Top 10 Lesser Known Mysteries

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It was Einstein that said The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the

source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longerpause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. For me, mystery

is the fabric of Life, and since I discovered Listverse a few years ago I have noticed its asentiment many people share. I have tried to avoid the usual topics of ghosts, ufos etc., and tried

to opt for the niches and gems of the unexplained genre. I hope you have as much fun readingthis list as I had compiling it. So here it is, The Top 10 Lesser Known Mysteries, and, dependent

on feedback, there will be another in the pipeline. Enjoy.

10Brentford Griffin

The Brentford area of London is a peculiar place in terms of the names. You can buy anapartment at Griffin Flats, take in a football match at Brentford F.Cs Griffin Stadium or have

Steak and Ale Pie at the Griffin Arms Pub. To top that all off, theres a chance you might bumpinto the Brentford Griffin, the mythological creature that, supposedly, flys and wanders around

this London Borough. Griffins were historically the legendary offspring of an eagle and a lion,with their purpose being to guard hidden treasure.The first well reported sightings of the creature


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civilizations is their almost overnight transformation from hunter gatherers to intelligent citybuilding civilizations. The Sumer tells us, through their own records and writings, that they were

aided by Aliens in establishing themselves as a sustainable, intelligent civilization. They referredto their gods as the Annunaki, which translates as Those who came from heaven to earth.

A Sumerian priest named Berossus recorded how an amphibian, named Oannes, emerged fromthe Persian Gulf and taught the Sumerians numbers, medicine, astronomy, politics, ethics andlaw, encompassing all the necessities for civilized existence. Before his intervention the

Sumerians lived like beasts in the field, with no order or rule. He was described as follows Thewhole body of the animal was like that of a fish; and it had, under a fishes head, another head,

and also feet below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fishes tail. His voice, andlanguage, too, were articulate and human; and a representation of him is preserved to this

day.When the sun set, it was the custom of this being to plunge again into the sea, and abideall night in the deep; for he was amphibious. Whoever Oannes was, it is certainly a given that he

was exceptionally good at what he did. Sumerian astronomers were so gifted that theircalculations for the rotation of the moon are only 0.4 off modern computerized calculations.

They also understood that planets revolve around the sun, something that wouldnt behypothesized by renaissance science for thousands of years. Sumerian mathematicians were also

gifted almost beyond belief for their time. A tablet discovered among the hills of Kuynjikcontained a 15-digit number195,955,200,000,000. Mathematicians from the golden age of

ancient Greece could count no farther than 10,000.

8Malawi Terror Beast


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The Malawi Terror beast is the name given to an unknown cryptid that caused widespread panicand chaos in rural Malawi during the early months of 2003.Something that gives this particular

story credence, in comparison to other cryptid stories, is the fact it resulted in several deaths andprompted military action.

In the district of Dowa, 100km north of the nations capital, Lilongwe, reports emerged of arabid animal, with hyena like features, attacking and mauling members of the region. Thegraphic nature of the attacks are the most troubling aspect, with the eating of intestines and

reproductive organs noted to have taken place on 2 elderly woman and a three year old infant, aswell as the crushing of their skulls. In addition to these 3 deaths, 16 other people were maimed

beyond recognition, with some losing hands, feet, mouths, noses and eyes. In the wake of theattack over 4,000 people left the Dowa area to take refuge in town halls, only returning home

under armed guard and a sustained presence by local game keepers, the police and factions of theMalawian Army.

Those who saw the animal dismissed claims it was a Hyena, due to its large hind legs. Many

local residents believed that the unknown animal is the soul of a similar beast that was killed ayear before, after it slayed 5 people, and that it returned to exact revenge upon those that claimed

its life. To this day what the beast was, or where it went, remain unsolved.

