Nowadays, it is quite difficult to completely hide data about yourself, because it is enough to type a few words in a search engine - and secrets are revealed, and secrets come to the surface. With the advancement of science and the improvement of technology, the game of hide and seek is becoming more and more difficult. It used to be easier, of course. And in history there are many examples when it was impossible to find out what kind of person he was and from where. Here are some of these mysterious cases.
15. Kaspar Hauser
May 26, Nuremberg, Germany. 1828 year. A teenager of about seventeen wanders aimlessly through the streets, clutching a letter addressed to Commander von Wessenig. The letter says that the boy was taken to school in 1812, was taught to read and write, but he was never allowed to "take a step out the door." It was also said that the boy must become a "cavalryman like his father" and the commander can either accept him or hang him.
After meticulous questioning, they managed to find out that his name was Kaspar Hauser and he spent his entire life in a "darkened cage" 2 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.5 meters high, in which there were only an armful of straw and three toys carved from wood (two horses and a dog). A hole was made in the floor of the cell so that he could relieve himself. The foundling hardly spoke, could not eat anything but water and black bread, he called all people boys, and all animals - horses. The police tried to find out where he came from and who the criminal was, what made a savage out of the boy, but this was never found out. For the next few years, some people took care of him, then others, taking him into their house and looking after him. Until December 14, 1833, Kaspar was found stabbed to the chest. A purple silk wallet was found nearby, and in it a note,made in such a way that it could only be read in a mirror image. It read:
“Hauser can tell you exactly what I look like and where I came from. In order not to bother Hauser, I want to tell you myself where I came from _ _ I came from _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ on the river _ _ I'll even tell you a name: M. L. O."
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14. Green Children of Woolpit
Imagine that you live in the 12th century in the small village of Woolpit in the English county of Suffolk. While harvesting in the field, you find two children huddled in an empty wolf hole. Children speak an incomprehensible language, are dressed in indescribable clothes, but the most interesting thing is their skin is green. You take them to your home where they refuse to eat anything other than green beans.
After a while, these children - brother and sister - begin to speak a little English, eat not only beans, and their skin gradually loses its green tint. The boy falls ill and dies. The surviving girl explains that they came from Saint Martin's Land, the underground world of twilight, where they looked after their father's cattle, and then heard a noise and ended up in a wolf's den. The inhabitants of the underworld are green and dark all the time. There were two versions: either it was a fairy tale, or the children fled from the copper mines.
13. The Somerton Man
On December 1, 1948, police found the body of a man on Somerton Beach in Glenelg, a suburb of Adelaide, Australia. All the labels on his clothes had been cut off, he had no documents, no wallet, and his face was clean-shaven. It was not even possible to carry out identification by teeth. That is, there was not a single clue at all.
After the autopsy, the pathologist concluded that "death could not have occurred for natural reasons" and suggested poisoning, although no traces of toxic substances were found in the body. In addition to this hypothesis, the doctor could not suggest anything more about the cause of death. Perhaps the most mysterious in this whole story was that when the deceased was found a piece of paper torn from a very rare edition of Omar Khayyam, on which only two words were written - Tamam Shud ("Tamam Shud"). These words are translated from Persian as "finished" or "completed". The victim remained unidentified.
12. The Man from Taured
In 1954, in Japan, at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, thousands of passengers rushed about their business. However, one passenger did not seem to be involved. For some reason, this apparently completely normal man in a business suit caught the attention of the airport security, he was stopped and asked questions. The man answered in French, but also spoke several other languages fluently. His passport bore stamps from many countries, including Japan. But this man claimed to have come from a country called Taured, located between France and Spain. The problem was that none of the maps offered to him in this place had any Taured - there was Andorra. This fact saddened the man. He said that his country has existed for centuries and that he even has its stamps in his passport.
Discouraged airport officials left the man in a hotel room with two armed guards outside the door while they themselves tried to find more information about the man. They didn't find anything. When they returned to the hotel for him, it turned out that the man had disappeared without a trace. The door did not open, the guards did not hear any noise or movement in the room, and he could not leave through the window - it was too high. Moreover, all belongings of this passenger disappeared from the premises of the airport security service.
The man, simply put, dived into the abyss and never returned.
11. Lady Granny
The 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy has spawned many conspiracy theories, and one of the most mysterious details of this event is the presence in the photographs of a certain woman who was dubbed the Lady Granny. This woman in a coat and sunglasses got into a bunch of pictures, moreover, they show that she had a camera and was filming what was happening.
