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Anonymous
May 07 2013 at 8:00 PM
The Urantia Papers are definitely the most mysterious of all things to appear in the 20th century.
nabilnaser
Apr 21 2013 at 1:58 PM
I have a secret to share with everyone.
All the codes that are not in letter form can be solved by studying the
geometry of packed spheres.
In fact, this geometry is present in hundreds of other messages within many books, that are yet to be understood and deciphered.
Within this geometry are matrices of numbers as well as two specific planes. These two planes correspond with the exact structure of the atoms. They are mainly hexagonal and square"cubic".
The number of points within the geometry, when
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seen from the perspective of a single sphere, can be found in all major religions, ancient myths, and many other places.
When diggin deeper, one can find the properties of elemental particles as well
There is a lot more than that.
Andrew Jackson
Mar 01 2013 at 10:59 AM
I work at JRSMedical and we have some down time. I like to try to decipher simple codes. It is amazing that man can come up with such complicated codes so far back in our history. It is a bit easier now with the computational power we have to break some of these codes.
prof
Jan 17 2013 at 12:21 PM
All of these and nothing about the many decades of crop circles appearing all over the world? There are thousands of them at this point, using fractal geometry and modifying the DNA of the crops. Seems like a rather important one to "leave out".
Raj
Jan 15 2013 at 2:03 AM
It is not complete...............Something is missing........................i can try to solve it.....................
Bob from Sherwood Forest (Yes, that one)
Jan 06 2013 at 3:32 PM
It's two Brits playing darts, the one in front is about to take a throw, the one behind is waiting to go next, the written columns are the latest betting odds to a $10.00 dinar stake. This game was called lucky 'spears' in those days, then it became Javelins, when it was conducted outside near the pyramids bow and arrows were used, and when beer drinking and British Pubs appeared the owners banned patrons carrying war-like weapons so for safety reasons mini-darts with feathered tail
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flights were introduced . A good player at this game can put 3 darts into a quarter coin circle, for what its worth the pyramids were used as seating for fans and are the very first world series stadiums for dart players. They were not mausoleums but forerunners of Yankee Stadium.
wavering
Jan 05 2013 at 6:35 AM
It is just a picture of two guys working in a parcel delivery facility and they are looking at a box of fish (see fish symbol at the top).
And, typically, the parcel is upside down (see wine glass symbols)
Crystion
Jan 02 2013 at 5:57 PM
I just see simple Capetian writing. Maybe if someone where to uncover the rest it would make sense to someone who could translate for them. It could also mean something terrible, or not be able to be uncovered
Marco
Jan 02 2013 at 11:01 AM
Whats mysterious about the egyptian picture? Plain hieroglyps, it seems to me.
The flower (the symbol ending in a kind of arrow pointing down) is CHa, meaning 'thousand.
It appears several times in the text that is probably a list of offerings to a temple. Above and under the first CHA on the left are two words meaning 'a çeremonial girdle of somekind', in Egyptian: MenChet.
Confuseus
Dec 06 2012 at 8:44 PM
Everything is a mystery or an unsolved puzzle until we learn to understand its language. The mystery is our own method understanding things, how much do we need to know to be able say, 'yes I understand that'.
Enter your name
Nov 29 2012 at 4:09 AM
Seriously???? This article classifies as 10 of the worlds biggest unsolved mysteries???
Who approved this??
Mithunz
Nov 18 2012 at 11:52 AM
my god, hey, its the simple code of past human culture, could it be so hard to explain those simbols?
Mark
Nov 02 2012 at 11:15 AM
They missed the biggest real mystery of all, the Nazca lines in Peru. While creating a code or a bunch of gibberish is not all that hard, the Nazca lines are a true mystery. Even if you buy into the idea that the Inca could see some of the drawings from foothills or fly in hot air balloons or alien spacecraft, why bother?
