5 Most Unexplainable Events in the History

 

 

There are daily occurrences of events that probably provide no explanation to them. Following are some of these events in history that had a greater impact on people or came to the light.

 

1. Plague That Made People Dance To Their Death 

 

In 1518, a “dancing plague” struck Strasbourg, Alsace, also known as the “dance epidemic”, this weird condition took over 400 people’s bodies and made them dance without any rest. Some of the reasons for the death of these people were heart attacks, exhaustion or strokes. It all started in July 1518 when one woman named Mrs.

Troffea started dancing uncontrollably in the middle of Strasbourg and was later joined by 34 people and soon after the plague spread to around 400 people. At one point it would kill around 15 people a day, it was soon realized by doctors and authorities that this was not caused by supernatural causes and claimed this epidemic was due to some “hot blood” but instead of treating the patients, doctors advised them to basically “dance it out” by building them a wooden stage.

It is believed that even a modern-day marathon runner would not be able to survive this type of intense workout. Even today scientists are not quite sure what caused this terrible epidemic, it might have been due to some food poisoning caused by the toxic products of ergot fungi or it might have been a case of mass psychogenic illness.

 

2. Sickening Noises 

 

In December 2016, a CIA officer checked in to the American Embassy’s health office in Havana suffering from nausea, headache, and dizziness, few days later, two more CIA officers reported similar ailments.

By late 2018, the number grew to 26 Americans and 13 Canadians experiencing nausea, hearing loss, vertigo, nosebleeds, and focusing issues and in all the cases, victims said that the symptoms were triggered by a strange noise they’d heard at their homes or hotel rooms. One person said the noise was high-pitched, another described it as a “beam of sound, pointed into their rooms” with a few insisting that the noise more closely resembled marbles rolling along the floor.

On being examined by some of the doctors at the University of Pennsylvania, it was said to be concussion-like symptoms but none of the patients had any concussion. Some victims presented them with the recordings of the sound which only added to the confusion as it closely resembled the sound of lovelorn male cricket which happens to be extremely loud but couldn’t explain such effects.

The unsurity of the cause naturally gave birth to conspiracy theories including; the Cuban government is at fault, which was vehemently denied by them, it was also suspected to be a weapon of some sort or some glitch due to high pitched noises of certain earphones but there was still no logical explanation to it. But all these conspiracy theories went down the drain when the same illness occurred to an American posted in China. 

 

3. Ghost Ship: The Mary Celeste 

 

On December 4, 1872, a British-American ship called “the Mary Celeste” was found empty and drifting in the Atlantic, it was found to be seaworthy and with its cargo fully intact, except for a lifeboat, which appeared to have been boarded in an orderly fashion. The Mary Celeste had set sail in November 1872 from New York bound for Genoa, Italy, manned by Captain Benjamin Briggs along with seven crew members, including Briggs’ wife and their 2-year-old daughter.

The supplies on board were ample enough for six months, and luxurious—including a sewing machine and an upright piano. Commentators generally agree that to precipitate the abandonment of a seaworthy ship, some extraordinary and alarming circumstance must have arisen but the last entry on the ship’s daily log reveals nothing weird or unusual, and inside the ship, all appeared to be in order.

Theories over the years include mutiny, pirate attack, and an assault by a giant octopus or sea monster; in recent years, scientists have put forward the theory that fumes from alcohol on board caused an explosion that, as a result of a scientific anomaly, did not leave behind signs of burning—but was terrifying enough that Briggs ordered everyone into the lifeboat but after all these are nothing but hardly possible explanations. 

4. The Tunguska Event 

 

On the morning of June 30, 1908, around 770 square miles of forest in Siberia, Russia were flattened by what would have appeared to have been an explosion, except that there were no witnesses and no other evidence provided.

The phenomenon, now known as “the Tunguska event,” has been classified by scientists as the largest “impact event”, a recordable impact between two astronomical objects, such as an asteroid and the earth in recorded history although no impact crater has ever been found which would be an important earmark of an impact event.

 

5. The Bridge At Overturn That Calls Dogs To Their Ends 

 

The Overtoun Bridge, near Dumbarton, seems to call dogs to leap to their deaths, a perfect spot for unsolved mysteries, still in progress. Since the early 1960s, some 50 canines have perished, and hundreds more have jumped but survived with some returning for a second leap onto the jagged rocks 50 feet below and dying sad deaths.

The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has sent their various representatives to investigate but to no avail, in terms of scientific truth, it is debatable, that dogs are capable of forming an intent to die.

Yet, something is luring dogs off that bridge, often from the very same spot, and always on sunny, dry days weirdly. Many theories have arisen, including that the bridge is haunted; a mink is marking the area with an irresistible scent, and a sound anomaly exists at the bridge that only dogs can hear.

 

Written by: Sofia Choudhary

Edited by: Nidhi Jha