This list comprises the most famous unsolved mysteries known to man that really defy rational explanation or are just outright strange.
1. Shroud of Turin [Wikipedia]
The shroud of Turin is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who had apparently died of crucifixion. Most Catholics consider it to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. It is currently held in the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Despite many scientific investigations, no one has yet been able to explain how the image has been imprinted on the shroud and despite many attempts, no one has managed to replicate it. Radiocarbon tests date it to the middle ages, however apologists for the shroud believe it is incorrupt – and carbon dating can only date things which decay.
Prior to the middle ages, reports of the shroud exist as the Image of Edessa – reliably reported since at least the 4th century. In addition, another cloth (the Sudarium) known even from biblical times (John 20:7) exists which is said to have covered Christ’s head in the tomb. A 1999 study by Mark Guscin, a member of the multidisciplinary investigation team of the Spanish Center for Sindonology, investigated the relationship between the two cloths. Based on history, forensic pathology, blood chemistry (the Sudarium also is reported to have type AB blood stains), and stain patterns, he concluded that the two cloths covered the same head at two distinct, but close moments of time. Avinoam Danin (a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) concurred with this analysis, adding that the pollen grains in the Sudarium match those of the shroud.
2. Mary Celeste [Wikipedia]
Mary Celeste was launched in Nova Scotia in 1860. Her original name was “Amazon”. She was 103 ft overall displacing 280 tons and listed as a half-brig. Over the next 10 years she was involved in several accidents at sea and passed through a number of owners. Eventually she turned up at a New York salvage auction where she was purchased for $3,000. After extensive repairs she was put under American registry and renamed “Mary Celeste”.
The new captain of Mary Celeste was Benjamin Briggs, 37, a master with three previous commands. On November 7, 1872 the ship departed New York with Captain Briggs, his wife, young daughter and a crew of eight. The ship was loaded with 1700 barrels of raw American alcohol bound for Genoa, Italy. The captain, his family and crew were never seen again. The ship was found floating in the middle of the Strait of Gibraltar. There were no signs of struggle on board and all documents except the captain’s log were missing.
In early 1873, it was reported that two lifeboats grounded in Spain, one with a body and an American flag, the other containing five bodies. It has been alleged that these could have been the remains of the crew of the Mary Celeste. However, the bodies were apparently never identified.
3. The taos hum [Wikipedia]
The ‘Taos Hum’ is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide, especially in the USA, UK, and northern europe. It is usually heard only in quiet environments, and is often described as sounding like a distant diesel engine. Since it has proven indetectable by microphones or VLF antennae, its source and nature is still a mystery.
In 1997 Congress directed scientists and observers from some of the most prestigious research institutes in the nation to look into a strange low frequency noise heard by residents in and around the small town of Taos, New Mexico. For years those who had heard the noise, often described by them as a “hum”, had been looking for answers. To this day no one knows the cause of the hum.
4. Black Dahlia [Wikipedia]
In 1947 the body of 22 year old Elizabeth Short was found in two pieces in a parking lot in Los Angeles. According to newspaper reports shortly after the murder, Short received the nickname “Black Dahlia” at a Long Beach drugstore in the summer of 1946, as a play on the then-current movie The Blue Dahlia. However, Los Angeles County district attorney investigators’ reports state the nickname was invented by newspaper reporters covering the murder. In either case, Short was not generally known as the “Black Dahlia” during her lifetime.
Many rumours and tales have spread about the Black Dahlia, and the investigation (one of the largest in LA history) never found the killer.
5. Comte de Saint Germain [Wikipedia]
The Count of St. Germain (allegedly died February 27, 1784) was a courtier, adventurer, inventor, amateur scientist, violinist, amateur composer, and a mysterious gentleman; he also displayed some skills with the practice of alchemy. He was known as ‘Der Wundermann’ — ‘The Wonderman’. He was a man whose origin was unknown and who disappeared without leaving a trace.
