10 Unsolved Mysteries That Cannot Be Explained (Part 9)

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[Music] number ten what happened to the crew of the KZ Nicole 26 years ago on April 10th 1994 men left on a commercial fishing expedition out of Georgia five days later one of those men was found clinging to life in the makeshift boat made out of a bait box the three other crew members have never been found this is the story of the kz nicole a boat captained by billy joel Nesmith the other crew consisted of Billy Joe's brother Nathan their nephew Keith Wilk and a friend Franklin Bradley on the second day of a trip Nathan discovered the boat was not running right and he woke up his brother to alert him further investigations showed that not only was there a mechanical issue with the craft but it was taking on a lot of water all the men attempted to bail out the boats cabin by hand but the effort was in vain the bilge pumps were not operational for some unknown reason at one point the boat lost all power the decision was then made to abandon ship Billy Joe directed the other three to get into the life raft according to Nathan the life raft was in poor condition and had a hole in it the man stayed on the raft until they found a large floating piece of debris from the KZ Nicole that they took refuge on Nathan then noticed the hull of the KZ Nicole about three miles away against the protests of the other three and pleased to stay together Nathan swam out to the hall a feat which took him almost a full day to complete the next morning he noticed the freighter in the area where he thought his brother and the other two men would have been located the freighter acted oddly traveling in circles and appeared to stop several times this gave Nathan the impression they were picking something up out of the water Nathan was found barely clinging to life three days later though the Coast Guard launched an intensive search for them no sign of the others was ever found theories about what happened to the missing men are varied some say Nathan story is vicious that claims he swam for over seven hours to reach the Hall abandoned the others and the freighter appearance are far-fetched they feel he was either directly involved or the four of them were part of a drug trafficking ring and something went awry others interested in the story think the freighter was involved in the drug trafficking and the crew took the men prisoner or killed them to keep them quiet the family holds with the idea that the men were taken prisoner by the crew on the freighter and have been held in a foreign country possibly Cuba the fuel for these thoughts is a series of bizarre phone calls that the Nesmith sister Oneida and the Casey Nicole's owner Doug Tyson received in the year following the disappearances there was a total of five calls made to the two of them the initial calls involve a man who appeared to only speak Spanish stating the name and number of the person he was calling the last call was from a man with a heavy accent who said he was bringing him home the family and Doug believe that this man was referring to one or more of the missing men they hold out hope that they are alive somewhere though no evidence has been found to support that theory the government has declared the men missing at sea and presumed dead the public may never find out the true fate of these men and it will remain a secret of the Atlantic an enigma that will forever have a speculating as to the fate of the crew members of the Casey Nicole number nine did John Wilkes Booth's survive history is a subject taught in schools relies on the word of somebody whether that somebody was an active participant in a moment of world history or somebody that has examined evidence of a particular moment and drawn their own conclusions from the evidence at hand there are times that conclusions have proven to be an error the majority of these are simple mistakes of an honest nature but what if that were not the case what if a deliberate lie was dressed up as truth and given to the waiting world as accurate this is the basic concept of conspiracy theories evidence contrary to what is being presented as accurate about as old as the hills month after year after decade after century certain people will examine certain events and swear themselves blind that that did not happen that way without doubt the to landmark conspiracy theories around 9/11 and JFK but there are literally hundreds of other examples Paul McCartney Waco Jack the Ripper the Titanic Malaysian Airways mh370 and Marilyn Monroe have all been scrutinized by conspiracy theorists in the firm belief there was more going on than what met the eye one such example could be the death of presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth mainstream history records that Booth was tracked down to a rural tobacco barn situated on Garrett's farm twelve days after he shot Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head having surrounded the barn Union soldiers sent out to bring the actor to justice waited as a lone man meekly made his way out from inside this man was later identified as 21 year old David Herold one of the conspirators behind the Lincoln assassination convinced that Booth was still inside lieutenant Edward Doherty ordered the barn set on fire in an effort to smoke out the fugitive the occupant of the barn stubbornly refused to submit to this tactic and was subsequently shot by an impatient Boston Corbett the pivotal question behind this entire conspiracy was who was inside the barn in the early hours of April 26th 1865 Nate Orlick is a historian who disagrees with what history states war Luke is convinced that Booth wasn't anywhere near Garrett farm at the time of the soldiers arrival he isn't the only one either in the years following those events even some of the United States military have called into question the official events just after the turn of the century John Schmucker was general counsel to the Department of the army and he went on record in system that evidence supporting the conclusion that Booth was executed at Garrett farm would not stand up to cross-examination in a court of law when Herald exited the barn the first thing he was reputedly to have said was that was not inside the barn this has been highly debated for many years now after the second individual was shot dr. John May was summoned to make an identification being acquainted with booth he calmly let the presiding officer know that whoever the victim was it was not John Wilkes Booth May's statement is now inside the National Archives and in summation it read I'm sure this is booth but it doesn't look like him but this is certainly John Wilkes Booth several witnesses went on record saying that the man inside Garrett's farm that evening had red hair just about every historical accounts as booth had black hair at some point during his flight from Ford's Theater possibly while being treated for his broken leg booth may have altered his appearance by dyeing his hair red some reports also state he shaved his mustache off too another contentious point in the identification process concerned this leg injury both Joseph's system and Wilson Kensie were members of the federal detail task with the apprehension of booth but were actually friends of the man and knew him well when they came face to face with the man from the barn neither saw fit to mention this injury almost as if the man they saw didn't have one there were other curious incidents reputed to have occurred on that night booths