Many events in our world are of a mysterious, inexplicable nature, and that is why they seem so interesting to us. And in the end, some secrets are never revealed. We offer you a selection of ten unsolved mysteries - sometimes creepy, but very exciting.
Maria Talarico - possessed by the spirit of the dead
In February 1936, the body of Giuseppe "Pepe" Veraldi was found under a bridge in the Italian town of Catanzaro. Apparently, he jumped off the bridge, punched his head on the rocks at the bottom of the river, and then drowned in shallow water. The police decided that the cause of death was suicide, but the family of the deceased did not agree with this, because there was no possible reason for Giuseppe to commit suicide. Three years later, in January 1939, near the place where the body was found Giuseppe, was a teenage girl Maria Taraliko. She suddenly lost consciousness and was taken home. When Maria regained consciousness, she spoke in a deep, stern and clearly masculine voice. She said her name was "Pepe." The spirit of Giuseppe Veraldi demanded a conversation with his orphaned mother. While waiting for Madame Catarina Veraldi, Maria asked for wine,cigarettes and playing cards and invited the men in the room to play with her. Maria had never behaved like this before. She named some of the men present by the names of four friends of Giuseppe. When Mrs. Veraldi arrived at Taraliko's house, she was deeply impressed by the voice of her son emanating from the lips of a teenage girl. Pepe said his friends killed him by throwing him off a bridge and beating him to death with an iron bar. Having confessed, Maria ran out of the house, ran to the bridge and lay down in the same way as Giuseppe was lying when his body was found. Madame Veraldi followed her and insisted that her son leave the girl's body. The girl fell asleep, and when she woke up, she could not remember anything about the events of that day. Nine years later, Mrs. Veraldi received a letter from Luigi "Toto" Marchete, one of her son's friends who left Italy shortly after Giuseppe's death. Luigi admitted that he killed Giuseppe out of jealousy of a woman. Three of their other mutual friends, whose names were called by Maria, helped him, and otherwise everything was the same as "Pepe" said. Since one of the friends had died by that time, and Luigi was living in Argentina, the other two accomplices were arrested by the police, tried for murder and sentenced to prison. Neither Maria herself, nor her family members were familiar with Giuseppe Veraldi, and she could not find out the truth about his death. Some believe that she was possessed by the spirit of the murdered, but the clue has never been found.two other accomplices were arrested by the police, tried for murder and sentenced to prison. Neither Maria herself, nor her family members were familiar with Giuseppe Veraldi, and she could not find out the truth about his death. Some believe that she was possessed by the spirit of the murdered, but the clue has never been found.two other accomplices were arrested by the police, tried for murder and sentenced to prison. Neither Maria herself, nor her family members were familiar with Giuseppe Veraldi, and she could not find out the truth about his death. Some believe that she was possessed by the spirit of the murdered, but the clue has never been found.
John "Babbacombe" Lee - The Man Who Couldn't Hang
In February 1885, John Lee went to the gallows in the prison in the English city of Exeter. He was found guilty of the murder of Emma Ann Whitehead Keyes at Babbacombe Bay in South Devonshire and sentenced to be hanged. Thanks to a chain of amazing events, the condemned man escaped death and was released. Emma Keys, a wealthy spinster, lived in an inherited residence called the Glen and spoke only to the servants. John Lee, the cook's half-brother, worked there as a footman. He later enlisted in the Royal Navy, where he was wounded, and then spent six months in prison for theft. Then he returned to Babbacombe Bay and resumed his old service at Glen.
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John "Babbacomb" Lee In November 1884, Emma Keyes was found dead after a fire in her house. Her head was punctured and her throat cut so deep that her vertebrae were visible. It was clear to the investigation that the killer had set fire to the house in an attempt to cover up the traces of the crime. John Lee came under suspicion immediately. He was the only male of all the servants, and besides, he had an inexplicable wound on his arm. Presumably, the motive for the crime was a small salary he received for unsatisfactory work. The evidence was circumstantial, and John continued to insist on his innocence. However, a jury found him guilty of the murder of Emma Keys. When the time came, John Lee went to the scaffold. The executioner tied a noose around his neck and pulled the lever, but the hatch did not open. John waited for the executioner to check the mechanism, which seemed to be working. The executioner checked the mechanism and again threw the noose around the criminal's neck. The hatch did not open again. After a thorough check of the mechanism, a third attempt was made - the same unsuccessful. John was taken back to his cell. The death sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. Lee spent 22 years behind bars and was released in 1907, already being a legend - "a man who could not be hanged." Divine intervention or coincidence? We can only guess.already being a legend - "a man who could not be hanged." Divine intervention or coincidence? We can only guess.already being a legend - "a man who could not be hanged." Divine intervention or coincidence? We can only guess.
