About 35 km northeast of the city of Gaya (Bihar state), in the middle of an absolutely flat yellow-green plain, a low rocky ridge with a length of about 3 km rises. In its central part there is a group of rocky hills known for its oldest man-made caves in India, which […]

Mes Aynak is a complex of ancient Buddhist buildings, which is located near Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Mey Aynak is located in the mountains, at an altitude of more than two kilometers above sea level. Excavations here are still underway, but two forts, ancient monasteries, […]

Sigiriya, which means Lion Rock in Senegalese, is a ruined ancient fortress located in the mountains, which still preserves the remains of palace buildings. It is located in the center of the island of Sri Lanka. The remains of the fortress are surrounded, unfortunately, also by the remains of a once extensive network of swimming pools, […]

The Greatness of the Romans The Roman eagle spread its wings over vast territories - from foggy Britain to the hot deserts of Africa. Thousands of years before the European Union, it already existed, not on the map, but in reality - everything was subordinated to Rome. […]

In the southeast of Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula, there is the famous Temple of Kukulcan, made in the form of a pyramid and miraculously surviving to this day among the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza, buried in ruins. The fact is that the temple building stands above a cenote - a karst […]

No matter how banal this phrase may sound, repeated and written many thousands of times, Stonehenge is truly one of the most incomprehensible and mysterious structures, whose secret people have not been able to reveal until now. Stonehenge is a megalithic, then […]

A hundred kilometers west of Asuka Park, near the town of Takasago, there is an object that is a megalith attached to a rock measuring 5.7x6.4x7.2 meters and weighing approximately 500-600 tons. Ishi no Hoden is the name given to this monolith, a kind of “semi-finished product” […]

Did you know: That ancient Greek sculptors painted their creations? The paint, of course, did not stand the test of time, but modern technology makes it possible to see the statues as they were created. Such work has been carried out in Germany for 25 years under the leadership of prof. Vincent Brickman. IN […]

We have put together a selection of “Documentary films about mysteries and secrets 2017”, which includes the best films that tell stories about mystical places and events.
The selection contains films that you can watch online about the mysteries of natural phenomena and man-made places of human civilization.

Mysteries of Planet Earth - The Mystery of the Devil's Tower

Mysteries of the Mariana Trench

The documentary film Mysteries of the Mariana Trench tells about scientific research dives and their results. What scientists found during the study shocked them.

One of the pioneers, Jacques Picard, wrote in the logbook “at a depth of one and a half thousand meters we were accompanied by a disk-shaped object. It felt like he was studying us.”
The mysteries didn't end there. Having descended to the very bottom, scientists discovered living creatures there. Their existence was difficult to explain, because... the pressure at the very bottom was almost 3 thousand tons per square centimeter. For comparison, such pressure can flatten a multi-story building.

The mysticism of the Moscow metro. Dungeon Riddle

The Moscow metro is one of the most popular birthplaces of urban legends.

Millions of people come here every day. But few people realize that many strange stories and mysterious facts are hidden here. The mystical details of underground life are closed to the uninitiated.
Phantom stations are hidden behind the arches of the metro. Numerous ghosts hide in the dark tunnels. Strange voices and sounds are heard here. Disturbed ancient burial grounds during the construction of the metro become places with anomalous phenomena. A ghost train with a mysterious driver runs along the Circle Line. Here, an unknown force makes people want to commit suicide. Mysteries and secrets of underground life are hidden in the Moscow metro.

Secrets of Easter Island - Moaya statues

The documentary tells about Easter Island, one of the unique places on Earth. The most remote piece of land in the world inhabited by people. The length of the island is 17 km, width 11 km.

For several centuries now, the giant stone statues of Easter Island have haunted travelers and archaeologists. What was the reason for the creation of these colossal sculptures? How, one and a half thousand years ago, people managed to discover this tiny island in the Pacific Ocean without a map or compass. What kind of civilization was this and why did it decline?
One of the main mysteries of this place is the history of its discovery. It is known that the first settlers were inhabitants of Polynesia. Analysis of the artifacts showed that the island was inhabited in the 5th century. Probably for the first inhabitants, this place became a real paradise.

Return of the dead. Secrets and mysteries of the planet

Ufologists are extremely stubborn and persistent people. In their research, they discovered a remarkable detail: there are areas on the planet in which unidentified flying objects are observed especially often. A whole order of magnitude more frequent than in other areas. This can be described as UFO mysteries. Ufologists called the areas with increased activity “windows.”