papers were found at the scene during a subsequent search of the barn despite the fire that had been set they appeared undamaged another curiosity was an extraordinary claim made by a guard who was on duty and one the many bridges out of Washington called Frederick diamond according to a letter that he later wrote all bridges out of the city were closed overnight and guarded on the night of the hutt demands superior officer a captain gave him explicit instructions to allow passage to anyone using the password T B Road someone would later approach the bridge and use the code something Daman considered peculiar as it was the first and only time it ever happened assuming that all of this is true and actually happened then the question remains what become of John Wilkes Booth perhaps a man called John st. Helen would have an answer to that st. Helen lived in Granbury Texas in the mid 1870s in 1877 he fell ill and was convinced that his life was over when his attorney and friend finis Bates was called Saint Helen felt compelled to reveal a long-held secret his name wasn't really John st. Helen it was John Wilkes Booth Bates put the statement down to hallucination and only when st. Helen detailed in his confession his escape from Washington and how he was part of a conspiracy to first abduct then kill Abraham Lincoln did Bates start to believe it st. Helen recovered from affliction and promptly left town nothing more was heard from st. Helen for another quarter of a century won in 1903 a man calling himself David George drank a glass of wine that was laced with strychnine when Bates the grandfather of actress Cathy discovered this he instantly recognized David George as John st. Helen and made arrangements to secure the corpse traveling all the way to Enid Oklahoma Bates took extensive photographs of the body and was startled at the strong resemblance between the man he knew as John st. Helen and John Wilkes Booth Bates had the body mummified and fully intended to prove that the official story was either a lie or deliberate cover-up when the body was examined 30 years after a trio of injuries that Booth was known to have had were recorded in the findings did John Wilkes Booth managed to escape Union soldiers as their net tightened during the early hours of April 26th 1865 only to commit suicide almost 40 years later number 8 the lost mine of author and King Solomon's gold having ruled on or around 970 BCE the legendary King Solomon is arguably one of the most recognizable characters within the pages of the Old Testament the 3rd king of Israel Solomon was a renowned ruler that oversaw a growth from a single state into a van superpower of the Middle East in biblical times during his near four-decade Regency the king had a reputation not too dissimilar to that of a certain James Bond King Solomon had another aspect to his legend that was his immense wealth from gold that historians say came from the lost mine of author somewhere in the Middle East by today's standards Solomon was reputed to have a personal fortune in excess of 60 trillion dollars much of this came in the form of pure gold by the end of a sovereignty estimations indicated that he owned 500 tons of gold modern gol usually comes in the form of bullion but King Solomon used a portion of his gold to fashion items such as shields cups and plates King Solomon's Temple built in the mid 10th century BCE was B lacked in gold and his palace builders constructed his throne from a combination of gold and another precious material ivory a gold footstool rested at its base leading up to his golden throne a dozen life-size replicas of lions formed the guard of honor on six steps unfortunately for historians the Bible never went into much detail about King Solomon's Mines of author there was never a specific record of its location scholars believe that Solomon worked with another regent Phoenician King called higher to acquire vast quantities of gold Hiram ruled a region known at the time as tyre which is believed to be located within modern-day Lebanon the Phoenicians were renowned sailors and established several outposts throughout their Mediterranean Sea some also say that part of this commerce extended into the Atlantic and Indian Oceans perhaps even as far south as Africa because the Phoenicians traveled extensively it is open to interpretation about the exact location of this fabled source of gold there are several theories on the location of King Solomon's Mines some more credible than others archaeologists have found copper mines in Israel and Jordan they have claimed that those were really King Solomon's Mines and the source of his wealth however the search still continues for lack of conclusive evidence tome Lopes is best known today for being the Scrivener to famed Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama Lopes proposed that author was an original certainly ancient name for Great Zimbabwe during the Renaissance period this was the central hub of all trade in African gold archaeologists have dated the ruins in this region to the medieval era and they cannot possibly derive from Solomon at all alternatives to this suggestion have some scholars convinced that author can be found along the coastline of the Red Sea likely in Ethiopia a tribe in Ethiopia is known as the afar people this is a predominantly Muslim tribe that number at more than a million others dispute this and say a much more plausible location for author is in modern-day Tunisia home to the a free people a free was a Latin name given to the Carthaginians and this tribe can have origins stemming from Libya the name also supposedly relates with the Phoenicians as well the Dravidians were very well known for their gold ivory and precious gemstones in ancient times sandal wood was exclusive to South India where the Dravidians were said to have come from historians support this conclusion by the belief that certain words in certain areas have a common root origin in the Hebrew Bible there was another claim in 1897 that links the Coptic name for India Sofer to the Indian River coffin this is also often associated with parts of Afghanistan the author of a Spanish book called general collection of Philippine Islands related documents describes the method required to find author the section document number 98 written between one five one nine one five two to author can be found by first traveling from the Cape of Good Hope to India from there on to Burma Sumatra then malakas Borneo Sulu and then China according to this claim in front of China towards the sea and many islands this would rule out Japan and Taiwan as options and make the Philippines a more viable option approximately 50 years after the collection general the document whose relative owes a loss eyelas Filipinos was published bonito arias Montano suggested that native Peruvians were descendants of the offerer tribes he believed that the Yucatan province shared a name with the father of affair Doctrine supporters of the pre-columbian connections between the Eurasia and South America dispute the notion of Peru in favor of Brazil all of these suggestions really stem from personal beliefs of the author in question there are a few hard facts to validate any claim one of the few facts revealed in the pages of the Bible was that every voyage to find other began in the same place the Red Sea port of se and bar it was an only gold that came to Israel from author there were accounts and records of peacocks Apes spices and sandalwood as well there are those that believe the reason the lost