Mysterious photos, 1st part [40-21]

Day 2,784, 10:38 • Published in Mexico United Arab Emirates • by Terron de azucar
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40.The shunk ape
(near Sarasota,Florida - 2000)


In 2000, two photographs said to be of the skunk ape were taken by an anonymous woman and mailed to the Sheriff's Department of Sarasota County, Florida. The photographs were accompanied by a letter from the woman in which she claimed to have photographed an ape in her backyard. The woman wrote that on three different nights, an ape had entered her backyard to take apples left on her back porch. She was convinced the ape was an escaped orangutan
The pictures have become known to Bigfoot enthusiasts as the "skunk ape photos". Loren Coleman is the primary researcher on the photographs, having helped track down the two photographs to an "Eckerd photo lab at the intersection of Fruitville and Tuttle Roads" in Sarasota, Florida. According to Chester Moore, Jr., the photographs were taken in Sarasota County near the Myakka River
39.The Martian spherules
(Mars - February 24, 2004)



The National Geographic reported on Feb. 24 that scientists believe the "blueberries" NASA's Opportunity rover found on Mars in 2004 are not geological evidence of ancient water.
The countless gray-blue spherical rocks Opportunity found on the Martian surface are now believed to be meteorite remnants that broke up when entering the red planet's atmosphere.
Upon the discovery of the "blueberries'" presence, which have large amounts of hematite, an iron-bearing mineral, scientists theorized numerous explanations including shockwaves from meteor impacts or volcanic eruptions.
The most popular theory from the discovery team, which led most scientists to believe for the last decade, was based on a natural occurrence that happens on earth. When groundwater flows through porous rocks, hematite spheres emerge from a chemical reaction causing iron minerals to precipitate into tiny spherules.
The theory suggested that water flowed on Mars in ancient eons.
38.The Phoenix Light
(Phoenix, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico - March 13, 1997)



The Phoenix Lights (also identified as "Lights over Phoenix") was a UFO sighting which occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico on Thursday, March 13, 1997.
Lights of varying descriptions were reported by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST, in a space of about 300 miles (480 km), from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson.
There were allegedly two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over the state, and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area. The United States Air Force later identified the second group of lights as flares dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft that were on training exercises at the Barry Goldwater Range in southwest Arizona.
Witnesses claim to have observed a huge V-shaped (several football field sized), coherently-moving dark UFO (stars would disappear behind the object and reappear as it passed by), producing no sound, and containing five spherical lights or possibly light-emitting engines. Fife Symington,the governor at the time, was one witness to this incident. As governor he ridiculed the idea of alien origin, but several years later he called the lights he saw "otherworldly" after admitting he saw a similar UFO
37.The Naga fireballs
(Mekong River, Thailand - every year)



Mekong lights is a phenomenon said to be often seen on the Mekong River. Glowing balls are alleged to naturally rise from the water high into the air. The balls are said to be reddish and to range in size from smaller sparkles up to the size of basketballs. They quickly rise up to a couple of hundred metres before disappearing. The number of fireballs reported varies between tens and thousands per night.
The fireballs are most often reported around the night of Wan Ok Phansa at the end of the Buddhist Lent in late-October.
Naga fireballs have been reported over an approximately 250 kilometre long section of Mekong river with the centre of this section approximately at Phon Phisai town in Amphoe Phon Phisai. Balls have also been reported rising from smaller rivers, lakes and ponds in this region.
36.The spooklight
(Hornet, Missouri - ?)



