The most inexplicable. The most mysterious natural phenomena that are hard to believe

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Mysterious murders at the Hinterkaifeck farm

In 1922, the mysterious murder of six people committed in the small village of Hinterkaifeck shocked the whole of Germany. And not only because the murders were committed with horrific cruelty.

All the circumstances surrounding this crime were very strange, even mystical, and to this day it remains unsolved.

More than 100 people were questioned during the investigation, but no one was ever arrested. Not a single motive that could somehow explain what happened was identified either.

The maid who worked in the house ran away six months ago, claiming that there were ghosts there. The new girl arrived just a few hours before the murder.

Apparently, the intruder had been on the farm for at least several days - someone was feeding the cows and eating in the kitchen. In addition, neighbors saw smoke coming from the chimney over the weekend. The photo shows the body of one of the dead, found in a barn.

Phoenix Lights

The so-called “Phoenix Lights” are several flying objects that were observed by more than 1,000 people on the night of Thursday, March 13, 1997: in the skies over the states of Arizona and Nevada in the United States and over the state of Sonora in Mexico.

Actually, two strange events happened that night: a triangular formation of luminous objects that moved across the sky, and several motionless lights hovering over the city of Phoenix. However, the latest US Air Force recognized the lights from the A-10 Warthog aircraft - it turned out that at that time military exercises were taking place in southwest Arizona.

Astronaut from Solway Firth

In 1964, the family of Briton Jim Templeton was walking near the Solway Firth. The head of the family decided to take a Kodak photograph of his five-year-old daughter. The Templetons assured that there was no one else in these swampy places except them. And when the photographs were developed, one of them revealed a strange figure peeking out from behind the girl’s back. The analysis showed that the photo had not been subject to any changes.

Falling body

The Cooper family just moved into their new home in Texas. In honor of the housewarming it was laid out festive table, at the same time we decided to take some family photos. And when the photographs were developed, a strange figure was revealed on them - it seemed that someone’s body was either hanging or falling from the ceiling. Of course, the Coopers didn’t see anything like this during filming.

Too many hands

Four guys were fooling around, taking pictures in the yard. When the film was developed, it turned out that one extra hand(looks out from behind the guy in a black T-shirt).

"Battle of Los Angeles"

This photograph was published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942. To this day, conspiracy theorists and ufologists refer to it as evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth. They claim that the photo clearly shows that the beams of the searchlights are falling on the alien flying ship. However, as it turned out, the photo for publication was heavily retouched - this is a standard procedure that almost all published black and white photographs were subjected to for greater effect.

The incident itself, captured in the photo, was called a “misunderstanding” by authorities. The Americans had just survived the Japanese attack, and in general the tension was incredible. Therefore, the military got excited and opened fire on the object, which, most likely, was a harmless weather balloon.

Lights of Hessdalen

In 1907, a group of teachers, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Lights.

Björn Hauge took this photo one clear night using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object should consist of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of the “Lights of Hessdalen”. Scientists are still scratching their heads as to what it could be.

Time Traveler

This photo was taken in 1941 during the opening ceremony of the South Forks Bridge. The public's attention was attracted by a young man whom many considered a "time traveler" - due to his modern hairstyle, zip-up sweater, printed T-shirt, fashionable glasses and point-and-shoot camera. The whole outfit is clearly not from the 40s. On the left, highlighted in red is a camera that was actually in use at that time.

9/11 attack - South Tower woman

In these two photographs, a woman can be seen standing on the edge of the hole created in the South Tower after a plane crashed into the building. Her name is Edna Clinton and, not surprisingly, she ended up on the list of survivors. How she managed this is beyond comprehension, considering everything that happened in that part of the building.

Skunk monkey

In 2000, a woman who wished to remain anonymous took two photographs mysterious creature and sent it to the Sarasota County (Florida) Sheriff. The photographs were accompanied by a letter in which the woman assured that she had taken the photograph strange creature in the backyard of your house. The creature came to her house three nights in a row and stole the apples left on the terrace.

UFO in the painting “Madonna with Saint Giovannino”

The painting “Madonna with Saint Giovannino” belongs to the brush of Domenico Ghirlandai (1449-1494) and is currently in the collection of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. A mysterious flying object and a man watching it are clearly visible above Mary's right shoulder.

