25 Biggest Mysteries Of History

The biggest mysteries of history can cause the greatest of sleuths to crack. While curiosity might kill the cat, it'll likely just make you go insane if you think about it too much. Still, a little mystery never hurt anyone, right? So, brace yourself, we are about to unleash the most amazing mysteries known to man. Although some of these mysteries are infamous, others are more obscure but no less curious. Think you have what it takes to figure out these baffling mysteries? Check out these 25 Biggest Mysteries Of History.
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[@caryrodda]

John White went back to England to get provisions for Roanoke, not for "reinforcements" against hostile Native Americans. In fact, one of the theories is that the survivors went to live with a local tribe they had friendly relations with.

[@babybookworm003]

Cary Rodda exactly and they’ve found evidence backing the whole joined a local tribe theory

[@Angel-nu7fm]

Croatan tribe and island nearby....what mystery? DUH

[@doriepopestephens7393]

@@babybookworm003 you & Cary Rodda are correct. Many believe this is how the Lumbee tribe got its start, with the settlers joining the Cherokee/ Iroquois indians of the area, becoming an off shoot & forming their own tribe. Supposedly, this explains the natives with blue eyes & light hair seen upon their return. It is known the Lumbee tribe is an amalgamation of various Iroquoisan, Algonquin, & Siouan speaking tribes & is one of the largest tribes in the country. Many native North Carolinaians, like myself, have Lumbee or Cherokee or even both, heritage.

[@brianartillery]

Number 24 has been solved, with the rocks even being caught moving on time lapse. Although they are found in the hottest place on earth, the nights, and winters can be extremely cold. Ice forms from water vapour on the ground, and on the bottom of the rocks. This means that even fairly large rocks can be moved about by the wind, which is exactly what happens. The effect has been replicated successfully several times. As the rock is only millimetres above the surface, the underlying topsoil is disturbed as the rock moves, leaving the puzzling trails. Some of the longer ones have taken decades to make, and as there is little to no rainfall in the area, they don't get washed away.

[@melissas.2905]

Thank you! I was about to mention this as well. It's no longer a mystery.

[@tiki_trash]

No. 26 - Where's the remote?

[@JustinMejia-vc7zs]

Check your back pocket

[@trynnablais754]

Research would have been good here. Some of these are solved and some are just urban legend. Not up to your usual standards guys!

[@terrygrossmann2295]

Garlic Wind yet you watched it and so far left two comments.

[@theduder2617]

@@terrygrossmann2295 Watching this video and even commenting on it 2,000 times does absolutely nothing to discredit his comment. Some of these were never looked into. I watched it. Also left two comments. Yet here I am, fully backing the original comment above.

[@gordonlawrence4749]

Roanoak is easy - they got bored waiting for the reinforcements and had a game of hide and seek that got out of hand.

[@suaamigamisteriosa]

The sailing stones thing was proven. They tracked specific stones, measured weather conditions between times of known changes in position of the stones, and then recreated the weather conditions in a lab, and got the same results. The changes in direction of the stones are due to changes in wind direction during storms.

[@chrisnemec5644]

The Voynich manuscript was translated in January 2018. Written in medieval Turkish, it was hard to decode due to the writer putting two or more characters together. It is supposedly a herbal book filled with snake oil cures that were common at the time. It is believed that the Mary Celeste, which was carrying rum at the time, encountered storms that caused the rum to react with the rainwater and produce a smoke-like mist. Thinking that the ship was on fire, the captain ordered the ship be abandoned.

[@DebraElias-uc6yz]

FOUND ON GOOGLE J His Arch & Anthropol Sci. 2022;7(3):94‒131. The Voynich Manuscript (VM) is an illustrated codex hand-written in a unique writing system whose pages have been carbon-dated to 1404-1438 CE. 1 The document has been studied by numerous cryptographers, but until this time no one has demonstrably deciphered the text.22 Nov 2022Found on Google People also ask Has anyone ever deciphered the Voynich manuscript? The manuscript has never been demonstrably deciphered, and none of the proposed hypotheses have been independently verified.

[@Plasma-vs1eq]

Number 20: ball lightning has been reproduce by physicists and is actually ionize particles, a plasma

[@danielraiber1487]

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

[@PrincessAshley972]

Mike, buddy, i love your videos. I love this channel and everything you do. But was this just one you had in the can for a while? Like one you meant to put out a couple years ago but just got around to it? A lot of these "mysteries" arent mysteries anymore. Some research on the topics would have been greatly appreciated

[@nazmulhossain3715]

I would appreciate if you told me about the solved mysterious

[@shellybean6992]

The one about the moving rocks is because of ice deep underground and wind.

[@cherryshrimp4120]

What came first the chicken or the egg? Now that is a mystery.

