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Have you ever taken a photo and seen a mysterious shadow lurking in the corner? People say that eyes can play tricks on us, but what about the times there's visual proof of those tricks? "Photoshop exists," you might say. But did it really exist in 1992, when Carlos Diaz took a photo of a possible UFO in Tepoztlán, Mexico?

Some folks might say that it's still a hoax. Others, however, are inclined to believe that there are just some things in this world that we can't logically explain, and that's okay. Folks on Reddit have shared many such photographs. We've gathered the most interesting ones here for you to be creeped out or entertained about!

#1

Ancient manuscript page with strange red and blue flowers and mysterious handwritten text with unexplained histories. The Voynich Manuscript is pretty cool.
15th century text in an unknown language, yet to be deciphered.

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Spidercat
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2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the first thing on this list that cannot be explained...

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    #2

    Curious cat, dog, and chickens peering through a window, displaying strange and unexplained animal behavior outside a kitchen. The mysterious part of this picture is not what is in it, but what is not in it. What could possibly be in the kitchen that has these guys so mesmerized?

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    #3

    Cat interacting with a large watermelon near the edge of a body of water in a strange and unexplained photo. Probably the cat pushing a watermelon out of a lake.

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    Owen
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kitty found a purpose. Don't disturb it.

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    #4

    Young man in a tuxedo smiling and holding a sewing machine with a delivery truck tilted strangely in the background. I like the old UPS truck and sewing machine combo.

    american_hoser:

    Oh wow. I can actually explain this. Takes place at Princeton lawnparties (annual weekend long formal event) circa 2004. The UPS truck got stuck for about a week after trying to drive down a walking path that was too narrow, and ended up rolling down the hill towards the tennis courts. They've since built a new residential college (Whitman) in that area. I'm still not sure how they got the UPS truck out.
    The sewing machine, I have to presume was for repairing a tux. And clearly the guy is drunk, because that's how lawnparties work.

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    JK
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's so he could say he "went to the lawnparty with a famous Singer"

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    #5

    Two people lying inside a confined space with tape over their mouths in a strange and unexplained histories photo. To date, no one positively knows who these children are or where the picture was taken.

    One woman came forward saying the girl looks just like her daughter, Tara Calico, who now has been missing for over 30 years.

    "Tara Leigh Calico (born February 28, 1969) is an American woman who disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico on September 20, 1988. She is widely believed to have been kidnapped. In July 1989, a Polaroid photo of an unidentified young woman and boy, both bound and gagged, was televised to the public after it was found in a convenience store parking lot. Family friends thought the woman resembled Calico and contacted her mother, who then met with investigators and examined the Polaroid. She believed it was her daughter after taking "time, growth and lack of makeup" into consideration, and noted that a scar on the woman's leg was identical to one Calico had. Scotland Yard analyzed the photo and concluded that the woman was Calico, but a second analysis by the Los Alamos National Laboratory disagreed. An FBI analysis of the photo was inconclusive."

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    Sofia
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can feel the fear of this picture... It's terrible

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    #6

    Black and white photo of a ghostly figure on a staircase, evoking strange and unexplained histories. The tulip ghost staircase is kind of freaky. Anything that predates Photoshop with s**t like this freaks me out a bit.

    blitzballer:

    Taken in 1966 by the Reverend Ralph Hardy, who was visiting the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England on vacation.
    However, the really interesting thing about the Tulip Staircase Ghost photograph is how scrutinized it was immediately after it was taken thanks to the Hardy family allowing the photo to be examined by experts in both the paranormal and photography fields.
    After noticing the odd apparitions in their vacation photo after returning to Canada, the Hardy’s allowed The Ghost Club back in England to examine the photograph. Later the picture would be examined by the Kodak Film Company
    Neither examination could prove the photo away as a fake and in fact the examinations provided this factual data on the photograph:
    The photo did not seem to have suffered from photographic tricks or manipulations.
    Each photo was accounted for in the roll. Neither the shot before nor after the ghost capture contains any image (both were of other architectural features of the Museum; one of a colonnade and one of a figurehead) that might have ‘bled’ over to the staircase shot.
    The photograph was taken with a Zeiss Ikon Contina with Kodachrome 35mm color film. The picture was taken in natural daylight with no flash.

