Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
The disappearance of Frederick Valentich is one of the
eeriest mysteries that remains unsolved. On October 21, 1978, the 20-year-old
Valentich was piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over the Bass Strait en
route to King Island, Australia. During the flight,
Valentich was in radio communication with Melbourne
air traffic control, and he repeatedly made mention of a "strange aircraft
hovering on top of me." Right before a strange noise severed the
transmission, Valentich went on to say, "It is hovering and it's not an
aircraft." Other moments of the radio transmission recorded Valentich
saying, "Delta Sierra Juliet—Melbourne.
It seems like it’s (stationary) or (chasing me). What I'm doing right now is
orbiting, and the thing is just orbiting on top of me also … It's got a green
light, and sort of metallic (like). It’s all shiny (on) the
outside." In the moments leading up to Valentich's last reported
contact, a plumber named Roy Manifold had set up a time lapse camera on the
shoreline to capture the sun setting over the water. Upon developing the
photos, the images appeared to depict a fast-moving object exiting the water
nearly 20 minutes before Valentich's final transmission. A report conducted by
The Scientific Journal of Exploration said witnesses reported an
"erratically moving green light in the sky" at the time of
Valentich's flight. No trace of Frederick Valentich nor his aircraft has
ever been found. In 2012, Keith Basterfield, an Adelaide researcher who has
been investigating the disappearance since 1978, concluded, "The only
thing we can say for sure is that the plane and pilot disappeared while he was
describing a UFO - which is one of those things that just makes people
wonder."
Scotland's
Overtoun Bridge,
a.k.a. "The Dog Suicide Bridge," is a famous arch bridge that has
stood in Milton, Dumbarton,
Scotland since
1859. In the past 50 years, anywhere between 50 to 600 dogs have jumped to
their deaths off Overtoun
Bridge. Every dog has
reportedly jumped from the same point on the bridge into the same direction and
plummeted to the rocks 50 feet below. If that's not horrific enough, dogs who
jumped and survived the first attempt returned to the same spot and jumped to
their deaths on successive attempts. No one knows why so many dogs have
jumped to their deaths off Overtoun
Bridge in such eerie
fashion. However, theories include the dogs sensing depression in their owners,
the dogs knowingly committing suicide, the dogs succumbing to some kind of
supernatural power, and the dogs chasing the scent of something below the
bridge.
Blood Red Rain
Between July 25, 2001 and September 23, 2001, a blood red
rain fell over the southern Indian state of Kerala. Downpours of redness fell
from the sky to color the land and water and stain the clothing of the locals.
Witnesses reported loud thunder claps preceding the rainfall, followed by
entire groves of trees shedding shriveled "burnt" leaves. No one
knew exactly what caused the red rain, but it was hypothesized the rain had
been given the hue thanks to airborne spores from local terrestrial algae.
However, the bloody rain returned in the summer of 2006. In 2008, two
researchers, Godfrey Louis, Ph.D. and Santhosh Kumar, from Mahatma Gandhi
University in Kottayam introduced a hypothesis that got people talking:
"The mysterious red color in the rain is caused by unidentified life form
that does not have DNA....The molecular compostion of these cells is yet to be
identified." The blood-colored rain returned yet again in 2012 and
caused panic in the Indian people. There is still no definitive explanation for
its color.
The Oakville Blobs
On August 7, 1994, the town of Oakville, Washington was met by a gooey
gelatinous substance raining from the sky. For the following three weeks, the
mysterious blobs rained down on Oakville
six more times. During that span, many Oakville
residents started complaining they were suffering from a mysterious flu-like
illness that blurred their vision and caused shortness of breath. A sample
of the mysterious substance underwent testing, and the sample was reported to
contain a high concentration of human white blood cells. Subsequent tests
revealed two types of bacteria, one of which is found in the human digestive
system. Though nobody knows quite what the blobs that fell on Oakville were, many have
their theories:
* Some believed human waste was falling from airplanes
overhead, but the Federal Aviation Administration disproved that theory.
