221 World’s Strange & Unsolved Mysteries

The Hessdalen is a valley in the Norwegian countryside which came to limelight due to the sightings of strange and unexplained lights. They appear in the sky, moving slowly, separating and reforming, winking in and out. At other times, they shoot down the valley and disappear, or simply switch on for a moment and vanish. […]

On January 25, 2010, three unidentified flying objects flew over Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador. According to witnesses, the UFO appeared to come out of the nearby Atlantic Ocean and fly through the air, minutes apart without any noise. Few residents of the area managed to take a photograph of one of the UFOs, which

One of the Seven Wonders of the World, ‘The Hanging Gardens of Babylon’ is a picture of lush greenery and colourful flowers cascading from the sky. It is said to be a remarkable feat of engineering: an ascending series of tiered gardens containing all manner of trees, shrubs and vines, made up of a simulated

Passengers and crew on a Royal Mail steamer ship heard strange noises while off the coast of Nicaragua in March 1867. Captain Charles Dennehy of the R.M.S. Shannon also noted this in May 1870. The ships were anchored near Greytown in the Caribbean Sea. The noises sounded like loud, high-pitched metallic vibrations that travelled through

Ben Macdhui is the second highest peak in Scotland. It is also reputed to be haunted by the presence of the ‘Big Grey Man’. Some climbers have also reported eerie experiences like uncontrollable feelings of fear and panic, some seeing a huge grey figure behind them, and others only hearing sounds. Psychologists say that optical

The Green Children of Woolpit had skin tinged with a green hue, and wore clothes made from unfamiliar materials. This strange fairy-tale originated in the 12th century. They were discovered by the reapers of Suffolk Village. The boy died but the girl grew into a young woman; her skin lost its original green colour. She

The Great Blue Hole is the largest underwater sinkhole located 100 km off the coast of Belize. It is circular in shape: 300 metres in diameter and 125-metre deep. It was originally formed as a limestone cave during the last glacial period when sea levels were much lower. As the ocean began to rise, the

The Giant’s Causeway is a dramatic sight at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the Antrim plateau in Northern Ireland. It is made up of some 40,000 massive black basalt columns sticking out of the sea. This sight has inspired legends of giants striding over the sea to Scotland. Geological

The Genetic Disc was discovered in the territory of Columbia and is one of the most mysterious artifacts in the world. It is 27 cm in diameter, and weighs about 2 kg. It has illustrations on both its sides depicting the intra-uterine foetal development in all stages. The stone is made from lydites–a stone, first

Tiahuanaco is an ancient city in Western Bolivia dating back to 14,000 BC. One of its few constructions that survived was the Sun Gate. It is 3 metres tall and carved on a single block of stone with the Sun-god depicted in the centre. This megalith was lying horizontal when the European explorers discovered it

Thoth, the Atlantean and Master of the people of Khem (Egypt), erected the Great Pyramid and recorded the secrets of wisdom in the Emerald Green Tablet and kept it hidden. The Tablets of Emerald are formed from a substance created through alchemical transmutation. They are imperishable, resistant to all elements, corrosion and acids. The Tablets

The Dropa Stones were first discovered in 1938 in Bayan-Kara-Ula in Qinghai on the border of China and Tibet. Hundreds of 1-ft wide stone discs, the Dropa Stones, with 3/4-inch wide holes in their centres were found in the caves. On the walls the pictures of the rising sun, moon, stars, land, mountains, and lines

The Devil’s Sea (also known as the Dragon’s Triangle or Pacific Bermuda Triangle) is one of the 12 Vile Vortices, located near the Japanese coast in the Pacific Ocean, where the pull of the planet’s electromagnetic waves is the strongest. The Chinese believed that there was a huge dragon in the sea that pulled ships

Around the south Devon coastline, on the night of 8 February 1855, a trail of footprints stretching on for more than 100 miles was discovered. Villagers found tracks that travelled up to doors and across roofs, through haystacks and over 14-ft walls; they even crossed River Exe. People were spooked; the prints appeared to stop

The ‘Curse of Pharaoh’ is the most world-famous curse. When King Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, stories circulated that those who dared violate the boy king’s final resting place faced a terrible curse. British aristocrat and amateur Egyptologist Earl of Carnarvon, who helped finance the search, soon fell victim to