The FBI tried to find her and establish her identity, but to no avail. The FBI later approached her with an appeal to provide her videotape as evidence, but no one came. Just think: this woman in the daylight in front of at least 32 witnesses (in the pictures and videos of which she was included) witnessed the murder and filmed it, and yet no one could identify her, not even the FBI. She remained a secret.
10. D. B. Cooper
It happened on November 24, 1971 at Portland International Airport, where a man who bought a ticket under the name of Dan Cooper climbed aboard a plane bound for Seattle, clutching a black briefcase in his hands. After takeoff, Cooper handed a note to the flight attendant stating that he had a bomb in his briefcase and that his demands were $ 200,000 and four parachutes. The flight attendant notified the pilot, who contacted the authorities.
After landing at Seattle airport, all passengers were released, Cooper's requirements were met and an exchange was made, after which the plane took off again. As he flew over Reno, Nevada, the unruffled Cooper ordered all of the personnel on board to stay where they were while he opened the passenger door and jumped into the night sky. Despite the large number of witnesses who could identify him, "Cooper" was never found. Only a small fraction of the money was found - in a river in Vancouver, Washington.
9.21-faced monster
In May 1984, a Japanese food corporation called Ezaki Glico faced a problem. Its president, Katsuhiza Ezaki, was kidnapped for ransom right from his home and held for some time in an abandoned warehouse, but then he managed to escape. A little later, the company received a letter stating that the products were poisoned with potassium cyanide and there will be victims if all products are not immediately withdrawn from food warehouses and stores. The company's losses amounted to $ 21 million, 450 people lost their jobs. The unknown - a group of individuals who took the name "21-faced monster" - sent mocking letters to the police, who could not find them, and even gave hints. Another message said that they "forgave" Glico, and the persecution stopped.
Not satisfied with playing with one large corporation, the Monster organization has its eyes on others: Morinaga and several other product companies. They acted according to the same scenario - they threatened to poison the food, but this time they demanded money. During a failed money exchange operation, a police officer almost managed to capture one of the criminals, but still missed him. Superintendent Yamamoto, in charge of investigating this case, could not bear the shame and committed suicide by self-immolation.
Shortly thereafter, "Monster" sent his last message to the media, making fun of the death of a police officer and ending with the words, “We're bad guys. This means we have more to do than bullying companies. It's fun to be bad. Monster with 21 faces. " And nothing else was heard about them.
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8. The Man in the Iron Mask
The "man in the iron mask" had the number 64389000, according to the prison archives. In 1669 the minister of Louis XIV sent a letter to the governor of the prison in the French city of Pignerol, in which he announced the imminent arrival of a special prisoner. The minister ordered the construction of a cell with several doors to prevent eavesdropping, to provide this prisoner with all the basic needs and, finally, if the prisoner ever spoke about anything other than that, kill him without hesitation.
This prison was famous for the placement of "black sheep" from noble families and government. It is noteworthy that the "mask" received a special attitude: his cell was furnished with good furniture, unlike the rest of the cells in the prison, and two soldiers were on duty at the door of his cell, who were ordered to kill the prisoner if he took off his iron mask. The imprisonment lasted until the prisoner's death in 1703. The same fate befell the things he used: furniture and clothing were destroyed, the walls of the cell were scraped off and washed, and the iron mask was melted down.
Since then, many historians have fiercely argued over the identity of the prisoner in an attempt to find out if he was a relative of Louis XIV and for what reasons he was in for such an unenviable fate.
7. Jack the Ripper
Perhaps the most famous and mysterious serial killer in history, first heard of in London in 1888, when five women were killed (although it is sometimes said that there were eleven victims). All victims were connected by the fact that they were prostitutes, as well as the fact that all of them had their throats cut (in one of the cases, the incision was right up to the spine). All victims had at least one organ cut out of their bodies, and their faces and body parts were mutilated almost beyond recognition.
Most suspicious of all, these women were clearly not killed by a novice or hobbyist. The killer knew exactly how and where to cut, and he knew the anatomy very well, so many immediately decided that the killer was a doctor. The police received hundreds of letters in which people accused the police of incompetence, and there seemed to be letters from the Ripper himself with the signature "From Hell."
None of the myriad suspects, and none of the myriad conspiracy theories, have ever shed light on this case.
6. Agent 355
One of the first spies in US history, and a female spy, was Agent 355, who worked for George Washington during the American Revolution and was a member of the Culper Ring spy organization. This woman provided vital information about the British army and its tactics, including plans for sabotage and ambushes, and if it were not for her, the outcome of the war might have been different.
