Are riddles necessary in the modern world? Ten unsolved mysteries of our time. A book that will help you find out the truth
The history of mankind is literally teeming with mysteries and secrets. And what can we say about the ancient world or the Middle Ages, when even the 20th century left us with a legacy of so many mysteries that we will not soon figure them out.
In this collection, I will talk about five of the strangest and most interesting secrets of the twentieth century, which still torment those who like to pry into other people's affairs.
1. The disappearance of the Sanetti train.
This story began in July 1911, when the Sanetti travel company decided to organize an entertainment trip for some members of the wealthy class of Italy. The train, consisting of a locomotive and three carriages, carried 106 passengers on the trip. Everything went as usual until... the Lombard tunnel, into which the train entered but never left! He just disappeared without a trace! Only two passengers managed to escape, or rather not get lost along with the others. They were lucky to leave the train at the very last moment. And it was they who spoke about the cloud of strange, very thick white fog that enveloped the train and caused the passengers to have terrible attacks of panic, similar to insanity.
After the disappearance, the tunnel and all surrounding areas were carefully inspected and studied. But no traces of either the train or the passengers could be found. Soon it was walled up and safely forgotten about, just like the story itself. However, in 1926, one of the relatives of a passenger from the missing train, looking through archival documents, discovered a very unusual recording. It reported that 104 Italians had appeared in Mexico from nowhere, claiming to have arrived by train straight from Rome. And the biggest oddity was that this entry dated back to 1845. 
The Italians were then considered crazy and placed in a mental hospital under the supervision of doctors, as evidenced by the notes left by the clinic’s psychiatrist. Eyewitnesses noted that the things and clothes of the Italians did not correspond at all to that time, and some of these things have survived to this day. In particular, a snuff box with the inscription “1907”.
Unsuccessful attempts to find the missing train or at least understand what happened to it continued for several more decades, until during the Second World War an aerial bomb completely destroyed the walled tunnel. 
2. Philadelphia experiment.
In October 1943, in an atmosphere of extreme secrecy, the US Navy conducted a very unusual experiment, codenamed “Philadelphia”. The purpose of the experiment was to develop a new technology that would make it possible to generate powerful electromagnetic fields on a military destroyer, thanks to which light and radio waves would be forced to bend around the ship. That is, in fact, the goal of the experiment was to create an invisible ship, a kind of “Flying Dutchman”, invisible to the eyes and radars of the enemy. However, according to numerous publications in the post-war tabloid press, the experiment immediately did not go as planned. The ship, located in the dock, after turning on the equipment, was first enveloped in a greenish light, and then completely disappeared. Soon, however, he appeared, but not at the place of the experiment, but in Norfolk, Virginia. According to the Western press, numerous witnesses saw him there. 
After the completion of such a “successful” experiment, 21 people were found alive on the ship, 13 of whom died from burns, injuries electric shock, radiation, and fear. And what happened to the remaining 27 defies any explanation - people were found literally fused, fused with the hull of the ship. 
3. Death of the Dyatlov group.
There is Mount Otorten in the Urals, which is considered to be a zone of anomalies. IN different time Tragic events took place in these places. One of these horror stories occurred in February 1959. On the slopes of this mountain, the name of which, translated from the Mansi language, sounds like: “Don’t go there,” a group of tourists died under unclear circumstances. The search teams who found them and the forensic experts were surprised by what they saw there. Around the scene of the incident and down the slope the snow seemed to have been melted at a very high temperature.
The cause of death was determined to be hypothermia. But 3 things immediately caught my eye. Firstly: why were two people lying next to the fireplace completely naked and in a dynamic position. Secondly: one of the members of the deceased group had a crack in his forehead. Thirdly: cadaveric spots were found on parts of the bodies that were not in contact with the ground, which is contrary to the rules of medicine! After all, this is only possible if the bodies were turned over after death... But no traces other than those left by tourists were ever found. 
It is also strange that the supplies found in the tent remained untouched. Moreover, people suddenly began to get out of it. And all at once. And not just through the exit, but as if cutting the tent from the inside, trying to get out of it. The footprints in the snow left by members of the group were also unusual: some walked from the tent barefoot, others in only a sock and felt boots. The place where 9 tourists died was named Dyatlov Pass in honor of the group leader.
Until now, various theories have been put forward about what happened on the slope of this ominous mountain. Some, based on the fact that on the same day there was an unusual celestial phenomenon near those places (a luminous ball was moving in the direction of the northeast), say that the tourists died from alien intervention. Others say that a rocket fell nearby after secret tests of our troops. 
4. Tunguska meteorite.
The fall of the Tunguska meteorite on June 17, 1908 (June 30, old style) in the area of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River was accompanied by a strong air explosion with a capacity of about 40–50 megatons. First, a fireball flew, which exploded at an altitude of about 7–10 km, and then a magnetic storm lasted for 5 hours. The explosion knocked down a forest covering an area of 2,100 square meters. km, at a distance of 200 km from the epicenter, windows in houses were broken, and the roar was heard even further - at a distance of 800 km. 
