221 World’s Strange & Unsolved Mysteries

An area in Vermont, US, became popular for all the wrong reasons. Nicknamed as the Bennington Triangle, the area comprises the Glastenbury Mountain, and the towns Bennington, Somerset, Shaftsbury, Woodford and Glastenbury. These towns once flourished in the logging business and later for some reason became abandoned, ghosts towns. But the real reason for its […]

Like treasure maps, ciphertexts were used for hiding treasures and transmitting information secretly. In 1820, a man named Thomas J. Beale buried his treasure in a specific location in Bedford Country, Virginia. Beale then handed over a set of three ciphertexts in a box to a friend and mysteriously disappeared. 23 years later, the friend

Baychimo is a cargo steamship that carried provisions and fur for the Inuit people living along the coast of Victoria Island, Canada. In 1931, when the ship got stuck in thick ice on its way, the crew set up a temporary shelter hoping for a miracle. On the contrary, the ship disappeared and was found

Why is Bardarbunga still erupting? The eruption of the volcano in Iceland began at the end of August, 2014 and continues to this day. The volcano has been unique in three main ways: the enormity of its lava field, the amount of hazardous sulphur dioxide it has released and the astonishing amount of sinking that

Ball Lightning is a rare event that happens in the sky. But unlike a regular lightning that appears as branched lines. Ball Lightning is a glowing ball of light which can be as small as a marble or as large as a gas balloon. What makes it more intriguing is the fact that it lasts

Mount Baigong in China has a long sequence of pipe-like structures that were probably made by some advanced extraterrestrial beings. These pipes date back to a time when human beings did not have the technology to make such pipes. People in the surrounding areas say they have been there for centuries and they are sure

A strange artifact was found in Baghdad, Iraq, which later came to be known as the Baghdad Battery. This 2,000-year-old artifact has an undeniable resemblance to today’s batteries. It is a 6-inch clay vase with an inner copper cylinder and a central iron rod. When a model of the battery was made in the lab

Near the Ural Mountains in Russia, there is a prehistoric archaeological site that dates back to the 17th century BC. The site, popularly known as Arkhaim, is a huge circular settlement with a diameter of 150 cm. It has a central square area with two circular walls around which were living quarters. No one knows

The Ark of the Covenant was a chest made of acacia wood, overlaid with pure gold inside and outside. It is a gold-covered wooden chest supposed to contain the two stone tablets of the 10 Commandments. According to various texts within the ‘Hebrew Bible’, it contained Aaron’s rod and a pot of manna. The casket

You might have heard of a perfect place to relax or go on a holiday. But the Aokigahara Forest is known as the best place to die. Also known as the Suicide Forest, this dense forest is located at the base of Mount Fuji, Japan. It is believed that the ‘yurei’ or the ghosts of

UFO sightings and the possibility of aliens date back to about 1440 BCE. But if there is one mystery that supersedes everything else, then it has to be the Aluminium Wedge of Aiud. This wedge-shaped object was found in 1974, when two Mastodon bones were unearthed from the banks of River Mures in Auid, Romania.