Seven very mystical stories

The mystery of a lonely traveler, the secret of the master with a piece of paper and other detective stories described by journalists

In August 2016, The Daily Beast published detailed material about the death of two tourists from Holland in the jungle of Panama, which occurred under extremely mysterious circumstances. There are not so many truly mystical stories that journalists around the world are written; Medusa retells the most interesting of them.

The secret of Panama jungle

Two students from Amsterdam went to Panama to learn Spanish and spend the holidays in a warm country. With a clear day on April 1, they left the tourist town of box and went on an excursion to the Baru Volcano. As a rule, the ascent takes a couple of hours; Every day, several dozen tourists pass along the path. The girls never returned from the walk.

The mysterious disappearance with the paths of the paths of the path, confused testimonies of the people who saw the girls the last, gave rise to many rumors about what happened that day. The guide was accused of their disappearance, who was supposed to lead a student at the volcano - local residents claim that the guide had previously come across sexual harassment to foreign tourists.

The disappearance of the Indians living in the tropical forests around the tropical forests was also accused - supposedly they could rob and kill tourists or abduct them and sell them into sexual slavery. All search expeditions, including those undertaken by the Dutch authorities, ended in nothing. Only a few months later, the Indians of the Nigob tribe brought to the police the box found near the Ryukzak River - a few kilometers from the tourist path.

According to photographs and data from the phone that ended up in a backpack, you can restore some details of what happened to the girls in the tropical forests of Panama. It became clear that at least one girl was alive for another week. According to the official version, the girls got lost, but the circumstances of their death are still a mystery.

Where to read. In August 2016, The Daily Beast published a large -scale investigation in three parts, gaining access to photographs and data from the phone of girls. The journalist went to Panama, spoke with local authorities, guides and local residents. The publication also talked with survival experts in extreme conditions. The author of the Murders.ru website Alexei Rakitin, who described the mysterious death of tourists on Dyatlov’s pass, also talks about the missing people in Panama. Versions of Rakitin and The Daily Beast vary in some details and the presentation of the material.

The secret of a person with a pile of paper

On December 1, 1948, a man in a sweater and a double -breasted jacket, about 180 centimeters, was found on the Australian coast in the city of Adelaide. All the labels on the clothes were cut off, the man had no documents. There were no traces of violence on the body of the deceased, and the cause of death was reliably established. Presumably, he could be poisoned or poisoned himself.

In the pocket of the trousers, the men found a piece of paper with the words “Tamam Shud”, cut out of a rare copy of the collected works of Omar Khayyam. The volume from which the phrase was cut out, then found. There was an incomprehensible inscription on the book, to solve the meaning of which has not yet been possible. During the further investigation, investigators found many evidence, but not a single reliable version of events could be drawn up.

Where to read. It is worth starting with Wikipedia . In Russian, you can also read about this case here and here . There is a relatively lively public VKontakte, one of the participants of which claims that the cipher in a volume of Omar Hayyam was unraveled . You can get acquainted with the topic deeper on Reddit in a post , where one of the specialists in the case of a mysterious man answers questions.

The mystery of the board MH370

On March 8, 2014, the passenger plane of the Malaysia Airlines, which has been a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared over the Indian Ocean. The dispatchers from Malaysia and Vietnam tried in vain to contact the crew.

After the loss of communication, the plane abruptly left the course and headed deeper into the Indian Ocean. He flew about seven hours. So far, only a few wreckage of the aircraft has been found, and in unexpected places - and although the airline itself last year officially recognized everyone who was on it, dead, no full version of what happened so far does not exist.

Of course, this story gave rise to a lot of conspiracy theories: from the assumptions that the aircraft was stolen by the Americans, so that then the disaster of another flight of the same airline over the territory of the unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic (according to this version, there were corpses, and they were remotely blown up by the bomb), according to which the pilot directed the plane to the ocean consciously , consciously, consciously, consciously, consciously, consciously, consciously. Having done the life of suicide in this way.

Where to read. Articles in Wikipedia (in Russian and English ) about MH370 are drawn to the book - so it makes sense to start with it the most meticulous. We will advise the rest of the GQ material, which tells the story of not only the plane itself, but also the relatives of passengers who are trying to somehow get used to the fact that their relatives most likely died, but not a fact. In addition, you can familiarize yourself with the material of the New York magazine, where the author, an aviation expert who, in the months after the aircraft disappeared by the regulars of CNN broadcasts, tells how he had an obsessive idea that the aircraft was inflated to Kazakhstan on the order of Vladimir Putin.

