Top inexplicable facts. Mysterious facts that scientists are unable to explain. This is also interesting
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- On August 15, 1977, Jerry Ehman received a radio signal from space, the origin of which everyone considered to be potentially neither “unearthly” nor “non-solar.” Surprised by how well the signal matched the supposed cosmic signal mark, Yeiman circled it on a computer printout and wrote his comment: “Wow!” It was this statement by Yeiman that became the name of the signal.
- Strange flight of the Pioneer 10 and 11 ships
The Pioneer 10 and 11 space research stations (launched in 1972 and 1973) have long since completed their missions around the solar system, but scientists still pay special attention to them. Although Pioneer 11 was completely lost, both research stations unexpectedly (and inexplicably) changed the direction of their flights. However, the mysteries do not end there: it seems that both ships were heading in the same direction.
Puzzled scientists gave a huge variety of assumptions about this: computer errors, solar winds, fuel leaks. However, this all remained only at the level of assumptions; nothing has been proven.
- Female orgasm
Some scientists believe that the female orgasm is a vestigial concept, that is, it has no obvious evolutionary function. In their opinion, female orgasm does not in any way contribute to increasing the chances of fertilization. Other researchers argue that this opinion is false because the psychosocial aspects of a woman's orgasm were not taken into account.
- Dark energy
Most physicists were once confident that the expansion of the universe was gradually decreasing. But already in 1998 it became clear that this was not so. On the contrary, our universe continues to expand. An explanation for this could be a phenomenon called dark energy, which supposedly makes up 3 quarters of our universe.
The general consensus is that dark energy rarely travels, but rather interacts with other objects through gravity. Dark energy has a negative pressure that causes it to literally tear the universe apart. This is what explains the constant expansion of the universe.
- Speed of light
According to Einstein's theory of relativity, nothing is faster than the speed of light. Well, scientists had to try to do the impossible, and they succeeded. In 2000, Princeton University scientists sent a small laser pulse through vapor generated from cesium gas. The researchers achieved their goal: the laser pulse moved through the vapor space faster than light.
- Placebo effect
A placebo is a pill or medication that is essentially a medicine but does not actually contain any active ingredients and therefore has no effect on the person taking the placebo. This mysterious phenomenon is called the placebo effect. How our psyche can affect health is still not completely clear to science, but scientists are working hard on this and, perhaps, soon the veil of secrecy will be lifted.
- Cold fusion
When atoms collide with sufficient force, they can join together. Along with this merger, a huge amount of energy is released. All kinds of scientific theories tell us that this can only happen in an environment with incredibly strong energy, for example, in the solar core.
However, scientific experiments have proven that this can be achieved in a real situation. If you conduct an electrical voltage between palladium electrodes in water that contains deuterium and heavy hydrogen, an incredible phenomenon will happen before your eyes.
- Yawn
Yawning is usually perceived as a sign of fatigue or melancholy, but no one will deny the fact that a person yawns not only when he is bored or wants to sleep. Anaerobic athletes such as weightlifters or sprinters often find themselves yawning during vigorous training and competition. Yawning is also inexplicably “contagious”: if someone next to you yawns, you will certainly want to do the same.
One of the hypothesized functions of yawning is the accumulation of carbon dioxide. However, this does not explain all aspects of yawning: for example, why it is still so contagious.
- Dark matter
All objects attract other objects, and the more objects an object can attract to itself, the greater its force of attraction. Everything is quite simple. However, the modern understanding of the concept of gravity does not give us an explanation of why visible objects move freely in the universe.
In order to solve this problem, modern physicists have created a special hypothetical substance - dark matter. The presence of dark matter can only be determined by the gravitational effect it has on larger objects. Dark matter is believed to make up most of the mass of the universe.
- What happened before and what will happen after
There are a huge number of different theories describing what will happen if our universe does come to an end. But besides that, there are a lot of different hypotheses about the origin of our world. Yes, in this case it is not at all necessary to be a specialist in quantum mechanics in order to say that any of these theories cannot be verified for truthfulness.
Some questions are simply impossible to answer. Where does a person go after death? What is the purpose of human life? These questions will haunt the curious human mind for a long time.