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Vimanas

Vimanas are the mythical flying machines chronicled in the ancient Sanskrit epics of India. The

story of the Vimana predates Christ by many thousands of years, and the Hindus of todays Indiabelieve the existence and usage of Vimana to be historical fact. There is a plethora of ancient


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Indian literature which deals with the Vimana and its many aspects. Most of the epics awaittranslation. One epic, titled Manusa, gives clear instructions on how to build the craft and the

proponents that make them able to fly. Other texts have names such as The secret of makingPlanes invisible, The Secret of hearing conversations and other sounds in Enemy Aircraft and

The secret of making Planes motionless. There are many other texts about Vimana which are

spoken of in the epics, but have not yet been discovered. Many texts speak of ships and planeswith nuclear capabilities and a great nuclear war that took place. In the ancient ruins of Mohenjo-Daro, once part of the Indus Valley Civilization, 3000 year old skeletons where found with

radioactivity levels that surpassed that of the bodies at Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The ruinsthemselves also emit high radioactivity levels. It is a documented fact that the city was destroyed

suddenly.

The wording of the texts is highly technical, and speaks at a high level of intellectual maturity inareas such as physics and aero dynamics. One text of the Vaimanika Shastra, which translates as

Science of Aeronautics, includes 230 stanzas, concerning aviation matters such as construction,take off, cruising for thousands of miles, normal and forced landing, protections of the airships

from storm and lightening and how to switch the power source to solar energy from free energy.The same text describes at great detail the construction of the mercury vortex engine, which is

the forerunner of the Ion vortex engine used today by NASA. In 1895, a Sanskrit scholar namedShivkar Talpade designed an aircraft based solely on the Sanskrit document concerning the

mercury vortex engine. The unmanned craft reached a height of 1500ft.

6Valley of the Headless Men


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In the Nahanni National Park of Northwest Canada lies the Nahanni River. The area is onlyaccessible by boat or plane and is home to many natural wonders, such as sinkholes, geysers and

a waterfall almost double the size of Niagara Falls. Lord Tweeds Muir (John Buchan), author ofThe 39 Steps, once said of the valley: Its a fancy place that old-timers dream about. Some

said the valley was full of gold and some said it was hot as hell owing to the warm springs. It

had a wicked name too, for at least a dozen folks went in and never came out Indians said itwas the home of devils.

The 200 Mile gorge has become infamous, due to a number of gruesome deaths and manydisappearances, earning itself the eerie name, The Valley of the Headless Men. Anomalies first

began in 1908, when the Macleod Brothers came prospecting for gold in the valley. Nothing washeard or seen of the brothers for a whole year, until their decapitated bodies were found near a

river. Nine years later, the Swiss prospector Martin Jorgenson was next to succumb to theValley, when his headless corpse was found. In 1945, a miner from Ontario was found in his

sleeping bag with his head cut from his shoulders. While skeptics of an unknown power at workin the Valley would put the grizzly mutilations down to feuding gold prospectors or hostile

Indians, there are other strange happenings in the area which add to the valleys mysteriousness.The fiercely renowned Naha tribe simply vanished from the area a few years prior to the first

deaths. Other Indians of the area have avoided the Valley for centuries, claiming an unknownevil haunts it. Many parts of the valley remain unexplored, and there are tales the Valley holds an

entrance to the Hollow earth. Others believe the Valley is home to a lost world, with lushgreenery and a tropical climate, due to the hot springs generating warm air, as well as untapped

goldmines and wandering sasquatches. While a haven for Bigfoot remains unlikely, one thing isfor certain, something strange lurks in the Nahanni Valley.

5The Malta Catacombs


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In 1902, in the town of Paola on the island of Malta, workers making way for a new housingdevelopment stumbled across a vast subterranean complex that dated back to Maltas prehistoric

period, some 3000 years ago. The sight has since became a UNESCO world Heritage site, andwas officially named the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum. A more extensive archaeological survey of the

site was undertaken, and it became clear that all was not as simple as it seemed. Over 30,000human skeletons were found in burial chambers dotted across the site, including men, women

and children. Many skulls had unusually widened craniums and baffled scientists in terms ofethnic origin. Stories began spreading that it was tangible evidence of a subterranean human

species.

