5 Bizarre Mysteries Around the World
The story always provides some examples of strange events that were never very well explained and that allow for many interpretations. While some cases are completely truthful and serious, others seem to have something of magic and additions to urban legends. We have already listed some of these examples here in Mega Curioso, you see read the articles here and here. Either way, you can check below five stories of bizarre situations that were never fully explained:
1 - The Purulia Arms Case
This mysterious event took place on December 17, 1995 in India and to this day there are no exact explanations as to the true reasons for the event. On the 17th, the sky of the Purulia District region was invaded by a rain of rifles, grenades, pistols and various types of weapons. A Latvian plane flew across Indian airspace and dumped such weapons over the entire district, reaching different regions.
The plane was later identified, as were its passengers - all from Latvia except the British Peter Bleach. Bleach had previously been a member of the UK Special Air Service and was considered by many to be a mercenary who had relations with the Secret Intelligence Service. All six were sentenced to life imprisonment.
However, supposedly the leader of this whole scheme was the Danish Niels Hock, who had numerous aliases and managed to escape from prison. Russian intercessions managed to get the five Latvians released, and in 2006 Bleach was released thanks to a presidential pardon after spending more than eight years in different well-behaved prisons.
Although the people behind this strange event have been identified, its purposes to this day are uncertain. Some investigations say that weapons that fell from the sky were to be handed over to an armed rebel group called Ananda Margal. On the other hand, other theories say that several countries have teamed up to pour weapons into the Purulia region - yet the purpose of such action has never been clarified.
2 - Kidney disease in Central America
In early 2000, a mysterious and fatal disease struck Central American countries, particularly Honduras and El Salvador. Thousands of men who worked in sugarcane fields were stricken with an abrupt disease that caused the kidney to malfunction. Two quite different theories have tried to explain the origin of disease.
The first said that the outbreak of such diseases was due to continued plantation work and exposure to pesticides - which then caused the physical problems. The second theory is simpler and says that the hard work in sugarcane for years can weaken the kidneys - which would explain why only these workers got sick. In any case, there were never correct explanations, and hundreds of men died.
3 - Cicada 3301
This is probably one of the most enigmatic examples on this short list. Cicada 3301 is a name given to a mysterious organization that no one has been able to identify, at least for now, what its origins and goals are. Every year, complex puzzles of reasoning are arranged in different locations around the world, such as Hawaii, Poland, Spain, Australia, and Korea.
Puzzles are usually drawings composed of elements such as cryptography, mathematics, literature, philosophy, and data security. According to Cicada 3301, the goal is to find intelligent individuals for unspecified purposes. Whoever is behind these puzzles, riddles are probably some international recruitment mechanism - at least many people want to believe it. Institutions like the CIA or even big companies like Microsoft may be behind Cicada 3301.
4 - Foggy Monsters of Scotland
Scotland certainly has quite enigmatic scenarios, with impressive rock formations and constant mists that insist on staying in the territory for much of the year. Perhaps these factors have helped to fuel the Fear Liath myth, thought of as a mysterious being wandering through these icy lands. Named Am Fear Liath Mor, he is an imprecise-shaped, almost giant-shaped being who walks the peaks of Ben MacDui.
Some of the descriptions of Fear Liath hit Bigfoot, especially since it is a tall being with body hair. British explorer J. Norman Collie visited the region in 1925 and said he heard giant footsteps around him, and when he looked back he could catch a glimpse of a huge man in his wake. Many theories try to explain the Fear Liath phenomenon, much of which uses the angulation of the sun's rays to blend with the dense mists, creating illusory silhouettes that do not actually exist.
5 - Aimée du Buc de Rivéry
Aimée du Buc de Rivéry was born in 1768 on the island of Martinique (French colony in the Caribbean), in a family of rich and powerful landlords. She was sent to Europe to study as a child, but when she was 11 she disappeared on a return trip to Martinique. As a young noblewoman, several investigations were carried out.
The main suspicion fell on pirates from the Caribbean region who at the time sold white Christian slaves to the Ottoman Empire in Asia. Many believe that Aimée may have been caught on one of these ships and later sold as a concubine to a harem. Following this train of thought, she eventually became Sultan Abdulhamid's mistress and mother of Mahmud II. This relationship was made because Abdulhamid unexpectedly introduced many progressive French ideas into the Empire, which were supposedly suggested by Aimée.
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