Top 20 Greatest Historical Mysteries

These historical mysteries continue to baffle scientists and amature sleuths the world over. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down the most enduringly perplexing or disputed social, scientific and civilizational mysteries from throughout history. Our countdown of the greatest historical mysteries includes The Bermuda Triangle, The Holy Grail, Jack the Ripper, Stonehenge, The Disappearance of Flight MH370, and more! What do you think is the most interesting unsolved mystery from the depths of history? Let us know in the comments.
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[@WatchMojo]

What do you think is the most interesting unsolved mystery from the depths of history? Let us know in the comments. For more content like this, click here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5eummmCZb96rtE Don't forget to play our Live Trivia (www.watchmojo.com/play) games at 3pm EST for a chance to win cash! The faster you answer, the more points you get!

[@Jesusfreak79]

Hi Watchmojo 👋 I'm first

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@Jesusfreak79 they dont care about your pointless comment number

[@davidbayliss4415]

They are still incredible

[@Jesusfreak79]

@@davidbayliss4415 heard that reaper? They're still incredible

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@Jesusfreak79you need to stop mentioning me in your comments. That gives it away that you are Dr greenthumb on a new account

[@bigtim810]

Just imagine how much knowledge has been lost over the millennia from wars and destruction. I weep at the thought of what had been lost when the library of Alexandria was set ablaze.

[@Dopecheetah]

I feel the same about the Library of Alexandria. The things lost in that fire are crazy! Historians say we only know about 2% of history. The further you go back in time the less we know.

[@Codzilla3]

You weep?

[@rkymtnchi503]

@@Codzilla3 it's a saying. On side note, when someone shows their poker hand and says, "read 'em and weep", they really don't expect you to start crying. You'll figure it out one day...maybe

[@Spyderredtoo]

King Phillip had borrowed a lot of money from the Templars, then refused to repay the loan and got the Pope to dissolve the Order and divide the Templar wealth between the two.

[@guidorotunda1321]

I would have liked to see the lost tombs of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Cleopatra, & Attila the Hun on this list & I think would make a great top 100 to

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

they might have said that Cleopatra was black.

[@manueltapia1859]

In the case of Genghis during his burial it said that all the people who atended the funeral were killed to prevent the location of his grave 😮

[@IzzyandShadow]

@@benderbendingrofriguez3300she would have. Wen olive skinned she was Mesopotamian Greek

[@michaelmccarthy5455]

I believe that they discovered the Tunguska event was determined to be a meteorite. The reason they didn't find anything was the fragments looked like ordinary stones or were even smaller. Also, the fact that the trees face radially outward means the "impact" was in the center. It could be the meteorite caused a downburst.

[@krzysztofkosmakosinski8009]

there was no impact, it must've blew over trees

[@michaelmccarthy5455]

@@krzysztofkosmakosinski8009 That's what they believe, especially with the scattering of the debris.

[@CM-dw2xr]

For many years it was believed to be a comet nucleus that exploded just above the ground. Whether the fragments show a solid meteorite or a comet debris, most likely it wasn't much of an impact to leave no discernable crater.

[@willowjeanmeadowshupe7342]

Okay question though, can a meteorite cause radiation? I'm just curious. Because a couple of people from the group were found to have radiation all over them.

[@CM-dw2xr]

@@willowjeanmeadowshupe7342 Not normally, because the detonations do not involve nuclear reactions, so no radiation is produced.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Amelia Earhart's Disappearance...All these Years later & people are still trying to solve this mystery.

[@vandavis000]

Hearsay that video proof of japaneese soliders killing her soon as she was approached. Anyway something very bad happened.😢

[@LokiBJH]

There is a leading theory that her plane crashed off of an island and she had to swim to shore. There, she became unconscious in some way where coconut crabs got to her.

[@80sfreak1979]

The lost princes in the tower has always fascinated me

[@Phoenixoflife56]

11:03 it’s confirmed that at least several celestial events line up with stones of Stonehenge so it’s widely accepted that it was meant to as a way to track celestial cycles

[@kennyboggs3676]

According to Arthurian legend the wizard Merlin brought the stones from Ireland back to Britain and there using his magic powers he built Stonehenge.

