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Table of Contents

This book is dedicated to Ryan Sweeney for endless support, to my parents, Lois and Adam Frater, who raised me to thirst for knowledge, and to my brother, Stewart, who inspired me to create Listverse. To you allthank you.

Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge the hard work of the Listverse administrators, Cynthia, Judy, and Dan. Their tireless work keeps Listverse running smoothly. Thanks also to Elsa, Trigun472, Randall, and warrrreagl for last minute finishing touches.

I would also like to thank Karma Bennett and the staff at Ulysses Press for allowing me to realize my dream of writing this book and for helping me every step of the way.

Thank you to each and every contributor of lists to the site or this book. The following is a non-exhaustive list of contributors:

downhighway61
Tempyra
Diogenes
JT
damien_karras
Blogball
StewWriter
Rushfan
Rolo Tomasi
Jimmy Burke
Abhishek
Tamala
Nicosia
Jono
Stevenh
Trigun472
The Anachronism
Heroajax
Grubthrower
Antmansbigxmas
Brotherman
MT
Kutuup
Kreachure
Dazednconfused
alextenn
Peter B-P
STL Mo
Steeveedee
F. McClure
SteveD
Randall
The Bed-headed
Stranger
TiffanyH
Tequila Mockingbird
Randy
Kazorek
Satori
Simon Arms
Kowzilla
Apepper
Vakattack91
Deletetechnique
Dangorironhide
B.C.
Cedestra
Hope
Patholdenmd
KGB99
Astraya
ChrisF
Dana
Mystern
Spanner-In-The-Works
Crubel
BishopWhiteT
DentShop
Bucslim
Skydiver
Jason Hirschhorn
Mathilda
Flibbertigibbet
Maman
JediMoonShyne
Gringo Joe

CHAPTER ONE

Bizarre Stuff

TOP 10 UNSOLVED MYSTERIES

10 THE BABUSHKA LADY

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, film footage that had been provided by a witness was carefully checked for clues to the killers identity. Unexpectedly, the film also showed a woman standing on a grassy knoll wearing a brown overcoat and scarf. Because she looked like a Russian grandmother (babushka) she was labeled The Babushka Lady. She appeared to be filming the scene and she continued to do so even as the majority of the crowd fled after the shooting. She eventually walked away to the east up Elm Street where she disappeared from history forever. The FBI requested that the woman come forward but she never did. Her true identity and perhaps her involvement in the crime are unknown to this day.

9 THE ZODIAC KILLER

The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who was active in Northern California for ten months in the late 1960s. He is believed to have killed at least five people and injured two. After one of the killings, the police received a phone call from a man claiming to be the killerhe admitted to two previous killings. The man eventually sent a series of letters to the press that included ciphers that he claimed would lead to his identity. While the majority of the codes were broken, eighteen letters remain unsolved. The ciphers did not help the police and the identity of the killer has never been determined. The prime suspect, Arthur Leigh Allen, was never convicted despite an enormous amount of circumstantial evidence against him.

8 JACK THE RIPPER

Jack the Ripper is probably the most famous serial killer in history. He was active in the later half of 1888 in London. He committed his crimes mostly in the poor Whitechapel area and his victims were typically prostitutes. In some cases the bodies of the victims were discovered only minutes after the Ripper had left the scene. Despite a large list of suspects, the police have never been able to uncover the identity of the notorious murderer.

7 THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT

The Voynich Manuscript is a book written in the Middle Ages in an unknown language using an unknown alphabet system. Attempts have been made to interpret the document for over one hundred years but there has not been a single breakthrough. The book includes illustrations of plants (some unknown to modern botanists) and astronomical information. It is possible that the book was the work of an alchemist who used codes to keep his discoveries private but, until the book is decoded, no one really knows for sure.

6 COMTE DE SAINT-GERMAIN

The Count of St. Germain was a mysterious man from the eighteenth century who was skilled in music, art, and alchemy. His origin was unknown and he eventually disappeared without a trace. There were rumors that he had discovered an elixir of youth and several people in recent years have claimed to be him. Some people also believe that he appeared through history as various historical figures such as St. Joseph, Plato, and Roger Bacon (under whose guise some claim he wrote the complete works of Shakespeare).

5 THE BLACK DAHLIA

In 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short was discovered cut into two pieces in a parking lot in Los Angeles. The press dubbed the then-unidentified woman The Black Dahliaafter a movie playing called The Blue Dahlia . The investigation into Shorts murder was one of the largest in the history of the city, however, despite this, the motivation and identity of the killer have never been uncovered.

4 THE TAOS HUM

The Taos Hum is a low-pitched sound that can be heard in various parts of the world, but especially in the United States and Europe. It is described as sounding like a distant engine and it is undetectable by microphones and other electronic monitoring equipment. It is most famous for its occurrence in Taos, New Mexicothe town from which it takes its name. In 1997, the United States Congress asked scientists and observers to find the source of the soundthey were unable to do so.

3 THE MARY CELESTE

Mary Celeste was a 280-ton ship launched in Nova Scotia in 1860. When the ship was ten years old, she was purchased from a salvage yard for three thousand dollars and put to use carrying alcohol from the United States to Genoa, Italy. The ship was eventually discovered floating in the middle of the Strait of Gibraltar with no one onboard and no sign of struggle. All documents except the captains log (which gave no clue to the mystery) were missing. In 1973 two lifeboats containing six bodies and an American flag were found on the coast of Spainthe bodies were never identified but there is some speculation that they may have been the members of the Mary Celeste s crew.

2 THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE

The Bermuda Triangle is a large area of ocean in the North Atlantic that has been the source of many plane and boat disappearances. A number of explanations (many are not particularly credible) have been offered for the mystery, which include bad weather, time warps, and alien abductions. There is substantial documentation to show that many of the disappearances have been exaggerated, but even if those are excluded from the total count, the odds of vanishing are higher in the triangle than anywhere else.

1 THE SHROUD OF TURIN

The Shroud of Turin is allegedly the burial shroud of Jesus Christ mentioned in John 20:6-7, which bears the image of a crucified man. Despite many scientific investigations, no explanation exists for how the image could have been imprinted on the cloth. No attempts to replicate the image have been successful. Radiocarbon tests date it to the Middle Ages, but its existence has been known since at least the fourth century, and pollen and weave testing put it at the time of Jesus. Interestingly, both the shroud and another cloth (the Sudarium of Oviedo) appear to have been placed on the same man and contain traces of the same blood type (AB)rare in Europeans in the Middle Ages but common in Middle Eastern people.

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