Secrets of StoneHenge
Stone Age Britons had a sophisticated knowledge of geometry to rival Pythagoras 2,000 years before the Greek ‘father of numbers’ was born, according to a new study of Stonehenge.
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Ancient Mysteries
Unlocking Stonehenge’s Mysteries
Stonehenge is a British wonder of the ancient world – it’s also as familiar a part of our landscape as the White Cliffs of Dover.
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Unsolved Mysteries of Spear of Destiny
A spear with a mystical background gives the one wielding it powers to bend the destiny of the world to his or her will. It sounds like a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, but truth is far more bizarre in this case, as the legend of the Spear of Destiny contains a poison pill clause once the spear leaves the possession of a ruler, the individual dies within a matter of days.
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Sokushinbutsu – The Bizarre Practice of Self Mummification
Scattered throughout Northern Japan around the Yamagata Prefecture are two dozen mummified Japanese monks known as Sokushinbutsu, who caused their own deaths in a way that resulted in their mummification. The practice was first pioneered by a priest named Kuukai over 1000 years ago at the temple complex of Mount Koya, in Wakayama prefecture.
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Tutankhamun Curse – 3,000-year-old mystery
The mystery behind the sudden death of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, may have been finally solved by scientists who believe that he fell from a fast-moving chariot while out hunting in the desert.
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The Tulli Manuscript Mystery – Is it proof of UFOs – Unexplained Mysteries
The Tulli Papyrus is an oft-cited document of questionable origins that some have interpreted as evidence of ancient flying saucers. During a visit to Cairo in 1933, Alberto Tulli, a director of the Egyptian section of the Vatican museum, supposedly found an interesting papyrus in an antique shop.
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Unexplained Mysteries of ThunderBird – LawnDale Incident
Thunderbird is a term used in cryptozoology to describe large, bird-like creatures, generally identified with the Thunderbird of Native American tradition
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The Thuggee – Secret Society of Indian Thugs
The strongest rule of the brotherhood was the one prohibiting the shedding of blood. According to Thuggee beliefs, the goddess Kali taught the fathers of thuggery to strangle with a noose and to kill without permitting the flow of blood.
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Serial Killer Thug Behram and The Canova Medallion
From 1790 till 1841, during the advent of British rule, Thug Behram managed to kill 931 people. Thug Behram used his cummerbund as a rumal to execute his killings, with a large medallion sewn into it.
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The Treasure of Maravilla
Legend said the Maravilla was cursed. She sank in January of 1656, the Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas was officially filled with over five million pesos of treasure.
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The Salzburg Cube
In the year 1885 AD, a workman named Reidl, who worked at a foundry in Schöndorf/Vöcklabruck (Austria), founded by Isidor Braun (1801-1866), broke open a block of brown coal that had been mined at Wolfsegg. He found an unusual metal cube/ cuboid like object embedded in the block.
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The Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead is the common name for ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of Coming or Going Forth By Day. The name ‘Book of the Dead’ was the invention of the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of some texts in 1842.
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The Coso Artifact
The story of the Coso Artifact has been embellished over the years, but nearly all accounts of the actual discovery are basically the same. On February 13, 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell were seeking interesting mineral specimens, particularly geodes, for their LM&V Rockhounds Gem and Gift Shop in Olancha, California.
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Thai’s Hell Garden – Unexplained Mysteries of World
An unnerving trip through Buddhist Hell.At the entrance, a brightly coloured sign proclaims Welcome To Hell, while beyond lies a garish, in-your-face morality tale of sawn torsos, boiling vats and devilish figures tormenting worldly sinners.
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TEMPLE COMPLEX COULD ALTER THEORY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
As a child, Klaus Schmidt used to grub around in caves in his native Germany in the hope of finding prehistoric paintings. Thirty years later, representing the German Archaeological Institute, he found something infinitely more important — a temple complex almost twice as old as anything comparable on the planet.
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