Icaman
Dec 31 2012 at 12:11 PM
Have you seen them on the ground? I have. No mystery. You don't have all the data. Some pathways, some ceremonial. Many intersect mounds to direct "traffic" for trade, food supply lines; some irrigation. All stones moved by hand. Inca, Myan, Aztecs, Anasazi. Same lines seen in Arizona, New Mexico. Masters at rope, snapped lines like surveyors, before lazers. No aliens required, just necessity, will, and determination!
Vivek Upreti
Nov 11 2012 at 12:53 PM
Dear Mark,
What is your opinion about those lines. if interested, please reply back at vivekupreti2010@yahoo.com
Regards
Vivek
Guest
Nov 08 2012 at 3:44 PM
The lines are man-sized. Most pictures you see have no object to give you a frame of reference. There are plenty with an archaeologist straddling the drawings.
Guest
Nov 19 2012 at 6:18 AM
The Nazca lines are probably ancient Vimana take off, landing sites. That is the explanation.
Chris Willey
Oct 04 2012 at 2:30 PM
If Anyone can locate the UK's Legal System please tell me..wine bar, side bar, five bar, bah bah..do NOT count..CW
Guest
Oct 15 2012 at 2:35 AM
if i could tell you the location...can we able to claim the redemption fund?
LauraC
Oct 01 2012 at 6:38 AM
How about the Tartaria tablets? They are believed to contain the oldest writing...
MI-story
Sep 20 2012 at 1:11 PM
Sum history is better left alone...scientists never lived 2c them...yet they say they know..."REALLY"...come on...god said..all will come 2pass...which is the way it's happening...wake up world...ty tyvm..:)
LizR
Sep 15 2012 at 6:34 AM
Here's another one - how come there are 12 pictures in the "10 Greatest Mysteries" (and where is picture no 12?!)
Tarrant
Sep 15 2012 at 9:18 AM
10 mysteries on ten of the slides-an introductory slide and a closing page with the restart and link to other galleries.
rkcckk6
Aug 18 2012 at 10:25 PM
Mysteries from years and years ago?????How could anyone solve them??????Waste of time....I don't believe one us know the begginning of any of these mysteries...much more solving them...a.minute ago is history and will never come back.
H. Dee
Aug 26 2012 at 11:11 PM
U R Right. A minute ago, becomes History.
We should just accept whatever IS now
and forget the Past, which we cannot UNDO
OM SHANTI
Hartmut
Sep 19 2012 at 1:44 AM
No it's better to remember, in case we repeat the same mistakes, like the (Hitler etc.)atrocities of the past and present which become history a day later.
Guest
Oct 27 2012 at 6:52 PM
Yeah, like Hegel said, the only thing we have learned from history is that we have not learned from history.
H. Dee
Aug 26 2012 at 11:18 PM
Nothing is Hidden.
We just have to open our THIRD EYE, to see which all human beings have.
OM SHANTI
\pink fink
Jul 31 2012 at 10:39 PM
Interesting list - indus valley script should have been included.
C. Darwin
Sep 13 2012 at 8:20 PM
Mixing of DNA is vital to survival of the species. Therefore it follows that multiple partners for a female of any species is beneficial. Just look at any isolated community to study the effects of in-breeding. These superstitious Stone Age religions are only holding back all mankind from our true potential.
Guest
Dec 06 2012 at 8:57 PM
C.Darwin - you are very wrong and one day you will find out the truth!
Jonathan
Jul 29 2012 at 10:37 PM
Great list, but didn't include the Antikythera Mechanism, which surely belongs on it.
John
Jul 29 2012 at 3:10 PM
Well, I looked thru all the mysteries and there are some good ones there..
I am surprised that someone at the NSA has not tried to use its massive computing power to crack some of these ciphers ...??
However, the greatest mystery still has not been solved ... Who really shot Kennedy? Certainly NOT Lee Harvey Oswald who was only an average marksman and had a tree obscure his view part of the time.