What is unusual, it would seem, in a simple fall, yes, of a large meteorite? After all, debris from space constantly bombards our planet?! But… Tunguska meteorite was never found. Even the very place of its fall was discovered only 20 years later, at a distance of 100 km from the explosion. In addition, it is still not clear whether it was actually a meteorite or something else. Various assumptions are made: from the crash of an alien spaceship to a top-secret scientific experiment on the use of the latest energy weapons. 
5. The monster of Loch Ness.
The mysterious Loch Ness is located in the highlands of Scotland and is surrounded by vertical cliffs that rise two thousand feet. Loch Ness is one of three lakes that saturate the Great Valley - a huge rift that fences off Northern Scotland from the rest of Britain. The depth of Loch Ness sometimes reaches nine hundred feet. This truly huge lake hides great secrets within itself. In its gloomy waters, invisible due to the peat bottom, many times they encountered an unusual monster, reminiscent of those that lived on our planet millions of years before the advent of man.
It is noteworthy that the very first mention of the Loch Ness monster dates back to 565 AD. e. True, in those distant times the appearance of the monster was explained by the machinations evil forces. The next time they started talking about him was only many centuries later. From 565 until the beginning of the 19th century, no mention is found. However, from 1933 to the present day it has been seen more than 5,000 times! Unless, of course, eyewitnesses are lying. 
So WHAT IS THIS? There are a lot of theories. The most popular one says that the unknown Loch Ness monster is a dinosaur that became extinct millions of years ago - a plesiosaur. According to supporters of this theory, he fell into a trap after, as a result of tectonic shifts, the land rose and part of the prehistoric sea turned out to be a lake. However, the likelihood that one individual can live for at least several centuries is quite small. In this regard, the population mysterious monster must number several dozen individuals in order to be able to reproduce. In addition, such a population needed a large number of food for sustenance. But for such purposes, Loch Ness is small, and it is unlikely that it can feed so many plesiosaurs. 
Throughout 2016, visitors to our site cast their votes for their favorite riddles. Total number the votes for the year amounted to more than half a million, which means that every day visitors gave more than 1000 likes. And now it's time to take stock. Among thousands of riddles, we have selected the 100 best riddles of 2016 according to visitors. Based on the experience of last year, we can confidently say that the majority opinion turns out to be quite objective. Riddles appeal to people who hear them for the first time. Therefore, riddles from our top 100 list can be used at New Year’s school parties and in competitions at New Year’s corporate parties.
According to tradition, we will start with the less popular ones and gradually move on to the best. Read riddles, ask your parents, share with friends on social networks, click on the hearts. Go;)
1. Why does the dog bark?
Answer: Can't speak
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2. What year lasts only one day?
Answer: New Year
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3. What two is worth more than three?
Answer: Two pedals of an automatic transmission are more expensive than three pedals of a manual transmission
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4. Not a camel, but spitting. Not a calculator, but a counting one. Not a radio, but broadcasting.
Answer: Man
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5. Which word has three letters “w”?
Answer: Buzzing
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6. A cowboy, a gentleman and a yogi are sitting at the table. How many feet are there on the floor?
Answer: 1 leg (a cowboy puts his legs on the table, a gentleman crosses his legs, and a yogi meditates)
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7. The very first semiconductor in the world?
Answer: Ivan Susanin
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8. Where do people pay for what is taken from them?
Answer: Hairdresser
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9. The most large organ person?
Answer: Leather
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10. The more you pick, the bigger you become. What it is?
Answer: Hole
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11. Read the phrase correctly:
K Y G A I
S I O N B
Z H M E Y
I U SH T L
Answer: Love our mighty language
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12. What breaks but never falls? What falls but never breaks?
Answer: Heart and blood pressure
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13. You will say “don’t come!” - still comes. You say “don’t go!” - still leaves. What it is?
Answer: Time
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14. What can you cook, but cannot eat?
Answer: Homework
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15. What is cleanliness?
Answer: Pure mass divided by pure volume
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16. What can you take in left hand, but not on the right?
Answer: Right elbow
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17. What horse doesn’t eat oats?
Answer: Chess
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18. What can't you eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner
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19. What is the cow in front and the bull behind?
Answer: Letter k
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20. Why does Santa Claus deliver gifts alone, and Father Frost with the Snow Maiden?
Answer: Santa Claus will get home by himself after the New Year, but someone must drag Santa Claus
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21. On the same day, 2 boys were born in the same maternity hospital. Their parents moved into the same house. The boys lived on the same landing, went to the same school, to the same class. But they never saw each other. How can it be?
Answer: They were born blind
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22. Which word has five letters “l”?
Answer: Parallel-serial
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23. What type of weapon has a date and year?
Answer: Pistol
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24. Which bird is named after part of a musical instrument?
Answer: Vulture
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25. Which 2 notes indicate an edible product?
Answer: Fa-sol
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26. The husband gave his wife a ring and said: “When I die, read what is written on it.” He died and she read it. Later, when she was having fun, reading the inscription on the ring, she became sad, and when she was sad, reading the inscription, she became happy. What was written on the ring?
Answer: Everything will pass
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27. What should you do if you meet a tiger in a dream?
Answer: Wake up
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28. What should you do if you get into a car and your feet can’t reach the pedals?