The islands earliest inhabitants engaged in human sacrifice to appease their god of theunderworld, who they believed dwelled beneath the island itself. The name they gave to him

roughly translates as Serpent. When Saint Paul was shipwrecked on the island as recorded inthe bible, he documented this, and even claimed to have been bitten by the serpent himself. He

also spent a great deal of time there converting the people from their primitive worship of areptilian deity to Catholicism. It is believed, by some scholars, that the human sacrifices were

involuntarily cast down into the catacombs, to be devoured by the serpent and prevent the

islanders from incurring his wrath.

Rumors of a cover-up, by the Maltese government and other authorities, are rife with stories

including the scrubbing of texts and ancient drawings from the catacomb walls, and themysterious and sudden death of the sites first head archaeologist. The underground complex still

hasnt been fully explored. A British embassy worker in the 1940s, gave an account of forayinginto the sites lowest room on the last level, after convincing the tour guide to allow her access to

an area usually off limits to the public. Upon entering a small portal in the wall she claimed to


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have seen 20 reptilian beings covered in white hair on a ledge across from her. One raised hispalm and subsequently her candle extinguished. She made a quick exit but upon returning some

days later she was told that the guide who had shown her the portal had never been employed atthe site and no such portal existed.

4Mysterious Man of the US Declaration

When Americas founding fathers were deep in the volatile business of signing the Declaration,Treason was a resounding word. The signing of the declaration by any man would result in

gruesome torture and death by the British Colonialists. With every argument put forward beingmet with shouts of Treason!!Treason!!!, talks had hit a stumbling block. It was then that an

unknown man arose, dressed in a black cape, to deliver this stirring oration. They may stretchour necks on all the gibbets in the land; they may turn every rock into a scaffold; every tree into a

gallows; every Horne into a grave, and yet the words of that parchment can never die! They maypour our blood on a thousand scaffolds, and yet from every drop that dyes the axe a new

champion of freedom will spring into birth! The British King may blot out the stars of God fromthe sky, but he cannot blot out His words written on that parchment there. The works of God may

perish: His words never!

The words of this declaration will live in the world long after our bones are dust. To themechanic in his workshop they will speak hope: to the slave in the mines freedom: but to the

coward kings, these words will speak in tones of warning they cannot choose but hear

Sign that parchment! Sign, if the next moment the gibbets rope is about your neck! Sign, if thenext minute this hall rings with the clash of falling axes! Sign, by all your hopes in life or death,


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as men, as husbands, as fathers, brothers, sign your names to the parchment, or be accursedforever! Sign, and not only for your selves, but for all ages, for that parchment will be the

textbook of freedom, the bible of the rights of man forever.

The speech goes on for some time and continues with the orators impassioned vouch for

American freedom from the British. The founding fathers then descended into a frenzy to signthe document, and, within a few minutes, the Declaration was born. However, when the signersturned to congratulate the man, he had simply vanished. Nobody knew who he was or where he

went. Some believe that he was Count St Germain, or an unknown Rosicrucian. There are alsoaccounts of a mysterious Professor at the time, who helped design the first American Flag, and

was a great friend and teacher of Franklin and Washington. In the longer annals of his speechthere are many cryptic references to future events that would shape America. He mentioned the

Rights of Man, even though it wasnt to be published for another 13 years. He also mentions theall Seeing Eye, something which would go on to be found on the Dollar. A candidate many

believe to be a true possibility is Francis Bacon. His treatise, New Atlantis, lays out thepolitical structure and necessities he believes necessary for a paradise like State, which some

believe he made real in the new land of America. He was also a prominent Freemason, as wereFranklin and Washington, and this is another possible link due to the staggering amount of

Freemason Imagery in Washington D.C. Whoever the Unknown Man of the AmericanDeclaration was, and whatever his motives were, one thing remains perhaps the biggest mystery:

Why is such anonymity at this key moment in human history, to this day, simply overlooked.

