The most famous unsolved mysteries in history
The top 3 according to 24 votes from people: Flight MH370 · The Roanoke Colony · The Voynich manuscript. (Updated Feb 2, 2019.)
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?
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Top 17
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1
Flight MH370
The plane with 239 people on board that vanished in 2014.
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2
The Roanoke Colony
More than a hundred English settlers vanished, leaving only the word "CROATOAN".
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3
The Voynich manuscript
A 15th-century book in a script nobody can read.
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4
The Tunguska event
In 1908 something flattened millions of trees in Siberia.
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5
D. B. Cooper
He parachuted from a hijacked plane in 1971 and was never seen again.
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6
Havana syndrome
The mysterious symptoms of US diplomats since 2016.
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7
Jack the Ripper
The 1888 Whitechapel murderer was never identified.
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8
The Amber Room
The tsars' room disappeared after World War II.
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9
The Nazca Lines
Giant figures in the Peruvian desert that can only be seen from above.
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10
Atlantis
Plato's island: myth or memory of something real?
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11
Cleopatra's tomb
Nobody knows where Egypt's queen was buried.
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12
The Zodiac Killer
He sent coded letters to the Californian press and was never caught.
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13
The Bermuda Triangle
Famous for making ships and planes disappear.
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14
The Isdal Woman
Found in Norway in 1970 with several passports and coded notes.
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15
The Mary Celeste
The ship found adrift in 1872, intact and without its crew.
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16
The Beale ciphers
Coded texts said to point to a treasure in Virginia.
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17
The Sodder children
Five children who vanished in a 1945 fire without a trace.
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