[@gloria88246]

But that doesn't mean we know for sure though right like 100%

[@BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! 2:20 I heard a couple of interesting theories about that incident. 1. There is a some kind of supernatural entity who is offended by a group of people venturing into that region. Apparently, a similar number of the locals were venturing the region throughout history were all killed in the same manner, and the locals warned them not to go there. 2. The victims with the worst wounds were found buried underneath an impossible depth of the snow, and they were initially listed as missing when the rescuers searched the region. 3. The locals who were worried were looking at the camp site from far away, and noticed the same orange light, that was rumored to be the hostile attacker since the ancient times, was flying near the camp site at night. 4. The same light was photographed by one of the victims, and that was their last photograph. There was another similar incident recently, and that group had a survivor -- a woman who doesn't remember things from that night very well. That recent incident is not well known like the Dyatlov Pass incident, but the recent incident also had a similar number of explorers killed.

[@ArtMysteries135]

Great video! Loved the content and style of your presentation. This video was really helpful, thanks for sharing.

[@endoetz]

you forgot The Ark of Covenant

[@GarrettHampton2004]

You guys are on the decline man, yall just be using the same topics and change the titles with 1 word differences, what a shame man

[@WinsberryEntertainment]

Well they've been doing these lists for over a decade. There's only so much stuff they can cover.

[@GarrettHampton2004]

@@WinsberryEntertainment well they don’t need to pump out 4 videos a day, they need to stop and take time and make 1 daily upload that’s good

[@gloria88246]

25 million subscribers and counting seems like they're doing something right LOL 😂🤷‍♀️

[@jesusromanpadro3853]

I live in San Juan, Puerto Rico. One of the points of the Bermuda Triangle. Not counting social media, I haven't hear anything abot the Bermuda Triangle since the 80s. Is a main route for boats and airplanes, and there is no news about it. Not idea why it is on this list. 🤷‍♂️

[@damoose1376]

I agree 200%😊

[@JOHNFRAN1977]

because of all the boats and planes that vanished i think

[@jesusromanpadro3853]

I do understand why this became a thing. It just that the answer has been out for decades. It doesn't make sense to have it here on this list.

[@JOHNFRAN1977]

no one 100 percent proven what caused them to disappear just theories but i never heard anyone say they solved it@@jesusromanpadro3853

[@dontwakethedeadp.jankey9592]

The Dyatlav Pass incident facinates me.

[@MidniteSpectre]

We'll probably never know what happened.

[@jediknightjairinaiki560]

It's been determined it was an avalanche.

[@MzPrettyDimplez]

The Dyatlov pass has fascinated me for years! Like wtf happened!!!

[@penelopeviews7335]

The fact that we know more about space then what's at the bottom of the ocean makes me nervous.

[@julianaylor4351]

I don't think we should insult our ancestors, by doubting their ability to build things like the Pyramids or Stonehenge. Just because we don't know the exact details of how they did, doesn't mean they didn't do it.

[@Vishal-sr1uj]

Context??🥲🥲

[@julianaylor4351]

@@Vishal-sr1uj Because they built them, because these wild theories about aliens building them come from a seventies cult author.....it is insultingly rude to the entire human race. There are ancient structures all over the world built using primitive tools and rudimentary forms of transport, like rafts and rollers and later wheeled animal pulled carts and early forms of boat. That is the context. Our genetic cousins the apes use tools and build simple shelters. This alien conspiracy stuff is just that, insulting rubbish. Go read some history, prehistoric and ancient and look up anthropology and while you're at it look up that nutty set of books, starting with Chariots Of The Gods. Total lunacy, a modern version of a witch finding manual. 😒

[@dannybaumflek8693]

There's small groups of people in England trying to rebuild a castle or a few using old methods so we can understand and appreciate how these structures were built and held strong over the ages, I saw a video about a group of people in China doing the same with the great wall of China

[@ryanward5770]

It's also hilarious because a pyramid is literally the easiest structure to build. Being the most stable structure possible its pretty obvious why a large amount of ancient structures still standing are pyramids.

