- Do you remember the nursery rhyme, "If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise?" What if that "surprise" was
an eerie, isolated staircase that seemed to lead absolutely nowhere? It's time to grab your trench
coat and magnifying glass as we take a closer look
at some of most puzzling, unexplained mysteries that
need some serious explaining. Staircase in the woods. Recently, the internet has been abuzz with reports of some
very strange sightings in national forests around the world, and I don't mean the animal kind. It began with a 5-year-old Reddit thread posted to the community "r/nosleep." In the post, a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service
decided to tell some of his creepiest stories from the job. By far the weirdest tale
concerns numerous occasions in which he claims to have
come across isolated staircases deep in the woods where
no man has ever lived. The staircases have no other
structure attached to them and look like they have
fallen out of the sky, or like the rest of a
house has been ripped away. The SAR officer goes on
to explain that, at first, he was told the staircases
were nothing to worry about. But the next time he
asked to check them out, he was told by his superiors
never to go near them. People in the replies chimed in with their own creepy
staircase experiences. Although most were
situated across America, soon reports of similar
staircases found Brazil, Portugal and the Philippines were posted. Reddit user TK622 even came
across this moss-covered set in a forest clearing in Germany. While these may not be as grand as some of the others people described, they still seem oddly out-of-place. There are several theories about why these staircases might exist. The first, and perhaps
most logical explanation, is that they are simply
the foundations left behind by long-lost settlements after the rest of the surrounding structure has rotted. However, it seems odd that
there's no further evidence of such houses existing deep in the woods. Some have also suggested
they could be a type of deer stand, which are enclosed
platforms used by hunters to elevate them to a better vantage point. But others have far more sinister ideas. Could these strange
sets really be a pulpit for a moonlit cult meeting? And perhaps they're a
gateway to another dimension, or, worse still, to hell itself. As interesting as these stories may be, it's worth taking them
with a grain of salt. After all, the entire
"r/nosleep" Reddit community is often used to post short spooky stories that are treated as fact, with little evidence to back them up. It's also telling that
there are so few pictures of these mysterious staircases, but there's no denying
that the sheer volume and variety of reports
claiming to have seen them makes for a compelling case. Would you venture into the
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Texas, lined the streets to watch President John
F. Kennedy's motorcade pass by Dealey Plaza. Little did they know, they were about to witness one of the most significant events in history, when the president was assassinated by former U.S. marine Lee Harvey Oswald. In the days that followed, police searched for witnesses who could have captured
the event on camera. Although the identities of most of the people present soon became known, their investigation
revealed that hardly anyone had actually seen what happened, even those with cameras had
them pointed at the president. But there was one individual
of particular interest: Babushka Lady. So-called because she was wearing
a Russian-style headscarf. She was standing on the
grass between Elm Street and Main Streets, photographing the moment
the fatal shot were fired. The police immediately put out a bulletin requesting information
on the unknown woman. Now, nearly 60 years later, we still have no idea who she is or whatever footage she may
have taken of the day's events. So, what do we know? A number of bystanders took
photos and videos of the day, and Babushka lady
appears in a few of them. In Dallas Resident Marie
Muchmore's grainy film, she can be seen standing
behind Charles Brehm and his 5-year-old son, Joe. Only seen from behind, she's wearing a tan coat and is standing with a wide a stance, holding
her arms up to her face. In another video taken by
U.S. postal carrier Mark Bell after the shots were fired, Babushka lady can be seen with
her back to the camera again, but this time she has
walked closer to the street and stands across from the grassy knoll. Strangely, she remains standing
while others around her are running for cover or
sitting on the ground in shock. The Zapruder film, possibly
the most famous citizen video, offers a frontal view of Babushka lady, but her camera further obscures
