Mystery is not only ancient, ghostly or terrifying. Some are fascinating, providing insight into different types of worlds, while sometimes unsolved mysteries can cause increased interest in ancient mysteries of the same kind. Some mysteries are so obscure that it's even hard to say whether they exist or whether they're just the product of over-imagination. Others are very famous, but their answers remain elusive.
This list contains a variety of unresolved incidents, all different, but all mysterious in their own way.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" >10 "Star Wars" headdress</h1>
On January 1, 2021, farmers in the town of Hidalgo Amajac in Veracruz discovered something unusual while working in a citrus grove. In front of them is a 2-meter-tall statue of a young woman decorated with intricately patterned jewelry and dressed in fine costumes. A round pendant necklace forms part of the jewelry, and the tiara on her head resembles the headdress worn by Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars.
Experts were summoned and they found that the statue was found between the Aztec Tochipan and Vastérian de Tijo regions, suggesting that it may have originated in two cultures. They also believe that the statue dates back to the late Post-Classical period and may depict an important female ruler. At the time, however, it was unclear whether the statue was of great significance or even had been correctly identified. Farmers preferred to keep the statue, and they continued negotiations with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History on the future of the statue.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" >9 jar bay</h1>
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In 1982, The New York Times published an article about artifacts found in the gulf near Rio de Janeiro. The discovery included a large number of tall jars that were carried on Roman ships in the 2nd century BC. The discovery was made in the Gulf of Guanabara, and for some archaeologists it upended the belief that the Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral was the first European. Arrive in Brazil.
Sunken treasure hunter and archaeologist Robert Marx said the Romans first visited Brazil. He also told The Times that Portuguese authorities were trying to prevent Brazil from granting him a permit to excavate the area in search of clues that could prove that a Roman vessel had lost a high can or amphora in Guanabara Bay.
Marx also did not believe that the jars might have been grown as a hoax, as many of them were overgrown with barnacles and some were surrounded by coral. At the time he hoped to search the area with sonar in an attempt to discover tools or Roman origins that would strengthen his theory.
In 1983, the Brazilian government banned underwater exploration, preventing Marx from investigating the discovery further.
The mystery of Jar Bay remains.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > message in 8 bottles</h1>
In 2017, a family in New Brunswick found a glass bottle on a beach near The Bay of Fundy. Inside was a letter that read, "I'm going to throw this bottle into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean." We will arrive in New York in a few days. If anyone finds it, please contact the Lefebvre family in Levin. The signature at the bottom reads "Mathilde Lefebvre" dated April 13, 1912.
Nicolas Beaudry, a professor of history and archaeology, said a passenger named Mathilde Lefebvre, the daughter of a miner named Franck Lefebvre from northern France, boarded the Titanic in 1912.
However, in 2021, Mathilde Lefebvre was indeed the one who created this message in a bottle and threw it from the Titanic into the Atlantic, which remains unproven. Although Beaudry confirmed that they did not find the incident to be a hoax. His team will year the letter and bottle in an attempt to confirm their authenticity, but apparently does not rule out the possibility of going back to 1912.
Meanwhile, Jacques Lefebvre, a descendant of the Levebvre family, hopes the letter is genuine, as it will be the only letter he has received from his family. If the news proves to be true, it will also be the first Titanic artifact to be found off the coast of the United States.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" >7 Kiel Hopmore coffin</h1>
On August 28, 1921, farmer Titus Harrison spotted something protruding from the side of the eroded peat haag while herding sheep in Killhope. It turned out to be a large wooden box, and when I opened it, it turned out to be a human head. Shocked, he ran to inform the police at St. John's Church, who immediately arrived at the scene near the junction of Northumberland, Durham and Cumberland. They found the body of a man who had apparently been dead for a long time, but there was still some flesh on his skeleton. The body was dressed in an old-fashioned military uniform with a bullet hole near his shoulder. The skull has no teeth, and the lower part of the jaw is missing.
The coffin is made of pine wood with a lid shaped like a roof. The remains were declared "very old" and buried in an unmarked grave at Burtreeford Cemetery. Some believe the man may have been a dispatch rider during the Jacobite rebellion, while others believe he may have been Captain Richard Cortney Lovell, but never reached his destination during the mission.
To this day, however, who this man was remains a mystery, and how he ended up in the coffin of Kielhope Swamp.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" >6 ships disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle</h1>
The reputation of the Bermuda Triangle needs no elaboration. It is the site of many mysterious disappearances, one of which most recently occurred in 2020.
On December 28, 2020, a blue-and-white Mako Cuddy Cabin departed from Bimini, Bahamas. The 20 people on board were heading to Lake Worth Beach in Florida, where they were supposed to arrive the next day. The ship was on its way through the Bermuda Triangle to its destination when it suddenly went wrong and disappeared without a trace.
After the family of one of the ship's passengers told them they had been expecting a call from a relative never happened, the Coast Guard received an alert on the missing ship. The Coast Guard searched 20,000 square miles, including the Bermuda Triangle, for about 84 hours, but eventually paused the search when it became clear they couldn't find the ship.
To date, no clues have been found to indicate what happened to the ship or the 20 passengers. Their names and the name of the ship are also still unknown.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" >5vatska wonders</h1>
Creepy seems to be the preferred mystery genre, and Watseka Wonder falls into that category.
In 1877, Lurancy Vennum, a young girl from Illinois, suddenly began to have a seizure, causing her to faint and coma for several hours. Soon, she began to be in a coma for several days. Every time she woke up, she would tell her family that she was communicating with the spirit world while she was 'asleep'. Doctors could not find a medical explanation for her seizures and advised her family to send Lurancy to a psychiatric hospital.