[@thelonelypotato1799]

When they call Roanoke a mystery but they literally left a note 🤨

[@kennyboggs3676]

The famous English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh was so saddened by not knowing what had happened to the Roanoke colonists he was quoted as saying: "all my wealth I would give to God to know that they were alive and safe!"

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

The Easter Island Heads - People have been speculating for Years who made them & why?

[@michaelmccarthy5455]

The Moai were built by the people of Easter Island.

[@LokiBJH]

There is a college class that shows how they were moved to. A rope was wrapped around in such a way that people could be a counter balance in the back will others pull from the sides to walk it. Think like when you have to move a washing machine or something heavy by yourself and you end up having to "walk it" to move it.

[@shaldana]

That's been solved & proven. No longer a mystery.

[@Spyderredtoo]

I sailed in and through the so-called “Bermuda Triangle . It was just a long period of ocean with no place to stop for a while.

[@KalidescopeKreations]

That’s prob exactly why so many people are lost there lol

[@KalidescopeKreations]

Its like how people think the deep woods are full of mystical creatures that kill you but in reality most ppl get lost and blow through their supplies, eventually dying in some natural way

[@letolethe3344]

It's pretty funny that Mojo just used most of these exact same "mysteries" in a video about historical questions that have been SOLVED. That means they're not mysteries any more. See, this where this channel undercuts its integrity and quality--it recycles material over and over (see the repetitive and sordid "karens" series on here, where they repeat the same incidents dozens of times).

[@themastermind5638]

This is what i have said before, too. This watchmojo channel loves to recycle material and lists and just slightly changes the name of the video title. I guess posting multiple lists and videos a day has run their creativity out.

[@vanessastegall]

@@themastermind5638 it hasn’t

[@n0namesowhatblerp362]

Thanks won't bother watching it now

[@gloria88246]

25 million subscribers seems like they're doing something right LOL

[@gloria88246]

​@@n0namesowhatblerp362you should actually 🤷‍♀️

[@julianaylor4351]

There is another triangle in the US, there is an area of the Rockies that does have a problem. Aircraft have been lost due to dangerous cross winds.

[@cherrypink1108]

I think we need to give more credit to our ancient ancestors and the way they did things. I do agree how mind boggling it is to see these structures but I think they very well built them all.

[@davinp]

If MH370 crashed into the ocean, the wreckage has not been found almost 10 years later. That part of the ocean is very deep, deeper than where the Titanic wreckage is. Also, since planes don't leave a debris field, it would be very hard to find the plane's wreckage.

[@SolemnGear]

I love the idea of Leonardo DaVinci being so brilliant that he devised the still indecipherable language of the Voynich Manuscript as a child.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

6:36 Indiana Jones already beat ya to that one. 🤠

[@loisbock9591]

Nazca lines. Wow.

[@charlottefitton6626]

Templars are still a thing, but it is more ceremonial. Now I know someone who was sworn in and he has a sword and everything.

[@IzzyandShadow]

Aren’t they the stonemasons now?

[@kraigowaffles2110]

No mystery about the Pyramids. I think it's universally believed they used a ramp system to build them. And the Egyptians, like a lot of early civilizations (and current ones even), held the moon and stars in great importance and makes sense they would build them to align with constellations.

[@gloria88246]

But we don't know for sure though, 100% beyond a reasonable Doubt

[@RayBaird-sy2ok]

Shroud of Turin info needs to be updated

[@magnificentuniverse2283]

You have the cause of the bronze age collapse at like 18 or 19. But the antikythera(sp?) mechanism at 2 and the wow signal at 1. The wow signal is a fucking pulsar. Boom solved. The antikythera mechanism is certainly cool but it's a mechanical/gear operated astrological device. It not only wasn't accurate but isn't high technology at all.