Incident at Lake Falcon

Another meeting with an alleged extraterrestrial civilization occurred at Lake Falcon on May 20, 1967.

A certain Stefan Michalak was relaxing in these places and at some point noticed two descending cigar-shaped objects, one of which landed very close. Michalak claims he saw the door open and heard voices coming from inside.

He tried to speak to the aliens in English, but there was no response. Then he tried to get closer, but came across “invisible glass”, which apparently served as protection for the object.

Suddenly, Michalak was surrounded by a cloud of air so hot that his clothes caught fire. The man received serious burns.

Bonus:

This story happened on the evening of February 11, 1988 in the city of Vsevolozhsk. There was a light knock on the window of the house where a woman who was fond of spiritualism lived with her teenage daughter. Looking out, the woman saw no one. I went out onto the porch - no one. And there were no footprints in the snow under the window either.

The woman was surprised, but of great importance didn't give it. And half an hour later there was a bang and part of the glass in the window where the invisible guest was knocking collapsed, forming an almost perfectly round hole.

The next day, at the woman’s request, her Leningrad acquaintance, candidate of technical sciences S.P. Kuzionov, arrived. He examined everything carefully and took several photographs.

When the photograph was developed, the face of a woman appeared on it, peering into the lens. This face seemed unfamiliar to both the housewife and Kuzionov himself.

What our ancestors once called “devilishness” is considered by modern scientists to be in the realm of the unidentified. However, they still cannot explain the reason for this most unidentified thing.

"Taos Noise"

Have you heard the engine or drilling rig running? It is this kind of unpleasant noise that disturbs the peace of residents of the American city of Taos. An incomprehensible humming sound coming from the direction of the desert first appeared almost 18 years ago, and since then it has reappeared regularly. When city residents turned to the authorities with a request to conduct an investigation, it turned out that the noise seemed to come from the bowels of the earth, it could not be registered by location devices, and only 2% of the city population heard it. A similar phenomenon is observed in other regions of the planet. It occurs especially often in Europe. As in the case of the Taoist hum, the reasons for its occurrence and the source have not yet been discovered.

Ghostly doppelgängers

Cases when people meet their doubles are not uncommon. Stories about dopplegangers (this is to avoid writing “doubles” twice in a row) are present both in medical practice, which is not at all surprising, and in historical documents and literary works. Guy de Maupassant told his friends about meeting his double. The mathematician Descartes, the French writer George Sand, the English poets and writers Shelley, Byron, and Walter Scott also encountered their copies. We won’t even mention Dostoevsky’s story “The Double.”

However, doppelgängers also visit people of prosaic professions. Here are the stories collected by Dr. Edward Podolsky. One woman saw her double while putting on makeup in front of the mirror. A man working in the garden noticed his exact copy, repeating all his movements.

Scientists suggest that the secret of doppelgängers may be hidden in our brains. By processing information, our nervous system creates a so-called spatial diagram of the body, which, due to reasons unknown to science, is divided into real and astral images. Alas, this is just a hypothesis.

Life after death

Light at the end of a dark tunnel, unusual glowing creature, a calling voice, the ghosts of already deceased loved ones - this is what awaits a person in the next world, according to the words of the “resurrected”. In other words, they suffered clinical death.

One of the proofs of the reality of the afterlife was the research of William James, which he conducted with the participation of the medium Leonora Piper. For about ten years, the doctor organized spiritualistic seances, during which Leonora spoke on behalf of the Indian girl Chlorin, then Commander Vanderbilt, then Longfellow, then Johann Sebastian Bach, then the actress Siddons. The doctor invited spectators to his sessions: journalists, scientists, and other mediums so that they could confirm that communication with the world of the dead actually occurs.

Unfortunately, no scientific facts there is no such thing yet. However, maybe this is for the better?

Noisy Spirit

Poltergeists are an inexplicable phenomenon and at the same time a constant hero of yellow press materials. “Barabashka stole the family’s salary from Kapotnya and wrote a swear word on the wall,” “Poltergeist became the father of three children,” these and similar headlines still regularly attract an audience.