[@heathercaldwell6813]

I'm a new fan and have been binge watching your channel for about two weeks. Your content is so interesting. I especially like the length of each episode not being too long to be daunting. Keep up the good work! I love it! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

[@dreamsofsnow6521]

The WOW signal has been explained as a probable passing comet,an astronomer recently pointed a Radio telescope at a comet and it gave the same signal.

[@sussekind9717]

Gigantopithecus certainly didn't live around the time of dinosaurs. The only mammals that existed at that time were small shrew like creatures. Gigantopithecus blacki lived no more than 10 million years ago. Dinosaurs went extinct around 65 million years ago.

[@malagastehlaate230]

Number 19 terrifies me... I have read numerous reports of this and am absolutely freaked out each and every time.

[@kurtb8474]

Advice: When using a picture or piece of video to explain something, such as the Siberian explosion, include a caption saying it's not the actual event. I know it probably isn't as I'm sure a lot of people do. But their are many who may think the opposite. Also, if the media you use is not yours, give a courtesy credit to who it does belong to.

[@salpastore1425]

I'm sorry, I usually enjoy your lists, but this one has at least a half dozen "myths" that now have explanations for. Example Amelia Earnhardt remains were found on an island, lockness original photographer admitted on his death bed to have made it up and how.

[@thejimg]

The remains found "may" be Amelia's but that doesn't mean they are her's...

[@Argonak1]

Those remains are not confirmed to be amelia's, She is still MIA.

[@Purgatorrri]

True. The babouska lady has also been identified.

[@terrygrossmann2295]

Garlic Wind yet you watched it

[@crescendyr8438]

Wow signal was explained.

[@scarlettsteele7999]

Am I the only one who thinks a lot of these aren’t really “mysteries?”

[@spookcityghouls]

I absolutely love these types of videos.

[@AtMyShed]

#17, if you look at "mysteries disappearances" of ships and plans in the ocean, the Bermuda Triangle statistically has about the same number as any other place on earth. People keep mentioning it, that is why the legend was born.

[@Bassingal]

Stay Foxy, first, that's an interesting screen name. Second, the Bermuda Triangle has some very unexplainable and bizarre stories.

[@AtMyShed]

@@Bassingal The Bermuda Triangle has no more unexplainable or bizarre stories than anywhere else in the world. People just talk about them more often and try to lump many incidents together for good stories. More unexplainable things have happened outside of the Bermuda Triangle than inside it over the last 100 years, and that means…. nothing, because things happen no matter the location.

[@jaxiscarpenter8485]

Some of these arent mysteries anymore, and can you guys atleast show some clips or sample footages or sightings other than just having a googled picture shown for about a minute or more just like the "ball lightning on an aircraft" , "the eerie sounds heard all over the world", "the stone formation in the bahamas", "marfa lights" they all have available footages... I mean not to be a hater but atleast do a better research on your topics, almost half of these mysteries have a solid explanation or an updated one.

[@krysti2]

Very interesting!!🎉

[@alexlachance7252]

the mystery of the Roanoke Colony BLOWS MY MIND! WHWRE DID THE PPL GO

[@AtMyShed]

A better title for this video would be "25 Mysteries and Lores"

[@LivingEpicness1]

You know, even if there were a loch ness monster, it would be dead by now. That legend is centuries old after all.

[@BlueFieldGamer]

If there was a loch Ness monster it would has wash up long ago... The lake isn't that big

[@rosebrown4799]

Love your videos

[@blowfishes]

Biggest mystery from history is how Nicolas Cage keeps finding acting roles...

[@davidanonymous4234]

I was lucky enough to be a witness of a lightning ball, lightning struck near our camper and me and my ex girlfriend just gawked as a ball of lightning floated in front of us and burst. I cam describe it as bright as a strobe light and the ball was glowing and a radiation of light pulsed around it until it disappeared into thin air

[@ritageorge8748]

When I was a kid&lived near the Black Dalia was often discussed esp when a doctor was believed to have killed her

[@charlesbaldo]

Most of these aren't history, they are script ideas for a new tv show

[@theduder2617]

#18 That was a very large meteoroid better known as an asteroid. Roughly 28,000 feet in the air, it fragmented and essentially exploded. At more than 33,000 mph, hitting our atmosphere tends to burn up most things which fall inward from space. Many times resulting in the meteor self destructing due to the heat and pressure. There will be no impact crater from explosions at those altitudes. Simply ask the military exactly how powerful air blasts are. Suddenly, the layout of the trees, the lack of an impact crater since it never impacted the planet, and the man's shirt being on fire will make perfect sense. No mystery, just simple math and physics

[@RyanAnthonyDigitalMedia]

With all the outdated info in this video, I thought it was created a few years ago. I was wrong. It was uploaded this morning..