An unidentified object in the skies of Australia that somewhat resembles an airplane

“Windows” are observed in the USA (Texas and Florida), Australia, Scotland, and Brazil. There are “windows” in Norway, Spain, Argentina, and Russia. No similar area has been discovered in Africa, but this does not prove anything. After all, residents of the hottest continent on the planet may not report unusual phenomena to official authorities.

Mystery zones are not permanent. She is active for a year, sometimes two. After this, the “window” moves to another place, and the old one is forever deprived of such phenomena. There are never exceptions, but there must still be some to prove the rule.

According to eyewitness accounts, mysterious flying objects come in all shapes and sizes. Some witnesses talk about saucers that move very quickly across the sky. Other eyewitnesses talk about completely flat disks emitting an unusually bright glow. There is no complete unanimity in assessing the size of flying formations.

Many people assume that flying machines are no larger than a regular passenger plane. Other eyewitnesses estimate their width and height to be within the confines of a high-rise building. Some citizens name very small sizes and compare objects to a desk.

Strange dark cigar-shaped object in the sky of Mexico in the upper right corner

But according to some signs, all the testimony agrees. This is the complete silence of aircraft. There are no people who would hear the sounds when a UFO appears in the sky. Objects fly and perform a wide variety of complex movements in absolute silence. They disappear as silently as they appear.

Witnesses always have the same movement trajectories. Aircraft, moving above the ground, completely ignore the laws of physics. This is especially true for mysterious objects that have a triangular shape.

They fly in a straight path, after which they abruptly change direction by 90 degrees. The change in the initial course to the opposite direction also looks stunning. The object flies forward, then begins to move backward without braking or stopping. Often moves around a circle at high speed, and then quickly flies up.

It seems that the mysterious flying object has no concept of centrifugal forces, inertia and other immutable scientific truths. But it is precisely on them that the entire human civilization has been based for more than one millennium. Such “dense ignorance” is alarming, causes bewilderment and gives rise to many different assumptions and bold hypotheses.

This is why UFO mysteries are directly linked to extraterrestrial intelligence. Many independent researchers are convinced that these are alien ships plying the blue sky of planet Earth. But official science is not so categorical in its judgments. She is in no hurry to connect everything incomprehensible with humanoids who flew from distant and unknown corners of the Galaxy.

The mystery of the phenomena and their unusualness indicates that alien intelligence visits the Earth quite often. But there is no irrefutable evidence. There are only stories of individual eyewitnesses who allegedly saw strange creatures emerging from plates or spheres. But such statements cannot be considered objective and reliable information.

A whole group of mysterious luminous objects in the US sky. This is one of the amazing UFO mysteries

But let's look at an example directly related to UFO mysteries. The incident occurred in August 1977 in the Moscow region. This is the European part of Russia. It was evening, but the sun had not yet disappeared below the horizon. A Moskvich car was driving along the road. It was led by the chief engineer of one very large and serious defense enterprise. This man was distinguished by restraint, adequate behavior and high responsibility. He was a member of the Communist Party, regularly visited the bureaus of the regional and city party committees, was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, and therefore was never a talker or an empty-headed man.

In those years, personal transport for Soviet citizens was very rare. In their free time, people studied in evening schools, studied the works of Marx and Lenin, so they had no time to ride in cars. Departmental transport was fueled with state gasoline, which was strictly limited. Accordingly, they saved fuel and did not drive cars idle, so as not to reach the monthly limit ahead of schedule.

Based on all of the above, it is not at all surprising that the highway near Moscow was practically empty at this late evening hour. Only rare cars passed by, and there was no continuous traffic flow.

An unknown flying object absolutely silently and unexpectedly emerged from behind the tops of the trees standing along the road. He instantly approached the road surface and hovered above it just 50 meters from the hood of the new Moskvich. The object was a silver disk. On the sides one could see round bulges of almost black color, reminiscent of portholes.

The disk hung above the road at a height of two and a half meters. The driver, acting purely on instinct, pressed the brake. But this was unnecessary, since the Moskvich’s engine stalled. The car drove a short distance along the roadway and stopped.

The disk smoothly and very slowly floated towards the car frozen on the highway. Dead silence hung in the air. It seemed that the noisy and restless world was fenced off with a soundproof curtain. The man behind the wheel tried to move his limbs, but was unable to do so. The whole body seemed to be paralyzed.

