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1. Shroud of Turin

The shroud of Turin is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who had apparently died of crucifixion. Most Catholics
consider it to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. It is currently held in the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Turin,
Italy. Despite many scientific investigations, no one has yet been able to explain how the image has been imprinted on the
shroud and despite many attempts, no one has managed to replicate it. Radiocarbon tests date it to the middle ages, however
apologists for the shroud believe it is incorrupt - and carbon dating can only date things which decay.

Prior to the middle ages, reports of the shroud exist as the Image of Edessa - reliably reported since at least the 4th
century. In addition, another cloth (the Sudarium) known even from biblical times (John 20:7) exists which is said to have
covered Christ’s head in the tomb. A 1999 study by Mark Guscin, a member of the multidisciplinary investigation team of the
Spanish Center for Sindonology, investigated the relationship between the two cloths. Based on history, forensic pathology,
blood chemistry (the Sudarium also is reported to have type AB blood stains), and stain patterns, he concluded that the two
cloths covered the same head at two distinct, but close moments of time. Avinoam Danin (a researcher at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem) concurred with this analysis, adding that the pollen grains in the Sudarium match those of the
shroud.

2. Mary Celeste

Mary Celeste was launched in Nova Scotia in 1860. Her original name was “Amazon”. She was 103 ft overall displacing 280 tons
and listed as a half-brig. Over the next 10 years she was involved in several accidents at sea and passed through a number
of owners. Eventually she turned up at a New York salvage auction where she was purchased for $3,000. After extensive
repairs she was put under American registry and renamed “Mary Celeste”.
The new captain of Mary Celeste was Benjamin Briggs, 37, a master with three previous commands. On November 7, 1872 the ship
departed New York with Captain Briggs, his wife, young daughter and a crew of eight. The ship was loaded with 1700 barrels
of raw American alcohol bound for Genoa, Italy. The captain, his family and crew were never seen again. The ship was found
floating in the middle of the Strait of Gibraltar. There were no signs of struggle on board and all documents except the
captain’s log were missing.

In early 1873, it was reported that two lifeboats grounded in Spain, one with a body and an American flag, the other
containing five bodies. It has been alleged that these could have been the remains of the crew of the Mary Celeste. However,
the bodies were apparently never identified.

3. The taos hum

The ‘Taos Hum’ is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide, especially in the USA, UK, and northern europe. It
is usually heard only in quiet environments, and is often described as sounding like a distant diesel engine. Since it has
proven indetectable by microphones or VLF antennae, its source and nature is still a mystery.
In 1997 Congress directed scientists and observers from some of the most prestigious research institutes in the nation to
look into a strange low frequency noise heard by residents in and around the small town of Taos, New Mexico. For years those
who had heard the noise, often described by them as a “hum”, had been looking for answers. To this day no one knows the
cause of the hum.

4. Black Dahlia

In 1947 the body of 22 year old Elizabeth Short was found in two pieces in a parking lot in Los Angeles. According to
newspaper reports shortly after the murder, Short received the nickname “Black Dahlia” at a Long Beach drugstore in the
summer of 1946, as a play on the then-current movie The Blue Dahlia. However, Los Angeles County district attorney
investigators’ reports state the nickname was invented by newspaper reporters covering the murder. In either case, Short was
not generally known as the “Black Dahlia” during her lifetime.
Many rumours and tales have spread about the Black Dahlia, and the investigation (one of the largest in LA history) never
found the killer.

5. Comte de Saint Germain

The Count of St. Germain (allegedly died February 27, 1784) was a courtier, adventurer, inventor, amateur scientist,
violinist, amateur composer, and a mysterious gentleman; he also displayed some skills with the practice of alchemy. He was
known as ‘Der Wundermann’ — ‘The Wonderman’. He was a man whose origin was unknown and who disappeared without leaving a
trace.

Since his death, various occult organizations have adopted him as a model figure or even as a powerful deity. In recent
years several people have claimed to be the Count of St. Germain. (Note that St Germain was never regarded as a saint by the
Roman Catholic Church - the “st.” before his name refers to his alleged home).

