History is filled with incredible and significant events that defy logic or explanation. Events that are known by many but still have yet to be explained, even by the world's greatest minds. The following are the most well-known cases of mysterious events ever documented. Here are the 10 most famous unsolved mysteries in history.
Number 10 - The Taos Hum.
The small town of Taos is most famous for a mystery that will literally leave your ears ringing. Located in North Central New Mexico Taos is home to a phenomenon that has left a number of investigators scratching their heads.
Since the early 1990s citizens have reported hearing a whirring, buzzing, or humming sound from inside the town. Seemingly coming from all directions this bizarre noise can be heard by only about 2% of the population.
Though many who visit share this gift as well. Researchers to this day are still attempting to record the sound but have failed to capture anything on their equipment which is very strange simply due to the number of people who swear they can hear it. Whether it's biological, psychological, or extraterrestrial the Taos Hum is truly a mystery.
Number 9 - The death of Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Born on October 2nd, 1904, Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and led the nation during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Sadly the day after peace was announced, Shastri was found dead still in the capital of Uzbekistan.
The Indian Prime Minister had seemingly suffered a fatal heart attack. But it wasn't long before the people began poking holes in that case claiming that murder was being covered up. Shastri's doctor had declared him healthy before the trip and he had no signs of heart issues.
Then a request for access to a document containing information about his death was denied by the Prime Minister's office. Was he suddenly killed by his own heart or could it have been more political reasons?
Number 8- Satanic decapitation.
Responding to a call to Golden State Park in San Francisco, California on February 8th, 1981 police were shocked to discover a headless body wrapped in a sleeping bag. Stuffed into the victim's neck were a chicken wing and two kernels of corn.
Nearby they found the rest of the chicken ritualistically slaughtered. Using his fingerprints the headless victim was identified as 29-year-old, Le Roy Carter, Jr. Sandi Gallant, an officer who specialized in satanic and occult killings was called in and claimed that Carter's head was being used to make a ritualistic brew.
She also said that the head would be returned to the crime scene 42 days later when the brew was finished. Unfortunately, nobody believed her theory so when the head was returned exactly 42 days later no officers were watching. The satanic killer, to this day, remains unidentified.
Number 7- The Bog People.
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Since the 1800s people in Northern Europe have been aware of the ancient mummies that tend to pop up in and around the sphagnum bogs. Thousands of naturally preserved bodies have been discovered in Ireland, Britain, and the Netherlands as well as Germany and Denmark.
Nicknamed the Bog People, these corpses date back to the Iron Age. And they keep appearing without any explanation as to why. The almost oxygen-free conditions in the bogs leave the bodies relatively intact with organs, skin, and even in many cases a full head of hair. Thus it's been determined that many, if not all of them, were murdered.
The most popular theories are that they were executed for criminal actions. Their sentencing was to be ritualistically sacrificed to the pagan gods. To this day thousands of bodies perfectly preserved have been discovered, except there have been no answers.
Number 6- D.B. Cooper.
On November 24th, 1971 a man in his mid-forties using the alias Dan Cooper boarded flight 305, a Boeing 727 at Portland International Airport with a one-way ticket. Soon after takeoff, he notified a flight attendant that he had a bomb and showed her a case with eight canisters and several wires in it.
Cooper, whom the media accidentally dubbed, D.B. Cooper managed to extort $200,000 in ransom and had it delivered to the plane by the FBI after landing in Seattle in exchange for all passengers on board.
The plane then took off headed to New Mexico but before it arrived Cooper lept out with a parachute. What happened to him to this day is still one of the greatest mysteries to man and is completely unknown.
There are hundreds of different theories offered as to why he survived the jump, where he and the money ended up, and of course who he really was.
Number 5- Pauline Picard.
In April of 1922, two-year-old Pauline Picard vanished from her home in France. A search of her town turned up nothing but a few weeks later police found a girl matching Pauline's description in a town over 400 kilometers away.
Her parents and siblings recognized her immediately. But Pauline didn't seem to know who they were. Then on May 27th, the body of a girl was found without a head, hands, or feet. With clothes matching what Pauline was wearing.
Soon after a head that didn't match the torso was found, all in an area that was heavily searched, meaning they were recently brought there. But if the body was Pauline's, who was the girl living the Picards? And whose head was next to the corpse? These questions have never been answered and the murderer has never been identified.
Number 4- The Black Dahlia Murder.
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On January 15th, 1947 the mutilated body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was discovered in Leimert Park in Los Angeles, California. Short hailed from Boston, Massachusetts and though she didn't find the fame that she craved while alive, she's famous today under the name the media gave her after she became the murder victim.
The Black Dahlia, due to the fact that Short's body was so horribly mangled, including being cut in half at her waist. The case became widely talked about and reported on. The investigation that followed concluded she'd either been killed on the day she was found or the evening before.
It also brought forward over 150 potential suspects, though none of them had enough evidence against them to make a murder charge stick. To this day no arrests have ever been made for the Black Dahlia's murder.
Number 3- Ambrose Bierce.
In October of 1913, a 71-year-old author and American Civil War Veteran, Ambrose Bierce set out from Washington, D.C. Visiting several battlefields that he'd fought on.
His travels brought him all the way to Mexico and on December 26th, Bierce sent a letter to his friend Blanche Partington, which said I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination, he was never heard from again.
Bierce's disappearance had brought forward a number of theories, ranging from the author being executed by Poncho Villa, a Mexican general. To have died in the United States with his secretary, the idea being that she concocted the story and wrote the letter herself.
But oddly Bierce had a fascination for disappearances, specifically ones that occurred out in the open or in front of witnesses. Who ended his life or is he even really dead?
Number 2- Amelia Earhart.
On July 2nd, 1937, thirty-seven-year-old American pilot and best-selling author Amelia Mary Earhart vanished while flying over the Pacific Ocean. Earhart and second navigator Fred Noonan took off around midnight from Lae, New Guinea.
Headed for Howland Island on what was to be the third to last flight before completing a trip around the world, but they never made it. Many theories are still offered as to why today.
Some claim that the plane ran out of fuel and crashed or that the pair survived and settled on one of the Phoenix Islands cut off from civilization. Then there are more wild theories that suggest that they were abducted by aliens.
Earhart's extensive experience in the cockpit made the fact that her plane vanished even more mysterious and led many to question exactly what happened to her. A question that still remains unanswered.
Number 1- The JFK assassination.
Around 12:30 in the afternoon on November 22nd, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was riding in a limousine convertible in Dallas, Texas when a gunman opened fire killing him.
Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the murder, but he claimed to be innocent and possibly a patsy due to some ties to the Soviet Union. But bizarrely before he could be tried, Oswald himself was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner who claimed to be saving Miss Kennedy from reliving the shooting at trial.
Many theories have come forward with some blaming the CIA, the KGB, Cuba's President Fidel Castro, the Mafia, and even Lyndon B. Johnson, the VP who became President when JFK died. A study done in 2013 found that 60% of Americans believe that there's a conspiracy behind the assassination.
To this day what happened to the president is still unknown and is one of the greatest mysteries in American history.
