5 Unsolved Mysteries That Will Sadly Never Be Solved
Strangest unsolved mysteries of in history.
We all love a good mystery, some are solved, and some are not, but in any case, the best ones keep us curious and surprise us in the end.
Not all mysteries have an ending like Scooby-Doo, where the Scooby gang pulls off the mask of the culprit at the end, and with Velma uttering jinkies, gets the secret solved. Sadly, in the real-world solving mysteries aren’t as convenient or straightforward,
We have rounded up some of these mysteries to have that thrilling feel where the hair on your back and neck stand still.
1. Disappearance Of One Of The Largest U.S Navy Ship
The disappearance of a giant ship in the U.S navy without any trace was on people’s minds in March 1918.
The USS Cyclops debuted in 1910. It was a ship with massive proportions, making it an ideal transporter for moving coal worldwide and providing aid to the refugees during WWI.
Transporting troops and coal worldwide with extreme efficiency made cyclops a key asset for the U.S navy.
In 1918, the ginormous collier sailed from Brazil with a crew of 306 and almost 11,000 tons of manganese.
The cyclops made a stop in Barbados for supplies before setting sails for a long journey home. She disappeared on a passage between the Caribbean (West Indies) and Baltimore.
The last message from the cyclops was weather fair, all well, and without any SOS signal, the cyclops vanished with all its crew and brittle metal.
A century has passed, and this mystery is nowhere close to being answered.
2. First Person To Record Motion Images
Since our school days, we have all known Thomas A. Edison as someone who invented motion pictures, but the reality is a bit different. The one who created motion pictures was a Frenchman named Louis Le Prince.
In 1888, Le Prince was granted a patent on his 16-lens and a single lens system before any other.
In September of 1890, Louis was preparing for his visit to America to meet his family and children, but before that, he decided to visit his brother in Dijon, France.
On 16th September, he decided to visit Paris to meet his friends but having taken the train later than planned, he missed out on his friends, and no one ever saw him again after that day. The last person Louis Le Prince met was his brother.
The sudden disappearance of Louis was investigated by Scotland Yard and French Police, but no clues were found, nor was the body of Louis Le Prince.
3. The 500 Million Dollar Heist
On 18th March 1990, The most significant art heist in modern history lasted around 81 minutes in Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Two men dressed as police officers entered the museum, where they took down unsuspecting guards on duty. They duct-taped the guards to pipes in the museum and announced this was a robbery to the gentlemen.
On that day, art worth 500 million dollars was stolen, which consisted of 13 paintings from renowned painters like Rembrandt, Manet, Degas, and Vermeer.
It is said that the authorities later learned the robbers’ identities but decided not to take any action, and the stolen paintings are still missing.
4. Elisa Lam’s Confusing Death
26th January 2013, in downtown Los Angeles, a 21-year-old Canadian tourist Elisa Lam checked into the Cecil Hotel but never checked out.
Elisa Lam never checked out after 1st February nor contacted her parents. Therefore, the Los Angeles Police Department was contacted.
Eighteen days later, her body was discovered in the water tank naked and floating on the hotel’s roof. Elisa’s body was found after some complaints about the water by the hotel guests.
Elisa was last seen on surveillance footage of the Cecil hotel’s elevator. The footage showed Elisa acting strange, like she was talking to air and her hand movement was inhumane.
After Elisa’s body was found, it was suggested that she was on some hallucinogenic drugs. Still, this claim was rejected after some forensic reports, as was the theory of murder and drowning, because no evidence was found in the autopsy report.
No one knows how Elisa accessed the roof, climbed into the water tank, and shut the 10kg lid.
5. The Terror Of The Zodiac Killer
In the late ’60s, North Carolina was terrorized by a serial killer known as the Zodiac Killer. Someone who committed several murders without any traces.
On 20th December 1968, two homicides were reported to the police on Herman Road in Vallejo. 16-year-old Betty Lou Jensen and 17-year-old David Faraday were killed while sitting in a parking area.
These were the first murders committed by the zodiac killer, and this continued for a year.
The San Francisco Examiner, the Vallejo Herald, and the San Francisco Chronicle all received handwritten letters from the one who claimed to be the shooter.
The letter had specific details about the crime scene, which proved its authenticity. The letter had some code demanded by the killer to be published, and he said these codes would unveil his identity.
In August, a couple cracked the code, revealing the message. The letter said I like killing because it is fun, and it is much better than killing in the jungle because men are the most menacing animal of all to kill.
Furthermore zodiac killer stated when I die, I will be in paradise, and all my victims will be my slaves.
The killer wrote his final letter on 29th January 1974, in which he wrote his final score ‘Me = 37 and SFPD = 0’. The killer was never found, nor was his identity.
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Whether it be the murders of the head of state or the mysterious disappearance of individuals, we still don’t have the answer to many of these kinds of mysteries.
However, it is not all doom and gloom, and authorities working on these bitter cases try their level best and dig enough to conclude all of these kinds of issues or mysteries, and in some, they often do.
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