- History is filled with events that have gone unexplained.
And some of those events had mysterious circumstances
that many people knew about, but nobody could explain.
And what made them all the more strange
were the terrifying details of each case.
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Here are the 10 most chilling unsolved mysteries in history.
Number 10 are the Green Children.
Sometime in the 12th century,
reapers were working in their fields in Woolpit,
a village in Suffolk County, England,
when they came across a young boy and girl.
Though they appeared human,
their skin had a striking green hue.
Their clothing was made from materials
that the men had never seen before
and they spoke a mysterious unknown language.
Taken in by Sir Richard de Calne,
the pair appeared to be starving,
but they would only eat beans
until they developed a taste for other foods.
The boy died from illness soon after,
but the sister eventually lost her green color
and learned how to speak English.
She explained that they were from the land of Saint Martin,
an underground place with no sun
and where everyone is green.
The mystery of where these children were from
and what happened to that girl still stumps minds today.
Number nine is the Lead Masks Case.
On Vintem Hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
on August 20th, 1966, a young boy discovered the bodies
of Miguel Jose Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz,
two Brazilian electronic technicians.
They were found wearing formal suits
with an empty bottle of water
and two wet towels beside them.
There were no signs of a struggle,
though, oddly, each man wore a lead mask to shield his eyes.
But perhaps the most puzzling piece of evidence
at the scene was a notebook,
which contained mysterious instructions
directing the men to be at that location in the hills
at 4:30 p.m. to ingest capsules just two hours later.
Exactly how the pair died is still unknown,
but many speculate that they were trying to communicate
with beings that were not of this world.
Nobody knows if they were killed by overdose
or by what they saw.
Number eight is the Phantom Barber.
In 1942, the town of Pascagoula, Mississippi,
was flooded with workers helping to build ships
for World War II.
With 15,000 people arriving,
there was bound to be some dangerous individuals among them.
But the one that truly made people afraid was a barber.
Preying on women and young girls,
the Phantom Barber would break into homes late at night,
making a slit in a window screen.
He would then give the girls an unwanted haircut,
taking much as a souvenir.
The barber entered 10 houses in total.
That is, until the arrest of William Dolan,
a German chemist.
This convinced police that they had their man,
but many believe that the barber
just chose a convenient time to stop.
There are multiple pieces of evidence
which show the true identity
of the Phantom Barber is still unknown.
Had he been able to continue his spree,
perhaps he would not have just stopped at cutting hair,
but perhaps throats.
Number seven are the Beaches of Severed Feet.
Those who visit the beaches surrounding the Salish Sea
should be on the lookout for something bizarre
and truly terrifying: human feet.
On August 20th, 2007, the severed right foot of a man
was found inside a size-12 shoe
on Jedediah Island, British Columbia, Canada.
However, it did not end there, as, since then,
a shocking 15 more feet have washed ashore
on various beaches in British Columbia and Washington State.
Disturbingly, 14 of them have been right feet
and two were left that matched up
with the rights that were recovered.
Authorities have no idea why the feet keep appearing,
with theories ranging from it being a sick practical joke
being played by a serial killer
to the coincidental result of several people
taking their own lives off a nearby bridge.
Regardless, this mystery is still being investigated,
literally one foot at a time.
Number six is Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
On April 18th, 1943,
four young boys who were hunting for animals
found the body of a woman
wedged inside a hollowed wych elm tree
in Hagley Wood in Worcestershire, England.
When the police examined the area,
they found the dead woman's hand was missing,
only to discover it quite far
from where the body was hidden.
In her mouth, investigators found taffeta,
a high-end fabric from those days,
and they determined that she'd suffocated
sometime around October 1941, some 18 months prior.
In 1944, graffiti began appearing in the area,
alarmingly asking, "Who put Bella in the wych elm?"
To this date, the victim, the murderer,
and the original graffiti artist have yet to be identified.
And in a bizarre twist to add to this mystery,
the current whereabouts of Bella's skeleton are unknown,
as are all the official autopsy reports.
