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There are still many unsolved mysteries in the world, despite all the development of science, technology, as well as numerous studies. Although it would seem that there should already be logical explanations for these mysterious things, as before, people can only guess what they are facing.

1. The rumble of Taos

In the small American town of Taos, you can often hear an incomprehensible hum that can be compared to the distant sound of a diesel engine. Although the sound can be perfectly heard with the naked ear, various sound devices are unable to capture it. Until now, no one knows where this sound comes from.

2. Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich manuscript was written in an incomprehensible language that people have been trying to decipher to no avail for centuries. The only thing that is clear in the manuscript is the drawings (but they also look like something unearthly).

3. Jack the Ripper

The name Jack the Ripper can be found in many series and films related to serial killers. He killed 11 women in east London in the late 1800s, but his identity was never revealed. Most of the victims of the maniac were prostitutes, whose bodies were mutilated beyond recognition, and their throats were cut.

4 Bermuda Triangle

The legendary Bermuda Triangle can be found between Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Pilots often say that their instruments fail in this place, and numerous ships have disappeared without a trace here. Although there are many theories, from bubbles of gas emanating from the bottom to aliens, no one knows what is behind the strange phenomena.

5. Letters of the Zodiac

During the 1960s and 1970s, a criminal was operating in the San Francisco Bay Area who became known as the Zodiac Killer through cryptic encrypted letters he sent to the police and the press. Despite the fact that one of the four letters was deciphered (any maniac or psychopath would envy its contents), the other three still remain a mystery.

6. Rongorongo

On mysterious island Easter, where the famous moai stand, a set of hieroglyphs was discovered, which was named Rongorongo. These symbols have never been deciphered, although they may contain clues as to who and why the huge stone heads all over the island.

7 Loch Ness Monster

For centuries people have heard about the monster of Loch Ness and how it is unlike any other creature. There have been many sightings of Nessie over the years, and a number of photos and videos have been taken. Even today, some argue, the monster exists and swims underwater.

8. Stonehenge

Stonehenge is one of the most famous and fascinating ancient structures in the world. The biggest mystery about it is not how it was created, but why.

9 Lost Atlantis

Whether Atlantis ever existed is still debated. But Plato was firmly convinced of its existence and mentioned Atlantis in his writings. But, according to a number of historians, today mysterious island together with magnificent city plunged into the depths of the ocean and no one has found them so far.

10. Aliens

UFO sightings all over the world. People have been wondering for centuries that humanity cannot be alone in an infinite universe. Although some claimed they were abducted, there is no evidence for this.

11. Signal "Wow!"

When Jerry Eyman worked on the SETI project at the Ohio University radio telescope, he never expected to be able to pick up a real signal coming from deep space. His equipment recorded a 72-second signal from the constellation Sagittarius. But since then no one has been able to catch him again.

12. D.B. cooper

When D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971, he received a ransom of $ 200,000. After that, he jumped out of the plane with a parachute. He was never found.

13. Nazca geoglyphs

The Nazca civilization created some of the most spectacular geoglyphs on Earth. The desert plateau features giant lines depicting spiders, monkeys, sharks, killer whales, flowers, and simply abstract patterns. Their accuracy is incredible, especially considering that the drawings can only be seen from an airplane, which the Nazca could not have done.

14. SS Ourang Medan

The Dutch case cargo ship Ourang Medan or "The Man from Medan" in Malaysia is perhaps one of the most fascinating and mind-boggling mysteries that has ever existed in the history of navigation. It all started with an SOS message in 1947 that said, “The captain and all officers lie dead in the cockpit and on the bridge. Maybe the whole team is dead." Further, the telegraph operator reported that he, too, was dying. When the Silver Star came to the rescue, it turned out that indeed the entire crew was dead for no apparent reason.

15. Ayud aluminum wedge

Back in 1974, a group of workers in Romania discovered three different objects while excavating a trench at a depth of 10 meters. Two of the objects were prehistoric elephant bones 2.5 million years old. The third object stunned everyone - it was aluminum wedge, which was found along with ancient bones.

Many people like to solve all sorts of riddles. And especially attract those of them that have not yet been solved. Ciphers, riddles and coded public messages tease us with their intrigue: why is this message encrypted? what great secrets can it hide in itself?