Answer: Move to the driver's seat
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29. What can I do that you will never be able to repeat in your life?
Answer: Crawl between your legs
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30. Which knot cannot be untied?
Answer: Railway
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31. Name a 5 letter word containing the letters: p, z, d, a.
Answer: West
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32. Oh, what a comma
There is a big one on the sheet!
You can even measure it with it,
It's just a number...
Answer: nine
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33. In the sky with a thousand girlfriends, a tiny piece of ice is circling.
Answer: snowflake
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34. What bird bears the name of the ship?
Answer: Frigate
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35. What bird is called porridge?
Answer: Oatmeal
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36. What needs to be done to make a blonde’s eyes light up?
Answer: Shine the blonde's ear
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37. Mr. Mark was found murdered in his office. The cause turned out to be a bullet wound to the head. Detective Robin, examining the murder scene, found a cassette recorder on the table. And when he turned it on, he heard Mr. Mark's voice. He said: “This is Mark speaking. Jones just called me and said that in ten minutes he would be here to shoot me. There is no use in running. I know this footage will help the police arrest Jones. I hear his footsteps on the stairs. The door opens..." The assistant detective suggested that Jones be arrested on suspicion of murder. But the detective did not follow his assistant's advice. As it turns out, he was right. Jones was not the killer, as was stated on the tape. Question: why did the detective become suspicious?
Answer: The tape in the recorder was reviewed at the beginning. Moreover, Jones would have taken the tape.
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38. Crossroads. Traffic light. A Kamaz, a cart and a motorcyclist are standing and waiting for the green light. The yellow light came on and the Kamaz turned off. The horse got scared and bit the motorcyclist's ear. Like a traffic accident, but who broke the rules?
Answer: Motorcyclist (was not wearing a helmet)
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39. How much earth does a hole with a diameter of 3 meters and a depth of 3 meters contain?
Answer: Not at all (the pits are empty)
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40. The only people who are sober at the New Year’s banquet are...?
Answer: Christmas tree
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41. They don’t eat it raw; they throw it away when it’s cooked. What is this?
Answer: Bay leaf
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42. A flock was flying, not a big one at all. How many birds and what kind?
Answer: Seven owls (~ quite)
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43. There are 100 sheets of paper on the table.
For every 10 seconds you can count 10 sheets.
How many seconds will it take to count 80 sheets?
Answer: 20
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44. There lived a husband and wife. The husband had his own room in the house, which he forbade his wife to enter. The key to the room was in the bedroom chest of drawers. They lived like this for 10 years. And so the husband went on a business trip, and the wife decided to come into this room. She took the key, opened the room, and turned on the light. The wife walked around the room, then saw a book on the table. She opened it and heard someone opening the door. She closed the book, turned off the light and locked the room, putting the key in the chest of drawers. It's my husband who came. He took the key, opened the room, did something in it and asked his wife: “Why did you go there?”
How did the husband guess?
Answer: My husband touched the light bulb, it was hot.
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45. What constellations are named after birds?
Answer: Swan, Eagle
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46. Two women - no way. A woman and a man - somehow. Two men - at least.
Answer: Toilet
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47. What notes can be used to measure distance?
Answer: Mi-la-mi
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48. This name sounds like Danuta in full. What is it abbreviated as?
Answer: Dana
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49. Did you stick your muzzle into the lawn?
Answer: Know that it was riot police
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50. What do you get if you combine Microsoft and iPhone?
Answer: Microphone
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51. Two fifth-graders Petya and Alyonka are walking home from school and talking.
“When the day after tomorrow becomes yesterday,” said one of them, “then today will be as far from Sunday as the day that was today, when the day before yesterday was tomorrow.” What day of the week did they talk?
Answer: On Sunday
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52. Once upon a time there lived in a thicket an orphan girl, she had only two kittens, two puppies, three parrots, a turtle and a hamster with a hamster who was supposed to give birth to 7 hamsters. The girl went to get food. She goes through the forest, field, forest, field, field, forest, forest, field. She came to the store, but there was no food there. It goes further, through the forest, forest, field, field, forest, field, forest, field, forest, field, field, forest. And the girl fell into the hole. If she gets out, dad will die. If she stays there, mom will die. You can't dig a tunnel. What should she do?
Answer: She is an orphan
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53. Name a word in which one letter is a prefix, the second is a root, the third is a suffix, and the fourth is an ending.
Answer: Gone: u (prefix), sh (root), l (suffix), a (ending).
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54. A river that “fits” in your mouth?
Answer: Gum
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55. A husband and wife, a brother and sister, and a husband and brother-in-law were walking. How many people are there in total?
Answer: 3 people
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56. They come in metal and liquid. What are we talking about?
Answer: Nails
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57. Conjunction, number then preposition -
That's the whole charade.
And so that you can find the answer,
We need to remember about rivers.
Answer: i-sto-k
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58. Guess the riddle: who has the heel behind the nose?
Answer: Shoes
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59. Which muscle is the strongest in the human body?
Answer: The common belief is language. In fact, it is the calf and masseter muscles.
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60. How to put 2 liters of milk in a liter jar?
