Strange inexplicable terrible phenomena and incidents. The most mysterious and inexplicable cases of disappearances of people (20 photos)
The history of human civilization reliably keeps many secrets, many of which will never be solved. But the last two centuries have presented the world with many mysteries that researchers are puzzling over. The most mysterious incidents in the world of the XX-XXI century - let's talk today about ten secrets of the modern history of mankind.
10. Crop circle
The most mysterious incidents in the world are mysterious. These are various geometric shapes formed by crushed plants in agricultural fields. The drawings are created perfectly evenly and can form complex pictograms. Their size varies: they can be small and huge, fully visible only from an airplane. They began to cause great attention in the 1970s in England. In 1972, in the south of the country, two eyewitnesses, watching the sky on a moonlit night in the hope of seeing a UFO, noticed how the grass in the field died, forming a circle. The peak of interest in the mysterious phenomenon came in the 1990s. The earliest references to the appearance of such pictograms (drawings) in the margins date back to the 17th century.
Hypotheses of the origin of crop circles are put forward by a variety of: the activities of an alien civilization, micro-tornadoes, ball lightning and hoaxes of interested parties. So, the British David Chorley and Douglas Bauer admitted in 1991 that the appearance of the first circles was their work. They claim that they have created about 250 pictograms since 1978. But many continue to believe that the mysterious phenomenon of amazing crop drawings is not a hoax, but unsolved messages from mysterious forces. Crop circles - in 10th place among the most mysterious incidents on Earth.
9. The fall of the Tunguska meteorite
June 30, 1908 at 7 am in the area of Podkamennaya Tunguska (right tributary of the Yenisei, Central Siberia) locals witnessed the flight of a celestial body that left a trail behind it, like a falling meteorite. The sound of the fall was heard at a distance of more than a thousand kilometers from the crash site. A powerful shock wave knocked down trees within a radius of 30 kilometers. This mysterious incident became known to the world as. But what kind of object exploded in the Podkamennaya Tunguska area, and whether it was really a meteorite, is still unknown. Thousands of researchers have been studying this phenomenon for over a year. Numerous hypotheses have been put forward, none of which has been documented. The famous Tunguska meteorite, the mystery of which has never been revealed, is in 9th place in the list of the most mysterious incidents in the world.
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It is also connected with space, which caused a huge resonance in the world. In 1947, near the city of Roswell, a catastrophe allegedly occurred - the fall of a cosmic body of artificial origin. This incident has become one of the most mysterious incidents in the world. There is still fierce debate about the nature of the fallen object. The authorities, represented by the country's air force, claim that there was a crash of a weather balloon, which the locals mistook for the wreckage of a UFO. The Roswell incident is number eight on our list.
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The mysterious disappearance of the ship's crew is in seventh place among the most mysterious incidents in the world. In 1872, a sailing ship was found by an English brig. According to the trajectory of movement, it was clear that no one was controlling it. Not a single crew member or passenger was found on board. Things were not touched, the supply of water and provisions - too. From the entry in the logbook it followed that the ship had reached almost the point where it was found. What happened to the crew is still unknown. The commission investigating the case suggested that for some reason the crew left the ship, leaving all their belongings and provisions. There was simply no other explanation for what happened.
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Many mysterious incidents are connected with crimes. The most famous history- the Jack the Ripper case, which was never solved. The 20th century has contributed to the history of serial killers. From 1918 to 1919, a criminal was active in New Orleans, nicknamed "The Woodcutter". The murder weapon was an ax, with which the maniac broke open the doors of the victims' houses. Like Jack the Ripper, the Woodcutter wrote letters to newspapers reporting future murders. The crimes suddenly stopped, and the identity of the Woodcutter was never established. The New Orleans Murder Mystery is the sixth most mysterious incident in the world.
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The most mysterious stories in the world include a criminal case about the discovery in 1948 of the body of an unidentified man on the beach of Adelaide (Australia). The case received a great public outcry due to a number of reasons: it was not possible to establish either the identity of the unknown person or the cause of death. In addition, a piece of paper with a strange inscription "Taman Shud" was found in a secret pocket of his trousers. As it turned out, the paper was torn from a rare edition of the works of Omar Khayyam. A mysterious story that happened on the beach in Somerton - in the fifth place of the most mysterious incidents in the world. This incident inspired Stephen King to write The Colorado Kid.
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In fourth place among the most mysterious incidents in the world is history "Kyshtym dwarf". In 1996, an elderly woman in a village near Kyshtym discovered a living creature of an unknown biological species. Outwardly, it looked like a small humanoid - about 30 centimeters in length. The woman called him Alyoshenka and nursed him for about a month. Then the creature died. His mummified remains were later discovered by the police. Then the body of the "Kyshtym dwarf" mysteriously disappeared.
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- in third place in the list of the most amazing and mysterious incidents in the world. Since the 1970s, a program has been launched in the United States to search for extraterrestrial civilizations. For this, a radio telescope was used to scan different parts of the sky. Scientists with its help were endowed with detecting signals of other civilizations. In 1977, a signal from the constellation Sagittarius was received at a frequency on which no terrestrial transmitter operates. It lasted 37 seconds. Its origin is still unknown.
