it the problem is the text from the emerald tablet reads more like a list of 14 riddles many people have
Tried to decode its secrets and all have failed all right moving on to the number 5 spot now
We have the nAzca lines these huge
1000 foot Geoglyphs in Southern Peru Depict animals such as birds fish
Llamas Monkeys and even humans
But only from above they weren't properly documented until planets spotted them in the early 1900s the thing is though. They were made about
2,000 years ago
Long before the invention of flying some researchers have said there was no way they could have been made unless you could see them from
Above so they couldn't fly back then how did they make the lines or more importantly who or what were they for?
coming in at number 4 now we have the glowing rocks Hendra Burnick down is a collection of
Neolithic age Stones put together in England about
5,000 years ago that's a couple of thousand years older than Stonehenge
In 2016 scientists made an incredible discovery there were markings on the that could only be seen at night
They first realize this when the symbols are paired from a camera flash then they realized that stones around the area contain quartz which glows
In the dark when it's smashed together with another piece of quartz the researchers knew that the people who built this
Associated darkness with a supernatural and strange pagan rituals
But that's about everything they know who the messages were for and what they meant remains shrouded in the mystery of time
Okay, coming in at the number three spot now
We have the Codex gigas this early 12th, century book is also known as the Devil's bible. It's almost nine inches thick and weighs
165 pounds
It was said to have been written by a monk who had been locked up for breaking his vows
He promised that the monastery let him live he would write them a book that would contain all of human knowledge
legend says he did this by selling his soul to the devil the book contains the whole of the bible as well as copies of
other historical texts it contains
310 Pages in total
even a drawing of the devil
But it's missing 12 pages some say these missing pages contain Satanic texts to conjure the devil himself
Okay, next up at number two now
we have the photograph in 2014 Reddit user moriah que El 13 share with everyone a creepy bottle she found on a
California Beach it looks more like a jar and was filled with bright pink
Water she emptied out the strange liquid and saw a piece of paper wrapped up neatly with a black river
She opened the jar and unfolded the paper
it was a washed out photograph of a woman with a bunch of
Needles sticking out of them reddit users went crazy with theories on this was it made by a murderer was it a curse how long?
Had it been just drifting in the ocean for the creepy contents left more questions than answers and finally at number one now
We have the text message this one doesn't come from the distant past
But it creeps out a lot of people in early 2017 reddit users started sharing stories about how they were getting texts from unknown numbers
That wasn't too strange that happens every day. What was really strange was the texts were coming from the year
2003 the numbers always seem to start with 19 quite often the text would just be completely blanked
But sometimes they would contain random characters such as this one that just said
exclamation mark, "s" the official explanation for all of this was that it was just a
Technical Glitch others said it was people from the past trying to contact their future selves
I honestly have no idea either way
I know I would freak out if I got a text from an unknown number in the past
What about you guys and now this video is going to be in the past. Maybe that's a good thing
I was getting a little bit creeps out there towards the end as this video sparked any ideas about what you guys want to see
Next on the channel you let us know and we will make it. I'm Danny Burke
Thanks for watching guys, and I'll see you all in the next video