Strange lines in the desert of China
These strange lines were found in the desert of the Chinese province of Gansu Shen. Their coordinates: 40°27’28.56″N, 93°23’34.42″E. Almost nothing is known about this strange but very beautiful mosaic pattern. Unofficial records say they appeared in 2004. It should be noted that these lines are adjacent to the Mogao Caves, which are a World Heritage Site. The pattern retains its proportions despite its enormous size and uneven surface. Similar pictures can be seen if you enter other coordinates +40°27"10.64" +93°44"33.79"
Mysterious stone doll
In 1889, while drilling a well in the town of Nampa, Idaho, a discovery was made that excited the scientific world of the last century. At a depth of 320 feet, a small human figurine was found that was definitely created by human hands. The whole mystery is that the figurine, judging by the depth at which it was found, was here long before people appeared in this part of the world. However, the find did not cause heated controversy among scientists. They simply stated that this could not happen.
First stone calendar 
Egypt is home to the oldest astronomically calibrated stone structure in the world. It is called Nabta and is located in the Sahara Desert. A thousand years before the creation of Stonehenge, people made a circle of cobblestones on the shore of a lake that had long since dried up. More than 6 thousand years ago, workers had to drag three-meter stone slabs over a distance of over one kilometer. The photo shows stones that have survived to this day. There is evidence that in the past there were several wet periods here (when the average annual precipitation reached 550 mm), the last of which occurred during the last interglacial period (130 thousand years ago) and the beginning of the last ice age (70 thousand years ago). During this time there was a savannah that was home to the now extinct bison and large giraffes, as well as various species of antelope and gazelle. Starting around the 10th millennium BC. The lake began to fill due to heavy rainfall. Most likely, the water source attracted the first settlers. The first human settlements date back to approximately 10-8 thousand years BC.
Iron bolt that is 300 million years old
In the summer of 1998, Russian scientists exploring a 300-kilometer site southwest of Moscow in search of meteorite fragments found a stone encased in an iron bolt. According to geologists, the age of the stone is 300-320 million years. But in those days there were not even dinosaurs here, not to mention intelligent life. The bolt, in which the head with the rod is clearly visible, is about a centimeter long and about three millimeters wide.
Ancient spaceship
This ancient cave painting from a cave in Japan dates back to more than 5000 BC.
Sliding stones
Even NASA can't explain it. One can only marvel at the stones moving along the bottom of the dried-up Racetrack Playa lake, which is located in Death Valley. This completely flat lake, which is covered with cracked clay, stretches 2.5 miles (approx. 4 km) from north to south and 1.25 miles (approx. 2 km) from west to east. The stones (some weighing hundreds of kilograms) slide across the clay surface, leaving a wake behind them. No one has yet been able to witness this phenomenon.
Fossil giant
The 12-foot fossilized giant was found in 1895 during mining operations in the English city of Antrim. Photos of the giant are taken from the British magazine "The Strand" for December 1895. His height is 12 feet 2 inches (3.7 m.), chest girth is 6 feet 6 inches (2 m.), arm length is 4 feet 6 inches (1.4 m.). It is noteworthy that his right foot has 6 toes. The six fingers and toes resemble the people mentioned in the Bible (2nd book of Samuel): “There was also a battle in Gath; and there was one tall man there, who had six fingers and six toes, making a total of twenty-four.”
Ruins of Atlantis?
Scientists continue to explore the ruins of megaliths in the so-called Yucatan Strait, located in the Cuba area. The ruins stretch for many kilometers along the coast. American archaeologists who found this place immediately announced that they had found Atlantis (for the umpteenth time in the history of underwater archaeology). From time to time, scuba divers visit the ruins, but the rest can be content only with video recording or a computer reconstruction of the city of the “golden age”, buried under water.
Nevada Giants
There is a Native American legend about 12-foot (3.6 m) red-haired giants who lived in the Nevada area. It talks about American Indians killing giants in a cave. During the excavation of guano, a huge jaw was found. The photo compares two jaws: a found one and a normal human one. In 1931, two skeletons were found at the bottom of the lake. One was 8 feet (2.4 m) high, and the other was just under 10 feet (about 3 m).
Aluminum wedge from Ayuda
In 1974, an aluminum wedge coated with a thick layer of oxide was found on the banks of the Maros River, which is located near the city of Ayud in Transylvania. It is noteworthy that it was found among the remains of a mastodon, which are 20 thousand years old. Usually they find aluminum with admixtures of other metals, but the wedge was made of pure aluminum. It is impossible to find an explanation for this find, since aluminum was discovered only in 1808, and began to be produced in industrial quantities only in 1885. The wedge is still being studied in some secret place.
Lolladoff's plate
The Lolladoff Plate is a 12,000-year-old stone disk found in Nepal. Apparently, not only Egypt was visited by aliens in ancient times. It clearly shows a saucer-shaped UFO. Also on the disc there is a drawing of a creature that resembles “Greys” - gray aliens.