2. Ship "Marlboro"
The story of the new "Flying Dutchman" ranks second among the most mysterious incidents in the world. The ship left the port in New Zealand in 1890 with a cargo of frozen lamb. He did not reach his destination, disappearing in the area of Cape Horn. There were 23 crew members and several passengers on board. It was decided that the sailboat sank during a storm. But after 23 years, he appeared off the coast of Tierra del Fuego. It was well preserved, and skeletons in decayed clothes were found on board. True, there were ten fewer of them than were listed in the logbook. What happened to the crew, why people died and where ten people disappeared from the sailboat is unknown. Due to bad weather, the ship could not be brought to port. "Marlboro" still plows the sea.
55 22Sometimes inexplicable things happen in the world, disturbing the minds of ordinary people and scientists.
Millions of people are ready to give a lot to get an answer about the nature of these incidents.
We have collected 9 mysteries of history, many of which will never be solved.
Signal "Wow!"
The signal "Wow!", Or in the official translation "Wow!", is a radio signal registered in 1977 by Jerry Eyman (Jerry R. Ehman) as part of the SETI project (the common name for projects to search for extraterrestrial civilizations).
The scientist circled the signs with a red pencil and wrote “Wow!” next to it. - so he was amazed at how exactly the characteristics of the signal coincided with the expected characteristics of the theoretical signal from extraterrestrial civilizations.
Unfortunately, the signal was no longer repeated. Astronomers suggest that its source could be hydrogen around the nuclei of comets 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2. However, this version is yet to be tested.
Crop Circles
The various figures formed by crushed plants in the fields are another mystery of history. The drawings are created perfectly evenly and can be whole pictograms. There are about 9,000 circle reports worldwide, 90% from England.
In 1991, Britons Dave Chorley and Doug Bower admitted that they had created hundreds of circles with rope and a stick. Now they have a lot of followers. It would seem that the mystery has been solved, but what about the fact that crop circles appeared back in the 19th century? For example, the first official mention of them is the 1678 English pamphlet The Devil Mower.
There is a version that the figures are created by small whirlwinds that crush plants. Such eddies are often found in the hilly regions of the UK.
Missing crew of the Mary Celeste
In 1872, a sailing ship was found 400 miles from Gibraltar with no one on board. Things, provisions and water supplies were not touched.
According to the main hypothesis, the cause of the tragedy was the leakage of barrels of alcohol. Alcohol vapors exploded in the confined space of the holds. The captain, fearing another explosion, ordered the crew to temporarily transfer to the boat and sail to a safe distance, maintaining contact with the ship using a cable. The launching of the boat and the abandonment of the ship, apparently, took place in an atmosphere of panic. When everyone got into the boat, the changed wind filled the sails of the brigantine, it quickly picked up speed, and the boat overloaded with people remained in place (the cable connecting it with the brigantine broke). The storm sank the boat with all the people.
Disappearance of the Roanoke Colony
Under Queen Elizabeth I, one of the first permanent English settlements was founded in North America- Roanoke Colony. There were approximately 90 men, 17 women and 11 children in it.
The colony disappeared without a trace, leaving only the word "Croatoan" carved on a tree - the name of one of the Indian tribes that inhabited those places.
According to the most logical hypothesis, the colonists met the natives, who knew much better how to get food and survive in the wild. Therefore, the settlers decided to join the Croatoans. According to other versions, the colonists were taken prisoner by local tribes or the Spaniards.
The fall of the Tunguska meteorite
On June 30, 1908, a fiery body flew over central Siberia. Its flight was observed in many settlements, thunderous sounds were heard. Then it exploded: the force of the explosion was such that the blast wave was recorded by observatories around the world. Over 2,000 square meters of trees were felled. km, windows were shattered in houses several hundred kilometers from the epicenter.
Three days before the event, unusual atmospheric phenomena were observed in Europe and Siberia: noctilucent clouds, bright twilight. But not a single expedition discovered the remains of a meteorite.
According to the main hypotheses, the Earth collided with an icy meteorite or comet nucleus, which consisted of ice and collapsed in the atmosphere. There is an interesting version that it was Tesla's experiment with wireless transmission of electricity.
The Strange Case of Michael Boatwright
In 2013, 61-year-old Florida resident Michael Boatwright was found unconscious. His documents confirmed his identity, but when he woke up, he did not recognize himself in the mirror, spoke Swedish and considered himself a Swede named Johan Ek. He lost his memory and forgot how to speak English.
Not everyone believed Boatwright, they tried to catch him on knowledge of English, but he never pierced. It is worth saying that he knew a little Swedish before, but after amnesia he began to speak very clearly.
Probably, Boatwright's condition is an example of a dissociative fugue - a disease when a person suddenly forgets all information about himself, down to his name. Such patients may move to another place, come up with a different name and biography, and not know that they are sick. The cause is usually psychic trauma. The fugue is protective in nature, because it gives the patient the opportunity to get away from his problems. But how did Michael learn Swedish?
Washington carousel
It is considered the most well-documented case of UFO sighting. On July 19, 1952, the Washington Airport radar spotted a group of 7 randomly flying objects. They were moving at a speed of 2,000 km/h. The country's leadership sent fighter jets to intercept. Noticing their approach, the UFOs hid, but soon returned again.
Could the incident be a US government hoax or an invasion? aircraft other states is still unknown. What it was, until now, neither scientists nor the military can say.
Finding the Patomsky crater
The crater was discovered in Siberia in 1949. The local population calls it "the nest of the fiery eagle". By size and appearance it looks like a lunar crater from a meteorite impact, its height is about 40 m.
Currently, the meteorite hypothesis is not supported by research. The crater is probably of volcanic origin, but no traces of lava have been found.
The mystery of the death of the Dyatlov group
One of the most mysterious and discussed cases in history. It happened in the winter of 1959 in the USSR, on the pass, which was later named after Dyatlov, the leader of the deceased group.