The Spooklight, also called the Hornet Spooklight, Hollis Light and Joplin Spook Light, is light that appears in a small area known locally as the "Devil's Promenade" on the border between southwestern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma west of the small town of Hornet, Missouri.
Despite the fact that it is named after a small, unincorporated community in Missouri from which it is most commonly accessed, the light is most commonly described as being visible from inside the Oklahoma border looking to the west. The Spooklight is commonly described as a single ball of light or a tight grouping of lights that is said to appear in the area regularly, usually at night. Although the description of the light is similar to that of other visual phenomena witnessed throughout the world, the term "Spooklight" when standing alone generally refers to this specific case.
35.The duo in “Boulevard du Temple”
(Paris, France - 183😎



A photograph of this street, taken in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, is one of the earliest daguerreotypes known, and it is believed to be the earliest surviving photograph showing a person.
The image shows a street, but because of the over ten-minute exposure time the moving traffic does not appear. You will see two human figures, a customer having his shoes polished by a bootblack, but…. who has one shoe polished for 10 to 15 minutes?
34.Gas masks on a march
(France ? - World War I ?)



Little is known about this photo, but this is so strange that makes doubt that it is a manipulation
33.The Hampton Court ghost
(Richmond upon Thames, England, UK - winter 2003)



On three consecutive days, palace security staff were called to close one particular fire door near the palace's Introductory Exhibition.
On the first day, CCTV footage showed the doors flying wide open with great force but there was nothing to reveal why.
On the second day, the same thing happened but this time a ghostly-looking figure in period dress suddenly appeared on the screen and closed the doors.
The doors opened again on the third day but there was no further sign of the ghostly doorkeeper.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sjzjyfPJqA
32.Tree man
(Australia - summer 1932)



During the Great Depression in Australia, Redge Jones decided to become a lumberjack in the snowy mountains. He joined a group of fellows that soon told him about unusual phenomena occurring in the area and especially unusual sounds coming from a waterfall nearby where a man allegedly fell and died. Redge later visited the site where he took this photo of two friends sitting on a trunk, on which a large figure also appeared. Even if he doesn't believe in ghost stories, Redge admits he is still very intrigued by this picture
31.Battle of Los Angeles
(Los Angeles, California - February 24-25, 1942)



The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late 24 February to early 25 February 1942 over Los Angeles, California. The incident occurred less than three months after the United States entered World War II as a result of the Japanese Imperial Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one day after the bombardment of Ellwood on 23 February.
Initially, the target of the aerial barrage was thought to be an attacking force from Japan, but speaking at a press conference shortly afterward, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the incident a "false alarm." Newspapers of the time published a number of reports and speculations of a cover-up. Some modern-day UFOlogists have suggested the targets were extraterrestrial spacecraft.[3] When documenting the incident in 1983, the U.S. Office of Air Force History attributed the event to a case of "war nerves" likely triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries.
30.Hinterkaifeck murders
(Hinterkaifech, Germany - March 31, 1922, photos taken on 4th of April)



Hinterkaifeck, a small farmstead situated between the Bavarian towns of Ingolstadt and Schrobenhausen (approximately 70 km north of Munich), was the scene of one of the most bizarre and puzzling crimes in German history. On the evening of March 31, 1922, the six inhabitants of the farm were killed with a mattock. The murder remains unsolved to this day.
The six victims were the farmer Andreas Gruber (63) and his wife Cäzilia (72); their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel (35) and her two children, Cäzilia (7) and Josef (2); and the maid Maria Baumgartner (44). The two-year-old Josef was rumoured to be the son of Viktoria and her father Andreas, who had an incestuous relationship.
A few days prior to the crime, farmer Andreas Gruber told neighbors about discovering footprints in the snow leading from the edge of the forest to the farm, but none leading back. He also spoke about hearing footsteps in the attic and finding an unfamiliar newspaper on the farm. Furthermore, the house keys went missing several days before the murders, but none of this was reported to the police.
Six months earlier, the previous maid had left the farm, claiming that it was haunted; the new maid, Maria Baumgartner, arrived on the farm on 31 March, only to die a few hours later.
Exactly what happened on that Friday evening cannot be said for certain. It is believed that the older couple, as well as their daughter Viktoria and her daughter Cäzilia, were all lured into the barn one by one, where they were killed. The perpetrator(s) then went into the house where they killed two-year-old Josef, who was sleeping in his cot in his mother's bedroom, as well as the maid, Maria Baumgartner, in her bedchamber.
On the following Tuesday, the 4th of April, some neighbors went to the farmstead because none of the inhabitants had been seen for several days, which was rather unusual. The postman had noticed that the post from the previous Saturday was still where he had left it. Furthermore, young Cäzilia had not turned up for school on Monday, nor had she been there on Saturday
29.San Pedro mountain´s mummy
(San Pedro mountain, Wyoming - October 1932)