The fact that Jackie was sprayed with matter -- her being on the left of JFK should tell anyone the shot
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came from the grassy knoll. And what was J Edgar Hoover doing in Dallas that day -- why controlling the investigation so that it pointed away from the real shooter and "aimed" it (pun intended) at Oswald. Also in the era of nonstop CSI what Secret Service agent would wipe down a crime scene -- the limousine was washed off that day so as not to "offend" Jackie -- yeah right - what better way to destroy forensic evidence showing the direction of blood spatter than to wipe things down , Today that agent would have found himself in Leavenworth.
Finally, Discovery among others has "replicated" the crime using an expert marksman under supposedly exacting conditions on that fateful day. Well again therein lies the problem -- Oswald was not a expert marksman, he was under pressure and could not truly have planned and executed this on a whim.
My contentions will only be proven after I leave mortal earth and arrive in Heaven where I can watch the REAL instant replay and not just the Zapruder film.
LBJ and Hoover conspired together on this but no one wants to call it for what it is -- a conspiracy.
Regards
Guest
Jul 30 2012 at 4:39 PM
There was research failure, it need it investigation since begining. Please read an article from Reader Digest few time before about how to kill a president. The assasination was inspired in that recomendations.
guillemacger
Jul 26 2012 at 10:48 AM
Las traducciones son manifiestamente pobres... Hay que mejorarlas... y mucho, pues a veces distorsionan y dificultan la cabal interpretación de lo dicho...
LSTEEL
Jul 13 2012 at 10:19 PM
It is not in human DNA to have social sex partners. It is in human DNA to make decision or choose. Humans do not care to exercise the capacity to do what is best as opposed to what feels best. Explanation: stupidity. Humans are supposed to be the most intelligent animals on the planet, but that is debatable as a few birds are more faithful to their partners than most human beings. People make excuses to justify their stupidity. That is why the human race is up to their eyeballs in AIDS, herpes, warts,
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and other incurable diseases, and still climbing. People who want faithful mates will probably start dating birds by the 23rd century. What is the world coming to?
Of course, I am teasing, but humans seem to be trading places with animals in decency. Truth! People do nearly everything dogs do. Dogs are role models!
Proof:
1. Dogs have more than one partner. Males and females will straddle or stand for nearly any other who wins her affections.
2. A litter of pups can have different fathers. The creeps!
3. During courtship, male dogs are sweet, gentle, sacrificing, and playful. After mating, they walk away and never look back, do not help support the pups, and come back sniffing at the next mating season to repeat the act. Lowdown dirty dog!
4. A daring male dog will pee on another male's tree while the poor guy is chained and defenseless.
5. Male dogs are quick to fight, even kill, for a females, and will mate with another as soon as he has opportunity.
6. Male dogs will fight, or kill, to protect their territory, but will invade another's at every chance.
7. A male dog will force itself on a female even if she is too small or not ready.
8. A few male dogs have been known to force sex on other males
9. Female dogs often push males to mate with them. The seducer!
10. Male dogs are always sneaking and sniffing around someone else's yard.
This is only a start, but there are many other behaviors that canines and humans have in common.
Guest
Aug 11 2012 at 7:08 AM
Of course, the Bible depends on transators to relay the Word of God,
How good were the translators?
Guest
Jul 20 2012 at 6:03 PM
Actually, the male mammal is not geared toward fidelity. His DNA has "programmed" him to further the species in any way possible; fidelity is a decision, rather than something in keeping with animal nature.
(I've never cheated on a woman in my life, so this is not rationalization. Fellas: Don't commit if you can't control your members.)
Hartmut
Sep 19 2012 at 2:20 AM
Libor B, your comment 'The limited capability of our brains' is 100% correct.
Those who think otherwise, may contemplate these questions:
How and Where from did EVERYTHING (including that force/energy, which is popularly referred to as God) come into existence?
What was there before the Big Bang?