For some unknown reason, while spending the night on the mountainside, a group consisting of experienced tourists, cut the tent from the inside and quickly left it. People descended without warm clothes and shoes down the slope to 1,500 m, where they died. Several people from the group had severe injuries.
There are many hypotheses: an avalanche, a domestic quarrel, a test of a secret weapon, problems with the local population, and even the involvement of the KGB. None of them agree with the evidence.
There are mysterious cases in the history of mankind that are very difficult to explain even from the point of view of a scientific approach, since there are many variants of assumptions about something ambiguous, for example, the death of the Dyatlov tourist group.
But if you use Occam's razor and cut off everything superfluous, then the picture immediately becomes clear and no longer looks so mystical.
The death of the Dyatlov group
In January 1959, 9 young tourists - students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnic Institute went on a hike in the north Sverdlovsk region. The campaign was led by a fifth-year student Igor Dyatlov. The ultimate goal of this trip was Mount Otorten (which in Mansi means “do not go there”), which the tourists had to conquer and return back. However, the tourists did not return. 
On February 26, a tent of tourists, cut from the inside, was found on the slope of Mount Kholat-Syakhl (“mountain of the dead”). Judging by the contents of the tent, it was suddenly abandoned by all the tourists - things, shoes, money and food of tourists were found there. Subsequently, the bodies of all 9 participants in the campaign were found.
It turned out that some of them died from hypothermia, while others from numerous injuries. Most of the bodies were found poorly dressed and without shoes. In addition, one of the tourists was speechless and some of her clothing contained radioactive substances. The criminal case was closed with the conclusion that the reason for the death of the tourists was "an elemental force, which they were unable to overcome." 
In recent years, this story has become an internet sensation. Many versions have appeared, and many home-grown "researchers" are inclined to such exotic causes of the death of the "Dyatlovites" as aliens, ghosts, and even Bigfoot.
Simple explanation:
7 mysterious factors in this story excite the minds of people: the absence of a tongue in one of the corpses, a strange orange skin tone in the corpses, a tent cut from the inside, the absence of warm clothes from the deceased, injuries that were found only in three tourists and, of course, traces of radioactivity on the clothes of the dead. In addition, according to some accounts, on the very night that the tourists died, fireballs appeared in the sky, which were seen by more than one person.
Recall that the bodies of tourists were found a few weeks after the death (presumably, judging by the diaries found, the "Dyatlovites" died on the night of February 1-2). Four bodies were found only in May, after the snows began to melt. Wild animals begin to eat the corpse from the softest parts - in this case, the tongue. The orange hue of the bodies could be formed from the fact that the bodies, surrounded by snow, lay in the sun for a long time.
Injuries to tourists and the cutting of the tent can be explained by the fact that an avalanche descended on the tent. The tourists cut open the tent and fled from it without having time to put on their shoes and get dressed. In addition, freezing people sometimes, instead of getting dressed, undress - this is due to the fact that a freezing person's brain function is disrupted. As for radioactivity and "fireballs", nothing is said about this in the original documents. It seems that all this was thought out by people who love sensations.
In general, nothing indicates that anything more than an accident happened to the Dyatlovites. Supporters of mystical and conspiracy theories do not want to put up with this and are looking for new evidence that the "Dyatlovites" were killed not by "elemental force", but by something else, much more interesting.
Disappearance of the Roanoke Colony
The Roanoke Colony was either the first permanent settlement in North America, or a well-thought-out bad prank. Sir Walter Raleigh, who funded the colony, sent settlers there and left them there to fend for themselves without any food supplies, most likely just to see if they survived or not.
However, something happened that no one expected - the colony simply disappeared. The second group of settlers found only one skeleton and the mysterious word "croatoan" carved into a tree.
What happened to the colony? Maybe aliens or other mysterious creatures stole the settlers?
Simple explanation:
UFOs or ghosts have nothing to do with it. Just abandoned to the mercy of fate, the guys met with the natives of the Croatoan tribe, who knew much better than the settlers how to get food and how to live on this island in general. Therefore, they made a very reasonable decision - to leave their colony and join the Croatoans.
Mysterious creatures in Hopkinsville 
In 1955, the Sutton family dined on their front porch with family friend Billy Ray Taylor. Billy went to drink water from the well ... It was then that the mysterious events began, which are still being talked about. Billy ran back to the verandah, shouting about strange fires blazing in the sky, and invited the Suttons to look at this miracle. The Suttons ran into the courtyard, but instead of heavenly lights, they saw in the courtyard houses strange luminous creatures with a large head, large ears, luminous eyes and long arms. Seeing the humanoids, the Suttons tried to kill them with a gun, but the creatures, instead of dying, simply disappeared into the darkness.
Simple explanation:
The Suttons not only described the creatures, but also drew them. It must be said that the heads of these creatures surprisingly resemble the head of an ordinary night owl. And given that the Suttons drank a lot that evening and were frightened, one can imagine what their imagination painted.
Mad gas man or gas maniac 
In the early 30s, residents of two American towns were subjected to strange attacks: some man, later nicknamed "the mad gasman", poisoned people's houses with poisonous gas, spraying it through the windows, sometimes even building barricades so that the victims could not get out of the poisoned room. The victims of these attacks complained of weakness and sore throats. These events sowed real panic among the population.