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    The Other Guest
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Anything before photoshop..." oh, please. Trick photography has been around almost as long as cameras have. Even experts can be fooled (see: Cottingsley fairies).

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    #7

    Grainy nighttime photo showing a shadowy figure outside a cozy living room, linked to strange and unexplained histories. I like the photo which captured a person outside a cabin that went up on reddit about a year ago.

    Maby not so much unexplained as creepy, from what I remember they did see footprints in the snow as I recall.

    OP:

    Up North at my cousins cabin and decide to take a panoramic photo. Look outside. There's someone standing outside.

    eastb01:

    This might be easily explained. At least in Maine, people go and rob cabins in the winter, looking for medicine and other valuables. It's easy because the cabins are deserted. So, this guy probably wanted to break in, but saw people and just decided to leave and look for some other cabin.
    TL,DR, it's a nonchalant burglar.

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    #8

    Three llamas sitting in snow behind a fenced area with a white dog nearby in a strange and unexplained scene. I still cannot wrap my head around this picture. Is it normal for llamas to do that? or did this dog just walk in at the worst possible time?

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    Uncle Panda
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I told them they'd get stuck together but I can't get the hose on account of having no thumbs."

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    #9

    Spiral wooden staircase with intricate railings inside a historic building, featured in strange and unexplained histories photos. The Loretto Chapel Staircase is somewhat unexplained. The story goes that the nun's needed a staircase and prayed to St. Joseph, patron saint of Carpenter's, when a mysterious man came and offered to help construct a staircase over the next couple months, but he disappeared without receiving pay or thanks and could not be found. Within the staircase there is not any support or nails to be found and the staircase makes two perfect 360 degree turns.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very beautiful but I'm sure it could be replicated. Sounds so apocryphal as a story and an easy way to get money out of believers

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    #10

    Black and white vintage group photo of soldiers with a mysterious ghostly face among them, featuring strange history. I remember seeing this picture one day.

    This group picture of some soldiers was taken in 1919 so no Photoshop has been used here. The photographer didn't see that shadowed face when the picture was taken. First later some of the soldiers saw the picture and recognized the face as a fellow soldier named Freddy Jackson, who died in an accident caused by an airplane propeller two days earlier. If it's real I actually feel sorry for that poor guy.. He still thought he was alive and wanted to be part of the group photo.

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    This photograph, taken in 1919, is of the men and women of Goddard’s Squadron, the RAF Squadron who served at HMS Daedalus in WWI, which was actually a land-based seaplane airfield, and has since been renamed RNAS Lee-on-Solent. At first, the photo seems fairly typical for the time, however upon closer inspection it appears there is an extra figure who was not accounted for at the time.
    If you look across the very top row, the face of a man can clearly be seen standing behind the right shoulder of the airman fourth from the left. This face has been identified by a number of people as Freddy Jackson. Freddy was an aircraft repair mechanic in Goddard’s Squadron who had recently been k**led in a propellor accident before this photo was taken. His death certificate can be seen in photo 3.
    The photograph has attracted substantial attention since its release. The phantom face does not appear to match any other faces in the immediate area of the photo, which reduces the chance of it being a double exposure caused by one of the subjects moving. Also, to fake a photograph of this nature would have required advanced techniques for the time, not to mention a military unit hoaxing a ghost photograph of a recently deceased comrade would have likely been in particularly bad taste, especially following WWI.
    The photograph of Freddy Jackson and his Squadron remains a mystery to this day, and has left many skeptics scratching their heads. Squadron Leader Sir Victor Goddard, the man who took the photograph itself is adamant, likely many others, that he inadvertently captured the ghost of Freddy. What do you think?

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    R Dennis
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The guy in the white(?) cap isn't the "ghost", it's the face behind him... a couple of the comments seem to misunderstand the photo.