Since his death, various occult organizations have adopted him as a model figure or even as a powerful deity. In recent years several people have claimed to be the Count of St. Germain. (Note that St Germain was never regarded as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church – the “st.” before his name refers to his alleged home).
6. Voynich manuscript [Wikipedia]
The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval document written in an unknown script and in an unknown language. For over one hundred years people have tried to break the code to not avail. The overall impression given by the surviving leaves of the manuscript suggests that it was meant to serve as a pharmacopoeia or to address topics in medieval or early modern medicine. However, the puzzling details of illustrations have fueled many theories about the book’s origins, the contents of its text, and the purpose for which it was intended.
The document contains illustrations that suggest the book is in six parts: Herbal, Astronomical, Biological, Cosmological, Pharmaceutical, and recipes.
7. Jack the Ripper [Wikipedia]
In the later half of 1888, London was terrorrised by a series of murders in the east end (largely in the Whitechapel area). The name Jack the Ripper was taken from a letter sent to a newspaper at the time by someone claiming to be the killer. The victims were typically prostitutes who had their throats cut and bodies mutilated. In some cases the bodies were discovered just minutes after the ripper had left the scene.
The police at the time had many suspects but could never find sufficient evidence to convict anyone. In modern times there has even been some speculation that Prince Albert Victor was the murderer. Even with modern police methods, no further light has been shed on the murders in recent times. To this day no one knows who the ripper was.
8. Bermuda Triangle [Wikipedia]
The Bermuda triangle is an area of water in the North Atlantic Ocean in which a large number of planes and boats have gone missing in mysterious circumstances. Over the years many explanations have been put forward for the disappearances, including bad weather, alien abductions, time warps, and suspension of the laws of physics.
Although substantial documentation exists to show that many of the reports have been exaggerated, there is still no explanation for the unusually large number of disappearances in the area.
9. The Zodiac Killer [Wikipedia]
The Zodiac killer was active in Northern California for ten months in the late 1960s. He killed at least five people, and injured two. He comitted the first two murders with a pistol, just inside the Benecia border. In his second shooting in Vallejo, he attempted to kill two people, but one survived despite gunshots to the head and neck. 40 minutes later the police recieved an anonymous phone call from a man claiming to be their killer and admitting to the murders of the previous two victims. One month three letters were sent to Newspapers in California containing a cypher that the killer claimed would give them his name. They cypher was decrypted to read:
“I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUE ANAMAL OF ALL TO KILL SOMETHING GIVES ME THE MOST THRILLING EXPERENCE IT IS EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH A GIRL THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAE WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND THEI HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY SLAVES I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOI DOWN OR ATOP MY COLLECTIOG OF SLAVES FOR MY AFTERLIFE EBEORIETEMETHHPITI” The last eighteen letters have not been decrypted.
While Arthur Leigh Allen was the prime suspect, all of the evidence was against him being the killer. To this day the Zodiac murders have not been solved.
10. The Babushka Lady [Wikipedia]
During the analysis of the film footage of the assasination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, a mysterious woman was spotted. She was wearing a brown overcoat and a scarf on her head (the scarf is the reason for her name as she wore it in a similar style to Russian grandmothers – also called babushkas). The woman appeared to be holding something in front of her face which is believed to be a camera. She appears in many photos of the scene. Even after the shooting when most people had fled the area, she remained in place and continued to film. Shortly after she is seen moving away to the East up Elm Street. The FBI publically requested that the woman come forward and give them the footage she shot but she never did.
In 1970 a woman called Beverly Oliver came forward and claimed to be the Babushka Woman, though her story contains many inconsistencies. She is generally regarded as a fraud. To this day, no one knows who the Babushka Woman is or what she was doing there. More unusual is her refusal to come forward to offer her evidence.
Due to popular demand I have written another similar article: Another 10 Unsolved Mysteries.
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About the Bermuda’s Triangle:
The marine insurer Lloyd’s of London has determined the Triangle to be no more dangerous than any other area of ocean, and does not charge unusual rates for passage through the region. United States Coast Guard records confirm their conclusion. In fact, the number of supposed disappearances is relatively insignificant considering the number of ships and aircraft which pass through on a regular basis.
