Since 2007, in one of the areas of the Selish Sea, located between the southwest of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the northwest of the American state of Washington, people began to make extremely unusual finds. Shoe items with the remains of human feet inside were found in the water near the shore. The local coastline quickly became known as the severed feet beach. (site)
The first foot was found in a sneaker on August 20, 2007. Police determined that it belonged to a missing Canadian who suffered from depression and allegedly committed suicide. The last creepy find was made on Sunday, February 7th of this year. Investigators were unable to determine who owned the sock and sports shoe.
A total of eighteen feet were found: left and right, belonging to adult men and women. However, the identity and gender of most of the victims could not be identified. Another find, made on June 18, 2009, is a wild dog's paw, inexplicably placed in a sock and a man's boot. Needless to say, all this gives off pure mysticism, and law enforcement agencies still cannot understand where these remains come from, and, most importantly, why they are washed ashore in the same place.
Horrible finds defy logical explanation
Forensic experts say that in the deceased who are in the water for a long time, some parts of the body may spontaneously separate. However, it is unlikely that at least two feet of the drowned men would be within a radius of two hundred kilometers from each other.
It has been speculated about a serial killer who cuts off his victims' legs and dumps them into the sea. Allegedly, sea currents periodically transfer limbs to the same place. However, the US and Canada claim that there are currently no serial killers in Washington and British Columbia.
Canadian expert Shane Lambert suggests that the unidentified limbs may have belonged to people who died in December 2004 during the Indian Ocean tsunami. The expert is sure that currents that bring parts of human remains to this place may also be to blame. The police, however, argue that some feet are fresher than others, so this hypothesis does not hold water.
The last foot was found a few days ago by a group of Canadian travelers. Tourists who heard about the "beach of severed legs" immediately called the police.
Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective story. But in detective stories, as you know, all the secrets are revealed to the last page. And in these stories there is still a long way to go, although over some of them humanity has been racking its brains for decades. Perhaps we are not destined to find clues for them? Or will the veil of secrecy be opened someday? And what do you think?
43 missing Mexican students
In 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers College went to a demonstration in Igualu where the mayor's wife was to speak to residents. The corrupt mayor instructed the police to relieve him of this problem. On his order, the police detained the students, and as a result of the brutal detention, two students and three bystanders were killed. The rest of the students, as we found out, were handed over to the local crime syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin flayed from his face. The remains of two more students were later found. Relatives and friends of the students staged massive demonstrations, sparking a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends and the police chief tried to escape, but were detained several weeks later. The provincial governor resigned and several dozen police officers and officials were arrested. And only one thing remained a secret - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.
Oak Island Money Pit
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territory, there is a small island - Oak Island, or Oak Island. The famous "money pit" is located there. According to legend, the locals found it back in 1795. It is a very deep and complex mine, in which, according to legend, untold treasures are hidden. Many tried to penetrate there - but the design is insidious, and after the treasure hunter gets to a certain depth, the mine begins to be intensively flooded with water. They say that the daredevils found at a depth of 40 meters a stone tablet with a scrawled inscription: "Two million pounds were buried 15 meters deeper." More than one generation has tried to get the promised treasure out of the pit. Even the future president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, during his student years at Harvard, with a group of friends came to Oak Island to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there? ..
Who was Benjamin Kyle?
In 2004, an unidentified man woke up outside a Burger King in Georgia. He had no clothes on, there were no documents with him, but the worst thing is that he did not remember anything about himself. That is, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but could not find traces: no missing people with such signs, no relatives who would have identified him from a photo. Soon he was given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents and certificates of some kind of education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a TV program, out of pity gave him a job as a dishwasher. He still works there. The efforts of doctors to awaken his memory, and the police to find his previous traces, have not yielded results.
Severed Legs Shore
Severed Legs Shore is the name given to a shore on the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia. He got this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 of them have been found, and most of them are right-wing. There are several theories explaining why the legs are thrown on this shore - natural disasters, the work of a serial killer ... some even argue that the mafia destroys the bodies of their victims on this remote beach. But none of these theories looks convincing, and no one knows where the truth is.
"Dancing Death" 1518
One summer 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began to dance in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she collapsed from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that others gradually joined her. A week later, 34 people were dancing in the city, and a month later - 400. Many dancers died of fatigue and heart attacks. The doctors did not know what to think, and the churchmen, too, could not exorcise the demons who possessed the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one knew what caused it. They talked about some special type of epilepsy, about poisoning and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But the scientists of that time did not find the exact answer.
