World's biggest mysteries compilation
The world is a spiralling wonder for those who appreciate and admire it, hurtling around the sun at around 67,108 MPH. Of course, with over 7 billion occupants, there's bound to be some conspiracies shrouded in mystery. Here's some of my favourite:The Wow! Signal
This is a 72 second signal recorded by Jerry Ehman in 1977, who was scanning deep space radio signals, when he came across this signal sent from a place no human had ever been, leading to many believing it was sent by Aliens. He proceeded to write "Wow!" On the circled printout of the signal thus, it's name. No other recording like this has ever been found.
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| Image from: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal |
John Titor
Someone, or something began to use social media websites around the 00's under the name "John Titor". He claimed to be a time traveller from the year 2036, looking for an "IBM 5100". He claimed he was an American Soldier, who lives in Florida, who has been sent, by time travel, to retrieve the IBM 5100, as it was thought to have "hidden features" needed in our future, his present. Whilst here, John made many predictions on what, at the time, was to happen in the future. Despite some, including America to Wage war on Iraq, and the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster, of his predictions turning out to be true, some, including the 2008 Olympics being cancelled, were just....not. NB: the Olympics that year did actually come quite close to being cancelled.
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| Image posted by John, showing a laser beam being bent. Some have proved this image fake. Image from: http://johntitorreporter.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/from-old-worldline-old-john-titor-posts.html |
Jack The Ripper
The nickname given to a serial killer around 1888, who targeted young women, and brutally murdered them. He was never identified. A letter emerged, claiming to have been written by Jack himself, although was set aside as a hoax.
The Babshka Lady
Again, never identified, the Babushka Lady is said to be the only woman who really knows about what happened on the day of JFK's assassination. She is clearly seen, in pictures, and footage taken at the moment of the assassination stood only a few metres away from the car. She was also filming the event, and was pointing her camera at a grassy bank, which some believe shots also came from. It's said that information from her would have been "Key to help discover further knowledge and understanding of what happened". She wore a red scarf over her head, like Russian ladies, hence her nickname. In the moments directly after the shooting, she is seen to be the only person who did not react to the shooting, which lead some to believe that she could have been involved. A Woman, called Beverly Oliver had claimed to be the Babushka Lady, though this was debunked, as she failed to provide any evidence, or correct information. Most notably, she claimed that she shot the footage on a camera, that was not made, until two years after the assassination.
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| The Babushka Lady, pointed out with a red arrow. Image from http://www.historicmysteries.com/the-babushka-lady/ |
This is almost an online treasure hunt, set up by an unknown organization, for, what is believed to be a recruitment programme, although nobody's certain.some also claim it to be a hacker group, and other a Cryptocurrency group. It is yearly, and launches on the 5th January. It consists of a series of clues, leading to further clues and riddles, until, eventually, you are lead to "the virtual finish line", supposedly in the dark net. It consists mainly of Cryptography and Steganography puzzles, although you will also need a good knowledge of other factors, such as Welsh poetry, ancient Mayan history, and classical music.
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| The Cicada 3301 logo. Image from: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301 |
A mystery that has speculated the world for centuries. It's believed that there was once a city named Atlantis, that was swallowed by the ocean. There has been artefacts brought up, which give evidence that this city once did exist, as well as a mysterious railway that leads into the sea, which some people believe leads to Atlantis.
The Voynich Manuscript
A mysterious book bought by Wilfrid (Voynich), who soon discovered that it contained writing, in an indecipherable language, with vivid pictures, mainly of plants. Professional and amateur codebreakers have attempted to decipher the code, although none have been successful so far.
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| The Voynich Manuscript Image from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2551512/Has-Voynich-manuscript-DECODED-Mysterious-15th-century-text-written-lost-Aztec-language.html |
An internet Cryptocurrency, in which one coin amounts to approximately $1,000. Attempts have been made to pin the creation to a user named "Shatoshi Makamoto" although responsibility has never been claimed.
Notable mentions
Webdriver Torso
A YouTube user under this name began to post 11 second YouTube videos, featuring various red and blue rectangles, moving along to a computer generated tone. Other than this, Webdriver Torso has also posted two different videos, one of the Eiffel Tower glistening at night, and then, the camera moving down, presumably to be switched off, whilst showing a blurry Facebook page. Another is of a French cartoon, "Aqua teen hunger force" which is locked behind a €1.99 (£1.63) paywall, and can only be accessed in France, which lead people to believe Webdriver had French connections, considering red, blue and white, the colours featured in his videos, were the colours of the French flag. The only known communication from Webdriver torso is a comment that was posted by the channel on its Eiffel Tower video, "Matei is highly intelligent".The solution? It was simply a way for Google to test video and sound quality by creating short videos on the server. Nope, not aliens, or spies. Sorry.
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| Webserver Torso's YouTube account Image from: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/05/05/weird-and-wonderful-the-webdriver-torso-mystery-videos-explained-and-remystified/ |
Shroud of Turin
An ancient piece of cloth thought to have Jesus Christ's face imprinted on it. I'm afraid not. Radiocarbon results show the cloth was made no earlier than 1260.
The Bloop
A mysteriously low frequency recorded in the Pacific Ocean. It was said that mermaids and/or mermen could have produced frequency, but they weren't correct, however, it was simply caused by icequakes.
Hope you liked that, and yeah, I know it was long, but I missed out quite a few of the mysteries as well, so there could be room in the future for an update on this, or a part two, if I can get enough information.
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