DO YOU KNOW - 4.

 

DO YOU KNOW – 4

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1.  MYSTERY OVER WORLDS BIGGEST EXPLOSION 110 YEARS AGO IN RUSSIA

      The great explosion in Russia about 110 years back which is equal about 185 Hiroshima bombs is still a great mystery. A large fireball crossed the Siberian sky on June 20^th 1908 and exploded about 6 miles above Earth flattening about 80 million trees and left several charred reindeer dead bodies. Some Italian investigators studied the phenomena after 21 years later and suspected due to fall of a big meteorite. But this idea is not accepted by the Russian geologists. Some suggests that it may be a space object such as a comet made up of ice rather than rock moving at a speed of 9 – 19 miles per second. But most of the scientists do not accept any of the above theories. The matter is still under investigation. It is still a mystery.

2.  The shocking mystery of the ship Ourang Medan.

     In February 1948 distress calls were picked up by many ships near Indonesia from the Dutch freighter SS Ourang Medan indicating that all the officers and the captain are dead in the chartroom and he too was dying. When a rescue ship arrived and boarding party entered the ship they found that all the crew and officers were found dead. Their eyes were open and faces were looking towards the Sun (probably that is the direction from which the evil entered the ship), arms were outstretched with a look of terror on their face. There are no signs of foul play or sabotage and no signs of damage to the ship. The rescue team heard an inhuman and fearsome laughter and also some sudden appearance and disappearance of some strange lights. Once they tried to tow that ill-omened ship to the dock and attached the tow line to the ship they found strange smoke coming out of the ship. The ship exploded with fearsome sound the moment the tow line is removed. Till today the exact fate of the ship Ourang Medan and her crew remains as a mystery.

3. THE MYSTERY OF THE LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS:

     Atlantis still captures the imagination of millions whether it is real or a myth. Here are some basic facts. Atlantis was first described by the Greek philosopher                           Plato more than 2000 years ago. Many believe that it is a myth created by Plato to illustrate his theories about politics. Others believe that it is based on a real historical disaster. According to Plato’s account, written around 360 B C, Atlantis was a major sea power located in the ocean Atlantic. It was larger than Libya and Asia Minor (modern Turkey put together), and was the way to the other islands, and from these you can pass to the opposite continent. His accounts included detailed description of the island – with mountains on the North and along the coast and a plain in the South. The entire island sank into the sea in a single day and night of misfortune. Some believe that the Atlantis myth was inspired by the Black Sea floods of around 5000 B C as in the Old Testament of the Bible. Over the centuries scholars have attempted to locate the real Atlantis but could not succeed. It is still a mystery.

4. MYSTERIES ALIGNMENT OF THE ANCIENT SITES OF THE WORLD

There are hundreds or perhaps thousands of sites of archaeological importance throughout the world. Many of these sited seemed to be aligned. The sites Giza, Sowa, Tassili, n’Ajjer, Paratoari, Ollantaytambo, Machupicchu, Nazca, Easter Island, aneityum Island, Preahvihear, Sokhdthai, Pyay, Khajuraho, Mohenjo Daro, Persepolis, Ur, Petra are shown from Giza, on equal azimuthal projection. Since all the sites on the great circle alignment are of equal distance from the axis point at one quarter of the circumference of the Earth the alignment forms a perfect circle between halfway from the center and outer edge of the projection.  This alignment seems to be mysterious.

5. SAILING STONES:

 The stones of racetrack playa slowly move across the surface without the human or animal intervention. While moving these also leave a track before them. These stones as heavy as human cannot move with wind, so easily. Since no one has ever filmed these stones moving, it remains still as a top unsolved mystery.

 

6.  Dancing Plague:

In July 1518, a woman, Frau Troffea, began dancing in a street of Strasbourg. This was not just for entertainment. It was an obsession that soon, within a month, spread in the area and 400 other people of Strasbourg joined her in dancing. They danced continuously not only for days or weeks, but for months. Some of them died from heart attacks, strokes and exhaustion. No one had any idea why people were such obsessed with dance that they lost their life.

7. Lady Dais

Scientist found an ancient body in China which is the most well preserved body till now. The body is around 2,000 years old and known as Lady Dais of the Han Dynasty. She died between 178 and 145 BC at the age of around 50, possibly because of a heart attack. The skin of the mummy is still soft, and her arms and legs could flex at the joints. The mummy had preserved in a mysterious liquid which scientist still can’t replicate.

8.  Spontaneous Combustion

On 15th September 1982, Jeannie Saffin eventually wrapped into flames while sitting on a chair. Her father, who was the witness of this incident, says he saw flash light came out of his eyes corner and hands. She covered into flames and didn’t cried or moved even. While investigation, police found no reason of Jeannie’s combustion. There was no sign of burning in the house except Jeannie’s body. The cause of her death is still unknown.

9.  Red Rain

In 2001, from July to September, heavy rain fall sporadically in Southern Indian State, Kerala. It was not an ordinary rain, but a special one. The color of rain’s water was red. The clouds were spitting out blood. The Indian Government claimed it is because of airborne spores from locally prolific terrestrial alga. But a media report, published in 2006, claimed that the colored particles were extraterrestrial cells. Despite many research, it is still unknown.

10. The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370

The last of this collection of unsolved mysteries took place on March 8, 2014, while flying from Malaysia to China, a Boeing 777 carrying 239 passengers and crew members seems to have vanished into thin air. The multinational search effort, the largest in aviation history, has turned up a mere 20 pieces of aircraft debris. The Prime Minister of Malaysia has declined to comment other than to say that the aircraft disappeared over the Indian Ocean. The lack of closure has engendered multiple theories, many of which are considered “conspiracy theories,” which, according to Harvard professor Cass Sunstein, are a natural product of “horrific and disastrous situations, because such events make people angry, fearful, and looking for a target.”

Theories include hijacking, capture by the United States, crew suicide (it was reported that the pilot was having marital problems), a fire aboard the aircraft, vertical entry into the sea, a meteor strike, and even alien abduction.

Notwithstanding the passage of three years and the expenditure of $160 million scouring thousands of square miles of ocean, the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 and the 239 people aboard remains a mystery.