[@ribarxlittlex]

Ryan Anthony yeah I also thought so

[@goodchessactor]

Wait a minute. In the Jack the Ripper #2 the narrator says "at the turn of the century". So what century? If he posted this in 2018 then Jack the Ripper was around in 1999. Now that is a mystery.

[@osearthesp]

holy shirt...

[@AtMyShed]

#16, even when the man who started the hoax came out and admitted it, showed how he did it and explained all the details, people still believe it. Like the Bermuda Triangle, if people keep talking about it, the story keeps living. While we know there are creatures in certain places in the world yet to be discovered, this is not one of them.

[@Raptorifik]

this is a spurious and pedantic list showing no research was done for the video.

[@masterof4elements826]

ever think the Roanoke colonist just left.

[@stormystars1087]

When going to Lynn Lake, Manitoba. Canada where what's his name who has sung for Red Ryder for years is from, there was not even a winter road back then. We had to take a jet plane there from Thompson. Ball lightning hit the right wing and it smoked like crazy for the 10, minutes left of the flight. At least we landed safely. But ball lighting is more frequent than people think, it just is not always captured on photos or videos. Interesting video. Thanks.

[@JoshMolczyk]

DB Cooper is Tommy Wiseau!!!

[@lizzdoe2821]

Very much an adult but I JUST learned ball lightning is a thing!!

[@nicmackowey510]

There was a show on Spike at the time about a guy said that Jack the ripper was his grandad

[@user-bk4op6ob7r]

The Zodiac Killer has been solved. It was Gary.

[@JustinEvitable80]

Another mystery: As of now, less than 11,000 people have viewed this. Only that many. How is that possible? This is a list25 video.

[@440emil]

This video is a joke right ? ...i really hope it is!

[@chadrowland7430]

The Mythbusters used ground penetrating radar in Giants Stadium. There was no digging at all.

[@andrewheather4970]

list25 happy Halloween

[@garycarpenter2980]

Atlantis,that's where Aquaman and Mera are from

[@crystalgoddess4085]

One of these will absolutely never get solved, and that's the identity of Jack the Ripper, the case has gotten so cold by now that it may as well be frozen. While people do have theories as to who the elusive serial killer (or even killers) was, none can be conclusively proven. Same might go for the Zodiac Killer, it has been decades and the police aren't even remotely close to identifying them, so maybe they might be seen as a more modern Jack the Ripper.

[@kandrukable]

Sailing stones mystery has been solved. Emilia Earnhardt’s remains were found. Have you ever noticed Zodiak killer and DB Cooper look a lot alike? 🤔

[@caroldriehorst1165]

Jack the ripper has always been a mystery..what most baffles me is the sliding rocks and that hum, that hum would drive me nuts. To me one of the most biggest mysteries is whose five bombers planes who disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle in the forties, and then the rescue plane disappeared, what the heck?

[@susanwahl6322]

Even though most of these aren’t really mysterious, they are entertaining in their own way.

[@johngordon1175]

Once again scientists have no idea that they haven't yet attributed ti Aliens!

[@ermerm1521]

26.- Why she doesn't love me??

[@tysonsnow2262]

I was awaiting a halloween episode again :(

[@tysonsnow2262]

With the lightsabers and the glagen

[@karenknicely1788]

No.11, is a poor coyote with mange.

[@edenrose1224]

Maybe the mothman is actually an unknown giant bat that was roosting under the bridge, causing it to collapse. This could explain the Jersey Devil too.

[@joaquimrodriguez8961]

Hoffa was killed in a mobster's home basement, then taken to a cremation building an was cremated. Puff! Performed a Houdini on him.

[@MegaCunnie]

I sued myself once. I cleaned myself out pretty good. Fuckin' destitute now.

[@teresaobrien6234]

Yay Mothman!

[@DrHaydentheFunny]

Happy Halloween!

[@donlato3385]

You forgot about the Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus.

[@JSB103]

Absolutely a very good video. I wonder if the lost nazi gold or the lost Templar's gold could qualify as some of the biggest Mysteries of History.

[@bewmdogg]

a nearby tribe. It's weird how this is still considered a mystery when it isn't.

[@gamersbest4601]

do you have any real mysteries?

[@kennymacdaddy]

#11...a coyote with mange.

[@popeye807]

I have one for you " The Min Min Lights" Of Australia.

[@mykemech]

The wick effect burned the SHC victims. They proved it with a pig carcass.

[@rayisgay9899]

I thought the title meant : 25 biggest historical mysteries so i was expecting historical events 😂

[@garycarpenter2980]

I was cleaning up under my sink but I didn't find JF

[@farter4203]

The 'Wow Signal' was just a pair of comets

[@cindyellis765]

What? No Jersey Devil?

[@kimstevens5156]

Unfortunately, I have to agree with a lot of the comments below; this video is not up to your usual standards. The "Caroll A. Deering" is much more of a mystery than the "Mary Celeste." The Moai of Easter Island, Stonehenge, etc. would have made this a better video.