The Coast Guard is also officially skeptical of the Triangle, noting that they collect and publish, through their inquiries, much documentation contradicting many of the incidents written about by the Triangle authors. In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker V.A. Fogg in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies [8] despite one Triangle author stating that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup (Limbo of the Lost by John Wallace Spencer, 1973 edition).
Skeptical researchers, such as Ernest Taves and Barry Singer, have noted how mysteries and the paranormal are very popular and profitable. This has led to the production of vast amounts of material on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle. They were able to show that some of the pro-paranormal material is often misleading or not accurate, but its producers continue to market it. They have therefore claimed that the market is biased in favour of books, TV specials, etc. which support the Triangle mystery and against well-researched material if it espouses a skeptical viewpoint.
Mugen: Thanks for that information – it is very interesting and my own personal view on these types of things is one of skepticism.
pedro: Thanks – I will correct that
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really nice post
great
i knew about most of them, cause i love these, but the “new” ones are really thrilling
(sorry 4 my english)
Thanks profesormarciano
The shroud of Turin is a fake. It has been dated and found to be only about 600 yrs old ( or so). the crucifixion marks are in the wrong place. They should be in the wrists not the hands. Your hands would not be able to hold your weight. The only interesting thing about it is how it was faked. Some researchers have linked it to DaVinchi and may have been made using early photographic like chemicals. As far as the so called Bermuda Triangle goes, ships sink, planes crash,get over it. When freight trains in Minnesota disappear then you have something.
stigmata is proof that the holes should be in the hands.believe it or not, hitting the bone of the middle finger hurts more than the wrist because one is a joint and the other is a long bone.besides the shroud is not the subject.are you attempting to be faith shaker?
I’m on your side in terms of being men of faith, but tod is right about one thing: nails through the hands simply wouldn’t support the weight of a crucified body. The wrists are a much stronger anchor point. But as someone mentioned below, the shroud of Turin does actually show the marks in the wrists, not the hands, so tod’s point is moot.
Tod: the Shroud has not been proven fake – it is generally accepted that the part of the cloth tested was from repairs made in the middle ages. No one knows exactly the method used for crucifixion so we can’t say the marks are in the wrong place. Also, regardless of the connections made with Da Vinci etc. no one (not even modern science) has been able to make a replica of the Shroud. In addition, the scientific evidence from the Sudarium matches it to the Shroud (pollens etc.) and the Sudarium is known from at LEAST 600AD (though it is also mentioned in the Gospel of John). They are even made from the same cloth.
As far the triangle, even science says the amount of planes and ships to go down are well above the average. Maybe if the freight train from minnesota rode through the Bermuda triangle it would vanish?
About The Shroud of TURIN: The crucifixion marks are NOT in the hands, they´re in the wrists. Show me any image, please, where those marks are shown in the hands. Every image I’ve seen show the crucifixion marks right in the wrists.
This is, in fact, one of the multiple mysteries about Turin’s Shroud, cause every (or most) painting about Jesus crucifixion clearly show the nailings in the hands, not in the wrists.
must say that tod is right: “the hands wouldn’t be able to hold your weight”.
The depictions of Christ’s crucifixion which show nails through the hand are probably due to the biblical reference in the Gospel of John which says Christ was crucified through the hands; however the Greek text word for hands (χείρ) had a larger use than our word hand and refers to any part of the forearm to (and including) the hand.
There is a very large crucifix at the London Oratory which shows the nail going through the wrists and not the hands.
The Shroud of Turin is an obvious fake. There was no historical Jesus.
Fake shroud? Yes
No Jesus? Please…
Updoc: wow – thanks for that – fancy us all being tricked by the historians for the last 2000 years! You offer such strong proof that we have no choice but to rewrite all the history books. Where were all the smart people like you when they were writing all the lies?
Shroud of Turin is a fake from the 1500's. It's been dated fairly accurately. It's been reproduced with techniques available at the time. The explanation for a fake shroud are better than the "inexplicable" image from the face of Jesus itself.