In October 1932, while digging for gold in the San Pedro mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming, two prospectors, Cecil Mayne and Frank Carr, blasted their way through some thick rock that a large vein of gold continued into. When the dust settled, they saw they had opened up a small room, approximately 4 ft tall, 4 ft wide, and about 15 ft deep. This is where they said that they first saw the mummy of a tiny person.
The mummy disappeared mysteriously in July 7, 1979
28.The Dyatlov pass incident
(eastern side of Kholat Syakhl in Northern Urals, Russia - February 2, 1959, photos taken on 26 February)



The Dyatlov Pass incident was an event that resulted in the deaths of nine-out-of-ten hikers in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened on the eastern side of Kholat Syakhl. Since then, the mountain pass where the incident occurred has been named Dyatlov Pass after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov, who was a geologist teacher of Ural Polythechnical Insititute and led a group of skiers consisted of nine mens and two womens, most were students or graduates of the institute above-mentioned.
Investigators determined that the skiers had torn their tents from the inside out in order to escape from an apparent threat. They fled the campsite, some of them barefoot, under heavy snowfall. Although the bodies showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls and broken ribs, absent contusion. Soviet authorities determined that an "unknown compelling force" had caused the deaths; access to the region was consequently blocked for hikers and adventurers for three years after the incident. Due to the lack of survivors, the chronology of events remains uncertain, although several theories exist, some involving a possible avalanche, and a hostile encounter with Extraterrestrial Life.
27.The falling body in Cooper family photo
(Texas - 1950s)



The story goes that sometime in the 1950s the Cooper family of Texas bought an old house and moved into it. On their first night there, the father took a photo of Mom and Grandma posing with the two kids at the dining room table. Everyone was happy and smiling. They were living the American dream.

But when the photo was subsequently developed, they saw, to their horror, that what looked like a body falling or hanging from the ceiling had materialized behind them. It hadn't been there when the father took the photo. So where had it come from? Was it an apparition of a deceased former tenant of the house? No one knew.
26.The modern time traveller
(Gold Bridge, British Columbia, Canada - September 1941)



A photograph from 1941 of genuine authenticity of the re-opening of the South Fork Bridge in Gold Bridge, British Columbia, was alleged to show a time traveler.It was claimed that his clothing and sunglasses were modern and not of the styles worn in the 1940s. The photo originated from the Bralorne Pioneer Museum, and was featured in their virtual exhibit Their Past Lives Here, produced and hosted through investment by the Virtual Museum of Canada.
Further research suggests that the modern appearance of the man may not have been so modern. The style of sunglasses first appeared in the 1920s. On first glance the man is taken by many to be wearing a modern printed T-shirt, but on closer inspection it seems to be a sweater with a sewn-on emblem, the kind of clothing often worn by sports teams of the period. The shirt is very similar to the one that was used by the Montreal Maroons, an ice hockey team from that era. The remainder of his clothing would appear to have been available at the time, though his clothes are far more casual than those worn by the other individuals in the photograph.
Debate centers on whether the image genuinely shows a time traveler, has been photomanipulated, or is simply being mistaken as anachronistic
25.The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
(Norfolk, England, UK - 1936)