Poltergeists were first mentioned almost two thousand years ago by the historian Titus Livius, who described how someone invisible threw stones at Roman soldiers. After this, cases of poltergeist appearances were described many more times. Mentions of this phenomenon are even present in the chronicles of a French monastery. According to the chronicler, on September 16, 1612, something incredible happened in the house of the Huguenot priest François Perrault. It all started when, at midnight, the curtains began to close on their own, and someone pulled them off the beds. bed sheets. Loud noises were heard from various parts of the house, and someone was throwing dishes in the kitchen. The poltergeist not only methodically destroyed the house, but also cursed desperately. The Church decided that the devil had taken up residence in the house of a Huguenot sinner, and Martin Luther later proposed calling the “obscene spirit” a poltergeist. After 375 years in the USSR they will call him the drummer.

Heavenly signs

According to history, clouds are not only white-maned horses. Since time immemorial, eyewitness accounts have been preserved telling about whole pictures, meaningful signs and numbers that suddenly appeared in the sky. According to legend, one of these heavenly visions predicted victory for Julius Caesar, and another - a blood-red flag with a white cross - gave strength to the retreating Danish troops and helped them defeat the pagan Estonians.

Scientists are skeptical about such pictures in the sky and name several reasons for their appearance. Today, various figures in the sky can form aircraft exhaust. After aircraft fuel burns out, water vapor enters the atmosphere and immediately turns into ice crystals. Caught up in air vortices, they behave very unpredictably and can create various shapes. Aerosols sprayed during weather experiments are based on carbon dioxide and barium salts can also cause similar phenomena. In addition, the air, due to its specific properties sometimes it acquires the ability to reflect what is happening on Earth.

The phenomenon of wandering graves

In 1928, all Scottish newspapers were full of news about a grave that had disappeared from the cemetery of the small town of Glenysville. Relatives who came to visit the deceased found an empty space instead of a stone tombstone. It was never possible to find the grave.

In 1989, on a Kansas farm, a grave mound with a lopsided and cracked headstone appeared overnight in the middle of a barnyard. Due to the poor condition of the slab, it was impossible to read the name on it. But when the grave was excavated, a coffin with human remains was found in it.

All this devilry is considered commonplace in some African and Polynesian tribes. There is a tradition there of dousing a fresh grave with tree sap and covering it with shells. This is done, according to the priests, so that the grave “does not leave.”

Pyrokinesis

Cases where people engulfed in flames of unknown origin turned into a handful of ashes in just a few minutes have been known for a very long time. Although this phenomenon occurs infrequently: over the entire last century, only 19 cases of pyrokinesis were recorded in the world. Scientists cannot explain why this happens, and most importantly, why the flame often does not spread to surrounding objects.

In 1969, a man was found dead in his car. His face and hands were burned, but for some reason the fire did not touch his hair and eyebrows. A completely fantastic incident occurred in the Canadian province of Alberta. Two sisters flashed at the same instant, being in different parts of the city, a kilometer away from each other.

Versions of the origin of pyrokinesis are increasingly fantastic. Some doctors are trying to link spontaneous combustion of people with their internal state, since it is known that most victims were depressed for a long time. Others believe that it is mainly alcoholics who are affected by pyrokinesis. Their body is so saturated with alcohol that it can burst into flames at the slightest spark, especially if the deceased smoked. There is a version that the flame arises under the influence of either ball lightning that happens to be nearby, or energy beams unknown to science. And recently a completely incredible theory was put forward. Allegedly, the source of energy in a living cell is a thermonuclear reaction, that is, under the influence of an unknown force, inexplicable energy processes begin to occur in the cell, similar to those that occur during the explosion of an atomic bomb.

April 12 marks the 56th anniversary of the appearance of man in space. Since then, astronauts regularly report incredible stories that happened to them in space. Strange sounds that cannot propagate in airless space, inexplicable visions and mysterious objects are present in the reports of many astronauts. Next, the story will talk about something for which there are no clear explanations yet.

A few years after the flight, Yuri Gagarin attended one of the concerts of the popular VIA. Then he admitted that he had already heard similar music, but not on Earth, but during a flight into space.

This fact is all the more strange since before Gagarin’s flight electronic music did not yet exist in our country, and it was precisely this melody that the first cosmonaut heard.

People who visited space later experienced similar sensations. For example, Vladislav Volkov spoke about strange sounds that literally surrounded him while in space.

“The earthly night was flying below. And suddenly from this night came... the barking of a dog. And then the crying of a child began to be clearly heard! And some voices. It is impossible to explain all this,” is how Volkov described the experience.

