Tag: Mysteries

Why have all these treasures gone missing throughout the world?
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The religious order of the Knight’s Templar was a powerful group of 12th Century warriors whose wealth enabled them to form the foundations of our modern banking system. They’ve been linked to all sorts of conspiracy theories from the protection of Christ’s bloodline through to the stonemasons and illuminati, but whether or not the Templar’s more fantastical tales are true, what we know for sure is that these guys took home some serious fat stacks.

The Concert by Johannes Vermeer is considered to be the most valuable stolen painting in the world, with an estimated worth of over two hundred million dollars. And with a paltry five million dollars offered as a reward for information regarding its whereabouts, it’s understandable why this painting has been missing for nearly three decades.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were an incredibly significant find when they were discovered in a cave in the mid-20th Century, with these ancient manuscripts being the second-oldest surviving document mentioned in the Bible. However, while the scrolls are of utmost importance to religious folks and historians, the rest of us are more likely to be interested by their mentioning of treasure.

The modern Crown Jewels sported by the always on-fleek Queen Elizabeth the Second are approximately 350 years old, but there have been many different collections known as the Crown Jewels, and the ones we’re referring to actually went missing in the 13th Century. Or did they?

This next entry is certainly an important piece of historical documentation, but it is probably one of the least treasured treasures you’ll ever hear about. The National Archives of America hoards millions of significant papers, and among them were a set of maps drafted by the Army Air Corps.

Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, a.k.a. the grass cutting sword, is the name of a Japanese sword whose legend dates back almost a millennium. There is much folklore surrounding the sword’s origin and what special properties it has, but its most important historical role was its ceremonial use to legitimise the rule of a new Japanese Emperor.
Peking Man was a member of the Homo erectus species who lived between 680,000 and 780,000 years ago. His remains were found in China between 1929 and 1937, and this discovery was of huge significance to human history, as it finally confirmed the existence of the Homo erectus. Before this discovery, the remains of other Homo erectus’ were thought to be nothing more than deformed apes, but this proved otherwise.

The Patiala Necklace was designed by Cartier in 1928, and it comprised of the world’s seventh largest diamond, the DeBeers Diamond, along with 2,930 other less-fancy rocks. This necklace belonged to the Indian Maharaja Sir Bhupinder Singh, who was one of the ritziest and kinkiest royals ever. He used a fleet of Rolls Royces to transport and sweep away garbage in the streets, fathered 88 kids, appeared naked in front of his subjects, took part in orgies and even had his concubines surgically altered to please him.

Universe, space, planets, stars. Is there a limit to our reality?
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Planets, stars, galaxies, clusters, space. The universe as we know it is made up of many different things, much of which we may never be able to understand or even see. But is there a limit to our reality? How far does the universe go? Does it even have an end? And if so, could anything exist outside of that?

As we’re about to find out, the answer to this question isn’t straightforward at all, but let’s give it our best shot in our video which seeks to answer, what lies beyond the edge of the universe.
Imagine if you were to somehow reach the very edge of the known universe. That’s an epic journey of immense proportions for a start, but if you could somehow survive the trip, what would you see? Darkness? Light? Or something else?

One recently developed idea seeks to take us back to the beginning of the universe itself to find an answer. The theory, proposed by Dr Julian Barbour, Dr Tim Koslowski and Dr Flavio Mercati claims that when the big bang created our universe, we were not an only child. Our universe has a twin, and a rather bizarre one at that.

When scientists are attempting to find black holes they don’t do so by looking for them directly, as since they emit no light this would be impossible. Instead, they detect them by observing their effects on surrounding objects such as planets and stars. Black holes are so incredibly powerful that they cause hugely noticeable effects on the light we receive from stars light years away, and the reason this is relevant is because we can also use this method to examine the edges of our own universe.

Let’s scale back from these grandiose theories and explore a theory that’s based on things we know for certain, the things we’ve seen and measured – i.e. the size of the observable universe. We could start this entry by throwing a huge number at you, but that wouldn’t mean much without context. So let’s build up nice and gently. Humans, you are on average 1.6 to 1.7 metres tall. Your typical tree is around ten times that, and the tallest tree in the world is the redwood at over 100 metres high. The tallest man-made object on Earth is the Burj Khalifa at 828 metres, and currently under construction is Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower, with this building set to be the world’s first to go beyond a kilometre in height. But that’s nothing compared to Mount Everest, which reaches 8.8 kilometres at its peak.

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Your death is inevitable. You are a fleshy bag of meat and bones with just a few pounds of pressure in just the wrong place all that’s needed to permanently erase you from existence. But did you know that there are many things that could kill you right now in the supposed safety of your own home? It’s true. Meteorites, toilets and toddlers are all out to get you, as are a bunch of other things you’d never even think of. So let’s find out what’s gonna make your friends and family all teary-eyed, in our list of ten things that could kill you right now.