The man froze motionless in the driver's seat and could not even turn his head. About 10 minutes passed like this. Behind the car windows the picture looked very strange. All this time the road remained completely empty.

The object turned out to be about 5 meters from the car. A funnel inexplicably appeared in its flat bottom. At first her size was very small, but gradually increased. There is a depression in the center. A thin and shiny thread emerged from it. At the very end it had a thickening.

The thread slowly floated up to the car and, barely touching the thick glass, began to move smoothly along the body. She walked around his entire perimeter. The man sitting in the cabin felt with all his skin that someone invisible was looking at him very carefully. It was not difficult to guess that the thickening at the end of the thread served as an eye. Through it, the mysterious essence satisfied its unearthly curiosity.

But finally everything stopped. The thread smoothly crawled into the funnel. It slowly shrunk to a tiny point, and then disappeared altogether. The disk suddenly rose into the air and rushed to the side. He disappeared almost instantly behind the treetops, and the car’s engine immediately started working.

This story would never have become public knowledge, but in 1978, the USSR established a policy for detecting AAPs (anomalous atmospheric phenomena). Eyewitnesses were ordered by order to report to their superiors about all atmospheric anomalies they saw.

The hypothesis that UFO mysteries are of alien origin is supported by a very large number of researchers. But there are many people who hold completely the opposite opinion. They claim that mysterious flying objects are inextricably linked with life on Earth.

Residents of New York are observing a strange object in the sky. These images went around the world, but the UFO mystery was never solved.

Mysterious aircraft are being built directly on the blue planet, but this is done by a completely different civilization. It exists next to human civilization, but has no points of contact with it. It has its own history, its own habitat, its own path of social development. Mysterious objects are indirect evidence of its existence. They appear in the human world from time to time, but those who control them do not want to make contact

A number of researchers adhere to the theory of parallel worlds. Flying objects penetrate the blue planet through space-time channels. There are a lot of them in the surrounding reality. In other words, our planet is full of them, like cheese with holes. Through these channels, mysterious objects enter our world and then return to theirs without leaving any traces.

The hypothesis about guests from the distant future is very popular. Descendants of living people visit their ancestors. They do not interfere in their lives in any way, but are content only with the role of contemplators. Sometimes their behavior becomes intrusive to the point of indecency. But the culprit is simple curiosity.

There is an opinion that unidentified flying objects are made by people themselves. They are developed at secret military facilities. But tests can only be carried out in an open atmosphere. And, as you know, there is no way to fence it off with fences.

Mysterious luminous object in the sky of San Francisco. Maybe this is an ordinary bird, from whose plumage light is reflected

Biologists and zoologists have their own opinion about flying objects. Some prominent scientists mistake them for living creatures living in the upper atmosphere. There are a huge number of animal species completely unknown to science in the world. So why shouldn't flying objects be like that? There is a high probability that these are ordinary birds, the study of which is waiting in the wings.

So you won’t envy ufologists. Trying to unravel the mysteries of UFOs, they are forced to consider the most incredible hypotheses and tirelessly test them. The materials they collected, however, indicate that 90% of all cases involving unidentified flying objects eventually find a completely scientific explanation. And mysterious objects turn into OLO (identified flying objects).

The cause of the unusual visual effect is astronomical or meteorological phenomena. The culprit is often an ordinary optical illusion or psychological hallucination. Very often, mysterious properties are attributed to a comet, an ordinary airplane, or other flying object of man-made origin.

But there remain 10% of cases that cannot be explained from the usual perspective of human civilization. Science remains modestly silent, while independent researchers guess and speculate. There is no doubt that the secret will become clear. Everything depends only on the timing, and how I would like the hour of truth to come tomorrow.

In the Sahara Desert in Egypt lie the oldest known astronomically aligned stones in the world: Nabta. A thousand years before the creation of Stonehenge, people built a stone circle and other structures on the shore of a lake that had long since dried up. More than 6,000 years ago, three-meter-tall stone slabs were dragged for more than a kilometer to create this site. The stones depicted are only part of the entire complex that has survived. Although the Western Egyptian Desert is currently completely dry, it was not so in the past. There is good evidence that there have been several wet cycles in the past (with up to 500mm of rainfall per year). The most recent one dates back to the interglacial period and the start of the last glaciation, which was approximately 130,000 to 70,000 years ago. During this period, the area was a savannah and supported numerous animals such as the extinct bison and large giraffes, antelopes of various species and gazelles. Beginning around the 10th millennium BC, this area of ​​the Nubian Desert began to receive more rainfall, filling the lakes. Early humans may have been attracted to the region by its sources of drinking water. Archaeological finds may indicate that human activity in the area is known from at least somewhere between the 10th and 8th millennium BC.

