March 9th, 2012 , 09:18 am
The twentieth century is rich in various mysterious events and dark spots of history, many of which have not yet been revealed or fully clarified. Here are some of them:
1900
On Flannan Island (UK), the entire watch of the Eileen Moore lighthouse keepers disappeared without a trace. Pictured is the Eileen Moore Lighthouse today.
1902
On the night of December 29-30, at 1:05 a.m., clocks stopped in many places in Paris. The causes of the Paris Glitch remain unclear. In the photo from the beginning of the last century - the clock tower decorating the Gare de Lyon in Paris
1908
The fall of the Tunguska meteorite presumably caused an air explosion that occurred in the area of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, with a capacity of 40-50 megatons. The explosion on Tunguska was heard 800 km from the epicenter, the blast wave felled a forest over an area of 2,100 sq. km, and the windows of some houses were broken within a radius of 200 km. Soon after the explosion, a magnetic storm began that lasted 5 hours.
1911
On July 14, a pleasure train left the Rome railway station for a trip organized by the Sanetti company for wealthy Italians. Along the way, the three-car train and its 106 passengers disappeared as they entered a tunnel.
1911
On January 31, the legendary Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga was born, receiving the gift of prophecy at the age of 12 after she was carried away and blinded by a tornado.
1913
Off the coast of Tierra del Fuego, the sailing ship Marlborough was discovered - the new Flying Dutchman - which left New Zealand in early 1890, but did not enter any port. The remains of 20 people were found on the bridge and in the premises.
1916
In the summer, during the melting of the glaciers on Ararat, pilot Lieutenant Roskovitsky and his co-pilot on a reconnaissance aircraft of the Imperial Air Force discovered something similar to the remains of Noah's Ark on the mountainside.
1920
An ancient Slavic monument was found - the “Book of Veles”, the authenticity of which is still disputed in our time.
1922
A huge animal with a snake-like neck and a large head, reminiscent of a relict lizard, was spotted on the Paint River (USA). Pictured is the Paint River (Michigan, USA) today
1924
Not far from the village of Taung (South Africa), the “skull of the Taung child” was found, whose age is estimated at 2.5 million years, and which is attributed to extraterrestrial origin. The photo shows anthropologist Philip V. Tobias with the skull of the “Child of Taung.”
1928
Over the village of Shuknavolok near Vedlozero (Karelia), a cylindrical ten-meter body was observed flying, with flames coming out of its tail. Having broken through the ice of the lake, the mysterious object went under water. Since then, local residents began to meet on the shore a strange big-headed creature a little more than a meter tall with thin arms and legs, which dived back into the water when people appeared. In the photo - Vedlozero (Karelia, Russia) today
1933
The first documented sighting of the Nessie monster in Scotland's Loch Ness. To date, there have been about 4,000 sightings and encounters with him. A sonar survey of the entire volume of the lake in 1992 discovered 5 giant lizards.
1943
In October 1943, in the United States, in an atmosphere of special secrecy, the Philadelphia experiment, which had no analogues in history, was carried out on the destroyer Eldridge to create a warship invisible to enemy radar. As a result of the creation of a very strong magnetic field around the ship, the ship allegedly disappeared and then instantly moved in space several tens of kilometers. Of the entire crew, only 21 people returned unharmed. 27 people literally became fused with the structure of the ship, 13 died from burns, radiation, electric shock and fear.
1945
Massive UFO invasion in Queensland (Australia).
1945
The mysterious disappearance of the leaders of the Third Reich (Müller, Bormann and others). No remains found. The emergence of versions of their escape to Latin America. The photo shows Martin Bormann and what is believed to be his skull, the identity of which is disputed.
1947
On July 7, an unknown aircraft crashed in Magdalena (New Mexico, USA). Among the debris, 6 corpses of human-like creatures were allegedly found. In the photo - presumably one of the humanoids who died in a UFO crash in Roswell (New Mexico, USA), July 22, 1947
1952
July 1952. America is in shock. What is happening in the skies over Washington defies logical explanation and gives rise to the most incredible rumors. And the reason for this is the wave of UFO sightings that swept through the District of Columbia. Unidentified flying objects appeared over Washington with enviable regularity from July 12 to July 26. In the photo: a UFO squadron over the Capitol.
1955
In Hopkinsville (Kentucky, USA), after a UFO explosion, a small glowing man with huge eyes was visible for some time.
1955
An explosion of unknown origin that occurred under the bottom of the battleship Novorossiysk on the night of October 29, 1955, claimed the lives of 608 sailors and officers. A huge ship capsized and sank in the Northern Bay of Sevastopol - in front of thousands of citizens.
1956
In August, at a British airbase, a UFO chased a fighter jet for 20 minutes before disappearing into thin air. The photo is presumably a UFO. USA, California, 1957
1958
On December 14, the newspaper “Youth of Yakutia” wrote about a giant monster living in Lake Labynkyr. Local Yakut residents believe that a certain huge animal lives in the lake - the “Labynkyr Devil”, as they call him. According to the descriptions of the Yakuts, this is something dark gray in color with a huge mouth. The distance between the eyes of the “devil” is equal to the width of a raft of ten logs. According to the legend, the “devil” is very aggressive and dangerous, attacks people and animals, and is capable of going ashore. In the photo - Lake Labynkyr (Oymyakonsky district of Yakutia, Russia)
1959
On February 1, a group of experienced tourists led by Igor Dyatlov began climbing to the top of “1079” (Mountain of the Dead). We didn’t have time to get up before dark and pitched our tent right on the slope. We began to triple up for the night. And then something terrible happened... As investigators later established, having cut the wall of the tent with knives, the tourists, in panic, rushed to run down the slope. They ran, whoever was wearing what: in underwear, half naked, barefoot. Later, the corpses of all nine group members were discovered further down the slope. Most died from hypothermia. Several people suffered terrible internal injuries without breaking the skin. The cause of the tragedy is still unknown. The last photo of the Dyatlov group on the Mountain of the Dead:
1963
During maneuvers of the US naval forces off the coast of Puerto Rico, a moving object was spotted developing an unprecedented speed for a ship - about 280 km/h.