Presumably in 1780, she was arrested and sent aboard a prison ship, where she gave birth to a boy, who was named Robert Townsend Jr. She died a little later. However, historians are skeptical about this plot, stating that women were not sent to floating prisons, and besides, there is no evidence of the birth of a child.
5. The killer named Zodiac
Another unknown serial killer is the Zodiac. It's practically an American Jack the Ripper. In December 1968, he shot and killed two teenagers in California - right on the side of the road - and attacked five more people the following year. Of these, only two survived. One of the victims described the attacker as waving a pistol in a cloak with an executioner's hood and a white cross painted on his forehead.
Like Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac maniac also sent letters to the press. The difference is that these were ciphers and cryptograms along with insane threats, and at the end of the letter there was always a crosshair symbol. The main suspect was a man named Arthur Lee Allen, but the evidence against him was only circumstantial and his guilt was never proven. And he himself died of natural causes shortly before the trial. Who was the Zodiac? No answer.
4. Unknown Rebel (Tank Man)
This face-to-face photo of a protester with a column of tanks is one of the most famous anti-war photographs and also contains a secret: the identity of this man, who is called Tank Man, has not been established. An unidentified rebel single-handedly held back a column of tanks for half an hour during the June 1989 riots in Tiananmen Square.
The tank was unable to bypass the protester and stopped. This prompted Tank Man to climb onto the tank and talk to the crew through the vent. After a while, the protester descended from the tank and continued his standing strike, preventing the tanks from going forward. And then the people in blue carried him away. It is not known what became of him - whether he was killed by the government or forced into hiding.
3. The woman from Isdalen
In 1970, in the Isdalen Valley (Norway), the partially burned body of a naked woman was discovered. She was carrying more than a dozen sleeping pills, a lunch box, an empty liquor bottle and plastic bottles that smelled of gasoline. The woman suffered from severe burns and carbon monoxide poisoning, in addition, 50 sleeping pills were found inside her, and perhaps she also received a blow to the neck. Her fingertips were cut off so that she could not be identified by prints. And when the police found her luggage at the nearest train station, it turned out that all the labels on her clothes were also cut off.
Further investigation revealed that the deceased had a total of nine pseudonyms, a whole collection of different wigs and a collection of suspicious diaries. She also spoke four languages. But this information did not help much in identifying the woman. A little later, a witness was found who saw a woman in fashionable clothes walking along the path from the station, followed by two men in black coats, towards the place where the body was found 5 days later.
But this testimony did not help much either.
2. Grinning Man
Usually paranormal events are difficult to take seriously and almost all of these kinds of phenomena are exposed almost immediately. However, this case seems to be of a different kind. In 1966, in New Jersey, two boys were walking at night along the road towards the barrier and one of them noticed a figure behind the fence. The towering figure wore a green suit that gleamed in the light of the lantern. The creature had a wide grin or grin and small spiky eyes that relentlessly followed the frightened boys with their eyes. The boys were then questioned separately and in great detail, and their stories coincided exactly.
After some time in West Virginia, there were again reports of such a strange Grinning Man, and in large numbers and from different people. With one of them - Woodrow Dereberger - Grinning even talked. He called himself "Indrid Cold" and asked if there were any reports of unidentified flying objects in the area. In general, made an indelible impression on Woodrow. Then this paranormal entity was still met here and there, until he disappeared with both ends.
1. Rasputin
Perhaps no other historical figure can compare with Grigory Rasputin in terms of the degree of mystery. And although we know who he is and where he is from, his personality has become overgrown with rumors, legends and mysticism and is still a mystery. Rasputin was born in January 1869 into a peasant family in Siberia, and there he became a religious wanderer and "healer", claiming that a certain deity gave him visions. A series of controversial and bizarre events led to the fact that Rasputin as a healer ended up in the royal family. He was invited to treat Tsarevich Alexei, who was suffering from hemophilia, in which he even succeeded somewhat - and as a result acquired enormous power and influence over the royal family.
Associated with corruption and evil, Rasputin has had countless unsuccessful assassination attempts. They sent a woman to him with a knife disguised as a beggar, and she almost gutted him, then they invited him into the house of a famous politician and tried to poison him with cyanide mixed into the drink. But that didn't work either! As a result, he was simply shot. The assassins wrapped the body in sheets and threw it into the icy river. Later it turned out that Rasputin died from hypothermia, not from bullets, and even almost was able to extricate himself from his cocoon, but this time he was not lucky.