There are a great many such mysteries, but we decided - in the spirit of the times - to compile some Top 10 mysteries of the world that have not yet been solved.

The deciphered text pointed to the area where the treasure was located: Bedford County, Virginia, but its exact location appears to be encrypted in one of the remaining ciphers. Today, treasure hunters scour the (often illegally) hills of Bedford County for this untold treasure.

Many of the world's greatest minds have tried to decipher this code and failed, including Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin.

Due to the content of the poems of Omar Khayyam, many believe that this message was a posthumous note of some kind, but it still remains unsolved, as well as the case itself.

Jerry Eman wrote the word "Wow!" on the original printout of the signal, which is why it was called "Wow! Signal". All attempts to catch the signal again failed, leading to much debate about the nature of its origin and its meaning.

The letters were probably written as a way to tease journalists and the police, and although one letter (or rather, three fragments of it) was deciphered, the other three remain unsolved. The deciphered message suggests that in three months the Zodiac from a ready-made Aztec priest became a victim of his own addiction to homicide, tearfully begging to help him stop killing people (by putting him, for example, in a gas chamber). Also, Starliper's transcript ends with the sentence "My name is Lee Allen". By the way, the identity of the Zodiac himself has also never been established, the killer is not caught, although the murders of the Zodiac have not been identified since the 70s.

There is a version that these giant "letters" were also installed taking into account some astronomical considerations - hence, in fact, the name: "American Stonehenge".

The "tablets" were discovered in 1864 by Bishop E. Ayro, who claimed that these tablets were in almost every Aboriginal home, but the islanders could hardly read them. Two years later, almost all the tablets that E. Eiro saw died: either from his own hands, or during civil strife. It is believed that they were written in the Rapanui language. The last Rapanuian who knew Rongo-Rongo, Vike, died in 1866.

Since then, scientists from all over the world have been trying to decipher rongo-rongo. A significant contribution to the study was made by T. Bartel, Yu. V. Knorozov and N. A. Butinov, I. K. Fedorova and many others. However, there is no consensus even on the definition of the type of writing, let alone specific readings. The well-known theorist of grammar I. Gelb believed that this was not writing, but only magical drawings, arguing that his signs are so similar to each other, differing only in minor details, that an attempt to differentiate them encounters enormous difficulties.

Butinov and Knorozov prove that this is by no means a pictography, but a morphemic-syllabic writing. New Zealand researcher S.R. Fisher (in a 1997 monograph) believes that the tablets "for the most part reproduce the magical formula of fertilization, fixed in the later version of the creation of the world, and are built on the repetition of the producing formula: agent X combined with agent Y and gave birth to object (s) Z". According to the ironic characterization of linguists K.I. and I.K. Pozdnyakov, "it turns out a leapfrog, in which everyone copulates in the most incredible combinations."

1928

Over the village of Shuknavolok near Vedlozero (Karelia), they observed the passage of a cylindrical ten-meter body, from the tail of which a flame came out. Having broken through the ice of the lake, the mysterious object went under water. Since then locals they began to meet on the shore a strange big-headed creature a little more than a meter tall with thin arms and legs, which, when people appeared, dived back into the water. In the photo - Vedlozero (Karelia, Russia) today

1933

The first documented sighting of the monster Nessie in the Scottish Loch Ness. To date, about 4000 observations and meetings with him have been noted. A sonar survey of the entire volume of the lake in 1992 found 5 giant lizards.

1943

In October 1943, in the United States, in an atmosphere of extreme secrecy on the destroyer Eldridge, the Philadelphia experiment, which had no analogues in history, was carried out to create a warship invisible to enemy radars. As a result of the creation of a very strong magnetic field around the ship, the ship allegedly disappeared, and then instantly moved in space for several tens of kilometers. Of the entire crew, only 21 returned unharmed. 27 people literally fused with the structure of the ship, 13 died from burns, radiation, electric shock and fear.

1945

Mass invasion of UFOs in Queensland (Australia).

1945

The mysterious disappearance of the leaders of the Third Reich (Müller, Bormann and others). No remains found. The appearance of versions about their escape to latin america. The photo shows Martin Bormann and, presumably, his skull, whose ownership was disputed.

