10 Mysterious Stories
10 Mysterious Stories
Numerous conspiracy theories have long been perceived by almost all sane people as a form of mental insanity, but sometimes life itself “throws up” such that you involuntarily begin to believe in nonsense about conspiracies of sinister organizations, sects of ruthless killers and “world government”. Moreover, no theories, as a rule, can compete with a terrible and often absurd reality.
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| 10 Mysterious Stories |
1. Vatican Disappearances
It is believed that the Vatican with its Holy See is a place whose energy excludes the influence of any unkind forces, however, sometimes even the close presence of the pontiff cannot prevent sinister and inexplicable events.
On June 22, 1983, Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a bank employee, said goodbye to her sister and went to school, but the 15-year-old girl never returned home. Of course, teenagers can run away from their parents to relax with friends, and such cases are not so rare, but usually, such fugitives are found after a few days, or they return themselves.
Sometime after the disappearance of Emanuela, the girl’s parents received several strange phone calls: people spoke with various accents, similar to Middle Eastern, American and Italian. According to the callers, the girl was held captive, they were supposed to exchange her for Mehmet Ali Agjah, a Turkish extremist who shot at Pope John Paul II in 1981, but later the calls stopped and the investigation yielded no results.
Other versions of Emanuela’s disappearance were put forward, including an attempt to extort money from the Vatican Bank, where the schoolgirl’s father worked, and last year, father Gabriele Amort, during the time of John Paul II, the main exorcist of the Holy See, even voiced the assumption that the girl was abducted Vatican police to use her as a sexual slave. Gabriele Amort is known for his ambiguous statements, for example, he once said that the books about Harry Potter’s adventures are an absolute evil, however, in favor of his version of the disappearance of Emanuel Orlandi, the fact that only 40 days before this, the 15-year-old disappeared without a trace, Mirella Gregory.
2. Killing with an ax in Willisk
This terrible crime of the beginning of the XXth century still remains unsolved. On June 9, 1912, in the town of Williska, Iowa, the entire Moore family, along with two neighboring children, took part in a children's festival held at their Presbyterian church, and returned home that very evening.
The next morning, when the neighbors entered the house (because the Murs didn’t wake up for a long time, which was not like them), they saw a terrible picture: all eight people, including 11-year-old German, 7-year-old Boyd, Paul, 5 years old old, one-year-old Katherine Murov and two girls - 12-year-old Lina and 8-year-old Aina Stillinger, were hacked with an ax in their own beds.
Of course, the terrible incident was investigated by the police and the feds with the utmost care. A variety of candidates were nominated for the role of the killer - from random tramps to serial killers and business rivals Josiah Moore (family head), they sinned even on one of Josiah's relatives, Sam Moyer, with whom he was far from having the best relations, but Moyer managed to prove your alibi.
The Rev. Jodger Kelly, who performed church service in Willisk on that unfortunate day, fell under suspicion: he was tried twice, in the first trial, the jury could not agree, and the second time the court issued an acquittal.
The version about the wandering serial killer, similar to that which from May 1918 to October 1919 kept the population of the state of Louisiana in awe, was even considered the most probable, it was even called "The Woodman of New Orleans."
3. The Red Book
Carl Jung is one of the most famous psychiatrists in the world, the founder of analytical psychology. Jung has collaborated with Sigmund Freud for many years and is known for his research on schizophrenia.
In 1913, Freud and Jung practically ceased to communicate, the latter gradually began to have serious mental problems, characterized by auditory and visual hallucinations, which Jung himself called confrontation with the unconscious.
Jung carefully recorded his impressions and observations during the attacks, as a result of which a work called Liber Novus (lat. “New Book”) came to light, however, over time, these notes became known as the “Red Book”. You can find a lot in it - careless images of the devil, recordings of “conversations with deities”, incestuous scenes and images, and even diaries of “journeys through the netherworld”. Someone believes that the work of an outstanding psychiatrist contains infinite wisdom, while others speak of acute psychosis.
Jung worked on the book for 16 years until his death in 1961 and spoke of it like this: “These years ... when I was chasing internal images, they were the most important time in my life. Everything else is secondary. When it started, everything around was no longer crucial. I spent my life studying the subconscious, and now it burst out and caught me, like a stream, threatening to drown. What happened was more important than the fate of a single person. All that followed was just a classification, a scientific justification and implementation of the concept, and most importantly, a supernatural beginning was contained precisely in what was happening. ”
After Jung’s death, his family hid the Red Book for almost half a century from the eyes of a wide mass of readers, and only in October 2009 the work was published, and the original has since been stored in the Rubin Art Museum in Manhattan. According to some researchers, in the book, Jung tried to express a certain “devilish essence”, one might say that some supernatural forces controlled his hand. Whether it is so or not, and why the relatives did not publish notes of the great psychiatrist for a long time, it remains a mystery.