Naturally, an official investigation into these events began. Some victims claimed to have seen a "gas maniac", but they all described the "mad gas man" in completely different ways. Someone said that it was a man, someone said that it was a woman, the maniac seemed thin to someone, full to someone .... In general, if you collect all the descriptions together, then there is hardly a person on earth who would not fall under at least one of these descriptions. The “Mad Gasman” was never caught, but the story was overgrown with rumors and huge amount versions, sometimes completely implausible.
Simple explanation:
Two weeks after the start of the investigation, Thomas Wright, a member of the Health Commission, stated: “There is no doubt that the “gas maniac” actually exists and that he really carried out a series of attacks. However, many claims of attacks are nothing more than mass hysteria. The whole city is sick with hysteria."
But the head of the local police said that no gas maniac does not exist at all. It's just that some people heard a noise outside the window, opened the window, smelled a strange smell and spread rumors about a gas maniac. It is worth considering that there were many enterprises polluting the air in the city.
However, these statements did not reassure people. Reports of gas attacks continued to come in, however, none of them were confirmed.
Most likely, the "gas maniac" actually existed. Researchers say the maniac was eventually identified as a student at a local medical school who actually sprayed the gas through the windows a couple of times, leading to mass hysteria. When asked why he did it, he replied that he was just crazy.
Skull of Starchild (Starchild) 
In 1930, an unusually shaped skull was found in an abandoned mine. Experts have determined that the skull is about 900 years old. Fans of everything paranormal immediately declared that the skull belongs to an alien, or another mysterious creature. This skull was not discussed only by the lazy, and of course, it seemed much more interesting to many to consider this skull as part of a mysterious creature than to look for simple explanations. However, a simple explanation does exist.
Simple explanation:
For some reason, most ufologists believe that aliens are similar to people (two eyes, a mouth, a nose), with slight differences (well, for example, they may have a different skin color or eyes of a different size). But why should beings from other planets, whose conditions are not at all similar to earthly ones, be similar to people? However, some researchers agree that aliens do not have to be like us at all, so they say that the "Starchild", whose skull was found in the mine, is the fruit of the love of a dugout and an alien.
However, researchers who are not inclined to search for the mysterious and paranormal say that the skull belonged to little child aged 3 to 5 years. Obviously, the child suffered from malformations, which are the cause of the strange shape of the skull. There are a large number of diseases that lead to skull deformity - why have riddle lovers forgotten about this?
These days, it's quite difficult to completely hide your personal data, because all you need to do is type a few words in search engine- and secrets are revealed, and secrets come to the surface. With the development of science and the improvement of technology, the game of hide and seek is becoming increasingly difficult. It used to be easier, of course. And there are many examples in history when it was impossible to find out what kind of person he was and where he came from. Here are some of these mysterious cases.
15. Kaspar Hauser
May 26, Nuremberg, Germany. 1828. A teenager of about seventeen wanders aimlessly through the streets, clutching a letter addressed to Commander von Wessenig in his hand. The letter states that the boy was taken to school in 1812, taught to read and write, but he was never allowed "to take a single step out the door." It was also said that the boy should become "a cavalryman like his father" and the commander could either accept him or hang him.
After meticulous inquiries, they managed to find out that his name was Kaspar Hauser and he spent his whole life in a "blackened cage" 2 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.5 meters high, in which there were only an armful of straw and three toys carved from wood (two horses and dogs). A hole was made in the floor of the cell so that he could relieve himself. The foundling hardly spoke, could not eat anything but water and black bread, he called all people boys, and all animals - horses. The police tried to find out where he came from and who the criminal was, what made the boy a savage, but this was never found out. For the next few years, some people took care of him, then others, taking him into their house and caring for him. Until December 14, 1833, Kaspar was found stabbed in the chest. A purple silk purse was found nearby, and in it was a note made in such a way that it could only be read in a mirror image. She said:
"Hauser will be able to describe to you exactly how I look and where I came from. In order not to bother Hauser, I want to tell you myself where I _ _ I came from _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ on the river _ _ I'll even tell you the name: M .L.O."
14. Green Children of Woolpit
Imagine that you live in the 12th century in the small village of Woolpit in the English county of Suffolk. While harvesting in the field, you find two children huddled in an empty wolf hole. Children speak an incomprehensible language, dressed in indescribable clothes, but the most interesting thing is their green skin. You take them to your house where they refuse to eat anything but green beans.
After a while, these children - brother and sister - begin to speak a little English, eat not only beans, and their skin gradually loses its green tint. The boy falls ill and dies. The surviving girl explains that they came from "St. Martin's Land", an underground "world of dusk" where they looked after their father's cattle, and then they heard a noise and ended up in a wolf den. Inhabitants underworld are green and dark all the time. There were two versions: either this is a fairy tale, or the children ran away from the copper mines.
13. Somerton Man
On December 1, 1948, on Somerton Beach in the town of Glenelg (a suburb of Adelaide) in Australia, the police discovered the body of a man. All the labels from his clothes were cut off, he had neither documents nor a wallet, and his face was clean-shaven. Even the teeth could not be identified. That is, there were no clues at all.
After the autopsy, the pathologist concluded that "death could not have occurred due to natural causes" and suggested poisoning, although no traces of toxic substances were found in the body. In addition to this hypothesis, the doctor could not suggest anything more about the cause of death. Perhaps the most mysterious thing in this whole story was that a piece of paper was found with the deceased, torn from a very rare edition of Omar Khayyam, on which only two words were written - Tamam Shud ("Tamam Shud"). These words are translated from Persian as "finished" or "completed". The victim remained unidentified.