1963
On November 22, 1963, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Despite the fact that Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was captured a few hours later, the true motives and those who ordered the most notorious murder of the 20th century have not yet been established.
1967
A female Sasquatch was captured on film in the Bluff Creek Valley (filmed by Roger Patterson).
1968
Official date of death of Yuri Gagarin. Few people believed in his death. The soothsayer Vanga claimed that the first cosmonaut did not die, but “was taken.”
1969
American landing on the moon. The fact itself is still disputed. The version of falsification has many supporters.
1977
“Petrozavodsk Miracle”: On September 20 at 4 o’clock in the morning, a UFO in the form of a bright star, from which red rays emanated, was spotted over the main street of Petrozavodsk - Lenin Street. The phenomenon was accompanied by mass UFO sightings in the northern regions of the USSR and in Finland. Later, large holes with very sharp edges were discovered in the glass of the upper floors. The photo shows a copy of the only known photograph of the “Petrozavodsk Diva” - the stage of the fiery rain and rice. V. Lukyants "Solovki" (magazine "Technology for Youth" No. 4 1980)
1982
In Tsemes Bay (Black Sea) on one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, all the clocks on board stopped. In the photo - Tsemes Bay today
1986
On January 29, a UFO crashed near Dalnegorsk (hill “Height 611”). The photo shows the crash site and part of the “exhibits” from the crash site: metal drops of different nature with holes inside, black glassy particles weighing up to 30 mg, as well as loose scales in the form of a mesh of quartz fibers 30 microns thick, each of which is twisted from even thinner quartz flagella, each of which, in turn, has a gold thread inserted into it.
1987
Mass suicide of 2000 dolphins - they washed up on the coast of Brazil. Pictured: Pilot whales stranded on a beach in New Zealand in 2009.
1989
140 whales died off the southern coast of Chile. This is the fourth time a mass suicide has occurred.
1991
Explosion on April 12 in Sasovo (Ryazan region), when UFOs were observed over the city. Anomalies near the funnel are still being recorded - reprogramming of calculators and failure of electronic devices. The photo shows the site of the explosion in 1991 and in our time.
1993
Over the course of 10 months, 48 ships and more than 200 sailors disappeared in the so-called “Pacific Triangle” near Western Micronesia.
1994
Near the Czech city of Celakovice, a “vampire cemetery” was found - a strange burial dating back to the end of the 10th - beginning of the 11th century. In 11 pits lay the remains of 13 people, tied with leather belts and with aspen stakes stuck in the heart. Some of the dead also had their hands and heads cut off. According to pagan beliefs and rituals, this was done with vampires who rose from their graves at night and drank human blood.
1996
In the Movile Cave (Romania), a closed ecosystem not connected with the earth’s was discovered for the first time. Here, 30 species of plants and animals (crustaceans, spiders, centipedes and insects) were discovered living in isolation in the dark for 5 million years.
1996
A strange half-living creature was discovered in a cemetery in the village of Kaolinovy near Kyshtym by a lonely pensioner Tamara Vasilyevna Prosvirina. The creature became known as the “Kyshtym dwarf”. The creature ate human food and looked and smelled strange. The creature's body length was approximately 30 cm, it had a torso, arms, legs, a head with a high frontal lobe, a mouth and eyes. The pensioner gave the creature a child's name - “Alyoshenka”. “Alyoshenka” lived in the pensioner’s house for about a month.
Other people also saw Alyoshenka: Tamara Prosvirina’s daughter-in-law, as well as some acquaintances. Subsequently, Tamara Prosvirina was admitted to a psychiatric hospital due to worsening schizophrenia. In the end, the creature died, and the causes of death have not been definitively established; among them, death from improper feeding and lack of care or murder under unclear circumstances are most often indicated. Tamara Prosvirina died on August 5, 1999 - she was hit by two cars at night. At this time, she was going to be interviewed by representatives of a Japanese television company who were filming a documentary about this phenomenon. The house where the Kyshtym humanoid lived:
The creature's mummy was discovered in August 1996 by police captain Evgeniy Mokichev (pictured) during his investigation into the theft of an electrical cable. The policeman who discovered the mummy handed it over to his colleague, Vladimir Bendlin, who began his own investigation into the origin and nature of the creature, but soon the mummy of “Alyoshenka” disappeared under strange circumstances. Currently her whereabouts are unknown.
The last twentieth century was filled with many events. These are two world wars, and discoveries - from penicillin to the nuclear bomb. These are new means of communication and transport, new social formations and a change in orientation. But the last century was no less rich in mysteries.
1900 
On the British island of Flannan, the entire watch, complete with caretakers, disappears completely without a trace. lighthouse Eileen Moore
1902 
On the night of December 30, the clocks stopped in Paris. Almost throughout the city, the hands froze at the time 1:05. The reasons for this failure could not be determined.
1908 
The famous explosion on the river Podkamennaya Tunguska. Its power reached 40-50 megatons, forest was felled over an area of 2100 sq. km, windows were broken in houses within a radius of 200 km, and an explosion was heard 800 km from the epicenter. The magnetic storm continued for 5 hours after the explosion. But what exactly caused the explosion has not been established; they usually talk about the Tunguska meteorite.