The sounds followed him almost the entire flight.

American astronaut Gordon Cooper said that while flying over the territory of Tibet, he was able to see houses and surrounding buildings with the naked eye.

Scientists have given The effect is called “magnification of ground objects”, but scientific explanation There is no way yet to view something from a distance of 300 kilometers.

A similar phenomenon was experienced by cosmonaut Vitaly Sevastyanov, who said that while flying over Sochi he was able to see his own two-story house, which caused controversy among optics specialists.

Candidate of technical and philosophical sciences, test cosmonaut Sergei Krichevsky first heard about inexplicable space visions and sounds from his colleague, who spent six months on the Mir orbital complex.

When Krichevsky was preparing for his first flight into space, a colleague told him that while in space a person can be subject to fantastic daydreams, which were observed by many astronauts.

Literally, the warning was as follows: “A person undergoes one or more transformations. Transformations at that moment seem to him to be a natural phenomenon, as if it should be so. All astronauts have different visions...

One thing is similar: those who have been in such a state identify a certain powerful flow of information coming from outside. None of the astronauts can call this a hallucination - the sensations are too real."

Later, Krichevsky called this phenomenon the “Solaris effect,” which was described by the author Stanislav Lemm, whose science fiction work “Solaris” quite accurately predicted inexplicable cosmic phenomena.

Although there is no clear scientific answer regarding the occurrence of such visions, some scientists believe that the occurrence of such inexplicable cases is due to exposure to microwave radiation.

In 2003, Yang Liwei, who became the first Chinese astronaut to travel into space, also witnessed the inexplicable.

He was on board the Shenzhou 5 when one night on October 16 he heard a strange sound outside, like a crash.

According to the astronaut, he had the feeling that someone was knocking on the wall spaceship just like an iron ladle knocking on a tree. Liwei says that the sound did not come from outside, but also not from inside the spacecraft.

Liwei's stories have been called into question, since the propagation of any sound in a vacuum is impossible. But during Shenzhou's subsequent missions in space, two other Chinese astronauts heard the same knocking sound.

In 1969, American astronauts Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and John Young were on dark side Moons, calmly removing craters. At that moment, they heard “an otherworldly, organized noise” coming from their headset.

“Cosmic Music” lasted for one hour. Scientists assumed that the sound arose due to radio interference between spacecraft, but could three experienced astronauts mistake ordinary interference for an alien phenomenon.

May 5, 1981 Hero Soviet Union Pilot-cosmonaut Major General Vladimir Kovalenok noticed something inexplicable in the window of the Salyut station.

"Many astronauts have seen phenomena that go beyond the experience of earthlings. For ten years I never spoke about such things. At that time we were over the area South Africa, moving in the direction Indian Ocean. I was just doing some gymnastic exercises when I saw an object in front of me through the porthole, the appearance of which I could not explain...

I was looking at this object, and then something happened that is impossible according to the laws of physics. The object had an elliptical shape. From the outside it seemed as if it was rotating in the direction of flight. After this, there was a kind of explosion of golden light...

Then a second or two later there was a second explosion somewhere else and two spheres appeared, golden and very beautiful. After this explosion I saw white smoke. The two spheres never returned."

In 2005 American astronaut Leroy Chiao, commander of the ISS, led it for six and a half months. One day he was installing antennas 230 miles above the Earth when he witnessed the inexplicable.

"I saw lights that seemed to be lined up. I saw them flying and thought it looked really weird," he later said.

Cosmonaut Musa Manarov spent a total of 541 days in space, of which one in 1991 was memorable for him more than others. On the way to space station"Mir" he managed to film a cigar-shaped UFO.

The video recording lasts two minutes. The astronaut said that this object glowed at certain moments and moved in a spiral in space.

Dr. Story Musgrave holds six advanced degrees and is a NASA astronaut. It was he who told a very colorful story about UFOs.

In a 1994 interview, he said: “I saw a snake in space. It was elastic because it had internal waves, and it followed us for quite a long period of time. The more you spend in space, the more incredible things you can see there.” .

Cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliev was tormented by visions in his sleep. While sleeping in this position, Tsibliev behaved extremely restlessly, he screamed, ground his teeth, and rushed about.

“I asked Vasily what was the matter? It turned out that he had enchanting dreams, which he sometimes took for reality. He could not retell them. He only insisted that he had never seen anything like this in his life,” said a colleague of the ship’s commander.