[@michaelward5370]

To be fair the Antikethera mechanism was hi-tech for the time it was developed!!

[@michaelward5370]

By the way, I don't know if I spelt it correctly either!!

[@kleine.5438]

The mechanism is the most intriguing

[@Keithfire100]

Interesting

[@Ramenko1]

Whoa, I made it early to a WatchMojo video. VERY NICE!😎💯

[@Reaperguy67]

Like anyone else asked if you did

[@Ramenko1]

@@Reaperguy67 got you to comment, didn't it? Hahahahaha

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@Ramenko1 doesn't matter. Your comment is still pointless

[@Ramenko1]

@@Reaperguy67 hahahahahahahahahajajahjajahahahajajaj

[@anhurtorrez]

The Bermuda Triangle is not a mystery anymore, there has nothing strange happened in years and only reason it ever showed up was because it was the most traveled rout at the time, same with the Devils Triangle. The Shroud of Turin was already figued out to be fake, and the lost city of Alantis is just a myth so no idea why they are even on this list. You have Jake the Ripper, but not the zodiac killer, nor what happened to Amelia Airheart.

[@IzzyandShadow]

Deluded religious people still thinking it’s real that’s why

[@mannyfresh89]

Hey @watchmojo for number 2, your chapter has a typo. Should be “Antikythera mechanism.”

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Connected by Reno, Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Fresno, California, the Nevada Triangle’s perplexing plane disappearance causations would make any pilot wary about traveling through it. I’m surprised that’s not on this list. As of 2018, 2000 planes have vanished in that region in the last 60 years.

[@michaelward5370]

That doesn't sound right, that would mean more than 30 aircraft a year would be disappearing!!

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

@@michaelward5370Yeah, I should’ve taken that last part out.

[@StephenHernandez-or1yh]

*INTERESTING!* 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@henrymilles5744]

I also hear that "Nights Templar" is the name of a Trope in Fiction. (TV/Movies/Books/etc.).

[@C.Y.123]

OMG STOP, Please don't go the way of the History Channel and start with conspiracy theories as actual facts

[@tylaw6173]

They didn't once say anything was an actual fact.. it literally has in the video title "mysteries"

[@DarthRaver12]

Man I love watch mojo. Been watching Since I Was a kid and still well into being a adult nothing hits like a top 20 in the morning before work :)

[@Jesusfreak79]

Same I have been watching watchmojo since 2013

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@Jesusfreak79 no you haven't. You made a new account yesterday

[@GarrettHampton2004]

@@Reaperguy67doesn’t mean he hasn’t been watching since 2013? Different KZbin channel or he could’ve not have made a KZbin account lol

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@GarrettHampton2004 true. Probably lying about it .

[@Rogertaylorscar.]

Sameee omg

[@krzysztofkosmakosinski8009]

I think bronze age collapse has most scientific value and answer to this question should be look after most.

[@Phoenixoflife56]

2:57 we have a likely answer to this one. The explorers made a mistake when setting up camp and a significant amount of sow and ice fell onto their camp killing most and forcing those who survived to quickly flee

[@joeyfajardo2920]

explain the missing eyes and tongues then

[@Phoenixoflife56]

@@joeyfajardo2920 it depends on if the missing eyes and tongue were from those who survived the ice falling on the tent

[@drewsmith2156]

The story of Atlantis was a work of fiction. It was a story about the dangers of hording wealth and technology. No mystery there.

[@daduceplaysgames8276]

I like most of the items yall chose to put on the list, but not the order you chose to put them in though. Also, Jack the Ripper identity is interesting, but not one of 'Greatest Historical Mysteries'.

[@johnniewoodard648]

Voynich Manuscript a mystery? Maybe you should read some of the things written by collage students during a long weekend of cannibals, alcohol, and shrooms.

[@catfishmudflap]

Another unsolved mystery is the purpose behind the horribly monotonous background music in this video.

[@Atrus999]

The dancing plague just sounds like an early day flash mob.

