Shore of severed legs. Frightening unsolved mysteries

Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective story. But in detective stories, as you know, all secrets are revealed by the last page. And in these stories, the solution is still far away, although humanity has been puzzling over some of them for decades. Perhaps we are not destined to find clues for them at all? Or will the veil of secrecy be lifted someday? And what do you think?

43 missing Mexican students

In 2014, 43 students from the teacher training college from Ayotzinapa went to a demonstration in Iguala, where the mayor's wife was supposed to speak to the residents. The corrupt mayor has instructed the police to rid him of this problem. On his orders, the police detained the students, and as a result of the harsh detention, two students and three bystanders were killed. The rest of the students, as it turned out, were handed over to the local criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin torn from his face. Later, the remains of two more students were found. Relatives and friends of the students organized mass demonstrations, provoking a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends, and the chief of police tried to escape, but were apprehended a few weeks later. The provincial governor resigned, and dozens of policemen and officials were arrested. And only one thing remained a mystery - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.

Oak Island money pit

Off the coast of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territory, there is a small island - Oak Island, or Oak Island. There is the famous "money pit". According to legend, local residents found it back in 1795. This is a very deep and complex mine, in which, according to legend, countless treasures are hidden. Many tried to get there - but the design is insidious, and after the treasure hunter digs to a certain depth, the mine begins to be intensively flooded with water. They say that the daredevils found at a depth of 40 meters a stone tablet with a scrawled inscription: "Two million pounds are buried 15 meters deeper." More than one generation tried to get the promised treasure out of the pit. Even the future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his student years at Harvard, with a group of friends came to Oak Island to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there?

Who was Benjamin Kyle?

In 2004, an unidentified man woke up outside Burger King in Georgia. He had no clothes on, he did not have any documents, but the worst thing is that he did not remember anything about himself. I mean, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but could not find any traces: no missing people with such signs, no relatives who would identify him from a photo. Soon he was given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents and certificates of any education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a TV program, out of pity, gave him a job as a dishwasher. He works there now. The efforts of the doctors to awaken his memory, and the efforts of the police to find his former traces, did not yield results.

Shore of Severed Legs

Severed Leg Coast is the name given to a coast on the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia. He got this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 pieces have been found, most of them right. There are several theories to explain why feet wash up on this shore - natural disasters, the work of a serial killer ... some even claim that the mafia destroys the bodies of their victims on this remote beach. But none of these theories looks convincing, but no one knows where the truth is.

"Dancing Death" 1518

One day in the summer of 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began to dance in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she collapsed from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that gradually others joined her. A week later, 34 people were already dancing in the city, and a month later - 400. Many dancers died from overwork and heart attacks. The doctors did not know what to think, and the churchmen also could not exorcise the demons that inhabited the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one ever found out what caused it. They talked about some special kind of epilepsy, about poisoning, and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But scientists of that time did not find the exact answer.

Signal from aliens

On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was monitoring signals from space at the volunteer Extraterrestrial Research Center, picked up a signal on a random radio frequency that clearly came from deep space, from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This signal was much stronger than the cosmic noise that Eman was used to hearing on the air. It lasted only 72 seconds and consisted of a very specific, in the observer's opinion, completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was reproduced with accuracy several times in a row. Eman dutifully wrote down the sequence and reported it to his colleagues in the search for aliens. However, further listening to this frequency did not give anything, as well as any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. What it was - a prank of quite earthly pranksters or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to get in touch with us - still no one knows.

Stranger from Somerton Beach

And here is another perfect murder, the mystery of which has not yet been solved. December 1, 1948 in Australia, on Somerton Beach in South Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was found. He did not have any documents with him, only a note with two words was found in one of the pockets: “Taman Shud”. It was a line from Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat meaning "the end". The cause of death of the unknown could not be determined. The forensic investigator believed that it was poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed that it was about suicide, but this statement was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case excited not only Australia, but the whole world. They tried to establish the identity of the unknown in almost all countries of Europe and America, but the efforts of the police turned out to be in vain, and the history of Taman Shud remained shrouded in a veil of secrecy.

Treasures of the Confederates

This legend still haunts American treasure hunters - and not only them. According to legend, when the Northerners were already close to victory in the Civil War, the Treasurer of the Confederate government, George Trenholm, in desperation decided to deprive the victors of their legitimate booty - the treasury of the Southerners. This mission was personally undertaken by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. He and his guard left Richmond with a huge cargo of gold, silver and jewels. Where they went, no one knows, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, there were no jewels with him, and 4 tons of Mexican gold dollars also disappeared without a trace. Davis never revealed the secret of the gold. Some believe that he distributed it to the planters of the South, so that they buried it until better times, others that it was buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that a secret society of the Knights of the Golden Circle laid a paw on him, secretly preparing revenge in the Civil War. Some even say that the treasure is hidden at the bottom of the lake. Dozens of treasure hunters are still looking for him, but none of them can get to the bottom of money or the truth.