12. Man from Taured
In 1954, in Japan, at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, thousands of passengers were hurrying about their business. However, one passenger did not seem to take part in this. For some reason, this outwardly perfectly normal man in a business suit attracted the attention of airport security, he was stopped and began to ask questions. The man answered in French, but was also fluent in several other languages. His passport had seals from many countries, including Japan. But this man claimed to have come from a country called Taured, located between France and Spain. The problem was that on none of the maps offered to him there was any Taured in this place - Andorra was located there. This fact greatly saddened the man. He said that his country had existed for centuries and that he even had its stamps in his passport.
The discouraged airport staff left the man in hotel room with two armed guards outside the door, while they themselves tried to find more information about this man. They didn't find anything. When they returned to the hotel for him, it turned out that the man had disappeared without a trace. The door did not open, the guards did not hear any noise and movement in the room, and he could not leave through the window - it was too high. Moreover, all the belongings of this passenger disappeared from the airport security service.
The man, simply put, dived into the abyss and did not return.
11. Lady Granny
The 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy spawned many conspiracy theories, and one of the most mystical details of this event is the presence in the photographs of a certain woman, who was dubbed Lady Grandmother. This woman in a coat and sunglasses got into a bunch of pictures, moreover, they show that she had a camera and she was filming what was happening.
The FBI tried to find her and identify her, but to no avail. The FBI later approached her to provide her videotape as evidence, but no one ever came. Just think: this woman, in broad daylight, in full view of at least 32 witnesses (whom she was photographed and videotaped), witnessed and filmed the murder, and yet no one could identify her, not even the FBI. She has remained a secret.
10. D. B. Cooper
It happened on November 24, 1971 in international airport Portland, where a man who bought a ticket under the documents in the name of Dan Cooper, boarded a plane bound for Seattle clutching a black briefcase. After takeoff, the Cooper handed the flight attendant a note saying that he had a bomb in his briefcase and his demands were $200,000 and four parachutes. The flight attendant notified the pilot, who contacted the authorities.
After landing at the Seattle airport, all passengers were released, the Cooper's demands were met and an exchange was made, after which the plane took off again. As it flew over Reno, Nevada, the imperturbable Cooper ordered all personnel on board to stay where they were, while he himself opened the passenger door and jumped out into the night sky. In spite of big number witnesses who could identify him, "Cooper" were never found. Only a small portion of the money was found - in a river in Vancouver, Washington.
9. 21-faced monster
In May 1984, a Japanese food corporation called "Ezaki Glico" ran into a problem. Its president, Katsuhiza Ezaki, was kidnapped for ransom right from his home and held for some time in an abandoned warehouse, but then he managed to escape. A little later, the company received a letter stating that the products were poisoned with potassium cyanide and there would be victims if all products were not immediately recalled from food warehouses and stores. The company's losses amounted to $21 million, 450 people lost their jobs. The unknown - a group of people who took the name "21-faced monster" - sent mocking letters to the police, who could not find them, and even gave clues. Another message said that they "forgave" Glico and the persecution stopped.
Not satisfied with playing with one large corporation, the Monster organization has its eyes on others: Morinaga and a few other food companies. They acted according to the same scenario - they threatened to poison the products, but this time they demanded money. During a failed money exchange operation, a police officer almost managed to grab one of the criminals, but still missed him. Superintendent Yamamoto, in charge of investigating the case, could not bear the shame and committed suicide by setting himself on fire.
Shortly thereafter, "Monster" sent his final message to the media, poking fun at the death of a police officer and ending with "We're the bad guys. It means we have more to do than harass companies. Being bad is fun. Monster with 21 faces." . And nothing more was heard from them.
8. The Man in the Iron Mask
The "man in the iron mask" had the number 64389000, according to prison records. In 1669, a minister of Louis XIV sent a letter to the governor of the prison in French city Pignerol, in which he announced the imminent arrival of a special prisoner. The minister ordered a cell to be built with several doors to prevent eavesdropping, to provide this prisoner with all his basic needs, and finally, if the prisoner ever spoke of anything other than this, to kill him without hesitation.
This prison was famous for putting "black sheep" from noble families and the government. It is noteworthy that the "mask" received special treatment: his cell was furnished with good furniture, unlike the rest of the prison cells, and two soldiers were on duty at the door of his cell, who were ordered to kill the prisoner if he removed his iron mask. The conclusion lasted until the death of the prisoner in 1703. The same fate befell the things he used: the furniture and clothes were destroyed, the walls of the cell were scraped off and washed, and the iron mask was melted down.
Many historians have since argued bitterly over the identity of the prisoner in an attempt to find out if he was a relative of Louis XIV and for what reasons he was destined for such an unenviable fate.
7. Jack the Ripper
Perhaps the most famous and mysterious serial killer in history, who London first heard about in 1888, when five women were killed (although it is sometimes said that there were eleven victims). All the victims were connected by the fact that they were prostitutes, and also by the fact that they all had their throats cut (in one of the cases, the cut was right up to the spine). All of the victims had at least one organ cut out of their bodies, and their faces and body parts were mutilated almost beyond recognition.
Most suspiciously, these women were clearly not murdered by a novice or amateur. The killer knew exactly how and where to cut, and he knew anatomy perfectly, so many immediately decided that the killer was a doctor. The police received hundreds of letters in which people accused the police of incompetence, and there seemed to be letters from the Ripper himself with the signature "From Hell".
None of the many suspects and none of the countless conspiracy theories have been able to shed light on this case.