Imagine waking up one morning to see a large hole in your roof. That definitely wasn’t like that last night; I wonder where it came from? You turn to your wife for an answer. But something’s not quite right. She has a giant smouldering mess of pulp and bone where her face used to be. That definitely wasn’t like that last night.

Gamma Ray Bursts are hugely energetic space explosions that produce gamma radiation in gigantic quantities, and if one were to strike the Earth it could kill every last one of us in less time than it takes me to decide if I want cheese on something.

Are you eating while watching Strange Mysteries? I hope not, because choking is the fourth leading cause of unintentional injury death, with most cases involving some sort of food or chunky beverage – like skittlebrau, or vomit. Your average chance of choking to death is one in 4,404, with someone in the USA dying from throat nonsense every two hours

Are firearms legal in your country? Then make sure you’re packing one yourself, because someone is coming for you and everyone you love. It’s not terrorists, and it’s not the government, no…it’s toddlers.

Heart disease is the world’s number one killer, with 17.3 million people clutching frantically at their ticker and collapsing dead every single year. But what is the most common cause of heart disease? Is it smoking? Eating too much fatty food? Letting your mom use your laptop when you’re only 50% certain you’ve closed all your browser tabs?

Are you watching us from a pillowy fortess of duvet-based slumber paradise? Then be careful as you get out, because every year 450 Americans die from falling out of bed. This figure can be compared to a total of zero Americans killed each year by foreign nationals coming from the countries affected by Donald Trump’s travel ban, but do we see the rampant bed menace tackled?

Are you on prescription drugs at the moment? Well I sure hope your Doctor has great penmanship, because in the USA alone 7,000 people are killed annually due to unreadable prescriptions. Such confusion often leads to an accidental overdose, so the next time you get a script that looks a little bit like this…

At some point in their lives, approximately 1.5 to 3 percent of all people either have or will develop a brain aneurysm, and while most are entirely symptomless, a ruptured aneurysm is fatal in 40% of all cases.

Carbon Monoxide is an odourless, colourless and tasteless gas, and because of its subtle, undetectable nature it remains responsible for around half of all fatal poisonings in most countries.

Are you desperately waiting for this video to end because you really need to pee? Well clearly you’ve never heard of the pause button, dingus, but don’t go rushing off to play with the yellow lightsaber just yet, because draining the weasel might actually kill you.

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Time is a curious thing. Time can be exact. Time can be imprecise. Time can be slow for some and faster for others.

In our recent video on what happens when you die, we briefly touched upon an idea which may be relevant to the question of whether time can have a conclusion. Robert Lanza believes that consciousness is fundamental to the concept of time, and that without conscious beings, time simply stops existing. I guess it’s similar to the old thought experiment which asks if a tree falls in the forest and nobody’s there to hear it, does it make a sound? If nobody’s there to perceive it, does an event happen? Is perception the fundamental driver of all things, even the things we cannot control?

Current estimates peg the age of our universe at around 14 billion years old, but according to some physicists we may not make it out of our teens, as they believe time could grind to a halt five billion years from now. Or 3 billion years from now. Or in one second. Damn, I hope I’m wearing clean underwear.

You’ve heard of the big bang, but what about the big crunch? Sounds delicious right? Wrong. The big crunch is a theoretical ending to the universe whereby everything that ever was and ever has been coalesces into one final singularity; an ultra-dense region where you, Jupiter and giraffes are all smushed into a single point, within which time, according to physics, ceases to exist.

As human beings get older a common complaint is that time seems to feel like its speeding up. Your twenties go by in a whiz, your thirties are mere seconds, and before you know it you’re soiling yourself in an old folks home and bam you’re dead. So why does this happen? And could we ever manipulate this feeling?

We think of time as something which exists universally and which is experienced by everyone and everything in the same way. But that’s not true, as time dilation shows us. According to special relativity, the faster you go the slower times moves.

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Consciousness: what is it, where does it come from, and where does it go when we die?

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The notion of human consciousness has long been intertwined with the idea of a human soul; with discussions of the origins and fate of either capable of taking you on a rollercoaster ride of sci-fi fantasy and religious dogma as bloated as Grandma’s corpse.

Whenever a TV show runs out of material they always end the season with one of those crappy clip shows that no one likes. And it seems your brain does the same thing when you die, since many people report seeing a high-speed replay of their life’s memories flash before their eyes in the moments before death.

One of the most fascinating events described by those who have cheated death is the famous out of body experience, and judging by some of the first-hand accounts, this one seems like it’ll evade explanation for some time yet.

Since the dead are notoriously hard to interview, the best way of finding out how dying feels is to speak to those who’ve had a near death experience. And these almost-corpses tend to describe the same thing; a bright, white light that comes at the end of a euphoric trip down an ever-lasting tunnel.