The following is a brief note on mysterious, paranormal and mythical events occurring in this world. For further readings on each incidents or detail, please refer to Wikipedia or check through Google Search.
- 27 Club: urban legend that popular musicians and other celebrated artists died at age 27 with statistically anomalous frequency such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Mia Zapata, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Jean-Michael Basquait, Kim Jonghyun and Amy Winehouse. However this claim has been repeatedly disproven by studies. Purported 27 Club Members.
- Ancient Ram Inn : located at Gloucestershire, England > has been witness to ghostly acitvity for many yearas relating back as far as Pagan times. An innkeeper's daughter is said to have been murdered in this roof space in the early 1500s.
- Adam's Bridge: a submerged ridge connecting India and Sri Lanka.
- According to the Bible and the Quran, the first man Adam travelled through the natural bridge to reach Adam's peak in Sri Lanka.
- Amazing Coincidences: The True stories of Amazing Coincidences by Stephen Wagner.
- Amelia Earhart : the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. However, her daring attempt to circumnavigate the globe in July 2, 1937 ended in tragedy when her plane vanished without a trace over the Pacific Ocean. Till today, the fate of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fried Noonan, remains one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.
- America's Stonehenge: an archaelogical site consisting of a number of large rocks and stone structures scattered around roughly 30 acres (12 hectares) within the town of Salem, New Hampshire, U.S.
- Amityville Horror: the most famous ghost story in America. Ronald Defeo Jr. was convicted for the November 1974 killing of his mother, father and four of their children at their home in Amityville, New York. A book "The Amityville Horror" by Jay Anson was published in 1977.
- Amy Johnson: English pilot, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia > disappeared on 5 January 1941,while her aircraft crashed, her body was never found, her fate remains unsolved.
- Anastasia Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess of Rusia: the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. She was murdered with her family by a group of Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, Rusia on 17 July 1918. However, rumors circulated that Anastasia had survived, sparking numerous claims and a mystery that captivated the public's imagination for decades. One of the most popular historical mysteries of the 20th century.
- Angels of Mons : stories of the reputed appearance of a variety of supernatural entities which protected the British Army from defeat by the invading forces of the German Empire at the beginning of World War I during the Battle of Mons in Belgium on 23 August 1914. The angels of Mons have not yet been explained to everyone's satisfaction.
- Anna Elisabeth "Anneliese" Michel: a German woman who underwent 67 Catholic exorcism rites during the year (1976) before her death. Michel's parents and the two Catholic priests were found guilty of negligent homicide and were sentenced 6 months in jail.
- Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger: a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. On July 31, 1944, he took off from base at Bastia in Corsica on a mapping mission east of Lyons and was never seen again.
- Area 51 : in southern Nevada, a U.S. Military Base > its very existence was unconfirmed until 2013.This area has sparked rumors that the government uses it to house crashed UFOs and conduct lab tests on aliens. It is also used for research on time travel, teleportation meetings with E.T etc..
- Ark of the Covenant: a sacred gold-plated wooden chest described in the Hebrew Bible that contained the Tablets of the Ten Commandments, along with Aaron' rod and a pot of manna. The fate of this ark is unclear. It was thought to have been lost when the First Temple was sacked and burned by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. Despite ongoing searches and theories, theArk's whereabouts remain unknown.
- Atlantis - The Lost City: the fable advanced civilisation described by Plato, is said to have vanished beneath the sea thousands of years ago. Many have spent lifetimes searching for evidence of its existence. Atlantis's true whereabouts - if it ever existed continue to evade discovery.
- Avebury Stone Circle: a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. Built around 2500 to 2000 BC.
- Babushka Lady: an unidentified woman present during the 1963 assassination of U.S President John F. Kennedy who is speculated to have prtographed or filmed the events that occured in Dallas Dealey Plaza at the time the President was shot. After filming the event, she went off the Elm Street and neither she, nor the film she may have taken, have ever been positively identified.
- Ball lightning: a rare and unexplained phenomenon described as luminescent, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter. It move up and down, sideways or in unpredictable trajectories, hovering and moving with or against the wind.
- Beast of Bladenboro: a string of wildlife deaths caused by a reported big cat-like animal from the Winter of 1953-54 at Blandenboro, North Carolina.
- Beast of Bodmin Moor: a folklore legend - a phantom cat purported to live in Cornwall, England, sighted after 1978.
- Beast of Exmoor: a folklore legend that describes a phantom cat said to roam the fields of Exmoor in Devon and Somerset in U.K in 1983.
- Bell Witch: Tennessee, USA > From 1817 to 1821, a man named John Bell and his family were harassed by a mysterious and invisible spirit now known as the Bell Witch. According to the legend, the witch had the ability to speak, shapeshift, and be in multiple places at once.
- Belmez Faces : the chilling mystery of the faces that appeared in the floor of the Pereira family's house in Belmez, Spain. Psychologist Professor Hans Bender was certain that they were not a hoax. The entire floor was dug up, and human bones and two headless skeletons were unearthed.
- Bennington Triangle: a phrase created by New England author Joseph A. Citro in 1992 about a region of southwestern Vermont in which a number of people went missing between the years of 1920 and 1950.
- Bermuda Triangle : a 500,000 square-miles region in the North Atlantic Ocean where ships and planes have allegedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The triangles points are Southeastern coast of the U.S (near Florida), islands of Puerto Rico and the Greater Antilles.