Six cosmonauts aboard the ISS, waiting for the arrival of Soyuz-6, observed translucent figures 10 meters high that accompanied the station for 10 minutes, and then disappeared.

Nikolai Rukavishnikov observed flares in the near-Earth outer space during a flight on board the Soyuz-10 spacecraft.

During his rest, he was in a darkened compartment with eyes closed. Suddenly he saw flashes, which at first he took for signals from a flashing light board, shining through his eyelids.

However, the display burned with an even light and its brightness was not sufficient to create the observed effect.

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin recalled: "There was something there, close enough to us that we could see it."

"During the Apollo 11 mission on the way to the Moon, I noticed a light in the ship's window that seemed to move with us. There were several explanations for this phenomenon, another ship from another country, or it was panels that came off when we removed from the rocket's landing module. But it wasn't all that."

“I feel absolutely convinced that we came face to face with something incomprehensible. I could not classify what it was. Technically, the definition can only be “unidentified.”

James McDivitt made the first manned flight on Gemini 4 on June 3, 1965 and recorded: “I looked out the window and saw a white spherical object against the black sky. It abruptly changed the direction of flight.”

McDivitt also managed to photograph a long metal cylinder. The Air Force command again resorted to a tried and tested technique, announcing that the pilot had confused what he saw with the Pegasus 2 satellite.

McDivitt replied: "I would like to report that during my flight I did see what some people call a UFO, namely an unidentified flying object."

At the same time, many fellow astronauts also observed unidentified flying objects during flights.

They say that it is described in the archives of Roscosmos unusual story with the crew of the Soyuz-18 spacecraft, which happened in April 1975, was classified for 20 years. Due to a launch vehicle accident, the ship's cabin was shot off from the rocket at an altitude of 195 km and rushed towards the Earth.

The astronauts experienced enormous overloads, during which they heard a “mechanical, robot-like” voice that asked if they wanted to live. They didn’t have the strength to answer, then a voice said: We won’t let you die so that you can tell your people that you need to give up conquering space.

Having landed and climbed out of the capsule, the astronauts began to wait for rescuers. When night came, they lit a fire. Suddenly they heard a growing whistle and at the same time saw some kind of glowing object, hovering right above them.

By the way, ISS cameras record unknown space objects with enviable regularity.

Cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov expressed his opinion on this issue: “There, in the depths of the Universe, no one knows what is happening to people. The physical condition is studied at the very least, but changes in consciousness are a dark forest. Doctors pretend that a person can be prepared for anything on Earth . In fact, this is absolutely not true."

Vladimir Vorobyov, Doctor of Medical Sciences and senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, states the following: “But visions and other inexplicable sensations on space orbit, as a rule, do not torment the astronaut, but give him a kind of pleasure, despite the fact that they cause fear...

It is worth considering that there is a hidden danger in this too. It is no secret that, after returning to Earth, most space explorers begin to experience a state of longing for these phenomena and at the same time experience an irresistible and sometimes painful craving to feel these states again.”

Despite the rapid development of science, humanity has not been able to unravel numerous anomalies and other mystical phenomena. Discovery of the laws of chemistry, physics and biology, according to by and large, did not move the person forward. Man still remains a child for nature, who is too early to know anything serious. There are many stories that have never been solved by scientists, despite all efforts.

In 1922, Germany was shocked by a brutal, mysterious murder that occurred in the Hinterkaifeck farm. As a result, six people died. The murders were carried out with great cruelty. But that’s not even the main thing. The fact is that all the circumstances that were associated with this case were not even strange, but mystical. This crime remains unsolved to this day. More than a hundred people were questioned during the investigation, but no one was arrested. Also, not a single motive was established that could shed at least a little light and somehow explain what happened. The maid who worked in the house ran away six months before the tragedy, claiming that the house was haunted. A new girl, who was hired to replace the previous servant, appeared in the house just a few hours before the tragedy. Investigators believed the perpetrator had been on the farm property for at least several days as someone ate in the kitchen and fed the cows. In addition, neighbors noticed smoke coming from the chimney over the weekend.