Why is there anything at all - And if there would be nothing - where would that
Nothingness be?
(Be carefull if you are trying to figure those questions out you may go mad!)
Hartmut
Sep 19 2012 at 2:00 AM
Oh?
Claudejrlandry were you there when the Big Bang did not happen??
How do you know there was no Big Bang?
Don't just make a statement without an explanation - or prove.
Brian
Jul 21 2012 at 5:28 PM
Isn't this just a philosophy? Do you have any evidence at all for that statement? Can't you also say that stable societies are more viable? This sort of comment masquerades as science but really it's just philosophy.
lone_ranger
Jul 13 2012 at 6:52 PM
"The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God" Twice this is given in the Bible, so true!
Trance29
Aug 02 2012 at 8:04 PM
For example, look at how well it predicted submarines and popup toasters!
PSS
Jul 04 2012 at 4:20 AM
Man is always intrigued by some sort of mysteries and want to identify himself with some mysterious ideas, objects and fantasies. Those phantoms never leave a man. It was, thousand of years ago and coming years. Always wanted to pay the God. Never loses an opportunity to identify himself with the God, just like what we did in our childhood to identify with our parents and all. In every civilization and every country you will come across people and entities always in quest of something extraordinary
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and God like entities. To make it believe a fable is surrounded to that idea. Surprisingly you will always come across the Fossil resultant of that fable. So to know the truth one has to walk in reverse order to reach that goal. Almost in every civilization we come across people saying that we have to reach there where God is sitting and inviting us. As far as I feel that we 'Living Things' have in common a certain DNA, rather basic DNA structure which we call that small entity 'Life'. As per the scientific findings the 'Life' came from outer solar system through Comets and all. So we always feel the urge to reach the same 'spot' or nativity where we belong. Hence we called it as 'Heaven' or 'Jannat'. Just like "To the mother's knee...". No....? Convince me if wrong...!!!
Guest
Aug 11 2012 at 7:12 AM
Well, maybe, not yet. Maybe it's the end that will be the 'Big Bang' and not the beginning?
Satish
Jun 30 2012 at 1:16 AM
Gil Perez was a Spanish soldier who suddenly appeared in Mexico on October 26, 1593. He was wearing a guard uniform of Del Gobernador Palace from Philippine. He claimed that he did not know how he arrived in Mexico. He said, he was on duty at Del Gobernador Palace before he suddenly appeared in Mexico and said that the current governor of the Philippines, Don Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas just been murdered.
Two months later, a ship arrived from the Philippines to Mexico carrying several passengers.
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The passengers confirmed Gil Perez’s story was right, that the Governor of the Philippines was recently killed.
Even a passenger of the ship said that he recognized Perez and saw him in Philippines on 23 October. After that, Perez then returned to the Philippines and continued to live there until he died
Guest
Jul 16 2012 at 7:35 AM
Where is the original source of this story. Intrigued but i want more detail.
John Wallace
Jun 29 2012 at 7:00 AM
It does seem significant that on a planet with a large inhabited landmass consisting of a lot of countries, five of those mentioned are in the USA. Another mystery perhaps.
grooovym74
Jun 29 2012 at 6:50 AM
I think its good to have mysteries,we should not know everything, then we would never want to learn about new things.
LargeHadron
Jun 28 2012 at 6:25 PM
it's not so much about finding the right answers as it is: framing the right question(s).
Arianea
Jun 14 2012 at 1:56 AM
I thought "The Wow" sound was explained by noise left from the Big Bang. Or did I watch a bad couple of documentaries on the subject?
Guest
Jul 25 2012 at 7:11 PM
you're right, God has created everything, but not everyone can get that...
drevabernat
May 30 2012 at 12:36 PM
Is it a mere coincidence, or yet another mystery, that all these relate to deciphering the linguistic code?