mine of author has yet to be discovered is that the true name has been lost in translation the Bible was originally written in Hebrew and was translated into Greek it was further translated into Latin and eventually into English in Greek the named author has origins from the word office which means serpent as the Hebrew word for serpent is cereth it is more likely that author was a location that the Hebrews named and not the Greeks studies of the Hebrew Bible reveal an interesting fact apparently round trips to off air took three years wherever it is it couldn't be too close to as in Gerber ships that left port would need to pass the Arabian Sea and into the Indian Ocean author should really exist somewhere within this body of water the original Hebrew text of the Bible borrowed heavily from Tamil wording the Tamil language has one word over that has multiple meanings it can refer to artists and skilled craftsmen and artisans among others some say these people came from a land the ancients know is over now - the name shortened to a fire sailors formed to the land might have suffered problems with that pronunciation and simply used / instead / was a name adapted by the seaport in the northwestern coast of alengka alengka has had many names down the centuries perhaps the best known of these is salon after gaining independence from Britain salon became known as Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is an island found in the Indian Ocean with heavy Tamil influence and known for its peacocks although many archaeologists claim to have found a lost mine of affair there has been no conclusive evidence if someone does indeed finally ancient mine chances are that no gold remains perhaps this is not the point however one can argue that in this case the speculation and wonder are probably more intriguing than the actual find would be until then we'll keep searching just in case number 7 the morgue a train crash the London Underground became the very first metropolitan subterranean railway system in the world back in 1863 the concept of such a transportation system was first proposed in the 1830s and permission to construct was only granted in 1854 the first trains were powered by steam and it was only during the 1890s that the entire system switched to electricity and became the clean and environmentally-friendly travel that commuters have become accustomed to in many major cities across the world over the years and decades since the London Underground or the tubas commuters prefer to call it these days has grown and expanded to cover the whole of London in selected parts of the Home Counties from one line that went from east to west the London Underground now consists of 11 different lines one of the key areas of the entire network is Kings Cross scene of a devastating fire in late 1987 that sharply brought into focus the outdated safety measures of the time this tragedy was not the only disaster to befall de London Underground network it was on February 28th 1975 something went horribly wrong when a packed commuter train travelling in the morning rush hour the morgue a train crash was was London Underground's worst peacetime disaster and it occurred inside a tunnel just outside Moore gate Station at 8:38 that morning a Northern Line train number 272 departed from Drayton Park a single minute late by the time that had made an approach to moor gate station there were 300 passengers on board London Underground's recommendations to the approach to a station on the underground network is to reduce operating speed to 15 mph passengers on the platform had Moorgate awaiting the arrival of the service were dismayed to see the whole train continue onwards without stopping at a speed they calculated to be more like 30 - 40 mph and some believe that it was accelerating London Underground had measures put into place of just such an occurrence was to ever take place using a device they dubbed sand drag any carriages that are out of are automatically diverted onto a sighting or less dangerous track this system is also used against any unauthorized vehicles that could potentially threaten scheduled services 272 ploughed on through this design and collided with buffers before striking the solid concrete wall beyond first responders to the scene initially thought that a four-car train had slightly overshot the platform and needed to be shunted back into position it was only when they worked their way along the tunnel that the situation was declared an emergency the first two and a half cars of the train had been telescoped by the force of the impact into half their proper length the first car was wedged into the roof of a tunnel the second car had lodged it beneath the first while the third had traveled over the second and collided with the first seeing the first trio of cars wedged into a mess of mangled metal must have been a horrifying sight the rescue operation took almost a week to complete and consisted of over 1,600 emergency personnel joining the firemen police and ambulance crews were 16 doctors and scores of volunteers and helpers the last of the 74 injured passengers was removed from the scene over 13 hours after the crash the last of the 43 fatalities to be removed from the scene was the train driver a 56 year father of two called Leslie newson whenever a disaster of this magnitude occurs the most obvious and pressing question that needs to be answered is why why did whatever happen happen when engineers and investigators got what was left of the Train to begin their analysis numerous considerations as to the cause were eliminated one by one when tested all of the trains vital components and systems were found to be working as intended any that were found to be faulty were determined to be as a direct result of the impact and not the cause of it investigators began to take a closer look at the driver his post mortem examination revealed that there were no signs of cardiac problems nor of a conditions such as epilepsy the few people that knew him insisted that he was cautious when at work and usually slowed his train down inside a tunnel and coasted into the station Doosan was also a known teetotaler and on February 27th was shopping for cars for his daughter when he was found there were no indications that Newson had done anything to prevent injury to himself his hand was still holding the brake in the aftermath of the crash a couple of curious facts about the driver came to light the week before the crash it was reported by another guard that Newson's train also failed to stop at another station passengers awaiting the arrival of the fatal train noted that the driver sat upright and was looking directly ahead almost as if he was unaware that he was passing through a scheduled stop investigators had a clearer idea as to what happened the train failed to stop at more gate and was going too fast for the installed safety procedures of the time what they don't know is why why did a commuter train failed to stop when supposed to when both driver and train had no known issues number 6 did Queen Elizabeth murder the wife of Robert Dudley the allure of a royal family is an easy one to accept tales of handsome princes and beautiful princesses do not always belong in fairy tales the royal family of today's UK is among the most talked-about and captivating of all monarchies for centuries stories of prowess on battlefields and with political machinations have made the royal lineage popular the world over some members have proven to be more fondly remembered than others the