- History is filled with incredible
and significant events that defy logic or explanation.
Events that are known by many
but still have yet to be explained,
even by the world's greatest minds.
The following are the most well-known cases
of mysterious events ever documented.
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Here are the 10 most famous unsolved mysteries in history.
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Number 10 is the Taos Hum.
The small town of Taos is most famous for a mystery
that will literally leave your ears ringing.
Located in North Central New Mexico
Taos is home to a phenomenon that has left
a number of investigators scratching their heads.
Since the early 1990s citizens have reported
hearing a whirring, buzzing or humming sound
from inside the town.
Seemingly coming from all directions
this bizarre noise can be heard
by only about 2% of the population.
Though many who visit share this gift as well.
Researchers to this day are still attempting
to record the sound but have failed
to capture anything on their equipment
which is very strange simply due to the number of people
who swear they can hear it.
Whether it's biological, psychological or extraterrestrial
the Taos Hum is truly a mystery.
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Number nine is the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Born on October 2nd, 1904, Lal Bahadur Shastri
was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India
and led the nation during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
Sadly the day after peace was announced,
Shastri was found dead still in the capital of Uzbekistan.
The Indian Prime Minister had seemingly suffered
a fatal heart attack.
But it wasn't long before the people
began poking holes in that case
claiming that murder was being covered up.
Shastri's doctor had declared him healthy before the trip
and he had no signs of heart issues.
Then a request for access to a document containing
information about his death
was denied by the Prime Minister's office.
Was he suddenly killed by his own heart
or could it have been more political reasons?
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Number eight is satanic decapitation.
Responding to a call to Golden State Park
in San Francisco, California
on February 8th, 1981
police were shocked to discover a headless body
wrapped in a sleeping bag.
Stuffed into the victims neck were a chicken wing
and two kernels of corn.
Nearby they found the rest of the chicken
ritualistically slaughtered.
Using his fingerprints the headless victim
was identified as 29-year-old, Le Roy Carter, Jr.
Sandi Gallant, an officer who specialized in satanic
and occult killings was called in and claimed
that Carter's head was being used to make
a ritualistic brew.
She also said that the head would be returned
to the crime scene 42 days later
when the brew was finished.
Unfortunately nobody believed her theory
so when the head was returned
exactly 42 days later
no officers were watching.
The satanic killer, to this day,
remains unidentified.
Number seven are the Bog People.
Since the 1800s people in Northern Europe
have been aware of the ancient mummies
that tend to pop up in and around
the sphagnum bogs.
Thousands of naturally preserved bodies
have been discovered in Ireland, Britain
and the Netherlands
as well as Germany and Denmark.
Nicknamed the Bog People, these corpses
date back to the Iron Age.
And they keep appearing without any explanation as to why.
The almost oxygen free conditions in the bogs
leave the bodies relatively intact
with organs, skin and even in many cases
a full head of hair.
Thus it's been determined that many,
if not all of them, were murdered.
The most popular theories being
that they were executed for criminal actions.
Their sentencing was to be ritualistically sacrificed
to the pagan gods.
To this day thousands of bodies perfectly preserved
have been discovered, except there have been no answers.
Number six is D.B. Cooper.
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On November 24th, 1971
a man in his mid-forties using the alias Dan Cooper
boarded flight 305, a Boeing 727
at Portland International Airport
with a one-way ticket.
Soon after take off he notified a flight attendant
that he had a bomb and showed her a case
with eight canisters and several wires in it.
Cooper, whom the media accidentally dubbed, D.B. Cooper
managed to extort $200,000 in ransom
and had it delivered to the plane by the FBI
after landing in Seattle
in exchange for all passengers on board.
The plane then took off headed to New Mexico
but before it arrived Cooper lept out with a parachute.
What happened to him to this day
is still one of the greatest mysteries to man
and is completely unknown.
There are hundreds of different theories offered
as to why he survived the jump,
where he and the money ended up
and of course who he really was.
Number five is Pauline Picard.
In April of 1922, two-year-old Pauline Picard
vanished from her home in France.
A search of her town turned up nothing
but a few weeks later police found a girl
matching Pauline's description in a town
over 400 kilometers away.
Her parents and siblings recognized her immediately.
But Pauline didn't seem to know who they were.
Then on May 27th, the body of a girl
was found without a head, hands or feet.
With clothes matching what Pauline was wearing.
Soon after a head that didn't match the torso was found,
all in an area that was heavily searched,
meaning they were recently brought there.
But if the body was Pauline's,
who was the girl living the Picards?
And who's head was next to the corpse?
These questions have never been answered
and the murderer has never been identified.
Number four is the Black Dahlia Murder.
On January 15th, 1947 the mutilated body
of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was discovered
in Leimert Park in Los Angeles, California.
Short hailed from Boston, Massachusetts
and though she didn't find the fame
that she craved while alive,
she's famous today under the name the media gave her
after she became the murder victim.
The Black Dahlia,
due to the fact that Short's body was so horribly mangled,
including being cut in half at her waist.
The case became widely talked about and reported on.
The investigation that followed concluded
she'd either been killed on the day she was found
or the evening before.
It also brought forward over 150 potential suspects,
though none of them had enough evidence against them
to make a murder charge stick.
To this day no arrests have ever been made
for the Black Dahlia's murder.
Number three is Ambrose Bierce.
In October of 1913, 71-year-old author
and American Civil War Veteran, Ambrose Bierce
set out from Washington, D.C.
Visiting several battlefields that he'd fought on.
His travels brought him all the way to Mexico
and on December 26th, Bierce sent a letter
to his friend Blanche Partington,
which said I leave here tomorrow
for an unknown destination,
he was never heard from again.
Bierce's disappearance had brought forward
a number of theories,
ranging from the author being executed
by Poncho Villa, a Mexican general.
To having died in the United States with his secretary,
the idea being that she concocted the story
and wrote the letter herself.
But oddly Bierce had a fascination for disappearances,
specifically ones that occurred out in the open
or in front of witnesses.
Who ended his life or is he even really dead?
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Number two is Amelia Earhart.
On July 2nd, 1937, thirty-seven-year-old
American pilot and best-selling author Amelia Mary Earhart
vanished while flying over the Pacific Ocean.
Earhart and second navigator Fred Noonan
took off around midnight from Lae, New Guinea.
Headed for Howland Island on what was to be
the third to last flight before completing
a trip around the world,
but they never made it.
Many theories are still offered as to why today.
Some claim that the plane ran out of fuel
and crashed or that the pair survived and settled
on one of the Phoenix Islands
cut off from civilization.
Then there are more wild theories
that suggest that they were abducted by aliens.
Earhart's extensive experience in the cockpit
made the fact that her plane vanished
even more mysterious
and led many to question exactly what happened to her.
A question which still remains unanswered.
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And number one is the JFK assassination.
Around 12:30 in the afternoon
on November 22nd, 1963
President John F. Kennedy was riding
in a limousine convertible
in Dallas, Texas
when a gunman opened fire killing him.
Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the murder,
but he claimed to be innocent
and possibly a patsy due to some ties
to the Soviet Union.
But bizarrely before he could be tried,
Oswald himself was shot and killed
by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner
who claimed to be saving Miss Kennedy
from reliving the shooting at trial.
Many theories have come forward
with some blaming the CIA, the KGB,
Cuba's President Fidel Castro, the Mafia
and even Lyndon B. Johnson, the VP who became President
when JFK died.
A study done in 2013 found that 60% of Americans
believe that there's a conspiracy behind the assassination.
To this day what happened to the president is still unknown
and is one of the greatest mysteries in American history.
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