Chinese line mosaic.

These strange lines are located at the coordinates: 40°27"28.56"N, 93°23"34.42"E. There is not much information available about this "oddity", but a beautiful mosaic of lines does exist, it carved in the desert of Gansu Sheng Province in China. Some records indicate that the "lines" were created in 2004, but nothing officially confirming this assumption seems to have been found. It should be noted that these lines are located near Mogao Cave, which is a World Heritage Site. The lines stretch for a very long distance, and at the same time maintain their proportions, despite the curvature of the rough terrain.

Inexplicable stone doll.

In July 1889, a small human figure was found during a well drilling operation in Boise, Idaho. The find has generated intense scientific interest in the last century. Unmistakably man-made, the “doll” was discovered at a depth of 320 feet, placing it at a time long before the arrival of man in this part of the world. The find has never been disputed, but it has only been said that such a thing is, in principle, impossible.

Iron bolt, 300 million years old.

It was found almost by accident. The expedition of the MAI-Cosmopoisk Center was searching for meteorite fragments in the south of the Kaluga region, in Russia. Dmitry Kurkov decided to examine a seemingly ordinary piece of stone. What he found can change our understanding of earthly and cosmic history. When the dirt was wiped off the stone, on its chip one could clearly see... a bolt that had somehow gotten inside! About a centimeter long. How did he end up there? The bolt with a nut at the end (or - what this thing also looked like - a coil with a rod and two disks) sat tightly. This means that he got inside the stone back in the days when it was only sedimentary rock, bottom clay.

Ancient rocket ship.

This ancient cave painting from Japan dates back to more than 5000 BC.

Moving stones.

No one, not even NASA, has been able to explain this yet. The best thing to do is just watch and marvel at the shifting rocks in this dry lake in Death Valley National Park. The bottom of Racetrack Playa Lake is almost flat, 2.5 km from north to south and 1.25 km from east to west, and is covered with cracked mud. The stones move slowly along the clayey bottom of the lake, as evidenced by the long tracks left behind them. The stones move independently without the help of others, but no one has ever seen or recorded the movement on camera. Similar movements of stones have been recorded in several other places. However, in terms of the number and length of tracks, the dried-up lake Racetrack Playa is unique.

Electricity in the pyramids.

Teotihuacan, Mexico. Large sheets of mica are found embedded in the walls of this ancient Mexican city. The closest place is a quarry where mica is mined, located in Brazil, thousands of kilometers away. Mica is currently used in energy production technology. In this regard, the question arises as to why builders used this mineral in the buildings of their city. Did these ancient architects know some long-forgotten energy sources to use electricity in their cities?

Dog Death

Dog suicide on Overtown Bridge, near Milton, Dumbarton, Scotland. Built in 1859, the Overtown Bridge became famous for a number of unexplained cases in which dogs apparently committed suicide by jumping from it. These incidents were first reported in the 1950s or 1960s, when dogs—usually the long-nosed species, like collies—were observed to quickly and unexpectedly jump from a bridge and fall fifty feet to their death.

Fossil giants

The fossilized Irish giants were discovered in 1895 and measure over 12 feet (3.6 m) tall. The giants were discovered during mining operations in Antrim, Ireland. This image is from the British Strand magazine, December 1895. “Height 12 feet 2 inches, chest 6 feet 6 inches, arm length 4 feet 6 inches. There are six toes on the right foot." The six fingers and toes are reminiscent of some characters from the Bible, where six-fingered giants are described.

Pyramids of Atlantis?

Scientists continue to explore the ruins of megaliths in the so-called Yucatan Canal in the Cuban region. They have been found for many miles along the coast. American archaeologists who discovered this place immediately announced that they had found Atlantis (not for the first time in the history of underwater archaeology). Now the place is sometimes visited by scuba divers to admire the majestic underwater structures. All other interested parties can only enjoy the filming and computer reconstruction of a city buried under water, thousands of years old.