Tudor dynasty is a fine case in point most people know of Queen Elizabeth the first however what few people are aware of is that she may have been complicit in a murderous scandal involving her intimate friend and possible love interest Robert Dudley and his wife Amy Robert I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but have the heart and stomach of a king and of a king of England to Queen Elizabeth the first the aforementioned common is among the most famous of all speeches by royalty having the heart and stomach of a king even one comparable to a king of England is one thing could Elizabeth also have had the heart and stomach of her murderer a cold-blooded one at bat some armchair detectives have cast an ever increasingly suspicious eye over the events of September 8 1560 as a result they have come to the conclusion that the death of Amy Dudley nee Amy Rob sir is not such an open-and-shut case several days before her 18th birthday Amy Rob's our married Robert Dudley no sooner had they issued their vows the more cynical members of Tudor society began to question the marriage both of the newlyweds parents were Nobles in their own right and like many of the time were always seeking ways and means to consolidate and improve their fortunes a marriage of convenience suited both sets of in-laws both would improve their standing in the courts of the monarchy additionally their collective influence would increase the marriage took place on June 4th 1550 at the Royal Palace of King Edward the sixth was a guest of honour the couple had an eventful marriage much of the time they shifted addresses between numerous palaces and mansion houses sometimes together sometimes separately a little over three years into their marriage Robert was imprisoned in the Tower of London and sentenced to death when his father the Duke of Northumberland tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne Amy could visit on a regular basis for the final year of her husband's confinement Dudley only spent 15 months in the tower but had suffered financially in the time when he was released in 1554 he made efforts to resurrect his name and fortune within a year of being released Robert's father-in-law passed away several years on he lost his mother-in-law as well Amy's marriage contract still in effect meant that she inherited her parents considerable wealth as the marriage between Amy and Robert continued outside events begin to shape the destiny of England Elizabeth and Robert had known one another from childhood when she ascended to the throne in November 1558 one of her first proclamations was to create the new role master of the horse and give the position to Robert Dudley in the new court this was among the most privileged of all roles no one else but the master was able to physically touch the young Queen Robert closely attended to her travels accommodations and everything to do with the Royal stables and horses additionally Roberts living quarters were adjacent to the Queen's bedchamber this put him within scandalous proximity of her and it may be that the two took advantage of their close living arrangement 18 months before the unfortunate death of Amy Dudley on April 19 1559 The Count de faria wrote the following during the last few days Lord Robert has come so much into favour that he does whatever he likes with affairs it is even said that Her Majesty visits him in his chamber every day and night people talk of this freely that they go so far as to say that his wife has a malady in one of her breasts and that the Queen is only waiting for her to die to marry a lord Robert also in 1559 the ambassador to the republic of venice wrote my lord Robert Dudley is very intimate with her majesty on this subject I ought to report the opinion of many but I doubt whether my letters may not miscarry or be read wherefore it is better to keep silence than to speak ill although there were many suitors to Queen Elizabeth many people believed that she was indeed waiting to marry Robert once amy was out of the way it was obvious to everyone present that Robert was the Queen's favorite consort some say she was in love with him she was also quite possessive of Robert's time and attentions and some say that her well-being depended on his presence at one point when he wanted to go overseas to take part in military affairs she forbade it spouses could not attend court who are official matters of state therefore Amy was never around when Elizabeth and Robert worked together some have also suggested that Elizabeth Warren a me to stay away or risk some kind of retribution Robert Dudley was rapidly rising in power within the court in 1559 the Queen appointed him Knight of the Garter a highly restricted society of chivalry and honor meanwhile Amy Dudley was dealing with the onset of depression as well as the potential infidelity involving the reigning sovereign there is also a theory that she might have been suffering what was called a malady in her breast Amy allegedly convinced herself that her breast cancer was terminal one of Amy's ladies-in-waiting claimed that Amy would to pray to God to deliver her from desperation Sunday September 8 1560 was a day of celebration Our Lady's fare was taking place in Abingdon close to Amy's residence come her place the day began normally Amy gave all her servants time off to enjoy the day's festivities while she remained at home it was only when the servants returned that they found the body of Amy Dudley laying at the foot of the stairs with a broken neck and a pair of deep wounds given how and where they had found her plus the injuries that she suffered it was only natural to conclude that death occurred by means of an accident or misadventure however some strange contradictions immediately challenged this logical conclusion researchers have produced an original coroner's report with no mention of a broken neck the pair of lacerations were in this report but no other injuries this is enough for some people to doubt that her death was merely an accident another curious development followed two days after Amy's death Elizabeth the first insisted that the news should be released to the public and that they officialized the cause of death as an accident on the day of his wife's death Robert Dudley was performing his official duties far away from home however his behavior was curious after he of Amy's death there is some evidence of possible jury rigging going on behind the scenes Dudley was rumored to have given Robert Smith the jury foreman a substantial quantity of velvet for tailoring the new widower also requested a jury of discreet men one of the jury members who went by the name of John Stevenson was an employee of Dudley additionally Anthony Forrester who happened to own come nor place Amy's home was given a payment of over three hundred pounds not long after amy was found this amount today would be sixty-five thousand pounds other rumors circulated about Amy's death poison was a consideration alongside divorce some even went as far as to claim that Dudley and Elizabeth had as many as five children together maybe some or all of these rumors were silly or idle gossip what could never really be in doubt is Dudley's desire to become a consort to Queen Elizabeth like his father before him Dudley was intent on gaining as much power and influence that he was able to perhaps this was unacceptable to someone who went too far and decided to take matters into his own hands if this was the case then who could that someone be a common trend among heads of state is to