The secret of the Nazis gold

For some reason, Adolf Hitler for some reason ordered to build a system of tunnels in the owl mountains in Poland. Why it was needed is still unknown; According to one version, he wanted to place his headquarters there. One way or another, tunnels were built in the mountains. According to legend, at the end of the war in one of these tunnels, a train stuffed with gold and jewelry was left. One Polish miner was allegedly told by German workers.

Whether this train exists is still unknown. That miner spent his whole life in search, but found nothing. Polish special services did not find the composition. In August 2015, two treasure hunters announced that the train was allegedly found. Hundreds of tourists immediately arrived in the vicinity of its alleged detection. Nevertheless, the Nazis gold has not yet been found, the search continues.

Where to read. Medusa wrote about this story in August 2015. Since then, more than one note has been published about the seekers of the German train. Quite closely, The New York Times is watching their adventures. The last article , which states that the train has not been found yet, but the city of Valbzhih, closest to the search, bathe in money due to the influx of tourists, was released in August 2016.

The secret of a falling person

A photograph of a person in a white shirt and good shoes, which seem to calmly fly upside down to his own death against the backdrop of buildings of skyscrapers of the World Commercial Center - one of the symbols of the attacks on September 11. In this picture, a monstrous tragedy and a terrible fascinating beauty of what happened are clearly conveyed. However, one question remains - what is the name of a falling person? Who is he?

Obviously, he is one of those who jumped out of the twin towers, realizing that they could not be saved-but there were at least two hundred such people. There are two main versions: the first is Norberto Ernandez, who worked as a cook in the Windows of the World restaurant on the 106th floor of the Northern Tower. The second is that this is Jonathan Brailie, who worked in the same restaurant an audio technician. Officially, the name of a falling person was never named.

Where to read. The material of Tom Junod in Esquire is one of the best journalistic statements about September 11 in general; It was Junod that suggested that in the photo - Braili. The version of Ernandes is presented and proved as much as possible in the material of The Globe and Mail, which appeared a few days after the attack.

The secret of a lonely traveler

In August 2005, the neighbors of a resident of Alaska named Richard went to him in a trailer and were surprised: there was an ideal order, he laid out all the things in the boxes and wrote the names of relatives or friends on them, thus leaving the inheritance. No one else has ever seen Richard, who took with him only a gun and tourist supplies.

Soon, the remains of a man with a foot injury were found in the forest. Without waiting for DNA experts, the police decided that this was Richard, and gave the remains for burial to relatives. The deadly sick mother and his father buried his son. But the news soon came: according to the results of the DNA research, it turned out to be another person. Richard's father did not dare to tell his father about this.

The news of the DNA research was simultaneously received by another family, looking for her relative for several years. He left for a salary in a neighboring town and disappeared. On the sidelines in the snowdrift found only a car. It turned out that the found remains belong to this person. But where did Richard go?

Where to read. It is this story that is described in the brilliant text of the Pulitzer laureate Alex Tizona in The Atlantic. The translation is in VKontakte. In general, legends are composed about people missing in Alaska - up to the point that the aliensabduct them. About this they even shot the film "Fourth View."

The secret of the corpse on the mountain trail

In December 2015, in a mountainous area in the north of England, a corpse of a middle -aged man in a strange pose was found. It seemed that he accepted it specifically: the body lay on his back strictly parallel to the travelers trail; Hands were crossed on the stomach. The man had no documents with him (but there was a jar with a poisonous substance Strichnin).

The police managed to restore the last way of a person in detail: from the London station to Manchester - and further into nature; A few hours before his death, he went into a bar, located near the park, where he later died, and asked how to get to the top of the mountain - and the bartender was striking that the man was dressed in a completely incomplete way.

Also, during the investigation, it was possible to establish that the man, apparently, was somehow connected with Pakistan: in particular, Strichnin was produced there-as well as in the Pakistani clinic, a titanium plate was installed, which found in a man in the leg. On this, however, all - what kind of person it was and why he decided to die on this mountain is unclear.

It adds mysticisms of the whole situation that the area where they found a corpse is often connected with tragedies-for example, it was here that Yang Brady and Mayra Hindley , one of the most famous serial killers in the history of Great Britain, was buried in the mid-1960s.

Where to read. In detailed material on the BBC-which is also very intricately designed: for example, you can follow all the stages of the last trip of a mysterious man. Moreover, cases when people die a mysterious death, and then nothing about them is not clear, it is not so rare - for example, there is a story of a person who, three days after September 11, 2001, settled in a motel on the western coast of the United States under a fictional name and soon hanged there; Who he was and why he committed suicide is still unclear.