6. Agent 355
One of the first spies in US history, and a female spy, was Agent 355, who worked during the American Revolution for George Washington and is part of the Culper Ring spy organization. This woman provided life important information about the British army and its tactics, including plans for sabotage and ambushes, and if not for her, the outcome of the war could have been different.
Supposedly in 1780, she was arrested and sent aboard a prison ship, where she gave birth to a boy, who was named Robert Townsend Jr. She died a little later. However, historians are suspicious of this story, stating that women were not sent to floating prisons, and there is no evidence of the birth of a child.
5. Killer named Zodiac
Another serial killer who remains unknown is the Zodiac. It's practically the American Jack the Ripper. In December 1968, he shot dead two teenagers in California - right on the side of the road - and attacked five more people the following year. Of these, only two survived. One of the victims described the assailant as brandishing a gun wearing a hooded cape like an executioner's and a white cross painted on his forehead.
Like Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac maniac also sent letters to the press. The difference is that these were ciphers and cryptograms along with insane threats, and at the end of the letter there was always a crosshair symbol. The prime suspect was a man named Arthur Lee Allen, but the evidence against him was only circumstantial and his guilt was never proven. And he himself died of natural causes shortly before the trial. Who was the Zodiac? No answer.
4. Unknown rebel (Tank Man)
This shot of a protester facing a column of tanks is one of the most famous anti-war photographs and also contains a mystery: the identity of this man, who is called Tank Man, has never been established. An unknown rebel held back a column of tanks alone for half an hour during the unrest in Tiananmen Square in June 1989.
The tank was unable to bypass the protester and stopped. This prompted Tank Man to climb onto the tank and talk to the crew members through the vent. After a while, the protester got down from the tank and continued his stand-up strike, preventing the tanks from moving forward. Well, then it was carried away by people in blue. It is not known what became of him - whether he was killed by the government or forced into hiding.
3. Woman from Isle
In 1970, the partially charred body of a naked woman was discovered in the Isdalen Valley (Norway). More than a dozen sleeping pills, a lunch box, an empty liquor bottle, and plastic bottles that smelled of gasoline were found on her. The woman suffered serious burns and carbon monoxide poisoning, in addition, 50 sleeping pills were found inside her, and she may also have received a blow to the neck. The tips of her fingers were cut off so that she could not be identified by fingerprints. And when the police found her luggage at the nearest railway station, it turned out that all the labels on the clothes were also cut off.
During further investigation, it turned out that the deceased had a total of nine pseudonyms, a whole collection of different wigs and a collection of suspicious diaries. She also spoke four languages. But this information did not help much in establishing the identity of the woman. A little later, a witness was found who saw a woman in fashionable clothes walking along the path from the station, followed by two men in black coats - towards the place where the body was found 5 days later.
But even this testimony did not help much.
2. Grinning Man
Usually paranormal events are difficult to take seriously and almost all phenomena of this kind are exposed almost immediately. However, this case seems to be of a different kind. In 1966, in New Jersey, two boys were walking at night along the road towards the barrier and one of them noticed a figure behind the fence. The towering figure was dressed in a green suit that shimmered in the lantern light. The creature had a wide grin or grin and small prickly eyes that relentlessly followed the frightened boys with their eyes. The boys were then questioned separately and in great detail, and their stories matched exactly.
Some time later, in West Virginia, reports of such a strange Grinning Man appeared again, and in large numbers and from different people. With one of them - Woodrow Dereberger - Grinning even talked. He identified himself as "Indrid Cold" and asked if there were any reports of unidentified flying objects in the area. In general, he made an indelible impression on Woodrow. Then this paranormal entity was still met here and there, until it disappeared completely.
1. Rasputin
Perhaps no other historical figure can be compared with Grigory Rasputin in terms of the degree of mystery. And although we know who he is and where he came from, his identity has become overgrown with rumors, legends and mysticism and is still a mystery. Rasputin was born in January 1869 to a peasant family in Siberia, where he became a religious wanderer and "healer", claiming that some deity gave him visions. A whole series of controversial and bizarre events led to the fact that Rasputin, as a healer, ended up in the royal family. He was invited to treat Tsarevich Alexei, suffering from hemophilia, in which he even succeeded somewhat - and as a result acquired enormous power and influence over the royal family.
Associated with corruption and evil, Rasputin was the subject of countless unsuccessful assassination attempts. Either a woman was sent to him with a knife under the guise of a beggar, and she almost gutted him, then they invited him to the house of a well-known politician and tried to poison him with cyanide mixed into the drink. But that didn't work either! In the end, they just shot him. The killers wrapped the body in sheets and threw it into the icy river. Later it turned out that Rasputin died from hypothermia, not from bullets, and even almost managed to get out of his cocoon, but this time his luck did not smile at him.
Some mysterious deaths cannot be solved by doctors, police, or private detectives. Here are ten fatal cases that still haunt the minds of lovers of secrets and conspiracy theories.
Tom Thomson
On July 8, 1917, the famous Canadian artist Tom Thomson went fishing in a canoe. Two hours later, the boat was washed ashore - empty. Two Thomson spinning rods were also missing. On board, they found only an intact bag of food and one of the two oars.At first, his disappearance was not given a look - Tom was a creative person and could well go ashore somewhere on remote island and admire nature all day long.
Three days later, a group of rangers was sent to search for him. On July 16, the body of a 40-year-old painter was found floating on the lake surface 115 meters from land. The examination showed that Tom's body was in the water on the 2nd day of his absence, but there was no water in the lungs. There were no visible signs of drowning, like dried foam around the nostrils.