have a circle of trusted individuals who oversee various political duties Elizabeth was no different and would often seek the advice of the most loyal of all loyal subjects fewer were more loyal than Robert but that could have posed a problem of its own Queen Elizabeth's Privy Court was well aware of the Queen's apparent feelings for Robert Dudley perhaps some members of the Privy Court managed to persuade the Queen that a relationship with Dudley was not best for the nation this cloak-and-dagger plot and counter plot might have been a ruse to get Elizabeth to play some role in the death of Amy Dudley in order to drum up a scandal that would discredit Robert according to the Wikipedia entry Elizabeth the first of England Elizabeth seriously considered marrying deadly for some time however William Cecil Nicolas Throckmorton and some conservative peers made their disapproval unmistakably clear there were even rumors that the nobility would rise up if the marriage took place outright execution or injury could ultimately end up causing more harm than good if Elizabeth was actually complicit in the death of Amy Dudley by choice or coercion it would prove to be a much more effective manner of halting Robert Dudley's rise toward the throne nearly executing him for no real reason would surely have undermined Elizabeth own position by engineering an outcry of this magnitude Elizabeth may have proven at an early stage of her sovereignty that she was the astute politician that history remembers any modern investigation into a death had a suspicious overtones to it will always begin with the immediate family or relatives the police would have to determine the type of person that the victim was and do as much research into that person as possible from there the investigation would focus on those closest to the victim in Tudor times there was hardly a police force worthy of the name but there were still professionals who dedicated themselves to this purpose Robert was an obvious suspect in any wrongdoing Robert Dudley was nowhere near the house when Amy's life ended that doesn't mean that he was innocent of it as alibis goat being in the presence of the Queen of England miles from the scene of a possible crime is quite a hefty one it's not beyond all realms of possibility that Dudley hired or asked a person or persons unknown to act on his behalf without forensics it would have been easy enough for someone to conclude that the young woman's neck broke in her fall or tumble that would pretty much be the start and end of the investigation one trope that is often used in detective fiction is the axiom who had the most to gain by the death of the deceased historian Allison were proposed that one-time courtier of the Elizebeth in court William Cecil had a hand in the death of Amy Dudley as the royal popularity of Robert Dudley increased that of William Cecil began to wane it is entirely possible and very likely that the man became bitter rivals to the point of obsession perhaps Cecil devised a plan against deadly and used Dudley's own favoritism as a weapon against him the announcement of Amy's death shocked the nation Cecil might have seen the potential of a royal wedding and took the necessary steps to prevent that from happening even if a limited capability of the investigating team had managed to find proof of intent the more popular consensus of opinion would point the finger of blame directly at Robert Dudley if this was cecil's gamble then it paid off Dudley never did marry the Queen in that aspect cecil's plan worked if he had a plan one of the last things Amy Dudley did in her life was to insist that all servants take the day off to attend the fair taking place in Abingdon not all of them considered this to be acceptable behavior for a Sunday and some of them initially refused to go however amy was insistent of all the servants only one mrs. O Dingles refused to leave the house she did retire to her room and left Amy alone for the day the main problem with the suicide theory is that at the time it was considered to be a mortal sin and would lead to eternal damnation perhaps with a combination of depression pain illness and abandonment it seemed to be the most viable option for her another problem with this idea is the actual execution of it there are more effective ways in which to take one's own life throwing oneself down a dog-legged staircase with just eight stairs and a landing in the middle doesn't seem to be the most foolproof method in the world modern medicine has indicated that a woman with a similar strain of cancer that Amy perhaps had might have a side effect of brittle bones a suicide would be a more bonafide solution if the servants had found Amy on the landing instead of the bottom of a staircase perhaps one point in the overall popularity of the royal family as a group is the intrigue that surrounds them this is not really true in today's world but in centuries gone by the royal family is almost synonymous with tales of war battle and espionage if a foreign national were to infiltrate the aristocracy and intentionally kill one of their number thus forcing Elizabeth to change her plans on a more personal level it might have weakened her on an international level the scandal that did follow the death of Amy Dudley made it virtually inconceivable that Elizabeth could marry Dudley after all Elizabeth no doubt realized this and was forced into keeping her distance this could explain why mrs. o danzo's refused to leave that morning this plot would really have needed someone to oversee matters perhaps even in a hands-on fashion with so much political intrigue muddying the waters it is easy to overlook that a life ended maybe it ended in a way that a few people tend to believe this was nothing more sinister than a tragic accident it is entirely possible that Amy lost her footing or suffered a dizzy spell for a second and overbalanced however the coroner's report included interesting wording the wounds of Amy's neck were referred to as dentists this is a Middle English term that is no longer in use the most suitable modern terminology could be blunt force trauma number five whereas Shakespeare's head a grave with possible disturbances repairs to the floor surrounding the grave a mysterious skull found in a vault grave robbers a mystery that spans hundreds of years one might say that the mystery is reminiscent of a Shakespearean play however it is actually a long-standing mystery that could finally be answered with the use of modern science Shakespeare was laid to rest in the Holy Trinity Church in verda pommes avon in 1616 with a marker that states blessed be the man that spares these stones and cursed be he that moves my bones while this marker could deter some from touching the grave and fear of toil and trouble Macbeth Act four scene one line ten many experts believe that Shakespeare's head was removed from his resting place in the church the experts opinion matches the story and the details that the skull was stolen in the late 1700s with the use of modern technology Shakespeare's final resting spot can be seen without making a single disturbance to the grave and bones grand penetrating radar uses a high-frequency radio signal that is transmitted into the ground in reflected signals are returned with the radio signals one can see into the ground without disturbing the grave the Shakespeare survey headed by archaeologist project manager at Staffordshire University Kevin cowls disclosed that the evidence of a major repair at the head end of the grave may have been