Butler Street Poltergeist
In January 1959, in the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, on Butler Street, where 80-year-old Carla Papino and her 13-year-old grandson Wayne lived, suddenly, for no apparent reason, windows began to break - not all at once, but gradually, one by one. Both the grandmother and the grandson claimed that they always heard a knock before the next window was broken. This went on for a week, and during this time 39 windows were broken. The glazier installing the new windows told the reporter that all the glass had fallen inside the house. The windows appeared to have been shattered from the outside, as if the perpetrator had hit something hard in the exact middle of each glass. The police were unable to locate the culprits and the case was closed for lack of corpus delicti, so John S. Parker, an amateur expert, began his own investigation. poltergeist, an architect by education. He proposed to conduct scientific research to explain this phenomenon, since he hoped to prove that temperature changes - and this was the official version - had nothing to do with it. He suffered the most from this story (except for Carla Papino, who saw how the windows shattered to smithereens on yourself right in front of her eyes) insurance agent. He had to satisfy the claims of the owner of the house against the insurance company, which asked for damages in the amount of $ 93. The poor fellow had to explain to his bosses that the windows were shattered due to the actions of the poltergeist. We must give the insurers and the American judicial system their due - the damage was reimbursed. After a week, everything stopped. It was not possible to find out what was to blame for this. Of course, there were many hypotheses, but Carla Papino refused to admit that the ghosts were to blame,because I did not believe in them at all, and the results of Parker's independent investigation remained unknown to the public.
John and Adeline Santos - visits from the other world
Every morning at 7:30 am, 16-year-old Adelina Santos and her 13-year-old brother John fell into a trance, more like a coma. The teenagers were in this state from 90 minutes to three hours, and when they regained consciousness, they claimed that they had communicated with spirits. It took place in the American town of Santa Clara in 1925. These seances began in January. Adeline said she was visited by a “lady in white,” the ghost of a woman her mother once worked for and who died five years ago in Hawaii. John insisted that he was in contact with a gray-bearded man. No one except brother and sister saw the ghosts, but while they were in a trance, they spoke not only in their own voices, but also in strangers, adults. It was assumed that these were the voices of spirits. Their "sessions" soon became a local sensation.
The first to come to the house were representatives of the Portuguese community, who heard about what was happening. The parents were understandably alarmed when a crowd of neighbors gathered in their home to watch the spirits control their children. Some people who called themselves "psychology researchers" were convinced that the poltergeist was to blame. As for the certified practicing psychiatrists, they tended to attribute the trances of children to religious madness or hysterical disorders. I must say that they listened more to the former. After a week of daily ghost obsession, the children and their parents went to the Santa Clara de Asis mission to spend the night there. They hoped that the priests would be able to protect Adeline and John from uninvited night visitors. The mother was sure that something supernatural was really happening to the children. The father was skeptical about everything. Unfortunately, none of the sources has preserved information about what happened to the children next, and whether their "trances" were genuine or were they just trying to attract attention.
Noises in Greytown
In March 1867, the Danube mail steamer anchored at the mouth of the San Juan River near Greytown. The river at this point flows into the Caribbean Sea. All of a sudden, all passengers and crew, including Captain Dennehy, heard a strange, indefinable sound at sea. Later, sailors from other ships said that they heard a similar noise in this area. An article was published about what was happening in the magazine "Nature", where Captain Charles Dennehy spoke about what he witnessed. The phenomenon was observed only on ships with iron hulls, and never on wooden ships. Everything happened only at night, but not every night, and before the appearance of a sound on the water, strong ripples were always noticed. Eyewitnesses described the noise as a loud, shrill, monotonous sound, accompanied by vibration, and the entire metal hull of the ship vibrated. This could go on for several hours and then suddenly stopped. Ashore, however, no one heard anything out of the ordinary. Captain Dennehy said that at least three-quarters of the time the sound was perfectly clear. The sound was also clearly audible a couple of meters from the vessel, but the source could not be found. After the publication of the article, numerous hypotheses began to appear, trying to explain what happened. It was said that croak fish, sharks, crocodiles, turtles, manatees, changes in underwater currents in the harbor, sea earthquakes, an underwater source of gas, a previously unknown type of electricity, and even a new type of hypnosis were to blame. As a result, the riddle of Greytown noise was never solved. After 1871, there is no mention of Greattown specifically in print sources,but strange noises are noticed in various regions of the globe to this day.