Signal from aliens
On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was tracking signals from space at the volunteer Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Civilizations, caught a signal at a random radio frequency, clearly coming from deep space, from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This signal was much stronger than the cosmic noise that Eman was used to hearing on the air. It lasted only 72 seconds and consisted of a completely certain, in the eyes of the observer, a completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was reproduced with accuracy several times in a row. Eman disciplinedly wrote down the sequence and reported it to his fellow alien searches. However, further listening to this frequency yielded nothing, as well as any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. So far, no one knows what it was - a prank of completely earthly jokers or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to contact us.
Unknown from Somerton Beach
And here is another perfect murder, the secret of which has not yet been solved. On December 1, 1948, in Australia, at Somerton Beach in southern Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was found. There were no documents with him, only a note was found in one of his pockets with two words: "Taman Shud". It was a line from Omar Khayyam's Rubai meaning "the end." It was not possible to find out the cause of death of the unknown. The forensic investigator believed that it was about poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed that it was a matter of suicide, but this statement was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case stirred up not only Australia, but the whole world. They tried to establish the identity of the unknown in almost all countries of Europe and America, but the efforts of the police were in vain, and the story of "Taman Shud" remained covered with a veil of secrecy.
Confederate treasures
This legend still haunts American treasure seekers - and not only them. According to legend, when the northerners were already close to victory in the Civil War, the treasurer of the Confederate government, George Trenholm, in desperation decided to deprive the winners of their legitimate booty - the treasury of the southerners. This mission was taken over personally by the President of the Confederates Jefferson Davis. He, along with his guards, left Richmond with a huge load of gold, silver and jewelry. Where they went, no one knows, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, no jewelry was with him, and 4 tons of Mexican gold dollars also disappeared without a trace. Davis never revealed the secret of gold. Some believe that he gave it to the planters of the South so that they would bury it until better times, others - that it was buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that the secret society of the "Knights of the Golden Circle", secretly preparing revenge in the Civil War, laid a paw on him. Some even say that the treasure is hidden at the bottom of the lake. Dozens of treasure hunters are still looking for him, but none of them can get to the bottom of either the money or the truth.
Voynich manuscript
The mysterious book, known as the Voynich Manuscript, is named after the Polish-American second-hand bookseller Wilfred Voynich, who bought it from an unknown person in 1912. In 1915, after taking a closer look at the find, he told the whole world about it - and since then, many have not known peace. According to scientists, the manuscript was written in the 15th-16th centuries in central Europe. The book contains a lot of text, written in small handwriting, hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown to modern science. Here are also drawn the signs of the zodiac, medicinal herbs, accompanied by text, apparently, recipes for their use. However, the content of the text is just the speculation of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language that is still unknown on Earth, and, moreover, is practically indecipherable. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even after centuries.
Karst wells of Yamal
In July 2014, an inexplicable explosion occurred in Yamal, as a result of which a huge well appeared in the ground, the width and height of which reached 40 meters! Yamal is not the most populated place on the planet, so no one was hurt from the explosion and the appearance of the failure. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon demanded an explanation, and a scientific expedition set off to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful for studying a strange phenomenon - from geographers to experienced mountain climbers. However, when they arrived, they did not manage to understand the reasons and nature of the incident. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared on Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have managed to express only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal gaps remain a mystery.
Antikythera mechanism
Discovered by treasure seekers on a sunken Greek ship at the beginning of the twentieth century, this device, which at first seemed like another artifact, turned out to be, no less, the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze discs, made with precision and accuracy, unthinkable in those distant times, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, time in accordance with different calendars and dates of the Olympic Games. According to the results of analyzes, the device was made at the turn of the millennium - about a century before the birth of Christ, 1600 years before the discoveries of Galileo and 1700 before the birth of Isaac Newton. This device was more than a thousand years ahead of its time and still amazes scientists.
Sea people
The Bronze Age, which lasted from about the XXXV to the X century BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations at once - Greek, Cretan, Canaan. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments, tools of labor became more complicated. It seemed that humanity is moving by leaps and bounds towards prosperity. But it all collapsed in a few years. The civilized peoples of Europe and Asia were attacked by a horde of "people of the sea" - barbarians on countless ships. They burned and destroyed cities and villages, burned food, killed and took people into slavery. After their invasion, ruins remained everywhere. Civilization was thrown back at least a thousand years ago. In the once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, many secrets of construction and working with metals were lost. The most mysterious thing is that after the invasion, the "sea people" disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. Scientists are still wondering who and where this people was from and what their future fate was. But there is no intelligible answer to this question yet.