needed to correct the sinking floor which in turn was triggered by a historic disturbance possibly grave robbers shakespeare's grave the grave of his wife lie about a metre under the ground which would make it easy for grave robbers to access the grave making it easier still there was no visual evidence of a metal coffin experts believe that the lack of metal suggests that the body was shrouded and buried versus a coffin burial there are many theories on why the skull could have been removed during that time skulls and other body parts were removed by family members to include the body part in another's grave the other and more interesting theory is that the skull was removed by grave robbers while the skull could have been taken as the ultimate Shakespearean trophy there is a theory that has taken and sold for medical purposes one idea is that the skull would have been studied for personality or intelligence called phrenology at a nearby parish of boli's in war extra share a longtime theory that a skull found a vault was that of Shakespeare during the investigation of the grave it was concluded that the skull was that of an unknown woman who was in her 70s when she passed while the evidence doesn't show a definitive skull in the skin it doesn't showing that one is missing either what are the next steps many say that it is a mystery that should remain a mystery John hug who runs the Stratford town walk enjoyed the investigation but says we don't know for certain that the skull is missing it is my personal feeling that Shakespeare should be left alone now he's laid there for 400 years it's time to allow the mystery to remain just that number for the Sara Jo mystery disappearance in the Pacific this is a maritime story of five strong men who went leisure fishing on a beautiful day in Hawaii but never returned subsequently one of the men reappeared 10 years later on a remote at all in the Pacific Ocean only to add another twist to the case this is the Sara Jo mystery maritime history is awash with stories of all sorts of unexplained mysteries and stories some of these are precisely that stories Mariners that set sail from one port either returned to the same one or berth had a different one with wild tales along the theme of the one that got away the Seas in the oceans of the world are notorious for not giving up their secrets without a fight the HMS Daedalus sea serpent flight 19 Mary Celeste Amelia Earhart and the Titanic are just a few of the more popular oceanic mysteries from the past century or two the Sara Jo mystery began on February 11th 1979 when a quintet of friends boarded a Boston Whaler named the Sara Jo this modest vessel was 17 feet in length and had an 85 horsepower engine it was unequipped for any major sea voyages when the boat cast off from the town of Hannah on the Hawaiian island of Maui the conditions for sailing could not have been any better there was barely any wind and the surface was as smooth as glass within just two hours of departure close to noon the local weather worsened none of the five had checked local sailing conditions or the weather reports preferring to keep eyes on the horizons instead this is a typical action on the part of amateur sailors that only expect to be out to sea for a matter of hours had any of them done so they may have become aware of a major low-pressure system approaching the islands if the storm that hit the town was any indication then the conditions out at sea must have been horrendous and wholly unsuitable for even the most expert of sailors gale force winds and torrential rain more than likely tossed the boat around like a rag doll a number of larger fishing vessels managed to make it back to port and reports suggest that the swells peaked at a height of 40 feet even though hope was futile at best none of the locals and relatives of the missing crew were willing to just sit tight and do nothing a search of the coastline took place even though visibility was about as bad as it could get however conditions were too rough to search further out until the storm abated the Sara Jo mystery fueled a huge search on the following day after the disappearance the Coast Guard recommenced its mission over time it grew into a large flotilla of ships boats and aircraft for five days the search covered 70,000 square miles of ocean but they found no trace of a five men or the boat the real problem that the investigators had was that nobody knew in what direction the group went or where they ended up the strong currents of the Eleni we higher channel and help matters either they even brought in homing pigeons specially trained to locate people stranded at sea almost a week after the storm experts concluded that the Sarah Jill wrecked and sank with all hands on board family and friends of the missing men weren't so quick to abandon their hopes they pooled their cash and resources and managed to maintain a search for an extra three weeks their main focus was on some of the more remote islands in the hope that somehow the boat had made landfall on one of them no trace of the men listed below or the boat could be found a memorial service was held for the crew which would go on to become an annual event Scott Morman 27 Benjamin Kalama 38 Peter Han Chet 31 Patrick Wilson er 26 Ralph Melanie Keaney 27 with the search being called off that might have been the end of things the public had forgotten about the Sarah Joel mystery it was just another tragedy in a long list of disappearances at sea however a decade later several of the original search party members were on a routine wildlife mission in the uninhabited islands of the western Pacific for the National Marine Fisheries Service the Marshall Islands in the remote tangley at all also known as bokuk at all our approximately 2,200 miles southwest of Hawaii on September 10th 1988 biologist John mountain put himself in the middle of this mystery for the second time while working at tangley at all he came across an abandoned fiberglass boat on the coastline he could only determine part of the registration of the boat but it was enough to ascertain that it came from somewhere in the Hawaiian Islands further investigation carried out at the time established that knot and had solved the mystery of what happened to the Sara Joe but that just raised many more questions there was nothing inside or around the boat itself they looked for signs of life notes or any kind of equipment that might provide clues however there were none na Dhin and his team took a moment to decide what to do next and they decided they would search the surrounding area almost immediately the team made another discovery about a hundred yards from the boat a makeshift cross fashioned from driftwood was sticking out of the top of a shallow grave also a human mandible bone protruded out of the cairn of coral and shingle stones as they examined the grave closer they saw blank pieces of paper resting on top of the skeleton all of this paper was loose but was stacked like an unbound manuscript or book in between each slice of paper was whatnot and would later described as tin foil the bundle of three inch square papers was roughly 70% of an inch thick they did not serve any function that the biology team could imagine the four men collectively decided that any further excavation of the grave might be disrespectful thus they took no additional attempts to proceed investigators sent the mandible to a forensics lab for testing results revealed that the remains were those of Scott Morman several other smaller bones found