1911 
On July 14, a railway pleasure train disappeared - a steam locomotive, three carriages. I left the Rome station, entered the tunnel and that’s it...
1911 
On January 31, a legendary girl was born in Strumica, who at the age of 12 received the gift of clairvoyance in return for lost sight, and her name was
1913 
In 1890, it left New Zealand and was found in 1913 near Tierra del Fuego with the remains of 20 people on board. During all this time the ship did not enter any port
1916 
In the summer, during the melting of glaciers on Ararat, pilots of the Imperial Air Force, Lieutenant Roskovitsky, and his co-pilot discovered something resembling parts Noah's Ark on the mountainside.
1920 
Ali Izenbek, a colonel of the Volunteer Army, discovered tablets with writings on a certain estate, which were later called “ Veles book" The authenticity of this collection of texts from the 7th century BC. e. - 9th century AD e. scientists have questioned it.
1922 
The appearance of a large animal with a long snake neck was recorded on the Paint River (USA)
1924 
Anthropologist Philip V. Tobias discovered the skull of a child near the village of Taung (South Africa), which dated back 2.5 million years. Moreover, there was an opinion about the extraterrestrial origin of the remains.
1928 
An unknown cylindrical object fell into Lake Vedlozero near the village of Shuknavolok. After a while, on the shores of the lake, local residents began to meet a certain large-headed creature, which, when in danger, hid in the lake.
1933 
Loch Ness has received the first documented evidence of its population by an unknown creature. Stories about a large monster with a long neck and a small head have existed since the time of the Roman conquest, but even today it is not possible to explain, prove or disprove the hypothesis of the existence of Nessie.
1943 
October 1943 gave birth to the legend of the Philadelphia experiment in the United States. According to the myth, the military conducted an experiment to test Tesla's ideas about teleportation and Einstein's ideas about a unified field theory. Under the influence of an electromagnetic field, the destroyer Eldridge disappeared with its entire crew, and was then discovered many miles from the site of the experiment with the crew partially killed. There are, however, also versions about the origin of this legend - experiments were conducted on demagnetizing ships to make them invisible to magnetic mines. It is precisely this scenario that could give rise to some effects.
1945 
UFOs hit the Australian state of Queensland en masse
1945 
At the end of the war, the leaders of the Third Reich (Bormann, Müller and some others) disappear. Their fate remained unknown; the remains were either not found or were just an attempt at a hoax. There are versions about their escape to Latin America.
1945 
6 planes disappear at once in the Bermuda Triangle area on December 5
1947 
This year was a fruitful year for UFO crashes in the United States: on July 7 in Magdalena, and on July 22 in Roswell (New Mexico), flying saucers crashed and the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were found. Naturally, the government classified the findings, thereby giving rise to the wildest versions.
1952 
July 12 - 26: Numerous UFO sightings are observed in the skies directly over Washington and DC. The most terrible rumors are creeping around the country; no explanation has been found for what is happening.
1955 
On the night of October 28-29, an explosion was heard under the bottom of the battleship Novorossiysk in the Northern Bay (Sevastopol). Along with the ship, 608 sailors and officers died. The nature of the explosion could not be determined.
1956 
A fighter jet from a British airbase was chased by a UFO for 20 minutes in August. Later the device simply disappeared into thin air.
1958 
On December 14, a message about the “Labynkyr Devil” appeared on the pages of the newspaper “Youth of Yakutia”. This is what the local Yakuts call the monster, huge, dark gray, with a giant mouth and very aggressive, which is found in Lake Labynkyr in the Oymyakon region. It is called very dangerous, capable of emerging from the water onto land. And the size can be judged by the fact that the distance between the monster’s eyes is estimated to be the width of a raft of 10 logs.
1959 
In February, contact with a group of tourists led by Igor Dyatlov was lost. A full-scale search was organized, followed by a major official investigation after the bodies were discovered. There were many versions of what happened, but the death of the Dyatlov group remained unsolved.
1963 
The US Navy conducted maneuvers off the coast of Puerto Rico. At this time they noticed a very fast moving object. The speed of the object was amazing - 280 km/h.
1963 
On October 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, was shot dead in Dallas, Texas. Shortly thereafter, Lee Harvey Oswald was captured and charged with the murder. But even today, the events of that day, motives and actions raise more questions than they answer.
1967 
Roger Patterson manages to film a female Sasquatch in the Bluff Creek Valley.
1968 
On March 28, 1968, the first cosmonaut on Earth, Yuri Gagarin, died. The official version of his death also caused a lot of controversy, and according to Vanga, he did not die, but “was taken.”
1969 
The first steps of earthlings on the Moon. But today there is more and more controversy about this event, doubts about the reality of the landing.
1977 
On September 20 at 4 a.m. the “Petrozavodsk Miracle” happened. A UFO in the form of a star was noticed above the main street of the city, very bright, with red rays emanating from it. Later, the star disintegrated into a rain of fire, and objects were observed en masse over the entire north of the USSR and Finland. Holes were also found in the glass of the upper floors of the houses - large in size and with sharp edges.
1982 
On one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in Tsemes Bay, all the clocks on board stopped.
1986 
On January 29, a UFO crashed on the hill “Height 611” near Dalnegorsk. At the scene of the disaster, metal drops with holes of different nature, black glassy particles weighing up to 30 mg, and loose flakes of quartz fibers 30 microns thick in the form of a mesh were found. Each such fiber was twisted from even thinner quartz flagella, inside of which a gold thread was inserted.
1987 
2,000 dolphins washed up on the coast of Brazil. Such a mass suicide was repeated in 2009 off the coast of New Zealand, where pilot whales stranded themselves
1989 
This is the fourth mass suicide of whales off the coast of Chile - 140 individuals died.