1947

On July 7, an unknown person crashed in Magdalena (New Mexico, USA) aircraft. Among the wreckage, 6 corpses of creatures similar to humans were allegedly found. In the photo - presumably one of the humanoids who died in a UFO crash in Roswell (New Mexico, USA), July 22, 1947

1952

July 1952 America is in shock. What is happening in the sky over Washington defies logical explanation and gives rise to the most incredible rumors. And the reason for this is the wave of UFO sightings that swept through the District of Columbia. Unidentified flying objects with enviable constancy appeared over Washington in the period from 12 to 26 July. In the photo: UFO squadron over the Capitol.

1955

In Hopkinsville (Kentucky, USA), after the explosion of a UFO, a small luminous man with huge eyes was seen for some time.

1955

An explosion of unknown nature that struck under the bottom of the battleship Novorossiysk on the night of October 29, 1955, claimed the lives of 608 sailors and officers. Huge ship capsized and sank in the Northern Bay of Sevastopol - in front of thousands of citizens.

1956

In August, a UFO chased a fighter for 20 minutes at a British air base, after which it disappeared into the air. The photo is believed to be a UFO. USA, California, 1957

1958

On December 14, the Youth of Yakutia newspaper wrote about a giant monster that lives in Lake Labynkyr. Local Yakut residents believe that some huge animal lives in the lake - the "Labynkyrsky Devil", as they call it. According to the descriptions of the Yakuts, this is something of a dark gray color with a huge mouth. The distance between the eyes of the "devil" is equal to the width of a raft of ten logs. According to the legend, the “devil” is very aggressive and dangerous, attacks people and animals, and is able to go ashore. In the photo - Lake Labynkyr (Oymyakonsky district of Yakutia, Russia)

1959

February 1 group experienced tourists under the leadership of Igor Dyatlov, she began climbing to the top of "1079" (Mountain of the Dead). We didn’t manage to get up before dark and pitched a tent right on the slope. We started to settle down for the night. And then something terrible happened ... As the investigators later established, having cut the wall of the tent with knives, the tourists in panic horror rushed to run down the slope. They ran, who was in what: in underwear, half-dressed, barefoot. Later, the corpses of all nine members of the group were found down the slope. Most died of hypothermia. Several people had terrible internal injuries, while the skin was not damaged. The cause of the tragedy is still unknown. The last shot of the Dyatlov group on the Mountain of the Dead:

1963

During the maneuvers of the US Navy off the coast of Puerto Rico, a moving object was noticed, developing an unprecedented speed for a ship - about 280 km / h.

1963

On November 22, 1963, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Despite the fact that Kennedy's killer - Lee Harvey Oswald was captured a few hours later, the true motives and customers of the most high-profile assassination of the 20th century have not yet been established.

1967

In the valley of Bluff Creek, a female "Bigfoot" was captured on film (the author of the film is Roger Patterson).

1968

The official date of the death of Yuri Gagarin. Few believed in his death. The soothsayer Vanga claimed that the first cosmonaut did not die, but "was taken."

1969

The landing of the Americans on the moon. The fact itself is still disputed. The version of falsification has many supporters.

1977

"Petrozavodsk miracle": on September 20 at 4 o'clock in the morning, a UFO in the form of a bright star, from which rays of red color departed, was seen over main street Petrozavodsk - Lenin street. The phenomenon was accompanied by a massive UFO sighting in northern regions USSR and Finland. Later, large holes with very sharp edges were found in the glass of the upper floors. Pictured is a copy of the only famous photo"Petrozavodsk Diva" - the stage of fiery rain and fig. V. Lukyants "Solovki" (magazine "Technology - Youth" No. 4, 1980)

1982

In the Tsemess Bay (Black Sea), on one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, all the clocks stopped on board. In the photo - Tsemesskaya Bay today

1986

On January 29, a UFO crashed near Dalnegorsk. In the photo - the crash site and part of the "exhibits" from the crash site: metal drops of various nature with holes inside, black vitreous particles weighing up to 30 mg, as well as loose scales in the form of a mesh of quartz fibers 30 microns thick, each of which is twisted from even thinner quartz flagella, each of which, in turn, is inserted with a gold thread.