Murder of the "Black Dahlia"
Books and films were written about this legendary murder, but it was not possible to unravel it. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Her naked body was brutally mistreated: it was almost cut in half and bore the marks of many injuries. The body was washed clean and completely devoid of blood. This story was widely disseminated by journalists, giving Short the nickname "black dahlia". Despite an active search, the police were never able to find the killer. The Black Dahlia case is considered one of the oldest unsolved murders in Los Angeles.
Motor ship "Ourang Medan"
In early 1948, the Dutch ship Ourang Medan gave a COC signal while in Mallack Strait off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and it ended with chilling words: "And I'm dying." The captain of the Silver Star, having heard the distress signal, went in search of the Ourang Medan. Having found the ship in the Strait of Malacca, sailors from Silver Star boarded and saw that it was indeed full of corpses, and the cause of death was not visible on the bodies. Soon the rescuers noticed suspicious smoke coming from the hold and, just in case, preferred to return to their ship. And they did the right thing, because soon Ourang Medan exploded and sank spontaneously. Of course, this made the possibility of investigation null and void. Why the team died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.
Baghdad battery
Until recently, it was believed that mankind mastered the receipt and use of electric current only at the end of the 18th century. However, an artifact found by archaeologists in the region of ancient Mesopotamia in 1936 casts doubt on this conclusion. The device consists of a clay pot, in which the battery itself is hidden: an iron core wrapped in copper, which is believed to have been filled with some kind of acid, after which it began to generate electricity. For many years, archaeologists have debated whether the devices were actually related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they collected the same primitive products - and managed to get an electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to arrange electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since no written sources of that era have survived, this mystery will now probably excite scientists forever.
On the coast of the Selish Sea, washing the shores of Canada and the United States, a married couple found a sneaker washed ashore with a severed leg inside it. At the same time, this finding did not become news for the police, since it was the 16th case since 2007. Moreover, almost all boots with feet inside were right.
The Selish Sea, which is located between the southwestern part of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the northwestern part of Washington state in the United States, has been carrying out shoes with human flesh inside for nine years to the shores of the Selish Sea.
“When we noticed him, we looked at him for about five minutes. And it looks like it contained a part of a human body with a bone inside, ”said Charlotte Stevens.
Doctors have confirmed that the shoe actually contains human flesh. At the same time, it was difficult to determine how long the leg was in the water and from where its "journey" began, since the sea flows into the Pacific Ocean and has many straits.
Thanks to the fact that it was possible to determine the brands of shoes, it became clear that this particular model came out in the spring of 2013, says police officer Matt Brown.
“So I think it’s logical to look for the missing person from around March 2013 to December 2015,” he said.
The police are considering a variety of motives for the crime.
“Options range from the tsunami that happened in 2004 to crimes committed by drug dealers, serial killers or human traffickers,” he added.
However, suicide remains the main story. The British Columbia police said that according to the results of examinations, most of the owners of the found legs turned out to be sick with mental illness. Criminologist Gail Anderson suggested that all of these people are thrown off bridges to commit suicide.
“These people were suppressed. They wanted to disappear from this world on purpose by jumping off bridges, ”he told The Daily Beast.
However, there is no official version of the events yet. The police are still trying to figure out why all the victims wear sports shoes, and only their right feet float to the coast.
For some time now, a mysterious "nogorub" has started up in Canada, which is why these regions are marked with the seal of horror and anxiety of local residents, and the place itself is called that: severed feet beach... Here, with an enviable consistency, he throws them ashore ... And not just legs - but right feet of people, shod in sneakers!
And the other day, another terrible find was discovered on the aforementioned "beach of severed legs". According to experts, the owner of the foot died several months or even years before the discovery of the foot.
New find on the "beach of severed legs"
It all began on August 20, 2007, when the Selish Sea threw several severed legs, mostly right, on the coast of one of the beaches of British Columbia. At the moment, 16 feet in shoes have been found washed up on the shore.
One of the witnesses to such a find, Winston Ross, talks about a terrible find. One evening before dinner in downtown Vancouver in Falls Creek, he noticed a sneaker floating in the water with the remains of a human foot. It is impossible to say exactly where the leg came from, as streams flow into the bay from four sides. But it is known for sure that in recent years this is already the 16th case of the appearance in the nearby waters of parts of human legs or feet, shod in sneakers.
And all these limbs were found within a radius of 125 miles. It is not clear what the mysterious maniac is more focused on - either the right legs of people introduce him into a state of cognitive dissonance, or the sneakers are so annoying that they force him to take extreme measures ...
Or does a whole “family row” work here?