Answer: Turn it into cottage cheese
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61. Vasily, Peter, Semyon and their wives Natalya, Irina, Anna are 151 years old together. Each husband is 5 years older than his wife. Vasily is 1 year older than Irina. Natalya and Vasily are 48 years old together, Semyon and Natalya are 52 years old together. Who is married to whom, and how old is someone? (Age must be expressed in whole numbers).
Answer: Vasily (26) - Anna (21); Peter (27) - Natalya (22); Semyon (30) - Irina (25).
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62. What little horse needs to be placed between two pronouns to make the name of a country?
Answer: Pony (Japan)
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63. Sherlock Holmes was walking down the street. And suddenly he saw a dead woman lying on the ground. He walked over, opened her bag and took out her phone. Tel. in the book he found her husband's number. He called. Speaks:
- Come here urgently. Your wife has died. And after a while the husband arrives. He looks at his wife and says:
- Oh, honey, what happened to you???
And then the police arrive. Sherlock points his finger at the woman's husband and says:
- Arrest this man. He was the one who killed her. Question: Why did Sherlock think that?
Answer: Because Sherlock didn't tell her husband the address
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64. George Washington, Sherlock Holmes, William Shakespeare, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nero - who is the “odd one” on this list?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes (fictional character)
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65. How many different digits must be used to write the number 100?
Answer: Two: zero and one
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66. What sign must be placed between 6 and 7 so that the result is less than 7 and greater than 6?
Answer: Comma
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67. How to write “duck” in 2 cells?
Answer: In the 1st - the letter “y”, in the 2nd - a dot.
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68. To what mere mortal does even the president take off his hat?
Answer: Hairdresser
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69. You can tie it, but you can’t untie it.
Answer: Conversation
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70. The night watchman died during the day. Will they give him a pension?
Answer: A dead man doesn't need a pension
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71. In what word is the drink and natural phenomenon “hidden”?
Answer: Grapes
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72. Which path has no one ever walked or ridden before?
Answer: Milky Way
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73. What kind of stopper cannot be used to stop any bottle?
Answer: Road
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74. Without what does nothing ever happen?
Answer: Untitled
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75. Which number has as many numbers as there are letters in its name?
Answer: 100 (hundred), 1000000 (million)
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76. Jackdaws flew and sat on sticks. If they sit down one at a time, there’s an extra jackdaw; if they sit down in twos, there’s an extra stick. How many sticks were there and how many jackdaws were there?
Answer: Three sticks and four jackdaws
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77. Where on Earth does the south wind always blow?
Answer: At the North Pole
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78. What animal do people walk on and cars drive over?
Answer: Zebra
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79. What is an elephant without a nose?
Answer: Chess
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80. How many years are there in a year?
Answer: one (summer)
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81. What table has no legs?
Answer: Dietary
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82. Two people approach the river. There is a boat at the shore that can only support one. Both people crossed to the opposite bank. How?
Answer: They were on different banks
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83. Which word uses “no” 100 times?
Answer: Moans
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84. What can’t a magnifying glass magnify in a triangle?
Answer: Angles
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85. Why is the stop valve on trains red, but on airplanes blue?
Answer: Many will say: “I don’t know.” Experienced people will answer: “There are no stop valves on airplanes.” In fact, airplanes have a stop valve in the cockpit.
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86. Don't write anything or use a calculator. Take 1000. Add 40. Add another thousand. Add 30. Another 1000. Plus 20. Plus 1000. And plus 10. What happened?
Answer: 5000? Wrong. The correct answer is 4100. Try using a calculator.
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87. How can a person not sleep for 8 days?
Answer: Sleep at night
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88. Where does it happen that a horse jumps over a horse?
Answer: In chess
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89. One French writer really didn’t like the Eiffel Tower, but he always dined there (on the first level of the tower). How did he explain this?
Answer: This is the only place in all of vast Paris from where it is not visible
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90. There were 20 people on the bus. At the first stop 2 people got off and 3 people got on, at the next - 1 got off and 4 got on, at the next - 5 got off and 2 got on, at the next - 2 got off and 1 got on, at the next - 9 got off and no one got on, at the next - 2 more came out. Question: how many stops were there?
Answer: The answer to the riddle is not that important. This is a riddle with an unexpected question. While you are telling the riddle, the guesser begins to mentally count the number of people on the bus, and at the end of the riddle, with a question about the number of stops, you will puzzle him.
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91. Which word has 5 “e”s and no other vowels?
Answer: Migrant
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92. The boy paid 11 rubles for a bottle with a cork. A bottle costs 10 rubles more than a cork. How much does a cork cost?
Answer: 50 kopecks
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93. Seven sisters are at the dacha, where each is busy with some kind of business. The first sister is reading a book, the second is cooking, the third is playing chess, the fourth is solving Sudoku, the fifth is doing the laundry, the sixth is taking care of the plants. What does the seventh sister do?
Answer: Plays chess
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94. In which city did they hide? male name and side of the world?
Answer: Vladivostok
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95. More than an hour, less than a minute.
Answer: Seconds (hand of some watch models)
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96. There is a rich house and a poor one. They are burning. Which house will the police extinguish?