The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is a ghost, which reportedly haunts Raynham Hall in Norfolk. It became one of the most famous hauntings in Great Britain when photographers from Country Life magazine claimed to have captured its image. The "Brown Lady" is so named because of the brown brocade dress it is claimed she wears.
According to legend, the "Brown Lady of Raynham Hall" is the ghost of Lady Dorothy Walpole (1686–1726), the sister of Robert Walpole, generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. She was the second wife of Charles Townshend, who was notorious for his violent temper. The story says that when Townshend discovered that his wife had committed adultery with Lord Wharton he punished her by locking her in her rooms in the family home, Raynham Hall. According to Mary Wortley Montagu, Dorothy was in fact entrapped by the Countess of Wharton. She invited Dorothy over to stay for a few days knowing that her husband would never allow her to leave it, not even to see her children. She remained at Raynham Hall until her death in 1726 from smallpox.
24.The specter of Newby Church
(Newby, England, UK - 1963)



The Specter of Newby Church, (or the 'Newby Monk') is the name given to an artifact found on a photograph taken in the church of the same name. The image was taken in 1963 by the Reverend K. F. Lord.As the artifact appears to resemble a human, much speculation has been had regarding what type of person might be in the image. Most speculation has concluded that it resembles a 16th century monk, with a white shroud over their face, possibly to mask leprosy or other disfigurement.
In relation to the nearest furniture, any figure would measure at 2,7 meters
23.Congo giant snake
(somewhere in Katanga, Congo - 1959)


It was 1959, and the colonel and his crew were flying back from a helicopter mission when they saw a gigantic snake “winding on the terrain below,”
“He circled around for a better look and had one of his flight crew take a series of photographs. As he descended to about 500 feet altitude (150 meters), the gigantic snake took notice, and reared back as though ready to strike at the helicopter if it dared to come within range.”
Colonel Lierd guessed that the snake was at least 50 feet in length (15 meters). He estimated that the snake’s large triangular jaw was 2-3 feet wide (0,5-1 meter): “It could have easily eaten up a man!” he said.
According to this report, the longest live snake ever measured was a reticulated python at 33 feet long (10 meters). The extinct Titanboa is the longest snake known to man, and was 42 feet long (13 meters)

22.The Babushka Lady
(Dallas, Texas - November 22, 1963)



The Babushka Lady is a nickname for an unknown woman present during the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy who might have photographed the events that occurred in Dallas' Dealey Plaza at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot. Her nickname arose from the headscarf she wore similar to scarves worn by elderly Russian women (бабушка –babushka – literally means "grandmother" or "old woman" in Russian).
The Babushka Lady was seen to be holding a camera by eyewitnesses and was also seen in film accounts of the assassination.She was observed standing on the grass between Elm and Main streets and can be seen in the Zapruder film as well as in the films of Orville Nix, Marie Muchmore, and Mark Bell (44 seconds and 49 seconds into the Bell film: even though the shooting had already taken place and most of her surrounding witnesses took cover, she can be seen still standing with the camera at her face). After the shooting, she crossed Elm Street and joined the crowd that went up the grassy knoll in search of a gunman. She is last seen in photographs walking east on Elm Street. Neither she, nor the film she may have taken, has yet been positively identified; no known photograph with her in frame captured her face, because in all cases she was facing away from the camera or (in the case of the Zapruder film) had her face obscured by her own camera.
21.Dog Suicide Brigde
(Milton, England, UK - since 1859, photo taken on ?)



The Overtoun Bridge is an arch bridge located near Milton, Dumbarton, Scotland which was built in 1859 and has become famous for the number of unexplained instances in which dogs have apparently committed suicide by leaping off of it.
The incidents were first recorded around the 1950's or 1960's when it was noticed that dogs - usually the long-nosed variety like Collies - would suddenly and unexpectedly leap off the bridge and fall fifty feet to their deaths. In some cases, however, the dogs would survive, recuperate, and then leap off the bridge again. The locals have a name for these dogs: second-timers.
What makes this tragic mystery even more mysterious is that many of the dogs that jump from Overton Bridge jump from the same side and from almost the same spot: between the final two parapets on the right-hand side of the bridge.
But why is this happening? What would compel otherwise contented canines to leap from the stone structure?
Some believe that the bridge is haunted. In 1994, a man threw his baby son off the bridge claiming that it was the anti-Christ. Later, the man attempted suicide there as well.
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