6. Voynich manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval document written in an unknown script and in an unknown language. For over one hundred
years people have tried to break the code to not avail. The overall impression given by the surviving leaves of the
manuscript suggests that it was meant to serve as a pharmacopoeia or to address topics in medieval or early modern medicine.

However, the puzzling details of illustrations have fueled many theories about the book’s origins, the contents of its text,
and the purpose for which it was intended.
The document contains illustrations that suggest the book is in six parts: Herbal, Astronomical, Biological, Cosmological,
Pharmaceutical, and recipes.

7. Jack the Ripper

In the later half of 1888, London was terrorrised by a series of murders in the east end (largely in the Whitechapel area).
The name Jack the Ripper was taken from a letter sent to a newspaper at the time by someone claiming to be the killer. The
victims were typically prostitutes who had their throats cut and bodies mutilated. In some cases the bodies were discovered
just minutes after the ripper had left the scene.

The police at the time had many suspects but could never find sufficient evidence to convict anyone. In modern times there
has even been some speculation that Prince Albert Victor was the murderer. Even with modern police methods, no further light
has been shed on the murders in recent times. To this day no one knows who the ripper was.

8. Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda triangle is an area of water in the North Atlantic Ocean in which a large number of planes and boats have gone
missing in mysterious circumstances. Over the years many explanations have been put forward for the disappearances,
including bad weather, alien abductions, time warps, and suspension of the laws of physics.

Although substantial documentation exists to show that many of the reports have been exaggerated, there is still no
explanation for the unusually large number of disappearances in the area.

9. The Zodiac Killer

The Zodiac killer was active in Northern California for ten months in the late 1960s. He killed at least five people, and
injured two. He comitted the first two murders with a pistol, just inside the Benecia border. In his second shooting in
Vallejo, he attempted to kill two people, but one survived despite gunshots to the head and neck. 40 minutes later the
police recieved an anonymous phone call from a man claiming to be their killer and admitting to the murders of the previous
two victims. One month three letters were sent to Newspapers in California containing a cypher that the killer claimed would
give them his name. They cypher was decrypted to read:

“I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST BECAUSE MAN IS THE
MOST DANGEROUE ANAMAL OF ALL TO KILL SOMETHING GIVES ME THE MOST THRILLING EXPERENCE IT IS EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING YOUR
ROCKS OFF WITH A GIRL THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAE WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND THEI HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME
MY SLAVES I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOI DOWN OR ATOP MY COLLECTIOG OF SLAVES FOR MY AFTERLIFE
EBEORIETEMETHHPITI”

The last eighteen letters have not been decrypted.
While Arthur Leigh Allen was the prime suspect, all of the evidence was against him being the killer. To this day the Zodiac
murders have not been solved.

10. The Babushka Lady

During the analysis of the film footage of the assasination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, a mysterious woman was spotted. She
was wearing a brown overcoat and a scarf on her head (the scarf is the reason for her name as she wore it in a similar style
to Russian grandmothers - also called babushkas). The woman appeared to be holding something in front of her face which is
believed to be a camera. She appears in many photos of the scene. Even after the shooting when most people had fled the
area, she remained in place and continued to film. Shortly after she is seen moving away to the East up Elm Street. The FBI
publically requested that the woman come forward and give them the footage she shot but she never did.

In 1970 a woman called Beverly Oliver came forward and claimed to be the Babushka Woman, though her story contains many
inconsistencies. She is generally regarded as a fraud. To this day, no one knows who the Babushka Woman is or what she was
doing there. More unusual is her refusal to come forward to offer her evidence.

11. The Creation of Man

This is probably one of the most well known and controversial of mysteries known to man at the moment. The basic mystery is
where did we come from? Many people believe we were created by some kind of God, others believe were naturally came into
being through the process of evolution, and some even believe we were put onto earth by aliens. Because there is no
conclusive evidence for either argument, this subject remains our greatest mystery.

The concept of evolution states that through a series of adaptations and mutations from generation to generation, a creature
can change dramatically over time. There are many arguments against evolution, mostly (in the West) from fundamentalist
Christian bodies. The head of the largest Christian Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has recently said that evolution is not
contrary to the teachings of the Church or a belief in God as long as it does not exclude God as the primary mover and
organiser of the process.