- Beyond 12 : the number is said to be complet, whole and perfect.There are 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 months in the year, 12 hours in the day and 12 hours in the night, there are 12 tribes of Israel and 12 disciples in the Bible, 12 Gods in Norse mythology and 12 Greek gods on Mount Olympus.
- Big Foot @ Sasquatch: a large, hairy mythical creature said to inhabit forests in North America.Its featured in both American and Canadian folklore. Despite the alleged evidence, there is no scientific proof of Bigfoot's existence.
- Big Grey Man: a not-human creature said to haunt the summit and passes of the second-highest peak in Scotland, Ben Macdui. In the native Scottish tongue, the creature is known as Am Fear Liath Mor. Like the Yeti of the Himalayas and Big Foot (also known as Sasquatch) of the American Pacific Northwest, the Big Grey Man has been seen only by a few eyewitnesses.
- Black Dahlia: the unsolved 1947 murder case of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles which became known for the gruesome mutilation of her body. She was found murdered in the Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California on January 15, 1947.
- Bloody Mary : a folklore legend consisting of a ghost spirit conjured to reveal the future. She is said to appear in a mirror when her name is called multiple times. Her appearances are mostly 'witnessed' in a group participation games.
- Bridey Murphy: a purported 19th-century Irishwoman whom U.S housewife Virginia Tighe claimed to be in a past life. The case was investigated by researchers and determined to be the result of Cryptomnesia.
- Broad Haven Triangle: nickname given to an area around the village of Broad Haven in Pembrokshire, Wales, known for a series of mysterious UFO and alien sightings that occured primarily in 1977. `
- Brown Lady of Raynham Hall: a ghost that reportedly haunts Raynhall Hall in Norfolk, England. Photographers from Country Life Magazine claimed to have captured its image.According to legend, the apparition is that of Dorothy Walpole (1686-1726), the sister of Robert Walpole,the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
- Cadborosaurus: a sea serpent in the folklore of regions of the Pacific coast of North America.It name is partly derived from Cadboro Bay in Greater Victoria, British Columbia.
- Camelot: a mythical city, said to be located in Great Britain, where King Arthur held court. In Arthurian legend it would become the location of the round table that held 150 knights.
- Carnac Stones:collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Britanny in northwestern France, consist ofstone alignments (rows), dolmens (stone tombs), tumuli (burial mounds) and single menhirs. Row upon row of stones stretch for over a mile.
- Carroll A. Deering: A cargo ships and its 10-man crew. In January 1921, the ship was found run aground without its crew off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. No official explanation for the disappearance of the crew was ever offered.
- Chateau de Brissac: located in Maine-et-Loire, France > this castle's ghostly legends, including the presence of the "Green Lady" draw visitors seeking history and a bit of the supernatural.
- Chicago Tylenol murders: a series of seven poisonings in the Chicago area in September 1982, where people died after taking Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. The perpetrator or perpetrators remain unknown, making it an unsolved crime. The incident led to a nationwide recall of the product and spurred new federal laws that mandated tamper-resistant packaging for over-the-counter medications.
- Chupacabra: a legendary creature or cryptid in the folklore of parts of the Americas. It is said to attack and drink the blood of livestock, including goats. First occured in Puerto Rico in 1995, the creature has since been reported as far north as Maine, as far south as Chile and even outside the Americas in countries like Russia and the Philippines.
- Circleville Letters: a series of anonymous, menacing letters sent to residents of Circleville, Ohio, starting in 1976 or 1977.Written by unknown person or group, accused residents of misconduct and threatened them with violence. The writer's identity and the full story behind the events remain subjects of debate and fascination.
- Clown Sighting (2016) : reports of people disguise as evil clowns near forests and schools in U.S, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and U.K.
- Culloden Battlefield : The last major battle on British soil was fought on April 16, 1746 on Drummossie moor (now called Culloden) near Inverness, Scotland. The defeat of the Highlanders marked the end of Jacobite rebellion. Near the battlefield, the clash of swords and screams of the dying have been heard, and the ghost of marching Highlanders and blood covered corpes have been glimpsed.
- Curse of the Colonel: a Japanese urban legend that holds the ghost of the KFC founder, Colonel Sanders, placed a curse on the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
- Curse of Tippecanoe: an urban legend > also known as "Zero Curse" , about the deaths in office of U.S Presidents who were elected in years divisibl by 20. It is believed that the leader of Native American in Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 had cursed the "Great White Fathers". Since 1840, 8 presidents have died in office. Seven were elected in years divisible by 20 : William Henry Harrison (1840), Abraham Lincoln (1860), James A. Garfield (1880), William McKinley (1800), Warren G.Harding (1920), Franklin D.Roosevelt (1940) and John F. Kennedy (1960).
- Curse of Tutankhamun: a myth popularized after the discovery of the pharaoh tomb in 1922 by Howard Carter, not a factual event. The "curse" refers to the alleged misfortune and deaths of those associated with opening the tomb, but scientific explanations like bacteria, fungi, or radiation in the tomb, coupled with coincidences and natural causes for the deaths of people like Lord Carnarvon, explain the misfortunes without a supernatural curse. It remains a myth rooted in sensationalism rather than fact. Refer: Tutankhamun's Curse by Richard Cavendish
- D.B. Cooper : an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on November 24, 1971 bound from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. He parachute into a remote, heavily wooded area of southwestern Washington. His true identity and fate remain unknown.