    Jennifer Gray
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Omg, thank you. Time to put on the readers lol🤓

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    Agfox
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Call me sceptical, but why did the people in that row leave a gap wide enough for a 'ghost' to appear?

    Spocks's Mom
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It looks to me that there's a lot of gaps in a lot of spaces in all of the rows. They could have added at least 12 more ghosts. 🙄

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    G A
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    Over a century later, who can say?

    Paula Smith
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’ve given you an upvote G A. I don’t understand why you were downvoted for that comment. 🤷‍♀️

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    Uncle Panda
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So... a typo on the date the photo was taken.

    JK
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except then they'd have to be psychic to know it was Freddy specifically that was going to be the one to die, out of the entire group, just to stage a photo.

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    The lighting on Fred's hat doesn't fit. Fred is also superimposed over another guy. Somebody cut and pasted old school with scissors. I bet there's a matching picture of Fred from another source.

    PeepPeep the duck
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ‘Fred’ isn’t wearing a hat, he’s behind the guy in the hat

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    #11

    Black and white vintage family photo with a mysterious upside-down figure, capturing strange and unexplained histories. As the Cooper's move into their new home in Texas, they take a photograph of the family sitting together, but as the photo is taken, a body falls from the ceiling. The OP said he wasn't sure if it was real, but he thought it was real creepy.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Faked and debunked. Ask yourself, why would the photographer not put the subjects front and centre, and leave room for some fakery to be added?

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    #12

    Man standing at cliff edge with another person hidden behind tree in a strange and unexplained history photo. The man at the canyon.

    Supposedly the man at the edge had no idea anyone was there and didn't see anyone.

    swimmerboy29:

    A kid probably realized he was in the photo and didn't want to get in the way.

    McGuineaRI:

    When this was first posted a while back the guy said he and the person in the photo at the ledge were the only people around for miles. They drove to that spot and decided to take pictures. There's nothing for miles and miles around. Neither of them saw anyone else there with them. Not when they were taking the pictures or afterwards. That's what's so inexplicable. Otherwise it's just a picture of three people.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's just a photo of 3 people. No need for made up drama.

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    #13

    Glowing orange unidentified object hovering above dark mountainous landscape under cloudy night sky. This Carlos Diaz UFO photo.

    Taken from the shoulder of a road on the side of a mountain in Mexico.

    You can see the object, the trees/bushes between the object and the camera, the metal railing on the edge of the cliff, and the reflection off the hood of the car. Photo was taken from the left side of the car, over the hood, after Diaz stepped out of the driver side with his camera.

    He described the object as being no more than 20m away, and making absolutely no sound as it rose out of the valley and then streaked away.

    This picture is not taken through the windshield, and the light is not from the headlights. This photo was taken from over the hood of the car, diagonally over the close-left corner of the hood towards the front-right. The light coming off the guard-rail on the road is a result of the form of the light.

    Coherent light, like a laser.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still looks like the reflection of a light bulb in glass...

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    #14

    Young boy smiling indoors with a faint, strange face appearing on dark curtains in an unexplained photo history. The creepiest picture I've ever seen is this one.
    "My friend took of his kid in his flat but theres a face in the curtain."

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    Sofia
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought that was creepy because your friend didn't have children

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    #15

    Underwater sonar image revealing a large, strange structure with unexplained history on the ocean floor. Did we ever find out what the baltic sea anomaly was?

    edit: IT'S NOT THE F*****G MILLENNIUM FALCON.

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    #16

    Eerie black and white photo showing a mysterious figure peeking from behind a stair railing, strange and unexplained. I posted this in the last (non serious) thread. Now there are a few logical explanations of this but if you follow the story, it is pretty creepy.

    The Warrens were performing a big investigation into Amityville. There were quite a few people in the house including the investigating team and reporters. At some point in the night one of the automatic cameras caught this image. There were no children in the house.