3Jesus Lost Years


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The lost years of Jesus refer to his activities between the ages of 12 and 30, of which there is nomention in the bible. The church would have us believe that what transpired during these years is

of no biblical importance, and thus omitted from the gospels. In the Gospels of Luke, in oneextract Jesus is 12 and in the Temple at Jerusalem, in the following extract he is 30 and is being

baptized in the river Jordan by John the Baptist. Many theories have surfaced regarding his

whereabouts during these years, the most prominent being that Jesus joined a trade caravan andtravelled to the Far East, following the silk route under the guidance of a cabal of merchants.

Referred to as St. Issa in Buddhist and Hindu lore and texts, it is said Jesus journeyed throughmodern day Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, before traveling extensively through India and

settling in Tibet. He studied and lived among the Buddhist monks for 6 years before returning toJerusalem to preach. There is some evidence to support this. In 1887, Russian Explorer and

Aristocrat Nicholas Notovich stayed at the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, Northern India, whilerecuperating after a broken leg. He heard of a text within the monastery library called The Life

of St Issa, Best of the Sons of Men after the monks had spoke of an Issa being a student at themonastery over a thousand years ago. Through a translator, the story was read to Notovich by the

head lama, while Notovich furiously scribbled down what he could. His book on the subject,The Secret Life of Jesus Christ, can still be bought. Rumors persist of the text Notovich saw

still existing in the Hemis Library. Perhaps the most irrefutable piece of evidence comes from theBhavishya Maha Purana, a highly respected ancient Indian text. The King of Kashmir, in the

early first century AD, records how he met a fair haired, fair complexioned teacher dressed inwhite robes who came from the west, described himself as being born of a virgin, persecuted by

his people and being the son of God.

2Tibet Nazi Connection


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In terms of mysteries, few come along as incredible and irrefutable as The Ural Relief Map. In1995, Aleksandr Chuvyrov, Professor of Mathematical and Physical Science at Bashkir State

University in Russia, was investigating hypotheses of the immigration of Chinese Migrants toSiberia and the Urals. During his research he heard an account from the 18th century telling of a

series of strange white slabs scrawled with some unknown language. As they were supposedlysituated in an area central to his study, a remote village named Chandar the southern Urals, he

thought the stones could be of Chinese Origin. and organized a team and helicopter to try and

locate them. After several searches and village hopping in his helicopter he could find no trace ofthe elusive stones. It was then that a village elder approached him and asked him to take a look ata strange slab he found in his back yard. The slab he was taken to was the Ural Relief Map, also

dubbed The Map of the Creator

Showing a relief scale of the entire southern Urals, the slab accurately shows its three mainrivers, the Belya, Ufimka and Sutolka, as well as the Ufa canyon. After the map was studied

further it was understood to show a giant irrigation system, consisting of two 500 meter widechannel systems, 12 dams, each 400 meters wide, 10km long and 3km deep. It is calculated that

1 quadrillion cubic meters* of earth were shifted to allow for the dams to be built. After initialtests failed to provide an age for the stone, a breakthrough was made when 2 types of prehistoric

shell were found embedded in its surface, Navicopsina munitus and Ecculiomphalus Princeps.The former existed 500 million years ago, while the latter existed 120 million years ago.

Scientists place its actual age at 120 million years. A geological test of the slab concluded that itconsisted of 3 layers, the base being 14cm thick dolomite, the second being a diopside glass

unknown to science, while the third is a protective layer of calcium porcelain. Chuvyrov said Itshould be noted, that the relief has not been manually made by an ancient stonecutter. It is

simply impossible. It is obvious that the stone was machined. X rays confirmed it was made byprecision tools. Interestingly scientists believe that the map is actually part of a relief map of the


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entire world, due to the crudeness of the areas around the maps perimeter. Soil tests of 400 typesof soil in the area, in comparison to the ones found embedded on the stone, have allowed

scientists to narrow down the possible location of other pieces to 4 specific areas around thevillage of Chandar. So what is the Ural Relief Map? Gods discarded blueprint? Ancient Extra

Terrestrial resource chart? It remains a Mystery.

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