- Davy Jones's locker:the final resting place of drowned sailors and travellers. It is a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks in which the sailors' and ships' remains are consigned to the depths of the ocean (to be sent to Davy Jones' Locker. Davy Jones refers to a figure of nautical filklore and characters in popular culture. The demon-haunted captain of the Flying Dutchman and the possessor of "Davy Jones' Locker"
- Dead Sea Scrolls: ancient manuscripts that were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves near Khirbet Qumran, on the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea. The scroll records a vast amount of hidden gold and silver treasure. Whether the treasure is real, where exactly it was hidden, whether it was ever found and whether it could still exist today are all mysteries that will likely never be solved.
- Deja Vu: a French for "already seen" > the phenomenon of feeling like on has lived through the present situation in the past, where part of the brain responsible for recognising familiar experiences.
- Devil Bridge: legends surrounding the construction of various bridges worldwide,where a builder maks a pact with the devil to build the bridge in exchange for the soul of the first living creature to cross.
- Devil's Bridge, Wales : a location with three bridges stacked on top of each other, the oldest with a legend where the devil built it for an old lady in exchange for her soul or her cow.
- Devil's Bridge, Bavaris, Germany : an ancient stone bridge that is also known as the Devil's Bridge.
- Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold: an American socialite and heiress > disappeared on 12 December 1910. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance have never been resolved, and her fate remains unknown.
- Drury Lane Ghost : the legendary "Man in Grey", a spectral figure said to haunt the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London's West End dressed in 18th century clothing, including a powdered wig, grey cloak and tricorn hat.
- Dyatlov Pass Incident: 9 Soviet Sky hikers died under mysterious circumstances in the northern part of the Ural Mountains ridge in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union on 1 February 1959.
- Echoes in Dieppe: In 4 August 1951, two woman staying in Puys, near the French town of Dieppe were awaken by loud noises that started suddenly and at first sounded like a storm arising at sea. They also hear the sound of gunfire, shellfire, divebombers and men shouting and crying out. It was exactly the same sound that happened 9 years earlier, on August 19, 1942 during World War II. The U.S., Canadian, French and British troops launched a massive and disastrous raid on German forces in Dieppe..
- El Dorado: the myth of a lost city or country of immense wealth, particularly gold, in South America that fueled centuries of European expeditions. It was first recorded in the 16th century by Spanish colonists in the Americas, they referred to the king of El Dorado, the Golden One. Eventhough it was never found, its legend continues to symbolise a place of great wealth, abundance and opportunity.
- Elisa Lam : on 19 February 2013, the body of Canadian tourist Eliza Lam was recovered from a large cistern a top the Stay on Main hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Her body was found in one of the four 1,000 gallon water tanks on the hotel' roof. Until today no one know how she was able to access the roof or climb into the water tank and shut the 20-pound lid by herself.
- Enfield Poltergeist (1977-1979): a famous case of alleged supernatural activity in Enfield, North London, involving a single mother (Peggy Hodgson) and her children (Janet and Margaret), who experienced moving furniture, knocking sounds and disembodied voices. The case remains controversial.
- Eva Peron @ Maria Eva Duarte de Peron: First Lady of Argentina > Died 26 July 1952. Three years after he death, her embalmed corpse disappeared and went missing for 16 years.
- Extrasensory perception (ESP):also known as the sixth sense, or cryptaesthesia > a claimed paranormal ability to reception of information not gained through the recognised physical senses, but sensed with the mind. Second sight and ESP are classified as Pseudosciences.
- Feral Child: a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behaviour or language. List of Feral Child (Wikipedia).
- Flannan Isles Lighthouse disappearances: in 1900, 3 keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse off the West Coast of Scotland disappeared under the strangest of circumstances. No bodies were ever found.Whatever happened back in December 1900, no one ever know.
- Flight 19: on December 5, 1945, a group of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers knows as "Flight 19" took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a routine training flight and never returned. It is probably the most famous victim of the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
- Flying Dutchman: a legendary ghost ship, never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever. Reported sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries claimed that the ship glowed with a ghostly light. A well-known sighting was by Prince George of Wales, the future King George V.
- Foo Fighter: Allied aircraft pilots during World War II describes various UFO or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations. Foo Fithters were presumed by witnesses to be secret weapons employed by the enemy.
- Frank Olson death: Dr. Frank Olson, an army scientist > his death on 25 November 1953 is one of the most mysterious outcomes of the CIA mind control project MK-Ultra.
- Friday the 13th: Scary Urban Legend > often associated with superstitions and fears,commonly regarded as an unlucky day in Western Culture. The fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia.
- German U-Boat UB-65: German Submarine, WW2 > Unexplained deaths occured during its construction. Many incidents happend that led to the haunting legend of UB-65. The most famous is the ghost of the second officer, Lieutenant Richter, was said to have been seen by a crewman on deck after the explosion. The UB-65's own torpedoes exploded when they were launched, destroying the submarine and killing its crew.
- Ghost of Anne Boleyn: Queen of England (1507 - 1536) > second wife of King Henry VIII. She was charged of adultery, incest and treason and beheaded on 19 May 1536. The site of her execution is associated with her ghostly presence.