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    Willow-60
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Warrens were frauds, take a look at de-bunkers on YouTube, a lot of them have covered the Warrens

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    #17

    Black and white photo showing a tilted view of a brick building entrance with two figures, capturing strange and unexplained histories. Hampton Court Ghost.

    "Hampton Court ghost refers to a figure seen in a CCTV footage/image near Hampton Court Palace in October 2003. The figure was seen in a long robe-like cloth allegedly haunting the place for a couple of days or months. The figure was first reported in early-2001."

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very good way of getting publicity for visitors. Nobody working there believed it.

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    #18

    Vintage photo showing a person in a pointed hat standing near a large mushroom cloud explosion strange unexplained histories This one fascinates me.

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    Uncle Panda
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Google Lens has lots of pictures of that mushroom cloud but the person is missing.

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    #19

    White UPS delivery truck parked on a suburban street with trees in the background, strange unexplained photo. The white UPS delivery truck comes to my mind. I don't know why. It just feels... weird.

    Come_To_r_Polandball:

    Criminal organizations are known to clone delivery vehicles in smuggling operations. This looks like a really half-assed attempt.

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    JL
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The rare albino UPS truck spotted in the wild.

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    #20

    Spiral light in the night sky above a town, showcasing a strange and unexplained phenomenon in history. THE NORWEGIAN SKY ANOMALY. This phenomen was first observed in Norway in 1997 and contisues to this day.

    Hundreds of calls flooded the Norwegian Meteorological Institute as residents wanted to know what they were seeing. UFO enthusiasts immediately began speculating whether the aerial light display could be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence proposing among other things that it could be a wormhole opening up, or somehow was linked to the recent h**h-energy experiments undertaken at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland

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    WindySwede
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The claim, failed rus Ian missile. https://youtu.be/J5_8MVctp30

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    #21

    Ancient map with detailed illustrations of ships, animals, and compass roses revealing strange and unexplained histories. The Piri Reis Map

    Fascinating artefact which could change the way we look at the history of the human race.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If i remember right, a map of the Antarctic without the ice

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    #22

    Person dressed in a dark costume pouring water from a pitcher into a glass, standing in the ocean waves, strange unexplained photo. This Darth Vader image always makes me smile.

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    Uncle Panda
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    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After combing the desert, they tried straining the ocean.

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    #23

    Black and white vintage photo of men in early 20th century clothing, capturing a moment with strange and unexplained histories. Jay Z in 1939.

    Was one of Brooklyn’s finest in Harlem in 1939? This Sid Grossman photo of “Harlem Loiterers” from the Prints Collection at NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture has created quite a stir since being posted to the Center's Facebook page the other day. Why? Because the man on the right looks a heck of a lot like Jay-Z. Cue Twilight Zone music, right? Schomburg’s Curator of Digital Collections Sylviane A. Diouf found the photo while researching an exhibition, and said, “I was immediately struck by the similarity to Jay-Z and actually laughed out loud … I still hope somebody will tell us who that young man really was.”

    So is Jay-Z a time traveler? Is this someone else - anyone know who? What do you think?

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    Dragons Exist
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or (and here me out) they just happen to look similar, because there are only so many possible ways a human can look, so it's not at all surprising that two people 90 years apart happen to look similar

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    #24

    Blurry black and white photo showing a dimly lit room with hospital beds and medical equipment in strange unexplained history setting. Picture from a hospital CCTV camera shows what appears to be a demon on-top of a dying patient.

    “This picture was taken of a nurse’s viewing monitor. On the monitor, this black figure appeared standing on top of the patient who was lying in the bed. The patient died within a few hours of this figure appearing.
    Some paranormal sites speculated that the mysterious figure on top of the bed was a mythological being known as a 'mare.'"

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    #25

    Dimly lit attic with wooden beams and an old brick wall, evoking strange and unexplained histories atmosphere. Check out the bench on the left.

    OP:

    So a customer just printed this at my work, please tell me you see what we see.

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    #26

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day The Naga fireballs is a phenomenon with unconfirmed source said to be often seen in Thailand’s Mekong river in which glowing balls are alleged to naturally rise from the water high into the air.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Swamp gas escaping and catching light due to heavy pollution of the river.