Voynich Manuscript

The enigmatic book, known as the Voynich Manuscript, is named after Wilfred Voynich, an American second-hand bookseller of Polish origin, who bought it from an unknown person in 1912. In 1915, having taken a closer look at the find, he told the whole world about it - and since then, many have not known peace. According to scientists, the manuscript was written in the XV-XVI centuries in Central Europe. The book contains a lot of text written in small handwriting, hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown to modern science. The signs of the zodiac, medicinal herbs are also drawn here, accompanied by a text, apparently, of recipes for their use. However, the content of the text is only the speculation of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language that is still unknown on Earth, moreover, it is almost impossible to decipher. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even after centuries.

Karst wells in Yamal

In July 2014, an inexplicable explosion was heard in Yamal, as a result of which a huge well appeared in the ground, the width and height of which reached 40 meters! Yamal is not the most populated place on the planet, so no one was hurt from the explosion and the appearance of the failure. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon required an explanation, and a scientific expedition set off to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful for studying the strange phenomenon, from geographers to experienced mountain climbers. However, when they arrived, they failed to understand the causes and nature of what had happened. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared on Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have been able to express only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal sinkholes remain a mystery.

Antikythera mechanism

Discovered by treasure hunters on a sunken ancient Greek ship at the beginning of the 20th century, this device, which at first seemed like just another artifact, turned out to be nothing less than the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze discs, made with precision and accuracy unthinkable in those days, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, the time according to different calendars and the dates of the Olympic Games. According to the results of the analyzes, the device was made at the turn of the millennium - about a century before the birth of Christ, 1600 years before the discoveries of Galileo and 1700 before the birth of Isaac Newton. This device was more than a thousand years ahead of its time and still amazes scientists.

sea people

The Bronze Age, which lasted approximately from the 35th to the 10th century BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations at once - Greek, Cretan, Canaan. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments, and tools became more complex. It seemed that humanity was advancing by leaps and bounds towards prosperity. But everything collapsed within a few years. The civilized peoples of Europe and Asia were attacked by a horde of "people of the sea" - barbarians on countless ships. They burned and destroyed cities and villages, burned food, killed and took people into slavery. After their invasion, ruins remained everywhere. Civilization was thrown back at least a thousand years ago. In the once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, many secrets of construction and work with metals were lost. The most mysterious thing is that after the invasion, the "sea people" disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. Scientists are still guessing who and where this people came from and what was their fate. But there is no clear answer to this question yet.

Murder of the "Black Dahlia"

Books were written about this legendary murder and films were made, but it was not possible to unravel it. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Her naked body was subjected to cruel abuse: it was practically cut in half and bore traces of many mutilations. At the same time, the body was washed clean and completely devoid of blood. This story was widely disseminated by journalists, giving Short the nickname "black dahlia". Despite an active search, the police could not find the killer. The Black Dahlia case is considered one of the oldest unsolved murders in Los Angeles.

Motor ship "Ourang Medan"

In early 1948, the Dutch ship Ourang Medan gave an SOS signal while in the Mallak Strait off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and ended with the chilling words: "And I'm dying." The captain of the ship "Silver Star", having heard a distress signal, went in search of "Ourang Medan". Having discovered the ship in the Strait of Malacca, the sailors from the Silver Star boarded and saw that it was indeed full of corpses, and the cause of death was not visible on the bodies. Soon, the rescuers noticed suspicious smoke coming from the hold and, just in case, preferred to return to their ship. And they did the right thing, because soon the Ourang Medan spontaneously exploded and sank. Of course, because of this, the possibility of investigation became zero. Why the crew died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.

Baghdad Battery

Until recently, it was believed that mankind mastered the production and use of electric current only at the end of the 18th century. However, an artifact found by archaeologists in the region of ancient Mesopotamia in 1936 casts doubt on this conclusion. The device consists of a clay pot containing the battery itself: an iron core wrapped in copper, which is believed to have been filled with some kind of acid, after which it began to generate electricity. For many years, archaeologists have been arguing about whether the devices were really related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they assembled the same primitive products - and managed to get an electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to arrange electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since there are no written sources of that era, this mystery will now probably haunt scientists forever.

On the coast of the Salish Sea, washing the shores of Canada and the United States, a married couple found a sneaker washed ashore with a severed leg inside it. At the same time, this discovery was not news to the police, as it was the 16th case since 2007. Moreover, almost all shoes with legs inside were right-handed.

To the shores of the Salish Sea, which is located between the southwestern part of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the northwestern part of the state of Washington in the United States, for the past nine years, the water has carried shoes with human flesh inside.

“When we noticed him, we looked at him for about five minutes. And, it looks like it contained a part of a human body with a bone inside, ”said Charlotte Stevens.

Doctors confirmed that the sneaker really contains human flesh. At the same time, it was difficult to determine how long the leg was in the water and where its “journey” began, since the sea flows into the Pacific Ocean and has many straits.

Thanks to the fact that it was possible to identify the brands of shoes, it became clear that this model was released in the spring of 2013, says police officer Matt Brown.

“Therefore, I think it is logical to search for the missing person from about March 2013 to December 2015,” he said.