Scandinavian ghost rockets
Flying saucers, meteorites, experimental military aircraft, bombs … No one knows for sure what it was, but in 1946, unidentified fiery objects often appeared in the skies of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. The so-called "Scandinavian ghost rockets" simultaneously saw large groups of people in the sky. Their first appearance took place, probably in Switzerland in February. Then messages began to come from everywhere - people saw lights in the form of coils or cigars high in the sky. In June, in Finland, witnesses saw a bright light leaving a smoky trail in the air. At first, everyone decided that it was a meteorite, but then a second such object was noticed, making a turn in the air and flying back to where it came from. Many have seen lights in other parts of Europe make dead loops, fly vertically upward,dived down and performed other aerial acrobatics. In hundreds of reports, they are mostly described as objects with long, flaming tails, emitting a soft hum, and flying at high altitudes at speeds of about 640 km / h or more. In August, a Swedish Air Force pilot spotted a torpedo-shaped object. He stated that he saw him very close, about a kilometer away, and did not notice any signs of an ordinary aircraft. The pilot began pursuit, but the "rocket" flew at such a speed that a conventional bomber could not keep up with it. The Swedish government took the pilot's testimony seriously, resulting in the formation of an investigative committee. Many members of the commission believed that perhaps the Soviet Union took possession of the secret German weapon after the victory in World War II and is now sending guided missiles to Europe for intimidation. The American and British governments showed interest in what was happening, but the theory later turned out to be incorrect. After 1946, objects began to appear less often, but they, nevertheless, were noticed for several more years. So what was it? The Swedish government has not found a single solid evidence to support the theory of UFOs or Russian missiles. In the end, the committee ruled that most incidents were either meteorites or the products of the human imagination. In the end, the committee ruled that most incidents were either meteorites or the products of the human imagination. In the end, the committee ruled that most incidents were either meteorites or the products of the human imagination.
Meat rain
On March 3, 1876, in one of the towns of the American state of Kentucky, Mrs. Allen Crouch witnessed a strange incident. She was making soap in the open air when it suddenly started to rain. But it was, to put it mildly, not quite ordinary: instead of drops, small pieces of raw meat without bones fell from the sky. Pieces fell from the clear cloudless sky. There was no wind. The area where this terrible "rain" was going was about the size of a football field. Some of the pieces fell to the ground, some hung on the fence. The size of the "rains" ranged from "very tiny, pale pieces slightly larger than a snowflake" to "large, hard lumps of flesh." Mrs. Crouch was quite taken aback. But the cats of the Crouchs were happy and ate mysterious "precipitations" to the full, which did not cause them any harm. In the evening, other witnesses also visited the farm. Two unknown and seemingly not poor gentlemen tried the meat and decided that it was either game or mutton. By July, the meat samples had fallen into the hands of members of the local scientific community, and then the real controversy began. They argued about where the meat came from and whether it was generally meat or something else, for example, "star jelly" - before, people seriously believed that gelatin could fall to Earth from the sky, because a gelatinous substance was sometimes found in sandy areas after rain. There were also hypotheses that it is the lung tissue of human children or horses, as well as muscles, tissues and cartilage that could belong to many animal species, including humans. And a journalist from The New York Times, William Livingston Alden, put forward the theory of "space meat" flying around the globe. Local residents also put forward their own hypothesis: they believed that meat,probably were the remains of dead horses, for some unknown reason, thrown to the ground by a flock of vultures flying by. The true reason for the “rain” that puzzled Mrs. Crouch and made her cats happy is still a mystery.