The concept of creationism states that God made the Universe in the form in which it exists today. It attempts to explain
away potential theological problems like dinosaurs, carbon dating, and the fossil record in general. Creationists generally
believe the earth to be several thousand years old.

12. The Bimini Road

Everyone has heard the story of the lost city of Atlantis, but what about the Bimini Road? In 1968 an underwater rock
formation was found near North Bimini Island in the Bahamas. It is considered by many to be naturally made, but because of
the unusual arrangement of the stones, many believe it to be a part of the lost city of Atlantis (first spoken of by Plato).

Another curious element of this mystery is a prediction made in 1938 by Edgar Cayce: “A portion of the temples may yet be
discovered under the slime of ages and sea water near Bimini… Expect it in ‘68 or ‘69 - not so far away.” In a more recent
expidition, amateur archeologist Dr Greg Little discovered another row of rocks in the same formation directly below the
first, leading him to believe that the road is actually the top of a wall or water dock.

One possible natural explanation is that the “road” is an example of tessellated pavement, a natural phenomenon. Concretions
of shell and sand form hard sedimentary rock which over time fractures in straight lines and then at ninety degree angles.
They are quite common and a popular tourist attraction on the island of Tasmania.

13. The Roanoke Colony

In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched an expedition to the East Coast of North America as Queen Elizabeth I had given him
permission to colonise Virginia. He returned from the trip with two American Indians and samples of animals and plants.

Between 1585 and 1587, two groups of colonists were left on Roanoke Island (part of present day North Carolina) to establish
their settlement.

Following fights with the local native tribes, the first colony were low on food and men to defend the settlement, so when
Sir Francis Drake visited after a raid in the Carribean and offered to take them back to England, they accepted and left. In
1857 121 new colonists arrived and found the local natives (the Croatans) to be friendly. The first English child born in
the Americas was the daughter of one of these colonists. The group tried to befriend some of the other tribes that the
previous colonists had fought with which resulted in the killing of George Howe. The remaining members of the group
convinced the leader to return to England to get help. The leader (John White) returned to England leaving behind ninety
men, seventeen women, and eleven children.

When White returned in August 1590, the settlement was deserted. There were no signs of a struggle and no remains were found
at all. The only clue was the word “Croatoan” carved into a post of the fort and “Cro” carved into a nearby tree. The
settlement became known as the Lost Colony and no members of it were ever seen again. Some speculation exists today which
suggests that the settlers left and merged with some of the nearby tribes. This is supported by the fact that many years
later some of the tribes were practising Christianity and understood English.

14. Marfa lights

The Marfa lights are unexplained lights (called ghost lights) that have been appearing on Mitchell Flat east of Marfa,
Texas. The first published account of the lights was given in 1957, but Robert Reed Ellison (born 1880) reported them to his
family and accounts of their appearances were spread by word of mouth. There are no verifiable written reports from before
the 1950s.

The lights are described as being the size of a basketball, floating in the air at around shoulder height. Colors are
usually described as white, yellow, orange or red, but green and blue are sometimes reported. They usually travel laterally
but have been seen to move rapidly in various directions. The lights sometimes appear in groups. Sightings are rare but
there is a large amount of photographic and video evidence.

Skeptics generally consider the lights to be related to traffic passing on the nearby US Route 67, or to be electric
by-products of the predominantly quartz hills in the area. Because they usually appear in private property with terrain that
is difficult to travel over, there are almost no reports of people being able to get close to the lights.

15. Jimmy hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa was an American labor leader, and criminal convict. As the president of the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, Hoffa wielded considerable influence. After his conviction, he served nearly
a decade in prison. On July 30, 1975, Hoffa dissapeared from a parking lot in Detroit and was never seen again. He had been
due to meet two Mafia leaders, Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone from Detroit and Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano from Union City,
New Jersey and New York City.

According to Donald Frankos (a convicted Mob hitman), Hoffa was shot in the house of Giacalone and his body was then buried
in the foundations of the Giants stadium. While that is the most popular belief, another mobster, Bill Bonanno, claimed that
hoffa was shot and put in the trunk of a car that was then put through a car compactor.