her already-blurry face. Seven years later in 1970, Beverly Oliver, a former dancer and singer at a burlesque club,
claims to be Babushka Lady. She said that she filmed
the entire assassination on a Super 8 Yashica camera, but that two FBI agents seized it before she could get it developed. She even outlandishly
declared that she personally knew Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, the man who would later shoot
Oswald while in custody. But her story has some significant flaws. Firstly, Oliver was a
slender 17-year-old in 1963, which doesn't fit with
the "old woman" image we see in the footage. What's more, the Yashica
Super 8 camera wasn't produced until the mid-1960s. Oliver claimed that her
camera was a prototype she got before it became
available to the public, but her story has generally been debunked. Conspiracy theories
surrounding the true identity of Babushka Lady spread like wildfire. Was she a Russian spy? A secret service agent? Or an assassin wielding a camera-gun? Some have even speculated
that she was a man in drag, citing her "wide stance,"
which seemed strange for a woman of that era. But because she never came forward to tell law enforcement
what she saw that day, we may never know who Babushka Lady was. Guardian Angel. Plenty of people believe
that they have someone watching over them and
guiding them through life. You might find it hard
to put faith in something you can't see with your own eyes, but after seeing this jaw-dropping clip, you might just have to think twice. This CCTV footage shows
shop owner Serdar Binici'yi, from the Tellidere Mahallesi
district of Turkey, standing outside his shop
when a mystery man walks past and taps him on the shoulder
as a lorry speeds into view. This alerts Serdar to a huge
metal gate swinging towards him from the back of the truck, which then misses him by mere inches as he dives out the way. Serdar, completely speechless, looks around for someone to thank for possibly saving his life, but the man dressed in black seems to have vanished altogether. The lorry's driver later paid a visit to the Serdar's shop to apologies for the terrifying near miss, but Serdar never saw his savior again. Of course, the video sparked
a bunch of speculation after being posted to Reddit, with some claiming that the mystery man could be a guardian
angel, a time traveler, or even Serdar himself,
sent back from the future. Those in favor of the whole
"guardian angel" theory point out the casual
demeanor of the mystery man and how he couldn't possibly
have known that the metal grid was going to be released from
the van just seconds later. Of course, though, nay-sayers
have also suggested that this could be nothing
but one big coincidence. Either way, Sirdar is going to be thankful to this mystery man for
the rest of his life. What do you think? Does this eerie clip show
a real-life guardian angel in action, or just one
crazy stroke of luck? Let me know in the comments below, and if you have any
similar stories to share, I'd love to hear them. Now, uh, where were we? The Solway Firth Spaceman. On a summers day in 1964, Jim Templeton, from Carlisle, England, visited Burgh Marsh in
Solway Firth, Cumbria with his wife Annie and
his daughter, Elizabeth. Templeton decided to take
some photos of Elizabeth in her new dress. Little did he know, one of those photos would
soon make global headlines. In the photo, a strange figure can be seen standing behind Elizabeth. Apart from his wife and two
pensioners sat in a nearby car, Templeton had not seen
anyone else that day. In fact, he didn't even
know the figure existed until the chemist developing
Templeton's photos pointed it out. This ominous presence may
have puzzled Templeton, but to UFOlogists, it was clear. A white suit, a helmet, a dark visor: Mr Templeton had photographed a spaceman. Templeton took the photo
to the Carlisle police, who claimed it was nothing
out of the ordinary. In fact, film company Kodak
said the exact same thing and even offered a reward to anyone who could prove the photo was faked, a reward which was never claimed. The photo caused a media storm and appeared in world-wide news, but the strangest turn
of events was a link to the planned launch
of a Blue Streak missile in Woomera, South Australia. Just two days after Templeton's
photograph was taken, the missile test was
aborted by technicians who reported seeing two
men in the firing range. Some reports even claim that
the technicians were stunned after seeing the Solway Firth Spaceman in Australian newspapers because the figure in the photograph looked strangely similar
to the Woomera apparitions. But that's not all: The Blue Streak had also
been built at RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria, just a few miles from where Templeton
