So a while back there was a thread by [url=http://www.facepunch.com/member.php?u=87204]ridinmybike[/url] which was about Strange or mysterious unexplained shit, and reading that shit kept me and most likely 3/4 the population of that thread awake at night.
So i thought I'd attempt to recreate something like it as I enjoy these Mystery/Paranormal/Ghost type threads.
:siren:[url=http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=582960]Old Thread[/url]:siren:
This one creeped the shit out of me.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_pass_accident]Dyatlov Pass Accident[/url].
[QUOTE=Wikipedia]
The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. It happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl(a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov.
The lack of eyewitnesses and subsequent investigations into the hikers' deaths have inspired much speculation. Investigators determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. According to sources, four of the victims' clothing contained high levels of radiation—though no mention of this fact made of it in contemporary documentation, and only appears in later documents. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Access to the area was barred for three years after the incident. The chronology of the incident remains unclear due to the lack of survivors.
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damn nostalgia
i loved the previous versions of this
there was also a big discussion on the dyatlov pass incident
Loved the old thread. Post a link?
lol nice thread music :D
Here is a link to the old thread: [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=582960[/url]
[url]http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html[/url]
Have some good points.
Alright posted link to the old one in OP
[b]The Tunguska Event[/b]
The Tunguska Event was an unexplained, very powerful explosion that occured on 0 hours 13 minutes 35 seconds Greenwich Mean Time (around 7:14 a.m. local time) on June 30, 1908 near the Podkammenaya Tunguska River.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Russia-CIA_WFB_Map--Tunguska.png/400px-Russia-CIA_WFB_Map--Tunguska.png[/img]
Nobody knows for sure what the cause of the explosion was, although it is commonly believed to have been caused by the airburst of a large meteoroid or comet.
Others believe that it might have been caused by an alien spacecraft or weapon, a chunk of antimatter annihilating itself in the atmosphere or an explosion of natural gas.
The flash from the explosion was so bright one could read a newspaper in its light in London, at night.
Due to the mysterious nature of this event and the fact that Russia remains very estranged with the rest of the world no scientific expeditions have been conducted to survey the area for clues on what might have happened there, or perhaps the Russians are hiding something. Who knows...
[b]Pictures:[/b]
[img]http://lightsinthedark.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/tunguska_event.jpg[/img]
[img]http://dsc.discovery.com/space/slideshows/cosmic-collisions/tunguska-asteroid-event-625x450.jpg[/img]
[quote]The Valentich disappearance is a mysterious event that occurred on 21 October 1978, in which 20-year-old Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait to King Island, Australia.
During a 125-mile (201 km) "training flight", Valentich contacted Melbourne air traffic control, saying he "was being buzzed by a UFO with four bright lights about 1,000 feet (300 m) above him."[1] More reports from Valentich followed; he later noted that his plane's engine was running roughly, and his last message was "It is not an aircraft."[1]
No trace of Valentich or his aircraft was ever found, and a Department of Transport investigation concluded that the reason for the disappearance could not be determined.
The report of a UFO sighting in Australia attracted significant press attention, in part due to the number of sightings reported by the public on that night.. Ken Williams, a spokesman for the Department of Transport, told the Associated Press that "it's funny all these people ringing up with UFO reports well after Valentich's disappearance."[/quote]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentich_disappearance[/url]
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I love things like this
[b]The Mothman:[/b] - [i]I don't know why, but this guy always makes me look over my shoulder..[/i]
[QUOTE=Wikipedia]
On November 15, 1966, two young, married couples from Point Pleasant, and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette, were traveling late at night in the Scarberrys' car. They were passing the West Virginia Ordnance Works, an abandoned World War II TNT factory, about seven miles north of Point Pleasant, in the 2,500 acre McClintic Wildlife Management Area, when they noticed two red lights in the shadows by an old generator plant near the factory gate. They stopped the car, and reportedly discovered that the lights were the glowing red eyes of a large animal, "shaped like a man, but bigger, maybe six and a half or seven feet tall, with big wings folded against its back", according to Roger Scarberry. Terrified, they drove toward Route 62, where the creature supposedly chased them at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. However, as quoted in Keel's The Mothman Prophecies, the Scarberrys, despite driving more than 100 miles per hour,were chased by the creature and then claimed to have noticed a dead dog on the side of the road, and in fact made such accurate note of its location that they claimed to have gone back the very next day and looked for it. Explanations for how they were able to make so accurate a mental note at a time of such great distress, or why they would go back to look for the dead dog, are not included in Keel's book.