No one will ever know the truth about Hoffa, but the MythBusters team dug in the part of the Giants stadium that is
generally where Hoffa is considered to be buried and found nothing.

16. The Loch Ness Monster

Loch Ness is the most voluminous fresh water lake in Great Britain. For centuries people have reported seeing a large
creature living in the lake - the earliest account comes from the life of Saint Columba (565 AD). Although sightings of the
creature on land around the loch reputedly date back to the sixteenth century, modern interest in the monster was sparked by
a 22 July 1933 sighting, when Mr George Spicer and his wife saw ‘a most extraordinary form of animal’ cross the road in
front of their car. They described the creature as having a large body (about 4 feet high and 25 feet long), and long,
narrow neck, slightly thicker than an elephant’s trunk and as long as the 10-12 foot width of the road; the neck had a
number of undulations in it. They saw no limbs because of a dip in the road obscuring the animal’s lower portion. It lurched
across the road towards the loch some 20 yards away, leaving only a trail of broken undergrowth in its wake.

Not only has the Loch Ness Monster been photographed repeatedly, it has even been caught on videotape - as recently as 2007,
and on sonar equipment. Unfortunately, however, the footage and photos are never clear enough to give a definite answer as
to what the creature is. Some speculate that it may be a plesiosaur that survived the rest of the dinosaur population.

17. bigfoot

Bigfoot, also known as the Sasquatch, is depicted as an ape-like man who inhabits forest areas of the pacific north-west and
parts of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Over the years there have been many sightings and photographs of Bigfoot
but no conclusive proof exists to verify his existence.

Most experts on the matter consider the Bigfoot legend to be a combination of folklore and hoaxes, but there are a number of
authors and researchers who do believe that the stories could be true. There is some speculation that, like the Loch Ness
monster, Bigfoot may be a living remnant of the time of the dinosaurs - specifically a Gigantopithecus blacki - a supersize
ape. The earliest accounts of bigfoot are from 1924 though reports of a similar type of creature have appeared as early as

the 1860s.

18. El Chupacabra

El Chupacabra (Goat Sucker) is mostly associated with Latin American communities in the USA, Mexico, and Puerto Rico (where
it was first reported). It is supposedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines reaching from the
neck to the base of the tail and it takes its name from the fact that it is supposed to attack animals and drink their blood
- especially goats.

While the legend began around 1987, there are many similarities to the Vampire of Moca, the name given to an unknown
creature to killed animals all over the small town of Moca in the 1970s. The vampire of Moca left the animals completely
devoid of blood which had apparently been removed by a series of small circular cuts.

The most common description of Chupacabra is a lizard-like being, appearing to have leathery or scaly greenish-gray skin and
sharp spines or quills running down its back. This form stands approximately 3 to 4 feet (1 to 1.2 m) high, and stands and
hops in a similar fashion to a kangaroo. In at least one sighting, the creature hopped 20 feet (6 m). This variety is said
to have a dog or panther-like nose and face, a forked tongue protruding from it, large fangs, and to hiss and screech when
alarmed, as well as leave a sulfuric stench behind. When it screeches, some reports note that the chupacabra’s eyes glow an
unusual red, then give the witnesses nausea. For some witnesses, it was seen with bat-like wings.

19. D. B Cooper

D. B. Cooper (aka “Dan Cooper”) is a pseudonym given to a notorious aircraft hijacker who, on November 24, 1971, after
receiving a ransom payout of $200,000, leapt from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest
somewhere over the southern Cascades.

Cooper has not been seen since and it is not known whether he survived the jump. In 1980, an eight year old boy found $5,800
of soggy $20 bills washed up on the banks of the Columbia river. The serial numbers matched those of the ransom money which
had been noted to make it easier to track Cooper later.
Cooper escaped from the plane by jumping off the rear airstair with a parachute leading aviation authorities to add stricter
measures about the design of planes to prevent it from happening again. In addition, this event caused airports to install
metal detectors for the first time.

20. The Mothman

Mothman is the name given to a strange creature reported in the Charleston and Point Pleasant areas of West Virginia between
November 1966 and December 1967. The creature was sporadically reported to be seen before and after those dates, with some
sightings as recent as 2007.

