7 Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries

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7 ) The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

Not all alien invasion stories are created equal. In fact, all of them pale in comparison to the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter because it involves rednecks, alien goblins, and guns. On the night of August 21, 1955, a Kentucky farmer went outside to get a drink of water and claimed to have seen a “flying saucer” crash in a nearby gully. Everyone laughed at him and suggested that he was either lying or hallucinating.
The Bizarre:

A few minutes later the group saw a three foot tall creature glide towards them. It had an over-sized head, pointy ears, glowing eyes, was dressed in silver metal, had large talons on its hands, and had them raised towards the sky. The group responded like any of us would: they grabbed their guns and started shooting at it. But it just somersaulted away and for the next few hours the group was harangued by a group of goblins that didn’t get hurt by gunfire and seemed to just want to peer inside the house.
Possible Explanation:

The best explanation is that they were shit-faced on moonshine and were shooting at owls. But the police was very adamant in stating that the group was not under the influence of alcohol and drugs and “sincere and sane and that they had no interest in exploiting the case for publicity.”
6 ) The Dancing Mania of Aachen

Not the Tito Puente album, but a craze that swept across Europe and lasted for about 300 years. On June 24, 1374, a large group of people started dancing through the streets of Aachen, Germany, engaging in orgies and screaming about visions. They foamed at their mouths, talked in tongues, and kept dancing even after collapsing from exhaustion. It quickly caught on and rapidly spread through the rest of Europe.
The Bizarre:

Obvious Thriller joke aside, what made the entire scenario even better was the fact that the first solution was to attempt to pray away the mania. Large religious ceremonies were staged on counter the movement because it was thought to be a form of demonic possession. When that failed, anytime a dance mania would kick off musicians would accompany the afflicted in hopes that it would “treat” them.
Possible Explanation:

There are a few: Michael Jackson turned into a werecat after asking his girlfriend to go steady, ergot poisoning, or mass delusions. You decide which one you like better.
5 ) The Dyatlov Pass Accident

In something that the Blair Witch Project apparently ripped off, nine Russian cross-country skiers went on a trek through the Ural Mountains in 1959. They were forced to set up camp during a snow storm but something scared them enough to make a mad dash through the harsh subzero weather towards a nearby forest wearing practically nothing. Not surprisingly, all were found dead afterwards. None of them had any signs of outward trauma.
The Bizarre:

Since no Cher CDs were found it is unknown why they would dash into the snow to die, but other hikers in the area swear there were strange lights in the sky. Five were found to have died of simple hypothermia - it appears that they just ran out into the cold and froze to death - but four were found in strange circumstances: two had crushed ribs, one had a crushed skull, and one was missing her tongue. These four were dosed with radiation and families swear that their skin turned orange and their hair white.
Possible Explanation:

No tongue? FUCK! Aliens! Buzz-kills want us to believe that an avalanche or a weapons test gone wrong caused the deaths, but there is no evidence of either, and most records were lost after the fall of the USSR or are still sealed.
4 ) The Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 Hijacking

On November 24, 1971, a man that resembled Michael Douglas’ character in Falling Down sat down and requested a bourbon with soda. The man is D.B. Cooper and he is about to become an American legend. After lighting a cigarette he passed the stewardess a note saying that he’ll detonate a bomb if he isn’t given $200,000 in cash and four parachutes.
The Bizarre:

After the FBI gives him the money and parachutes, he straps it to himself and asks for the plane to go to Mexico City. After 45 minutes in the air he offers each of the stewardesses a $2,000 tip, opens a door in the back, and bails into the darkness and rain.
Possible Explanation:

He had balls that were made of diamonds. Expert experienced paratrooper and skydivers swear that there is no way he could have survived the jump but no body is ever found. A few people come forward, either claiming to be D.B. Cooper or claiming to know who he was, but DNA evidence disproves their claims.
3 ) The May Day Mystery

Every May 1st since 1981, a cryptic ad has been placed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat.
The Bizarre:

At first glance they are just gibberish, but analysis by fans has revealed that they seem to be laying out a story that involves The Orphanage, a secret society that is placing the ads, that wants to give away The Prize, which is a reward that is in a safe deposit box for whoever solves the mystery. The Orphanage transports White Rabbit/Wonder Bread, which are unknown items, and seem to have some obsession with Martin Luther because his image appears on a lot of the ads.
Possible Explanation:

The super-model-sexy explanation is that there is a super secret society that is trying to see if anyone out there is smart enough to crack their code. The seeing-your-grandmother-naked explanation is that the ads are placed by Robert Truman Hungerford, an eccentric lawyer that claims to be the legal counsel for “The Brotherhood”, and that he is bat shit insane.
2 ) The Max Headroom Signal Piracy Incident