The so-called “Phoenix Lights” also raise many questions - several unusual flying objects that were seen by more than a hundred people on the night of March 13, 1997 in the sky above American states Nevada and Arizona, as well as over the Mexican state of Sonora. By the way, several things happened that night unusual phenomena: several stationary lights that hovered over the city of Phoenix and a triangle of luminous objects moving across the sky. However, some time later, the American military recognized the strange lights as lights from the A-10 Warthog aircraft - as it turned out, military exercises were being conducted in the southwestern part of Arizona at that time.

A strange story also happened in 1964 near the Solway Firth. Jim Templeton's family went for a walk, and the head of the family decided to take some photos of his five-year-old daughter. Later members families said that there was no one in those swampy places at that time. But when the pictures were developed, an unfamiliar strange figure appeared in one of the photographs, peeking out from behind the girl’s back. After analysis, it was determined that the images had not been subject to any changes.

A mysterious story happened with the Cooper family. They just moved into their new home in Texas. They celebrated a housewarming, and in honor of this they set a festive table. At the same time, it was decided to take a few photos. After development, the photographs showed a strange figure that was either hanging or falling from the ceiling. It is clear that during the filming the family members did not see anything like this.


Something similar happened to four guys who were fooling around in the yard, taking pictures. After developing the film, the photographs revealed an extra hand, which was peeking out from behind the back of one of the young men.


At the end of February 1942, a strange photograph was published in the pages of the Los Angeles Times. To this day, ufologists and many conspiracy theorists refer to it, trying to prove the fact that extraterrestrial civilizations visited our planet. Scientists say that the picture clearly shows how the rays from the spotlights fall on the flying alien ship. However, as it turned out later, the picture was slightly retouched before publication - this was a standard procedure to which almost all black and white photographs were subjected. The authorities were quick to call what was captured in the photograph a “misunderstanding.” At that time, tension in American society was very high, since the country had just survived the attack of the Japanese. For this reason, the US military opened fire on the object, which most likely was just a weather balloon.


In 1907, a group of scientists, students and teachers set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Lights. One clear night, Björn Hauge took an interesting photo using a 30-second shutter speed. After spectral analysis it was determined that the object depicted in the photograph was likely composed of iron, silicon and scandium. This image is the most informative, but far from the only one in which the “Lights of Hessdalen” appeared. However, scientists have still not been able to determine what kind of object is depicted on them.


Another one was made in 1941 interesting photo during the opening of the South Forks Bridge. The public paid attention to young man, whom most mistook for a time traveler. And all because of a zip-up sweater, a modern hairstyle, fashionable glasses, a printed T-shirt and a point-and-shoot camera. All these things were clearly not typical for the 40s of the last century.


In 1960, one of the Earth's satellites took a picture of an unknown object, which later became known as the “Black Knight”. An unidentified object stood out clearly in polar orbit. It could not be a Soviet or American satellite. Since then, this object has been seen many times - it periodically appears and disappears at certain intervals. Scientists conducted a thorough analysis of the images, after which they made the assumption that the unknown object was most likely a fragment of artificial origin.

An equally interesting photograph was taken after the September 11 tragedy. In the hole that appeared in the South Tower after the building was rammed by a plane, a woman is clearly visible standing on the edge. This woman's name is Edna Clinton and, most amazingly, she managed to survive. How is unknown, moreover, it is simply incomprehensible to the mind, especially considering what happened in that part of the building.

Anomalies can also be found in works of art. It's about about the painting “Madonna with Saint Giovannino” by Domenico Ghirlandai, which is still part of the collection of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. A mysterious flying object can be seen above Madonna's right shoulder, as well as a man watching it.

And finally, another interesting and at the same time mysterious story occurred on February 11, 1988 in Russian city Vsevolozhsk A woman lived here who was into spiritualism with her daughter. adolescence. One day there was a light knock on the window of their house. The woman looked out the window but saw no one. Then she went out onto the porch, but there was no one there either. Moreover, she also did not notice any traces under the windows. The woman was surprised, but did not give special significance what happened. And after a short time, a bang was heard in the house, and part of the glass in the window on which they were knocking formed an almost perfectly even hole. The woman asked her friend, candidate of technical sciences S.P. Kuzionov, to come. The scientist carefully examined everything, taking several photographs. After developing the photographs, a woman’s face appeared on them, peering into the lens. Neither the mistress of the house nor the scientist knew this woman.