Most observers describe the Mothman as a winged man-sized creature with large reflective red eyes. It often appeared to have
no head, with its eyes set into its chest. A number of hypotheses have been presented to explain eyewitness accounts,
ranging from misidentification and coincidence to paranormal phenomena and conspiracy theories.

The Mothman was first spotted in 1926 by a young boy. At the same time, three men were digging a grave in a nearby graveyard
when they saw a brown human shape with wings soaring out from behind trees. Both incidents were reported independently of
each other. There have been numerous sightings of Mothman though no photographic evidence exists at all.

21. The Vile Vortices

The Vile Vortices twelve are areas distributed more or less evenly around the globe that are alleged to have the same
qualities as claimed for the Bermuda Triangle. Five are located on a latitude near the Tropic of Capricorn; Five on a
latitude near the Tropic of Cancer; and one each at either of the Poles. They form the vertices of an icosahedron. As well
as the Bermuda triangle, the Devil’s Triangle (or Devil’s Sea) is one of the twelve areas. The Devil’s Triangle is claimed
to be the cause of the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, noted American aviation pioneer, author and women’s rights advocate
who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of
the globe in 1937. In the image above the vortices are marked out in a different color.

22. Frederick Valentich’s Disappearance

The Frederick Valentich Disappearance is an event that occurred on October 21, 1978, in which 20-year-old Frederick
Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over the Bass Strait to King
Island, Australia. Prior to his disappearance, Valentich reported via radio that he had encountered an unidentified craft
which was moving at the same speed of his plane, and which hovered over him. No trace of Valentich or his aircraft was ever
found. Shortly before Valentich’s last reported contact, plumber Roy Manifold set up a time lapse camera and tripod on the
shoreline in order to photograph the sun setting over the water. When his pictures were developed they appeared to show a
fast moving object exiting the water. Manifold gave the time that the pictures were taken as being approximately 6:47 pm
(18:47 hrs), or 20 minutes before Valentich reported having difficulties. Moments before a strange noise terminated
Valentich’s communications, he said: “My intentions are - ah - to go to King Island - ah - Melbourne. That strange aircraft
is hovering on top of me again (open microphone for two seconds). It is hovering and it’s not an aircraft.”

23. Oak Island Money Pit

The Oak Island Money Pit is the site of the world’s longest running hunt for lost treasure. For hundreds of years, treasure
hunters have ventured to Nova Scotia and tried to recover the treasure which is protected by a series of ingenious traps.

Strange man made artifacts have been recovered from the pit over the years, but to this day, the treasure still remains
buried. Pirates, the Knights Templar or Francis Bacon - no one is sure exactly who created this mysterious Money Pit or why.
There has been wide-ranging speculation as to who originally dug the pit and what it might contain. Oak platforms were
discovered every 10 feet. There were pick scrapes on the walls on the money pit and the dirt was noticeably loose and not as
hard packed. The flood tunnel at 90 feet has been identified and known to be lined with flat stones. Some have speculated
that the Oak Island pit was dug to hold treasure much more exotic than gold or silver. In his 1953 book, The Oak Island
Enigma: A History and Inquiry Into the Origin of the Money Pit, Penn Leary claimed that English philosopher Francis Bacon
used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of William Shakespeare’s plays. In the image above we see the
money pit as it appears today.

24. Noah’s Ark - found?

The Ararat anomaly is an object appearing on photographs of the snowfields near the summit of Mount Ararat, Turkey, and
advanced by some believers in Biblical literalism as the remains of Noah’s Ark. The anomaly is located on the northwest
corner of the Western Plateau of Mount Ararat at about 15,500 ft. It was first filmed during a U.S. Air Force aerial
reconnaissance mission in 1949 — the Ararat massif sits on the former Turkish/Soviet border, and was thus an area of
military interest — and was accordingly given a classification of “secret” as were subsequent photographs taken in 1956,
1973, 1976, 1990 and 1992, by aircraft and satellites. Six frames from the 1949 footage were released under the Freedom of
Information Act. A joint research project was later established between Insight Magazine and Space Imaging (now GeoEye),
using the IKONOS satellite. IKONOS, on its maiden voyage, captured the anomaly on August 5 and September 13, 2000. The Mount
Ararat area also has been imaged by France’s SPOT satellite in September 1989, Landsat in the 1970s and NASA’s Space shuttle

in 1994.