Of course that does not prevent people from believing it's legitimate. Like they believe the bible is the word of God (when clearly it is man made) or that the earth is 6000 years old.
It is in human nature to want to convince others of their own convictions, nobody holds opinions knowing those are false. But ever since I've been told Santa Claus was not real I take any extraordinary claim with a good dose of doubt.
not a fake ! There is overwhelming evidence to disprove the sceptics like you
Does no one do any research here? Solo: no one has been able to replicate the shroud – if you think they have, can you past a link to the evidence? It is also now generally accepted by scientists that the part of the shroud tested was from one of the repairs which we know happened after it was damaged in the middle ages. No one has, as yet, carbon tested a piece of the original linen. You are all welcome to comment but at least try to give some validation to your views
Also, if you read the Wikipedia article, you will see that no one actually knows how the image is composed – you can’t replicate something if you don’t know how it is made.
Monkeys throw their *****!!
Jesus ***** *****ing christ harry, why dont u do some goddamn research before u go off and accuse poor innocent little monkies of such a horrendis crime. That has never been proven, so until u bring some tangible evidence to the table you're the only one here throwing ***** and its coming from your face.
They solved the black dahlia becuase they had a big special about this guy heres the link http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/05/10/black.dahlia.ap/
Shroud of Turn is a fake. Shroud shows a black man and everbody nos Jesus was a chink.
Hey u moron. its only the impression of a man, not a photograph.
i think if it was paint on that piece of cloth they would have detected that you idiot.
I am amazed at how quick people will cling to an idea if it appeals to them or their beliefs… Do just a little research (that means read more than 1 article) and then view what you believe is fact or fiction. For those of you that are ATHEIST, we all pray for you… But check this out, at the end of my Life I have something to look forward to… You guys have nothing… Correct me if I am wrong… Your lives must be so overwhelming to have to deal with all of us Christians. GOD BLESS YOU! (if he so chooses)
That's not true you Christians BELIEVE you have something to look forward to once you die; just because you think something is true doesn't mean it is. You people never have any proof or evidence to back up your claims either and the bible isn't proof. Any logical person understands that if there is an afterlife those that are good go to heaven and those that are bad go to hell; your belief in whether it exists or not is irrelevant.
In regard to the comment of “how convient and coincidental.” It’s called FAITH.
It has been proven that it is possible to crucify someone with the nails through they’re hands.. you only need a small pedestal for the person to rest theyre legs and/or for them to be attached by the waist and voila!
dood it wasnt a houdini show where after the crucifixion the romans went voila . get ur facts buddy
Solo – I am not going to debate the issue in comments here
Just at least read the article (which you obviously haven’t done) because it states clearly that the scientists do not know how the image was made – it is not paint.
Mike: thanks for that link – I will check it out.
Isodora: it happens in the UK as well – there are a few spots in the world where people hear it – very weird!
Rufus – dictionary.com?
Please come to Ngabang, west Kalimantan, Indonesia to hear this phenomenon. It's humming every seconds of the day and night. Non stop. Serious!
Moses WHChong
"no one actually knows how the image is composed"
I think it's been a while we mastered "paint on fabric".
"part of the shroud tested was from one of the repairs which we know happened after it was damaged in the middle ages."
How convenient and coincidental.
I'll let you believe what you want to believe. It's fine with me. I'm not here to challenge your faith, even though you seem pretty eager to defend it. Like I said, Santa Claus.
To start off, no pigments or paints can be found on the fabric, IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PAINTED. So please dont repeat statements that have been disproven. It is also true that the scienticsts tested a part of the cloth that was repaired during the middle ages. A scienticst who bashed the people who doubted the carbon dating results discovered this. It is a fact that the carbon dating was conducted on different cloth than the one used to make the original shroud.
to solo : you accuse us of being wanting to believe what we believe. how about you yourself ? haven’t you looked at yourself at mirror ? you are as stubborn as we are. you stick with the past discovery which support what you believe and refuse to look up for the further development of the research. any future discoveries which fail your belief deemed faked to you.