- Ghost of Catherine Howard: Queen of England (1540-1541), 5th wife of King Henry VIII. She was charge with adultery and was beheaded on 13 February 1542 at the Tower of London. She is said to haunt the Haunted Gallery of Hampton Court Palace.
- Ghost of Flight 401: a book by John G. Fuller about alleged supernatural phenomena after the Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crash in 29 December 1972 in Florida Everglades killing 101 life. The book described the sighting of the deceased flight crew, Captain Bob Loft and Flight Engineer Don Repo, appearing to warn flight crews and passengers of potential problems, which ultimately ceased after the parts from the crashed Flight 401 which were salvage and used in other Eastern Airline TriStar aircraft were removed.
- Ghost of Jane Seymour: Queen of England (1536-1537), 3rd wife of King Henry VIII. Died shortly after delivering Henry VIII's son, Edward VI. Her spirit is said to haunt Hampton Court Palace.
- Ghost Ship: also known as phantom ship, a vessel with no living cre onboard. List of Ghost ships (Wikipedia).
- Glenn Miller: an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombonist, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. He went Missionin Action on December 15, 1944 on a flight over the English Channel from England to France. His body was never recovered.
- Gold Train Myth: a legend about a Nazi Military Train carrying looted gold and valuables that disappeard in late 1944 in southwest Poland. Since 1945, countless attempts have been made to find the train. Historians and experts from the Krakow University of Science and Technology have concluded that the train likely never existed.
- Grace Horsley Darling: English lighthouse keeper's daughter. In 1838, Grace Darling became a famous heroin when she and her father rescued 9 survivors from the wrecked steamship Forfatshire during a violent storm. She is commemorated at the RNLI Grace Darling Museum. However paranormal activity was reported at the Lighthouse. The suspect spirit of Isobella Darling, Grace niece was seen at the lighthouse.
- Great Pyramid of Giza:served as the tomb of Pharaoh Khufu, built in 2600 B.C. The oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
- Greyfriars Kirkyard: Edinburgh, Scotland > one of the world's most haunted graveyards, drawing paranormal enthusiasts with its eerie encounters and ghostly tales.
- Hanako-San : Japanese urban legend about a girl named Hanako who haunts lavatories.Hanako was girl live during World War II who was killed while playing hide-and-seek during an air raid.
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon: Archaeologists who have excavated Babylon (Iraq today) have been unable to find the remains of a garden that meet the description by Ancient writers that describe a fantastic series of gardens supposedly built by Nebuchadnezzar II (605 - 562 B.C). Did the Hanging Gardens really exist?
- Harold Edward Holt: Australian Prime Minister (1966 - 1967) - he vanished into the sea at Portsea, Victoria, Australia ans was never seen again. No trace of his body was ever found.
- Hessdalen Lights: unidentified lights which have been observed in a 12-km-long stretch of the Hessdalen valley in rural central Norway periodically since at least the 1930s.
- Hindenburg Disaster: an airship accident that occured on May 6, 1937 in Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S.A. It was a German commercial passenger. The disaster caused 35 fatalities among the 97 people on board. It is the most famous airship accident in history.
- Hinterkaifeck Murders: on March 31, 1922,on Hinterkaifeck Farm in Bavaria, Germany, six residents were murderd with a pickaxe. No murderer has ever been found and the files were closed in 1955.
- Holy Grail: the cup that Jesus drank from at his last supper with his disciples before his crucifixion,has never been found and almost certainly never will be.
- House of the Seven Gables: a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. Built for Captain John Turner and stayed with the family for three generations. The house is said to be haunted .
- Jack The Ripper: unidentified serial killer who was active in and around the improverished Whitechapel district of London, England in 1888. Five victims was murdered between 31 August and 9 November 1888. The murders were never solved.
- Jackie the Baboon @ Corporal Jackie: a baboon and a mascot in the 3rd South African Infantry Regiment during World War I. He fought in France and Egypt and was awarded medal of valor for the event of his injuries and promote from private to Corporal.
- James Dean "Jinxed Car" : the Porsche 550 Spyder > in 30 September 1955, the movie star James Dean (1931-1955) crashed his silver Porsche and died instantly. The car was involved in other incidents and a fatal car crashed after James Dean's death.
- Jamison Family disappearance: The Jamison family—Bobby, Sherilynn, and their daughter Madyson—mysteriously disappeared from Oklahoma in October 2009 while looking at a plot of land. Their abandoned truck was found days later with their dog, phones, and $32,000 cash, but their remains weren't discovered until 2013 in the Sans Bois Mountains, about 2.7 miles from the vehicle. The cause of death was never determined, and the circumstances surrounding their disappearance remain unknown, leading to various theories.
- Jian Seng: an 80-metre tanker and ghost ship of unknown origin spotted drifting 180 km south-west of Weipa, Queensland, Australia in 2006. The ship was found with no crew on board and a broken tow rope,with identifying marks removed, no identifying documents or belongings and no reports of a missing boat. The Australian authorities couldn't even figure out who it belonged to or where it came from.
- Jimmy Hoffa: The teamster Union Leader known for his involvement in organised crime disappeared in Oakland County, Michigan on July 30, 1975 and was declared dead in 1982. The identity of his killer (s) and the location of his body are ongoing mysteries.
