The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was shot once in the back and once in head
while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade through the streets
of Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey
Oswald was arrested 45 minutes after the shots were fired. After hours of
interrogation, in which none of the proper procedures were followed, he was
accused of murder. He was killed by Jack Ruby in the garage of the police
building on November 24 in front of hundreds of journalists. On November 29,
President Lyndon B. Johnson created the Warren Commission to investigate the
assassination. It was headed by Earl Warren, the Chief Justice of the United States, and found that Oswald was the
lone shooter and that he did it from the sixth floor of the Schoolbook Depository
Building with an Italian
Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.
One of the oldest unsolved murder cases in the world, Jack
the Ripper instilled fear into the heart of Victorian London and still captures
our imagination today. Between August and November 1888, five prostitutes were
murdered in Whitechapel, an area in the East End of London. Everything about
the murders seems to be shrouded in mystery, from the identity of the killer to
the letters that were sent to the police. Even the number of victims is under
scrutiny. It is generally accepted that there were five victims of Jack the
Ripper. Jack the Ripper had a real effect on, not only the rest of London, but also the entire British
Empire. The legend played on the fears that poverty, crime,
disease and social unrest were at their doorstep, and Jack the Ripper became
the personification of all these evils.
The Mystery of Stonehenge
Built in three sections over 6,400 years by the Neolithic
inhabitants of Salisbury Plain in Southern England, Stonehenge
has captivated visitors for thousands of years. The site contains 30 sarcens
(upright stones) weighing 26 tons, and 30 lintels (horizontal top stones). Each
stone weighs 6 tons and was carved from bluestone from a location several miles
away. The Neolithic builders were able to create a monumental that has
perplexed humanity for thousands of years using only stone tools, and without
using draft animals. Even after all these years, nobody really knows why Stonehenge was built. The other mysteries surrounding Stonehenge are its construction and the significance of
the giant blue stones used. As a result of the recent discovery, a new theory
has emerged, one that states that Stonehenge
was a place to celebrate the lives of the dead.
The Lost Island
of Atlantis
One of the oldest mysteries in the world, the legend of Atlantis
has mystified humanity since ancient times. According to the Greek philosopher
Plato, Atlantis was a large island somewhere west of the Pillars
of Hercules (the Rock of Gibraltar) and the home of an incredibly
advanced civilization known as the Atlanteans. Plato described Atlantis as a
place of immense beauty with a palace compound in the center of three ringed
canals. He said that every king that inherited the palace would add to it,
trying to surpass his predecessor and by doing so they made it a palace that
surpassed any other in both beauty and wealth. The Atlanteans themselves were
blessed with wealth but at the same time they were incredibly ambitious, constantly
seeking power. Atlantis is said to have met its end when it was hit by a giant
earthquake and swallowed by the sea. But is any of this the truth or is the
story of Atlantis just a myth?
The Riddle of the Sphinx
When one thinks of the Sphinx, they immediately think of the
Great Sphinx at Giza, but the Sphinx was a
powerful symbol in Greece, Phoenicia and Syria as well. In fact the riddle of
the Sphinx originates in Greek legend. According to the ancient Greeks, if a
man crossed its path the Sphinx would ask, “What is the creature that walks on
four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three in the evening?”
If they couldn’t answer, the Sphinx would devour them; however, if they
answered correctly, the Sphinx would destroy itself. The only person said to
survive an encounter with the Sphinx was the Greek hero Oedipus who answered
“man.” Despite the riddle being solved, the Great Sphinx still poses many
questions. How old is it? Who built it? And what was the purpose of the
passageways?
Lost cities found beneath sands of the Sahara
Ruins from a long-lost civilization have been revealed
beneath the desert sands of the Sahara.
Evidence of the advanced Garamantes civilization had remained mostly
undocumented due to the strict regime of Colonel Gaddafi, but now due to recent
events in Libya
archaeologists have a chance to finally investigate in full the secrets of this
long lost ancient culture. "It is like someone coming to England and
suddenly discovered all the medieval castles," said Proffessor David
Mattingly. "These settlements had been unremarked and unrecorded under the
Gaddafi regime."
Mysterious skull discovered in Peru
An elongated skull found in the city of Andahuaylillas has managed to baffle
anthropologists. The skull possesses a number of unusual features including an
elongated cranium, enlarged eye sockets and a set of adult teeth despite the
fact that the skull appears to belong to an infant. A group of anthropologists
who visited the site to view the skull allegedly concluded that it wasn't even
human while others have suggested that it could be the product of an ancient
technique known as "cradle boarding" in which the child's skull was
elongated from an early age.
Bigfoot (aka Sasquatch)
Bigfoot is world-famous for spooking the bejesus out of
hikers and hunters in North America and scientists consider Sasquatch to be the result of folklore, misidentification
and a whole lot of hoaxes. However, many people still believe these humanoid
creatures exist around the world, just like the Yeti of the Himalayas.
One of the most infamous unexplained mysteries in the world today, Bigfoot has
been described as an ape-like creature, some 6-10 feet tall, weighing more than
500 pounds, and covered in dark brown or reddish hair. Witnesses give him large
eyes, a heavy brow ridge and a crested head, much like a male gorilla.
Footprints allegedly belonging to Bigfoot are 24 inches long.
Black Dahlia
She was known as the “Black Dahlia”. She had jet black hair
and preferred black dresses and lingerie. Those who knew her best said she had
a tattoo of an exotic flower on her inner thigh. She wanted desperately to be a
Hollywood actress, but her fame would not come
from the movies. It would come from her death, a murder which has gone unsolved
for 60 years. On a cold morning in January 1947, the nude, mutilated body of
22-year-old Elizabeth Short was discovered in a vacant lot in the Leimert Park
area of Los Angeles.
What made the murder so unique was the barbaric nature of the crime. The Black
Dahlia’s body had been neatly severed in half, gutted and drained of blood.
Author Lawrence P. Scherb put the unusual crime into perspective: “Her face had
been very brutally cut from ear to ear in a grin. Her throat had been cut and
she had been mutilated sexually. Basically, she was the worst case of a sex
crime in the history of Los
Angeles County.”
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