Humans are always, by nature, curious about the unknown. You might more than love to spend a winter afternoon reading about the top unsolved mysteries of the world.
Top Unsolved Mysteries of the World
Dyatlov Pass
Nine ski-hikers died in February 1959, mysteriously on a Russian mountain. They had dinner in a camp that night and were preparing to sleep. But the group never returned.
Days after, mysterious footprints were found, around the large tent, leading searchers to the nearby woods. Two bodies were found at first, almost bare skin and shoeless. Other seven hikers were also found dead, with signs as if they had been brutally assaulted and were traumatized because of what they faced.
There were speculations for years, wondering whether it was UFO, Yeti, drug overdose, or even some inhuman force. But nobody could ever solve one of the strange mysteries of the world.
Db Cooper
On November 24, 1971, a man called Dan Cooper boarded a flight from Portland to Seattle for a mere thirty-minute journey. Other passengers described him as a dark-suited man in his 40s.
He demanded $1 million, a truck of fuel and four parachutes from the crew. The plane landed, and he let everyone, including the flight attendants, go, and the plane took off after he got the cash and parachutes and the plane was refueled. Then Cooper instructed the crew members to fly towards Mexico with one stop in Nevada for refueling.
Since the plane landed in Reno, Cooper has never been found. There were intense searches following the recovery of packets full of money in 1980 and a parachute strap in 2017. But Cooper was like vanished in the air.
Area 51
Area 51 is a US military base in southern Nevada whose existence was doubted until 2013 and known through a response to a Freedom of Information request made in 2005.
Historical evidence claims that Area 51 supports the experimental testing and development of aircraft and weapons. But satellite images have nothing to show regarding Area 51.
The area is highly secured to spark rumors that the government stores crashed UFOs here and conduct tests on aliens. Some even speculate it could be used for time travel research or shadowy government activities.
Voynich Manuscript
You might wonder how a mere 250-page book could be included in one of the unsolved mysteries in history. Yes, we are talking about the Voynich manuscript written in a language or writing system utterly unknown to the world.
The manuscript includes plants’ illustrations completely unlikely to any of the known species and carbon-dated back to the 1400s.
Alchemist Georg Baresch from Prague was its first confirmed owner, who didn’t himself know how the manuscript came to him. Voynich purchased it centuries later and tried to establish its connection with an alchemist or a scientist. But the origin of the book is still inexplicable.
Bridge at Overtoun
Imagine of a bridge where dogs go and never come back. The Overtoun Bridge in Dumbarton seemingly calls dogs to have perished. Over fifty canines have lost their lives there since the early 1960s, and more than a hundred jumped to get injured. Some even reportedly returned to leap onto the rocks fifty feet below for the second time.
It’s debatable whether dogs can attempt suicide, and the most interesting facts are that the dogs often jump from almost the same spot and in broad daylight.
A man threw his baby son down from the bridge in 1994, and since then, the myth of the place being haunted turned to that of it being scent extracting sounds that only dogs can hear.
Tunguska Event
What happened on the fine morning of June 30, 1908, in Siberia remains to be one of the most thought-provoking unsolved mysteries of the world.
770 square miles of Siberian forest were flattened that morning, and no one really knows why. It has been said to be an explosion, with literally no evidence or witness. The phenomenon is familiar as “the Tunguska event.”
Scientists still haven’t yet concluded if it was an asteroid exploding over earth or something else.
Bermuda Triangle
You must have been brought up listening to or watching stories about this mysterious expanse of the ocean somewhere between Bermuda, Miami, and Puerto Rico.
Numerous ships have vanished inside the Bermuda triangle. Pilots complain about their instruments going malfunctioned while flying over the area.
Is there any alien sitting there with his trap? Or what? The strange phenomenon happens to be one of the weirdest unsolved mysteries in history.
Wow! signal
Jerry R. Ehman, a Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence volunteer, received a signal lasting for seventy-two seconds, probably coming from deep space while scanning radio waves. It appeared to have come from a place where there could be no human, one-twenty light-years away.