[@fyurileblanc7206]

saw ball lightning once. came on a very clear day and we watched as it came down the long driveway, past the church and almost to the parsonage before dissipating. as kids, we thought the Bragg light from the nearby Bragg road had come to visit us.

[@libbymiss]

The Bermuda triangle actually has no more sunken ships than the rest of the ocean. People just take notice more frequently when it happens there.

[@juliobanos3159]

The Bermuda triangle had already been solved

[@janicegustafson2745]

Atlantis is the missing 2/3 of what is now the island of Santorini near Greece. There are archeological remains to prove it.

[@dats3]

Just curious: Has anyone wondered how many KZbinrs have Wikipedia to thank for their content?

[@kurtb8474]

Did they search the privvy for the Captain's log?

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Yes! And they found it... but sadly, it was wiped clean.

[@danni045]

This list was from 5 years ago

[@DyslexicGamer]

I saw an interesting video that explain that Atlantis was actually located in the eye of Africa which can be found in Mauritania near its border to Western Sahara which you can find on Google maps right now

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Atlantis is a FICTIONAL STORY! How often do people need to be told that? The story Plato wrote about a particular conversation couldn't be true as he wrote it over 40 years after the one character died! It's an analogy about what happens when those in charge get too full of themselves. It's still appropriate, clearly. As for Nessie, even if she exists, she can't be older than 12,000 years old. Ness is a glacial loch. There was no water in it during the last ice age (and all of the previous ones when the valley existed), the ice was full to the bottom of the loch and scraped it clean. Not even a tadpole could have survived that (assuming one could survive the freezing temperatures and hibernate for thousands of years!) The sailing stones 'mystery' was solved recently (before this came out IIRC). It's the ice and wind - it was filmed happening, I think. Too tired to look it up for now, but it definitely happened. One day there'll be different mysteries - in the meantime, we get the same ones over and over again, even when they aren't mysteries anymore.

[@catslade8958]

Number 12 was proven to be fake

[@deneentorkelson6131]

Greatest mystery to me is to know for certain who killed JFK? Did Oswald act alone? If not, then who aided him?

[@Bassingal]

Deneen, I'm in my 50's and I too want to know the answer to that question, as well as, DID we actually send men to the moon.

[@jalenikezeue4114]

Is it possible that Jack the Ripper left the country

[@jenniferlindsey2015]

The woolwich green kids...

[@Sireci73]

Jennifer Lindsey THAT is a real mystery, unlike some of these.

[@robertajill3070]

Solved. They were the children of dyers from either Belgium or Switzerland.

[@jakeg3126]

You should have the weird ocean boarders.. where oceans meet, they are 2 different colors.

[@thebammer5166]

0. Mysterious Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce Dec. 1913/Jan.1914?

[@richardbidinger2577]

One of the current theories about Atlantis, is that its location is in what is known as the Eye Of The Sahara. Watch the video on it from Bright Insight.

[@memyself5925]

We've seen all these to many times before. Mysteries through recent history.

[@rabarberellum1017]

Jimmy Hoffa is "swimming with the fish"

[@kathymain578]

No, he sleeps with the fishes.

[@rabarberellum1017]

@@kathymain578 Lol, you're right! My bad.

[@lunakaluna354]

I actually saw a rabbit like creature in my grandmas neighbors yard it has large sharp teeth it’s ears were pointed back and was pointy at the top it had reed eyes and huge claws it was eating a dead raccoon it looked at me and turned it’s head 360 degrees and attacked me

[@nbenefiel]

Did you die?

[@williamhild1793]

The biggest mystery of history is that, after all these years, we STILL don't know who let the dogs out. Come on, scientific community---solve that problem for us ONCE AND FOR ALL!

[@cb7pwn]

24 was solved a while ago, basically freeze and thaw of the ground mixed with good winds

[@wallymcallister5831]

My mother told me of a ball of lightning about the size of a basketball bouncing down the road and even through a house in Vernal, Utah when she was young.

[@doingstuffwithrus6574]

And the number one mystery of all: Understanding women's thoughts! 😁

[@AtMyShed]

#8, this woman came forth after the assassination. The records are easily found if research is done. However, so many stories have been told that leave out that fact, so now it is looked at as a mystery, one that is easily put to bed with a little time and work.

[@Boogaboop]

Half of these have been solved

[@snafubare]

#8 was supposedly solved she said she was the lady and the FBI did take all of her footage. Forget the name though

[@hendrikpetzer205]

Mike please make something of 25 fake fotos pi from south africa

[@AnOverratedMon]

just call the mystery gang

[@navret1707]

How about “The Jersey Devil” in the pine barrens in New Jersey?

[@saucecastillo460]

Duh....Erybody knows Jack the Ripper is LL Cool J. He useta murder MCs in queens. He made a song about it