photographed Elizabeth, which also happened to be
linked to a recent UFO sighting. Because there's no photographic evidence of the firing range sighting, these coincidences are hard to prove, but are they too strange to ignore? Some, like Sarah Spellman, chairwoman of the Association for the Scientific Study
of Anomalous Phenomena, suggest that the Solway Firth Spaceman simply "struck a chord with the themes of the day and some of the UFO
lore of the 1950s and 60s." In another photo from the day, you can see Templeton's wife
to the right of Elizabeth. Others have speculated
that she may have walked into the background of the shot. If she had been standing
with her back to the camera, the over-exposed shot may have
turned her blue dress white and her hair dark. Perhaps Templeton didn't
notice her at the time because you could only see around 70% of what was in the shot
through the viewfinder of the camera he was using. Still, without any further
proof, we may never know who or what Jim Templeton captured that day. The Patomskiy Crater. Hidden deep in the Siberian forest is a gloomy, dark mount towering over the bright green landscape known only as the "Patomskiy Crater." This giant, speaker-shaped rock
measuring some 130-feet-high and nearly 330-feet-wide is
certainly a strange sight to see in the remote taiga of
the north of Irkutsk region, but what actually is it? For a long time, scientists
had absolutely no idea. They still have more
questions than answers. Until 1949, it was known only to locals who called it the "Fire Eagle's Nest." And they believed it was a bad place and avoided it at all costs,
citing tales of people, and even animals who
dared to venture too close to the crater vanishing under
mysterious circumstances. Russian geologist Vadim Kolpakov was the first to study the crater in 1949. It looked like a volcano, only with a strange semi-circular
dome cavity in the center. Stranger still, no
trees grew on the slopes or in the crater. At first he wondered if
it were a giant pit mine or even an archeological artifact, but quickly dismissed those thoughts because the area was so dense, and the local Evenk and Yakut people could not build rock pyramids
like the ancient Egyptians. After his expedition, Kolpakov
concluded that the crater had probably been formed
by a piece of space rock that sliced off the
famous Tunguska meteoroid that exploded over
Krasnoyarsk region in 1908, but that was just an educated guess. As the crater gained
wide-spread attention, theories attempting to explain
its existence abounded: from a UFO landing to a piece of a neutron star falling to Earth. In 2005, another major investigation, led by experienced geologist
Eugeny Vorobiev, was launched. But as the team neared the crater, Vorobiev collapsed and died
suddenly of a heart-attack. Subsequent investigations
in 2006, 2008 and 2010 were able to gather
material from the site, showing that the crater
formed up to 500 years ago, long before the Tunguska event. Eventually, scientists
abandoned the meteoric theory in favor of the idea that the crater is some kind of geological formation. They suggested that the
mount may have been formed by fluids like hydrogen
being released underground from a gas volcano, but analysis of rings inside the trees growing close to the site has also shown evidence of a period of unnatural accelerated growth, like those seen in the
forests around Chernobyl following the nuclear disaster. This has led to further speculation about a hidden, underground nuclear plant or even buried UFOs with
nuclear fuel on board. For now, the Patomskiy
Crater remains a mystery, but at least we can all
confidently remove it from our travel bucket lists. Annabelle. If you're a true horror fan, the name "Annabelle" should be enough to send shivers down your spine. Annabelle is the haunted doll who terrorizes paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in
"The Conjuring" franchise and the three subsequent
"Annabell" spin-off movies. But what if I told you Annabelle isn't purely a work of fiction? The real Annabelle doll actually resides at the Warren's Occult Museum at Elizabeth Monroe's home in Connecticut, where it is locked firmly
within a glass box. While the doll in the movie is a frighteningly real
porcelain doll with long hair, the real-deal is a plain-looking
classic "Raggedy Anne" doll with red yarn for hair,
but don't be fooled. As Lorraine Warren once said, "Looks are deceiving. It's not what the doll looks
like that makes it scary; it's what has been infused
within the doll: evil." Up until her death in 2019, Lorraine Warren maintained
that the Annabelle doll was nothing to be messed with. In fact, there's even a
