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Mysterious photos that cannot be explained: rating, history and interesting facts. Mysterious photos and stories about them

17.11.2014

Secrets and mysticism always attract people. This is not surprising - the very existence of life on Earth, and even with intelligent beings, is a complete mystery and mysticism.

Here are collected 11+1 photos and videos that are not fully understood even by experts. True, while this selection was being prepared, the solution to one mystery (with the Black Prince) was found. Maybe you can figure out all the rest?

12. Lady Babushka (The Babushka Lady)

On November 22, 1963, shots rang out in Dallas at 12:30. Most of the people filming the president's motorcade on camera rushed to run. However, one of the women, whose face was hidden under a headscarf, continued to film for some time after the shots were fired. Then she crossed Elm Street and blended into the crowd.

After the murder, law enforcement asked the public to provide them with all the amateur videos made that day. But the video taken by Lady Grandmother has not been found.

The police tried to track down the woman, hoping that her footage would be decisive evidence, but to this day she has not been found. She received such a nickname due to the fact that she was wrapped in a scarf resembling the headdresses of Russian elderly women.

11 Solway Firth Astronaut

In 1964, the family of Briton Jim Templeton was walking near the Solway Firth. The head of the family decided to take a picture of his five-year-old daughter with Kodak. The Templetons claimed that there was no one else in these marshy places except them. And when the pictures were developed, one of them showed a strange figure peeking out from behind the girl. The analysis showed that the photo was not subjected to any changes.

10. Lights of Hessdalen

In 1907, a group of educators, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Fires.

On a clear night, Bjorn Hauge took this picture using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object must be composed of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of the Hessdalen Lights. Scientists are still scratching their heads as to what it could be. True, there is one version.

9. An unexpected guest in the Cooper family

The Cooper family has just moved into their new house in Texas. In honor of the housewarming was covered festive table, at the same time decided to take some family photos. And when the pictures were developed, a strange figure appeared on them - it seems that someone's body is either hanging or falling from the ceiling. Of course, the Coopers did not see anything like this during the shooting.

8. "Alien" in Earth's orbit

This is how this story is described on all the Internet sites that publish collections of pictures and love to fool readers for a couple of clicks:

“... For the first time, an image of an unknown object, called the Black Prince, was taken in 1960 by one of the first satellites of the Earth. In polar orbit, an unidentified object is clearly visible, which could not be either a satellite of the USSR or a satellite of the USA. Since then, this object has been seen repeatedly - it appears and disappears at certain time intervals. After carefully studying the images of the object, scientists are inclined to believe that this is a piece of artificial origin.

This story is actually as simple as three pennies. No, the picture is real. It was taken during the STS-88 flight of the Endeavor spacecraft in 1998. Here it is, in high resolution.

During one of the astronauts' spacewalks, a thermal blanket was lost. One side is silver, the other side is black. It slowly moved away, taking on bizarre shapes, and several photographs were taken. Without knowing the origin of the object, you can name anything. But, fortunately for the astronauts and unfortunately for mysterious history, it was not a satellite of aliens.

7. Sea monster filmed off the coast of Hook Island

This well-known image is considered by many to be the result of working with Photoshop. But few people know that the French photographer Robert le Serrec took this unknown giant sea animal back in 1965, and this photo became the subject of heated discussions among zoologists.

6 Sir Goddard's Squadron (1919, published 1975)

Behind one of the aviators, you can clearly see the face of another person. Squadron members claim it is the face of Freddie Jackson, an aircraft mechanic who died in an accident two days before the shoot. His funeral took place on the day the group photo was taken.

5. The mobile phone in a Charlie Chaplin movie

On the DVD of the Collector's Edition of Charlie Chaplin's Circus, a short film about the 1928 premiere was added as a bonus. One of the shots shows a woman holding what looks like a mobile phone in her hand.

Some consider these footage proof of the existence of time travelers. Many are inclined to believe that a woman holds an auditory tube in her hand. But then it is not clear why she smiles and says something to her.

Curious, if it's a cell phone, who is she talking to?

4. Another Time Traveler

This photo was taken in 1941 during the opening of the South Forks Bridge. Attention was drawn to a young man who was considered by many to be a "time traveler" - because of his modern hairstyle, zip-up sweater, printed T-shirt, fashionable glasses and a soap camera. The whole outfit is clearly not from the 40s. On the left, a camera is highlighted in red, which was actually in use at that time.