Giants in Nevada

A Nevada Indian legend about 12 foot red giants that lived in the area when they arrived. According to American Indian history, the giants were killed in a cave. During excavations in 1911, this human jaw was discovered. This is what an artificial human jaw looks like next to it. In 1931, two skeletons were found at the bottom of the lake. One of them was 8 feet (2.4 m) high, the other was just under 10 (3 m.).

Inexplicable wedge

This aluminum wedge was found in Romania in 1974, on the banks of the Mures River, near the city of Ayud. It was found at a depth of 11 meters, next to the bones of Mastodon - a giant, elephant-like, extinct animal. The find itself is very reminiscent of the head of a huge hammer. At the archaeological institute of Cluj-Napoca, where the artifact was supposedly sent, it was determined that the metal from which this wedge is made is an aluminum alloy coated with a thick layer of oxide. The alloy contained 12 different elements, and the find was classified as strange, since aluminum was discovered only in 1808, and the age of this artifact, given its presence in the layer along with the remains of an extinct animal, is determined to be approximately 11 thousand years.

"Loladoff's Plate"

The "Loladoff Plate" is a 12,000-year-old stone dish found in Nepal. It seems that Egypt is not the only place visited by aliens in ancient times. This is clearly demonstrated by the disk-shaped UFO. There is also a drawing on the disk. The character bears a striking resemblance to the aliens known as the Greys.

Pure iron alloy hammer

A puzzling mystery for science is... an ordinary-looking hammer. The metal part of the hammer is 15 centimeters long and about 3 centimeters in diameter. It literally grew into limestone about 140 million years old, and is stored together with a piece of rock. This miracle caught the eye of Mrs. Emma Khan in June 1934 in the rocks near the American town of London, in the state of Texas. The experts who examined the find came to a unanimous conclusion: a hoax. However, further research carried out by various scientific institutions, including the famous Battelle Laboratory (USA), showed that everything is much more complicated. Firstly, the wooden handle on which the hammer is mounted has already petrified on the outside, and on the inside has completely turned into coal . This means that its age is also calculated in millions of years. Secondly, specialists at the Metallurgical Institute in Columbus (Ohio) were amazed by the chemical composition of the hammer itself: 96.6% iron, 2.6% chlorine and 0.74% sulfur. No other impurities could be detected. Such pure iron has never been obtained in the entire history of earthly metallurgy. Not a single bubble was found in the metal. The quality of iron, even by modern standards, is exceptionally high and raises many questions, since the content of metals used in the metallurgical industry in the production of different types of steel (such as e.g. manganese, cobalt, nickel, tungsten, vanadium or molybdenum). There are also no foreign impurities, and the percentage of chlorine is unusually high. It is also surprising that no traces of carbon were found in iron, whereas iron ore from earthly deposits always contains carbon and other impurities. In fact, from a modern point of view, it is not of high quality. But here's a detail: the iron of the "Texas hammer" does not rust! When a piece of rock with an embedded tool was chipped away from the rock in 1934, the metal was severely scratched in one place. And over the past sixty-odd years, not the slightest sign of corrosion has appeared on the scratch... According to Dr. K.E. Buff, director of the Museum of Fossil Antiquities, where this hammer is kept, the find comes from the Early Cretaceous period - from 140 to 65 million years ago. According to the current state of scientific knowledge, humanity learned to make such tools only 10 thousand years ago. Dr. Hans-Joachim Zillmer from Germany, who studied the mysterious find in detail, concludes: “This hammer was made using a technology unknown to us.”

Highest stone processing technologies

The second group of finds that pose mysteries for scientists consists of artifacts created after the currently accepted time of the appearance of man on Earth. But the technologies that were used to create them became known to us relatively recently or are still unknown. The most famous find of this group is a crystal skull found in 1927 in Belize during excavations of the Mayan city of Lubaantum. The skull is carved from a piece of pure quartz and measures 12x18x12 centimeters. In 1970, the skull was analyzed in the Hewlett-Packard laboratory. The results were stunning. The skull was created without respecting the natural crystalline axis, which is impossible in modern crystallography. No metal tools were used when working on the skull. According to restorers, the quartz was first cut with a diamond chisel, after which silica crystalline sand was used for more thorough processing. About three hundred years were spent working on the skull, which can be perceived as an incredible example of patience or recognize the use of high technologies unknown to us. One of the Hewlett-Packard experts said that creating a crystal skull is not a matter of skill, patience and time, but that it is simply impossible.