Answer: Police don't put out fires, fires are put out by firefighters
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97. The same person always came to the football match. Before the game started, he guessed the score. How did he do it?
Answer: Before the game starts the score is always 0:0
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98. He goes uphill, then downhill, but remains in place.
Answer: Road
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99. What language is spoken silently?
Answer: Sign language
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100. What do people often walk on, but rarely drive?
Answer: By stairs
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1. The Philadelphia Experiment
According to rumors, in 1943 the US military department allegedly tried to create a ship invisible to enemy radars. For this purpose, special electromagnetic generators were installed on the destroyer Elridge. The idea behind the experiment was that the very strong electromagnetic field around the ship would act as a shield for radar beams. During the test, to the amazement of the military, the ship not only disappeared from radar, but simply literally disappeared from sight.
Later he allegedly discovered rematerialized in the Norfolk (Virginia) area. The crew of the ship, according to various sources, either disappeared, or went crazy, or was brainwashed immediately after the experiment.
According to some eyewitnesses, members of the Elridge crew either disappeared, or passed through walls, or even spontaneously ignited, so much so that they could not be extinguished. There are many versions regarding the reasons for the disappearance of "Elridge": from the discovery of teleportation to the theory of time travel. The leadership of the US Navy at one time completely denied the conduct of such an experiment.
No written evidence was preserved: the documents were destroyed, the ship's log was “lost” in the archives, and the destroyer was sold to Greece. There are, however, some witnesses to the experiment, but their words also cannot serve as evidence. Skeptics believe that during the experiment, the destroyer simply sailed from Philadelphia to Norfolk along some hidden water channel, the existence of which made it possible to reduce the two-day journey to 6 hours. This. And also the difference in time, they explain the supposedly “instant” appearance of the ship in a water port after disappearing in another. Conspiracy theory fans continue to search for written evidence of the Philadelphia experiment.
2. Roswell Incident
In July 1947, an American farmer discovered the wreckage of a strange aircraft near the town of Roswell and, as many are sure, the bodies of strange people. Appearance debris suggested spaceship aliens or a failed top-secret military experiment. However, the FBI “froze” debate on this topic for 60 years: plainclothes officers who arrived at the site of the discovery immediately mothballed the wreckage of the aircraft and took it away for storage. further research in a closed hangar.
A few years later, the US government announced that the wreckage was allegedly belonged Soviet spy balloon. However, supporters of the theory of alien intelligence, of course, did not believe a penny. While the government was wondering what the wreckage of what had fallen on their heads in 1947, word quickly spread the news throughout the country. Since then, the words “Roswell” and “UFO” are practically synonymous. The city earns fabulous profits from tourists who want to get a glimpse of the “flying saucer” landing site.
3. Zombies Among Us
We are used to thinking of zombies as part of film folklore. The living dead, resurrected by sorcerers, no longer frighten even avid fans of the horror genre. But are there real zombies? Ethnobotanist Wade Davis, in his book “The Snake and the Rainbow,” dedicated to zombification and voodoo rituals in Haiti, talks about strange man named Clervius Narcissus. In 1962, he died in a local hospital three days after being admitted with flu-like symptoms. Eighteen years later, he allegedly returned from the world of the dead and, as proof, told his sister the family nickname that she had once awarded him. According to the "resurrected", his body was stuffed with drugs, then he was turned into a zombie and forced to work on a sugar plantation along with other zombies. After the death of his owner, Narcissus managed to escape, and for 16 long years he wandered around the country until he came across his own sister in the market and recognized her. Skeptics believe that Clervius Narcissus did not die at all, but fell into a stupor, which local illiterate doctors mistook for death.
4. Wow signal
The SETI project was engaged in the search for extraterrestrial civilizations, based on the assumption that if developed civilizations exist somewhere, they must have created systems of radio signals, the same as on Earth. The search for brothers in mind was expressed in listening to millions of radio channels in attempts to catch some kind of intelligent code. On August 15, 1977, something happened that all project participants had been waiting for so long - at the university Ohio The radio telescope recorded a signal that lasted exactly 37 seconds. Astronomer Jerry Eyman, who accepted the code 6EQUJ5, delightedly circled it in red marker in the diagram and scribbled in the margin with the same marker: WOW! - "Cool!". However, the scientist’s enthusiasm was premature. No one has been able to prove whether the received signal was really the code of brothers in mind, or whether it appeared on the air as a result of some human activity. Attempts to re-index the signal failed.
5. Circles in wheat fields
The phenomenon of circles in wheat fields has been around for almost 30 years. Mysterious circles and signs formed by neatly crushed ears of wheat are clearly visible from a helicopter and even from space. Interestingly, about 90% of all circles are located in England. There are many theories about the origin of these circles. The most popular of them is the intervention of unearthly civilizations, traces from alien spacecraft, and even secret signs that our brothers in mind give us. Scientists are inclined to meteorological explanations for the phenomenon: the circles seem to them to be the results of sudden tornadoes or destruction of the ozone layer. Skeptics are sure that all the circles are the result of someone’s unsuccessful “long-lasting” joke.
