Where did they go?
It was the year 1872. The ship ‘Mary Celeste’ left New York for Italy with the captain, his family and an eight member crew. But the people in the ship were never seen again! They’d just vanished. The ship was found floating near the Strait of Gibraltar and when investigated, most surprisingly, all the ship’s papers were missing except for the captain’s log; the ship’s navigation instruments had vanished and, of course, the people. It opened up a lot of mysterious possibilities UFOs abducting them and taking the ship’s documents just in case, or maybe the crew found a way to the lost city of Atlantis?
The Scary Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle can be considered the granddaddy of unsolved mysteries. Even those who haven’t heard about other mysteries are bound to know this one. It involves a pesky triangular region of the ocean between Bermuda, Miami and Puerto Rico where way too many planes and ships have disappeared into thin air… or maybe the murky ocean. Different explanations have been attributed to the disappearance from sensible physics to the more exciting concept of black holes, evil forces from the lost city of Atlantis and plotting aliens. This is the kind of mystery that is the life and breath of Hollywood!
The Mysterious Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript has had researchers, coders and scientists baffled for years! Ever since this 240-page book was discovered in an Italian monastery in 1912, people have been trying hard to understand what the book is trying to say with its mysterious language, illustrations of exotic plants, stars and human figures. Some have gone as far as suggesting that Leonardo da Vinci created this as a boy! Recently though, a team has managed to decode a few words, though they’ve still got a long way to go.
Wow! What was that?
Back in 1977, the Big Ear radio signal was picking up some radio signals from a seemingly empty point in space. The signal was labelled as ‘6EQUJ5’ (The telescope measures the radio signals on a scale of 0 to 10 and after 10 in alphabets). So this definitely looks like a deliberate message passed on to Earth and not surprisingly, the guy who found it circled it and wrote ‘Wow!’ which was how it got its name. The signal lasted for about 37 seconds! But what was it all about? Was it an alien in a spaceship playing a practical joke on us?
That weird hum
Many people, especially around quiet places in USA and Europe, have reported hearing a low-pitched humming sound that has been compared with the produced by an idling diesel engine. It was in Taos, New Mexico, where researchers tried to investigate what produced the sound called the ‘Taos Hum Interestingly, microphones and other recording devices have not been able to capture the sound and apparently not everyone can hear it. Maybe it’s just aliens sending out secret messages to select people?
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