On a typical Chicago night on November 22, 1987, someone wearing a Max Headroom mask managed to hijack a broadcast signal twice - once CBS and once PBS. Pirating a broadcast signal is incredibly hard. According to the FBI the cost of doing something like this could range from a couple thousand dollars to over $25,000.
The Bizarre:

The first intrusion took place while CBS was going through sports scores. “Max” appeared for about 30 seconds and swayed in front of a corrugated metal sheet until CBS killed his signal. The second intrusion took place while PBS was showing an episode of Doctor Who. “Max” appeared around 11:15 PM and started dancing around while saying random phrases. He then decided to moon the viewers and was spanked by someone wearing a dress with a flyswatter. Then the signal blacked out. It pissed off Doctor Who fans to the point that one remarked: “I got so upset that I wanted to bust the TV set… I really did.”
Possible Explanation:

The most badass one is that it was a bored hacker that wanted to show off his abilities. The not as awesome, but still interesting one is that someone had a grudge against the CBS station. The philosophical one is that he used Max Headroom because it was set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland ruled by TV corporations and freedom fighters spread their message by hijacking TV feeds. But either way, no one knows, because “Max” covered his trail extremely well and there is practically no evidence anymore.
1 ) The Lead Masks Case

Some crazy shit happens in Brazil, there are parts of Rio de Janeiro where pilots refuse to fly over out of fears that slum lords will shoot them down. So, it is only natural that mysterious deaths have to involve UFOs. On August 20, 1966, in Niteroi, the bodies of two healthy men in their 30s were found on a hilltop. Both men were wearing half-masks made of lead that covered the upper half of their faces. A notebook keeping diagrams and partially coded notes along with a strange letter was found with the bodies.
The Bizarre:

Lead masks aside, the autopsies revealed that both men were healthy and had died when their hearts just stopped beating. The notebook contained references to the Ohm equation and the letter appeared to be instructions to appear at the hilltop, swallow orange capsules, and to wait for the “promised sign.” Naturally, people came forward to claim that strange orange objects were hovering over the hilltop the same day. When investigators searched one of the men’s workshop they found a book that discussed scientific spiritualism in which passages dealing with masks and intense rays of light were marked.
Possible Explanation:

No Madonna CDs were found, so it isn’t sure why they were obsessed with rays of light. Theories about aliens, psychics, cults, etc started to spread but none had any evidence. The police closed the investigation saying: “I have no doubt they died of an experiment with psychic forces, for which they were ill-prepared and which turned out to be fatal.”

7 Bizarre Unsolved Mysteries — ty.rannosaur.us

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[Boy'nBlack]

You like this? Listen to Coast To Coast AM...this type of stuff is constantly talked about. I love that show, and have been hooked since the night Art Bell signed off...for his first of 3 retirements.

[PTRMAN]

I love this stuff - I even made my wife go to Oak Island when we went to Nova Scotia for vacation one year - but I think we're all suckers for the "unexplained".

I think it was the X-Files that had the phrase "I want to believe", which I think is true for most of us - we want to believe that there are these mysterious forces at work in the world.

During the sober, daylight hours I think all this stuff is crazy and stupid, but it sure seems to make a lot more sense when the sun goes down.

[Boy'nBlack]

Cool! I think there's a lot of mental giants that actually do contemplate these things. It's the more social minded that simply fail to want to grab onto it in fear of being outcast. Well, at least want to openly say it's an actual question on the table. That and too focused on religion. Those are the counter points.

It's too tough for me to say we're alone when I see all those stars out there. It's too tough for me when I've seen unexplained time and time again. It's too tough for me when I don't even know what an afterlife has in store, and how it's described by primitives. Too much to say we're that great in space travel when we can't keep but a couple craft simply going in orbit...and luckily returning. So I search and adapt to what is logical, and not logical the way I see it.

There's a LOT of people seeing things, and they're not crazy. I grew up around Joplin, MO where you'd go and look for the Spook light. Swamp gas in an area that is not a swamp. Fort Scott, KS where cattle mutilations are still popular over the last 15 years (documented); said it's the occult and devil worshipers which would need over $78K in medical tools to duplicate, and a doctor to get the precision. Walk up on these cattle and it's not a sacrifice. Saw my own UFO's, and several others at the same time did as well in my own driveway. Saw them as a kid and I was imaginative.

Recently in San Diego we've had many sightings, and it's fluffed off. Candles in bags floating up. Well, I saw 3 orbs and 2 downfalling streaks in the group over the ocean. Steady. And turning toward the coast. Ten minutes, 5:25pm (daylight) from the 163, over the ocean, and the news said it was Squid fishers. No. That same night, I fought keeping power to the grid, VARs steady, and breakers closed. Three trips into the night and I don't give an single thought that squid fishermen are looking for squid 300ft above the ocean they like to live in, and that I had one hell of a night producing power. I saw, and continually see, what I see.