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Anyone seen the movie? Remember at the end when he closes the door with a mirror on it and you see a creature with red eyes looking at him. That shit kept me awake all night.
Supposedly he was sited at Chernobyl, Silver bridge, World trade centers(Fake probably).
[img]http://www.chupacabramania.com/immagini/immagini_creature/mothman_foto.jpg[/img]
[img]http://artheat.net/wip/uploaded_images/mothman-wtc-785042.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Averice;19273863][b]The Mothman:[/b] - [i]I don't know why, but this guy always makes me look over my shoulder..[/i]
Anyone seen the movie? Remember at the end when he closes the door with a mirror on it and you see a creature with red eyes looking at him. That shit kept me awake all night.
Supposedly he was sited at Chernobyl, Silver bridge, World trade centers(Fake probably).
[img]http://www.chupacabramania.com/immagini/immagini_creature/mothman_foto.jpg[/img]
[img]http://artheat.net/wip/uploaded_images/mothman-wtc-785042.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I've read quite a bit of stuff about Mothman, it's one fucked up story.
The best thing is it seems credible enough, since the sightings in Point Pleasant happened within a very close time frame and to completely different people who didn't know each other.
My family has often been troubled by unexplained events. Many of us have sighted actual UFO's (I myself am very interested in aircraft and am able to identify them, and some of the airborne objects i've seen have been of extremely strange nature, i have photographed a UFO accidentally at least twice, but the photos were on my old hard drive which has completely fucked itself over), or have witnessed ''creatures''.
For example my great-great grandmother has witnessed something similar to a mothman many times in her life. We have only found out recently about this, through a diary or something.
[QUOTE=Reborn9;19273897]I've read quite a bit of stuff about Mothman, it's one fucked up story.
The best thing is it seems credible enough, since the sightings in Point Pleasant happened within a very close time frame and to completely different people who didn't know each other.[/QUOTE]
Yea i read all the stories about the TNT factory and the chemicals in there and the different sightings, i was trying to dig up stuff about Mothman and Chernobyl but to no avail, i did find a "Chernobyl Mothman Toy" though lol.
[QUOTE=Averice;19273923]Yea i read all the stories about the TNT factory and the chemicals in there and the different sightings, i was trying to dig up stuff about Mothman and Chernobyl but to no avail, i did find a "Chernobyl Mothman Toy" though lol.[/QUOTE]
My friends dad used to be a trucker and one time he did a shipment with his friend and while crossing near the Chernobyl exclusion zone on the way to Kiev they saw a bizzarre animal which they described as ''similar to a very large bird with shiny eyes'' perched on top of a tree while stopping for a rest.
He is very reluctant to speak about this event for some reason. :geno:
Also i think the silver bridge thing is the scariest since the mothman was often sighted there just days before it collapsed.
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Google ''The Black Bird of Chernobyl'', i guess that's where the story about Mothman being seen in Chernobyl came from.
This is a nice site for that kind of shit.
[url]http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/[/url]
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especially their encyclopedia
[url]http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewletter.php?letter=A[/url]
Reading the old thread atm, scaring me shitless, the exorcism of that girl scared me shitless... :crying:
[QUOTE=KillerTele;19274462]Reading the old thread atm, scaring me shitless, the exorcism of that girl scared me shitless... :crying:[/QUOTE]
Why did you bring that back up.. that video is fucked up.
I got Unsolved Mysteries mixed up with the title, I was about to get my brown trenchcoat. Anyways, shit like this always freaks me out. I remember in Panama City Beach there was always these weird ass lights in the the sky. They looked like laser pointer dots being spun in circles. I think it was something the Air Force was doing, though, since there was a large base close by.