* Some suspected offshore ocean bombings sent jellyfish
particles into the sky and covered the 50-mile distance to Oakville.
* Others believe biological weapons tests conducted by the
military were the cause.
No samples of the blob remain today, and no one knows for
certain what caused them to rain on Oakville.
The Toynbee Tiles
Mysterious tiles with cryptic messages referencing Stanley
Kubrick's sci-fi masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' have been embedded in the
asphalt in dozens of cities throughout the U.S. and the world for decades, but
nobody knows how they came into existence. The tiles carry the message:
"TOYNBEE IDEA IN KubricK's 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET
JUPITER." The tiles, which have been appearing for more than three
whole decades, reference English historian Arnold J. Toynbee, for whom the
tiles have been coined. In all the years of the Toynbee Tiles' existence,
investigators only had one real suspect: a man named James J. Morasco, who did
have a relevant interest in the works of Kubrick and Toynbee. Morasco always
denied any involvement. He would've been in his 70s at the time the tiles were
planted, and he died in 2003. New tiles continued to appear (likely thanks to
copycats), and political rants and new messages like "House of Hades Tiles
Made From the Ground Bones of Dead Journalists" have accompanied the
original message. There are more than 60 tiles in Philadelphia,
New York City, Boston,
Washington D.C.,
Indianapolis, St. Louis,
Baltimore, Cleveland,
and Kansas City.
They also have also been found in in Brazil,
Chile, and Argentina.
The Severed Feet
Starting in 2007 and occuring for years, instances of
severed feet washing ashore plagued the Pacific Northwest.
More than eight feet had been strewn along the coast of British
Columbia and Washington
over the years, and most of the disembodied feet were found in running shoes.
What complicated matters was that two right feet were discovered, rather than
matching feet. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and British Columbia's coroner's office went
into action to get to the bottom of the mystery. Theories bouncing around
included:
* The feet were from victims of the Asian Tsunami of 2004 and
had washed ashore in the Pacific Northwest
years later.
* A psycho was on the loose with a calling card of severing
the victims' feet.
* A human trafficking ring was taking place.
* The feet were those of stowaways on ships out of Vancouver.
* The feet were those of passengers in a plane that crashed in
the ocean.
In 2012, authorities broke the case and concluded the feet
were those of suicide victims, most of whom had jumped to their deaths from a
bridge over the Fraser River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at Vancouver. The feet were
found in rubber-soled running shoes and boots because fish could chew threw
materials of the shoes. The rest of their bodies decomposed, while the
remaining severed feet in shoes were carried down the coastline.
The Tamam Shud Case
The Somerton Man Case, a.k.a. the Tamam Shud Case, has been
one of the world's wildest unsolved mysteries since 1948. The case involves a mysterious
unnamed deceased man discovered on Somerton
Beach in Adelaide, Australia. The
reasons the Tamam Shud Case is so mysterious include:
* The unidentified man was found on the beach immaculately
dressed in an expensive suit and polished shoes.
* His pocket included a pack of cigarettes that housed seven
cigarettes of a different, more expensive brand.
* His suitcase was found, but no name, markings or traces that
could provide his identity were found among the contents. Instead, the name
"Kean" or "T. Keane" was left on the case.
* A pouch sewn into the waistband of the dead man's trousers
revealed a tiny slip of paper revealing the words "Tamam Shud."
* "Tamam Shud" was determined to be a phrase used on
the final page of an obscure collection of poems called "The
Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam. The phrase is translated to "It is
ended."
Upon finding a copy of "The Rubaiyat" in the glove
box of a car from men who were at the beach the night before the dead man was
discovered, a five-lined code with one line crossed out was discovered and has
never been cracked.
In addition to all of those mysteries, there is the baffling
introduction of a young nurse who may have known more than she let on, the name
Alfred Boxall, a second copy of "The Rubaiyat," the revelation of a mysterious
sighting on Somerton beach, and countless other twists and turns that have
never been solved.
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