Top 10 Most Mysterious Mysteries All Time
Top 10 most mysterious mysteries
Jimmy Hoffa's body 10
Hoffa a teamster union leader. He was a young union activist who eventually became invested in organized crime. Hoffa was convicted of bribery, jury tampering, and fraud. Hoffa was then sentenced to 13 years in jail. Hoffa eventually vanished in 1975, within Detroit. It is unknown who killed him and where his body is. There are many theories on what happened to him.
Who is Jack the Ripper 9
Jack the ripper was a serial in the 1800s. Jack mutilated atleast 5 woman. Jack supposedly sent letters to the British police taunting their efforts to find him. The name Jack the ripper comes from these letters. Over a hundered men have been accused of being the ripper. A woman named Lizzie Williams has also been accused of being Jack the Ripper.
Who is JFK's reaper? 8
John F. Kennedy was a US president and was shot on November 22nd, 1963 within Dallas, Texas. It is said that Kennedy was shot by a man named Lee Oswald. Before Oswald could attend his trial he was shot by a man named Jack Ruby. Ruby claims that he did not want Jacqueline Kennedy to see Oswald. Many historians still speculate that think that this is not how John F. Kennedy really died.
The location of Cleopatra's tomb. 7
Cleopatra is said to have been burried with her lover Mark Antony in 30 B.C. according to ancient writers. According to the writer Plutarch who lived about a hundered years after her death, Cleopatra is burried next to the temple of Isis. To this day her tomb's location is unknown. In 2010 Egypt's antiquities manager escavated an area around the city of Alexandria and Cleopatra's tomb was not found.
Oak Island's Money Pit 6
It is said that captain William Kidd left a pile of money on Oak Island. Oak Island is an island just off the coast of Nova Scotia within Canada. The whole was excavated but all that was found were rotting timbers. People still speculate that perhaps if they dug ten feet more, that a treasure may be found. The story of the money pit still floats around to this day.
The copper scroll treasure 5
An archeologist found a copper scroll in 1952 in Qumran. The scroll is a record of a mass amount of gold and silver treasure. The scroll dates back to a time when the area was controlled by the Roman Empire. Perhaps the natives of the areea were trying to hide a treasure from the Romans. Today it is unclear whether the treasure really exists or not.
The fate of the ark of covenant 4
When Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar the second ivaded Jerusalem in 587 B.C. he destroyed the first temple. The first temple contained the ark of covenant which contained the ten commandments. The arc may have been stolen to Babylon, or maybe it just dissapeared. There are many stories on where the arc has gone, but all we know is that it existed.
The hanging gardens of Babylon 3
Anicient writers have described an amazing garden within the city of Babylon. They called it "the wonder of the world". This garden has no archeological proof of ever existing. Despite this a writeer, around 250 B.C., Philo of Byzantium wrote that the Hanging Gardens had "plants cultivated at a height above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth." It is unlikely that this mystery will ever be solved.
The story of Atlantis 2
Atlantis was described by the greek philosopher plato. Antlantis was to have existed with the antlantic ocean. It is said that the atlantians counquered africa and europe. While atlantis likely does not exist, thre may be truth behind the story. Atlantis is most likely the island of crete, whre the minoans lived befor countacting the myceneaens. It is still unclear where the story originates from.
What Jesus really was like 1
Biblical scholars are always facing challenges on what is true and what is not. Some of these being what Jesus really looked like, what things actually happened. Where Jesus grew up, etc. Despite being the largest religion in the world, the roots of the Bible are unknown, and may forever be unknown.
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