4. The Theory of Smiley Killers
After studying at universities and colleges, young people often spend evenings drinking, as a result of which some incidents like fights sometimes occur, and sometimes it comes to crimes. However, according to New York City Police Department detectives Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte, more than teenage irresponsibility, youthful maximalism, or drunken quarrels are to blame for the series of murders throughout the United States.
Since 1997, about 40 young people between the ages of 19 and 24 have been killed, and in each case, the police found a sketchy image of a smiling face near the corpse (“smile”). This characteristic feature of the killings can speak of a serial maniac, but the geography of detecting bodies is such that it is most likely impossible for one person to kill such a number of young, healthy guys in different parts of the country.
The bodies were found in Minnesota, Iowa, New York and eight other states, with nine of the victims studying at the University of La Crosse, Wisconsin.
In most cases, the bodies looked like drowned men, which made the investigation difficult, because water destroys many evidence, such as fingerprints or tissue samples for taking DNA samples. According to Gannon, he adheres to the version that guys are kidnapped from bars, killed, then thrown into a water body to confuse the police, and “emoticons” are some kind of message that can mean that the killers are happy with their actions and confident in their own impunity.
By the way, the Federal Bureau of Investigation denies that all the killings are links in the same chain, and they see signs of an unhealthy obsession in Gannon and Duarte's promotion of The Smiley Killer Theories.
5. The Curse of Atuk
Some movies, such as Poltergeist or Rosemary's Baby, seem to be under a certain curse - many of the members of the film crews of these paintings died under unclear circumstances. Nowadays, the story of “Incomparable Atuk,” a 1963 novel that tells about the adventures of an Eskimo who moved to a modern metropolis, is almost forgotten. For more than 30 years, in a scenario based on this work, they tried to make a movie, but some higher powers seemed to hinder this.
John Belushi, who was offered to play a major role in the film in the early 1980s, died in 1982 from an overdose of drugs - he was only 33. 38-year-old comedian Sam Kinison, also auditioned for the role of Atuk, died in a car accident (his car head-on collided with another car, which was driving drunk).
John Candy, another candidate for Atuki, died at the age of 43 from a heart attack, and then Chris Farley became the victim of the role, repeating the fate of Belusha (also 33 years old and also an overdose).
The ominous aura hovering over the work overtook those who simply read the script, for example, the writer and screenwriter Michael O’Donoghue - a stroke at 54, or 49-year-old actor Phil Hartman, who was killed by his own wife Brynn under the influence of antidepressants. Filming is currently at the same stage as thirty years ago.
6. Rabbit Man
Probably, none of the stories about numerous monsters and monsters looks so ridiculous and even somewhat funny as the stories about the "Bunny Man" (Eng. Bunny Man) from Fairfax County, Virginia. Many residents of the district claim to have been confronted with a “werewolf rabbit” face-to-face and even communicated.
One of the first reliable references to contacts with Banniman belongs to US Air Force cadet Bob Bennett. According to Bob, the case was in the town of Bourke, Virginia: he and his bride were sitting in the car when a man in white approached the car and smashed the side window with an ax. Later, a cadet told the investigation that, most likely, a rabbit costume was put on an unknown person, and the ax found on the roof of the car was attached to the case as material evidence.
Rumors about the newly-fledged “monster” spread at the speed of light (if not faster), and many dozens of people confirmed Bennett’s words: someone believed that this was a mentally ill escaped from a special institution, ghosts seemed to others, and meanwhile, eyewitnesses gathered numerous details . Most often, “Rabbit Man” was seen in the area of one of the largest transport hubs in the state - the Colchester Flyover. If you want to hunt for “Bannimen”, keep in mind that the competition is serious - the police note the increased interest of tourists in this area.
7. Real Spanish cuisine
This Mexican restaurant was located in the Fairfax area of Los Angeles. This place attracted many public people, from Bob Hope, a famous American comedian and actor, to John Barrymore - the legend of the American theater, until in 1961 his doors were closed forever.
People walked past, peered into the dark windows and noticed that everything inside looked like the staff had really gone on vacation for a couple of weeks (this was indicated by a sign on the locked doors) - kitchen utensils were on the stove, and there were menus on the tables and sugar bowls .