6. Bigfoot
Still in many places globe Scientists, tourists, hunters are finding “evidence” of the existence of the so-called Bigfoot - a huge humanoid creature with long white hair covering its entire body. Traces of huge feet were seen in Alaska, and on Elbrus, and in Peru. Many are inclined to consider Bigfoot one of the intermediate links in evolution, proof that man descended from apes. Others consider him a mystical creature. Skeptics, as always, grin and advise everyone to be more realistic: traces can be someone's joke, photographs can be fake, video evidence can be fake.
There are such natural anomalies and physical phenomena, which can be classified as “Modern Mysteries”, since they modern man I can’t describe it. Even now, in the 21st century, not everyone understands what is happening around them and how to characterize certain life moments.
Scientists have compiled a list of the most mysterious phenomena modernity, for which there are no clear answers.
Mysteries of our time that do not have clear answers
1. Face on Mars
Back in 1975, astronomers were able to provide the world with photographs of the Cydonia region on this planet. Many who encountered this image considered a human face. Immediately in scientific world There has been controversy over exactly where the portrait on Mars came from. Opinions on the Martian mystery are divided. Some believe that the "face" is a man-made creation, while others believe that it is simply a visual effect that occurs when photographing landscapes. If you greatly enlarge the image, the face disintegrates into mountain ranges.
2. Ikian stones
According to legend, the stones were located in Peru a long time ago, in a cave, the coordinates of which no one still knows. But the surprising thing is that no one has ever found the original location. The surprising thing is that amazing drawings are applied to the stones that do not coincide with the ancient way of life. For example, one stone shows that surgeons of that time performed an operation on the core, and this was physically impossible to do at that moment. It turned out that one inventive farmer put stones in the chicken coop, and the chickens played with them, leaving interesting scratches with their claws. By the way, the stones were sold at exorbitant prices.
3. The ship "Maria Celeste"
An amazing ghost ship that moves without its crew. The strange thing is that eyewitnesses specifically climbed onto the deck and saw food, from which smoke was coming, and the crew’s belongings, but there was no trace of the sailors themselves. If we think logically, then most likely the crew and the captain simply hastily evacuated, feeling that the ship was sinking. Most likely it was a false alarm.
4. Bermuda Triangle
In fact, such a place does not exist. The press simply adjusted the coordinates of shipwrecks to approximately the same place, creating false statistics, promoting themselves and making their publications more marketable.
5. Mayan calendar
This is an odometric calendar. The calendar reaches the number zero and starts counting again. And there is no end of the world in it.
6. Nessie
The Loch Ness monster, which has haunted people's consciousness for several hundred years and made Scotland a paradise for tourists. Scientists believe that all photographs are a montage and people's desire to become famous. If such an animal lived, it would need to eat something, but there is no such amount of food in the lake that can feed such a massive animal. And scientists also did not find waste products, and this can mean a lot.
7. Bigfoot
Yeti, or simply Bigfoot, is one of the main mysteries of our time. The mysterious Yeti does not allow hundreds of travelers to sleep peacefully. Not because he bothers them, but because no one can find him. A legend, a beautiful fairy tale that attracts tourists and creates a unique aura of mystery. If you turn to scientists, they doubt the existence of the Yeti. No evidence - no substance.
8. Shroud of Turin
This is currently the most researched subject. Dozens of scientists got together, photographed it, cut off tiny pieces to prove whether it was a fake or not. The fact is that, according to legend, the body of Christ was wrapped in this fabric and after some time the image of Jesus was imprinted on the fabric. While examining the shroud, scientists discovered that the date of Christ's death does not coincide with the age of the cloth. Radiocarbon dating of the fabric showed its medieval origin. It was also discovered that not all the blood on the shroud belonged to the same person. The groups are different. And there is not blood, but pigments, dyes that were applied to imitate a bloody body that was once lying in the fabric. At the same time, the existence of Christ is not questioned. The origin of the shroud itself is a modern mystery for many.
9. Astrology
Science that appeared a long time ago. Most representatives of the scientific world consider astrology to be absolutely useless. According to astrologers, zodiac signs, as well as planets, stars and numbers have a serious influence on human destiny. Although astrologers do not deny the factor of human free will. There is no solid scientific evidence of the impact of Heaven on humans, but the financial turnover is colossal. Printed publications from all sides are replete with horoscopes and astrological forecasts, which often do not come true, because when compiling them, astrologers take into account general astrological factors that influence groups of people, and not a specific person. More reliable is a personal horoscope compiled taking into account individual birth data. People want to believe what they like.
10. Imperishable relics
There are bodies that are practically untouched by time, and are stored for a very long time from the moment of death. The most popular example is the body of Saint Bernadette. When scientists received the go-ahead for research, they found traces of wax in the tissues, which slows down decomposition; accordingly, Bernadette was saved by people, not higher power. But there are also inexplicable modern science facts of preservation of relics. For example, the incorruptible relics of St. Alexander of Svirsky, preserved in surprisingly excellent condition and with which many mysteries are associated.
Now you can see that not everything has no answers. Sooner or later the secret will always be revealed.
Despite the fact that scientists tirelessly unravel and discover, the mysteries in the history of mankind do not seem to decrease. A lot of mysteries and unsolved mysteries remains in the history of our civilization.