1991 
On April 12, an explosion occurred in Sasovo, Ryazan region, during a UFO flight over the city. Anomalous activity is recorded at the site of the funnel - failure of electronic devices, reprogramming of calculators.
1993 
In just 10 months, 48 ships with more than two hundred sailors disappeared near Western Micronesia in the “Pacific Triangle”.
1994 
Not far from Celakovice (Czech Republic) a strange burial of the late 10th - early 11th centuries was found. It was called the "vampire cemetery" because 13 remains in 11 holes were buried tied to aspen stakes in the heart. Some of the bodies also had their hands and heads cut off.
1996 
The first closed ecosystem was discovered in the Romanian cave Movile. 30 species of crustaceans, spiders, millipedes, insects and plants have lived in complete darkness in isolation for the last 5 million years.
1996 
In the village of Kaolinovy near Kyshtym, in a cemetery, pensioner Tamara Vasilyevna Prosvirina discovered a strange half-dead creature. The 30-centimeter humanoid ate human food, had a strange smell, and had a head with a high forehead, eyes and a mouth. The pensioner named the creature Alyoshenka and left her to live with her. Several people saw him during the month he spent with Prosvirina. After this, the woman was placed in a psychiatric hospital due to exacerbation of schizophrenia.
The creature died over time, possibly from improper feeding and care, or was killed. And on August 5, 1999, on the eve of an interview with Japanese journalists, at night, Tamara Vasilievna was hit by two cars.
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Mysteries of the 20th century
The twentieth century is rich in various mysterious events and dark spots of history, many of which have not yet been revealed or fully clarified. Here are some of them:
1900
On Flannan Island (UK), the entire watch of the Eileen Moore lighthouse keepers disappeared without a trace. Pictured is the Eileen Moore Lighthouse today.
1902
On the night of December 29-30, at 1:05 a.m., clocks stopped in many places in Paris. The causes of the Paris Glitch remain unclear. In the photo from the beginning of the last century - the clock tower decorating the Gare de Lyon in Paris
1908
The fall of the Tunguska meteorite presumably caused an air explosion that occurred in the area of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, with a capacity of 40-50 megatons. The explosion on Tunguska was heard 800 km from the epicenter, the blast wave felled a forest over an area of 2,100 sq. km, and the windows of some houses were broken within a radius of 200 km. Soon after the explosion, a magnetic storm began that lasted 5 hours.
1911
On July 14, a pleasure train left the Rome railway station for a trip organized by the Sanetti company for wealthy Italians. Along the way, the three-car train and its 106 passengers disappeared as they entered a tunnel.
1911
On January 31, the legendary Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga was born, receiving the gift of prophecy at the age of 12 after she was carried away and blinded by a tornado.
1913
Off the coast of Tierra del Fuego, the sailing ship Marlborough was discovered - the new Flying Dutchman - which left New Zealand in early 1890, but did not enter any port. The remains of 20 people were found on the bridge and in the premises.
1916
In the summer, during the melting of the glaciers on Ararat, pilot Lieutenant Roskovitsky and his co-pilot on a reconnaissance aircraft of the Imperial Air Force discovered something similar to the remains of Noah's Ark on the mountainside.
1920
An ancient Slavic monument was found - the “Book of Veles”, the authenticity of which is still disputed in our time.
1922
A huge animal with a snake-like neck and a large head, reminiscent of a relict lizard, was spotted on the Paint River (USA). Pictured is the Paint River (Michigan, USA) today
1924
Not far from the village of Taung (South Africa), the “skull of the Taung child” was found, whose age is estimated at 2.5 million years, and which is attributed to extraterrestrial origin. The photo shows anthropologist Philip V. Tobias with the skull of the “Child of Taung.”
1928
Over the village of Shuknavolok near Vedlozero (Karelia), a cylindrical ten-meter body was observed flying, with flames coming out of its tail. Having broken through the ice of the lake, the mysterious object went under water. Since then, local residents began to meet on the shore a strange big-headed creature a little more than a meter tall with thin arms and legs, which dived back into the water when people appeared. In the photo - Vedlozero (Karelia, Russia) today
1933
The first documented sighting of the Nessie monster in Scotland's Loch Ness. To date, there have been about 4,000 sightings and encounters with him. A sonar survey of the entire volume of the lake in 1992 discovered 5 giant lizards.
1943
In October 1943, in the United States, in an atmosphere of special secrecy, the Philadelphia experiment, which had no analogues in history, was carried out on the destroyer Eldridge to create a warship invisible to enemy radar. As a result of the creation of a very strong magnetic field around the ship, the ship allegedly disappeared and then instantly moved in space several tens of kilometers. Of the entire crew, only 21 people returned unharmed. 27 people literally became fused with the structure of the ship, 13 died from burns, radiation, electric shock and fear.
1945
Massive UFO invasion in Queensland (Australia).
1945
The mysterious disappearance of the leaders of the Third Reich (Müller, Bormann and others). No remains found. The emergence of versions of their escape to Latin America. The photo shows Martin Bormann and what is believed to be his skull, the identity of which is disputed.
1945
1947
On July 7, an unknown aircraft crashed in Magdalena (New Mexico, USA). Among the debris, 6 corpses of human-like creatures were allegedly found. In the photo - presumably one of the humanoids who died in a UFO crash in Roswell (New Mexico, USA), July 22, 1947
1952
July 1952. America is in shock. What is happening in the skies over Washington defies logical explanation and gives rise to the most incredible rumors. And the reason for this is the wave of UFO sightings that swept across the District of Columbia. Unidentified flying objects appeared over Washington with enviable regularity from July 12 to July 26. In the photo: a UFO squadron over the Capitol.