Fossil nail

However, most often objects found in rocks are similar in appearance to nails and bolts. In the 16th century, the Viceroy of Peru kept in his office a piece of rock in which was firmly held an 18-centimeter steel nail found in a local mine. In 1869, in Nevada, a metal screw 5 centimeters long was found in a piece of feldspar recovered from great depths. Skeptics believe that the appearance of these and many other objects can be explained by natural causes: a special kind of crystallization of mineral solutions and melts, the formation of pyrite rods in the voids between crystals. But pyrite is iron sulfide, and when fractured it is yellow (which is why it is often confused with gold) and has a clearly defined cubic structure. Eyewitnesses of the finds clearly speak of iron nails, sometimes covered with rust, and pyrite formations can more likely be called gold rather than iron. There is also an assumption that the rod-shaped NIOs are the fossilized skeletons of belemnites (invertebrate marine animals that lived at the same time as dinosaurs). But the remains of belemnites are found only in sedimentary rocks and never in bedrock, such as feldspar. In addition, they have a pronounced skeletal shape, and it is impossible to confuse them with something else. It is sometimes claimed that nail-shaped NIOs are molten fragments of meteorites or fulgurites (thunderbolts) produced by lightning striking rocks. However, finding such a fragment or trace left millions of years ago is extremely problematic. While one can still argue about the origin of the nail-shaped NIOs, one can only shrug at some of the finds.

Ancient battery

In 1936, the German scientist Wilhelm König, who worked at the Archaeological Museum of Baghdad, was brought a strange object that was found at the excavations of an ancient Parthian settlement near the Iraqi capital. It was a small clay vase about 15 centimeters high. Inside it was a cylinder made of sheet copper, its base was covered with a cap with a seal, and on top of the cylinder was covered with a layer of resin, which also held an iron rod directed to the center of the cylinder. From all this, Dr. Koenig concluded that in front of him was an electric battery, created almost two thousand years before the discoveries of Galvani and Volta. Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht made an exact copy of the find, poured wine vinegar into a vase and connected a measuring device that showed a voltage of 0.5 V. Presumably, the ancients used electricity to apply a thin layer of gold to objects.

The Antikythera Mechanism (other spellings: Antikythera, Andythera, Antikythera, Greek: Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων) is a mechanical device discovered in 1902 on a sunken ancient ship near the Greek island of Antikythera ( Greek: Αντικύθηρα). Dating back to approximately 100 BC. e. (possibly before 150 BC). Kept in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The mechanism contained 37 bronze gears in a wooden case, on which dials with arrows were placed and, according to reconstruction, was used to calculate the movement of celestial bodies. Other devices of similar complexity are unknown in Hellenistic culture. It uses differential gearing, which was previously thought to have been invented no earlier than the 16th century, and has a level of miniaturization and complexity comparable to 18th-century mechanical watches. The approximate dimensions of the assembled mechanism are 33x18x10 cm.

Astronaut figurines from Ecuador

Figurines of ancient astronauts found in Ecuador. Age > 2000 years. In fact, there is a lot of such evidence, if you want, read Erich Von Denikin. He has many books, one of the most famous is “Chariots of the Gods”, it contains both physical evidence and deciphering of cuneiform scripts and so on, in general it’s quite interesting. True, it is contraindicated for ardent believers to read.

Mysteries of the 20th century

The twentieth century is rich in various mysterious events and dark spots of history, many of which have not yet been revealed or fully clarified. Here are some of them:

1900

On Flannan Island (UK), the entire watch of the Eileen Moore lighthouse keepers disappeared without a trace. Pictured is the Eileen Moore Lighthouse today.

1902

On the night of December 29-30, at 1:05 a.m., clocks stopped in many places in Paris. The causes of the Paris Glitch remain unclear. In the photo from the beginning of the last century - the clock tower decorating the Gare de Lyon in Paris

1908

The fall of the Tunguska meteorite presumably caused an air explosion that occurred in the area of ​​the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, with a capacity of 40-50 megatons. The explosion on Tunguska was heard 800 km from the epicenter, the blast wave felled a forest over an area of ​​2,100 sq. km, and the windows of some houses were broken within a radius of 200 km. Soon after the explosion, a magnetic storm began that lasted 5 hours.