- Josep Force Crater: American Lawyer of New York State Supreme Court > disappeared on August 6, 1930, declared leagelly dead 6 June 1939. His case was never solved and was officially closed 40 years after Crater was declared dead.
- Katyn Graves : the mystery of 19450 mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish Military Officers, Police and intelligentsia by the Soviet NKVD, ordered by Joseph Stalin. It was discovered in 1943 by Nazi Forces.
- Kennedy Curse : Series of deaths, accidents, assassinations and other clamities involving members of the American Kennedy Family. Refer: Kennedy's Curse .
- King Arthur: It had not been confirmed whether King Arthur ever lived or even existed. Ultimately, it seems unlikely that scholars will ever know for sure whether there was a real King Arthur or whether the man was purely fictional.
- Korean Air Lines Flight 007: 1 September 1983 - Korean Boeing 747 was shot down by Soviet aircraft after deviating from its flight path, killing 269 lives. The main cause is unknown.
- Kraken: a legendary giant cephalopod-like sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that may have been inspired by sightings of real giants squids or octopuses. While the Kraken could be an octopus or a squid, its true nature remains a mystery, a blend of myth and speculaton about the deep sea.
- La Llorona: a folklore of the "Crying Woman", a vengeful ghost in Hispanic American folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
- Lasseter's Reef: a discovery announced by Harold Bell Lasseter in 1929 and 1930, of a fabulously rich gold deposit in a remote and desolate corner of central Australia. Lasseter's accounts of the find are conflicting and its precise location remains a mystery - if it exists.
- Lemuria : the name of a hypothetical continent believed to be submerged in the ocean, often associated with the lost civilization of Mu and Kumari Kandam in Tamil literature. Along with Atlantis, Lemuria is a fable about a lost continent that specialized in sophisticated architecture.
- Leslie Howard: English actor > on June 1, 1943, he took off from Lisbon on a DC 3 civil airliner. As the aircraft passed over the Bay of Biscay, it was shot down by German Junkers fighters. No traces of Howard and the 12 other passengers aor the aircraft were ever found.
- Levitation: the suspension of an object against gravity without physical contact. Paranormal levitation is the phenomenan of humans or objects rising into the air by apparently supernatural means, lacking a scientific explanation.
- Lincoln - Kennedy coincidences urban legend: The List of coincidences appeared in the mainstream American Press in 1964. The coincidences of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Refer: Wikipedia - Lincoln-Kennedy coincidences urban legend.
- Loch Ness Monster: known as Nessie, a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Hihglands. The earliest sighting appears in the Life of St Columba by Adomnan written in the 7th century A.D.
- Lockerbie Disaster: on December 21, 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board. A Libyan, Abdelbasset al-Meghrahi was convicted of playing a central fole in a Libyan plot to bomb Pan Am 103.
- Lone Woman Murder: between 1943 and 1949, over a dozen unsolved murders occured in Los Angeles.
- Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine : a rich mine according to a legend, hidden in the Southwestern United States, named after Jacob Waltz, a German prospector nicknamed "Dutchman" who supposedly found it in the 19th century.
- Lost Royal Norfolk Regiments: this famous unit of the 5th Territorial Battalion, the Royal Norfolk Regiment dissapeared at Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915, with rheir remains later found scattered over a large area, including 122 identifiable as the lost men.
- Maarten de Jonge: has escaped not one but two major plane crashes in his life. Not only was he supposed to be on board missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 before deciding to take a flight that departed an hour earlier; he was also supposed to fly on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the one that was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, before changing to a different flight in order to save money.
- Machu Picchu: a15th Century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of Southern Peru, situated in the Machupicchu District of Urubamba Province. Referred to as "Lost City of the Incas".
- Mae Nak Phra Khanong: an urban legend about the ghost of a pregnant woman whose spirit is said to haunt the people of Phra Khanong, Bangkok, during the early Rattanakosin era (around the reigns of Rama III or Rama IV). She is considered to be one of the most famous Thai ghosts, and her story has been adapted many times into stage plays, TV dramas, and movies.
- Malaysian Airline MH370: An airplane with 239 people on board that vanished without a trace in 8 March 2014 on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. The cause of its disappearances has not been determined, it is widely regarded as the greatest mystery in aviation history.
- Manchester Mummy: Spinster Hannah Beswick died more than 200 years ago. Her body was embalmed, but her restless spirit still haunts a factory built on the land where her home once stood.
- Marilyn Monroe's death: 5 August 1962 > remains a mystery due to inconsistencies in the official account, the presence of conspiracy theories involving the Kennedy family. The prevailing theorie focus on deliberate actions, either by Monroe herself in suicide of by others involved in a murder plot and cover-up.
- Marina Chapman: a Columbian-born British woman known to have spent much of her early childhood in the jungle with a troop of capuchin monkeys.
- Martin Ludwig Bormann: German Nazi Party official > Nazi war criminal who was often sighted but never brought to justice.
- Mary Celeste: a Canadian-built, American-registered merchant brigantine > discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores on December 4, 1872. None of those who had been on board were ever seen or heard from again.
- Mary Day: in 1981, 13-year-old Mary Day vanishes, and investigators suspect her stepfather may have killed her, but they never recover her body. Decades later, a woman claiming to Mary appears, stirring suspicion and debate.Is this Mary Day of an imposter?
