Throughout history, there have been many reported cases of unexplained mysteries that were eventually
debunked as hoaxes, natural phenomena, conspiracy theories or superstition.
But there have also been some events that remain unsolved cases, where there seems to
be no logical explanation and even experts are unable to determine their cause.
5.
The Westall UFO Incident
On the 6th of April, 1966 at around 11 am, a group of students and one of their teachers
at Westall Secondary School in Clayton South in Victoria, Australia, witnessed a strange
phenomenon that they couldn’t explain.
They reported that they saw an unidentified object that was grey in color and shaped like
a saucer flying over the grounds of the school.
They further described it as having a slight purple hue and being about twice the size
of a family car.
The object passed over the school and disappeared behind a nearby group of trees, but about
20 minutes later, it returned.
It then increased its speed and climbed into the sky, flying northwest before departing,
reportedly while being chased by 5 other unidentified craft.
In the days that followed, teachers attempted to downplay the incident and the children
were told not to speak to the media about what they saw.
They were then visited by men in suits who told them that there is no such thing as flying
saucers and that they were not to talk to anyone about the incident.
One of the teachers who managed to take a few photos of the craft had her camera and
film taken away from her and never returned.
Weeks and eventually months passed by and eventually, the mystery started to fade as
there was no logical explanation for what had happened.
The Australian newspaper “The Age” stated that the object was, in fact, a weather balloon
since the Weather Bureau had released a balloon at Laverton at 8 am that morning.
It also stated that a number of small airplanes had been circling the balloon, but a check
later confirmed that no commercial, private or RAF pilots had reported anything out of
the ordinary in the area at the time.
This theory was supported by a man named Brian Dunning who stated that a nylon windsock that
was being towed by an RAF plane would also be a likely explanation, as this exercise
was known to be used by the RAF at the time.
But those who witnessed the event maintain that it was, in fact, not a plane or a weather
balloon and to this day, it remains an unsolved mystery.
4.
Emilie Sagee
In 1845, 32-year-old Emilie Sagee was employed as a teacher at an elite boarding school in
Wolmar, in what is now known as Latvia.
Before finding work there, however, she had taught at 18 other schools but was relieved
to finally find a permanent position.
One day, while she was teaching a class of 17 girls, she was writing on the board, facing
away from the children when an exact copy of her appeared out of nowhere, standing directly
beside her.
It seemed to imitate her movements and although everyone else in the class could see it, Emilie
couldn’t.
After that day, the doppelganger was spotted on several more occasions, sometimes sitting
next to her while she ate her lunch.
On one occasion, Emilie was helping one of the girls get dressed for an event at the
school when the strange double appeared.
The girl looked up and noticed what was happening and immediately fainted.
The best-known incident, however, was when she was outside the classroom doing some gardening.
A class of 42 girls who were learning to sew saw her outside and when their supervisor
left the class, Emilie came walking in.
At first, the students didn’t think anything of it until one of them noticed and told the
others that Emilie was actually still outside in the garden.
One of the girls was brave enough to approach the doppelganger and touch it.
She described it as feeling like a mass of cobwebs that allow your hands to pass through
it.
When Emilie was quizzed about the strange events, she stated that she had no idea what
It was as she had never seen it and had no control over when it would appear.
It would later come to light that she had taught at so many other schools because she
had been let go due to the strange entity.
Many parents decided to take their children out of the school and eventually, the principal
had to let Emilie go, despite being a very good and naturally gifted teacher.
The only explanation she could ever give was that the double seemed to appear to people
when she was very tired and it remains a paranormal mystery.
3.
Bob Loft and Don Repo
On the 29th of December, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 experienced difficulties and crashed
into the Florida Everglades, claiming the lives of Captain Bob Loft and Second Officer
Don Repo along with 99 passengers.
It would later be revealed that, just prior to the crash, operators heard one of the men
saying: “We did something to the altitude.”
He then says: “We are still at 2,000 feet, right?” before the transmission cut out
and the plane hit the ground.
Upon investigation, it would be found that a combination of system malfunction and temporary
distraction of the crew was to blame.
As investigators looked through the records of the flight, they found that there had been
some form of distraction in the cockpit that caused the crew to move around more than usual.
The plane had been set to autopilot at 2,000 feet, but even a slight bump on the steering
systems would have disengaged it and it seemed that this was the likely cause of the crash.
The plane had dropped about 500 feet, unbeknownst to the crew, as the plane’s systems failed
to register the change in altitude.