A huge network of 36 caves that appeared more than 2000 years ago. So we can safely exclude the ancient Chinese Batman from the guesswork.
The entertainment portal site would like to tell more about the ancient Chinese caves, but nothing more is known about them. No documents, no artifacts - nothing that would shed the light of truth on the underground structures. 900,000 cubic meters of cut rock and not a drop of information. This is especially strange considering that the ancient Chinese meticulously recorded absolutely everything. If we immediately rejected the theory about Batman, then only one explanation remains - this is a place for the Predator to hunt.
Drill marks, ladders, support columns - all this cannot be the result of tectonic shifts. But the true reason for the appearance of these caves, as well as their purpose, is still unknown to anyone.
4. We can't read one of the most important languages in history. If we asked you to name the most important and influential civilization of the ancient world, you would probably point to the Romans or the Greeks. Simply because they had written language, architecture, philosophy and other crap. And only the most colorful botanists said “Etruscans”. Still, they weren't the most powerful guys either.
Anyway, the Etruscans were a small civilization in what is now Tuscany that developed aqueducts, urban planning, sewers, bridges, and metallurgy. Basically, everything that we mistakenly attribute to . But no matter how much scientists understand the Etruscan civilization, we are still not able to decipher their language.
The problem with decoding an ancient language is that no one speaks it anymore. Moreover, famous modern researchers were able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs only thanks to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a convenient Egyptian-Greek traveler's dictionary that was created by King Ptolemy V. The reason for the appearance of this stone was the king's desire to issue his decrees simultaneously in three languages.
We were unlucky with the Etruscans. By the way, they wrote a lot, and not a single one of these works was ever translated into the language of any other civilization known to us. As a result, we have several thousand inscriptions in the Etruscan language, but to this day only about a hundred words have been deciphered. At the same time, a lot of people know the Dothraki language - the language of a non-existent civilization from the series "".
5. "Peoples of the Sea". They destroyed almost every major city of the Ancient World... And we have no idea who they are.
1200 BC was a terrible period for the people living around the Mediterranean Sea. The main empires of the time - the Hittites, Mycenae and the Egyptians - all experienced a severe decline after the golden age. Adding salt to the wound were huge armies of bloodthirsty barbarians who appeared out of nowhere, burning, looting and destroying everything. We called these barbarians the "Sea Peoples", but this is only a tentative name, because we have no fucking idea who they really are. Here's how they were depicted by ancient peoples:
The Sea People were so strong and aggressive that their invasion was akin to Hitler's attack. The only ones who were able to contain them were the ancient Egyptians. Before that, they destroyed most of the ancient world. Scientists believe that the Sea Peoples could have come from Europe, or from the Balkan Islands, or Asia Minor, or who knows where. The problem is that the people were too busy dying to ask the Sea Peoples where they came from.
All this seems painfully reminiscent of Lovecraft's story about an underwater civilization of lizard people who demolished the most powerful city in the world on the eve of its 1000th anniversary.
In the era of the Internet, people’s reluctance to strive for new knowledge looks a little strange, because when it was difficult to get a book, we tried to learn a lot, while trying to apply our knowledge in practice. Now, when you can find out about everything in the world without raising your ass, no one wants to know anything. Not to mention the desire of the governments of some countries to focus on the self-development of their people. We have become lazy, allowing progress to act only to make our existence easier. Our bodies produce fewer and fewer actions, and our brains cope with tasks less and less. Have a useful stump!
TOP 10 amazing and inexplicable facts! WOW signal
On August 15, 1977, Jerry Ehman received a radio signal from space, the origin of which everyone considered to be potentially neither “unearthly” nor “non-solar.” Surprised by how well the signal matched the supposed cosmic signal mark, Yeiman circled it on a computer printout and wrote his comment: “Wow!” It was this statement by Yeiman that became the name of the signal.
Strange flight of the Pioneer 10 and 11 ships
The Pioneer 10 and 11 space research stations (launched in 1972 and 1973) have long since completed their missions around the solar system, but scientists still pay special attention to them. Although Pioneer 11 was completely lost, both research stations unexpectedly (and inexplicably) changed the direction of their flights. However, the mysteries do not end there: it seems that both ships were heading in the same direction.
Puzzled scientists gave a huge variety of assumptions about this: computer errors, solar winds, fuel leaks. However, this all remained only at the level of assumptions; nothing has been proven.
