Unsolved Mysteries

[claws]

Know any good ones? Please share. I'll start with the Dyatlov Pass incident. I found this only because Renny Harlin is making a movie about it.

The Dyatlov Pass incident 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 (Холат-Сяхыл) (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов). The lack of eyewitnesses has inspired much speculation. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Access to the area was barred for skiers and other adventurers for three years after the incident. The chronology of the incident remains unclear because of the lack of survivors.

Investigators at the time determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot into heavy snow and a temperature of −30°C. Although the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. Their clothing, when tested, was found to be highly radioactive.

Full story at wikipedia

[RCMerchant]

Know any good ones? Please share. I'll start with the Dyatlov Pass incident. I found this only because Renny Harlin is making a movie about it.

The Dyatlov Pass incident 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 (Холат-Сяхыл) (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов). The lack of eyewitnesses has inspired much speculation. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Access to the area was barred for skiers and other adventurers for three years after the incident. The chronology of the incident remains unclear because of the lack of survivors.

Investigators at the time determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot into heavy snow and a temperature of −30°C. Although the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. Their clothing, when tested, was found to be highly radioactive.

Full story at wikipedia

Missing her tounge-sounds like the thing that happened with the cattle mutilations in the states some 20 odd years later. Cows would be missing specific parts-udders,tounges,and specifeclly cut patches of hide.
Thing is-UFO abductions in 1959 were before the infamous 1961 Betty and barney Hill case.

Example:
.Private First Class Gerrry Allen-March 2nd-1959.
http://www.appalachianghostwalks.com/us-ufo-center/ufologist/booth/irwin1.html

Quite a few reported encounters with "alien" sightings that went wrong-
.the Kelly,Kentucky case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly-Hopkinsville_encounter

Now There may be any number of explanations for this kinda stuff-me-I keep an open mind-but it is so widley reported-I'm left thiking something very unusual is going on.
 Here is a smidgen of only the most famous cases-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFO_sightings

[indianasmith]

You have to mention the Marie Celeste case!  Most famous abandoned ship in history!

[zombie no.one]

that Dytlov Pass Incident is really weird, there is even a website dedicated to it but it's in russian, can't remember the name of it

how about Fredrick Valentich... disappeared never to be seen again while in an aircraft over australia , radioing ground control saying there's a strange craft circling him...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Valentich

[Trevor]

www.ultimateholidayplanner.com/Articles/CultureHeritage/Ghosts_And_Hauntings_In_SA.html

 

There are a few here which make me go 

[Flick James]

You have to mention the Marie Celeste case!  Most famous abandoned ship in history!

The Mary Celeste case is one of the greats. There truly is no satisfactry explanation for that one. Here's the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste

[Flick James]

The Lake Bodom multiple homicide in Finland happened in 1960 and remains unsolved. The seemingly obvious suspect, the sole survivor of the attack, has been charged before, but there was never enough evidence to convict him.

[macabre]

Hi
I love the story concerning Kasper Hausen,
who was he? why were there several attempts on his life?

[alandhopewell]

     Take your pick....

http://www.yourghoststories.com/user-profile.php?user=31908

[Chainsawmidget]

The Taman Shud case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case

[The Gravekeeper]

Know any good ones? Please share. I'll start with the Dyatlov Pass incident. I found this only because Renny Harlin is making a movie about it.

The Dyatlov Pass incident 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 (Холат-Сяхыл) (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов). The lack of eyewitnesses has inspired much speculation. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Access to the area was barred for skiers and other adventurers for three years after the incident. The chronology of the incident remains unclear because of the lack of survivors.

Investigators at the time determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot into heavy snow and a temperature of −30°C. Although the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. Their clothing, when tested, was found to be highly radioactive.

Full story at wikipedia

A lot of it sounds like a textbook case of a group of people dying of hypothermia. Even the missing clothes fits that explanation since many hypothermia victims experience the feeling of extreme heat (hypothermia does all sort of weird things to your mind while it kills you). The no-tongued woman is simple enough to explain: scavenging animals go for very soft tissues first, and if her mouth was open, well...The weird tan on the bodies? They'd be out in the sun on the snow for some time before they were found, and bodies start turning weird colours pretty shortly after death.

http://unitedcats.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/the-dyatlov-pass-accident/

Even though what happened seems to have just been a sad accident, I wouldn't be irked if the movie just ignored the facts and made a story about aliens or super-secret Soviet testing. I mean, hell, why let the (highly probable) truth get in the way of a good story?

[Chainsawmidget]

A lot of it sounds like a textbook case of a group of people dying of hypothermia. Even the missing clothes fits that explanation since many hypothermia victims experience the feeling of extreme heat (hypothermia does all sort of weird things to your mind while it kills you). The no-tongued woman is simple enough to explain: scavenging animals go for very soft tissues first, and if her mouth was open, well...The weird tan on the bodies? They'd be out in the sun on the snow for some time before they were found, and bodies start turning weird colours pretty shortly after death.

How do you explain them being radioactive?

[El Misfit]

You have to mention the Marie Celeste case!  Most famous abandoned ship in history!

The Mary Celeste case is one of the greats. There truly is no satisfactry explanation for that one. Here's the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste

wasn't it most likely to be alcohol fumes being burned, so every one abandoned ship?


anyways, here's mine-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentich_Disappearance
creepy, eh?

[The Gravekeeper]

A lot of it sounds like a textbook case of a group of people dying of hypothermia. Even the missing clothes fits that explanation since many hypothermia victims experience the feeling of extreme heat (hypothermia does all sort of weird things to your mind while it kills you). The no-tongued woman is simple enough to explain: scavenging animals go for very soft tissues first, and if her mouth was open, well...The weird tan on the bodies? They'd be out in the sun on the snow for some time before they were found, and bodies start turning weird colours pretty shortly after death.

How do you explain them being radioactive?

That one gets a tad tricky since the original documents disappeared (thanks Soviet Russia for making what was probably just an accident seem like a cover-up), but there is enough to suggest that that may have been added later (as tends to happen through re-tellings of already odd stories). I'm just saying that a group of hikers freezing to death seems much more likely than some kind of weird government experiment or something.

[Trevor]

The Taman Shud case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case

 

That creeped me out in a big way.