[@boozmiller]

The Dancing Plague "I guess Gloria Esteban was right, the rhythm is eventually going to get you" - Chandler Bing

[@TonysOfficialCreations]

The unsolved mystery is why you guys keep showing the #1 in the intro!

[@nikdenbak3961]

what about all the stuff we're going to find under Antarctica when it melts? Could be all sorts under there!

[@julianaylor4351]

Maybe Roger from American Dad, wrote that weird book. 😆

[@nicholasforan9105]

Did anyone else notice the guy’s hat at 13:47?

[@Yankeerock-dr3jf]

Where is the arc of the covenant on this and the menorah? Two of the greatest mysteries of all time.

[@aaronhepler8070]

Who gives a shit?

[@Yankeerock-dr3jf]

@@aaronhepler8070 y respond like an asshole all I did was suggest cooler, more interesting and greater mysteries for next time. Look if u want to talk about ur life that no one gives a shit about go for it but don’t respond like an asshole.

[@UnknownLegend157-kp8xr]

Datolov was confirmed to be a avalanche

[@KalidescopeKreations]

The dancing plague sounds like the work of a witch lol

[@deatherutts]

What is so weird about the "on" computer part found near Greece wasn't someone making mechanical thing's back then 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@frankeeramirez5241]

yeah the dancing plaque was deff them making coke for the first time lol

[@DanMarshburn-il2sd]

God works in mysterious ways.

[@joeb.evrythngEclectic5571]

Involuntary Footloose!

[@noelabuela8248]

The Zodiac Killer and the Ark of the Covenant

[@nateburns5647]

hey how about you do top 20 most violent deaths in star wars

[@elfytheenby]

Honestly mh370 will always terrify me

[@scottlemiere2024]

Why is the shroud even on here? It wasn't just carbon dating that showed it was fake, so did the weaving pattern and composition of the cloth.

[@Jenjen2021]

The carbon dating was proven to be wrong when only a portion that was repaired during the middle ages was tested. You should keep up with the more current results.

[@durivage1]

MH370 blows my mind. With all the tech and how small the world has become and yet nothing. Crazy stuff😮

[@hudahekizzy8402]

Really, the Bermuda Triangle? Next...

[@viewsfromthecrater]

the best is just before watching this one, i watched the "Top 20 Historical Mysteries That Have Been Solved" video WatchMojo posted 6 months ago that features the explanation for the Bermuda Triangle

[@melvinkeller1466]

Don’t understand the Bronze Age collapse as we watch the collapse of modern age

[@toadskywalker6417]

The dark mages from fire emblem three houses has plague doctor mask design, the same goes for the dark bishops

[@epic8923]

Where is the Flying Dutchman?

[@SMproductions05]

All the dads who went to buy milk & never came back😢

[@Wolfgath]

Dyatlov Pass isn't a mystery. One hiker was a much older disgruntled ww2 vet that had a meltdown and tried to murder the group of young adults by forcing them into the extreme cold without clothes. When he returned to check if they were dead, they weren't and fought him to the death, but all of them died anyway.

[@Lemmholddat]

1:59 they took those ppl

[@user-gv1ob9mb5g]

jack the ripper is actually "Jose Rizal", the national hero of the Philippines hahaha

[@jimbo9208]

prove it

[@commentator1294]

I case of doubt, there’s always the aliens😅

[@Jenjen2021]

You're wrong about the Shroud; only a small part of it was tested, and that part was proven to have been mended during the middle ages. The Shroud has not been debunked, it is the most studied archeological relic and remains a mystery

[@benjaminschuler7221]

To Nr. 3 how did they even saw what they where doing? They had no Planes or Drones to watch it from above. Must had some pretty big towers around.

[@PhilipBarron]

It’s SCP-049 in the thumbnail, lol

[@SirsasthNigam.]

No that's normal plague doctor

[@PhilipBarron]

@@SirsasthNigam. I know, I just jokingly nicknamed him SCP-049.