In the months following the tragedy, employees of Eastern Airlines started seeing both men
on flights that they were working on.
Many high-ranking employees and pilots told of their experiences, one flight engineer
stating that, while he was doing pre-flight checks, Don Repo appeared and told him that
he shouldn’t bother as he had already checked the plane and it was ready to fly.
A flight attendant also said that, on one flight, she noticed someone in the plane's
galley wearing a flight engineer’s uniform while seemingly fixing the oven.
She immediately reported it to the serving flight engineer who informed her that he was
the only engineer on the flight.
However, she insisted that she saw the man and when she was shown a photo of Repo, she
recognized him as the strange apparition on the plane.
On another occasion, a passenger got out of her seat to fetch one of the flight attendants
as one of their staff members had sat down next to her, looking unwell.
When they returned to her seat, both the passenger and the flight attendant saw Don Repo sitting
in the seat before slowly fading away and vanishing completely.
On another occasion, three flight attendants all heard Repo’s voice saying: “Watch
out for fire on this plane”.
During the last leg of its flight, the plane experienced engine trouble but managed to
land safely.
One of the attendants had seen his face in the oven door and they later realized that
it was made from materials that were recovered from the fateful Flight 401 crash.
2.
The Crying Boy
In the 1950s, a Spanish artist named Giovanni Bragolin created a series of paintings of
different crying children.
They were made as a homage to the orphans of World War II and people in England seemed
to like them with mass prints being sold all over the country.
Then, in September of 1985, The Sun newspaper printed an article that stated Ron and Mary
Hall had lost their house to a fire after a frying pan burst into flames.
The entire house was razed to the ground, save for a print of one painting – that
of a crying boy.
Ron Hall’s brother, Peter was a firefighter and he told them that this wasn’t the first
time that a house had been completely destroyed with the only remaining item being the same
painting.
Within days of the article being printed, hundreds of readers contacted the newspaper,
claiming that they had also been cursed by the painting.
Some claimed that it was responsible for the deaths of loved ones while others stated that,
when they tried to burn their copies, it wouldn’t catch fire.
Firefighter Alan Wilkinson later stated that he had personally seen more than 50 “Crying
Boy” fires.
The Sun then asked anyone with unwanted copies to send it to their offices and they would
destroy it on their behalf.
On Halloween, staff destroyed over 2,500 copies of the painting but its legend still lives
on as a cursed object and unexplained mystery.
1.
The Busby Stoop Chair
In 1702, a man named Thomas Busby, a known criminal was married to a woman named Elizabeth,
the daughter of a small-time crook called Daniel Awety.
Awety lived on a farm in small village, which made it the perfect place for him to continue
his illegal coining operation.
Busby, who lived just 3 miles away, was the original owner of an inn near Sandhutton and
the two became partners in crime.
But the two men didn’t have the most amicable relationship as Busby was often annoyed at
Awety for one reason or another.
On one occasion, Busby returned to the inn while drunk and in a foul mood and when he
saw Awety sitting in his favorite chair, he lost his temper and attacked him.
He forcefully removed him from the chair and threw him out of the inn.
Later that night, still seething over the incident, Busby went to Awety’s house and
ended his life with a hammer.
He tried to hide his victim in the woods, but concern grew over Awety’s sudden disappearance
and a local search was organized.
When his remains were found in the woods, there was only one suspect and Busby was arrested
and charged with murder.
He would receive the death penalty and it is said that, as he was being led to the gallows,
Busby asked if he could stop in at the inn to have one final drink in his favorite chair.
He was granted permission but, as he entered the inn, he cursed it, saying that anyone
who sat in his chair would meet an untimely demise.
Then, in 1894, a chimney sweep was having a drink at the inn with a friend and both
men sat in Busby’s chair.
He never made it home that night and his friend later confessed that he had robbed him before
ending his life.
During the 2nd World War, the inn was a popular drinking spot with RCAF Airmen.
They would dare each other to sit in the chair and those who did, are said to have never
returned from their missions.
In 1968, Tony Earnshaw, who would later own the inn, overheard two airmen goading each
other to sit in the chair.
They both did and after they left that night, their car left the road and crashed into a
tree, ending both their lives.
A group of builders, who were drinking at the inn on one occasion, dared the youngest
of their workforce to sit in the chair and he did.
He would later fall through the roof of a building, landing on concrete and instantly
losing his life.
Earnshaw then placed the chair out of sight in the inn’s cellar, but a delivery man
decided to sit down in it.
Shortly after, his van also left the road and he, too, lost his life.