TEF
May 07 2012 at 1:32 PM
Truly disappointed with the list.. I thought t'would 'a been NATURAL mysteries - not all "Homo sapienic" in origin...
chalys
May 03 2012 at 3:25 AM
so exactly, not all in universe can be explained with clear. because our world have old enough. and maybe the cryptic will be absurd forever.
Guest
May 03 2012 at 7:12 AM
I`m afraid you are wrong. All things can be exaplained, every little detail on this planet and the rest of the universe can be explained, the problem is people are too busy looking at the end of their own noses. The questions is not the problem, the problem is the people not understanding the answers.
warwick
May 26 2012 at 3:20 AM
This is silly. It assumes that our understanding, brain power, or whatever you like to call it, is as complex as the most complex functioning in the cosmos. Absurd
Guest
May 24 2012 at 9:03 AM
Actually, in mathematics it is *proven* that there are facts (true propositions) that it is impossible to prove are true. Surprisingly, human thought is strangely limited by seemingly obvious claims like "all things can be explained". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del for more on Kurt Godel and his incompleteness theorems.
Libor B
May 31 2012 at 2:53 AM
However, Godel's incompleteness results involve infinite things, such as the set of all natural numbers. The impossibility to prove facts that are true about *all* of the infinitely many natural numbers are thus largely irrelevant to real-world problems, and are only relevant to abstract disciplines such as mathematics or theoretical computer science.
Libor B
May 31 2012 at 3:31 AM
PS: This is not to say that I'd agree with the solvability of all questions. The limited capability of our brains is a good argument against it.
Robin
May 31 2012 at 6:10 PM
Libor B wrote, today at 03:31 AM "PS: ... the solvability of all questions. The limited capability of our brains is a good argument against it."
You speak for yourself, boyo !
Guest
May 22 2012 at 3:42 PM
I think Earth has many mysteries it will hide from humans. Some things God wants kept a secret. Earth has not revealed all her secrets. It makes life more interesting.
Melissa
Apr 30 2012 at 12:48 PM
I learned recently about the moving stones on Death Valley. Should they make the list? Or isn't it real? Or was the explanation already confirmed? Loved the top 10, spend hours reading about the Kryptos afterwards! :)
Guest
Dec 31 2012 at 12:24 PM
Melissa, the answer to the stones is moist clay and a whole lot of wind, and it's been caught on film!
Guest
May 03 2012 at 7:08 AM
Those moving stones have been explained, its the ground freezing and the wind, a combination of those two, nothing weird about it.
wayne
Apr 30 2012 at 9:05 AM
Would have thought that Oak Island in Nova Scotia (the money pit) would have made this list. 300 years and can still not figure out how the booby trapped pit was made and who it was made by, and what is supposedly there.
marites paner cordero
Apr 24 2012 at 12:27 PM
The mystery of this worlds is an events that was been created by no other human beings except God Himself, and he knows all the hidden secrets in the worlds and in heaven,astrology, magician,scientest,ect.and some other fortune teller in this worlds, who can explained to all of this,its might be possible for them to understand the meanings,but the best who can give you the real and true answeres to all of these its only from God,and how you can have it this kinds of knowledge it is beyond the wisdom
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thats GOD given to you and its base on how you communicate with God in your heart. there are only few people who can have it and understands the true mystery of wisdom.even professional people cannot understand about the mystery, unless God himself give him explainations and the answered of it.He alone knows the hidden secrets and mystery of this worlds.but only he revealed this secret to the one He pleases for His will,so even hundred years to research and discovered the secret and mystery you cannot discovered it except God himself revealed to you and give you wisdom and knowledge to understand to all of this.
cecilsealy@aol.com
Apr 12 2012 at 5:33 PM
We are not alone in an empty universe. We are all linked by a common genetic string, that is why our blood can save the life of each other regardless of race or ethnic consideration. That great compatibility and commonality is profound. The secret of life and its ultimate purpose will be solved.