25. The Fire of Jeannie Saffin

There are many famous cases of people who seem to have spontaneously caught fire (Spontaneous Human Combustion) but there is
a lesser known case of a woman who suffered this fate in front of witnesses. At approximately 4 p.m. on Wednesday, September
15, 1982, Jeannie Saffin aged 61, burst into flames while sitting on a wooden Windsor chair in the kitchen of her home in
Edmonton, London, England. Her father, eighty-two-year-old Jack Saffin, was seated at a nearby table and said he saw a flash
of light out of the corner of his eye and turned to Jeannie to ask if she had seen it. He was astonished to find that she
was enveloped in flames, mainly around her face and hands. Mr. Saffin said Jeannie did not cry out or move, but merely sat
there with her hands in her lap. Her father pulled her over to the sink, badly burning his own hands, and started trying to
douse the flames with water. Jeannie went in to a coma and died 8 days later. The policeman who conducted the investigation
into possible murder reported to the coroner’s court that no cause for Jeannie’s combustion could be found. There was no
charring or signs of burning anywhere in the room except on Jeannie’s body. The image above is from another case of
Spontaneous Human Combustion as none could be found of Jeannie Saffin.

26. Red Rain in Kerala

From 25 July to 23 September 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala. Heavy downpours
occurred in which the rain was colored red, staining clothes with an appearance similar to that of blood. Yellow, green, and
black rain was also reported. According to locals, the first coloured rain was preceded by a loud thunderclap and flash of
light, and followed by groves of trees shedding shrivelled grey “burnt” leaves. Shrivelled leaves and the disappearance and
sudden formation of wells were also reported around the same time in the area. A study commissioned by the Government of
India found that the rains had been colored by airborne spores from a locally prolific terrestrial alga. Then in early 2006,
the colored rains of Kerala suddenly rose to worldwide attention after media reports of a conjecture that the colored
particles were extraterrestrial cells. The origin of the rain is still unknown today, despite worldwide efforts to discover
the cause and true nature of the rain.

27. The Mysterious Kaspar Hauser

On May 26, 1828 a teenage boy appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. He carried a letter with him which was
addressed to a captain of 6th cavalry regiment. The anonymous author said that the boy was given into his custody, as an
infant, on the 7th October 1812, and that he had never let him “take a single step out of my house”. Now the boy would like
to be a cavalryman, thus the captain should take him in or hang him. Hauser claimed that he had, for as long as he could
think back, spent his life always totally alone in a darkened 2×1×1.5 metre cell (little more than the size of a one-person
bed in area) with only a straw bed to sleep on and a horse carved out of wood for a toy. Hauser claimed that the first human
being he ever had had contact with had been a mysterious man who had visited him not long before his release, always taking
great care not to reveal his face to him. According to contemporary rumors - probably current as early as 1829 - Kaspar
Hauser was the hereditary prince of Baden that was born on September 29, 1812 and had died within a month. It was claimed
that this prince had been switched with a dying baby, and had indeed appeared 16 years later as “Kaspar Hauser” in
Nuremberg. Hauser died after receiving a stab wound to the chest which was possible self-inflicted. He claimed he had been
stabbed by the man who had kept him as an infant.

In 2002, the University of Münster analyzed hair and body cells from locks of hair and items of clothing that were alleged
to belong to Kaspar Hauser. The DNA samples were compared to a DNA segment of Astrid von Medinger, a descendant in the
female line of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, who would have been Kaspar Hauser’s mother if indeed he had been the hereditary
prince of Baden. The sequences were not identical but the deviation observed is not large enough to exclude a relationship,
as it could be caused by a mutation.