1987

Mass suicide of 2000 dolphins - they threw themselves on the coast of Brazil. Pictured: pilot whale dolphins that washed ashore in New Zealand in 2009.

1989

140 whales died at south coast Chile. Mass suicide occurs for the fourth time.

1991

Explosion on April 12 in Sasovo ( Ryazan Oblast) when UFOs were observed over the city. Until now, anomalies have been recorded near the funnel - the reprogramming of calculators and the failure of electronic devices. In the photo - the place of the explosion in 91 and in our time.

1993

For 10 months, 48 ​​ships and more than 200 sailors have disappeared in the so-called "Pacific Triangle" near Western Micronesia.

1994

Near the Czech city of Celakovice, a "cemetery of vampires" was found - a strange burial site dating back to the end of the 10th - beginning of the 11th century. In 11 pits lay the remains of 13 people, bound with leather straps and with aspen stakes stuck in the heart. Some of the dead also had their hands and heads cut off. According to pagan beliefs and rituals, this was done with vampires who rise from their graves at night and drink human blood.

1996

In the Movil cave (Romania), a closed ecosystem was first discovered, not connected with the earth. 30 species of plants and animals (crustaceans, spiders, centipedes and insects) have been found here, living in isolation in the dark for 5 million years.

1996

A strange half-dead creature was discovered in a cemetery in the village of Kaolinovy ​​near Kyshtym by a lonely pensioner Tamara Vasilievna Prosvirina. The creature became known as the "Kyshtym dwarf". The creature ate human food and looked and smelled strange. The body length of the creature was approximately 30 cm, it had a torso, arms, legs, a head with a high frontal lobe, a mouth and eyes. The pensioner gave the creature a baby name - "Alyoshenka". "Alyoshenka" lived in the pensioner's house for about a month.

Alyoshenka was also seen by other people: Tamara Prosvirina's daughter-in-law, as well as some acquaintances. Subsequently, Tamara Prosvirina was placed in a psychiatric hospital due to an exacerbation of schizophrenia. In the end, the creature died, and the causes of death have not been finally established, among them death from improper feeding and lack of care, or murder under unclear circumstances, is most often indicated. Tamara Prosvirina died on August 5, 1999 - she was hit by two cars at night. At this time, representatives of the Japanese television company, who were filming documentary about this phenomenon. The house where the Kyshtym humanoid lived:

The creature's mummy was discovered in August 1996 by police captain Yevgeny Mokichev (pictured) during his investigation of the theft of an electric cable. The policeman who discovered the mummy handed it over to his colleague, Vladimir Bendlin, who began his own investigation into the origin and nature of the creature, but soon the mummy "Alyoshenka" disappeared under strange circumstances. Her whereabouts are currently unknown.

The world is full of mysteries and secrets. Some of them have been unraveled. But there are also such, reasonable explanation, which has not yet been found. Below is a list of ten unsolved mysteries of the world.

D. B. Cooper is the pseudonym of an unknown criminal who on November 24, 1971 hijacked a Boeing 727 with 42 passengers on board, flying from Portland to Seattle. After receiving a $200,000 ransom, he released the passengers, forced the pilots to take off, and bailed out. Despite an extensive investigation by the FBI, it was not possible to obtain any information about the whereabouts of the perpetrator, his real name and further fate. Of the ransom received, only $5,800 was found on the banks of a river in Washington State.
There are several theories regarding the circumstances of the crime and further fate D. B. Cooper. According to the FBI, Cooper died after the jump, but no physical evidence was found to support this theory. The terrorist act remains the only unresolved case of air piracy in American aviation history.

The Taman Shud case is an unsolved criminal case involving the murder of an unknown man who was found dead on December 1, 1948 on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. There were no visible wounds on the body of the deceased. In addition, an autopsy showed that before his death he was completely healthy. In the men's pockets, they found a bus ticket, chewing gum, cigarettes, coins, matches, and several other things. The greatest resonance was caused by a piece of paper discovered with him, torn from a copy of a very rare edition of Omar Khayyam, on which only two words were written - Tamam Shud (“Tamam Shud”). The investigation has so far failed to establish either the identity of the deceased, or to accurately determine the method of his killing.

