Category: Historical Mysteries
The Mysterious Case of Gil Pérez, Gil Pérez was a Spanish soldier of the Filipino Guardia Civil who allegedly suddenly appeared in the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City (more than 9,000 nautical miles from Manila, across the Pacific) on October…
Giants are one of two things. Either they are a race of humanoid beings, much larger than humans, that lived around the dawn of man or they are just very tall people. We know the latter to be real and…
Christopher Columbus did not discover America. Although nothing can be taken away from Columbus’ daring voyage, he certainly was not the first to arrive on the shores of the Americas. For one thing, there were already people here – many…
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…