1955
In Hopkinsville (Kentucky, USA), after a UFO explosion, a small glowing man with huge eyes was visible for some time.
1955
An explosion of unknown origin that occurred under the bottom of the battleship Novorossiysk on the night of October 29, 1955, claimed the lives of 608 sailors and officers. A huge ship capsized and sank in the Northern Bay of Sevastopol - in front of thousands of citizens.
1956
In August, at a British airbase, a UFO chased a fighter jet for 20 minutes before disappearing into thin air. The photo is presumably a UFO. USA, California, 1957
1958
On December 14, the newspaper “Youth of Yakutia” wrote about a giant monster living in Lake Labynkyr. Local Yakut residents believe that a certain huge animal lives in the lake - the “Labynkyr Devil”, as they call him. According to the descriptions of the Yakuts, this is something dark gray in color with a huge mouth. The distance between the eyes of the “devil” is equal to the width of a raft of ten logs. According to the legend, the “devil” is very aggressive and dangerous, attacks people and animals, and is capable of going ashore. In the photo - Lake Labynkyr (Oymyakonsky district of Yakutia, Russia)
1959
On February 1, a group of experienced tourists led by Igor Dyatlov began climbing to the top of “1079” (Mountain of the Dead). We didn’t have time to get up before dark and pitched our tent right on the slope. We began to triple up for the night. And then something terrible happened... As investigators later established, having cut the wall of the tent with knives, the tourists, in panic, rushed to run down the slope. They ran, whoever was wearing what: in underwear, half naked, barefoot. Later, the corpses of all nine group members were discovered further down the slope. Most died from hypothermia. Several people suffered terrible internal injuries without breaking the skin. The cause of the tragedy is still unknown. The last photo of the Dyatlov group on the Mountain of the Dead:
1963
During maneuvers of the US naval forces off the coast of Puerto Rico, a moving object was spotted developing an unprecedented speed for a ship - about 280 km/h.
1963
On November 22, 1963, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Despite the fact that Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was captured a few hours later, the true motives and those who ordered the most notorious murder of the 20th century have not yet been established.
1967
A female Sasquatch was captured on film in the Bluff Creek Valley (filmed by Roger Patterson).
1968
Official date of death of Yuri Gagarin. Few people believed in his death. The soothsayer Vanga claimed that the first cosmonaut did not die, but “was taken.”
1969
American landing on the moon. The fact itself is still disputed. The version of falsification has many supporters.
1977
“Petrozavodsk Miracle”: On September 20 at 4 o’clock in the morning, a UFO in the form of a bright star, from which red rays emanated, was spotted over the main street of Petrozavodsk - Lenin Street. The phenomenon was accompanied by mass UFO sightings in the northern regions of the USSR and in Finland. Later, large holes with very sharp edges were discovered in the glass of the upper floors. The photo shows a copy of the only known photograph of the “Petrozavodsk Diva” - the stage of the fiery rain and rice. V. Lukyants "Solovki" (magazine "Technology for Youth" No. 4 1980)
1982
In Tsemes Bay (Black Sea) on one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, all the clocks on board stopped. In the photo - Tsemes Bay today
1986
On January 29, a UFO crashed near Dalnegorsk. The photo shows the crash site and part of the “exhibits” from the crash site: metal drops of different nature with holes inside, black glassy particles weighing up to 30 mg, as well as loose scales in the form of a mesh of quartz fibers 30 microns thick, each of which is twisted from even thinner quartz flagella, each of which, in turn, has a gold thread inserted into it.
1987
Mass suicide of 2000 dolphins - they washed up on the coast of Brazil. Pictured: Pilot whales stranded on a beach in New Zealand in 2009.
1989
140 whales died off the southern coast of Chile. This is the fourth time a mass suicide has occurred.
1991
Explosion on April 12 in Sasovo (Ryazan region), when UFOs were observed over the city. Anomalies near the funnel are still being recorded - reprogramming of calculators and failure of electronic devices. The photo shows the site of the explosion in 1991 and in our time.
1993
Over the course of 10 months, 48 ships and more than 200 sailors disappeared in the so-called “Pacific Triangle” near Western Micronesia.
1994
Near the Czech city of Celakovice, a “vampire cemetery” was found - a strange burial dating back to the end of the 10th - beginning of the 11th century. In 11 pits lay the remains of 13 people, tied with leather belts and with aspen stakes stuck in the heart. Some of the dead also had their hands and heads cut off. According to pagan beliefs and rituals, this was done with vampires who rose from their graves at night and drank human blood.
1996
In the Movile Cave (Romania), a closed ecosystem not connected with the earth’s was discovered for the first time. Here, 30 species of plants and animals (crustaceans, spiders, centipedes and insects) were discovered living in isolation in the dark for 5 million years.
1996
A strange half-living creature was discovered in a cemetery in the village of Kaolinovy near Kyshtym by a lonely pensioner Tamara Vasilyevna Prosvirina. The creature became known as the “Kyshtym dwarf”. The creature ate human food and looked and smelled strange. The creature's body length was approximately 30 cm, it had a torso, arms, legs, a head with a high frontal lobe, a mouth and eyes. The pensioner gave the creature a child's name - “Alyoshenka”. “Alyoshenka” lived in the pensioner’s house for about a month.
