MYSTERY CASE#11:

The Nature of Mystery

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible"
                                                                                                                          - Oscar Wilde

There are many things that boggles our mind. From the day we were born is a mystery, the world is a mystery, everything is a mystery. Thousand of questions always bother our mind and we ought to find answers with those questions, but sometimes even though we tried everything and had reached the deepest extent of our knowledge its not yet enough. The mystery remains.

Have you ever tried asking yourself about your own existence? or asking where words and languages came from? what our life will be after death or the mystery of past life? Some may say that everything is explainable by science some may say they are not .. hmm if our body is made up of tissues and tissues are made up of cells, where do cells came from? 

According to booksie.com The idea of mystery motivates the production of knowledge, or at least of inquiry. At the same time it signifies the value of knowledge that surpasses human reason and hovers somewhere beyond the limits of current human knowledge. In order to qualify as mystery, "it" (the unutterable) has to remain unknown—or else it becomes something other than mystery.

MYSTERY CASE#10:

Life after Death

Humans are amphibians. Half spirit and half animal. As spirit they belong to the eternal world but as animals, they inhabit time. 

                                                                                                                                     - C.S Lewis

 We belong to a remarkably quirky species. Despite our best efforts, some of our strangest foibles still defy explanation. But as science probes deeper into these eccentricities, it is becoming clear that behaviours and attributes that seem frivolous at first glance often go to the heart of what it means to be human.

MYSTERY CASE#9:

The Green Children of Woolpit

On these days, if I will see children with green unusual skin I would think that it's just a matter of costume for a birthday party or something, I would see them as little hulks or they're one the bastard kids playing with green paint.

But that's not the case in  during the reign of King Stephen (ad 1135-54), two children were found weeping and wandering, lost and forlorn, in the great pits used to trap wolves at the village of Woolpit, in Suffolk. Pretty normal looking children except they were green, and they spoke a language that was unknown to the folk of St. Mary's.

They were taken to Sir Richard de Calne, at Wikes (purely as amusement), but the children once there wept bitterly. They were fed bread and other food but they refused everything even though they were extremely hungry (the girl afterwards acknowledged this fact). Finally some beans that were freshly cut and still had their stalks attached were brought - the children madly tried to open the bean stalks as if they were the pods and thought that the beans were inside - but finding nothing they once again wept. Someone stepped forward and showed them that the beans were in the pods - the children were happy at this and fed on the raw beans with great delight. For a long long time that's all they ate. The boy was extremely unhealthy and died within a year of being found. But the girl grew strong and spent the rest of her life in the area. With time the green faded and she took on the appearance of any other normal "non green" human. She later on married a man from King's Lynn in Norfolk and learnt English.

MYSTERY CASE#8:

Jack the Ripper

"One day, men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century"

- Jack the Ripper of From Hell (2001)

There are lots of stories and false alarms regarding one of the famous serial killers in the world, Jack the Ripper. He had terrorized the Whitechapel in the East End of London in 1888. He had five victims in the months of August, September and November and multilated their bodies in an unusual manner as if the suspect has knowledge about human anatomy.He was never captured since then and still remains a mystery. 

The moniker "Jack the Ripper came from a letter and was published by a journalist who had turned five victims of a notorious killer into an international phenomenon and had born the legend of the unknown killer.The killings took place in the districts of Whitechapel, Spitalfields, in London only within a mile with each other. Despite countless investigations claiming definitive evidence of the brutal killer's identity, his name and motive are still unknown. 

Some would say that Jack the Ripper had gruesome murders even before the acknowledgement of the five prostitutes, and the victims were actually eleven. The five victims were named:

• Martha Tabram - murdered in August 7 1888 she had thirty-nine stab wounds pepper-potted her body from her throat to her lower abdomen. The majority of the wounds having been inflicted with an ordinary pocket knife, whilst a deep wound to her breast had been dealt by some long, strong instrument which could have been a sword bayonet or dagger.
• Mary Nichols - murdered in August 31st 1888 she was seen lying on her back, legs were straight out and her skirts were raised almost over her waist. Throat had been slashed that her head had almost been cut from her body. 
• Annie Chapman - murdered in September 8 1888 her head was turned towards the house and her clothes had been tugged up above her waist exposing her red and white striped stockings handkerchief was tied around her throat her face and hands were covered in blood and her hands were raised and bent with the palms towards the upper portion of her body. 
• Elizabeth Stride - murdered in 3oth of September. Her silk scarf was pulled tightly around her neck and her throat was in whilst.
• Catherine Eddowes - murdered in 3oth of September found lying on her back pool of blood with her clothes thrown up over her waist.

MYSTERY CASE#7:

The Devil's Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is located in the western region of the North of Atlantic Ocean. The triangle is also termed to as Devil’s triangle, a name derived from the mysterious disappearance of people, ships and aircrafts under strange circumstances. Many people visit the region, hence it is ranked as the most visited geographical feature. Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda demarcate the vertices of Bermuda triangle, which spreads to less than one thousand miles on each side. The triangle has an area of about five hundred thousand square miles.

According to livescience.com most of the fateful accidents occur around the Florida Straits and Bahamas. Vincent Gaddis coined the term Bermuda Triangle in the 1964, in the Argosy magazine known as Men’s pulp. He asserted that aircrafts and ships disappeared in this triangle in a very strange manner. His argument was an echo of George X. Sands who had written about the unexplained accidents around the triangle in 1952. Later other authors like John Wallace wrote about the same mysterious triangle.