28. The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask (died November 1703) was a prisoner who was held in a number of jails, including the Bastille and
the Chateau d’If, during the reign of Louis XIV of France. The identity of this man has been thoroughly discussed, mainly
because no one ever saw his face which was hidden by a mask of black velvet cloth. Later retellings of the story have
claimed that it was an iron mask. The first surviving records of the masked prisoner are from 1669, when Louis XIV’s
minister sent a prisoner to the care of the governor of the prison of Pignerol. According to Louvois’ letter, the man’s name
was Eustache Dauger. Louvois instructed Saint-Mars to prepare a cell with multiple doors which were to prevent anyone from
the outside listening in. Dauger was also to be told that if he spoke of anything other than his immediate needs he would be
killed. Saint-Mars was to see Dauger only once a day in order to provide food and whatever else he needed. He spent his
remaining years in jail, with his true identity being concealed. Upon his death, all of his belongings were destroyed.

Theories about his identity made at the time included that he was a Marshal of France; or Richard Cromwell, son of Oliver
Cromwell; or Francois de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort. Later, many people such as Voltaire put forward other theories about the
man in the mask.

29. Sailing Stones

The sailing stones are a geological phenomenon found in the Racetrack Playa (a seasonally dry lake located in the northern
part of the Panamint Mountains in Death Valley National Park, California, U.S.A.). The stones slowly move across the surface
of the playa, leaving a track as they go, without human or animal intervention. They have never been seen or filmed in
motion and are not unique to The Racetrack. Similar rock travel patterns have been recorded in several other playas in the
region but the number and length of travel grooves on The Racetrack are notable. Racetrack stones only move once every two
or three years and most tracks last for just three or four years. Stones with rough bottoms leave straight striated tracks
while those with smooth bottoms wander. Stones sometimes turn over, exposing another edge to the ground and leaving a
different-sized track in the stone’s wake.

Various and sometimes idiosyncratic possible explanations have been put forward over the years that have ranged from the
supernatural to the very complex. Most hypotheses favored by interested geologists posit that strong winds when the mud is
wet are at least in part responsible. Some stones weigh as much as a human, which some researchers such as geologist George
M. Stanley who published a paper on the topic in 1955 feel is too heavy for the area’s wind to move.

30. The WOW! Signal

The Wow! signal was a strong, narrowband radio signal detected by Dr. Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977 while working on a
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project at the Big Ear radio telescope of the Ohio State University. The
signal bore expected hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-solar system origin. It lasted for 72 seconds, the full
duration Big Ear observed it, but has not been detected again. It has been the focus of attention in the mainstream media
when talking about SETI results. The Big Ear telescope was fixed and used the rotation of the Earth to scan the sky. At the
speed of the earth’s rotation, and given the width of the Big Ear’s observation “window”, the Big Ear could observe any
given point for just 72 seconds. An extraterrestrial signal, therefore, would be expected to register for exactly 72
seconds, and the recorded intensity of that signal would show a gradual peaking for the first 36 seconds — until the signal
reached the center of Big Ear’s observation “window” — at which time it would show a gradual decrease. Therefore, both the
length of the Wow! signal, 72 seconds, and its shape would correspond to an extraterrestrial origin. The region of the sky
in which the signal was heard, lies in the constellation Sagittarius, roughly 2.5 degrees south of the fifth-magnitude star
Chi-1 Sagittarii.

Posts: 3371 · Posted: 21 Jun 2008 01:05 pm

???

Posts: 2492 · Posted: 21 Jun 2008 05:01 pm

Really Interesting Smile

Posts: 9371 · Posted: 21 Jun 2008 08:15 pm

Cool stuff

Posts: 499 · Posted: 24 Jun 2008 05:52 am

One of the best posts(i have read) here in off-topic, i love this kinda stuff.

Thanks a lot for sharing, buddy Razz

Posts: 22847 · Posted: 24 Jun 2008 08:21 am

rohitsharman wrote:

One of the best posts(i have read) here in off-topic, i love this kinda stuff.

Thanks a lot for sharing, buddy Razz

Yes, I love this kind of stuff too.

A mysteries unsolved till present is mysterious and interesting Shocked

Posts: 1280 · Posted: 24 Jun 2008 12:38 pm

I can't understand why Black Dahlia got no. 4 lol
I hate mysteries that are unsolved but they are very interesting