Other people also saw Alyoshenka: Tamara Prosvirina’s daughter-in-law, as well as some acquaintances. Subsequently, Tamara Prosvirina was admitted to a psychiatric hospital due to worsening schizophrenia. In the end, the creature died, and the causes of death have not been definitively established; among them, death from improper feeding and lack of care or murder under unclear circumstances are most often indicated. Tamara Prosvirina died on August 5, 1999 - she was hit by two cars at night. In it time Representatives of a Japanese television company who were filming a documentary about this phenomenon were going to interview her. The house where the Kyshtym humanoid lived:
The creature's mummy was discovered in August 1996 by police captain Evgeniy Mokichev (pictured) during his investigation into the theft of an electrical cable. The policeman who discovered the mummy handed it over to his colleague, Vladimir Bendlin, who began his own investigation into the origin and nature of the creature, but soon the mummy of “Alyoshenka” disappeared under strange circumstances. Currently her whereabouts are unknown.
The most popular secrets and riddles of the 20th century.
The 20th century left behind a trail of secrets and mysteries that still trouble the minds of many people. Of course, most of them will become urban legends, while the rest will remain a mystery.
1900
On Flannan Island (UK), the entire watch of Eileen Moore lighthouse keepers disappeared without a trace. The photo shows the Eileen Moore lighthouse today.
1902
On the night of December 29-30, at 1:05 a.m., clocks stopped in many places in Paris. The reasons for the “Paris Glitch” remained unclear. The photo from the beginning of the last century shows the clock tower decorating the Gare de Lyon in Paris.
1908
The fall of the Tunguska meteorite presumably caused an air explosion that occurred in the area of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, with a capacity of 40-50 megatons. The explosion on Tunguska was heard 800 km from the epicenter, the blast wave felled a forest over an area of 2,100 sq. km, and the windows of some houses were broken within a radius of 200 km. Soon after the explosion, a magnetic storm began that lasted 5 hours.
1911
On July 14, a pleasure train left the Rome railway station for a trip organized by the Sanetti company for wealthy Italians. Along the way, the three-car train and its 106 passengers disappeared without a trace as they entered the tunnel.
1911
On January 31, the legendary Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga was born, receiving the gift of prophecy at the age of 12 after she was carried away and blinded by a tornado.
1913
Off the coast of Tierra del Fuego, the sailing ship Marlborough was discovered - the new Flying Dutchman - which left New Zealand in early 1890, but did not enter any port. The remains of 20 people were found on the bridge and in the premises.
1916
In the summer, during the melting of the glaciers on Ararat, pilot Lieutenant Roskovitsky and his co-pilot on a reconnaissance aircraft of the Imperial Air Force discovered something similar to the remains of Noah's Ark on the mountainside.
1920
An ancient Slavic monument was found - the “Book of Veles”, the authenticity of which is still disputed in our time.
1922
A huge animal with a snake-like neck and a large head, reminiscent of a relict lizard, was spotted on the Paint River (USA). The photo shows the Paint River (Michigan, USA) today.
1924
Not far from the village of Taung (South Africa) the “skull of the Taung child” was found, whose age is estimated at 2.5 million years, and which is attributed to extraterrestrial origin.
In the photo: anthropologist Philip Tobias with the skull of the "Child of Taung".
1928
Over the ancient Shuknavolok near Vedlozero (Karelia), one observes the flight of a cylindrical ten-meter body, from the tail of which a flame came out. Having broken through the ice of the lake, the mysterious object went under water. Since then, local residents began to meet on the shore a strange big-headed creature a little more than a meter tall with thin arms and legs, which dived back into the water when people appeared.
In the photo: Vedlozero (Karelia, Russia) today.
1933
The first documented sighting of the Nessie monster in Scotland's Loch Ness. To date, there have been about 4,000 sightings and encounters with him. A sonar survey of the entire volume of the lake in 1992 discovered 5 giant lizards.
1943
In October 1943, in the United States, in an atmosphere of special secrecy, the Philadelphia experiment, which had no analogues in history, was carried out on the destroyer Eldridge to create a warship invisible to enemy radar. As a result of the creation of a very strong magnetic field around the ship, the ship allegedly disappeared, and then instantly moved several tens of kilometers in space. Of the entire crew, only 21 people returned unharmed. 27 people literally became fused with the structure of the ship, 13 died from burns, radiation, electric shock and fear.
1945
Massive UFO attack in Queensland (Australia)
1945
The mysterious disappearance of the leaders of the Third Reich (Müller, Bormann and others). No remains found. The emergence of versions of their escape to Latin America. The photo shows Martin Bormann and what is believed to be his skull, the identity of which is disputed.
1947
On July 7, an unknown aircraft crashed in Magdalena (New Mexico, USA). Among the debris, 6 corpses of human-like creatures were allegedly found. In the photo: presumably one of the humanoids who died in the UFO crash in Roswell (New Mexico, USA) on July 22, 1947
1952
July 1952, America is in shock. What is happening in the skies over Washington defies logical explanation and gives rise to the most incredible rumors. And the reason for this is the wave of UFO sightings that swept through the District of Columbia. unidentified flying objects appeared over Washington with enviable regularity from July 12 to July 26.
In the photo: UFO Squadron over the Capitol
1955
In Hopkinsville (Kentucky, USA), in the field of a UFO explosion, a small glowing man with huge eyes was visible for some time.
1955
An explosion of unknown origin that occurred under the bottom of the battleship Novorossiysk on the night of October 29, 1955, claimed the lives of 608 sailors and officers. A huge ship capsized and sank in the Northern Bay of Sevastopol - in front of thousands of citizens.
1956
In August, at a British airbase, a UFO chased a fighter jet for 20 minutes before disappearing into thin air.