beyond the grave site also matched Morman they did not find any other remains on the entire islet the outboard motor from the Sarah Joe remained missing as well it does seem likely that Morman and the boat drifted to the area more by luck than judgment but what about the remaining crew no trace of them has ever been found this leads to the obvious question that nobody has yet provided a satisfactory answer to who buried Scott Morman one of the more plausible theories revolves around an oriental burial tradition Chinese traditionally include in a coffin the provision of small pieces of paper or paper money separated by gold or silver foil these items are interred with the corpse as a means of fortune for the afterlife this matches the type of burial the researchers found at Tang the at all hence it is possible that a fishing boat from either could have come across the deceased or ailing Mormon if they were fishing illegally they may have provided him with a proper burial according to their local customs without reporting it now the question has to be asked about the remaining four plausibly the storm took all four men perhaps this left the unfortunate Scot Mormon alone in the middle of the Pacific with little to no supplies or much hope of rescue there is a lot more to the Sarah Jo mystery than the disappearance and reappearance of a single man from five the Sarah jewel was not the most sturdy of vessels constructed and was really only designed for coastal use how the boat survived one of the worst storms on record and ended up on a desolate at all thousands of miles away is quite an accomplishment experts that better understand events such as this reckon that the drift time between Hawaii and the Marshall Islands would have been somewhere in the region of three months that on itself does raise a question or two for years before Naughton got to the island another research team landed there and reported nothing out of the ordinary witnessing a discarded boat might seem trivial enough to omit it from official reports but a grave so where was the boat between leaving Hawaii on 11th February 1979 and 1984 when the original expedition made landfall on the Marshall Islands the Sarah Jo mystery indoors number three the hanging coffins of China mysteries along the Yangtze [Music] southern China boasts dramatic and beautiful landscapes of rivers mountains forests and towering cliffs the region is also home to one of the oldest historic mysteries in China the hanging coffins that dot the waterways of the Yangtze River experts attribute the precarious graveyards to the Bo people who began this tradition around 3,000 years ago incredibly these coffins are suspended on the sheerest cliffs who are placed in crevices as high as 130 metres from the ground for decades scholars have been trying to piece together clues to determine why the bo practice this funerary ritual and how they were able to place the coffins in such difficult to reach places the oldest evidence of hanging coffins in China comes from ancient records of the practice in the Fujian province dating back more than 3,000 years from there the practice spread to other southern regions of China primarily in the Hubei Sichuan and Yunnan provinces experts suspect that it was the minority bo people who made the coffins because their culture appeared around the same time as the coffins subsequently the practice and the people both disappeared from records toward the end of the Ming Dynasty there are some indications that the Ming slaughter the bow however exactly where the bow came from and what happened to them are still being discussed today there are various theories as to why the bow chose to place their dead away from the main living areas high along the sheer faces of cliff sides facing the water they all relate to the spiritual beliefs of the ancient people duty to the family or filial piety has been an integral part of Asian cultures there is also much evidence of ancestor worship dating back thousands of years historically many Chinese people chose to keep their deceased loved ones close to the family so that they could easily care for the remains and pay homage in this way they were also caring for the spirit contented and happy spirit was less likely to return to haunt the living however the bow were different they placed their dead loved ones in hard-to-reach places some scholars theorize that the higher the placement the more respect and duty one was showing and this pleased the dead very much if the living could make their ancestors spirits very happy then the spirits would bestow blessings upon the living in ancient times many people believed that divine spirits dwelt in nature such as rocks mountains and water mountaintops and high elevations were also auspicious places in thought to be closer to heaven according to Guo Jing of yunnan provincial museum he speculates that for the bow the cliffs served as the stairway to heaven while the coffin served as a bridge to the afterlife another theory suggests the bow probably chose cliff precipices as graves for a practical reason that also has its basis in the belief of an afterlife the bodies of dead loved ones needed to be preserved the best they could without disturbance and with the least amount of decay this practice ensured the immortality of the spirit in the next life therefore it was important to place the dead away from animals and people who could damage or robbed the coffin the hanging coffins and cliff tombs were airy dry and shaded and these conditions slowed down the rate of decomposition in contrast burials in the ground with the moisture and organisms would lead to much quicker decay there was immense care difficulty and risk required to make and suspend the hanging coffins therefore these types of burials may have been reserved for the elite and wealthy professor Lin's yang of Sichuan University recovered one coffin from a cliff on the daunting River in 1979 the coffin was about seven feet long his studies indicated that the wood was of a very special type called namu this tree could grow up to 40 metres high and it's wood was very dense and decay resistant the makers had cut the tree in half and carved out the insides they used one side of the trunk to house the corpse and the other side as the lid to the coffin the coffins lie in three types of placements along the cliffs on wooden beams that jet out from vertical rock walls inside natural caves or crevices and on rocky ledges along the wall they range from about 30 feet to more than 400 feet off the ground together the corpse and coffin could easily weigh several hundred pounds so exactly how the coffins got to such difficult places and heights has been the subject of controversy for decades there are three main theories as follow one theory suggests that the boat constructed ramps up dirt the served as footpaths along the face of the cliffs then the coffin was carried up the paths however many experts discount this idea because the amount of labour required to build the ramps was inconsistent with small rural populations others suggest that the people who made the hanging coffins used climbing aids in the form of hosts or scaffolding placed in the sides of the cliffs however there is no evidence of this practice rope markings provide evidence to support the idea that they were extensively used to move the coffins also scientists found ropes in some caves and other ropes are still visible in some of the caves that they have not yet explored in many cases it appears that bollo ordered the coffins