All this debate about christ and religion bah ! What about the crazy sound in Taos !? Why can we not record it or figure it out ? Im thinking magnatisim ?
More likely it’s not a real phenomena. People see and hear things that aren’t actually there all the time, especially if they’re trying to hear it.
hey, how come no mention of croatoan? to the best of my knowledge thats a mystery that hasn’t been solved as well. oh well no biggy. oh, and they know who jack the ripper was. if you’ve seen from hell you would know it was bilbo baggins. j/k man. great article.
jfrater some of these people are just from ebaumsworld.com trying to ruin the comments.
Any time you see them, if you can just delete them.
About Jack the Ripper, i read a book that was written by a forensic scientist/author and who all her research points to – but she’s been criticized for all of it. the book is portrait of a killer by patricia cornwell. it’s not necessarily true, but her research is pretty intense.
There was a programme on british tv, think it was bbc or itv cant remember for sure, that gave an explanation for the mary celeste. it showed that leaking alcohol vapour from the cargo caught fire in the hold blowing off the hatches and forcing the crew to abandon the ship as they thought it was going to burn and sink. But the temperature of the fire was not hot enough to set the wood on fire, or even to do any visible damage to it. They showed several experiments to prove this as well. This would explain the crew disappearing into the life boats mentioned in the story above and also why there appeared to be no sign of damage or struggle on the ship. Ill have a look to see if i can find a link to the programme and post it if i find it.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/inthenews/itn060522
Its not quite a link to the programme itself but tells you a little about what the programme showed.
OK, the shroud, even if it isnt a fake, was confirmed made 600 yrs ago, christ died 2000. anyone here actually pass math? come on now. As for the bermuda triangle, scientist theorize that large deposits of methane bubbles under the ground at the sea floor, get released and when they surface, they are sometimes strong enough to pull a ship under, even upset airflow enough to cause turbulance. its a theory, it isnt the one i agree with, but its a theory
Sigma: it was not confirmed – the piece of fabric tested came from one of the patches visible around the shroud – carbon dating has not been performed on the original sections of cloth and the Church is currently not allowing any sections to be cut as it would be considered a sacrilege.
Daniel: great – thanks for that
krunkisdead: thanks for mentioning that – I hadn’t heard of it before you mentioned it – I am definitely going to do some reading on the tribe – it sounds very interesting.
Sam: thanks for the headsup
What about the mysterious Marfa lights? In Marfa Texas?
dogmatic static: I hadn’t heard of those either – thanks. I am going to have to put together a users choice top 10 of extra bizarre things!
Loki- It’s called faith? You know what faith is, don’t you? Faith is the abandonment of logic. Faith is giving up on trying to actually figure out something real and instead going with what a bunch of other idiots say. For thousands of years people praised gods like Amun-Ra and Zeus. Where was your god then? You claim that the god who created the universe just decided he would lay low for a while? So all those people must be in hell now, right? Use your brain for a minute and actually think about your religion. IT MAKES NO SENSE.
Boy – we sure opened a can of worms here!
This is why religion cannot be reasonably discussed.. Harryballzonya had the most interesting thing to say
Everyone seems to be an expert, huh
Though the origins of the shroud of Turin are (obviously) disputed, it is interesting to consider that the Holy Catholic Church won’t allow “non-repaired” portions of the cloth to be tested. The obvious implication (to myself at least) is that the even the “confident” Church is terrified of being proven wrong by conclusive testing proving that the whole thing is fake…
I suppose that the point of this post is not necessarily to point doubt towards the Shroud of Turin (though I don’t personally believe it to have any historical or scientific significance) but moreover to point skepticism towards the confidence of the church in the matter…
Actually, there was a historical Jesus Christ. Son of god? nah. A teacher similar to buddha? Probably.