In the photo: presumably a UFO. USA, California, 1957
1958
On December 14, the newspaper "Youth of Yakutia" wrote about a giant monster living in Lake Labynkyr. Local Yakut residents believe that a certain huge animal lives in the lake - the “Labynkyr Devil”, as they call it. According to the description of the Yakuts, this is something dark gray in color with a huge mouth. The distance between the eyes of the “devil” is equal to the width of a raft of ten logs. According to the legend, the “devil” is very aggressive and dangerous, attacks people and animals, and is capable of going ashore.
In the photo: Lake Labynkyr (Oymyakonsky district of Yakutia, Russia)
1959
On February 1, a group of experienced tourists led by Igor Dyatlov began climbing to the top of “1079” (Mountain of the Dead). We didn’t have time to get up before dark and spread the scarf right on the slope. We began to settle down for the night. And then something terrible happened... As investigators later established, having cut the wall of the tent with knives, the tourists, in panic, rushed to run down the slope. They ran, whoever was wearing what: in underwear, half naked, barefoot. The corpses of all nine members of the group were later discovered further down the slope. Most died from hypothermia. Several people suffered terrible internal injuries without breaking the skin. The cause of the tragedy is still unknown.
The last photo of the Dyatlov group on the Mountain of the Dead
1963
During maneuvers of the US naval forces off the coast of Puerto Rico, a moving object was spotted developing an unprecedented speed for a ship - about 280 km/h.
1963
On November 22, 1963, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Despite the fact that Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was captured a few hours later, the true motives and those who ordered the most notorious murder of the 20th century have not yet been established.
1967
Female Sasquatch Captured on Film in Bluff Creek Valley (filmed by Roger Patterson)
1968
Official date of death of Yuri Gagarin. The circumstances surrounding the death of the planet's first cosmonaut are still controversial. The soothsayer Vanga claimed that the first cosmonaut did not die, but “was taken.”
1969
American landing on the moon. The fact itself is still disputed. The version of falsification has many supporters.
“Petrozavodsk Miracle”: On September 20 at 4 o’clock in the morning, a UFO in the form of a bright star, from which red rays emanated, was spotted above the main street of Petrozavodsk, Lenin Street. The phenomenon was accompanied by mass UFO sightings in the northern regions of the USSR and Finland. Later, large holes with very sharp edges were discovered in the glass of the upper floors.
In the photo: a copy of the only known photograph of the “Petrozavodsk Diva” - the stage of the fiery rain and Fig. V. Lukyants "Solovki" (magazine "Technics - Youth" No. 4 1980)
1982
In Tsemes Bay (Black Sea) on one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, all the clocks on board stopped.
In the photo: Tsemes Bay today
1986
On January 29, a UFO crashed near Dalnegorsk (hill "height 611"). The photo shows the crash site and part of the “exhibits” from the crash site: metal drops of different nature with a hole inside, black glassy particles weighing up to 30 mg, as well as loose flakes in the form of a mesh of quartz fibers 30 microns thick, each of which is twisted from even thinner quartz flagella, each of which, in turn, has a gold thread inserted into it.
1987
Mass suicide of 2000 dolphins - they washed up on the coast of Brazil. Pictured: Pilot dolphins stranded on a beach in New Zealand in 2009.
1989
140 whales died off the southern coast of Chile. This is the fourth time a mass suicide has occurred.
1991
Explosion on April 12 in Sasovo (Ryazan region), when UFOs were observed over the city. Anomalies near the funnel are still being recorded - reprogramming of calculators and failure of electronic devices.
In the photo: the site of the explosion in 91 and in our time.
1993
Over the course of 10 months, 48 ships and more than 200 sailors disappeared in the so-called “Pacific Triangle” near Western Micronesia.
1994
A “vampire cemetery” was found near the Czech city of Chelyakovice - a strange burial dating back to the late 10th and early 11th centuries. In 11 pits lay the remains of 13 people, tied with leather belts and with aspen stakes stuck in the heart. Some of the dead also had their hands and heads cut off. According to pagan beliefs and rituals, this was done with vampires who rose from their graves at night and drank human blood.
1996
In the Movile Cave (Romania), a closed ecosystem not connected with the earth’s was discovered for the first time. Here, 30 species of plants and animals (crustaceans, spiders, centipedes and insects) were discovered living in isolation in the dark for 5 million years.
1996
A strange half-living creature was discovered in a cemetery in the village of Kaolinovy near Kyshtym by a lonely pensioner Tamara Vasilyevna Prosvirina. The creature became known as the "Kyshtym dwarf". The creature ate human food, looked and smelled strange. The creature's body was approximately 30 cm long, it had a torso, arms, legs, a head with a high frontal lobe, a mouth and eyes. The pensioner gave the creature a child's name - "Alyoshenka". “Alyoshenka” lived in the pensioner’s house for about a month.
Other people also saw Alyoshenka: Tamara Proirina’s daughter-in-law, as well as some acquaintances. Subsequently, Tamar Proirin was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with exacerbation of schizophrenia. In the end, the creature died, and the causes of death have not been definitively established. Among them, death from improper feeding and lack of care or murder under unclear circumstances is most often indicated. Tamara Prosvirina died on August 5, 1999 - she was hit by two cars at night. At this time, representatives of a Japanese television company who were filming a documentary about this phenomenon gathered to interview her.
In the photo: the house where the Kyshtym humanoid lived
The creature's mummy was discovered in August 1996 by police captain Yevgeny Mokichev (pictured) during his investigation into the theft of an electrical cable. The policeman who discovered the mummy handed it over to his colleague, Vladimir Bendlin, who began his own investigation into the origin and nature of the creature, but soon the mummy of “Alyoshenka” disappeared under strange circumstances. Currently her whereabouts are unknown.
PART ONE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SENSATIONS
In 1963, 300 kilometers southeast of Ankara, archaeologists discovered two cave cities. One of them was named after the nearby village of Kaymakli, the other - Derinkuyu. When were these cities built?
