Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary American
Mysteries.
The Unites States of America has a vast population and a rich history – so of course there
are many events that have taken place over its 242 plus years.
10 - The Blackbird Deaths This is a super weird situation from Arkansas
from the small town of Beebe.
Am I saying that right Arkansas?
It’s hard enough to pronounce Arkansas.
It all began on New Years eve of 2010, practically 8 years ago to this day.
While the town was preparing for New Year, 5000 blackbirds freaked out, started flying
with total disorientation and began slamming into buildings, cars, phone poles, trees,
billboards.
Birds began falling from the sky, landing on rooves, lawns and backyards at around 11pm
at night.
Those who didn’t notice in the evening found thousands of dead birds littering the ground
on New Years morning.
Why?
Well nobody knows.
The town was deeply disturbed by the deaths but no cause could be found.
In the end, town officials kind of shrugged and put it down to stress from early New Years
Fireworks….
Although nobody was particularly sold.
The next year, fireworks were banned….
But the same thing happened once again on exactly the same day.
Nobody knew what this could mean…and they still have no idea why it happened.
Oh we have a classic one at number 9 Bigfoot Bigfoot – the classic North American Ape!
Is this an urban legend or an unsolved mystery…or something between the two!
There has been a lot of discussion about Bigfoot, the Sasquatch over the years!
The first bigfoot sightings were made in around the mid 1800s but they reached a peak in the
1970s.
There have been thousands upon thousands of sightings over the years – most often in
the pacific north west.
The 1970s Sierra Sounds which wer veeeeery interesting recordings made in the California's
Sierra Nevada Mountains in collaboration with a newspaper journalist from Sacramento.
The audio documented strange and unidentifiable sounds that many think is evidence of a primitive
language.
In 2007 a photograph alleging to be of Big Foot was circulated – although many criticized
it for actually being a bear with Mange.
8 - Roswell Ah, Roswell.
On July 8th 1947, The Roswell Daily Record printed this as a headline: RAAF Captures
Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region.
Annnnnnd with that, a legend was born.
A lot of people out there are convinced that the initial reports of a flying saucer were
legit and what followed was a huge government cover up.
What actually happened – or what the official story is – is that a highly classified US
Army Air Force project went wrong and a silver balloon crashed into the ranch.
When the ranch owner found the debris, he reported it to the police.
Initially the cover story was that it was a simple weather balloon, but later revealed
to be a soviet spy balloon….
But again this could all just be a story – there are eye witnesses who reported seeing lights,
and another who claims they saw an aircraft in the sky seconds before it crashed.
Some even report having seen little humanoid creatures emerging from the crash site.
The lines between fact and rumour surrounding Roswell are exceptionally murky, so the incident
very much remains a mystery to this day.
7 - The Watcher Ahh, the watcher.
This is such a creepy case.
The story of the Jersey Watcher likely began in the 1950s when the property was sold for
one dollar….but it made major news stories in 2014.
So 5 years ago a couple who had just purchased the property from the Wood Family for 1.4
million dollars started receiving weird letters signed from The Watcher.
WHAT.
WHO.
The first letter read the watcher had asked the previous owners to move out and to fill
the home with Young Blood.
Creepy.
Creepier still….the first letter made reference to the couples children – stating Once I
know their names I will call to them and draw them out to me.
Then, in a series of three letters, the watcher asked - Who has the bedrooms facing the street?
I'll know as soon as you move in.""it will help me to know who is in which bedroom, then
I can plan better."
They also said that "All of the windows and doors ... allow me to watch you and track
you as you move through the house” RIGHT.
They claimed that they were the third watcher of the home - saying my grandfather watched
the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s.
It is now my time,” “I have been put in charge of watching and waiting for its second
coming.”
The buyers freaked out and started a lawsuit to sue the people who sold it to them – stating
they new about the voyeur.
Police of course have poured over the letters and still have no idea who wrote them.
6 - The Amityville Hauntings What really happened at the Amityville House
in Long Island?
We may never truly know.
The story goes that in 1974, 23 year old Ronald J DeFeo Jnr murdered his entire family while
they slept in their beds.
DeFeo whis four siblings and his parents . He said he heard voices that told him to do it.
After a year, the house was eventually purchased for 80,000 dollars – although the buyers,
the Lutz family, stayed just 28 days because of the horror they experienced.
George and Kathy Lutz said they saw slime coming out of the walls, knives being thrown
from counters, figures wandering and wailing.
George even said he saw his wife levitating and an evil red eyed pig like creature glaring
at him.