Atlantis

One of the unsolved mysteries of the world is "Atlantis" - legendary island, perhaps a civilization (an archipelago or even a continent) whose existence and location are uncertain. The lost city became known thanks to the mentions and comments of the ancient Greek historians Herodotus, Posidonius, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Proclus. According to the records of the philosopher Plato, Atlantis was located to the west of Pillars of Hercules, opposite the mountains of Atlanta and was swallowed up by the sea in one day (probably by an earthquake or tsunami) in about 9500 BC. e. However, most modern historians believe that Atlantis is a typical philosophical myth.

The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious, undeciphered book written in the 15th century (1404-1438) by an unknown author in an unknown language using an unfamiliar alphabet. The thickness of the book is 5 cm, it contains about 240 pages, measuring 16.2 by 23.5 cm. During its existence, the manuscript was intensively studied by many professional cryptographers, including those recognized all over the world, and none of them managed to decipher a single word . There is a theory that this book is just a collection of meaningless random characters that make no sense, but there are those who believe that the manuscript is a ciphered message.

In sixth place in the ranking of unsolved mysteries of the world is the signal "Wow!" - a strong narrow-band space radio signal recorded by Dr. Jerry Eyman on August 15, 1977 while working on the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University. The anomaly lasted 72 seconds and never happened again. There are many versions explaining the origin of the signal. The most interesting of these is the theory that the signal was sent from an alien starship that was moving.

"Taos rumble"

"Taos hum" - unsolved anomalous sound phenomena coming from the desert near the city of Taos, New Mexico, USA. The sound is similar to the movement of heavy equipment on the highway, although there are no major roads in the area of ​​​​the town. It is interesting that only local residents hear it and extremely rarely visitors. The scientists who investigated it failed to find the source of the hum.
Similar phenomena have been known since the beginning of the 60s of the XX century and have been observed almost all over the world, but most often they hear it in North America, Europe and Australia. Sometimes "noises" are accompanied by other sounds, hissing, whistling, etc. With prolonged listening, they can cause headaches, dizziness, nausea, indigestion and other unpleasant sensations.

Loch Ness monster(Nessie) - a mysterious animal or group of animals supposedly living in the mysterious Scottish Loch Ness, the depth of which in some places reaches 250 meters. Numerous eyewitness accounts describe this mysterious creature as an animal 40 feet long, with four fins and a long neck with small tubercles, which occasionally appears on the surface of the lake. There are several theories explaining the nature of the alleged animal, one of them says that the Loch Ness Monster is nothing more than a plesiosaur that has survived to this day. Today, scientists can neither confirm nor deny its existence.

Amelia Mary Earhart is an American pilot, journalist, and poet. The first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. In 1937, while trying to make a round-the-world flight, Amelia went missing in the central part of Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Despite an immediately organized search and rescue operation, for which the US government spent about $ 4 million (the most expensive and massive operation in the history of the US Navy), no trace of either the aircraft or the pilot was found. The search for the famous female pilot continues today, but the mystery of the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, her navigator and the plane remains unsolved to this day.

Jack the Ripper - nickname, unknown serial killer(or assassins) operating in the Whitechapel area of ​​London in the second half of 1888. His victims were prostitutes from poor neighborhoods, mostly middle-aged, whose throats were slit by the killer before opening the abdominal cavity. The cutting out of some organs from the bodies of the victims was explained by the assumption that the killer had some knowledge of anatomy or surgery. However, all the names, the exact number of victims, as well as the identity of Jack the Ripper are still a mystery.

The first place in the list of unsolved mysteries of the world is occupied by the Bermuda Triangle - geographical area an area of ​​4 thousand km. sq. V Atlantic Ocean. Considered a place of many (over 100) unexplained disappearances ships, yachts and aircraft. To explain the mysterious accidents, most put forward various hypotheses from unusual weather phenomena, magnetic anomalies, giant rogue waves, to abductions by aliens or the inhabitants of Atlantis. Most famous case associated with bermuda triangle is the disappearance of five Avenger-class torpedo bombers. These aircraft took off on December 5, 1945 from the US Naval Forces base in Fort Lauderdale and did not return back. Their wreckage has never been found.