Category: Historical Mysteries
Saint Wolfgang and the Devil, 1475 This work by a famous German Renaissance painter Michael Pacher in the 15th century is based around a legend that states Saint Wolfgang, the Bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria during the 10th century, tricked…
The story of William Cantelo and Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim remains an unexplained mystery, with possible evidence of teleportation, double lives, and corruption. William Cantelo and his odd inventions William Cantelo claimed he was born around 1838 in the…
On 20 May 1916, Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley, and Tom Crean reached Stromness, a whaling station on the north coast of South Georgia. They had been walking for 36 hours, in life-threatening conditions, in an attempt to reach help…
What are the worlds biggest unexplained mysteries ? Mystery deepens over world’s biggest explosion 110 years ago in Russia. The Hinterkaifeck Mystery The shocking mystery of the SS Ourang Medan Lost in Panama – The unexplained mystery of Kris…
Most people have heard the story of El Dorado, a city full of gold lost somewhere in the rainforests of South America. In fact, El Dorado is actually a legend about a Muisca Chieftain (the Golden One) who would cover…
Nikola Tesla died before he finished a mysterious, earth-shattering invention, Mystery still surrounds what this invention was, decades after his death people still speculate about his inventions. Wireless Energy In 1901, Tesla secured $150,000 from financier J.P. Morgan to build…
There’s an area in Green Mountain National Forest near Glastenbury Mountain and Vermont’s Long Trail that believers in the paranormal call Bennington Triangle. The area got this name because of a handful of mysterious disappearances which occurred between 1945 and…
In 1946, Katherine Van Alst, an eight-year-old girl who was with her family at Devil’s Den State Park, disappeared from their camp and got lost. Six days later, she was found sitting in a cave approximately 48 kilometers (30 mi)…
At the end of 2014, employees of the Great Basin National Park in Nevada were going about their daily tasks when they stumbled across a strange find. Up against a tree leaned a Winchester rifle. Just by looking at the…
Merchant Royal Lost : On board at the time of its sinking was a trove 100,000 lbs of gold, 400 bars of Mexican silver and almost 500,000 ‘pieces of eight’, or Spanish dollars The remains of the Merchant Royal are…
The Book of Soyga The Mystery The Middle Ages produced their share of strange texts, but perhaps none was as mysterious as the Book of Soyga, a treatise on magic and the paranormal that contains passages that have yet to…
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK The mystery of the Man in The Iron Mask has been a focal point for both doe eyed romantics and serious historians since the 17th century, generating countless theories about the identity of the…