1911

On July 14, a pleasure train left the Rome railway station for a trip organized by the Sanetti company for wealthy Italians. Along the way, the three-car train and its 106 passengers disappeared as they entered a tunnel.

1911

On January 31, the legendary Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga was born, receiving the gift of prophecy at the age of 12 after she was carried away and blinded by a tornado.

1913

Off the coast of Tierra del Fuego, the sailing ship Marlborough was discovered - the new Flying Dutchman - which left New Zealand in early 1890, but did not enter any port. The remains of 20 people were found on the bridge and in the premises.

1916

In the summer, during the melting of the glaciers on Ararat, pilot Lieutenant Roskovitsky and his co-pilot on a reconnaissance aircraft of the Imperial Air Force discovered something similar to the remains of Noah's Ark on the mountainside.

1920

An ancient Slavic monument was found - the “Book of Veles”, the authenticity of which is still disputed in our time.

1922

A huge animal with a snake-like neck and a large head, reminiscent of a relict lizard, was spotted on the Paint River (USA). Pictured is the Paint River (Michigan, USA) today

1924

Not far from the village of Taung (South Africa), the “skull of the Taung child” was found, whose age is estimated at 2.5 million years, and which is attributed to extraterrestrial origin. The photo shows anthropologist Philip V. Tobias with the skull of the “Child of Taung.”

1928

Over the village of Shuknavolok near Vedlozero (Karelia), a cylindrical ten-meter body was observed flying, with flames coming out of its tail. Having broken through the ice of the lake, the mysterious object went under water. Since then, local residents began to meet on the shore a strange big-headed creature a little more than a meter tall with thin arms and legs, which dived back into the water when people appeared. In the photo - Vedlozero (Karelia, Russia) today

1933

The first documented sighting of the Nessie monster in Scotland's Loch Ness. To date, there have been about 4,000 sightings and encounters with him. A sonar survey of the entire volume of the lake in 1992 discovered 5 giant lizards.

1943

In October 1943, in the United States, in an atmosphere of special secrecy, the Philadelphia experiment, which had no analogues in history, was carried out on the destroyer Eldridge to create a warship invisible to enemy radar. As a result of the creation of a very strong magnetic field around the ship, the ship allegedly disappeared and then instantly moved in space several tens of kilometers. Of the entire crew, only 21 people returned unharmed. 27 people literally became fused with the structure of the ship, 13 died from burns, radiation, electric shock and fear.

1945

Massive UFO invasion in Queensland (Australia).

1945

The mysterious disappearance of the leaders of the Third Reich (Müller, Bormann and others). No remains found. The emergence of versions of their escape to Latin America. The photo shows Martin Bormann and what is believed to be his skull, the identity of which is disputed.

1945

1947

On July 7, an unknown aircraft crashed in Magdalena (New Mexico, USA). Among the debris, 6 corpses of human-like creatures were allegedly found. In the photo - presumably one of the humanoids who died in a UFO crash in Roswell (New Mexico, USA), July 22, 1947

1952

July 1952. America is in shock. What is happening in the skies over Washington defies logical explanation and gives rise to the most incredible rumors. And the reason for this is the wave of UFO sightings that swept across the District of Columbia. Unidentified flying objects appeared over Washington with enviable regularity from July 12 to July 26. In the photo: a UFO squadron over the Capitol.

1955

In Hopkinsville (Kentucky, USA), after a UFO explosion, a small glowing man with huge eyes was visible for some time.

1955

An explosion of unknown origin that occurred under the bottom of the battleship Novorossiysk on the night of October 29, 1955, claimed the lives of 608 sailors and officers. A huge ship capsized and sank in the Northern Bay of Sevastopol - in front of thousands of citizens.

1956

In August, at a British airbase, a UFO chased a fighter jet for 20 minutes before disappearing into thin air. The photo is presumably a UFO. USA, California, 1957

1958

On December 14, the newspaper “Youth of Yakutia” wrote about a giant monster living in Lake Labynkyr. Local Yakut residents believe that a certain huge animal lives in the lake - the “Labynkyr Devil”, as they call him. According to the descriptions of the Yakuts, this is something dark gray in color with a huge mouth. The distance between the eyes of the “devil” is equal to the width of a raft of ten logs. According to the legend, the “devil” is very aggressive and dangerous, attacks people and animals, and is capable of going ashore. In the photo - Lake Labynkyr (Oymyakonsky district of Yakutia, Russia)