Guest
May 01 2012 at 9:16 AM
too bad that's not true. It might give me hope. Its not true though and IS something to consider. Type 0- blood can only receive 0- so the statement doesn't stand that "our blood can save the life of each other regardless of race or ethnic consideration. That great compatibility and commonality is profound." The FACT that most can receive from a few (very few) but the few cannot receive from most is profound though the pattern is not unique and really should be considered. Thanks for the inspiration
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to think though.
Andrew Houghton
Apr 22 2012 at 8:49 PM
My AB+ won't do you a lot of good if you are group O....maybe I'm from an alternate Universe.
deejo
Mar 21 2012 at 6:43 PM
its nothing then human imagination, we are wasting our valuable & strength on this type articles, its just, the human working on all mysterious so called had problem working with his upper compartment so called brain, he wrote what so ever it can into his mind & till date environmental specialist feels its mystery... do you thing so, it could be so,.. as many professionals had come & gone no body could find out, .......remains all mighty creator, who made mistake human to create problem
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to human...just see... its really
Hartmut
Sep 19 2012 at 2:55 AM
Deejo said: ....who made mistake human to create...
Deejo if you mean God made a mistake in creating humans, then he would be a pathetic god who does not know what he is doing!
Obviously that can not be.
A God, or better - an unknown Force/Energy that is able to manifest the Universe (from which we humans evolved) knows exactly what IT is doing - and we should not tranfere our (human) limitations onto that kind of Supreme Creating Force/God .
Enter your name
Feb 28 2012 at 1:13 PM
if you are using internet explorer, put it on Compatibility View... solves it for most slides ;)
Guest
Apr 11 2012 at 3:12 AM
If you are using internet explorer, use it to download a new browser. Firefox or chrome will do nicely.
Brian J. McLeod
Feb 24 2012 at 8:50 PM
CNN, you are usually pretty accurate with your articles, but this one on "Ten of the World's Biggest Unsolved Mysteries" should have been named "Nine of the world's......". The Shugborough inscription was solved by Arthur Middlebrooke in 1972. Arthur had been a code breaker in WWII, and in his retirement years, he set out to solve this riddle. It took nearly 4 years, but Arthur finally broke the code. The key was that Arthur realized that duplicate letters, (such as the 3 V's) did not all represent
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the same letter-in fact, the three V's all represented 3 different letters! Arthur died in 1988, but he shared with his family his answer long before he died.
Donna
Mar 11 2012 at 8:16 PM
I much prefer A J Morton's work on the matter of the Shugborough "code".
Donna
Mar 15 2012 at 4:27 AM
"The odds against Shugborough residents Viscount Anson & M. Vernon-Venables (of Overley, Orgreave & Shugborough) being involved in the creation of a "code" containing the letters VAVV & OuOS are implausibly astronomical."
Mr Morton,in my opinion,cuts through the nonsense,his work is informative and to the point.It`s all just a "Google" away if you care to look.
Bob from Sherwood Forest (Yes, that one)
Jan 06 2013 at 3:44 PM
I worked out the Nazca lines years ago, and the answer so obvious, the world, meaning our world and planet dies every 100 000 years, whole civiliizations are wiped out by plague, heat, cold, by planetary movement connected with orbit, by the boiling and overheating of seas and water and oxygen evaporation, and we become 'dead planets, these lines tell us that an unknown civilization lived there and died. Earth can go topsy-turvey and the north pole becomes the equator etc,
Go figure
Few stories have the power to captivate us more than those that remain unresolved. Codes, puzzles and cryptic public art tease us with their intrigue: Why is their message coded? What great secrets might they hide? Despite the efforts of our most revered historians, cleverest cryptographers and most determined treasure hunters, history is replete with riddles that continue to confound us today. Fictional tales like those featured in “The Da Vinci Code” and the movie “National Treasure” have got nothing on these real-life puzzles. Here's our list of 10 of the world's most cryptic unsolved mysteries and codes. (Text: Bryan Nelson)
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