message warning people not to touch Annabelle's display box. According to the Warrens, a man who visited the museum with his wife was asked to leave the museum after mockingly tapping the glass cabinet. But on their way home, the man lost control of his motorbike and crashed head-on into
a tree, ending his life. Ed warren has even claimed
that the steering wheel and the brakes of the car he
was driving mysteriously failed when he was transporting the
haunted doll to the museum. Without any detailed reports
to substantiate these claims, some may say this is all
just a load of hocus-pocus, but if we are to believe the Warrens, this innocent-looking
doll might really harbor a vengeful, evil spirit. The real-life Annabelle
story allegedly began in 1970 when a 28-year-old nurse received the doll as birthday gift from her mom. She thought nothing of it at first, but it wasn't long until things started to take a sinister turn. She would find the doll in odd positions or would notice pieces of parchment paper on the floor inscribed
with unnerving messages like "Help me." The girls turned to a
medium, and through a séance, they were introduced to the
spirit of Annabelle Higgins, a 7-year-old girl who once
resided at the property. Annabelle told the girls she
just wanted to be "loved," so they allowed her to enter the doll. Surely that's #1 on the list of "Do nots" when dealing with malevolent sprits. Things only got worse from there, until the Warrens caught wind of the case and took ownership of the
doll after determining it was being manipulated
by an "inhuman spirit." Spookier still, in August 2020, several rumors circulated online, claiming that Annabelle had
escaped from her cabinet during the dead of night. Thankfully, those rumors were put to bed when Ed and Lorraine's
son-in-law Tony Spera confirmed that Annabelle was
safe-and-sound at the museum. - Annabelle's here... in
all of her infamous glory. She, uh, never left the museum. - [Narrator] I dont know about you, but this is one mysterious doll I seriously wouldn't want to mess with. Morning Glory Clouds. The world is full of things
we can't fully understand, and the so-called "Morning Glory Clouds" of North Australia is one of them. Starting around September each year, waves of these spectacular rolling clouds begin to form in skies
Burketown, Australia, a phenomenon known since ancient times as "kangólgi" to the
ancient Aboriginal people. These tubular formations can be up to a thousand kilometers long and two kilometers high and can move at speeds of up
to 60 kilometers per hour. Power gliders often cruise
up to meet the clouds, turn off their engines and float along and over their outer edges, sometimes traveling over
500 miles before landing. Eerily, as the clouds pass overhead, conditions on the ground
reportedly become calm and quiet. These unique cloud
formations have been known to appear in other parts of the world, like this one over Lake Michigan, but not as regularly and predictably as in this part of Australia. But what are they? And why do they form? Despite being studied fairly extensively, the Morning Glory cloud is
still very much a mystery. As the name suggests, "roll clouds," low-lying formations that
can accompany thunderstorms or form from sea breezes,
roll along a central axis. Although they can develop on their own, they more frequently
occur in successive waves up to 10, like enormous ropes strung out across the landscape. We may know what they are, but no one really knows why the form, especially in such a specific area. In Northern Australia, the leading theory is that
the unique combination of land and sea is responsible
for the regular appearance of the phenomenon. Breezes hitting both sides
of the Cape York peninsula on the East Side of the Gulf
create a first line of cloud. But as the cold night air descends, it hits a warm inversion
layer over the water and ducks beneath it,
creating the rolling pattern. Moist air in the morning forms the clouds, which last until the day heats up and the inversion layer disappears. Although this seems to
a be a fairly safe bet, no one has yet figured out exactly what causes these utterly bizarre clouds, especially outside of Australia. All I do know is that cloud
surfing sounds super fun! Time-Traveling Hipster. In Spring 2010, the Bralorne Pioneer Museum
of Central British Columbia in Canada found out what
it means to go "viral" when one seemingly innocuous photo, from a digitized collection
titled "Their Past Lives Here," found a new life online. The photograph, taken by an
unwitting photographer in 1941, is a snapshot taken on the occasion of the re-opening of
the South Forks Bridge in the nearby mining
community of Gold Bridge after it had been washed out during a flood the previous year. A group of spectators
can be seen in the photo, but one man unquestionably