[@davidtownsend6092]

Basically none of these are mysteries

[@Potrimpo]

If George Lucas studies the Knights Templar if he hadn't before, then what are the chances the Star Wars prequels wouldn't be worse than The Rise of Skywalker (2019)?

[@seanrivers4667]

Please for the love of God find other things most of these things are on other lists nothing was new here 😢

[@algernopkrieger138]

Jack the Ripper worked for the Vorlons

[@CM-dw2xr]

Most of these are explainable as bad luck, coincidence, or just the details of how something was built. Interesting but merely lost in history. Another one like that which isn't mentioned is Greek fire. The dancing plague is probably going to turn out to be something simple, like the Salem Witches are now known to have been poisoned by ergot. The Voich Manuscript will eventually be deciphered, although I find it to be one of the more interesting ones. However, the two that seem to stand out are the Nazca lines, which I think clearly show some kind of flight must have been available to the creators (not aliens, just someone who figured out how to make a hot air balloon), and the Antium Mechanism which also clearly has some component of technology far, far beyond its time (not aliens, just an unknown Leonardo daVinci type of brilliant mind).

[@Ramenko1]

I don't remember C-3P0 having a silver leg. He was always ALL GOLD. I don't care what you say. Mandela Effect or not! He was ALL GOLD!

[@denisalexandre7028]

I know what Owen Wilson would say about the "wow" signal. He woukd say:"wow"

[@jorgeadairramos7469]

Hello good nights

[@RockandRoll-cc8kj]

I don’t know why the pyramids are always on these lists. Like we know how they were built, the answers and proof are out there people

[@erec707]

B.S. If we truly knew how they were built, why can’t we build structures like that?

[@RockandRoll-cc8kj]

@@erec707 we could if we wanted to but there’s no need to. Pyramids were built for pharaohs to rest their dead bodies in. Also today’s society doesn’t appreciate good architecture anymore. Like look at Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece and look at the structures they built. U can make the same argument with them because we don’t build like that anymore. Doesn’t mean it’s not possible

[@douglasbunch3313]

@@erec707we can. Easily. Just not using the same means they did

[@jimbo9208]

@@RockandRoll-cc8kj if your so smart why not build one yourself

[@unknown5150variable]

​@@jimbo9208​you know liking your own comment is punishable by $100 fine, but its enforced by KZbin so you'll probably never get caught.

[@george_p99]

Niste stavili Dražin grob. To he najveća nerešena misterija.

[@sirtunacan]

8:19 it's been proven that that type of shroud could have been made with I believe 3 materials. It's not actually a miracle or anything like that.

[@ignaciomerzthal9330]

13:48 guy with a pervert hat 💀

[@gnmefewe]

The debunking of the shroud of Turin was debunked a few years ago

[@pdmullgirl]

Sharon, Sharon, Sharon!!!! This was fantastic! Ya know I didn’t even watch the video about the bad comments. I don’t get people. I was raised with the motto, if you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all. I just don’t understand being mean to someone just because you don’t agree with them or don’t like their craft. What purpose does that serve? However, I will oblige folks who are being mean sometimes with a reply. Anyway, I love these ideas!! And so glad you gave your pricing. I’ve got my creative juices flowing now! Thanks Sharon! ❤️💜💚

[@deatherutts]

Hey if a whole continent named Atlantis can disappear wouldn't be hard for a plane

[@yorucyber2630]

Croatoa was me, the other me didnt want anyone to colonize

[@markmariano7990]

One of greatest historical mysteries is... the ONE PIECE

[@w1ndgeneral226]

Here's a challenge for you guys: *Top ten "Karens" that we actually root for.*

[@timanglen3569]

Most of these mysteries have been solved. They only mysteries if you watch ancient aliens

[@JordaneseTyphoon-jk6fr]

The Tunguska event was solved though…

[@yorucyber2630]

The black plagues was the other me too, every world ending event was because of the other me, they would step in to stop it

[@ernestoestrada2200]

Dyatlov Pass has been debunked no ? I thought it did.

[@yorucyber2630]

Btw the ones thst made our simulation believe the word human means indomitable spirit