In this case, the police are considering a variety of motives for the crime.

"The options range from the tsunami that happened in 2004 to crimes committed by drug dealers, serial killers or human traffickers," he added.

However, suicide remains the main version. The British Columbia police reported that, according to the results of examinations, most of the owners of the found legs turned out to be mentally ill. Criminologist Gale Anderson suggested that all these people are thrown off bridges to commit suicide.

“These people were crushed. They wanted to disappear from this world on purpose by jumping off bridges,” he told The Daily Beast.

However, there is no official version of the ongoing events yet. The police are still trying to figure out why all the victims are wearing sports shoes, and only right feet come to the coast.

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43 missing Mexican students

Oak Island money pit

Who was Benjamin Kyle?

Shore of Severed Legs

"Dancing Death" 1518

Signal from aliens

Stranger from Somerton Beach

Treasures of the Confederates

Voynich Manuscript

Karst wells in Yamal

Antikythera mechanism

sea people

Murder of the "Black Dahlia"

Motor ship "Ourang Medan"

Baghdad Battery

Canadian police can't catch a mysterious killer who has been throwing people's right feet on the beach in sneakers for 10 years!

Our planet has many such secrets, the solution of which is not given to humanity to comprehend. Some of them are simply amazing, while others are frighteningly terrible. For example, Canada's Floating Legs Beach has been terrorizing local residents since 2007 and calling into question the competence of the police.

Scary finds in British Columbia

10 years ago, the Salish Sea made the first terrible "gift" to the coast of the island of Dzhededia. The right foot was nailed to the Beach in an Adidas sneaker, which was released for sale in 2003, as experts later found out. Then no one thought about the mystical nature of the find: the foot turned out to be male, its owner was quickly identified. Relatives of the man admitted that he suffered from a serious depressive disorder and repeatedly tried to commit suicide, and apparently succeeded this time. Forensic experts confirmed that the foot in the sneaker could easily separate from the body from a long stay in the water. The case was closed in five days, but the next morning the police were in for a new surprise ...

On August 26, 2007, an animal washed the right foot of a man wearing a 2004 white Reebok sneaker out of the water. This time, its owner was mentally healthy and was not going to take his own life. No traces of violent death were found on the foot, the body of the man has not yet been found. Approximately once every 4-5 months, the mysterious appearance of feet in sneakers on the coast of Canada is repeated.

One of the 16 recorded cases of finding feet in sneakers attracted the greatest interest from the press and the police. Fisherman Winston Ross was walking along Falls Creek before dinner at a restaurant in downtown Vancouver when he noticed a sneaker floating in the water in a ball of seaweed with the remains of a foot. A detailed examination showed that the leg belonged to a local fisherman who went missing in 1987.

During all this time, the left foot in shoes appeared on the beach only once. She was found on November 11, 2008, 4 months after the discovery of the right female foot. It is known that the first discovery led the relatives of the deceased to the idea of visiting a psychic, who during the session said that another part of the missing body would soon be found, which would become evidence of her death.

Who is responsible for the severed legs on the Beach?

None of the 16 episodes of gruesome finds at Severed Leg Beach in Canada involved at least one defendant. The police have no leads and no way to find out where the leg came from. 4 streams flow into the Salish Sea in this area, so severed legs can swim from anywhere.

As for the versions about their appearance, the main one is considered to be a mentally unhealthy maniac operating in the district. But it does not have any explanations and evidence, because the time spent by severed legs in the water varies significantly, as well as the circumstances of their discovery. The unreliability of such an assumption by the police is noticeable in the incident with the disappearance of a fisherman in 1987. Did a serial killer keep a leg for 20 years, only to later throw it into the sea?

However, scientists have another hypothesis - supposedly feet on the beach continue to arrive due to the tsunami that occurred in 2004 in the Indian Ocean, during which thousands of innocent people died. Of course, this explains the fact that all the sneakers found were made before 2004, but it does not fit in at all with the disappearance of local residents and the strange “sample” on the subject of shoes - after all, not a single foot was found in ballet flats, sandals or shoes with heels! Who or what has a passion for killing people in sneakers?

Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective story. But in detective stories, as you know, all secrets are revealed by the last page. And in these stories, the solution is still far away, although humanity has been puzzling over some of them for decades. Perhaps we are not destined to find clues for them at all? Or will the veil of secrecy be lifted someday? And what do you think?

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"Dancing Death" 1518

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On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was monitoring signals from space at the volunteer Extraterrestrial Research Center, picked up a signal on a random radio frequency that clearly came from deep space, from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This signal was much stronger than the cosmic noise that Eman was used to hearing on the air. It lasted only 72 seconds and consisted of a very specific, in the observer's opinion, completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was reproduced with accuracy several times in a row. Eman dutifully wrote down the sequence and reported it to his colleagues in the search for aliens. However, the most distant listening to this frequency yielded nothing, as well as any attempts to catch at least some signal from the Sagittarius constellation. What it was - a prank of quite earthly pranksters or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to get in touch with us - still no one knows.

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