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The 20 weirdest mysteries

that are still unsolved

Author Daniel Smith looks at the
world’s greatest mysteries,
disappearances, unsolved crimes and
conspiracy theories

Discussing conspiracy theories will generate
one of two reactions: a patronising tut and roll of
the eyes, or the scraping of a chair being pulled
closer to the conversation.
As you’re here, we’re assuming you
reacted with the latter.
In his book 100 Things They Don’t Want
You To Know, author Daniel Smith looks at the
world’s greatest mysteries, disappearances,
unsolved crimes and conspiracy theories - many
that’ll cause you to chuckle in knowing wisdom,
others that’ll see you digging around gloomy
online chatrooms in search of the “truth”.
Here Smith talks us through the 20
weirdest mysteries he has come across.

Did Hitler try to make bomber UFOs?
Did Hitler come up with a crackpot Borden were brutally bludgeoned to death in was exhumed along with her mother and sister
scheme to bomb London and New York with their home in Massachusetts. Their daughter who has also died from the disease in 1892 when
UFOs? It sounds bizarre, but there is now Lizzie, a quiet Sunday School teacher, was her father was told a sinister spirit may be at
evidence to suggest that the Nazis came very arrested on circumstantial evidence and after work on his family. When Mary’s body was
close to succeeding in building some kind of hi- only an hour of deliberation, the jury acquitted brought to light it did not show any signs of
tech, anti-gravity aircraft with vertical take-off her. Whether this means Lizzie was innocent or decomposition, despite being buried for two
capabilities. There were even sighting of a UFO not, we’ll never know, but her defenders have months. Her skin was well preserved, her hair
over the Thames in 1944, while others are pointed to several other potential killers and nails had grown and she even had liquid
convinced the 1947 Roswell Incident was including her uncle, illegitimate brother, scorned blood; even more weirdly her body was said to
actually a disastrous attempt by the US to test lover and even the local doctor. Whatever have moved positions in the grave. While
out Nazi designed flying saucers. happened in that house that day, someone got science has tried to explain it, no theories have
away with murder. succeeded completely – perhaps Mercy was, as
What was the CIA-sponsored suggested at the time, a vampire child, sucking
MKUltra programme? What does the Shugborough the life out of her family?
As recently seen on Netflix’s Inscription mean?
Wormwood, MKUltra was set up during the The inscription found on a monument at (Continued on Page 60)
Cold War to research and develop materials that Shugborough Estate in Staffordshire has
could be used to control human behaviour – perplexed some of the most brilliant
basically, how to do mind-control. It was run cryptologists. One of the most popular theories
covertly through universities, hospitals, prisons is that it relates to a secret kept by the Priory of
and drug companies who used their patients and Sion, descendants of the Knights Templar and
inmates as non-consenting guinea pigs. While a guardians of the holy grail (the ones from The
government investigation in 1975 revealed a lot Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown). Another theory
about MKUltra, the vast majority of official suggests it is simply a private dedication from
records relating to it were destroyed in 1973 on one member of the family to another. Whatever
the orders of the CIA’s then-Director, Richard the case, no one, not even Darwin (who was
Helms… We may never know the lengths it captivated by the mystery) can solve it.
went to and the damage it caused.
Who killed the Black Dahlia?
Who was the man in the iron mask? The unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short
Immortalised by Alexandre Dumas (and in 1947 is one of the most famous cold-cases of
later Leonardo DiCaprio) The Man in the Iron the 20th century. Elizabeth was a 22-year-old
Mask was a prisoner in Paris’ Bastille prison waitress found brutally and clinically murdered
from 1698 until his death in 1703. His face was in a park in California. The case became a media
always hidden but he was treated with the furore when her supposed killer wrote to the Los
utmost respect by his jailers. So who was he? Angeles Examiner and sparked a queue of
The most popular theories suggest that he was cranks and attention-seekers purporting to be the
someone related to the French king of the time, killer. Over the decades suspects have risen and
Louis XIV, who would call his legitimacy into fallen in popularity, with an LAPD detective
question – his twin brother, older brother, or even pointing the finger at his father. With the
even his real father. That his identity remains passage of time and decaying evidence it seems Paranormal StakeOut
uncertain to the modern day is testament to the unlikely the crime will ever be solved. with Larry Lawson
French crown’s ability to keep its silence …
Was Mercy Brown a vampire? www.xzbn.net
Was Lizzie Borden a murderer? Mercy Brown was a young girl who died
On 4th August 1892 Andrew and Abby from tuberculosis in New England in 1892. She