Prepare to dive into some of history's most perplexing and forgotten enigmas. From mysterious disappearances to unexplained phenomena, these cases have baffled investigators and researchers for generations. Join us as we explore these unsettling events that time has nearly erased from our collective memory.
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00:00Local fishermen on the Harayadori shore spot an unusual craft drifting in the distance.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most unsettling mysteries
00:10that have been lost to time.
00:12Within a week, another 34 people were dancing.
00:15Within a month, 400!
00:17All dancing relentlessly without music or song.
00:21Number 10.
00:22Who were Vergi mass disappearance?
00:24Normally, people going missing would turn more heads.
00:27Some events, such as the disappearance of the colony of Roanoke, have even had stories
00:30crafted around them.
00:44Others like the disappearance of Who are Vergi in Brazil aren't quite so lucky.
00:48According to local legend, all 600 people living there vanished one day in 1923, seemingly
00:53without a trace.
00:54After they failed to arrive at a trading event, the shell of their homeland was searched,
00:58with the only evidence being a gun and an ominous message.
01:00Other civilians have claimed not to know anything about Who are Vergi's existence, leading
01:04some to wonder if it ever existed at all.
01:06Whether it's a mere urban legend or something much darker, there are still plenty of answers
01:10left unanswered.
01:12Number 9.
01:13The Lead Masks Case
01:14One of the oddest murder cases is also one of history's most forgotten.
01:18In 1966, the corpses of two Brazilian men were discovered.
01:21They were dressed in nice clothes, wearing masks made of lead, and were found next to
01:25a note containing a set of instructions.
01:37As if that wasn't all bad enough, there was also no exact cause of death due to them
01:41not being examined for weeks, causing the theories to fly.
01:44They varied in intensity, ranging from an alien abduction to an accidental overdose.
01:48A woman and her children, who lived next to the hill where the men died, claimed they
01:53had seen an orangey, oval-shaped UFO flying over the spot at the moment the detectives
01:58believed the men had died.
02:00With so much left open to speculation, we may never even come close to learning the
02:04truth.
02:06Number 8.
02:07Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
02:08Fred climbed aboard a rented Cessna 182 single engine plane for a routine cargo flight.
02:16Some missing pilots become the subjects of decades-long mysteries, and others hardly
02:19get any recognition at all.
02:21The latter was the case for Frederick Valentich, an Australian pilot who vanished during a
02:25flight in 1978.
02:27While mid-air, the Melbourne traffic control suddenly started receiving odd messages from
02:30the young man.
02:31He claimed to have been trailed by something else in the air, and that it wasn't another
02:34plane.
02:50He even reported seeing an odd green light emitting from it.
02:53After that, the only thing heard was the sound of metal being scraped.
02:56Valentich has never been found, leading the less skeptical to believe he was merely captured
03:00by members of an alien race.
03:10Number 7.
03:11Flannan Isles Lighthouse Crew Disappearance
03:13Captain James Harvey planned to land a replacement for one of the three men stationed at the
03:18Flannan Lighthouse.
03:22But as the ship neared the landing stage, Harvey was surprised to see no one there to
03:26welcome him.
03:27The crew going missing in the night isn't entirely unheard of, but some managed to slip
03:31through the cracks of time.
03:32The circumstances surrounding the vanishing of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse crew in 1900
03:37still aren't completely understood.
03:49When the suddenly abandoned post was found by ships later on, they were met with only
03:53a few signs of recent human life.
03:54The bodies of the three men were never found, leaving the cause of their disappearance unknown.
03:59A lack of storms during their final days have only muddied things further, leaving some
04:02to turn to more outlandish theories in an attempt to explain the unexplainable.
04:07Number 6.
04:08Disappearance of Connie Converse You never really know what's going on inside
04:11a person's mind.
04:12Coming onto the music scene in the 1950s, Connie Converse was one of the first to contribute
04:16to the singer-songwriter subgenre.
04:24Despite her historical significance, she didn't find fame during her lifetime, and her music
04:28career was short-lived.
04:29It was clear she wasn't satisfied with her life, leading her to disappear in 1974.
04:34The notes she left for her family are the last known proof of her existence.
04:37Her family attempted to find her a decade later, but they were eventually discouraged
04:40from continuing.
04:41To this day, it's unclear whether she adopted a whole new life or if she went down a much
04:45more drastic route.
04:50Number 5.