3. Ghosts of "Watertown"

In December 1924, the American tanker Watertown was heading from the coast of California to New Orleans through the Panama Canal when two sailors, Courtney and Meehan, suffocated from oil fumes. Their bodies were buried at sea off the coast of Mexico.

The next day the first mate saw two faces on the port side of the waves. He immediately recognized them as two dead sailors. Faces appeared again and again every day, and in fact all members of the team saw them many times. Upon arrival in New Orleans, Captain Tracy reported what had happened to the shipping company and was instructed to photograph them.

When the ghostly faces reappeared, Captain Tracy took a picture of them. In one frame, faces were clearly visible. The Bureau of Investigation, which was asked to check the negative, found no evidence of falsification.

2 Pyramids On The Moon

What you see below is a photograph of the Moon's surface, numbered AS17-136-20680, which was taken as part of the Apollo 17 mission. It was listed as "exposed" in the photo catalog. She clearly suffered from excessive light exposure. However, after working with the contrast of this image, it turned out that in fact, structures resembling pyramids were captured on it.

1. The mysterious death of Eliza Lam

This is, as we say - mystics, fresh. The story shook America in early 2013. Young Elisa Lam, a tourist from Canada, arrived in Los Angeles on January 26 and stayed at the affordable Cecile Hotel in the city center. The 21-year-old Canadian of Chinese descent was an exemplary daughter, calling her parents daily and talking about all her adventures while traveling in the United States.

However, shortly after her arrival in the City of Angels, the calls stopped. On January 31, Eliza was seen for the last time - she went to a bookstore near the hotel to buy souvenirs for her relatives, returned to Cecil, rode the elevator - she was recorded by a camera in the cab - and ... disappeared without a trace.

Eliza's footprints were discovered on February 19, when hotel guests began to complain to the staff about the quality of the water. The liquid in the taps darkened, the pressure weakened, a strange aftertaste appeared ... The employees climbed to the roof, where the water supply system is located in American skyscrapers. There, in a tightly closed tank, naked Eliza was found, who at that time had been looking for her parents together with the police for two weeks.

The biggest mystery in this case is the January 31st video of Eliza in the hotel elevator. She presses the same combination of buttons several times in a row, runs out of the elevator, hides, wrings her hands, talks to someone out of camera view - or to herself. Having left on the fourteenth floor (her room was located on the fourth), the girl no longer returns to the elevator.

Interesting results came from the pathologist. According to him, no known drugs and hallucinogens, alcohol were found in the tissues of the tourist. Also, there were no signs of any violence against her: there were no blows, abrasions, signs of a struggle. Moreover, it was established that death occurred in the water - she choked, but did not try to avoid it.

Based on the results of the autopsy, a decision was made - the case was closed, the death was declared an accident. How Eliza got on the roof, how to explain her strange behavior before the loss - and apparently death - all these questions are no longer of interest to the police.

Hollywood also became interested in this story and announced in early 2014 that a film based on the mysterious death of Lam would be released in 2015.

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Long before the advent of the Internet and the masters of "Photoshop", the vast majority of the photos taken were genuine. Everything that was displayed on the film was really in the frame. Sometimes truly incredible and mysterious phenomena fell into the pictures, such as ghosts, incomprehensible creatures and even UFOs. Until now, scientists can not explain how they got there.

Mysterious Photographer

If you look closely at this seemingly ordinary photo, you can see one strange man in sunglasses. In the picture, taken in the 40s in Canada, he stands out among ordinary people dressed according to their time. First, his clothes are more suitable for our time. Secondly, in his hands you can see a modern camera. So who is this - an ordinary person in strange clothes or a time traveler? And what exactly was he going to photograph with an unusual camera? There are no answers to these questions yet.

Mysterious silhouette at the bottom

In 1964, the Frenchman Robert Serrek in the Australian state of Queensland captured on camera something inexplicable on the seabed. The picture clearly shows a huge serpentine silhouette hidden under water. This photograph has been haunting the minds of many scientists for half a century, but there is still no convincing explanation.

Monster or monkey?

A few decades ago, the Bigfoot theory became very popular. A little later, they even found him a relative - a stink monkey. This photo was taken by a Florida resident in her backyard. She also claimed that she was bitten by an incomprehensible creature that looked like a monkey. The researchers of the picture suggested that this beast could be a bear. But most are sure that it really was a skunk-like monkey.

