# The most famous unsolved mysteries in history

Ghost ships, colonies that vanished, codes nobody has cracked and criminals never identified: the puzzles that still have no answer. Which one intrigues you most?

- 24 votes · 17 items
- Feb 2, 2019 · torcedor_gaucho
- https://even.best/en/l/2387/the-most-famous-unsolved-mysteries-in-history

## Top 17

1. **Flight MH370** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — The plane with 239 people on board that vanished in 2014.
2. **The Roanoke Colony** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — More than a hundred English settlers vanished, leaving only the word "CROATOAN".
3. **The Voynich manuscript** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A 15th-century book in a script nobody can read.
4. **The Tunguska event** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — In 1908 something flattened millions of trees in Siberia.
5. **D. B. Cooper** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — He parachuted from a hijacked plane in 1971 and was never seen again.
6. **Havana syndrome** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The mysterious symptoms of US diplomats since 2016.
7. **Jack the Ripper** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The 1888 Whitechapel murderer was never identified.
8. **The Amber Room** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The tsars' room disappeared after World War II.
9. **The Nazca Lines** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Giant figures in the Peruvian desert that can only be seen from above.
10. **Atlantis** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Plato's island: myth or memory of something real?
11. **Cleopatra's tomb** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nobody knows where Egypt's queen was buried.
12. **The Zodiac Killer** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — He sent coded letters to the Californian press and was never caught.
13. **The Bermuda Triangle** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Famous for making ships and planes disappear.
14. **The Isdal Woman** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Found in Norway in 1970 with several passports and coded notes.
15. **The Mary Celeste** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The ship found adrift in 1872, intact and without its crew.
16. **The Beale ciphers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Coded texts said to point to a treasure in Virginia.
17. **The Sodder children** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Five children who vanished in a 1945 fire without a trace.

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