Under pressure from the media and frightened residents, Canadian police detectives spent a lot of time researching and solving the mystery of the severed legs, but they never figured out anything.
Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective story. But in detective stories, as you know, all the secrets are revealed to the last page. And in these stories there is still a long way to go, although over some of them humanity has been racking its brains for decades. Perhaps we are not destined to find clues for them? Or will the veil of secrecy be opened someday? And what do you think?
43 missing Mexican students
In 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers College went to a demonstration in Iguala to speak to the mayor's residents. The corrupt mayor instructed the police to relieve him of this problem. On his order, the police detained the students, and as a result of the brutal detention, two students and three bystanders were killed. The rest of the students, as we found out, were handed over to the local crime syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin flayed from his face. The remains of two more students were later found. Relatives and friends of the students staged massive demonstrations, sparking a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends and the police chief tried to escape, but were detained several weeks later. The provincial governor resigned and several dozen police officers and officials were arrested. And only one thing remained a secret - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.
Oak Island Money Pit
Off the coast of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territory, there is a small island - Oak Island, or Oak Island. The famous "money pit" is located there. According to legend, the locals found it back in 1795. It is a very deep and complex mine, in which, according to legend, untold treasures are hidden. Many tried to penetrate there - but the design is insidious, and after the treasure hunter gets to a certain depth, the mine begins to be intensively flooded with water. They say that the daredevils found at a depth of 40 meters a stone tablet with a scrawled inscription: "Two million pounds were buried 15 meters deeper." More than one generation has tried to get the promised treasure out of the pit. Even the future president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, during his student years at Harvard, with a group of friends came to Oak Island to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there? ..
Who was Benjamin Kyle?
In 2004, an unidentified man woke up outside a Burger King in Georgia. He had no clothes on, there were no documents with him, but the worst thing is that he did not remember anything about himself. That is, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but could not find traces: no missing people with such signs, no relatives who would have identified him from a photo. Soon he was given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents and certificates of some kind of education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a TV program, out of pity gave him a job as a dishwasher. He still works there. The efforts of doctors to awaken his memory, and the police to find his previous traces, have not yielded results.
Severed Legs Shore
Severed Legs Shore is the name given to a shore on the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia. He got this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 of them have been found, and most of them are right-wing. There are several theories explaining why the legs are thrown on this shore - natural disasters, the work of a serial killer ... some even argue that the mafia destroys the bodies of their victims on this remote beach. But none of these theories looks convincing, and no one knows where the truth is.
"Dancing Death" 1518
One summer 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began to dance in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she collapsed from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that others gradually joined her. A week later, 34 people were dancing in the city, and a month later - 400. Many dancers died of fatigue and heart attacks. The doctors did not know what to think, and the churchmen, too, could not exorcise the demons who possessed the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one knew what caused it. They talked about some special type of epilepsy, about poisoning and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But the scientists of that time did not find the exact answer.
Signal from aliens
On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was tracking signals from space at the volunteer Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Civilizations, caught a signal at a random radio frequency, clearly coming from deep space, from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This signal was much stronger than the cosmic noise that Eman was used to hearing on the air. It lasted only 72 seconds and consisted of a completely certain, in the eyes of the observer, a completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was reproduced with accuracy several times in a row. Eman disciplinedly wrote down the sequence and reported it to his fellow alien searches. However, further listening to this frequency yielded nothing, as well as any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. So far, no one knows what it was - a prank of completely earthly jokers or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to contact us.
Unknown from Somerton Beach
And here is another perfect murder, the secret of which has not yet been solved. On December 1, 1948, in Australia, at Somerton Beach in southern Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was found. There were no documents with him, only a note was found in one of his pockets with two words: "Taman Shud". It was a line from Omar Khayyam's Rubai meaning "the end." It was not possible to find out the cause of death of the unknown. The forensic investigator believed that it was about poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed that it was a matter of suicide, but this statement was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case stirred up not only Australia, but the whole world. They tried to establish the identity of the unknown in almost all countries of Europe and America, but the efforts of the police were in vain, and the story of "Taman Shud" remained covered with a veil of secrecy.
Confederate treasures
This legend still haunts American treasure seekers - and not only them. According to legend, when the northerners were already close to victory in the Civil War, the treasurer of the Confederate government, George Trenholm, in desperation decided to deprive the winners of their legitimate booty - the treasury of the southerners. This mission was taken over personally by the President of the Confederates Jefferson Davis. He, along with his guards, left Richmond with a huge load of gold, silver and jewelry. Where they went, no one knows, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, no jewelry was with him, and 4 tons of Mexican gold dollars also disappeared without a trace. Davis never revealed the secret of gold. Some believe that he gave it to the planters of the South so that they would bury it until better times, others - that it was buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that the secret society of the "Knights of the Golden Circle", secretly preparing revenge in the Civil War, laid a paw on him. Some even say that the treasure is hidden at the bottom of the lake. Dozens of treasure hunters are still looking for him, but none of them can get to the bottom of either the money or the truth.