Creepy photo of the Cooper family

After moving into a new home, the Coopers invited relatives to their place and decided to take a family photo. But instead of pleasant memories, this picture can only inspire fear. On it, in addition to family members, there is an incomprehensible body hanging from the ceiling. Until now, no one can explain whether it was a simple defect in the film or whether there are otherworldly forces in the house that accidentally fell into the frame.

In 2004, the Opportunity rover discovered curious microscopic formations on the Martian soil. spherical shape. However, an even more curious picture was taken by Opportunity at the end of 2012, which clearly shows a much larger number of much larger spheres.
These hematite spheres could mean that there was water on the Red Planet in the past.

Sea monster filmed off the coast of Hook Island (March 1965)

The first photograph of an unknown object, called the "Black Knight", was taken in 1960 by one of the first satellites of the Earth. In polar orbit, an unidentified object is clearly visible, which could not be either a satellite of the USSR or a satellite of the USA. Since then, this object has been seen repeatedly - it appears and disappears at certain time intervals. The images below are photographs of this object taken by NASA's STS-88 mission.

Among these shots was STS088-724-66. Enlarging the image makes it possible to examine the object in more detail. After careful study, scientists are inclined to believe that this is a piece of artificial origin.

Grandma (November 22, 1963)

On November 22, the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was shot dead in Dallas, Texas. During the analysis of photographs taken at the scene of the murder, experts drew attention to a mysterious woman in a light brown cloak and headscarf. She appears in many pictures and almost always holds a camera in her hands. The FBI searched for this woman for a long time, but could not identify her.

Mobile phone in a Charlie Chaplin film (January 6, 1928)

On the DVD of the Collector's Edition of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, a short film about the 1828 premiere was added as a bonus. One of the shots shows a woman holding what looks like a mobile phone in her hand.
Belfast-based film director George Clark said he considered the footage to be proof of the existence of time travelers. Many are inclined to believe that a woman holds an auditory tube in her hand. But then it is not clear why she smiles and says something to her.

Lights of the Hessdalen Valley (September 20, 2007)

In 1907, a group of educators, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Fires.
On a clear night, Bjorn Hauge took this picture using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object must be composed of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of the Hessdalen Lights. Scientists are still scratching their heads as to what it could be.

Unknown Rebel (June 5, 1989)

This photo was taken during the Tiananmen Square riots in Beijing in June 1989. Some unarmed man for half an hour single-handedly held back a column of tanks.
The identity and fate of this man remained a mystery. But this photo was published in almost all major publications in the world, and the unknown rebel himself became a symbol of resistance to the authorities.

Astronaut from the Solway Firth (May 23, 1964)

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Could this lady codenamed "babushka" have anything to do with the JFK assassination?

The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 has given rise to many conspiracy theories. One of the mysteries is Lady "babushka", a nickname given to an unidentified woman who has been repeatedly photographed at the scene of the murder. How was this lady different from all the others? Unlike others, she filmed everything on a video camera and was very close to the place where the bullet hit the president. The police tried to track down the woman, hoping that her footage would help solve the mystery, but to this day, no one knows her name.

In 1970, a woman named Beverly Oliver appeared who claimed that she was the same “babushka”. A few years after Kennedy's assassination, she says, a man who introduced himself as an FBI agent knocked on her door. She confessed to them the presence of the film and gave the original. Then they disappeared and she never heard from them again.

Her legend was immediately questioned, mainly because in 1963 she was only 17 years old. According to the photo, the woman can’t be given less than 40. In 1994, Beverly Oliver wrote a book of memories of that day and called it A Nightmare in Dallas. This book was the inspiration for the John Oliver film JFK.

Officials doubt the truth of her legend, so officially "babushka" remains a mystery.

Lights of Hessdalen: Aliens or Natural Accumulator?

In Hessdalen, Norway, spectacular lights are regularly seen by people. The lights were very active between 1981 and 1984 when people coming here from all over the world to spend under open sky night, saw these lights 15-20 times a week. Nowadays, people only see this phenomenon 15-20 times a year.

There is no scientific explanation for these lights, leading many to speculate that they are caused by the activity of alien spacecraft.

However, as of May 2014, some scientists think they may have solved the mystery. The hypothesis is that a large number of iron inside the mountain, combined with a lot of sulfur in the river, create something like a battery. When the ionized gas comes into contact with river vapor, people see lights. This theory has not yet been proven, so the mystery is still considered unsolved.

Sea monster

If this photo were taken today, it would most likely be called a Photoshop hack, but they were taken on December 12, 1964. And in case you forgot, let me remind you that there was no Photoshop back then.

