World Mysteries
Enigmas that defy history and science · 64
Bermuda Triangle
Urban legend based on a region in North Atlantic
Atlantis
Fictional island in Plato's works
Stonehenge
Prehistoric monument in England
Nazca lines
Geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert, Peru
Voynich manuscript
15th-century codex in an unknown script
Shroud of Turin
Cloth bearing the alleged image of Jesus
Area 51
U.S. Air Force facility in southern Nevada
Mary Celeste
Ship found abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872
Robert Stack
American actor (1919–2003)
Salmon P. Chase
Chief Justice of the United States from 1864 to 1873
Anatoli Boukreev
Kazakh mountain climber and author (1958–1997)
Christoph Friedrich von Ammon
German theological writer and preacher
Jimmy Castor
American funk saxophonist (1940–2012)
Alexander J. Dallas (statesman)
American politician (1759–1817)
Julia Ormond
English actress (born 1965)
Adam Air Flight 574
2007 aviation accident in the Makassar Strait
Julian calendar
Solar calendar
Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter (born 1946)
Michael Crawford
English actor (born 1942)
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and critic (1809–1849)
Dōgen
Japanese Zen buddhist teacher (1200-1253)
George S. Boutwell
American politician and lawyer (1818–1905)
Billy Meier
Swiss UFO religion founder (born 1937)
Axl Rose
American singer and songwriter (born 1962)
Alexander Wurz
Austrian racing driver (born 1974)
José Zorrilla
Spanish poet, writer, playwright (1817–1893)
Friedrich Eduard Beneke
German psychologist and philosopher (1798–1854)
United States Secret Service
Federal law enforcement agency
Sam Langford
Canadian boxer (1886–1956)
Haley Lu Richardson
American actress (born 1995)
Élisabeth Thérèse of Lorraine, Princess of Epinoy
Princess of Epinoy
Geocaching
Outdoor recreational activity
Raja Harishchandra
1913 film by Dadasaheb Phalke
Santos Escobar
Mexican professional wrestler (born 1984)
Cleveland
City in Ohio, United States
Kaspar Hauser
German youth kept in total isolation
Isiah Thomas
American basketball player and coach (born 1961)
Glenda Jackson
English actress and politician (1936–2023)
Lucian Blaga
Romanian philosopher and writer (1895–1961)
Gabriel Byrne
Irish actor (born 1950)
Tornado
Violently rotating column of air
Idina Menzel
American actress and singer (born 1971)
Joel Edgerton
Australian actor (born 1974)
Rick Riordan
American author (born 1964)
Peter Falk
American actor (1927–2011)
Edward Elgar
English composer (1857–1934)
Thomas Henry Huxley
English biologist (1825–1895)
Unidentified flying object
Apparent unusual observation in the sky
George Shearing
British jazz pianist (1919–2011)
Trigana Air Flight 267
2015 aviation accident in Indonesia
Janet Yellen
American economist and government official (born 1946)
Sheridan Le Fanu
Irish Gothic and mystery writer (1814–1873)
Jack Vance
American writer (1916–2013)
James Randi
Canadian-American magician and skeptic (1928–2020)
Pope Gregory IX
Head of the Catholic Church from 1227 to 1241
Flatwoods monster
West Virginian folklore creature
Flood
Water overflow submerging usually-dry land
Emmy Rossum
American actress (born 1986)
Disco de Festo
In July 1908, during excavations at the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the southern coast of Crete, Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier made a discovery that remains, over a century
Exército de terracota
**TITLE:** The Terracotta Army
Linhas de Nasca
The Nazca Lines exist in the Sechura Desert in southern Peru, something that challenges any unsuspecting observer to believe their own eyes. Scattered across an area of about 50 sq
Máquina de Anticítera
**TITLE:** The Antikythera Mechanism
Moai
On one of the most remote islands on the planet, raised in silence by hands time can no longer reach, over 887 stone statues gaze at the horizon with a gravity that unsettles every
Ilha Oak
In the summer of 1795, a teenager named Daniel McGinnis wandered across Oak Island, a small 57-hectare stretch of land in Lunenburg County, on the southern coast of Nova Scotia, Ca