The most popular losses that the United States has experienced is the disappearance of the plane of Flight nineteen in December the year 1945, NC16002 plane in December the year 1948, SS Marine Sulphur Queen in 1963 and USS Cyclops in the year 1918. In all these cases disappearance, the planes and the ships have never been traced. This has been used to support the mystery of the Bermuda triangle, although the accidents might have been due to poor weather conditions or mechanical failure.

Flight 19

World famous cultures and scientists have over the years tried to explain the forces behind the Devil’s triangle mystery. Charles Berlitz, in his book he asserts that at the bottom of the sea lays a legendary city that used crystal energies to submerge the ships and aircrafts. Other theories suggested that there were extraterrestrial underwater aliens, who submerged ships and used the humans to carry out their research.

The scientists believed that the mystery is due to natural circumstances such as weather, hydrological or geological explanations. There is evidence that at the triangle, there is an enormous explosion of methane gas. The scientist asserts that if a surface vessel gets caught inside a large methane gas, it losses its ability to float, and submerge. If the bubble is so gigantic, it may possess high gravitational pull that attracts the aircraft toward it hence making it crash into the triangle. The ships and aircrafts may then ignite spontaneously and explode, produce little or no trace of it. Some scientist postulated that a subnormal magnetic or tidal waves exist at the triangle. This resulted to loss of electronic aid for navigation hence confusing the pilots. The plane then plummeted into the triangle.

MYSTERY CASE#6:

Now you see them, Now you don't

"Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels.but their magic sparkles in nature."

- Lynn Holland

Fairies had been part of our imaginations for centuries especially on children and had been tagged to stories called "fairy tales". It had been dominating for centuries past, for children they are cute and nice pixies but for adults they are cruel, nasty creatures that would kill you inside the forest.

According to livescience.com fairies are tiny, often beautiful human-like creatures (sometimes with wings) that appear in legends and folklore around the world. Fairies likely began as versions of pagan nature gods and goddesses, and thus they are often associated with the outdoors (especially forests), as well as magic and journeys.Depending on the region, fairies are said to live in woodland communities, underground kingdoms, or inhabit lakes, hills, or stone or grass circles — often along with centaurs, elves, ogres, gnomes and other such animals. Fairies come in many races and tribes, and are also said to vary in size and shape; though most are small, some change size and become man-size or larger if they choose.

Some villagers or travelers would offer foods or something for the "fairies" so that the creatures would return good weather and safe journey to them. However, many believe that fairies are also revengeful. They are the cause of accident and death encountering nature.

One of the famous fairy controversy that caught the attention of the world was the 1920 Cottingley fairies wherein Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wrights took pictures with fairies and Gnomes in Cottingley village. They  Spiritualists promoted them as proof of the existence of supernatural creatures, and despite criticism by skeptics, the pictures became among the most widely recognized photos in the world. It was only decades later, in the late 1970s, that the photos were definitively debunked. and they were gotten from the a book entitled  Princess Mary's Gift Book which was published in 1915. They were cut out pictures of fairies from a page of the book.

MYSTERY CASE#5:

The Girl on Fire

There been hundreds of document cases of human seemingly spontaneously bursting into flames from within over the past 300 years. Its very difficult to explain why the entire body can be burned to ashes without harming the room around it.

According to livescience.com , this phenomenon is called "spontaneous human combustion"  it has been described in many popular books on mysteries and the unexplained.

 You could be Katniss Everdeen of Hunger Games , the human torch of Fantastic Four or how would you like to be Mary Reeser the famous name when it comes to spontaneous human combustion.

 Awesome. 

Mary Reeser, a  67-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, Florida,spent the evening of July 1, 1951, in an unremarkable way, receiving visits from her son and a neighbor. At the time, Mary Resser was wearing a rayon nightgown, bedroom slippers and a robe. When they left her, everything in the apartment appeared normal.

The first sign of trouble was at 5:00 am. Mrs. Carpenter was awakened by the smell of smoke and, assuming it was a water pump in the garage that had been overheating, she turned the pump off and went back to sleep. 

       At 8:00 am, Mrs. Carpenter was awakened by a telegraph boy at her door; he had a telegraph for Mrs. Reeser. Mrs. Carpenter signed for the missive, and walked to Mrs. Reeser's room... but there was no answer to her knock. Mrs. Carpenter checked the doorknob; it was hot! Alarmed, Mrs. Carpenter ran outside to find some help. A pair of house painters working nearby rushed over to her aid, and, together, they managed to force open the door to Mrs. Reeser's apartment only to be met by a terrible blast of heat, evidence of a fire within. What they discovered inside the room defied belief. 

       The only portion of the apartment that was burned was the small corner in which sat the remains of Mary Reeser's easy chair... and of Mary Reeser herself. Of the chair, only charred coil springs remained. Of Mrs. Reeser, there was little more; and these remains baffled the firemen, police, and pathologists that examined them.  

       Mrs. Reeser's 170 pounds had been reduced to less than ten pounds of charred material. Only her left foot remained intact, still wearing a slipper, burnt off at the ankle but otherwise undamaged. Also found were her liver, now fused to a lump of vertebrae, and, stranger still, her skull... shrunk to the size of a baseball by the intense heat.