Female orgasm
Some scientists believe that the female orgasm is a vestigial concept, that is, it has no obvious evolutionary function. In their opinion, female orgasm does not in any way contribute to increasing the chances of fertilization. Other researchers argue that this opinion is false because the psychosocial aspects of a woman's orgasm were not taken into account.
Dark energy
Most physicists were once confident that the expansion of the universe was gradually decreasing. But already in 1998 it became clear that this was not so. On the contrary, our universe continues to expand. An explanation for this could be a phenomenon called dark energy, which supposedly makes up 3 quarters of our universe.
The general consensus is that dark energy rarely travels, but rather interacts with other objects through gravity. Dark energy has a negative pressure that causes it to literally tear the universe apart. This is what explains the constant expansion of the universe.
Speed of light
According to Einstein's theory of relativity, nothing is faster than the speed of light. Well, scientists had to try to do the impossible, and they succeeded. In 2000, Princeton University scientists sent a small laser pulse through vapor generated from cesium gas. The researchers achieved their goal: the laser pulse moved through the vapor space faster than light.
Placebo effect
A placebo is a pill or medication that is essentially a medicine but does not actually contain any active ingredients and therefore has no effect on the person taking the placebo. This mysterious phenomenon is called the placebo effect. How our psyche can affect health is still not completely clear to science, but scientists are working hard on this and, perhaps, soon the veil of secrecy will be lifted.
Cold fusion
When atoms collide with sufficient force, they can join together. Along with this merger, a huge amount of energy is released. All kinds of scientific theories tell us that this can only happen in an environment with incredibly strong energy, for example, in the solar core.
However, scientific experiments have proven that this can be achieved in a real situation. If you conduct an electrical voltage between palladium electrodes in water that contains deuterium and heavy hydrogen, an incredible phenomenon will happen before your eyes.
Yawn
Yawning is usually perceived as a sign of fatigue or melancholy, but no one will deny the fact that a person yawns not only when he is bored or wants to sleep. Anaerobic athletes such as weightlifters or sprinters often find themselves yawning during vigorous training and competition. Yawning is also inexplicably “contagious”: if someone next to you yawns, you will certainly want to do the same.
One of the hypothesized functions of yawning is the accumulation of carbon dioxide. However, this does not explain all aspects of yawning: for example, why it is still so contagious.
Dark matter
All objects attract other objects, and the more objects an object can attract to itself, the greater its force of attraction. Everything is quite simple. However, the modern understanding of the concept of gravity does not give us an explanation of why visible objects move freely in the universe.
In order to solve this problem, modern physicists have created a special hypothetical substance - dark matter. The presence of dark matter can only be determined by the gravitational effect it has on larger objects. Dark matter is believed to make up most of the mass of the universe.
What happened BEFORE and what will happen AFTER
There are a huge number of different theories describing what will happen if our universe does come to an end. But besides that, there are a lot of different hypotheses about the origin of our world. Yes, in this case it is not at all necessary to be a specialist in quantum mechanics in order to say that any of these theories cannot be verified for truthfulness.
Some questions are simply impossible to answer. Where does a person go after death? What is the purpose of human life? These questions will haunt the curious human mind for a long time.
Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective story. But in detective stories, as you know, all the 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 answers for them at all? Or will the veil of secrecy ever be lifted? And what do you think?
43 missing Mexican students
In 2014, 43 students from the College of Education from Ayotzinapa went to demonstrate in Iguala, where the mayor's wife was scheduled to speak to residents. The corrupt mayor ordered 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 died. The remaining students, as we found out, were handed over to the local crime syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin torn off his face. Later, the remains of two more students were found. Relatives and friends of the students organized mass demonstrations, triggering a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends and the chief of police tried to escape, but were detained a few weeks later. The provincial governor resigned, and several dozen police officers and officials were arrested. And only one thing remains a mystery - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.
Oak Island Money Pit
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, on 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 have tried to get into it - but the design is treacherous, and after the treasure hunter has dug to a certain depth, the mine begins to be intensively filled with water. They say that brave souls found at a depth of 40 meters a stone tablet with the scrawled inscription: “Two million pounds are buried 15 meters deeper.” More than one generation has tried to get the promised treasure out of the hole. Even the future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, during his student years at Harvard, came to Oak Island with a group of friends to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there?..
Who was Benjamin Kyle?
In 2004, an unknown man woke up outside a Burger King in Georgia. He had no clothes on, there were no documents with him, but the worst thing was that he didn’t remember anything about himself. That is, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but were unable to find any traces: neither missing people with such characteristics, nor relatives who could identify him from a photo. He was soon given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents or certificates of any education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a television program, out of pity, gave him a job as a dishwasher. He still works there now. The efforts of doctors to awaken his memory, and the police to find his previous traces, did not yield results.