Voynich manuscript
The mysterious book, known as the Voynich Manuscript, is named after the Polish-American second-hand bookseller Wilfred Voynich, who bought it from an unknown person in 1912. In 1915, after taking a closer look at the find, he told the whole world about it - and since then, many have not known peace. According to scientists, the manuscript was written in the 15th-16th centuries in central Europe. The book contains a lot of text, written in small handwriting, hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown to modern science. Here are also drawn, medicinal herbs, accompanied by text, apparently, recipes for their use. However, the content of the text is just the speculation of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language that is still unknown on Earth, and, moreover, is practically indecipherable. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even after centuries.
Karst wells of Yamal
In July 2014, an inexplicable explosion occurred in Yamal, as a result of which a huge well appeared in the ground, the width and height of which reached 40 meters! Yamal is not the most populated place on the planet, so no one was hurt from the explosion and the appearance of the failure. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon demanded an explanation, and a scientific expedition set off to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful for studying a strange phenomenon - from geographers to experienced mountain climbers. However, when they arrived, they did not manage to understand the reasons and nature of the incident. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared on Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have managed to express only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal gaps remain a mystery.
Antikythera mechanism
Discovered by treasure seekers on a sunken Greek ship at the beginning of the twentieth century, this device, which at first seemed like another artifact, turned out to be, no less, the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze discs, made with precision and accuracy, unthinkable in those distant times, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, time in accordance with different calendars and dates of the Olympic Games. According to the results of analyzes, the device was made at the turn of the millennium - about a century before the birth of Christ, 1600 years before the discoveries of Galileo and 1700 before the birth of Isaac Newton. This device was more than a thousand years ahead of its time and still amazes scientists.
Sea people
The Bronze Age, which lasted from about the XXXV to the X century BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations at once - Greek, Cretan, Canaan. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments, tools of labor became more complicated. It seemed that humanity is moving by leaps and bounds towards prosperity. But it all collapsed in a few years. The civilized peoples of Europe and Asia were attacked by a horde of "people of the sea" - barbarians on countless ships. They burned and destroyed cities and villages, burned food, killed and took people into slavery. After their invasion, ruins remained everywhere. Civilization was thrown back at least a thousand years ago. In the once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, many secrets of construction and working with metals were lost. The most mysterious thing is that after the invasion, the "sea people" disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. Scientists are still wondering who and where this people was from and what their future fate was. But there is no intelligible answer to this question yet.
Murder of the "Black Dahlia"
Books and films were written about this legendary murder, but it was not possible to unravel it. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Her naked body was brutally mistreated: it was almost cut in half and bore the marks of many injuries. The body was washed clean and completely devoid of blood. This isal one of the oldest unsolved murders was widely disseminated by journalists, giving Short the nickname "black dahlia". Despite an active search, the police were never able to find the killer. The Black Dahlia case is considered one of the oldest unsolved murders in Los Angeles.
Motor ship "Ourang Medan"
In early 1948, the Dutch ship Ourang Medan gave a COC signal while in Mallack Strait off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and it ended with chilling words: "And I'm dying." The captain of the Silver Star, having heard the distress signal, went in search of the Ourang Medan. Having found the ship in the Strait of Malacca, sailors from Silver Star boarded and saw that it was indeed full of corpses, and the cause of death was not visible on the bodies. Soon the rescuers noticed suspicious smoke coming from the hold and, just in case, preferred to return to their ship. And they did the right thing, because soon Ourang Medan exploded and sank spontaneously. Of course, this made the possibility of investigation null and void. Why the team died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.
Baghdad battery
Until recently, it was believed that mankind mastered the receipt and use of electric current only at the end of the 18th century. However, an artifact found by archaeologists in the region of ancient Mesopotamia in 1936 casts doubt on this conclusion. The device consists of a clay pot, in which the battery itself is hidden: an iron core wrapped in copper, which is believed to have been filled with some kind of acid, after which it began to generate electricity. For many years, archaeologists have debated whether the devices were actually related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they collected the same primitive products - and managed to get an electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to arrange electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since no written sources of that era have survived, this mystery will now probably excite scientists forever.