Lurancy's family was preparing to take her to the nearest shelter when a man named Asa Roff showed up at their doorstep. He told Lurancy and her family that his daughter Mary had the same type of seizures, which began when she was a baby. Mary was also sent to a mental hospital, where she died in 1865. Rove refuses to accept that his daughter is crazy and begins to study spiritism. He eventually began to believe that she was a psychic medium with the ability to talk to ghosts.
Rove convinces Rolandi to have a psychic doctor examine her. During the examination, Lurancy went into a trance, and when she regained consciousness, she identified herself as Mary Roff. She tells a secret that only the Rove family would know, and Asa Rove is so excited that he invites Ruransi to stay at his house. During the 5 months she lived there, Lurancy was "possessed" by Mary's spirit.
After moving out again, Lurancy continued her life and got married. She became pregnant, and when she finally gave birth, Mary's spirit "possessed" her again, making the whole experience easy.
Whether Lurancy suffered from a real psychological condition, or whether some people firmly believed that a supernatural event had occurred, remains a mystery.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="43" > 4 Sleeping Girls in Tver</h1>
Ellen Sadler fell asleep one day in 1871 and didn't wake up for nine years. Before this happened, Alan often felt intense drowsiness and fatigue. Doctors don't know what to do, and Alan ends up experiencing a series of seizures before falling into deep sleep.
When people in the Tver area where Alan and her family lived heard about the sleeping girl, they began to appear in their numbers, most of whom had donations. People began to come from all over the country to see this "anomaly". Her mother fed her by mouth, even though Ellen was still sleeping, giving her port wine, tea, and milk. Ellen's mother, Ann Frewen, died in 1880, and Ellen woke up five months later at the age of 21. She knew nothing about her nine years of slumber.
Six years later, she married and had five children and became as normal as the families around her.
After all these years, people are still speculating about the mystery, with some believing Alan suffers from narcolepsy, while others believe her mother drugged her to get donations from tourists. Some believe it's an elaborate scam. Whatever the case, the mystery of the sleeping girl in Tver has always existed in folklore and urban legend.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="49" >3 Teenager who sees a ghost</h1>
One night in 1993, Denise Jones was cooking for her family when she heard her 5-year-old son, Michael, screaming in horror in his bedroom. Dropping everything, she ran to his room and found him curled up on the bed, trembling and screaming. Dennis tried to calm him down and ask him to explain what had happened. Bursting into tears, the boy told his mother that an odd-looking man had appeared in his room, smiled at him, touched his shoulder, and then disappeared.
Dennis finally succeeded in calming Michael down, and eventually they both forgot about it. A few weeks later, Dennis and Michael were at her parents' house when suddenly Michael started screaming again. When the adults came running, Michael told him that the man in the picture on the wall was the man he had seen in his room. It turned out that this person was Dennis's grandfather, who had been dead for 17 years. Michael had never seen a picture of his grandfather before.
Soon Michael began to claim that the evil spirits wanted to drag him to hell and that the Shadow Man would not leave him alone. One night, after hearing thumps and witnessing Michael's bed shaking violently, Denise saw a six-foot-tall shadow sweeping across the wall of her son's bedroom.
Dennis enlisted the help of a paranormal investigator who advised her move. When this didn't help, John suggested an exorcism. Michael had experienced five exorcisms and drank holy water once, but he had been seeing ghosts all the time.
Determined that Michael did not have any mental or physical illness, his family went on to live, hoping that their son would no longer see evil because they could not find any other explanation for his experience.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" >2 Beasts of Camberwell Cemetery</h1>
No mystery list would be complete without at least one mysterious sighting. In October 1996, a man took a shortcut from Camberwell's old cemetery on his way to meet a friend. He was walking in the world, not caring, when suddenly something grabbed his arm and threw him unceremoniously on the ground. Looking up he saw a huge creature, black fur and a head like a German Shepherd roaring at him. Then the creature just turned around and ran.
Eight years later, the two men were walking by the cemetery when they suddenly heard a roar. Looking around to see if there were any animals nearby, they noticed a tree shaking violently in the corner of the cemetery. It seemed to them that something or someone was trying to tear the tree off its roots. Instead of staying behind to find out what was going on, they fled as fast as they could.
The creature never reappeared, but it still fascinated those who loved mystery. The initial description of the half-dog, half-man has led many to believe that the werewolves were terrorizing the graveyard at the time of the sighting, including mystery researcher Andy McGrath, who thinks the creature may be the real deal.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="61" >1 Real-life horror story</h1>
Mysteries are often fun pastimes that can be carefully considered and debated.
But sometimes, real-life mysteries are so close to home that the only thing you want to do is hold your loved ones tight and never let them go. The world is full of evil people, and in the blink of an eye, they can change your life forever.
On February 11, 1927, 4-year-old William Gaffney had a great time with friends; a 3- and 12-year-old boy was in the hallway of his Brooklyn apartment building. The big boy walked into his apartment for a few minutes, and when he returned, William and the three-year-old boy disappeared.
After some searching, the three-year-old was found on the roof of the apartment building, but William was missing. The remaining toddler was asked, and he simply said that the "idiot" had taken William.
Later that day, a tram driver named Joseph Meehan saw an old man trying to calm a little boy down. The boy cried hysterically and said over and over again that he was going home to see his mother. Later, during an investigation into William's disappearance, Meehan realized that William was the 4-year-old he had seen that day. The boy was never found again.
Years later, during the trial of serial killer Albert Fish, Joseph Meehan suddenly realized that Fish was the man he had met with William on the day of his fate. Fish eventually confessed to murdering William, but refused to tell police where he buried him.
William Gaffney's family never received any form of closure because his remains were never found. To this day, his final resting place remains a mystery.