Can you figure it out?
It is often remarked that truth is stranger than fiction. There are many stories and mysteries around the globe that verifies that fact. Many times, an event is shrouded in mystery that we cannot seem to solve. So, put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and try to figure out why’s in the stories mentioned below.
The mystery of Roanoke Colony.
115 English settlers arrived in modern-day North Carolina in the year 1587. Now after some time, the governor of the Roanoke Colony or the North Carolina, named John White, left for England for some supplies. But the war between Spain and England held him back for three years. But after three years, when he came back to Roanoke Colony, he could not find anyone on the island. Not a single soul. His family and other settlers just seemed to vanish, leaving just a single clue. Just a word “Croatoan” engraved in the tree. Nobody has been able to figure out this historical disappearance to date.
The mysterious disappearance of Alfred Lowenstein.
The New York times regards this as the most mysterious and strangest fatalities in aviation history. In the year 1928, a man named Alfred Lowenstein went to the washroom in a small aeroplane. What happened next is bizarre. He never came back. When checked by others, he could not be found. He disappeared on the flight. What must have happened?
The mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
The mysterious Voynich Manuscript is a book with 240 pages. But what is mysterious about the book is that nobody knows which language, script or symbols are mentioned in the manuscript. The book is filled with various illustrations, odd objects, strange drawings. This book was acquired by an American-Polish bookseller, which gives it the name Voynich but the rest nobody knows anything about it. Carbon dating of the book revealed it to be 600-year-old.
The bizarre plague of 1518.
We all threw ourselves in the history books to know more about pandemics after the coronavirus pandemic. Out of all the pandemics, the strangest and baffling was the dancing plague of 1518. It started when a woman named Fray Troffea started dancing alone in the streets of modern-day France. She danced for almost a week without stopping. Then suddenly, as many as four hundred people joined her within a month. They started dying of exhaustion, dehydration and fatigue, but they can’t seem to stop!
So, all you great detectives, can you solve any one of them?