- Mary Hardy Reeser : her fiery death on 2 July 1951 was surrounded by mystery, and even controversially reported at the time to be case Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC).
- Mary King's Close: a historic underground street in Edinburgh, famous for ghost sightings and paranormal investigations since the 17th century.
- Matilda Rooney: late night on Christmas Eve 1885, in the small town of Seneca, Illinois, Matilda Rooney was alone in her kitchen when she suddenly burst into flames! Poor Matilda was incinerated, seemingly from the inside out, leaving only her fee.
- Men in Black: the UFO Conspiracy Theories, Men in Black are government agents dressed in dark suits, who questions, interrogate, harass and threaten UFO witnesses to keep them silent about what they have seen.
- Michael Clark Rockefeller: member of Rockefeller family > disappeared on November 19, 1961 at Dutch New Guinea at the aged of 25. No remains of him or physical proof of his death have been discovered.
- Michel de Nostredame @ Nostradamus: French astronomer, apothecary, physician and reputed seer, best known for his book Les Propheties (published in 1555), a collection 942 peotic quatrains allegedly predicting future events. About 70% of his predictions actually came true including the death of Henry II in 1559, the rise of Adolf Hitler and John F. Kennedy assassination.
- Minnesota Iceman: the most compelling, the weirdest and the most mysterious tale on the annals of the unexplained in America. The discovery of the Iceman by Milwaukee Zoology student Terry Cullen in December 1968 at Chicago's International Livestock Exhibition and Fair. It was later proven to be hoax by scientists.
- Mokele-mbembe : a mytical, dinosaur-like creature believed by some to inhabit the remote rivers and swamps of the Congo River Basin. Despite numerous expeditions and anecdotal accounts,there is no scientific evidence to support its existence.
- Money Pit, Nova Scotia, Canada: the legendary, deep shaft on Oak Island where tresure hunters have searcher for over two centuries, hoping to find buried pirate treasure or other valuables. It was discovered in 1795, the treasure remains undiscovered to this day.
- Montezuma's Treasure: Montezuma (1466-1520), the last Aztec empire in what is now Mexico. A legendary buried treasure is said to be located in the Casa Grande ruins or elsewhere in the Southwestern U.S and Mexico. Extensive excavation of the area, however, has turned up nothing to support the claim.
- Morgan Robertson : 14 years before the sinking of RMN Titanic,in 1898 Morgan write about a ship sinking in a novella called Futility. The ship in the book was called the Titan, the ship that was described in the book as unsinkable. They also both had insufficient lifeboats and they both collided with icebergs in the North Atlantic.
- M.V. Joyita: an American merchant vessel from which passengers and crew mysteriously disappeared in the South Pacific in October 1955. She was found adrift with no one aboard.
- Mystery of Room 1046: the unsolved 1935 case of a man named Artemus Ogletree who checked into the President Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, under the alias Roland T. Owen. He was found brutally beaten and stabbed in his locked room hotel, and died at hospital. Ogletree's true story was never fully uncovered.Nazca Lines: group of over 700 geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Southern Peru. They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD.
- Nazi Gold : refers to the vast wealth, primarily gold and other valuables, accumulated by the Nazi through looting from countries they occupied. The fate of the gold remains unclear.
- Nazi Gold Train: urban legend about a train laden with gold and treasure that was hidden by Nazis in the southwest Poland during the last days of WW2. Onboard the train was purported more that 330 tons of gold, jewels, weapons and artistic. However it has never been proved that the train ever existed.
- Noah's Ark: a massive ship, built as God's command that saved Noah,his family and representatives of every kind of land-dependent, air-breathing animals from the global flood that took place over 4,300 years ago. However, the Noah's Ark had not been found, and credible evidence of its existence remains absent.
- Our Lady of Akita: Blessed Virgin Mary associated with the Marian apparitions reported in 1973 by Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa in the remore area of Yuzawadai, an outskirt of Akita, Japan.
- Our Lady of Fatima: the Catholic title for the Virgin Mary based on apparitions to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal in 13 October 1917, who reported seeing her on the 13th of six consecutive months. The Catholic Church officially declared the apparitions "worthy of belief" in 1930.
- Overtoun Bridge: near Dumbartoun, Scotland > seems to call dogs to leapto their death.Since the 1950s, some 50 canines have perished and hundreds more have jumped but survived. It is unlikely that dogs are capable of forming an intent to die.
- Palatine Light:the ghost ship of a lost 18th-century vessel named the Palatine.The folklore account is based on the historical wreck of the Princes Augusta in 1738, which became known as the Palatine in the 19th century accounts.
- Papyrus Tulli: a text that supposedly describes the appearance of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) in the skies of Ancient Egypt around 1480 B.C. during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III. This is one of the oldest records of UFOs.
- Paula Jean Welden: 18-year-old American college student > disappeared while walking on Vermont' Long Trail (Bennington Triangle) on December 1, 1946. Her fate remains unsolved.One of several unexplained disappearance in the same area at the time.
- Petit Trianon: built between 1763 and 1768, during the reign of King Louis XV, located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. Many had seen a woman they believe to by Marie Antoinette, Queen of France who became the owner of the chateau in 1774, as a gift from her husband, the new King Louis XVI.