On the printout of the signals he noted while scanning, Ehman wrote, “Wow!”
Wait, there are More!
Some other strange unsolved mysteries of the world that are enough to boggle your mind are:-
- “Money pit” on Oak Island, where layers of mysterious logs were found digging the ground.
- Magnetic hills or gravity hills located in India have roads offering optical illusions.
- The statue outside CIA headquarters in Virginia with coded encryptions called Kryptos.
- A code on Shepherd’s monument in England’s Staffordshire remains untracked.
- Shroud of Turin contains the human face’s imprint.
- The mysterious Malaysian airlines flight 370 disappeared in 2014, carrying 239 passengers, is yet unsolved.
- Two children, a brother and a sister arrived in England’s Woolpit with green skin and strange clothes. They ate beans only. The boy died, and the girl later said they came from an underground place.
- The mysterious set glyphs called Rongorongo with never-been deciphered clues.
- The ghost ship called Ourang Medan.
What are the Top 10 Unsolved Crimes?
- Zodiac
A criminal from San Francisco used to send puzzling letters to police and media during the 1960s and 1970s. Three letters of the Zodiac killer are yet to be cracked.
- Tamam Shud
An unidentified person’s body was found in 1948 in Somerton Beach in Australia’s Adelaide. There was a piece of paper in his pocket with the words “Tamam Shud,” meaning “ended” or “finished,” written on it.
- Black Dahlia murder
A woman’s body sliced in half was found, and LA police and FB still have no clue who killed her. Elizabeth Short, 22, was an actress who was nicknamed Black Dahlia.
- Disembodied feet
Five types of human feet have washed ashore in British Columbia’s Vancouver since August 2007. No body or clothes, just a single sneaker. The DNA sample matched a missing person, but the case remains unsolved.
- John F Kennedy’s death
There couldn’t be a bigger unsolved crime mystery in American history than the killing of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Who actually killed Kenney remains one of the top unsolved mysteries of the US.
- Jack, the ripper
The name is quite familiar due to movies and shows. The serial killer murdered eleven women in the 1800s in eastern London, slashing their throats.
- JonBenet Ramsey death
The death of the six-year-old daughter of wealthy John Ramsey in 1996 is yet unsolved. Her mother got a note demanding ransom, but she was found dead in their basement only. Investigations were conducted in all the ways, including DNA sample tests, but no suspect was proven to be the killer.
- Murder in Chicago through Tylenol poisoning
Seven people were murdered by poisoning with Tylenol pills in 1982 in Chicago. Who killed them is something still unknown.
- Boy in the box
This was one of the mind-boggling incidents that shook the world. A boy was found inside a box in Philadelphia’s illegal dumping ground. Neither the boy has been identified, nor his death mystery has been solved yet. Though it’s not clear whether he was killed, it’s still one of the mysterious unsolved cases in the police record.
- Rappers Gunned down
Top rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G were shot within six months, rattling the music world amid intense hip-hop rivalry. Shakur died first while driving in Las Vegas in 1996, and the Notorious BIG was killed similarly just six months later.
There are even rumors that the rappers are alive and faked their deaths. But the mystery remains unsolved to date.
What are the 6 Biggest Mysteries of the World?
Simply, if you think of our daily life mysteries, there couldn’t be more exciting facts than:-
- Where has life come from?
- How was the moon created?
- Where did the oxygen come from?
- What’s there in the core?
- Will we ever be able to predict earthquakes?
- Why are we wet?
What is the Greatest Unsolved Mystery of all Time?
Well, many intellectuals think the biggest unsolved mystery of life is death itself, and it’s an unavoidable part of human life, and no research so far has been enough to solve the mystery.
Final Words
The discussion on top unsolved mysteries can only partially be ended here, as there are many more to puzzle you, confuse you and leave you in your thoughts.
If this blog has really provoked your thoughts, stay tuned to know if fresh insights about these mysteries come out.