It should be noted that belief in ghosts is quite widespread. Many religions contain special burial traditions and ceremonies that are carried out in order to put the souls of the deceased to rest. Despite the fact that most such unusual cases are associated with the souls of deceased people, there are many legends and stories about ghosts of ships, animals, airplanes and even entire cities and armies. The most interesting thing is that many have heard about them, but few have seen them. But ghosts really can exist, as evidenced by many photographs.

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Scientists have been trying to unravel many mysteries for centuries. natural world, however, some phenomena still baffle even the best minds of humanity.
From strange flashes in the sky after earthquakes to rocks that spontaneously move across the ground, these phenomena seem to have no particular meaning or purpose.
Here are 10 of the strangest, most mysterious and incredible phenomena found in nature. 1. Reports of bright flashes during earthquakes
Light flashes that appear in the sky before and after an earthquake

One of the most mysterious phenomena are the inexplicable flashes in the sky that accompany earthquakes. What causes them? Why do they exist?
Italian physicist Cristiano Feruga collected all observations of flashes during earthquakes dating back to 2000 BC. For a long time, scientists were skeptical about this strange phenomenon. But everything changed in 1966, when the first evidence appeared - photographs of the Matsushiro earthquake in Japan.
Nowadays there are a great many such photographs, and the flashes on them are so different colors and shapes that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish a fake.


Theories explaining this phenomenon include heat caused by friction, radon gas and the piezoelectric effect - electric charge, which accumulates in quartz rocks when tectonic plates move.
In 2003, physicist NASA Dr. Friedemann Freund conducted a laboratory experiment and showed that the flashes were probably caused by electrical activity in the rocks.
The shock wave from an earthquake can change the electrical properties of silicon and oxygen-containing minerals, allowing them to transmit current and emit a glow. However, some believe that the theory may only be one possible explanation.

2. Nazca Drawings
Huge figures drawn on the sand in Peru by ancient people, but no one knows why


The Nazca Lines extend over 450 square meters. km of coastal desert, are huge works of art left on the Peruvian plains. Among them there are geometric shapes, as well as drawings of animals, plants and rarely human figures, which can be seen from the air in the form of huge drawings.
They are believed to have been created by the Nazca people during a 1000 year period between 500 BC. and 500 AD, but no one knows why.
Despite the status of the object World Heritage, Peruvian authorities are having difficulty protecting the Nazca Lines from settlers. Meanwhile, archaeologists are trying to study the lines before they are destroyed.


It was initially assumed that these geoglyphs were part of the astronomical calendar, but this version was later refuted. Researchers then focused their attention on the history and culture of the people who created them. Whether the Nazca Lines are a message to aliens or represent some kind of encrypted message, no one can say.
In 2012, Yamagata University in Japan announced it would open a research center on site and intend to study more than 1,000 drawings over 15 years.

3. Migration of Monarch Butterflies
Monarch butterflies find their way across thousands of kilometers to specific locations.


Every year, millions of North American monarch butterflies migrate more than 3,000 km south to winter. For many years no one knew where they were flying.
In the 1950s, zoologists began tagging and monitoring the butterflies and discovered that they were found in a mountain forest in Mexico. However, even knowing that monarchs choose 12 of the 15 mountainous sites in Mexico, scientists still cannot understand how they navigate.


According to some studies, they take advantage of the position of the Sun to fly south, adjusting to the time of day using the circadian clock of their antennae. But the Sun gives only general direction. How they settle in is still a mystery.
One theory is that geomagnetic forces attract them, but this has not been confirmed. Only recently have scientists begun to study the features of the navigation system of these butterflies.

4. Ball lightning
Fireballs that appear during or after a thunderstorm


Nikola Tesla supposedly created ball lightning in his laboratory. In 1904 he wrote that he had "never seen fireballs, but he managed to determine their formation and reproduce it artificially.”
Modern scientists have never been able to reproduce these results.
Moreover, many are still skeptical about the existence of ball lightning. However, many witnesses, dating back to the era Ancient Greece, claim to have observed this phenomenon.

Ball lightning is described as a sphere of light that appears during or after a thunderstorm. Some claim to have seen ball lightning pass through window panes and down chimneys.
According to one theory, ball lightning is plasma; according to another, it is a chemiluminescent process - that is, light appears as a result of a chemical reaction.

