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An unsolved mystery can be a small sliver right underneath the skin,
annoying, perplexing, and curious all at the same time. We want to solve
the mystery right away but love the thrill of putting all the pieces
together. The knowledge that it might never be solved only salivates our
curiosity. Well, to whet your appetite, here are some Unsolved Mysteries
That Will Make Your Head Spin.
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Easter Island and the Moai
As one of the most remote islands in the world, it’s a mystery how the
original inhabitants found or successfully traveled to Easter Island.
However, even more mysterious is the 10 to 270 ton human figure statues
called “Moai” that stretch around the coast of the island. There are
approximately 900 statues in all. The tallest completed statue is 33 ft
tall, but some believe uncompleted ones could have gone up to 69 ft.
While theories abound, no one knows exactly how the ancient inhabitants
transported these massive statues all over the island. |
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Amelia Earhart
Renowned for being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean,
Amelia Earhart is a legend and well known for trying to circumnavigate
the globe in 1937. Unfortunately, her attempt failed and she disappeared
over the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Three prominent theories
exist about what happened to her (and plenty of crackpot conspiracy
theories), but none have conclusively solved the mystery. |
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The Mothman
In 1966, two couples were in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, driving past
the “TNT Area” when they saw a figure in one of the buildings. They
described it as half-man, half bird, with glowing red eyes and a
wingspan of eight to twelve feet. The couples drove away when the
creature made a screeching noise. It pursued them but stopped at the
sight of city lights. A few days later there was another sighting, and
more and more sightings came up that year around the same area. Some
believe it could be a government experiment gone wrong or merely a large
sand hill crane. |
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Dyatlov Pass incident
A group of ten students decided to go on a ski trip out in the Ural
Mountains in 1959. When they made camp on Kholat Syakhl, they all went
to sleep that night in their tents. But something forced them to tear
holes out of their tents and run out into subzero temperatures with
hardly any clothes on. Some died of hypothermia, others of physical
trauma. One student had his skull crushed in while another female had
her tongue missing. Researchers don’t know what happened exactly but
believe an “unknown force” was involved. Explanations vary from
infrasound causing the campers to panic, military tests that went awry,
and a Yeti attack. |
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The Hinterkaifeck Mystery
In 1922, on a small farmstead 70 kilometers north of Munich, the Gruber
family maid started to get spooked. She claimed to see footsteps in the
attic and items being randomly moved. One day she had had enough, picked
up her things, and walked off the farm never to return. Mr. Gruber also
claimed to have seen footsteps walking into the barn but none coming
back. But, of course, when it’s your farm you can’t just walk away,
right? Well, one April day, one by one, each member of the Gruber family
was lured in the barn where they were murdered with a mattock. The
attacker then went into the house and murdered their two-year-old son
and the new maid. The murderers were never solved even after a team of
modern forensic students reopened the case.
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Göbekli Tepe
There are many mysteries buried beneath the Earth’s surface. One of
these is Gobekli Tepe, or “Potbelly Hill,” a neolithic archaeological
find in the country of Turkey. It’s dated back to the 10th millennium
BCE, which pre-dates the neolithic revolution, the time when
agriculture, writing, and the wheel, among other things, were
discovered. There are three layers of pillars in the soil, each buried
over top of each other. The giant stone pillars with animal pictographs
carved on each would take hundreds of men to move. No one knows how
these early men had the technology to develop these structures or what
purpose it served. The top theory is that it was a stone-age ritual
sanctuary, but its discovery raises more questions than provides
answers.
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