Gradually, the mysterious closure began to grow into legends - many claimed that if the restaurant stopped working so suddenly and quickly, something surely happened like a murder, and now ghosts roam between the tables, finding no peace.
When the truth was revealed, many felt really uneasy, but not because the restaurant became a crime scene. The fact is that in 1961, the owner of the institution, Johnny Caretto, was given a terrible diagnosis - Parkinson's disease. Heartbroken, his wife Pearl closed the restaurant in order to devote the rest of her life to caring for her husband, and when he died, she did not find the strength to return to the restaurant business. She lived alone in the apartment above the restaurant for several decades, and when she moved to another world, her family’s property was sold out, but the legends of “Real Spanish Cuisine” still exist.
8. Substitution
In 1928, Walter Collins Sr., a notorious villain and recidivist, was serving his term in Folsom Prison, California. Collins thundered behind bars after a series of armed robberies, and when his 9-year-old son, Walter Jr. disappeared without a trace in the same year, the police immediately assumed that one of his father’s “old acquaintances” had abducted the child in order to take revenge.
Five months later, a boy appeared in De Calbe, Illinois, who called himself Walter Collins, and looked like the burglar’s son and telephone operator who disappeared almost six months ago. When the tomboy was brought to her mother, Kristin said that this was not her son, but police officers and detectives advised her not to make hasty conclusions, because “the boy suffered such stress” and lived with him for several weeks to finally figure it out. However, after some time, Christine continued to insist that the child was a stranger, as a result of which she was sent to a psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles County.
Five days later, a boy in one of the interrogations confessed that he was not Walter Collins, but lied to get to California for free.
Arthur Jacob Hutchins (such is his real name) hoped that he would be able to meet his favorite film actor Tom Mix. Christine Collins was released from the "psychiatric hospital", but she was not destined to see her real son.
According to some assumptions, Walter Collins Jr. became one of the victims of the sadist and serial killer Gordon Northcott, who, as you know, was operating in that area at about the same time.
The events served as the basis for the feature film "Substitution" (2008) with Angelina Jolie in the title role.
9. Poisoning in Thailand
Ancient temples, beautiful beaches and rich nightlife attract many tourists to Thailand. According to statistics, Bangkok is one of the most popular cities in the world among vacationers, however, some tragic incidents can somewhat spoil the reputation of Thailand as a country ideal for active (or not so) recreation.
Over the past five years, several tourists have been found dead in their hotel rooms. Someone, like the Noemi and Audrey Blenger sisters from Canada, fell victim to the infamous 4 × 100 cocktail, which included cola, cough syrup, and insect repellent, while others might die from exposure to an insecticide known as Pyrophos (it was he who allegedly caused the death of seven travelers in the city of Chiang Mai), which is used to combat bugs. In some cases, food poisoning turned out to be fatal, for example, the famous Japanese dish of puffer fish, whose liver contains the strongest poison tetrodoxin, and the circumstances of other deaths are still being investigated.
Of course, the Thai authorities say that all these are simple coincidences, but even if there is nothing supernatural in the death of a certain number of tourists, you should still be careful on vacation, especially in an unfamiliar country.
10. Prisoner X
This prisoner can be considered a modern version of the Iron Mask (the famous prisoner of the Bastille of the times of Louis XIV, whose identity was not able to be reliably determined).
Mr. X was held in Israeli Ayalon prison in the strictest confidence - even the guards did not know his name. When in 2010, journalists sniffed about its existence, a variety of versions were used regarding who the mysterious person is. Among other things, it was assumed that Ali Reza Asgari, a retired general of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a former Iranian deputy defense minister, captured by Mossad (Israeli intelligence), was in this cell.
When in 2013 the veil of secrecy was opened over the prisoner, it turned out that his name was Ben Zigir. A citizen of Australia and Israel, Zigir himself in the past worked for Mossad, participated in intelligence operations in Iran and Syria, and also had extensive connections in the Middle East. Zigir was arrested in February 2010, and ten months later he hanged himself in his cell on a sheet.
What exactly were the charges brought against the "Prisoner X" (and whether they were brought at all), now remains a mystery. It is believed that he wanted to "merge" Israeli state secrets, for which he ended up in the cell, even losing his own name. Now even information about his suicide is being questioned - traces of beatings were found on Zigir's body, video surveillance was established in the cell, and residual traces of muscle relaxant were found in the prisoner's blood.
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