1959

On February 1, a group of experienced tourists led by Igor Dyatlov began climbing to the top of “1079” (Mountain of the Dead). We didn’t have time to get up before dark and pitched our tent right on the slope. We began to triple up for the night. And then something terrible happened... As investigators later established, having cut the wall of the tent with knives, the tourists, in panic, rushed to run down the slope. They ran, whoever was wearing what: in underwear, half naked, barefoot. Later, the corpses of all nine group members were discovered further down the slope. Most died from hypothermia. Several people suffered terrible internal injuries without breaking the skin. The cause of the tragedy is still unknown. The last photo of the Dyatlov group on the Mountain of the Dead:

1963

During maneuvers of the US naval forces off the coast of Puerto Rico, a moving object was spotted developing an unprecedented speed for a ship - about 280 km/h.

1963

On November 22, 1963, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Despite the fact that Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was captured a few hours later, the true motives and those who ordered the most notorious murder of the 20th century have not yet been established.

1967

A female Sasquatch was captured on film in the Bluff Creek Valley (filmed by Roger Patterson).

1968

Official date of death of Yuri Gagarin. Few people believed in his death. The soothsayer Vanga claimed that the first cosmonaut did not die, but “was taken.”

1969

American landing on the Moon. The fact itself is still disputed. The version of falsification has many supporters.

1977

“Petrozavodsk Miracle”: On September 20 at 4 o’clock in the morning, a UFO in the form of a bright star, from which red rays emanated, was spotted over the main street of Petrozavodsk - Lenin Street. The phenomenon was accompanied by mass UFO sightings in the northern regions of the USSR and in Finland. Later, large holes with very sharp edges were discovered in the glass of the upper floors. The photo shows a copy of the only known photograph of the “Petrozavodsk Diva” - the stage of the fiery rain and rice. V. Lukyants "Solovki" (magazine "Technology for Youth" No. 4 1980)

1982

In Tsemes Bay (Black Sea) on one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, all the clocks on board stopped. In the photo - Tsemes Bay today

1986

On January 29, a UFO crashed near Dalnegorsk (hill “Height 611”). The photo shows the crash site and part of the “exhibits” from the crash site: metal drops of different nature with holes inside, black glassy particles weighing up to 30 mg, as well as loose scales in the form of a mesh of quartz fibers 30 microns thick, each of which is twisted from even thinner quartz flagella, each of which, in turn, has a gold thread inserted into it.

1987

Mass suicide of 2000 dolphins - they washed up on the coast of Brazil. Pictured: Pilot whales stranded on a beach in New Zealand in 2009.

1996

In the Movile Cave (Romania), a closed ecosystem not connected with the earth’s was discovered for the first time. Here, 30 species of plants and animals (crustaceans, spiders, centipedes and insects) were discovered living in isolation in the dark for 5 million years.

1996

A strange half-living creature was discovered in a cemetery in the village of Kaolinovy ​​near Kyshtym by a lonely pensioner Tamara Vasilyevna Prosvirina. The creature became known as the “Kyshtym dwarf”. The creature ate human food and looked and smelled strange. The creature's body length was approximately 30 cm, it had a torso, arms, legs, a head with a high frontal lobe, a mouth and eyes. The pensioner gave the creature a child's name - “Alyoshenka”. “Alyoshenka” lived in the pensioner’s house for about a month.

Other people also saw Alyoshenka: Tamara Prosvirina’s daughter-in-law, as well as some acquaintances. Subsequently, Tamara Prosvirina was admitted to a psychiatric hospital due to worsening schizophrenia. In the end, the creature died, and the causes of death have not been definitively established; among them, death from improper feeding and lack of care or murder under unclear circumstances are most often indicated. Tamara Prosvirina died on August 5, 1999 - she was hit by two cars at night. At this time, she was going to be interviewed by representatives of a Japanese television company who were filming a documentary about this phenomenon. The house where the Kyshtym humanoid lived:

The creature's mummy was discovered in August 1996 by police captain Evgeniy Mokichev (pictured) during his investigation into the theft of an electrical cable. The policeman who discovered the mummy handed it over to his colleague, Vladimir Bendlin, who began his own investigation into the origin and nature of the creature, but soon the mummy of “Alyoshenka” disappeared under strange circumstances. Currently her whereabouts are unknown.