Also, this is making me paranoid at 9 o'clock in the morning. My door just shut on it's own.
It's 12:22 am and I'm reading through the old thread.
[QUOTE=Reborn9;19273897]I've read quite a bit of stuff about Mothman, it's one fucked up story.
The best thing is it seems credible enough, since the sightings in Point Pleasant happened within a very close time frame and to completely different people who didn't know each other.
My family has often been troubled by unexplained events. Many of us have sighted actual UFO's (I myself am very interested in aircraft and am able to identify them, and some of the airborne objects i've seen have been of extremely strange nature, i have photographed a UFO accidentally at least twice, [b]but the photos were on my old hard drive which has completely fucked itself over[/b]), or have witnessed ''creatures''.
For example my great-great grandmother has witnessed something similar to a mothman many times in her life. We have only found out recently about this, through a diary or something.[/QUOTE]
Of course they were.
[QUOTE=booster;19274903]Of course they were.[/QUOTE]
It does seem quite convenient.
Linkie to old thread?
^And to Booster and above, you can't say it is or isn't true, so don't be like "Oh, that's not a valid explenation anymore even though it may have happened."
[QUOTE=DarkWolf2;19274993]Linkie to old thread?
^And to Booster and above, you can't say it is or isn't true, so don't be like "Oh, that's not a valid explenation anymore even though it may have happened."[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=582960[/url]
[QUOTE=booster;19274903]Of course they were.[/QUOTE]
Really! It's a weird story, because when i moved to the UK my computer was getting shipped here by mail and when i got it there was something wrong with the hard drive and when i tried to turn the computer on the whole screen went black and there was weird ASCII characters everywhere.
"Unexplained Mysteries"
They wouldn't be mysteries if they were explained, would they? :smugdog:
[b]STARDUST (plane)[/b]
Star Dust was a British South American Airways airliner that mysteriously disappeared on 2 August 1947.
Star Dust (registration G-AGWH), was an Avro Lancastrian airliner, a civilian version of the Lancaster bomber of World War II. On flight CS 59, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, via Mendoza, Argentina, the airliner vanished, and was not located for 50 years.
A comprehensive search of a wide area, including what is now known to have been the crash site, discovered no wreckage. What became of the flight remained a complete mystery for over 50 years. Speculation about the cause and nature of the disappearance of Star Dust included conspiracy theories such as inter-corporate sabotage and abduction by aliens.
The flight crew of the aircraft were highly experienced Royal Air Force veterans of World War II, with hundreds of flying-hours experience in both war and peace; the captain was also an experienced navigator. The aircraft was less than two years old. The six passengers included a King's Messenger carrying diplomatic documents that may have related to the UK's strained relations with the Perón government of Argentina, a German émigré suspected of Nazi sympathies, and a rich Palestinian, said to have been carrying a large diamond sewn into the lining of his jacket.[1]
Shortly before the airliner disappeared, it radioed ahead to report its expected arrival above Santiago in four minutes. Mystery continues to surround the word STENDEC, which was the last word of the final Morse code radio transmission received from the airliner, at 17:41 standard time.
[b]Discovery of wreckage; reconstruction of the crash[/b]
In 1998, an Argentinian mountain guide came across the wreckage of a Rolls-Royce engine at the foot of the remote Tupungato glacier, in the Andes, about 80 km (50 mi) east of Santiago.
In 2000, an Argentinian army expedition found that the wreckage was well localized, suggesting a head-on, rather than a glancing impact with the ground. A recovered propeller showed that its engine was running at near-cruise speed at the time of the impact. The undercarriage was still retracted, suggesting controlled flight into terrain. Remains of nine of the eleven victims have been found; they have not been formally identified because of the lack of identifiable features and the degradation of their DNA, hindering possible DNA profiling.
In 1947, navigation was done mainly by dead reckoning: calculating the aircraft's position from its heading and speed and time, with corrections derived from reported winds and observation of ground features. During the final flight leg of Star Dust's flight, heavy clouds made the ground invisible.