Spirit hunters Ed and Lorraine were brought in, along with a priest, to rid the house
of spirits.
Is ghosts the explanation?
We will never truly know.
5 - The Mothman The mothman is an enduring urban legend from
West Virgina that seemed to begin in November 1966 – blaze hot for a year then remerge
50 years later.
So back in 1966 Five grave diggers in a cemetery in Clendenin claimed they saw a man like figure
fly out of the trees and over their heads.
Just 3 days later, two couples from Point Pleasant reported to police that they saw
a large creature with red glowing eyes in their cars headlights.
In the days after, more people reporting seeing him, including two fireman - who ought to
be a trusted source.
All of the descriptions seemed to match, too.
He was described as being human sized and shaped with 10 ft wings and glowing red eyes.
Then, 90 miles away in Salem a homeowner saw a creature in the back of his barn with two
bright red eyes…..the mothman had taken flight.
Strangely, the following year, the Mothman sightings were blamed for the devastating
collapse of the Silver Bridge collapse in Point Pleasant, resulting in the deaths of
46 people.
Then all of a sudden…the sightings stopped.
That was until 50 years later….
The Mothmans story went cold for 50 years.
Then, in November 2016, WCHS-TV published a photo from an anonymous source that people
claimed was the Mothman.
YIKEs.
4 - The Mysterious Case of Elisa Lam In early February 2013, 21 year old Canadian
tourist, Elisa Lam went missing after a stay at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
A video was posted of her from an elevator security camera by police as this was the
last time she was seen alive.
In the video she is seen acting exceptionally strangely…very strangely.
She presses a number of buttons in the elevator, then the doors fail to close.
She is seen peering out of the elevator and then trying to hide in the corner.
She then exits the elevator and seems to be pleading with someone invisible outside of
the door.
The footage ends with her walking out of shot and the elevator door opening and closing
a number of times.
On the 19th of February, her body was found by hotel maintenance workers who had come
to investigate issues with the hotel water pressure.
It seems she was dead in the water tank.
She was naked and her clothes and possessions were found floating next to her.
Her death cause a huge smear on the hotel, which had seen other notable murders and deaths
over the years.
The mystery of her death has never been solved, with many suggesting it has something to do
with the paranormal.
The hotel has been rebranded as the Stay on Main.
This mystery dates back to before America became a country – to the age of the first
settlers.
3 - The Roanoke Colony In 1585 an English Colony Was established
at the northern end of Roanoke Island, off the banks of North Carolina.
Two years later, in 1587, 150 settlers arrived on the island to join the colony, only they
couldn’t find anything….
Well… not exactly nothing… they did find a human skeleton… but that seemed to be
all that remained.
The theory was that they were driven out by native tribes.
Colonist John White arrived to help set up the second attempt colony, and returned shorty
after to get further supplies from England.
When he returned in 1590, there was nobody around – all of the buildings had been dismantled
and there was no sign of the 150 people who had arrived on the island.
All he found was the word Croatoan carved into a post and the letters cro carved into
a tree.
Where the settlers went and the reason why there has never been any trace of them found
is still the topic of constant historical debate.
Answers range from famine, absorption into tribes and of course, the supernatural.
Whatever happened, we honestly may never know.
2 - The Alaska Triangle On doing some research on American Urban Legends
found out that Alaska has a scary mystery associated with it.
I want to dedicate this one to our fan Samantha Teixeira who requested an Alaska Urban Legends
video because is their home state but they can’t get back there right now.
So basically there is a part of the state between Juneau and Yakutat, then up to Barrow
Mountains and Anchorage….
This are is a hot spot for strange disappearances.
Vast numbers of locals and tourists alike have vanished without a trace with absolutely
no explanation.
Additionally planes have also disappeared here or crashed without any discernable reason.
According to Mysterious Universe.org, 16 thousand people have gone missing here in the last
30 years alone, never to be heard from again.
I always wanted to visit Alaska but honestly this mystery is more chilling than their frigid
weather.
1 - The Zodiac Killer The Zodiac killer refers to the antagonist
behind a spate of murders in the 60s and 70s in Northern California.
The killer terrorised San Francisco claiming to have killed 37 people, although there were
5 confirmed victims and 2 survivors.
The killer gets their name from the symbol they used to sign letters and ciphers sent
in to the police or left at crime scenes.
Only one of these cryptic messages was ever decided.
The victims who survived were able to give descriptions of the killer at large, but to
this day he has never been found… although the good news is that the killer may still
be caught yet.
In 2018 the previously unsolved case of the Golden State Killer was caught using modern
DNA identifying technology.
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