Some experts date their creation to the 7th century BC. e., others believe that they appeared much earlier. Even more controversial is the question of why our ancestors needed to create underground cities with 7–8 floors and capable of accommodating several tens of thousands of people?
Mysterious caves
To the south of the Goreme Valley there are two underground cities - Kaymakli and Derinkuyu, in which archaeologists are still working. Derinkuyu City has eight explored underground levels. Some scientists believe that their number reaches twenty - after all, individual mines go 85 meters deep into the earth. Equally impressive is Kaymakli, which covers an area of 4 square meters. km. It also surprises with its intricate labyrinths, from which a person who does not know the passages is unlikely to get out on his own - the adits connecting Kaimakli and Derinkuyu together reach a length of ten kilometers.
At the same time, the premises in the cities were adapted for long-term living. There were workshops, food warehouses, wells, kitchens, ventilation, vats carved into stone in which grapes were pressed and wine was made. The catacomb cities even provided stables and pens for livestock. According to scientists, when the inhabitants of these places were not in danger, they went up from the underground cities and engaged in agriculture. In case of danger, they again hid underground, carefully camouflaging the entrances to their homes. But what danger were the local residents forced to hide from?
In the 2nd or 3rd century BC. e. the upper part of the dungeons served as a shelter for Christians persecuted by the Romans. Later, Christians were again forced to hide here when Arab troops pushed the Byzantines towards Constantinople. But the fugitives only used and expanded the underground premises created long before them. By whom and for what?
Who were the Hittites hiding from?
Practice has shown that hollowing out caves in volcanic tuff is not very difficult. If people have been doing this for several centuries, then there is nothing impossible in creating such cities. It is not difficult to imagine how, from generation to generation, the inhabitants of Kaymakli and Derinkuyu deepened and improved their underground dwellings, did everything possible to protect themselves from enemy attacks - for example, they built false corridors that ended in deep failures. At the same time, they did not forget about comfort: the air in the cities was clean and fresh, since ventilation shafts were broken through all floors. And in tubs tied to thick ropes, underground inhabitants raised water up. All this is true, but who and why needed to create these gigantic catacombs?
According to the famous Swiss researcher of archaeological phenomena and ancient artifacts, ufologist Erich von Daniken, they were created by the Hittites, who lived in the territory of modern Turkey from 1800 to 1300 BC. e., since in the lower layers of underground cities archaeologists found objects dating back to the Hittite era. He outlined this hypothesis in his book “In the Footsteps of the Almighty.” The Hittite capital Hattusa was located approximately 300 kilometers from Derinkuyu, and it was they who, fearing attack, hollowed out the 36 underground cities discovered to date in the tuff. Moreover, the point of creating such cities, Daniken believes, was only if the enemy threatened the inhabitants of these places from the air. After all, a ground enemy could easily force people to leave underground shelters, forcing them to starve or even depriving them of access to air. And if the amazing flourishing of Babylon is really connected with the visit of aliens (this hypothesis has both its adherents and opponents), then why not admit that their flying chariots terrified the surrounding peoples and forced them to literally bury themselves in the ground?
But who advised the Hittites to create quite comfortable underground cities? Is it not those who later helped them capture Babylon? After all, the Hittite kings were considered god-like, like the Egyptian pharaohs, and wore tall, hood-like headdresses, the likes of which are found in ancient cultures around the world. Didn't they imitate their heavenly teachers, who had very large heads, considered the standard of beauty? Our ancestors immortalized their elongated skulls in bas-reliefs and sculptures, which can be seen in various places, even in Egypt.
Not dwarfs at all
And here are a couple of quotes from the book of Andrew Collins, a researcher of ancient religions and author of several books on alternative history, “Fallen Angels,” on whom the underground cities of Kaymakli and Derinkuyu made an indelible impression: “At least 15 thousand ventilation ducts led from the first level to the surface, the distance between which ranged from two and a half to three meters. The strangest thing is that the diameter of these air ducts is only ten centimeters, and without tools with metal tips it was almost impossible to drill them.”
“Quite strangely, at the levels considered to be the most ancient, the height of the corridors was much greater than in others, reaching two meters. To pass through the later tunnels we had to bend down, and in addition these passages were much narrower. Why are such high vaults needed if common sense dictates that we limit ourselves to the minimum necessary? What kind of tall people inhabited Derinkuyu in the first stages of its existence?”
In his book, Collins mentions Turkish historian and archaeologist Omer Demir, who has been studying underground Cappadocia since 1968. Based on the data collected, this scientist became convinced that the bulk of the underground cities were built during the Late Paleolithic era, approximately 9500–9000 BC. BC e. That is, at a time when there could be no talk of any cities, especially underground ones.
As for the high people, this is the time to remember the legends about giants who supposedly inhabited the Earth long before the appearance of our ancestors. They are mentioned in the legends and myths of many peoples. They are also spoken of in the Old Testament. Of course, this contradicts our ideas that gnomes should live underground, but it is in good agreement with the finds of huge skulls and skeletons of humanoid creatures that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. For example, in Ecuador, in caves near Manto, skeletons of people whose height was 3.5 meters were discovered. This find confirms the Incan legends about the conquest of their country in ancient times by a race of giants.
So who created the underground cities, and from what enemies were the inhabitants of present-day Cappadocia hiding in them? There is no answer that would suit everyone yet. However, research on Kaymakli and Derinkuyu continues, and it is unknown what surprises they will present to us in the near future.
The authenticity of this find is still disputed in scientific circles. But, perhaps, this is precisely what makes Burroughs’ cave especially interesting for both scientists and sensation-seekers.