A narrow 10-centimeter bruise flaunted on the temple of the deceased, and his ankle was wrapped 16 times with a fishing line that had stuck tightly into the skin. The coroner made a seemingly obvious conclusion - an accident. The artist got tangled in gear, slipped and hit his head.
Mark Robinson, a close friend of Thomson and one of the rangers involved in his search, stated that when he cut the line from the leg of the deceased, it did not look like it was accidentally twisted around the leg. He was sure that it was wrapped on purpose - tightly and neatly. Relatives also did not accept the version of accidental death, because Thomson was an experienced fisherman and simply could not get so stupidly entangled in the fishing line.
In addition to the theory of suicide, many other hypotheses were expressed: he could have been killed by runaway laborers or poachers whom Thomson happened to see, or by "enemy spies" hiding in the forest. There was even a version of a local tornado that did not stand up to criticism, which caught the artist by surprise. One way or another, from what Tom Thomson died is unknown to this day.
April 15, 1926 Member of the Australian Parliament Frederick Macdonald disappeared without a trace, leaving a suicide note. His colleague, parliamentarian Thomas John Lee, was suspected of his kidnapping and murder. 
Lee, according to other senators, was a scoundrel. In 1925, having recently won a seat in Parliament, he offered MacDonald a bribe of $ 2,000 so that he would refuse to take part in the next election. Frederick "suicided" just before Lee's hearing.
A couple of years after MacDonald's disappearance, Lee's other opponent and MP, Hyman Goldstein, threw himself off a cliff into the sea. Shortly before his death, Goldstein invested in Lee's company, which was soon accused of fraud. Outraged, Goldstein organized a committee to investigate Lee's activities, but ... a couple of days before the first hearing, the body of an honest politician was caught by a fishing trawler.
But there was no direct evidence linking Lee to the two deaths, which looked like suicide, and the senator went unpunished. In 1946, he moved to London, where he again showed his animal nature: he strangled his girlfriend's lover and hid his body at a construction site. He was declared insane and placed in a prison hospital for the insane. After a year of imprisonment, he died, taking to the grave the secret of the death of Frederick MacDonald.
William Briggs
In 1930, someone named Alfred Rose tried to fake his death in order to collect insurance. He found a victim of suitable build, pounded the head with a hammer, put it in a car and set it on fire. Rose was exposed and sentenced to death by hanging. But who was his victim? 
For a long time it was believed that the man killed by Rose was William Thomas Briggs, who disappeared at the same time as the arson of the ill-fated car. Plus, he was the size and build of a killer. It was not until 2014 that Briggs' relatives did a DNA test to put an end to this mysterious murder.
When the results returned from the examination, it turned out that the DNA of the relatives did not match the DNA of the person burned in the car. Thus, there were two riddles: where did Briggs disappear and who did burn out in Rose's car?
One of the most mysterious crimes of the past is the murder of Julia Wallace. Historians have called it "a case worthy of the Jack the Ripper mystery."On January 20, 1931, someone who introduced himself as R.M. called the Liverpool Chess Club. Qualtra, and asked for Julia's husband, the insurer Herbert Wallace. "Tomorrow at 7:30 pm I'll be waiting for you at 25 East Manlove Gardens to get my daughter's insurance..
Delighted by the fallen client, Wallace drove home, and the next day he went to the appointed address. He was in for a surprise: there were three Menlove Gardens in the area: North ("North"), South ("South") and West ("West"). Even the locals have not heard of East Menlove Gardens.
Late in the evening, disappointed, he returned home. When his wife did not open the door for him, he tried to open it with a key, but in vain. The back door was also blocked. Calling the neighbors, he began to break the back door when it opened with ease, although it had been locked a couple of minutes ago.
In the living room, a terrifying sight met his eyes: the bloodied corpse of his wife lay on the floor in the living room.
During the inspection of the house by the police, curious facts surfaced. £4 had disappeared from the bookshelf, but the family's main savings, stored in a tin on a nearby shelf, were untouched. The criminal went into Julia's boudoir and threw her pillow into the fireplace and turned inside out two handbags and three hats that were stored in the closet, which, like the nightstand and dressing table, turned out to be locked. A fireplace poker, the alleged murder weapon, has gone missing from the living room.
The examination did not find any traces of forced entry on the keyhole of the front door, as well as on the back door lock. The investigation accused Wallace of killing his wife and sentenced him to death by hanging. But later, the court - for the first time in the history of Britain - considered that it was impossible to send a person into a noose without a single piece of evidence, and released Wallace to freedom. In 1932, he told the press that he knew the name of Julia's killer, but for some reason was afraid to divulge it.
Letitia Turo
On a Parisian evening in May 1937 at 6:27 pm, 29-year-old Italian Letizia Norriset Touro boarded the metro at the Porte de Charenton station. She was the only passenger in the first class carriage. 
When the doors of the car opened at the next station a couple of minutes later, Turo was still the only passenger, but now she was dead. A dagger protruded from her neck.
The girl's death was mysterious, like her life. In the eyes of society, she was a simple widow, barely making ends meet working in a glue factory. At night, she disguised herself as an informer for the Paris police and spent time in seedy nightclubs in search of information.
She was also alleged to have an affair with prominent right-wing journalist Gabriel Gintet, who was smuggling arms for the influential terrorist group Comite secret d'action revolutionnaire (Secret Revolutionary Committee).
Its members called themselves Cagoule ("hoods") and wore hoods to hide their faces. The Hoods were financed by the pro-government elites in Paris. They accounted for at least seven murders, two terrorist attacks and the creation of an armed militia.