Number five is Navy Blimp L-8.
On August 16th, 1942, Navy blimp L-8
took off from Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
with two occupants, 27-year-old lieutenant Ernest Cody
and 38-year-old ensign Charles Adams.
Their mission was to locate and destroy
any Japanese subs off the California coast.
However, around 7:42 a.m., Cody radioed in
that they'd spotted a suspicious oil slick.
That was the last that anyone had heard of either man.
After a few hours of odd flight,
which included losing a bomb during a crash into a hill,
the deflated blimp came down on a street in Daly,
a city just south of San Francisco.
Investigators searched the cabin,
but there was no sign of the men anywhere,
nor was there any evidence of them being attacked
or suffering any failure.
Odder still, the radio was in perfect working condition.
What happened to Cody and Adams is still unknown.
Number four are the Devil's Footprints.
On the morning of November 9th, 1855,
residents of Devon and Dorset in England awoke to discover
fresh snow had fallen in the night.
But what came with the powder
was something that still baffles people today.
Set in the heavy snow were hoof-like footprints
that seemed to wind through the towns,
even going on to roofs and along walls and into drainpipes.
The cloven foot that left them
was estimated to be 10 centimeters long
by seven-and-a-half centimeters wide,
strides measured between 20 and 41 centimeters apart,
and traveled between 60 and 160 kilometers,
though rarely in a straight line.
Whatever left these tracks
has never been positively identified,
though many who came across them claimed
that they were the footprints of Satan himself
or perhaps a demon taunting the townsfolk
at the dark lord's command.
Number three is the Sodder Family.
On Christmas Day in 1945,
Jenny Sodder was awoken at 1:00 in the morning
when her house was suddenly up in flames.
Escaping with her husband, George,
Jenny realized that five of her kids
were still in the attic of the house where they slept.
Frantically, the family began trying to reach them,
yelling and even climbing the outside of the building,
but no response came.
By the time firefighters arrived,
the Sodders' home was burned to the ground,
but no trace of the five missing children.
Afterwards, many claimed that the children
hadn't been in the house when it burned down,
citing the lack of cries during the blaze
and that there were no remains found in the ashes.
The Sodders hired a private detective
to look into the missing children,
but even he vanished, never to be heard from again.
Number two are the Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery.
On December 26th, 1900,
just over a year after it was first lit,
the Flannan Isles Lighthouse was the site
of one of the most bizarre disappearances
in Scotland's history.
Around 12 p.m., the Hesperus, a lighthouse tender vessel,
arrived to relieve the three men that were holding it,
Thomas Marshall, Donald MacArthur, and James Ducat.
However, when they arrived,
they found the flag outside was missing
and there was no response to their calls, whistles,
or to the distress flare the captain had set off.
Upon going ashore, the crew discovered
that the door to the lighthouse was unlocked,
but none of the three keepers were in the building
or anywhere else on the island.
Inside, a meal was set out untouched,
a chair was overturned, and the clocks were all stopped.
To this day, many people still investigate
this bizarre disappearance, but all that we do know
is that they vanished without a trace.
And number one is the Dyatlov Pass Incident.
On January 27th, 1959,
10 ski-hikers from the Ural Polytechnical Institute
set out from Vizhai, a settlement in Sverdlovsk, Russia,
on an expedition to Otorten,
a mountain in the Ural mountain range.
One of the hikers, Yuri Yudin,
turned back on the second day due to illness.
However, the other nine failed to reach their destination.
On February 26th, a search party found the group's tent
torn apart from inside, and eight of the nine sets of tracks
were found leading away from the campsite.
The hikers had torn their way out, terrified of something,
and fled so fast that they left
most of their clothes and shoes behind.
Six of the hikers' bodies were found having frozen to death,
while three others had sustained trauma.
And of them all, the most terrifying
was that one of the female hikers
was missing her eyes and tongue.
To this day, nobody knows what happened
on that mountain pass.
Those were the 10 most chilling
unsolved mysteries in history.
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