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    #27

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Brown Lady of Raynham Hall Brown Lady of Raynham Hall claimed photograph of the ghost, Captain Hubert C. Provand. First published in Countrylife magazine, 1936 Wiki Link

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    #28

    Black and white photo of a train crashing through a station wall, a strange and unexplained history captured in motion. Montparnasse Station train accident.

    The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 4 pm on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it entered the station too fast and the train air brake failed. After running through the buffer stop, the train crossed the station concourse and crashed through the station wall before falling onto the Place de Rennes below, where it stood on its nose. A woman in the street below was k**led by falling masonry. The driver was fined 50 francs and one of the guards 25 francs.

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    Beaker72
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So not "unexplained" at all. In fact pretty much fully understood.

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    #29

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day It's going to be hard to prove this isn't fake, but I guess you'll either take me at my word, or...not.

    So a few years ago I was attending a Halloween party back in my hometown of Boston, that was being thrown by a few of my girlfriend's grad school friends.

    I get to talking with a small group of them about things that creep us out, and one of them mentions his "girlfriend's family's ghost", and how creepy it is.

    I'm a skeptical person, and I don't believe in ghosts, but it's Halloween and I want a cool story, so I press him for more details. He says his girlfriend's family claims that there's a ghost that lives in their house, and that it's a "friendly ghost" - whatever that means. He is also skeptical from what I remember, but claims to have a picture. He says it's a family photo and the ghost of the lady is in the background. He tries to dig it up on his Blackberry, but comes up short. Bummer.

    A few days later, though - I get an email from my girlfriend from her friend.

    I still have the picture, and even though I don't believe in that stuff it still freaks me the f**k out.

    I haven't looked at it in a while - it creeps me out too much. Gah I hate it.

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    Agfox
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like a visit from Elton John, not sure about his sunglasses, though

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    #30

    Vintage black and white photo of a dog balancing a bottle, surrounded by people with strange and unexplained histories. Has to be this one. We may never know what was going on when it was taken.

    ReadsSmallTextWrong:

    Clearly someone caught a leprechaun and had a completely ridiculous idea to stage a dog drinking competition so big that even the mayor would be there. There was also the swaggest lady of the age -- you can see her pictured here with the hat that says "WIN" on the underside of the brim.
    Edit: I'd like to elaborate. The man to the left of the pipe-smoking mayor wearing a similar hat is Jergen Offen, the believed asker of the wish. To the right of The Lady of Swag, Hashtag Kanye, we see Eartha Fire-Wind Dutchess of Marmahol, Catzlvania. She's sporting the same hat that she wore to the Kentucky Derby in the year 1983.

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    Michelle Roberts
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What really bugs me is the fact someone looking like Tom Cruise is between the two hatted and bespectacled men.

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    Blurry black and white photo showing a strange object casting a shadow on a textured surface in unexplained histories collection. This strange looking bolder was photographed a few years ago on the surface of mars... Quite odd.

    "The Mars monolith is a rectangular object, possibly a boulder, discovered on the surface of Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles (300 km) away. The HiRISE camera that was used to photograph the monolith has a resolution of approximately 1 foot or 30 centimeters per pixel."

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    #32

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day In 2000, two photographs said to be of the Skunk Ape were taken by an anonymous woman and mailed to the Sarasota County, Florida, Sheriff's Department. The photographs were accompanied by a letter from the woman in which she claims to have photographed an ape in her backyard.[3] 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."

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    #33

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Martian spherules (also known as hematite spherules or blueberries) are small spherules (roughly spherical pebbles) that are rich in an iron oxide and are found in exceedingly large numbers at Meridiani Planum, a vast Martian plain.

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    #34

    Black and white photo of a mysterious lake creature resembling a dinosaur in water, linked to strange unexplained histories. Loch Ness Monster. She's real, real I tell you!

    "The Loch Ness Monster, known affectionately as Nessie, is a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands."