In 1937, two "hoods" got into the police, where they were interrogated with prejudice in the Turo case. Both admitted that the girl was killed by their killer. Later, one of the bandits changed his testimony. The second was beaten half to death by an unknown person and could no longer testify for health reasons.
Some conspiracy theorists say that Letizia Turo was killed because she learned the terrible secrets of Mussolini, because killing with a dagger in the neck was a favorite method of Italian killers.
Harry Oakes
Harry Oakes, the richest man in the world Bahamas, was found dead on July 8, 1943. Someone beat him to death with a studded baseball bat, doused him with gasoline, and sprinkled him with pillow feathers. The killer tried to set fire to the corpse, but for some reason the flames did not start. 
Oakes made his fortune in gold mines in Canada before fleeing to the Bahamas to avoid paying taxes.
The governor of the islands was a good friend of Oakes, so he hired two private detectives to get to the bottom of the truth. Soon, his son-in-law Alfred de Marini was accused of killing the businessman. Oakes hated his daughter's husband, believing that he was just waiting for his death to inherit the fortune and live happily ever after. In addition, Marini's fingerprint was found at the crime scene. A weighty motive - the young man was put on trial.
Later it turned out that the print was slipped by detectives who wanted to say goodbye to the complicated case as soon as possible. Marini was acquitted, and a new suspect appeared in the case, Oakes' business partner, Harold Christie.
Christy owed Oakes a substantial sum. There were witnesses who saw him leaving the house of the deceased at about the time when Oakes' body was supposed to catch fire. Christie himself claimed that he slept all night at his place. The police let him go home.
Lilly Linderstorm
Lilly Lindestorm, a 32-year-old divorcee from Stockholm, lived in a tiny apartment and made a living as a prostitute. On May 1, 1932, she was discussing plans for the future in the kitchen. the May holidays with 35-year-old Minnie Jenson, a neighbor and companion in misfortune.Neighbors called Lilly “call-girl” (“call girl”), not only because of her profession, but also because she alone had a telephone installed in the whole house. The conversation between two friends was interrupted by a phone call. Lilly got a call from another client, and Minnie retreated to her room. Half an hour later, Lilly stopped by Minnie's to borrow condoms. When, a few hours later, Minnie decided to visit her friend again, no one opened the door. Deciding that the date continues, the woman left.
Three days passed before Minnie decided to call the police. Law enforcement officers broke down the door and saw a completely naked girl lying face down in a pillow. She was killed with three shots to the head. Lilly's clothes were neatly folded into a pile.
There was a completely crazy aspect to this already creepy story. There was a gravy boat stained with blood in the room. As the forensic examination showed, with this gravy boat the killer collected blood from Lilly's wound and drank.
The police interviewed 80 of Minnie's clients, but they were all beyond suspicion. The name of the Atlas vampire is still a mystery.
Mary Money
Late in the evening of September 24, 1905, the mangled remains of a young woman were found on the rails of a tunnel in the southeast of England. At first, the police considered the death a suicide, but further examination showed that she had first been strangled with a scarf. The body found by the railway superintendent was still warm - hardly half an hour had passed since the moment of death. The dead woman, Mary Money, was identified by her brother Robert. 
The police tried to reconstruct Mary's last actions. It turned out that around 19:00 she was talking with a friend, telling her that she was going for a walk and would be back soon.
There were two witnesses who saw Mary at the station that evening. There were those who noticed her in the first class carriage in the company of a man. Another witness reported that he saw a man similar to the previous description get out of the first class carriage alone. The train passed through the same tunnel at 22:19. The body was found at 22:55.
The police naturally decided that Mary's lover threw her out of the car at full speed. But having checked all the male environment of the girl, they just shrugged their shoulders - everyone had an irrefutable alibi.
In 1912, Mary Money's brother was found dead. He killed two women and three children, after which he committed suicide. These women were sisters, and Robert was secretly married to both. This juicy fact from his biography made the investigators decide that it was he who killed Mary 7 years ago.
Charles Bravo
Charles Bravo was a British lawyer who died from antimony poisoning in 1876. The painful departure from life lasted for several days, but Bravo did not want to name the poisoner who poured poison into a glass of water.Charles Bravo Murder Mystery
Three relatives of Charles were suspected: his wife Florence, who was tired of the cruel perverse harassment of her husband, her former lover James Gully and the maid Miss Cox, who was about to be fired. A version was also put forward that Charles Bravo planned to poison his wife, but mistakenly drank the poison intended for her.
Günther Stoll
The mysterious death of German Gunther Stoll occurred on October 26, 1984. He, still alive, but badly crippled, was found early in the morning in a car, in a ditch near the highway. He died on the way to the hospital without regaining consciousness. 
Alcohol was found in the guy's blood, so the case was regarded as an accident. But an examination of the injuries showed that he had been run over and put back in the car.
But this is not the last mystery in this murder. A piece of paper with the inscription "YOGTZE" was found next to the body. This word does not exist in any language of the world. Acronym or cipher? Most likely, but no one has ever been able to figure it out.
Stoll's wife recalled that on the eve of the murder, he told her: “Now he is in my hands!” After which he wrote this note, took it with him and left the house.
Over the following years, two noteworthy versions were expressed that could shed light on the YOGTZE mystery. This could be a reference to the TZE additive used in yogurt (Gunther was a food technologist). Or the word used was not the letter G, but the number 6 - YO6TZE, a radio signal used in Romania.
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