Science is increasingly applying modern methods and technology, history is gradually lifting its veils, but even billion-dollar research budgets and brilliant researchers still cannot answer some very interesting questions, cannot explain the origin of a certain people or where the entire state disappeared.
1. Was there Atlantis?
Atlantis - the most famous of the legendary continents Ancient world. Plato wrote about it in detail. She was mentioned in their writings by Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Posidonius, Strabo and Proclus. According to Plato, the island was located to the west of the Pillars of Hercules, opposite the Atlanta Mountains. During strong earthquake he went under water in one day. This happened around 9500 BC.
Atlantis was searched all over the world, from Gibraltar to Peru and Brazil, but today there is not a single scientifically based theory of its location.
2. Was there a Great Flood?
The Flood is mentioned not only in the canonical books of the Bible, but also in the later apocrypha. For example, in the Book of Enoch. The story of the flood can be found in other books, in the Jewish Haggadah and Midrash Tankhuma, as well as in the Sumerian myth of Ziusudra. The first Sumerian flood poems that have come down to us go back to XVIII century BC.
There are mentions of sea trends in the myths of all cultures, but did the flood really happen? Historians cannot yet give a definite answer. However, it is known, for example, that around 5600 BC. There was a real flood in the Mediterranean when, due to earthquakes, the level of the Black Sea rose by 140 meters, it increased 1.5 times, and the Sea of Azov appeared. Perhaps for the inhabitants of those places it was a “global flood”.
3. Who built the pyramids?
No matter how modern reconstructors and scientists struggle to solve the riddle of the construction of the pyramids, convincing versions of the method of their construction have not yet been found. Some experts say that the pyramids were built from ready-made blocks hewn out of the rock, others (Joseph Davilowitz) say that the blocks were made at the construction site from a mixture of stone chips and “geopolymer concrete” based on limestone. The incredible complexity of the process calls into question all hypotheses. The question also remains open about who built the pyramids, slaves or civilian workers, and how many there were.
4. Where did the Mayans go?
The Mayan civilization was one of the most developed, but by the time the conquistadors arrived, only scattered forest tribes remained of the Mayans, underdeveloped and not representing a serious force. They lived in huts and did not build majestic temples and palaces. Where did the Mayans go? The mystery is still not solved. There are many versions, from epidemic and war to alien intervention, but none of them is proven.
5. Who were the Sumerians?
The world community learned about the Sumerians only in the middle of the 19th century, when scientists proved that in Mesopotamia there existed a state whose age reaches 6,000 years. It was from him that Babylon and Assyria inherited their culture.
It is still unknown where the Sumerians came to Mesopotamia. It is assumed that this was a mountainous region, since in the Sumerian language the words “country” and “mountain” are spelled the same. It also had to be an area with advanced technology - the Sumerians were pioneers in many fields of knowledge, from astronomy to physics. It is speculative, but not yet proven, that this could be in the south of India.
6. Did the Vikings discover America?
The Norman version of the discovery of America is being voiced more and more often, but the Columbus version is still the official one. What's interesting about both of them is that both times America was discovered by mistake (a Scandinavian trader named Bjarni Herjulfsson lost his course due to a storm, and Columbus sailed to India).
There is much less material on the Norman version than on the Columbus version, and not all of them are considered authentic, which greatly undermines its credibility.
7. Who were the Hyksos?
They are called "shepherd kings." It was during their reign that a two-wheeled military chariot appeared in Egypt, which changed the tactics of warfare. Little is known about them. The Hyksos were nomadic tribes, “rulers of the desert highlands,” who invaded Egypt around 1700. BC e. They ruled it for more than 100 years and even founded an entire dynasty of Hyksos kings. The Hyksos were expelled from Egypt only by the founder of the 18th dynasty, Ahmose I, in 1587 BC. e. The question of who exactly the Hyksos were, where they came from and where they disappeared remains open.
8. Why did Neanderthals go extinct?
The human and Neanderthal genomes are approximately 99.5% identical, but this does not mean that we descended from Neanderthals. We have 98% genome similarity with monkeys.
Contrary to popular belief that Neanderthals were semi-savage, they were not. This was a fairly developed evolutionary branch, they even knew how to do musical instruments. The versions of their disappearance are as follows: 1) Assimilation; 2) Cro-Magnon genocide; 3) glacial period, which they could not stand because they did not know how to make clothes as they were unnecessary.
None of these versions is yet scientifically legitimized.
9. Where did the Scythians disappear to?
It is believed that Scythia was the first state to disappear as a result of the Great Migration. The Scythians fought with the Sarmatians, Philip and Alexander the Great, with the Goths and Huns. It is believed that after the defeat of the latter, most of the Scythians died, while many became part of the winning army. In history, because of this, there is a lot of confusion with the later definition of the Scythians. Some historians count Chechens and Ossetians among the descendants of the Scythians.