to their designated spots from the top of the cliff but other scholars believe they may have sometimes hoisted them up from the ground level there may be many reasons of a spiritual and practical nature for hanging coffins from cliffs the culture seemed to arise quickly and quickly ended for the most part once the bow disappeared around four hundred years ago since then many of the hanging coffins that are more accessible have been the grave Goods are gone and the site's disrupted but many of them are still intact hidden in caves and crevices and rumored to contain great amounts of wealth luckily for those who lie in coffins that proved too difficult or dangerous to reach they rest in peace perhaps they are pleased that their families gave them the most auspicious and unreachable sights number two unexplained bandit holes at Pisco Valley Peru Peru has long been a place of ancient mysteries it was home to one of the most famous ancient civilizations the Incas and people from all over the world come to see places like Machu Picchu and the mysterious Nazca lines however far fewer people are aware of another mysterious part of Peru a place known as the band of holes the band of holes is the name given to a series of holes carved into the rock in the Pisco Valley of the Nazca plateau the same area as the more well-known Nazca lines almost seven thousand holes stretch across the mountains surface for several miles and range in size from a yard to as much as thirty feet in diameter and range in depth from several inches to seven feet although some holes are precisely lined up and some are staggered overall they give the impression of intentional man-made patterns the creators of the holes and their purpose remain a mystery some archaeologists have speculated that they were tombs or storage for grain however both of these theories have been criticized considering that there are far easier ways to store grain without carving into rock and there have been no signs of bones teeth or any burial artifacts to suggest that people were ever buried there a different theory suggests that the alternating patterns of the holes might have been stored units for tribute pairs to the Incan Empire different villages or people groups could have brought the required products to be counted by filling the holes in different sections and after the goods could be transported to a location decided by Incan authorities it is also unknown how exactly they were made and there was disagreement on how long it might have taken some say that it would take decades to complete the task while others suggest that even with ancient technology a larger group of people could have completed it in as little as a few months no artifacts have been uncovered at the site that could reveal the true purpose of the holes or anything about their creators and there are a few other clues that could solve the mystery a few miles east satellite images reveal what appears to be the remains of an ancient settlement though it resembles the well-known ruins of machu piccu and a major Incan ministry of center lies just over three miles to the east tambul Colorado of that site the location hasn't been officially identified as part of any particular ancient civilization the ban covers an area of about a mile with a well-defined beginning and ending the odd appearance of the ending point unnaturally darkened in color which some say resembles an area destroyed by an explosion has opened a range of theories about extraterrestrial visits to earth even inspiring an episode on a popular aliens television show things as striking as the band of holes are bound to raise more questions than answers about the history and intentions of our ancient ancestors how they lived and why they chose such monumental tasks what is certain is that there must have been a reason for the holes leaving us to look into wonder number one is there really any gold in Fort Knox America's only gold depository begin life in the middle of the Civil War as just another Ford in the conflict the site must have been of significant strategic importance as both Union and Confederate forces battled for control of it on numerous occasions once the war concluded the US Army took control of the site end in time renamed the site after America's First Secretary of War Henry Knox as the Ford began to evolve and also began to grow surrounding lands were bought up and converted into additional grounds as situations dictated the modern site is now protected by 109 thousand acres of US Army territory and deep inside the structure is a 75 year old vault that is known the over there are a growing number of people that know this vault for what is generally believed to be inside it to all other people outside of this small band of believers the massive granite walls still contained the estimated 168 billion dollars worth of bullion the main evidence behind the belief that the vault is empty is twofold firstly only a handful of people have ever been inside the vault itself and the gold that is believed to be there has not been audited since the mid 1970s the bunker has been deemed to be a highly classified venue and not somewhere that the government will simply open the doors for the general public there are many such venues all over the country and not just in America another cause for the suspicion is how the gold ended up in the bunker in the first place once construction was completed the gold bars were ferried in my use of an underground mine car these nine cars were accompanied by a team of sharpshooters all armed with machine guns the bullion also made part of the journey by an army convoy protected by a US Calvary brigade ever since its arrival no one has been permitted to actually see the gold in place a US Mint spokesman once admitted via email that the accountants that auda Clemente have had a presence at Fort Knox but did not admit how much gold is inside 2008 presidential candidate Ron Paul went on record saying that he wanted to have a look to that end he pushed for a bill that was intended to audit the Federal Reserve a known libertarian all Paul really wanted to do was to find out what was there Paul doesn't believe in the conspiracy that Fort Knox is totally empty though Paul is not alone in wanting to peer inside the vaults a conspiracy group calling themselves gold antitrust action committee also want to see the doors to the vault opened up in public but their desire is a more selfish and political one this group are very much against the Federal Reserve uncomfortable with the Federal Reserve's increasing power in addition to this resentment gold antitrust action committee also feels that gold itself is a major factor in current interest rates if Fort Knox really is empty then it raises the question as to why this is so one possible answer might surprise a few people gold and bullion experts consider Fort Knox's influence or importance to be waning the decline of the iconic building likely begin in 1971 when the United States started the move away from the gold standard up until this point Americans had a much healthier belief in the currency whatever gold left inside the vaults is now considered an asset on a balance sheet and not part of the monetary system anymore it isn't all doom and gloom for the fortress though even if there isn't any gold in Fort Knox the building may still be needed in the future as a depository because gold is still the ultimate in money at the very least it's the ultimate in symbolism

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