THE 10 BIGGEST RIDDLES OF THE WORLD
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THE 10 BIGGEST RIDDLES OF THE WORLD
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? The fact is, you don’t need to rely on books and movies to find a
good one, all you need to do is look back at human history because there are a lot of good ones to find,
especially number one on this list so stay tuned for that one. Here are the 10 biggest riddles of the
world.
Number 10. The WOW Signal
One summer night in 1977, Jerry Ehman, a volunteer for SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence, may have become the first man ever to receive an intentional message from an alien world.
Ehman was scanning radio waves from deep space, hoping to randomly come across a signal that bore
the hallmarks of one that might be sent by intelligent aliens, when he saw his measurements spike.
The signal lasted for 72 seconds, the longest period of time it could possibly be measured by the array
that Ehman was using. It was loud and appeared to have been transmitted from a place no human has
gone before: in the constellation Sagittarius near a star called Tau Sagittarii, 120 light-years away.
Ehman wrote the words "Wow!" on the original printout of the signal, thus its title as the "Wow! Signal."
All attempts to locate the signal again have failed, leading to much controversy and mystery about its
origins and its meaning. In 2017, a team of researchers suggested the signal was a then-unidentified
comet but of course, many people still won’t accept that as a valid explanation.
Number 9. Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
The teamster union leader known for his involvement in organized crime disappeared in Oakland
County, Michigan, on July 30, 1975, and is now presumed to be dead. The identity of his abductors and
the whereabouts of his body are ongoing mysteries. Police and forensic anthropologists have searched a
number of sites in Detroit and Oakland County to no avail. A number of private investigators have also
taken the search but still to no avail.
One popular theory was that Hoffa's body was buried beneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey. However,
in one very amusing episode of the Mythbusters, this theory has been debunked. Before his death in
2006, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, a hit man, claimed to have killed Hoffa and dumped his body in a
scrap yard. An author named Philip Carlo visited Kuklinski in prison before he died and wrote a book on
Kuklinski's confessions. After the book came out a number of police officers cast doubt on the
confession in media interviews. As the years go by, it appears increasingly unlikely that Hoffa's remains
will ever be found.
Number 8. The Beale Ciphers
The Beale Ciphers are a set of three cipher texts that supposedly reveal the location of one of the
grandest buried treasures in U.S. history: thousands of pounds of gold, silver and jewels worth roughly
$43 million as of 2017. The treasure was originally obtained by a mysterious man named Thomas
Jefferson Beale in 1818 while prospecting in Colorado.
Of the three cipher texts, only the second one has been cracked. Interestingly, the U.S. Declaration of
Independence turned out to be the key — a curious fact given that Beale shares his name with the
author of the Declaration of Independence.
The cracked text does reveal the county where the treasure was buried: Bedford County, Virginia, but its
exact location is likely encrypted in one of the other uncracked ciphers. To this day, treasure hunters,
often illegally, scour the Bedford County hillsides digging for the loot.
Number 7. The Oak Island Money Pit
The hunt for the hidden treasure on Oak Island have been going on for 200 years, and it seems that to
this day nobody knows where it actually is. Without a single return, and conflicting theories of what
hunters are actually looking for, the so-called Money Pit in Nova Scotia is one of the most incredible self-
perpetuating goose chases in the world. But how did it all begin?
In 1795, a teenager named Daniel McGinnis found an oval-shaped recession in the ground on the island.
With little evidence that there was anything to be discovered, McGinnis started digging in the area and
subsequently hit wooden planks every ten feet. The discovery of the planks led McGinnis and his friends
to believe the pit was man-made and they began what would become a long-standing tradition of
treasure seeking in the area.
Whether the pit is a natural sinkhole, a booby-trapped pit filled with gems, or one of the world’s
greatest follies may forever remain a mystery. In 2010, a final treasure hunt was initiated, found
nothing, and the government passed the Oak Island Act, banning all commercial treasure hunting on the
island.
Original Author: Produced by Top 5 Best and published on 18/09/2020 Source