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The 20 weirdest mysteries

that are still unsolved

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Is the Flying Dutchman real?
The Flying Dutchman – a spectral ship
fated it sail the seas for all eternity – has become
rooted in naval folklore since it was first
supposedly sighted in the 17th century. Many
think it is simply a myth conjured up in the
minds of old sea dogs, designed to both
entertain and terrify. However, sightings as
recently as the 20th century have persuaded
others that the ghost ship really exists.

Who is the Mothman?
The Mothman is one of the more famous
urban myths, reworked and popularised in print
and on screen. However, the story has its roots
in a number of apparently genuine sightings
reported over the course of a year in West
Virginia, of a human-like huge-winged figure
with red eyes. The sense of bewilderment and
fear caused by The Mothman climaxed with a
tragic accident that killed 46 people. Was it an
instance of mass hysteria? Was it the work of a death by a highly experienced coroner at an
cruel practical joker? Or was there really a Program Director Top Picks
inquest in Ireland in 2011. If it is real (and no
creature whose appearance forewarned of
one knows the answer to this), we also crucially of
impending doom?
don’t know HOW it happens. The ‘X’ Zone Radio / TV Show
Is there really a beast of Bodmin Why was Lee Harvey Oswald with
Moor? murdered? Rob McConnell
Since 1983 there have been at least 60 In 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated
reported sightings in the West Country of a large US President John F. Kennedy. Oswald was Scott Alan Roberts - The Secret History of
catlike animal, of a type not indigenous to the initially depicted as a lonely Communist the Reptilians -
UK. Descriptions of the Beast tally strongly, but sympathiser, but it is now widely accepted that https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16674722
the official line is that no such creature exists, he was part of a bigger conspiracy to kill the
but a growing body of evidence - including President. At the heart of this is the mysterious Jason Offutt - Chasing American Monsters -
unexplained livestock mutilations, photos and https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16665412
figure of Jack Ruby, who shot Oswald soon after
videos - would suggest there really is something
his arrest. Ruby’s links to organised crime have
out there. We just don’t know what. only fuelled the conspiracy-theory fire but no Jason Mankey - The Witch's Altar -
one knows why he did it for sure. Ruby himself https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16665171
Where is Frederick Valentich? even said: “Everything pertaining to what’s
In October 1978 a would-be hot-shot happening has never come to the surface… The Graham Hancock - Entangled and Ancient
pilot, Frederick Valentich, was on a training people who had so much to gain, and had such Mysteries -
flight when he radioed Melbourne air traffic ulterior motive for putting me in this position https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16520543
control to report an unidentified flying object (a I’m in, will never let the true facts come above
literal UFO) speeding through the sky above board to the world.” John Le Bon - The Twin Towers Were Not
him. Valentich was asked to identify the other Hit By Planes and No One Died
aircraft and replied “It isn’t an aircraft. It is…” Did Moscow cover up the deaths of https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16517022
when all contact was lost. No trace of him has
numerous members of their space
been found. Theories about what happened Loyd Pye - The StarChild Skull -
programme?
range from tragic accidents, suicide, alien https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16511318
At the height of the Cold War everything
abductions and UFO attacks, fuelled by a
between the USA and the Soviet Union was a
supressed investigation report. Ultimately Jeff Belanger - GhostVillage
battlefield – most famously the space race.
however, we’ll never know what happened. https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16511087
While the USSR had been leading since 1957,
America finally won when they put Neil
Can humans really spontaneously Derrel Sims - The Alien Hunter
Armstrong on the Moon in 1969. However, there
combust? https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16305809
have long been rumours that two earlier attempts
Spontaneous human combustion is by the Russians ended in tragedy and a
when a person bursts into flames despite the government cover-up, started by a pair of Italian Ronald Kolek and Maureen Wood - New
apparent absence of an external heat source. brothers who claim they listened in on England Ghost Project -
Often used in film and fiction, many suggest extraordinary episodes including at least three https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16448425
that in reality victims succumb to something occasions where they heard astronauts dying in
called the ‘wick effect’ (too gross to explain Benjamin Radford - From Mysteries of New
space. With the lengths taken by both the White
here). However, there is growing evidence to Mexico, to the Crystal Skulls and Much
House and the Kremlin to preserve secrecy at
suggest that spontaneous human combustion the height of the Cold War we may never know More -
can in fact occur with over 200 cases reported the truth. [] https://www.spreaker.com/episode/15893286
worldwide. It was even given as the cause of