First off, there isn’t just one Buddha. It’s more of a title than a person. But that aside, you can make an argument that there’s no direct evidence that Jesus Christ was a real person. All historical accounts of him are second hand at best, and even within the bible, the stories about him conflict one another frequently. Personally, I think it’s pretty inconclusive either way.
ajvaa: The Church doesn’t fear that type of thing – if it were a total fake it would make no difference – the Church stands on its faith and dogmas, not a piece of cloth or a piece of art. The fact is, the church’s hands are tied because if there is even the remotest chance that it is real, they must ensure that it not be damaged because that would be sacrilege. So really, the Church is in a difficult position and we will never really know one way or the other.
please explain how it would be damaged, that church is based on the bible and nothing else and that too it seems was a complete fabrication. Read the oldest scripture know to man it was in a language(completely rebuffed by the western world) recently accredited and confirmed as genuine SANSKRIT , viz, the VEDAS
Ajva made a brilliant point
Also the GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL RAM's BRIDGE
Daniel: interesting points on the hum – perhaps it is just a larger group of people in one area with particularly sensitive ears who are hearing it. It will be very interesting if they ever discover the real cause.
As for your comments on the shroud – you are right that the three tests all found roughly the same date, but remember, the cloth they tested was from one of the repaired sections – not from the original, so it only proves the fact that the shroud was repaired in the middle ages (something we already knew from the history books). The sudarium was a different piece of cloth, you are right, but that doesn’t really have any bearing on the debate because if it were real, it would have been put on the head of the victim upon removal from the cross, and replaced in the tomb later with the burial shroud.
The sample for the carbon dating was was actually part of reweave. They didn’t test multiple areas of the shroud. Ray Rogers article in Thermochimica Acta states:
“Pyrolysis-mass-spectrometry results from the sample area coupled with microscopic and microchemical observations prove that the radiocarbon sample was not part of the original cloth of the Shroud of Turin. The radiocarbon date was thus not valid for determining the true age of the shroud.”
sciencedirect.com article
If anybody is a looking for a good website…go to the following:
http://www.shroud.com/
It was created and is maintained by the official photographer of STURP (the group of scientists who studied it in the 70s). Has many of the original scientific articles on it.
jfrater: no problem glad i could be of some use. I must admit tho, i am going to disagree slightly with the shroud. It was dated independently by 3 different organisations all of which returned a result of inbetween 600-700 years old. Which unfortunately puts the creation of the shroud rite in the middle of the rather costly and unsuccessful crusades. And with wat u said earlier, the shroud of turin and the Sudarium are not the same bit of cloth they are even woven differently, the shroud being a far more complex weave if i remember correctly. But arguin on the shroud is a bit of a marmite debate, theres no middle ground and its a debate in which people are very unlikely to change their stance.http://skepdic.com/shroud.html is a link that raises many interesting points. Not sure if i agree with everything but it does get you thinkin.
As for the taos hum, my opinion is that it is almost certainly man made. If it sounds like an engine that would suggest to me that it has a relatively constant frequency which in turn would suggest, to me, man made. Especially as in japan the source was attributed to fans. As for it being plate movements, im unconvinced as why would it be heard in the UK and not in places of far higher tectonic activity? Id also say that the reason some people can hear it and others cant is that although strickly speaking humans can hear all the way down to 0Hz many cannot hear below 20Hz and the frequency of the hums reported have been below that. This would also explain why its hard to record as alot of audio equipment cuts off at 20-30Hz. Also wikipedia says people "hear" it worse at nite, surely this is less busy people, less cars and so on so less background noise to cover it up??
Thts jst my 2cents tho
it could happen if the three pieces came from the same area of the cloth. Perhaps the nuns were too “stingy” to give away the more” significant area of the cloth for the research. ..as it would be a kind of reduction of the relic.
Im not convinced with this “repaired patch” arguement it seems pretty weak. That journal nature or whatever it was said that the fibres were deliberately chosen away from the patches and why would a team of clever scientists trying to date the original cloth take fibres from a repair? That seems like an awfully big oversight to make. Plus it was damaged in the fire in the 16th century which was only 500 years ago not the 600-700 quoted by the carbon dating. Admittedly carbon dating can make mistakes but none of the tests came back with a result of 500.
