221 World’s Strange & Unsolved Mysteries

Fairy Circles are the circular patches of the land barren of plants, varying between 7 and 49 ft in diameter, often encircled by a ring of stimulated growth of grass. Vast carpets of green spinifex grass, pockmarked by barren red circles, are seen in the desert of northwest Australia. Such discs of bare soil also […]

The Face on Mars lies in an area known as the Cydonia region, which falls between the planet’s cratered southern highlands and the smoother northern plains. When the Viking 1 mission returned the photos of the Martian surface in 1976, the image of a rocky face in the Cydonia region captured the public eye. Viking

Extraterrestrial refers to any object or being beyond planet Earth. Extraterrestrial beings that have been reported, are claimed to be associated with UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). It is also believed there are many visitors here from the other worlds who are observing our planet. Extraterrestrial Life, also called Alien Life, is life that does not

An Earthquake Light is an unusual luminous aerial phenomenon that reportedly appears in the sky at or near the areas of earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. Appearances of the Earthquake Light seem to occur when the quakes have a high magnitude, generally 5 or higher on the Richter scale. There have also been the incidents of

In the early 1900–land surveyors dropped a rope down a cave in Boone County, Arkansas. After the rope had descended two hundred feet, a horrendous hissing and roaring sound was heard, suggesting that a bizarre and enormous beast had been disturbed. They dropped a flat iron tied to a rope to the same place in

Eight-year-old Dorothy Eady or Om Seti (Omm Sety) born to English parents claimed that ‘Temple of Seti’ the First at Abydos was her home while she saw a picture of the temple at the British Museum. Later, she attempted to learn more about reincarnation and spirituality. Dorothy insisted that she was a priestess named Omm

The Dorchester Pot is a small bell-shaped vase with a small opening at its top. The small vase is made entirely of zinc and was decorated with silver inlay, and six floral ornaments on its side and a kind of vine or crown on the bottom. The decorative work and perfect manufacturing of the vase

Derinkuyu was an entire city complex built in a hole beneath the surface in Turkey. It wasn’t just only an emergency housing or refuge shelter but a large city supplied with water, houses, church, shops, storage areas, living rooms, bedrooms and teaching schools. There were 13 different floors leading deep down, the lowest being at

In 1971, Dan Cooper boarded a flight in Portland bound for Seattle. He hijacked the plane to Seattle where he demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. The plane took off from Seattle with the marked bills. Cooper donned the parachute, tied the bank bag full of twenty dollar bills to himself, and lowered the

The Darvaza Gas Crater or The Door to Hell, is located in the Karakum Desert of central Turkmenistan. In 1971, Soviet geologists went to the Karakum in search of oil fields. They found what they thought to be a substantial oil field and began drilling. Unfortunately, they were drilling on top of a cavernous pocket

There are a dozen rare Crystal Skulls in private and public collections. Some are crystal-clear, others of smoky or coloured quartz. Some are actual human size and of very fine detail, while others are smaller and less refined. All are believed to originate from Mexico and Central America. Many believe these skulls were carved thousands

In 1892, Frank Burns of US. Geological Survey found strange coffins in the Crumf Cave in Murphy’s Valley, Alabama. The wooden coffins appeared to be hollowed out by fire, then chiselled with stone or copper tools. Each coffin was 7.5 ft long, 14-18 inches wide, and 6-7 inches deep. Eight of these coffins were sent

A Crop Circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop. Crop Circles appear weekly somewhere around the world. The strange patterns appear mysteriously overnight in a field, provoking delight and intrigue for locals and the news media. The circles are mostly found in the United Kingdom, but have now spread around the world. But

Cosmic Radio Bursts or Blitzars have a length of one millisecond in which time they create the same amount of energy that the Sun would create over a million years. The nine Blitzars that have been studied in the years since their discovery in 2007 have all been plucked from historical data. In January 2015,

The Chupacabra or literally ‘Goat-sucker’ is a legendary creature in parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico. The name comes from the animal’s reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats. It is purportedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a