Shore of Severed Legs
"Severed Legs Coast" is the name given to a beach on the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia. It received this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 of them have been found, with the majority being right-wing. There are several theories to explain why legs wash up on this beach - natural disasters, the work of a serial killer... some even claim that the mafia destroys the bodies of its victims on this remote beach. But none of these theories looks convincing, and no one knows where the truth is.
"Dancing Death" 1518
One day in the summer of 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began dancing in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she fell from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that gradually others joined her. A week later, 34 people were 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 possessing the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one ever knew what caused it. They talked about some special type of epilepsy, about poisoning, and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But scientists of that time did not find an exact answer.
Signal from aliens
On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was monitoring signals from space at the volunteer Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Civilizations, picked up a signal at a random radio frequency, clearly coming 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 completely definite, in the eye of the observer, completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was accurately reproduced several times in a row. Eman disciplinedly recorded the sequence and reported it to his colleagues in the search for aliens. However, further listening to this frequency did not yield anything, as did any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. What it was - a prank by completely earthly jokers or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to contact us - no one still knows.
Unknown from Somerton Beach
Here's another perfect murder, the mystery of which has still not been solved. On December 1, 1948, in Australia, on Somerton Beach in southern Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was discovered. There were no documents with him, only a note with two words: “Taman Shud” was found in one of his pockets. This was a line from Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat, meaning "the end." The cause of death of the unknown man could not be determined. The forensic investigator believed that it was a case of poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed it was a suicide, but this claim was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case has alarmed not only Australia, but the whole world. They tried to establish the identity of the unknown person in almost all countries of Europe and America, but the efforts of the police were in vain, and the history of Taman Shud remained shrouded in secrecy.
Confederate Treasures
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 rightful spoils - the treasury of the southerners. Confederate President Jefferson Davis personally took on this mission. He and his guards left Richmond with a huge cargo of gold, silver and jewelry. No one knows where they went, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, he had no jewelry 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 could bury it until better times, others believe that it is buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that the secret society “Knights of the Golden Circle”, who were secretly preparing revenge in the Civil War, laid their paws on him. 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 either the money or the truth.
Voynich manuscript
The mysterious book, known as the Voynich manuscript, is named after the Polish-born American bookseller Wilfred Voynich, 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 15th-16th centuries in central Europe. The book contains a lot of text, written in neat handwriting, and hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown to modern science. The signs of the zodiac and medicinal herbs are also drawn here, accompanied by text, apparently, of recipes for their use. However, the contents of the text are just speculations of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language still unknown on Earth, which is also practically indecipherable. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even in centuries.
Karst wells of 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 injured from the explosion and the appearance of a sinkhole. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon required an explanation, and a scientific expedition went to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful in studying the strange phenomenon - from geographers to experienced mountain climbers. However, upon arrival, they were unable to understand the reasons and nature of what had happened. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared in Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have been able to come up with only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal failures remain a mystery.
Antikythera Mechanism
Discovered by treasure hunters on a sunken ancient Greek ship at the beginning of the twentieth century, this device, which at first seemed like just another artifact, turned out to be, no less, the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze disks, made with precision and accuracy unimaginable in those distant times, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, time in accordance with different calendars and the dates of the Olympic Games. According to the results of the analyses, 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 centuries BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations - Greek, Cretan, and Cananese. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments, and tools became more complex. It seemed that humanity was moving 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 once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, and many secrets of construction and working 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 wondering who and where this people came from and what their future fate was. But there is no clear answer to this question yet.
Murder of the Black Dahlia
Books were written and films were made about this legendary murder, but it was never solved. 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 injuries. At the same time, the body was washed clean and completely devoid of blood. This story of one of the oldest unsolved murders was widely circulated by journalists, giving Short the nickname “black dahlia.” Despite an active search, the police were unable to 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 sent an SOS signal while in the Strait of Mallaka off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and it ended with the chilling words: “And I am dying.” The captain of the Silver Star, having heard the distress signal, went in search of the 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, chose 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 an investigation became zero. Why the crew died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.
Baghdad battery
Until recently, it was believed that humanity 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 in which the battery itself is hidden: 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 debated whether the devices were actually related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they collected the same primitive products - and managed to generate electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to install electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since written sources from that era have not survived, this mystery will now probably forever excite scientists.