Its been over 70 years now since the end of World War 2 but the effects are still being
felt today.
Tens of millions of people died and in the years since people have been picking their
homes and countries back together again.
Still, there are questions that remain, mysteries that have gone unsolved for years, sometimes
those answers have been hidden for a reason … my name is Danny Burke and this is the
Top 10 Scary Mysteries From WW2.
Starting off at number 10 we have Anne Frank.
I'm sure you've all heard the name - the young Jewish girl who wrote a diary of her family
hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam for 2 years.
On August 4th, 1944, her family and their friends were found in their hiding place by
the Gestapo Police, arrested, and sent to concentration camps where all except Anne's
father ended up dying.
It's a tragic story that always brings up one question, how did the police know where
to find them?
They didn't know to look there for 2 years and then apparently, they received an anonymous
call - nobody knows who it was though.
Some say it was a man called Tonny Ahlers, a friend of Anne's father who was a hateful,
abusive man that knew they went into hiding.
Others say it was one of the workers in the warehouse below their hiding place.
Historians can never know for sure who it was - only that person knew for sure - and
they surely knew what they were doing.
Moving on to number 9 now we have The Foo Fighters.
You might be thinking of the famous band, well, this is where they get their name from
- and its an interesting story.
Towards the end of WW2, Allied pilots began reporting seeing strange things in the skies
over Europe.
Crafts that glowed and darted through the air at insane speeds, easily 200mph plus.
The pilots couldn't keep up with the lights as they made sharp turns that would be impossible
even with today's technology.
They dubbed them Foo Fighters.
They were red, orange, or green, sometimes appearing in the formation of up to 10.
They never showed up on the radar.
Naturally, in the years since, many conspiracy theorists have said UFOs - alien crafts from
another world.
Others have said perhaps they are time travelers, coming back to witness the end of this historic
war.
Another more credible theory is that they were secret Nazi crafts using advanced technology,
all destroyed before the end of the war.
Others say it was likely a natural trick of the light phenomena such as St Elmos Fire.
When it comes to Foo Fighters, the more you dig, the more questions there are …
Next up at number 8, we have Dead Man Floating.
On April 30th, 1943, a fisherman picked up a body off the coast of Spain.
It appeared to be a British soldier.
Spain was neutral but leaned towards the axis so they handed the body over to the Nazis.
They examined the body and found papers saying it was Major Martin.
Among the documents were plans detailing the British were planning to attack Nazi-occupied
Greece.
Hitler then sent entire divisions to defend Greece.
You can only imagine how surprised they were then when the British didn't attack Greece
at all, and instead went for the now less defended Sicily.
That's because Major Martin wasn't real.
The British had dressed up a body as a fake marine with fake plans on him, knowing it
would fall into the hands of the Nazis.
They intended to attack Sicily all along but needed a way to draw the Nazi defenses away
from it.
It's an incredible story but one question that has arisen is who did the body belong
to?
There are no official British records, only theories.
Some think it was a British soldier called Tom Martin who had recently died when his
aircraft carrier sank.
Others say that it was actually a man called Glyndwr Micahel, a mentally ill, homeless
Welshman who had died after eating rat poison.
Others say this couldn't be because the Nazis needed to believe this was a fit and healthy
marine who died at sea, not a sick, unfit man who died to poison.
So really was Major Tom?
The body that helped so much …
Next, up at number 7, we have The Ghost Plane of Pearl Harbor.
This is one just straight up weird - and very paranormal.
On December 8th, 1942, nearly a year to the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
a single, unidentified plane was picked up by American radar heading towards Pearl Harbor
from the direction of Japan.
US planes were scrambled out to investigate.
When they pulled up alongside it, they saw it was a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, an American
plane that had been used to defend Pearl Harbor but had not been used since.
They say the plane was riddled with bullet holes and that the pilot could be seen inside,
bloody and slumped over the cockpit.
They said at one point, he briefly waved at the other planes just before crash landing.
Search teams went through the wreckage but to their amazement, they found nobody inside,
just a diary claiming that the plane had flown from Mindanao, an island over 1,300 miles
away.
Very strange - I'm not sure what to even make of that one …
Coming in at number 6 we have The Bell.
Legend says that during the war, the Nazis created a weapon known simply as -Die Glocke,
German for -The Bell- … the project was code-named Project Chronos and was given the
highest classification.
The giant metallic bell was said to be 2.7 meters wide and 4 meters high.
The exact material it was made of is said to be unknown.
Apparently, it contained two counter-rotating cylinders that held a metallic liquid known
as Zerum-525.
Through some unknown process, the bells mechanism had an effect zone of 200 meters.
Anything living in this zone was said to be in danger.
