221 World’s Strange & Unsolved Mysteries

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is alleged to have died in a plane crash during World War II. Some say that this was just a ploy to help him escape to the USSR. Several committees which were set up to investigate his death did not give any conclusive report. Many people believe that Subhash Chandra Bose […]

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, built about 5,000 years ago. Its first unique stone circle was erected in 2500 BC. About 200 or 300 years later the central bluestones were rearranged to form a circle and inner oval. The last prehistoric activities at Stonehenge were the digging around the stone settings of

St. Elmo’s Fire is a weather phenomenon involving a gap in electrical charge. It is named after St. Erasmus of Formia (also called St. Elmo, one of the two Italian names for St. Erasmus, the other being St. Erasmo), the patron saint of Mediterranean sailors. It is plasma or ionized air that emits a glow,

Satellites images have revealed what appears to be a massive staircase leading up the side of a huge snowy mountain in Antarctica. The area is supposed to be a barren wasteland just off the coast of Antarctica, covered in a thick blanket of snow. Some suggested the huge staircase could be part of a pyramid

SS Ourang Medan is an abandoned ship whose crew had mysteriously perished in the straits of Malacca in June, 1947. Several vessels around picked up SOS distress signals from it stating: ‘All crew including captain are dead,’ followed by another grim message: ‘I die’. The Silver Star went to rescue and found the Captain’s remains

Canada’s Spotted Lake located at Osoyoos in British Columbia is noted for possessing numerous minerals such as the sulphates of magnesium, calcium and sodium. When the water evaporates in summer, large ‘spots’ of minerals are found hardened forming natural walkways, in the hues of white, pale yellow, green or blue. The waters have a therapeutic

Perfectly Spherical Boulders or Moeraki Boulders are found on Koekohe Beach, on the south island of New Zealand. These formations were created by hardening sea sediments that have been exposed through erosion. The boulders measure up to 3 metres in diameter, and were formed around 60 million years ago. Studies show their composition as magnesium

South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), known as the Bermuda Triangle of Space, is the point where the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the Earth come closest to the planet’s surface. It is between 1,000 and 6,000 km above the Earth’s surface and one of the most dangerous areas of radiation ever encountered. Astronauts on space

In 1964, a Carlisle fireman took a photo of his daughter on Burgh Marsh. The chemist who processed the pictures pointed out that the shot had been spoiled by a figure in the background. Mr Jim Templeton, the photographer, was shocked to see a mysterious figure wearing something like a spacesuit in the frame looked

These tyre-shaped Snow Donuts are entirely natural. They are found mostly in the open Prairies of North America. The weather conditions that are needed for these to form include wind, temperature, snow, ice and moisture. A Snow Doughnut can range in size from a tennis ball to more than half a metre tall. They start

The Snow Chimneys, also known as Fumaroles, are vents that let steam to escape into the open from volcanoes. In extremely cold temperatures like in the Arctic, the steam freezes as soon as it escapes from the vent. It forms a layer around the vent. Subsequently formed frozen vents heap on one another making massive

Heavy Sliding Stones appear to move across a dried lake bed known as Racetrack Playa, in California’s Death Valley National Park, leaving a trail behind them in the cracked mud. This apparent movement has been attributed to space aliens or magnetic fields. Nobody had actually seen the movement. Some researchers believed that strong winds could

Skeleton Lake or Roopkund is situated at an altitude of 5,029 metres, in the Himalayas in Uttarakhand. Hundreds of skeletons used to be sighted here when slow melts. The bodies dated to around 850 AD. On research, it was found that the cause of death was due to a fatal blow on the back of

A carpet of beautiful green forest, that was perforated by two enormous and apparently very deep holes (Sima Humboldt and Sima Martel), was discovered by a pilot in 1961. Sima Humboldt has a depth of 314 metres and Sima Martel is 248 metres deep. Sima Menor contains the stalactites of exotic black mineral called litiophorite,

The giant Siberian Sinkhole is an 80-metre hole that has been gradually filling up with water and is turning into a lake. It was discovered in 2014, and located in Russia’s northern Yamal Peninsula. It currently has a depth of 10 metres, but researchers say it will continue to rise and it is a natural