It is possible that in the absence of ground fixes a large navigational error was made if the aircraft entered the jet stream — persistent high-altitude winds that can blow at high speed in directions different from those of winds observed at ground level. At the time the jet stream was known but not well understood. The Lancastrian was one of the few airliners then capable of flying at the altitude of the jet stream. If the airliner, which had to cross the Andes mountain range at 7,315 m (24,000 ft), had entered the bottom of the jet-stream zone, which in this area normally blows from the west and south-west and would decrease the aircraft's ground speed by 100–200 mph (160–320 km/h), the crew may have deduced by dead reckoning using an assumed faster ground speed that they had already crossed the Andes, and so began their descent as if into Santiago when, in fact, they were many miles to the east-north-east, approaching the Tupungato glacier, which would have been shrouded in fog, at high speed. These were the same events that caused the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, the crash made famous in the film Alive.
The Andes above modern-day Santiago
The airliner is likely to have flown into a nearly vertical snow field near the top of the glacier, at an altitude of 4,724 m (15,500 ft), causing an avalanche that buried the wreckage within a matter of seconds and concealed it from searchers.
The wreckage became incorporated into the body of the glacier, with fragments emerging many years later and much farther down the mountain. From 1998 to 2000, about ten percent of the wreckage, including engine and propeller parts and the wheels (one with its tyre still inflated), emerged from the glacier, prompting several re-examinations of the accident. More debris is likely to emerge as the glacier melts.
[b]The plane crash itself is not realy the mystery, but this is:[/b]
[b]"STENDEC"[/b]
The word STENDEC was reported by the radio operator at Santiago airport as the last word of a "loud and clear" message, albeit keyed "very fast", from Star Dust. "ETA SANTIAGO 17.45 [standard time] STENDEC" was the last of a series of messages transmitted by Star Dust during its flight, reporting its position, altitude, and revised estimated time of arrival (ETA).
The meaning of the term STENDEC is still unknown, and has been interpreted in many ways.
One string of theories explains STENDEC to be one of a number of acronyms like "Starting En-Route Descent" or "Severe Turbulence Encountered Now Descending Emergency Crash-Landing", but none of these acronyms can be reliably documented for the era, and radio operators do not use their own non-standard acronyms.[2]
Other hypotheses center around a slight mishearing of the Morse code by the Santiago operator. It has been suggested that STENDEC might actually have been "STR DEC" ("Starting Descent"), since in Morse Code EN is · —· and R is ·—·. Another possibility is "ST END EC" ("Standard Time, End, End of Message") or any one of a number of other combinations. None of these hypotheses can be definitely proven or ruled out. The ground radio operator claims to have requested and received a confirmation of the message, and that it was repeated more than once.
[QUOTE=noctune9;19275134]"Unexplained Mysteries"
They wouldn't be mysteries if they were explained, would they? :smugdog:[/QUOTE]
Explanations can be wrong..
[QUOTE=Averice;19272721]So a while back there was a thread by [url=http://www.facepunch.com/member.php?u=87204]ridinmybike[/url] which was about Strange or mysterious unexplained shit, and reading that shit kept me and most likely 3/4 the population of that thread awake at night.
So i thought I'd attempt to recreate something like it as I enjoy these Mystery/Paranormal/Ghost type threads.
:siren:[url=http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=582960]Old Thread[/url]:siren:
This one creeped the shit out of me.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_pass_accident]Dyatlov Pass Accident[/url].
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This has been solved.
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[url]http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html[/url]
[QUOTE=cortzxxx;19275545]This has been solved.
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[url]http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html[/url][/QUOTE]
Link?
[b]Why haven't the mods permabanned Bulmer yet?[/b]
He is an idiot.
[QUOTE=Mercenary-;226495][b]Why haven't the mods permabanned Bulmer yet?[/b]
He is an idiot.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=cortzxxx;19275545]This has been solved.
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[url]http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-with-really-obvious-solutions.html[/url][/QUOTE]
That's just a "logical" solution, not proven, anyways half these things could be solved/fake, but that doesn't make it UN-interesting to read about.
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