• From hieroglyphs indecipherable even today to stories of hikers found dead in unexplainable
positions, we count 15 mysteries that have yet to been solved or even understood
15 - Voynich Manuscript, • A book created in the early 1400s that
is almost entirely composed of a language never before seen and never deciphered since
• It comes with an array of colourful drawings of strange plant-like creatures and celestial
diagrams, but the contents remain elusive with some theorising it might've been a book
on early medieval medicine • However, due to the amount of star charts,
some propose the book to have alien origins, whereas others believe it was a hoax which
seems unlikely since the money and complexity required would've been unbelievably high
• You can find the pages floating around on the internet, but so far nobody has had
much luck 14 - Green Children,
• A pair of brother and sister that appeared in the UK around the 12th century, in which
they turned up in a small village with completely green skin, speaking an indecipherable language
and refusing to eat anything but bean pods • After a while they learned English and
their skin lost its green tinge, claiming they'd followed a river of light, heard the
sound of bells and then woke up outside the town of Woolpit
• Theories claim the children to be of the fabled Hollow Earth, a parallel dimension
or extraterrestrial abduction 13 - Rongorongo,
• An island off the southeastern Pacific Ocean housing the Rapa Nui people who lived
over a 1,000 miles with no influence from outside society
• They carved a number of these large Moai head sculptures, but they also left behind
a series of wooden glyph tablets with an indecipherable language - because of their isolation, it
is known to be one of the only independently formed written languages ever witnessed
• The Easter Island mysteries are numerous, and these are just a couple of examples
12 - Dyatlov Pass, • This is a Russian story from a mountain
known to the locals as "dead mountain", in which 10 people attempted to scale it using
a dangerous route • They'd taken a wrong turn and wound up
lost, and when a search team went out to look for them all that turned up were broken tents
filled with supplies, campers cutting THROUGH their tent from the inside and bolting into
the night • The search came across a few bodies, for
some reason only dressed in underwear and socks, one even attempting to climb a tree
• The rest were found in a ditch, dressed in the dead mens clothes, fractured skulls
and one with a missing tongue • Nobody could ever explain what happened
here 11 - The Immortal Count,
• A man that kept showing up in history, known to consort with some of Europe's most
famous figures like Casanova, Voltaire, King Lous XV and George Washington
• Some say he was born in the early 1700s, always turning up to set up an alchemy laboratory
- he speaks 12 languages, can play the violin, paint, great wealth, never eating in public
and usually sold recipes to remove wrinkles or dye hair
• He's been seen even up to the 21st century, always associated with secret societies like
the Freemasons and Illuminati • It's certainly possible mankind might've
discovered the key to immortality, and even likely they'd keep the secret to themselves
simply not to incite chaos 10 - Beale Ciphers,
• A series of three ciphertexts that are rumoured to reveal the location of the biggest
cache of treasures ever recorded in U.S history - thousands of pounds of gold and jewels
• To this day only one of the ciphers was cracked with the U.S declaration of independence
turning out to be the key, but it only revealed the county where the treasure lay - that of
Bedford County in Virginia • Today, treasure hunters dig through the
various hillsides, though it is considered illegal to do so
9 - Phaistos Disc, • A famous puzzle in the field of archaeology,
this disc was discovered in 1908 in the Minoan palace of Phaistos
• It's made of a type of fired clay printed with mysterious symbols and hieroglyphics,
believed to have been created around second millennium BC
• Even though scholars came close to deciphering it, they believe it to be written in a form
of ancient Crete called Linear A, but the problem is they haven't even decoded Linear
A 8 - Pollock Twins,
• A story from 1957 about supposed reincarnation, two girl sisters 11 and 6 years old killed
in a car accident in England, with their mother giving birth to twins the following year
• One of the twins bore the exact same birth marks as her deceased sister in exactly the
same places, and it got spookier when the girls requested exactly the dead sisters'
toys which they couldn't possibly have known about
• They also asked to be taken to places they'd never heard of, like a park the departed
sisters had been too 7 - Alcatraz Prisoners,
• 1963, the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary off San Francisco - guards checked into the
cells of 3 inmates Clarence, John and Frank and everything seemed fine
• Soon afterwards though, the guards realised it wasn't men who were in the beds, but 3
dummies constructed from soap and toilet paper • The trio never turned up again - their
bodies weren't discovered, nobody knows if they made it to the mainland and escaped,
it's a huge mystery 6 - Lost City of Atlantis,
• The fabled island city, a world power in the 10th millennium that vanished overnight
• Plato mentioned it in his story, that it attacked Athens, failed and then was sunk
very soon after - but he claims it stood in front of the Pillars of Hercules, and we haven't
found much evidence of this supposed city in Earth's geography
• Two places could've been Atlantis, namely the island of Santorini sunk by a volcano
or Sicily, which at the time was very similar to the supposed Atlantis
• But both of these places were nowhere near the Pillars
5 - Shugborough Inscription, • An 18th century Shepherd's Monument located
in Staffordshire, England, with a recreated sculpture of a famous painting known as Arcadian
Shepherds • However, this painting contains the bizarre
series of letters, DOUOSVAVVM, a code left by the Knights Templar apparently unbreakable
which reveals the location of the Holy Grail • Some of the world's greatest minds have
attempted to reveal the secret, but all failed - including Dickens and Charles Darwin
4 - Wow!
Signal, • 1977, a strong narrowband radio signal
detected from outer space by Jerry R. Ehman working on the Big Ear radio telescope of
Ohio • For 72 seconds a signal was coming in,
and Jerry was so excited that he wrote the words "wow!" on the sheet of paper which become
the subject of heated media attention • If it did come from extraterrestrials
in the Sagittarius cluster, they'd need to be highly advanced sending out a signal far
more powerful than anything Earth has come up with
• In 2012, we send back 10,000 Twitter messages in the direction the signal originated from
3 - Cicada 3301, • A puzzle that started in 2012 and has
continued ever since, a scannable puzzle game that draws on cryptography, mathematics, literature,
hidden messages, philosophy and a host of other topics
• The clues have sprung up in Poland, Hawaii, Spain, Australia and Korea with the goal to
find intelligent people with the hope of meeting those that solve all the puzzles
• Many on the internet believe it's a recruitment tool for the CIA or other top secret government
organisation, or possibly to recruit for a global think tank
• The last clue came up in January, and will continue in January 2015
2 - Georgia Guidestones, • Referred to as a modern Stonehenge located
in Elbert County, Georgia, it's a series of stones engraved in eight different languages
relaying 10 new commandments for an age of reason
• This stone doesn't contain any encrypted message, but the reason and origin for them
is the mystery - who built them, and for what purpose?
• Some of the commandments are vague and somewhat sinister, including the first which
advises a human population of 500 million - leading some to feel it's permission to
cull humanity • Conspiracy theorists believe it to be
a message from a Luciferian secret society, a new world order
1 - Jack the Ripper • The most famous serial killer ever, he
who stalked the streets of London and murdered prostitutes in gruesome, horrible ways
• His image was built up in folklore, misinformation and media attention to such a degree that
we may never know the full story, but we do know he killed at least 5 women and was within
seconds of getting caught • Letters were forwarded to the police,
in which Jack taunts them and goes on about how he'll keep killing, but these are believed
to have been fakes • Jack the Ripper was never caught