stands out against the rest. He wears dark sunglasses, a jersey and a contemporary camera around his neck. His unmistakable "hipster" vibe, which seems way ahead of its time, caused the photo to
blow up on social media, and soon enough
internet-savvy photographers were racing to unravel the mystery. Had this stylish twenty-first
century gentleman somehow found a way to time-travel? Of course, many who came across
the image on social media were quick to brand it a Photoshop job, which is easy to assume until you consider that it originated from a
genuine museum collection that was first made available
to the public back in 2004. Although there's no way of
knowing who the anonymous man is, attempts to debunk the
"time traveler" theory have centered around his attire. Some have argued that the
items featured in the photo, like the logo T-shirt,
wraparound sunglasses and portable camera, were
actually readily available in the 1940s. They just weren't common. For example, his shirt bears the logo of the Montreal Maroons hockey team, who played in the NHL from 1924-1938. As for the camera, Kodak did
make several portable cameras that were available by 1941, although it's hard to tell
exactly what type he's holding. His style of eyewear, however, certainly wasn't widespread at the time. Although you were able
to get hold of glasses with protective shields in the 1940s, wraparound sunglasses didn't
become readily available until some 20-years-later in the 1960s. What do you think? Is this a real-life time traveler? Or just a dude who was
way to hip for his time? Monolith Mystery. On the 18th of November 2020, a helicopter crew counting bighorn sheep while flying over a remote
part of a Utah desert spotted a strange statue below. On closer inspection, they realized it was a
gleaming metal monolith standing proud in the middle of the Mars-like, red-rock landscape. The three-sided, stainless steel object was about 10-12-feet-tall and offered no clues about
who could have driven it into the rock, or why. But on 27th November, just
as word started to spread, it disappeared mysteriously,
without a trace. Before anyone could investigate further, another large metal monolith
appeared just days later on the Romanian hillside. It was spotted near the
Petrodava Dacian Fortress, which was covered in squiggles and loops, unlike the smooth surface
of the Utah monolith. It also seemed to have
been welded together and embedded in a slot in the stone. Several days after it was found, this monolith was gone, too,
but it doesn't end there. The next stop on this monolith world tour was Southern California, where one of the shiny objects popped up at the top of a mountain
trail in Atascadero, about halfway between San
Francisco and Los Angeles. - [Camera Man] I guess this
is the thing now, right? So, be prepared to see these every where. - [Narrator] That is until,
you guessed it, it disappeared. On the first weekend of December, walkers then spotted a
fleeting glass monolith on a beach in the Isle of Wight, U.K. Among the next destinations to be visited by monoliths were Spain,
Germany and Colombia, but what are they? Who or what is responsible? And why are they appearing
all over the world? The structures have been
compared to the movie 2001: "A Space Odyssey," in
which an alien monolith is a recurring symbol. Perhaps the whole thing was
started by a new-wave artist who also happened to be a big Kubrick fan? An anonymous collective called
"The Most Famous Artist" eventually took credit for the
ones in Utah and California, but said it had nothing
to do with the others. In a statement, it said, "The monolith is out of
my control at this point. Godspeed to all the aliens working hard around the globe to propagate the myth." Tom Dunford, a designer from West Sussex, then claimed ownership for
the Isle of Wight monolith, saying he created it "just for fun." But to this day, many monoliths, including the one in Romania, have not yet been accounted for. Although Colorado
photographer Ross Bernards photographed 4 men
dismantling the Utah monolith in the dead of night, there's no explanation as to
how or why the others vanished. The best we can do for now is speculate. What do you think? Is this monolith mystery
a classic copy-cat case perpetuated by savvy creatives hoping for their 15-minutes-of-fame? Or are the so-called "monolith
makers" actually taking the credit for the work of some
extra-terrestrial life-form? And if the latter is really true, what are you trying to tell
us, little green dudes? Which of these unexplained
mysteries puzzled you the most? Let me know in the comments below, and why not watch this video next? It's about internet mysteries that will send you down the rabbit hole. Thanks for watching, guys.
