10 Most Mysterious Discoveries Ever Found

Science has discovered some incredible things in the past. Some have been confirmed and fully understood, some have been hoaxes and others are incredibly mysterious. These mystery discoveries have baffled science and stumped even some of the smartest people alive. So, here are the 10 most mysterious discoveries ever recorded.

1. Black Holes

Believe it or not, once written off by science as sci-fi stories, black holes are believed to be tears in space itself. What’s baffling is Albert Einstein actually proved that black holes exist before we launched the Hubble Space Telescope. When that launched, we were actually able to witness the destructive power of the invisible holes left behind by dead stars. There is a black hole slowly causing a star to supernova right now! Cygnus X-1 is eating away at its partner star. Once that star goes it will create another black hole and then the two will merge, forming an even larger dark abyss of matter.

2. The Voynich Manuscript

This ancient manuscript  features 204 pages of unknown language and illustrations of plants, unseen my mankind. Expert cryptographers have attempted to decipher the ancient text and none have succeeded in decoding a single word. Although many believe the book is a hoax others believe that hidden within its weird language lies the secrets to space travel: plants and biology on other celestial bodies, interstellar travel, and even life itself!

3. The Russian UFO Tooth Wheel

One day while a Russian man was burning coal to heat his home he found a piece of machinery in a lump of coal. He retrieved it and examined it closely. Baffled he took it to scientist who concluded it was 300 million years old and artificially made. Humans didn’t learn the art of aluminum craft until the late 1800’s, and nothing made of natural aluminum could have been made so precisely. It raised question of a possible UFO piece and if so, when did they get here?

4. Sailing Stones

In Death Valley Arizona, there are rocks that move over years and years seemingly on their own! The only evidence that tells these rocks move is the dusty trail left behind them. Science was puzzled as to why these rocks moved until August 2014, when a study was published that thick layers of permafrost shift below the surface of the dusty area moving the rocks five meters a minute. Later that year the LA Times revealed that the Park Officials recorded theft of some of the sailing stones.

5. The Leprosy Breakthrough

The closest disease you can contract to becoming a real life zombie is this disease called Leprosy. In 1964, a doctor named Dr. Jacob Sheskin was presented with the task of treating an unfortunate enough fellow with the condition. The illness rots your skin and bones alive and never lets you sleep. Sheskin told his patient he was going to give him a sedative to help him sleep but mistakenly gave him Thalidomide. That is a banned drug that has the horrible side effect of a wide range of defects in offspring. and fortunately the drug was successful in ridding the body of this disease and allowing the patient to sleep once more. This drug is still being use for this disease to this day.

6. The lost city of Atlantis

Believe it or not, Atlantis actually exists, although it isn’t quite as it is depicted in movies. The sunken city exists off the coast of the Bahamas, the Greek islands of Cuba, and even off the coast of Japan if they are all truthful. The city is believed to be 10,000 years old! Science speculates about the authenticity of the location but it is believed that it did once reside above the ocean until a catastrophic event sunk the island. Looking at you Global warming.

7. A 15th Century Hospital

The discovery itself isn’t too exciting but who and where is. Turns out Apple doesn’t just make technological discoveries, In Madrid, Apple was renovating an area for a new store when the construction crew came across a 15th Century hospital. Interestingly enough, Apple continued construction but made sure to incorporate some of the nearly 600 year old hospital into their building. The remains of an old church can also be found nearby and a subway station actually has windows looking into the plague patient hospital.

8. A horned (Human?) Skull

This one is closer than you may think. 59 miles northwest of Scranton PA, in the borough Sayre, people unearthed a burial ground full of human remains in the 1880’s. They were all presumably male with the exception of one unidentified. This skeleton looked normal but had two inch horns two inches above the eyebrows. Science still have not been able to tell if this was a hoax or not, however, there is a condition that grows horns from your head, so speculation says it is fully real.

Lycurgus Cup

This goblet is 1,600 years old and is jade green. nothing too exciting until you put a light source behind it, changing the green color to a blood red color, this happens because there are particles of gold, silver, and sulfur inside that are smaller the 500 nano meters. That is smaller than one grain of table salt! This baffles scientists and shows that ancient civilizations had access to nanotechnology far before our age in technology. Science still does not know the process of making the cup. It is on display at the British Museum in the UK.

10. Time Travel

We know that there is this thing like time dilation where it states the higher velocity slower time appears to you. This has been tested a clock on a jet was flown around the world while a separate synched clock was left at the airport it took flight at. When the jet returned the clock on the jet was behind the clock at the airport. So technically, if you move at the speed of light you will have paused time. Go faster, and you will be traveling into the future. Nobody has ever done this nor do we know how to go into the past but we know that time travel could be possible in the future.