Unsolved mysteries from the past

• Unsolved mysteries from the past

Who was Jack the Ripper, which lost man-moth and whether Richard III left the Princes in the Tower really? History is full of mysteries, and man is not able to solve the simplest of them - simply because some things are better left in the shadows. Dr. David Clark spent several years reading the National Archives documents: in his opinion, five big puzzles of history and remain a mystery to us all.

princes in the tower

12-year-old Edward and his nine year old brother Richard of Shrewsbury, King Edward IV's sons, were imprisoned in the Tower of London on the orders of Richard III. English Parliament issued a law according to which both the formal heir recognized illegitimate. In the summer of 1483, both the Prince mysteriously disappeared from the impregnable fortress. Prisoners of the Tower as if dissolved in air - historians are desperate to find the answer to this riddle.

Traces devil in Devon

Early in the morning February 9, 1855 the people of Devon came to the snow-covered street, and immediately rushed to the church. The snow chain stretches countries should, if left hoof of the devil. This led to mass hysteria, quickly spread to the entire county. Scientists have suggested a lot of, but none of them could explain how clear traces of a horseshoe stretched for hundreds of kilometers. Even more interesting is the testimony of the famous British explorer: during the Antarctic expedition of James Clark Ross wrote that he had met a similar marks on Kerguelen Island.

Jack the Ripper

The true identity of the Victorian serial killer remains a mystery, and after 126 years after the horrific events in London's East End. The most likely modern historians believe the version according to which the killer was a Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski - that his DNA was found on one of the victims. Critics rightly refute this version - killed, and all the other victims of the Ripper was a prostitute, and Aaron could well be just her client.

Solueysky astronaut

On the afternoon of May 23, 1964 an employee kumbriyskoy Fire Department Jim Templeton photographed his wife and daughter in the park Solway Firth. The next day, Templeton went to show pictures of the salon "Kodak", where together with the employee horrified strange figure in the space suit that appeared out of nowhere in the picture. Photograph carefully studied chemical "Kodak" and acknowledged it real. No less attention was paid to shot and the police - there was no explanation and they have. Jim Templeton died in 2011, never knowing the truth about their "satellites". The image remains one of the most mysterious in the history of abnormal pictures.

Man-Moth

Mass hysteria in 1966 marked the beginning of the story of four American teenagers, in one voice say that they saw a huge flying monster with red eyes in Point Pleasant in a rural part of West Virginia. The next morning, the sheriff's office held a press conference, after which the media called the creation of "Mothman", Man-Moth. It is absolutely unclear why the story told impressionable teenagers, so was able to convince the adults. Moreover, the famous journalist John Kila conducted an investigation, which resulted wrote a whole book about the inexplicable outbreak of supernatural occurrences in the Ohio Valley. King believed that the creature was somehow mysteriously connected with the collapse of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant in December 1967, in which 46 people died.