Alice Grimbold - Message from the Grave
In the late 19th century, Mr. Hensley Wedgwood, an amateur psychology researcher, worked with a spiritualistic medium known as Mrs. R. She used a tablet - the predecessor of the famous Ouija - to communicate with spirits. The researcher took detailed notes of these sessions and usually asked the spirits for evidence of their existence. Shortly before his death in June 1891, Wedgwood sent a batch of these tapes to his friend Frederick William Henry Myers of the British Society for Psychical Research. The notes provided details of the sessions Wedgwood and Mrs. R. had jointly conducted on March 22-23 this year. Wedgwood wrote that he and Mrs R. had come into contact with a spirit named Alice Grimbold, a servant accused in 1605 of aiding robbery and murder. She was sentenced to be burned at the stake. Alice revealed that she was the mistress of a man named Harrison, who promised to marry her if she helped him rob his mistress, Mrs. Clarke, who ran a hotel in Leicester called the Blue Hog. As a result, Harrison burned down the hotel, killed the old woman, and fled. Alice was caught and executed, and Wedgwood began to look for confirmation of the words of the spirit in the books of the pages. He did find records of the Blue Boar murder and execution of Alice Grimbold in the archives of the British Museum. He also found a retelling of this story, dated 1653. Wedgwood claimed that neither he nor Mrs R. had previously had access to these books and had never heard of the story before. Because he had a reputation for being an honest man, he was believed, and some believe that Alice Grimbold's spirit rose from the grave to admit his guilt. Others thinkthat Wedgwood or Mrs R. this knowledge was revealed at the moment of clairvoyance.
Invisible monster attack in Japan
Around 1890, surreal events began to take place in Japan, mainly in the Kamakura region. Scientists tried to explain these phenomena in terms of science, but the locals were sure that the reason for this was an invisible monster. Men who worked in the field or in any other open space, and sometimes even at home, were suddenly knocked down from nowhere by a strong wind. When they got to their feet again, they noticed wounds on their legs: narrow cuts from one to one and a half cm long. There were no apparent reasons for this, they could not cut themselves anywhere. In the first minutes, the wounds did not bother the victims, but after about half an hour, blood began to flow, the wounds became inflamed and began to hurt. They always healed for a long time. Scientists suggested thatthat the wounds were caused by "an inexplicable drop in atmospheric pressure through the creation of a temporary vacuum" (whatever that means). However, the locals believed that the wounds were the work of the legendary kama-itachi creature. According to legend, it looks like a weasel with razor-sharp claws, spinning in a furious whirlwind and cutting off the skin on the legs of people on the way. Sometimes it is described as three such creatures at once, appearing everywhere together. The kama-itachi move so fast that they cannot be seen with the naked eye. When the kama-itachi attacks, it always uses its power when attacking to temporarily stop the bleeding and pain, and eventually the attacks stop. At least in the newspapers of that time, mentions of such cases ceased to appear. What was it reallyit was never possible to find out, and it will hardly ever be possible.
Jacqueline Priestman - Electric Lady
It all began in 1980 in Manchester, Great Britain, when Mrs. Jacqueline Priestman, during a quarrel with her first husband Ron, cried out in her hearts: "You must break your neck!" Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened to him: Ron ran away from home on his scooter, had an accident and broke his neck and spine. He died in the hospital a month later, leaving Jacqueline alone with a sense of guilt. Soon after, a light bulb in the bathroom exploded. Jacqueline was there at that time, and shards of glass severely cut her hand. She decided that the light bulb was of poor quality. When her vacuum cleaner burned out for no apparent reason, and then another light bulb exploded with her, the woman suspected that she was probably being haunted by the ghost of her late husband. The move did not help: electrical appliances continued to fail in her presence. All stoves and vacuum cleaners burned out quicklythe TV turned off by itself, or the image was rippling. The radio also turned off without her intervention. Jacqueline was shocked several times. Some grocery and home appliance stores tried to ban her from going there, because something always broke when she appeared. Soon Jacqueline married a second time, but strange incidents did not even think of ending - on the contrary, they began to happen more and more often. The Electric Lady began to suffer from depression, frequent headaches and fainting, and was thinking about suicide. Mediums and researchers of paranormal phenomena have not been able to find the reason for the nightmares that occur to her. A reporter who once came to an unusual woman for an interview accused her of fraud and made her so angry that the vacuum cleaner in the living room burst into flames. Finally, a specially invited professor offered a key to solving the problem: he suggested that Jacqueline suffers from the fact that for some reason static electricity accumulates in her body, and its amount is ten times higher than normal. Paul, Jacqueline's second husband, agreed. The professor devised a special diet and exercise program for Jacqueline, which included walking around the house every day with light bulbs in hand to dump excess electricity. Surprisingly, it helped. However, in 1985, Jacqueline gave birth to her fourth child (daughter), and the girl immediately began to show signs of the same strange illness as her mother, twice electrocuted by the midwife holding her. Jacqueline's disease is sometimes referred to as "high tension syndrome."It is not known what caused her in Jacqueline and why the first signs of this disease appeared after the death of her first husband.