- Phantom of Fort Pulaski : refers to the various ghost stories and alleged paranormal activity at Fort Pulaksi, the site of fierce fighting during American Civil War, resulting in the deths of many soldiers. Visitors and staff at the Fort have reported such experiencing unexplained phenomena such as seeing shadowy figures of soldiers, hearing sounds of battles, soldiers yelling commands or wounded men begging for help.
- Piri Reis Map : compiled in 1513 by an Ottoman Navigator and Cartographer called Hajji Ahmed Muhiddin Piri, better known as Piri Reis. Notable for its accurate depiction of newly discovered lands and its use of various other maps, including one from Christopher Cojumbus. The map is considered one of the oldest cartographic records of Columbus's voyages and includes illustration of regional fauna.
- Pollock Sisters: a well-known case often cited as evidence of reincarnation, involving the deaths of sisters Joanna and Jacqueline Pollock in a 1957 car accident in England, and the subsequent birth of their parents' twin daughters, Gillian and Jennifer, who exhibited remarkable similarities, including shared birthmarks, memories of their deceased sisters' belongings and places, and behaviors like a fear of cars.
- Pont Della Maddalena (Italy) :the most famous Devil's Bridge in Tuscany, known for its dramatic arches and the legend of the builder sending a dog to cross first.
- Psychic Detective: an individual who uses purported paranormal abilities, such as dreams, visions and telepathy, to provide leads and insights in criminal investigations when traditional methods have staled. However, many Police Departments aer reluctant to admit using psychic help, preferring to rely on conventional evidence and procedures.
- RMS Lusitania: a British luxury ocean liner, operated by the Cunard Line, that was tragically sunk by a German U-boat in 7 May 1915 during World War I, killing nearly 1,200 people, including 128 Americans.
- RMS Queen Mary : a well-deserved reputation for being haunted. An 18 year old crewmember John Peddler who was crushed to death behing watertight door.Accounts describe Peddler's ghost as a benign presence. Stateroom B340 is considered the world's most haunted cruise cabin.
- RMS Titanic: British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York. Conspiracy theories have been suggested regarding the disaster.
- Roanoke Colony: the first permanent English settlement in Roanoke Island, North America, established in 1585. The second colony known as the Lost Colony arrived in 1587. A relief ship in 1590 found the colony mysterously abandoned. The fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains unknown.
- Rosenheim Poltergeist: In the late 1960s, strange things happened at a lawyer's office in Rosenheim, Germany. Professor Hans Bender, a psychologist was called in. He discovered the disruptive psychic energy was coming from an 18-year old employee, Anne-Marie Schneider who hated her job. Everything settled down when she left.
- Roswell Incident: in 1947, something fell from the sky and crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. It later became the basis for Conspiracy Theories alleging the U.S Military recovered a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft. Press Release issued by the Roswell Army Air Force denied it almost immediately, saying that the object was a saucer-dish from a weather baloon.
- Route 666: spanned multiple states, linking areas of Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. The number '666' sparked associations with the 'Devil's Highway", the number '666' to many Christian denominations as the number of the Beast.
- Rwanda Mystery : 6 April 1994 > assassination of Rwandas President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose death by missile strike triggered the Rwandan Genocide. His jet was shot down by surface-to-air missile.
- S.S. Normandie Disaster: French liner Ocean, on 9 February 1942 she caught fire at Pier 88 in New York City. Was it sabotage or simply an accident.
- S.S.Ourang Medan: a reported ghost ship, discovered adrift in 1940s after briefly broadcasting an SOS. The ship that respond to the SOS were reported to have discovered all the crew dead with their eyes open and their faces frozen in shock. No official records of s ship named Ourang Medan have been found in any maritime registries, logbooks or official reports.
- Sacsayhuaman: a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historical capital of the Inca Empire.
- Shangri-La: a fictional utopian valley described in James Hilton 1933 Novel "Lost Horizon". Shangri-La is now a synonym for any earthly paradise, a lost utopia, and its exact wehreabouts remain a mystery.
- Shroud of Turin: a linen cloth with a faint, negative image of a crusified man, venerated for centuries as a potential burial cloth of Jesus Christ. The image formation remains a mystery, with debates continuing over its authenticity and the reliability of the 1988 dating. It continues to be a source of fascination, sparking ongoing theological and scientific inquiry.
- Sodder Children: during the fire at West Virginia in 1945, George and Jennie and four of the nine children escaped. The bodies of the other five children have never been found.
- Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC): a phenomenon in which a human being supposedly bursts into flames with no warning and for no apparent reson. Often the fire is localised to the victim, so that furniture or other objects in the vicinity are not burned. Example in one 1854 case in England, a woman who burned to death over a span of approximately two hours was lying on a hemp mat that would have acted as a wick.It cannot be proved, however, that the wick effect caused her demise, jus as it cannot be proved that she did not spontaneously combust.
- Spring-heeled Jack: an entity in English folklore of the Victorian era. The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in 1837. There are many theories about the nature and identity of Spring-heeled Jack. A leaping, bounding superman who terrified the English nation for more that 60 years. The devil-like figure who leaped from roof-top to roof-top was accepted as hysterical nonsense. He was last seen in 1904 at Everton, Liverpool. He vanished into the darkness and has note been seen since that day to this.
- Star Tiger: passenger aircraft owned by British South American Airways (BSAA) disappeared without a trace over the Atlantic Ocean while on flight between Santa Maria in the Azores and Bermuda on 30 January 1948.