5. Moving stones in Death Valley
Stones that slide along the ground under the influence of a mysterious force


In the Racetrack Playa area of ​​Death Valley, California, mysterious forces push heavy rocks across the flat surface of a dry lake when no one is looking.
Scientists have been puzzling over this phenomenon since the beginning of the 20th century. Geologists tracked 30 rocks weighing up to 25 kg, 28 of which moved more than 200 meters over a 7-year period.
Analysis of the stone tracks shows that they moved at a speed of 1 m per second and in most cases the stones slid in winter.
There were suggestions that wind and ice, as well as algae mucus and seismic vibrations, were to blame.


A 2013 study tried to explain what happens when water on the surface of a dry lake freezes. According to this theory, ice on rocks stays frozen longer than the ice around them because the rock releases heat faster. This reduces the friction between the stones and the surface, making them easier to push around in the wind.
However, no one has yet seen the stones in action, and lately they became motionless.

6. The Rumble of the Earth
An unknown hum that only some people can hear


The so-called “hum” is the name given to the annoying low-frequency noise that disturbs residents around the world. However, few are able to hear it, namely only every 20th person.
Scientists attribute the "hum" to ringing in the ears, distant crashing waves, industrial noise and singing sand dunes.

In 2006, a researcher from New Zealand claimed to have recorded this anomalous sound.

7. The return of the cicada insects
The insects that suddenly woke up after 17 years to find a partner


In 2013, cicadas of the species Magicicada septendecim, which had not been seen since 1996, emerged from the ground in the eastern United States. Scientists don't know how the cicadas knew it was time to leave their underground habitat after sleeping for 17 years.
Periodical cicadas are quiet and solitary insects that spend most of their time buried underground. They are the longest-lived insects and do not mature until they are 17 years old. However, this summer, they woke up en masse to reproduce.
After 2-3 weeks they die, leaving behind the fruits of their “love”. The larvae burrow into the ground and a new one begins life cycle.


How do they do it? How do they know after so many years that the time has come to appear?
Interestingly, 17-year cicadas appear in the northeastern states, while in the southeastern states, cicada invasions occur every 13 years. Scientists have suggested that this life cycle of cicadas allows them to avoid meeting their predator enemies.

8. Rain of Animals
When different animals, such as fish and frogs, fall from the sky like rain


In January 1917, biologist Waldo McAtee presented his work entitled "Rains from organic matter”, where cases of falling larvae of salamanders, small fish, herring, ants and toads were reported.
Rains of animals have been reported in various parts of the world. For example, frogs rained down in Serbia, perches fell from the sky in Australia, and toads fell in Japan.
Scientists are skeptical about their animals' rain. One explanation was proposed by a French physicist back in the 19th century: winds lift animals and throw them to the ground.
According to a more complex theory, waterspouts suck up aquatic life, transporting them and causing them to fall in certain places.
However scientific research There have been no studies to confirm this theory.

9. Stone balls of Costa Rica
Giant stone spheres whose purpose is unclear


Why the ancient people of Costa Rica decided to create hundreds of large balls of stone is still a mystery.
Costa Rica's stone balls were discovered in the 1930s by the United Fruit Company when workers were clearing land for banana plantations. Some of these balls, having a perfect spherical shape, reached 2 meters in diameter.


The stones, which locals call Las Bolas, date back to 600 - 1000 AD. What makes this phenomenon even more difficult to understand is the fact that there is no written record of the culture of the people who created them. This happened because the Spanish settlers erased all traces of the indigenous cultural heritage.
Scientists began studying the stone balls in 1943, charting their distribution. Later, anthropologist John Hoopes refuted many theories explaining the purpose of the stones, including lost cities and space aliens.

10. Impossible fossils
Remnants of long-dead creatures that appear in the wrong place


Ever since the theory of evolution was proposed, scientists have encountered discoveries that seem to challenge it.
One of the most mysterious phenomena was fossil remains, especially human remains, which appeared in unexpected places.
Fossilized prints and tracks have been discovered in geographic areas and archaeological time zones to which they did not belong.
Some of these discoveries may provide new information about our origins. Others turned out to be mistakes or hoaxes.


One example is the discovery in 1911, when archaeologist Charles Dawson collected fragments of a supposedly unknown ancient man with large brains, dating back 500,000 years ago. Piltdown Man's large head led scientists to believe he was the "missing link" between humans and apes.