I think ajvaa is getting close to the truth. The Catholic Church has had a lot of bad press of recent, just imagine the outcry if one of their most holy artifacts turned out to be a middle age fake to try and drum up support for the crusades. I think that would make alot of people question a lot more.
Jello- Ray Rogers was proven wrong by Walter McCrone and Joe Nickell according to the previous link I posted.
Daniel,
That Rogers article was from 2005. Walter McCrone died in 2002 so he could not have proven that article wrong.
Jello- ah ok sorry bout that. The link I posted did have them provin Rogers wrong bout something, must have been something different then, did sound similar tho. :-S But if the carbon dating was done in 1988 and the samples that were used were destroyed in the process how was Rogers able to examine them in 2004?
He studied a couple thread left over. Granted not a great sample which Nickell does point out.
Why do people question faith? Faith isnt necessarily a religous thing! And what IF these other gods such as Zeus or Amun-ra was "our" god represented to other cultures? Our religion does not have to make sense to those that do not believe in it. Because those that do believe in God dont need to have proof.. .they just have faith which sometimes is even better. I feel sorry for people that question everything and cant just accept that there may be something greater than science.
I feel sorry for people that question nothing and just can’t accept that there may be something greater than their god.
Yea the passage I read about McCrone was quoted and slightly out of context but I found the full article and it says that Rogers report of 2005 contradicts McCrone’s findings of 1996. Sounds like Roger’s and McCrone were always arguing with each other so I don’t know how much attention Id pay to one when they say the other has done wrong. Jost of my own head tho is it possible that those fibres were deliberately left behind because they were from a patch?
Awesome article. I like how so many people (ahem: Solo) are trying to start arguments when at no point did you say these are all true. At least that’s what I thought when you refered to the atricle as Mysteries. I personally think the Shroud of Turin was not Jesus’ shroud; however it is fairly mysterious that they cannot reproduce it. Anyways like I said, really enjoyed the article.
Guys, you’ve really got to chill out. Read it, enjoy it. If you don’t agree, get over it. Get a life, and stop trying to show off your “knowledge” to everyone else. GAH.
Jack the Ripper, although the killer never convicted, there is numerous pieces of evidence that point to a suspect and they have made an entire book, in which the writer is convinced that Jack the Ripper is a man named Walter Sickert. Evidence consists of portraits he has drawn on the crime scene at which the victims were found. Drawings made on the Jack the Ripper letter and doodles of Sickert. Circumstantial evidence for some of the murders. An obsessive amount of letter sent by Sickert matches that of the Ripper and most convincing, his DNA found on some of these letters.
I agree with “Annoyed”. I thoroughly enjoyed the list.
Jfrater: maybe if there’s a part two of this list (which judging by these posts is inevitable) you can include the Bimini Roads? Your thoughts….
jfrater dont u have anything else better to do? ive seen u comment on this dumb thing like 14 times. get a life.
and even if the shroud is fake its not that big of a deal.
and that babushka lady, her name is Barbra Bush.
Very interesting article! I did a bit of reading on the shroud, especially after reading all this debate about it, and you’re quite right, it is definately a mystery! Despite all the research put into it, still it is unconfirmed one way or another. I hadn’t heard of a lot of these, so I really enjoyed the article.
For example, the Voynich manuscript? I’d love to read more about that. How can there be a publication in an unknown language/ script intended (possibly) for practical use? Very strange…I feel like the Babushka lady is like something out of a movie, you know, where the main character meets her in the end or something.
Another mystery you left out, which I expected to be on the list: The disappearance of the original Roanoke colony. Perhaps that has since been solved and they need to update the history books, but every time I learned about that (several years), I found it interesting.
Again, great article, thanks!
Mike: That link for the Dahlia case doesn’t say they proved that the doctor killed her, only that his son is convinced that his father did it. Not once in the article does it say that the case is closed or that the late doctor is regarded as the murderer. The son just believes that his father killed Elizabeth Short.