Crystals would form in animal tissue, blood would coagulate and separate, plants would
rapidly die and decompose.
Some say the scientists who made it often died horribly during tests.
The bell was also able to rise off the ground and hoven in the air.
Of course, if it did even exist, it was never used in the open.
The question then remains, is The Bell still out there?
And if so, where?
Moving on to number 5 we have Heinrich Muller.
This was a high ranking Nazi officer.
He was head of the Gestapo secret police and was a trusted colleague of Hitler.
Under his leadership, the Gestapo became infamous for their ruthless torture - becoming a textbook
example of a police state dictatorship.
He was so dedicated to the cause that even when the Russians were about to take Berlin,
even when Hitler killed himself - Muller was seen in uniform, working at his desk in the
Fuhrer bunker.
After the war, nobody knew where he went - there was no evidence of him being killed or killing
himself.
He disappeared.
Some say that he was found in a mass grave in Jewish cemetery, of all places, and that
he died soon after he was last publicly seen.
The body apparently had documents on it indicating that it was indeed Muller.
Others say this was exactly what Muller wanted people to think.
A number of other high ranking Nazis were said to fake documents and plant them on dead
bodies so that they could escape after the war to countries in South America.
So, what the truth?
Did he live out a long life in Argentina?
Or did he die along with the Nazi cause?
Next up at number 4, we have The Blutfahne.
This name translates to Blood Flag.
In 1923, Hitler and his Nazi party had no power in Germany.
In that year, he organized the Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to overthrow the German government.
It failed and during the fight, 16 Nazi party members died.
After Hitler was released from prison, he was given a flag that had been stained with
the blood of his fallen comrades, thus the Blood Flag was born.
During the Nazis reign over Germany, Hitler took the flag all over.
He even sanctified other Nazi flags and banners by touching them with the Blood Flag.
The Blood Flag was last seen in public at the induction ceremony in October 1944, less
than a year before the end of World War 2.
When the war was over and the Nazi party had crumbled, nobody was quite sure anymore where
the flag had ended up.
Next up at number 3, we have The Nazi Gold Train.
For decades now, there has been a theory that at the end of the war, the Nazis hid an entire
train full of guns, gems, gold and valuable art in a series of tunnels in a Polish mountain
near the Walbryzych.
The train was passing through when the Russian army began to close in on the area - its thought
the Nazis buried the train underground to stop it from getting into the enemies hands.
Many doubt the stories authenticity but others are convinced its there.
There have been image scans that apparently show tanks underground in the area where people
say the train is hidden.
At one point, the Polish culture minister even said he was 99 percent sure the train
had been found.
Despite a number of digging efforts, the train has never been found, but the legend of the
hidden treasure still pushes people to look for it …
Moving on to number 2 we have The Battle of Los Angeles.
This might sound strange to any of you who geography because of course, there were never
any battles fought on mainland USA.
Well, this story comes from the early days of America's involvement in the war, not long
after Pearl Harbor.
A few months after that, many people spotted an unidentified object in the sky in LA.
Witnesses said the object was round and glowing orange.
Naturally, the military response was quick.
Searchlights scanned the Californian skies, anti-aircraft guns fired more than 1,400 shells
at the mysterious object.
When the guns went silent and the sky was empty, they expected to find wreckage - but
nothing was ever found.
In 1949, the US Coast Artillery Association claimed that a weather balloon had caused
the alarm.
Then, in 1983, the US Office of Air Force History said it was simply due to -war nerves-
… what do you guys think?
And finally, at number 1 we have The British Soldiers.
In 2009, historians found a strange document at the prisoner of war camp in Auschwitz.
It was a list.
On it, were 17 names, their surnames included Osborne, Lawrence, Gardiner - the historians
said they were the names of English men.
Next to 8 of the names were ticks, as if they had been checked off the list for some reason.
On the back, written in German, they could make out the words -now, never and since then-
… it was a total mystery.
Why did Auschwitz have this list of English names?
Why were only some of them ticked?
And what did now, never and since then mean?
There are a number of theories.
The first one that was presented is that these are the names of British prisoners of war
- but this didn't answer the ticks or the words.
Another theory that is gaining more traction is that this list might contain a list of
British men who had switched sides and were working for the British SS Division.
What did those words mean though?
Well, the mystery still presents many questions …
Well, I really could go on all day.
I find WW2 fascinating - sometimes I feel a bit strange saying that because obviously
war is a tragic thing and that was the bloodiest war in history - but I think that it should
be remembered and studied and if there are unanswered questions like the ones we've talked
about today, perhaps you guys will be the ones to find the answers.
Thanks for watching as always guys, my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the
next video.