Robert Le Serrec and his wife were off the coast of Stonehaven Bay on Huka Island, Queensland. Robert's wife noticed a huge silhouette in a quiet lagoon and took several photos to further determine what it was. As they said, the creature looked like a huge tadpole 25 meters long. At first, the creature was motionless, but when they aimed the boat at it, it quickly sank into the depths.

astronaut silhouette mystery

When Jim Templeton took pictures of his wife and daughter on a sunny day in Cumbria, England, in the summer of 1964, he did not know that he would soon be the target of all sorts of conspiracy theorists of all kinds. But here's what happened according to Jim. When he took the photo, there was no one behind his daughter and wife. An unknown silhouette appeared after he developed the photographs. The police did not see anything criminal in the photo, but the media inflated the whole story.

Many have debunked the mystery of this photo, theoretically substantiating that what appears to be an astronaut is nothing but the mother of this girl, standing further up the slope, and the bright silhouette turned out due to light hitting the lens during the shooting. Others firmly stand their ground, and say that the photo is an astronaut. According to legend, a rocket launch was planned that day in the area, which was interrupted due to two men in white spacesuits who were watching the launch from the mountain, and Templeton shot one of them.

Faces of phantoms overboard Watertown

James Courtney and Michael Meehan cleaned the fuel tank on the Watertown ship in 1924. In the process of work, the men inhaled harmful fumes and died of suffocation. As was customary at the time, they were buried at sea. But for several days after their funeral, the ship was haunted by the faces of two men who did not disappear for a second from the surface of the water. The faces were very clearly visible, and Captain Keith Tracy ordered that they be photographed. The photo shows two large faces chasing the ship.

Alien satellite in Earth orbit

Can a satellite that is more than 13,000 years old fly in Earth's orbit? Theoretically, everything can be, and people who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence have found confirmation of this in this photo. Some have even linked this "satellite" to a long echo that Nikola Tesla once recorded in 1899 while sending a signal into space. Rumors about the possible presence of an unidentified object in Earth orbit appeared back in the 1950s, when stories were published in which the US Air Force allegedly describes the discovery of two satellites that neither the US nor the USSR had ever launched.

ghost at dinner

Legend has it that when the Cooper family (pictured) moved into their new home, this was the first photo ever taken within the walls of that home. When the Photo was developed on it, everyone saw a body hanging from the ceiling, which none of the people in the photo had seen. Further research has given rise to many legends, however, most tend to skillfully combine two photographs and it is quite possible that this was done deliberately.

Pyramids on the dark side of the moon

What exactly is lurking there on the dark side of the moon? The photo above was taken by Apollo 17 during its last flight to the moon. She was first dismissed as unsuccessful, but then noticed. Although there is a lot of "noise" in the photo, the straight lines characteristic of the pyramid are clearly visible. Some believe that on reverse side moons have pyramids similar to those of Egypt, but most are skeptical of these claims.

Photograph of Freddie Jackson after his death

In 1919, Freddie Jackson was accidentally killed by an aircraft propeller while working on Sir Victor Goddard's aircraft. Two days later, the squadron was photographed, and when Goddard found himself in the photograph, he saw the face of Freddie Jackson behind him. When he showed his find to his friends, they agreed that it was in fact the late Jackson. That day was his funeral.

The mysterious death of Eliza Lam

Eliza Lam was a 21-year-old student who disappeared from the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles in January 2013. Her body was later found in a technical water tank. Eliza was reported to have suffered from bipolar disorder and the story could have been a mere accident, but nevertheless her death left too many questions to be written about as an accident.

In the video that captured the last moments of her life, Eliza is seen pressing all the elevator buttons, but the elevator does not close, and then we see Eliza hiding from someone. Then she gets out of the elevator, looks around, runs into the elevator, presses the buttons, but the elevator again does not want to close the doors. Minutes pass, Eliza exits the elevator and the doors close... We don't see her anymore.

Other facts that can make your blood run cold:

Two people have stayed at this hotel. serial killers,
- a strange outbreak of tuberculosis that occurred a few blocks from the hotel. And what is the strangest thing, this quarter was called LAM-ELISA.
- no one could also explain the fact how she was able to get onto the roof, because the passage to it was locked,
- and who updated her blog six months later?

This story has interested Hollywood and therefore, in 2015, expect a film about the strange death of Eliza Lam.

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