10. Why did Alexander the Great die?
We still don’t know where Alexander the Great is buried. This significantly reduces the chances of finding out the main mystery - why he died in the prime of his life, at 32 years old. The Persians, whom he mercilessly defeated, claimed that the commander was punished by heaven for desecrating the tomb of King Cyrus. The Macedonians who returned home said that the great commander died of drunkenness and debauchery (sources brought to us information about his 360 concubines). Roman historians believed that he was poisoned with some kind of slow-acting Asian poison. According to the most common version, Alexander died of malaria. She does not explain why she made such a “single strike.”
11. Did King Arthur exist?
Almost all of us have known King Arthur since childhood. The Arthurian cycle was a bestseller back in the Middle Ages, and in our time it has become one of the cult phenomena of mass culture. Some critics argue that all fantasy literature came out of Arthuriana. However, the reliability of Arthur's existence as a separate historical figure has not yet been proven. Probably, the real prototype of Arthur had a different name, or it is a collective image of several prototypes.
12. Why did the plague “mow down” Europe?
There is a lot that is unclear in the story of the European plague pandemic, which literally “decimated” Europe in the Middle Ages. Thus, it was not possible to identify wild rodents known as such, whose habitats would also extend so far to the north. There is no answer to the question of why the Black Death pandemic struck Europe in the same sequence and over the same territories, and for the same time, as the first pandemic - the Plague of Justinian (531-589)? How did its outbreaks flare up synchronously over very extensive areas of Europe, for example, the plague epidemic in Moscow and London in the middle of the 17th century?
13. Where did the gold of the royal family go?
By the beginning of the First World War Russian empire had the world's largest gold reserves, which were estimated at 1 billion 695 million rubles (1311 tons of gold, more than 60 billion dollars at the exchange rate of the 2000s).
The fate of most of the gold reserves of Tsarist Russia is still unknown (“Kolchak’s gold”). This was approximately 490 tons of pure gold in bullion and coins valued at 650 million. According to one version, it was stolen by the Czechoslovak corps, according to another, it was hidden on the orders of Kolchak himself, according to the third, the funds ended up in European banks.
14. Where did the Templar gold go?
The countless treasures of the Templars are still legendary. According to the historian Lozinsky, the chief treasurer of the order was the chief treasurer of France, and the largest debtor of the order was King Philip IV the Fair of France.
After the trial of the Templars, he discovered that there was not much jewelry and gold in the treasuries. Where the Templar gold went is a mystery. It is known that the surviving Templars transported part of the accumulated treasures on ships, but where is not known for certain. If you believe the legends, the Templar gold ended up in Nova Scotia - the territory of modern Canada. It is believed that part of it was transported to the Canadian Oak Island, where the descendants of the temple knights hid it in a cache with numerous traps.
15. Where did the 10 tribes of Israel go?
At the end of the 8th century BC, five-sixths of Jews disappeared completely - 10 out of 12 ethnic groups. They have been sought for for 2500 years, and are sometimes found in the most unexpected places- from India to Europe. Even in Japan they claim their kinship with the lost tribes. There is a religious movement called Makuya, whose representatives claim that the imperial title “Mikado” itself comes from the Hebrew mi gadol (great). None of the versions is official today.
16. Who built Stonehenge?
The mystery of the megalithic complex Stonehenge has not yet been solved. According to one version, it was built by the Druids, according to another - by the Celts, according to the third - by the ancient Britons, according to the fourth - by Merlin himself. There are those who claim that Stonehenge is a hoax and was built in modern times.
It is also unknown exactly how Stonehenge was built. During the restoration of the complex, which began in 1901 and was completed only in 1964, the stones were rearranged using cranes, but in the Middle Ages there was no such equipment.
17. How were the monuments built on Easter Island?
The most widely accepted theory among researchers is that the moai on Easter Island were erected by settlers from the Polynesian islands in the 11th century. How they did this is still unknown. Thor Heyerdahl's experiments were only partially successful. Its method of transportation was not suitable for multi-meter colossi weighing 50 tons or more. The Norwegian scientist also could not explain how the Maoi wore hats weighing up to two tons.
18. Where was the “cradle” of the Indo-Europeans?
This question still remains open. It was previously believed that the “cradle” of the Indo-Europeans was in India, but linguistic analysis refutes this. As a rule, in the region of origin of any language family There are many different languages and dialects of the same family, and India has only one Indo-Aryan branch of languages. In Central and Eastern Europe In contrast, there are hundreds of varieties of Indo-European languages.
The most reliable, although not proven, version is that the ancestral homeland of the Indo-Europeans was the Volga and Black Sea lands, where archaeologists recorded the Yamnaya culture.
19. What caused the Great Migration of Europe?
The Great Migration destroyed the ancient world, building the Middle Ages on its ruins. Despite many versions, it is still not clear what happened main reason barbarian movements. As is usually the case in such cases, scientists talk about the sum of factors. Firstly, about overpopulation in Scandinavia, secondly, about the change climatic conditions(cooling and increasing humidity), finally, about a shift in social strata - the tribal elite that came to power was interested in profit. The best goal became the Roman Empire.
20. Who sponsored the Bolsheviks?
The question of whose money the revolution in Russia was carried out still remains debatable. For a long time the main version was that the German General Staff played the first role in financing, but today more and more historians are inclined to believe that support came from England, from Wall Street, and even from the Old Believers, who had close business contacts with English industrialists.
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