04:51Kasper Hauser
04:53There are some circumstances that everyday people aren't equipped to deal with.
04:56A teenager suddenly appearing and claiming to have been raised in a dungeon is one such
04:59event.
05:00When Kasper Hauser first stumbled into Nuremberg in 1828, the townspeople didn't know what
05:04to make of him.
05:05He claimed to have been kept in a dark room his entire life, completely isolated from
05:09the world.
05:10While he was initially accepted by the town and even taken under the wing of a local schoolmaster,
05:14there were still several attempts on his life, supposedly by people from his childhood.
05:17At times, Hauser claimed descent from nobility.
05:20He was killed five years after his initial appearance, leaving questions of his supposed
05:24nobility permanently unanswered.
05:27Number 4.
05:28Yuba County Five
05:29It's been almost 50 years since five men went missing in the Plumas National Forest.
05:34They are known as the Yuba County Five, and what happened to them remains a mystery.
05:39When five men suddenly disappeared while on their way from a 1978 basketball tournament,
05:43it became the topic of investigation.
05:45The Yuba County Five, a group of five men with developmental disabilities, were last
05:50seen at a convenience store buying snacks.
05:52After that, it was as though they vanished into thin air.
06:00Their car was found a few days later without them in it.
06:02The car was found dozens of miles away with gas still in the tank, raising questions of
06:06why they had left it in the first place.
06:08The later discovery of four of their bodies confirmed they had met their end via hypothermia.
06:12However, one man was left unfound, leaving some to wonder if he survived.
06:16What makes this case so difficult to solve?
06:22No independent information, no witnesses, and the likelihood that the only people that
06:27truly know what happened that night, they perished in those hills.
06:31Number 3.
06:32Kentucky Meat Shower
06:33On March 3, 1876, Rebecca Crouch was outside with her grandson when meat started to rain
06:39down in Bath County.
06:40Some events are so bizarre that it's hard to fathom them actually happening.
06:43In 1876, citizens of Kentucky were simply going about their days when they were hit
06:48with a barrage of falling meat.
06:50It rained for several minutes, coating a small area of the southern state in an unknown viscera.
06:54Where exactly it came from is unknown, and a taste test left more questions than answers.
07:02While it was initially assumed to be beef, further testing claimed that it was from a
07:05horse or even a human being.
07:07One theory is that the chunks were vomited by vultures, but this has yet to be confirmed.
07:11A sample from the shower is still available to view today, if you're brave enough to
07:14get close.
07:16Number 2.
07:17Dancing Plague of 1518
07:18Strasbourg, France.
07:20The home of iconic cathedrals, ornate clocks, and the site of one of history's strangest
07:26unexplainable episodes.
07:28The concept of disease is nothing new, but some are so odd and so rare that they get
07:32ignored.
07:33In the summer of 1518, various residents of Strasbourg were suddenly vexed with the uncontrollable
07:38urge to dance until they dropped, literally.
07:41Within a week, another 34 people were dancing.
07:44Within a month, 400, all dancing relentlessly without music or song.
07:49It appeared to be highly contagious with those who had seen the dancing joining in soon afterwards.
07:53They would then groove until they collapsed from exhaustion, thirst, or even heart attacks.
07:57The issue ended up correcting itself after those afflicted were sent away to pray the
08:01illness away.
08:02To this day, both the confirmed number of victims and how they came to be sick is still
08:05highly contested, with theories ranging from food poisoning to widespread stress.
08:10Most evidence shows that the dancing plague was a kind of cultural contagion.
08:14A mass hysteria triggered when life got too tough and the people just wanted to dance
08:19and lose their minds a bit.
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08:36Utsuro Bune
08:37It may seem that alien conspiracies are a modern-day invention, but this is proof that
08:49they've been around much longer.
08:50In 1803, a strange, hollow, boat-like object washed ashore on the beaches of Japan.
08:55Its odd shape and interior, decorated with foreign texts, immediately caused it to stand
09:00out.
09:01The most annoying aspect was its passenger.
09:02A young woman was found aboard, sporting a never-before-documented hairstyle and wearing
09:06unknown fabrics.
09:15She didn't speak Japanese, and eventually the villagers sent her and her vessel back
09:18into the ocean.
09:19Who she was is still contested.
09:21Some believe she was an exiled princess, while others question if she, and the beach where
09:25she was discovered, ever truly existed at all.
09:36Which mystery would you love to see get more recognition?
09:38Let us know in the comments below!