Historic Mysteries Unexplained mysteries, archaeology, and cool history. 2020-03-31T07:55:27Z https://www.historicmysteries.com/feed/atom/ WordPress Samantha Devine <![CDATA[Clovis People and their Culture]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=14921 2020-03-30T06:31:29Z 2020-03-29T09:55:22Z The Clovis people were one of the first indigenous people to inhabit areas of the Americas about 13,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age.

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]]> Rowan Harris <![CDATA[Sweating Sickness of Tudor England]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=15416 2020-03-28T15:50:35Z 2020-03-28T15:25:49Z The first recorded occurrence of Sweating Sickness, or "English Sweat" took place in 1485. Within months it killed 15,000 people.

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]]> Joe Turner <![CDATA[Long Island Serial Killer Case Remains Unsolved]]> http://historicmysteries.com/?p=1260 2020-03-31T07:55:27Z 2020-03-26T09:00:36Z The Long Island Serial Killer has been operating for almost twenty years. He killed, mutilated, and disposed of at least ten victims near Gilgo Beach.

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]]> Mark Miller <![CDATA[The Codex Gigas Devil’s Bible: A Weird and Massive Medieval Manuscript]]> http://historicmysteries.com/?p=909 2020-03-30T07:28:05Z 2020-03-26T02:30:55Z The Codex Gigas is a bizarre holy book known as the Devil's Bible. The giant 3 foot long, 165-pound text contains spells, magic, and an image of Satan.

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]]> 0 Alan McNairn <![CDATA[Germany’s Hinterkaifeck Murders Remain Unsolved]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=14960 2020-03-24T14:37:34Z 2020-03-22T16:49:38Z The Hinterkaifeck murders occurred on March 31, 1922, when six people were butchered to death at a rural homestead in Germany. The case remains unsolved.

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]]> Joe Turner <![CDATA[Piri Reis Map of 1513 and Antarctica]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=15205 2020-03-17T16:18:40Z 2020-03-17T15:28:01Z Piri Reis map was created by Ahmed Muhiddin Piri in 1513. The map appears to show an ice-free Antarctic coastline long before the continent's discovery.

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]]> Vladislav <![CDATA[Dropa Stones: Are They 12,000 Year Old Discs?]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=15165 2020-03-26T11:53:02Z 2020-03-17T07:56:26Z The Dropa Stones are an alleged discovery of 716 circular stones in the mountains of China that are 12,000 years old and contain hieroglyph markings.

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]]> Joe Turner <![CDATA[The Servant Girl Annihilator Murders of Austin, Texas]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=15051 2020-03-22T16:52:23Z 2020-03-16T16:57:52Z In the 19th century in Austin, Texas, the Servant Girl Annihilator slaughtered eight people and was one of the worst serial killers in the United States.

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]]> Jim H https://www.historicmysteries.com/ <![CDATA[A Drive Through Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, CA in 1948]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=15112 2020-03-15T15:46:14Z 2020-03-15T15:46:14Z In 2011, a 1948 background process plate was discovered. The clip is filmed in Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, CA - which shows the neighborhood as it once was.

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]]> Mark Miller <![CDATA[Hypatia of Alexandria: A Classical Age Female Scholar]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=15012 2020-03-31T07:00:05Z 2020-03-10T09:15:06Z Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 350–370 to AD 415) was the first known woman scientist and the last famous Neoplatonist philosopher of Alexandria, Egypt.

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]]> Les Hewitt <![CDATA[History of Pompeii: Its Rise, Decadent Heyday, and Destruction]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=15021 2020-03-10T07:56:03Z 2020-03-09T17:36:11Z The history of Pompeii as a wealthy port town dates many years back to the 8th century BCE and takes us to its final burial under Vesuvius' eruption of 79.

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]]> Vladislav <![CDATA[Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=14858 2020-03-11T06:12:52Z 2020-03-06T15:04:52Z The Bamiyan Buddhas survived nearly 1,500 years in Afghanistan until the Taliban entered the region and blew up the treasured figures in 2001.

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]]> Alan McNairn <![CDATA[What is a Roman Dodecahedron?]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=14742 2020-03-04T15:52:06Z 2020-03-04T13:48:31Z Over 100 hollow, knobby, metallic polyhedrons with 12 sides have surfaced at excavation sites mostly around central Europe, but no one knows what they are.

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]]> Mark Miller <![CDATA[Oracle at Delphi: The Age of the Prophetess of Apollo]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=14715 2020-02-28T11:34:59Z 2020-02-28T09:58:22Z The Oracle at Delphi was the most renowned Greek sanctuary with a seeress who channeled Apollo to prophecize the future of nations and people.

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]]> Kimberly Lin http://www.historicmysteries.com/ <![CDATA[Lake Avernus Mythology, Oracles, and Gods of the Underworld]]> https://www.historicmysteries.com/?p=13567 2020-02-13T16:39:03Z 2020-02-13T16:24:04Z Lake Avernus was once steeped in Greek mythology that transformed the lake into a place of dark gods and oracles connected with the underworld of Hades.

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