- Stonehenge: Prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It was built by Neolithic and Bronze Age people, also known as Ancient Britons. It is the world's only remaining lintelled stone circle.
- Stone Spheres of Costa Rica: over 300 prefectly round, man-made stone sculptures believed to have beencreated by the Diquis people between 200 AD and 800 AD, found mostly in Diquis Delta.
- Strange Coincidences :20 Strange Coincidences that will leave you speechless.
- Superman Curse : The Terrifying story Behind The Infamous And Deadly Superman Curse > by Laura Allan.
- Telekinesis: alternatively calle psychokinesis > a psychic ability allowing an individual to influence a physical system without physical interaction, the moving or manipulating of objects with the mind, without directly touching them.
- Telepathy: the transfer of ideas and images directly from one mind to another, aometimes over great distances. It is a common theme in science fiction.
- Theodosia Burr Alston: (1783-1813) > an American socialite and the daughter of the 3rd U.S Vice President, Aaron Burr. Theodosia lost at sea at the age of 29 years old, no one really knows what happened to her and remains mystery.
- Tower of London: Beside the Thames River in London, England, probably one of the most haunted places on Earth. Its dungeons held thousdnds of prisoners, including Kings, Queens and those accused of treason or heresy.
- Tunguska Event: a massive explosion that flattened trees over a wide area in Siberia in 1908. It occured near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai) in Rusia. It is the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history.
- U.F.O : Unidentified Flying Objects > UFOs sighting are reported frequently. List of reported UFO Sightings (Wikipedia).
- Urban Legends: a modern genre of folklore, it often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypaste etc. List of Urban Legends (Wikipedia).
- U.S.S. Cyclops: a Navy supply ship with 306 crewmembers onboard, disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, No explanation was given and no wreckage found.
- Violet Jessup - Miss Unsinkable: The stewardess and nurse was on the HMS Olympic when it struck the HMS Hawke, she was on board HMHS Britannic when it sank after hitting a sea mine and she was also traveling on the RMS Titanic when it sank after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic in 1912. She was later known as "Miss Unsinkable".
- Vyonich Manuscript: a mysterious book written in an unknown language/writing system referred to as Voynichese. The written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th Century.
- Walter Collins: a 9-year-old was reported missing by his mother, Christine Collins in March 1928 in Los Angeles. Five months later, the police brough "Walter" bak to Christine, except it wasn't Walter. The real Walter Collins was never found. Some belief that Walter was one of the victims of the convicted child murderer Gordon Stewart Northcott who was caught and executed in 1939.
- Weeping Statue: a religious statue claimed to have shed tears, often blood, oild or scented liquids, through supernatural means, drawing pilgrims and sometimes miraculous healing claims. The Catholic Church rarely endorses the weeping statues, with most cases being proven hoaxes to exploit believers.
- Winchester Mystery House: a mansion in San Jose, California, once personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester. Her house became a tourist attraction nine months after her death in 1922. The mansion was built with 160 rooms, 40 staircases, 1,257 windows and 467 doors. Due to publicity and rumors that the mansion is the haunted house in U.S.
- Wladyslaw Eugeniusz Sikorski: Prime Minister of Poland (1939-1943) > died in air crash over Gibraltar on July 24, 1943. No conclusive evidence of any wrongdoing has been found, and the cause of death is listed as accident., no prove of assassination.
- Wolf Children of Midnapore: the of case of Amala and Kamala the wolf girl, found in India in the early 20th century with a reported wolf child named Amala. She was described as being raised by wolves. She displayed animal-like behaviors and were subjects of scientific study.
- Wow! Signal: a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 by Ohio State University's Big Ear Radio telescope in the U.S. like originated from a natural source, not aliens. It remains one of the most enigmatic radio frequency signals ever found.
- Yamashita Gold: Tomoyuki Yamashita dubbed as "The Tiger of Malaya" who conquered Malaya (present day Malaysia) during World War II. Yamashita Gold is named given to the alleged war loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Japanese forces and is supposedly hidden in caves, tunnels or underground complexes in Philippines. General Yamashita was executed in 1946, taking the secrets of the treasure's location to his grave. Most experts in history consider it is a myth or urban legend.
- Yeti: a mythical, ape-like creature from Himalayan folklore also known as the Abominable snowman, but scientific evidence for its existence is lacking.
- Zodiac Killer: unidentified serial killer who murdered five know victims in the San Francisco Bay Area between December 1968 and October 1969. This case is described as the most famous unsolved murder case in American history.
Further readings:
- Who's Who In History
- Who's Who in Military / Warrior
- Who's who - Criminal and Crime Victims
- Who' Who in Entertainment World
- The First in Record
- Wikipedia : List of Urban Legends
- Wikipedia : Unexplained Phenomena
- Wikipedia : List of Missing Aircraft
- Wikipedia : List of Ghosts
- Wikipedia : Lists of people who disappeared
- Wikipedia : List of Unsolved deaths
- Wikipedia : List of reportedly haunted locations
***All details in this information are the result of my research and collection from books and magazines as well as searches from the internet. Feel free to share but please give credit for my efforts to obtain this information.Thank you
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Hj Zulheimy Maamor
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30/9/2025: 9.15 p.m

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