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The surgeon's photo. Debunked as a fake in the 1980s by the son of the photographer as a toy sub with modelling clay on top.

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    Unexplained object floating above Earth’s atmosphere in space with clouds and horizon visible below. Black Knight Satellite

    An unidentifiable satellite that was found orbiting earth in the early 1960's. The object is in polar orbit which neither the Russians nor americans were capable of at the time.

    Legend has it that in orbit around the Earth is a mysterious, dark object which dates back perhaps 13 000 years. Its origin and purpose are inscrutable, dubbed the “Black Knight” this elusive satellite has allegedly been beaming signals towards the Earth and inspected by NASA astronauts yet only a few on Earth officially know of its existence. The origin of the ominous name is part of the enigma; it is impossible to discover who first called it this or indeed why. Humans have only in the last 60 years had the technology to launch a man-made object into space so what is the logical explanation of tales of an alien intruder on our doorstep?

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    #36

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Hooded figures in the background of a wedding.

    Seems really freaky to me.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In a different yard. I seem to remember in Spain they wear strange religious get ups for local festivals which non Catholic non locals wouldn't recognise.

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    #37

    Unexplained lights in the night sky over cityscape, an eerie scene with strange and unexplained histories. Phoenix lights.

    wickedsmaht:

    I have seen this a few times since I moved here 3 years ago. Freaks me the f**k out ever time.

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    Faelwolf
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw the Phoenix lights in person from the desert outside of Florence. Didn't see anything different from a normal flare drop I've seen plenty of times before while in the USAF or the feds looking for d**g mules working their way across the desert.

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    #38

    Four people wearing strange and unexplained costumes stand by a rural road next to a red car. Somebody found this on google street view. I don't know anything else about it. Maybe somebody has suggestions on what it could be about? A specific group of people?

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People playing silly beggars like they have all over the world

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    #39

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Wow, I found it hard to believe no one has mentioned ball lightning yet

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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ball lightning does exist, it's just extremely weird and extremely rare.

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    #40

    Aerial view of a natural circular land formation with strange and unexplained histories in the desert landscape. The Eye of the Sahara has been NASA's APOD twice, although I can't link to it due to government shutdown. It's not an unexplained picture as much as it is a picture of an unexplained thing. It is a completely unique, apparently geologic formation in Africa that geologists can't explain or recreate. It is slightly oblong but appears nearly perfectly circular and is absolutely massive, almost 50 km in diameter.
    While geologists don't know what to do with it conspiracy theorists come in, many claiming it is the lost city of Atlantis.
    Wikipedia article.
    Atlantis article

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    Zig Zag Wanderer
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not exactly unexplained. It's been fairly extensively explained by geologists.

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    #41

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day This painting is called “The Madonna with Saint Giovannino”. It was painted in the 15th century by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) and hangs as part of the Loeser collection in the Palazzo Vecchio. Above Mary’s right shoulder is a disk shaped object. Below is a blow up of this section and a man and his dog can clearly be seen looking up at the object.

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    Brittania Kelli
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm more confused by the baby sporting a six pack. Who made that baby lift weights?!

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    #42

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day In February 2012, a picture was released to the news media of a likely unknown victim of Dean Corll. The color Polaroid image had been found in the personal possessions of one of his accomplices

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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Poor kid was m******d

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    #43

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Saturn's Hexagon

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    Agfox
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Interesting article here https://www.science.org/content/article/saturns-strange-hexagon-recreated-lab

    #44

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day A group of four kids posing for a picture, however, there appears to be a mysterious thumb next to the kid in black on the right, that does not seem to align with anyone's body. The OP of this photo says he has no idea where the thumb could have come from.

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    Squirrel Chaser
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The annoying little brother trying to be included.

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    #45

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day A photo published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942 has been cited by modern day conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists as evidence of an extra-terrestrial visitation. They assert that the photo clearly shows searchlights focused on an alien spaceship; however, the photo was heavily modified by photo retouching prior to publication, a routine practice in graphic arts of the time intended to improve contrast in black and white photos.[11] Los Angeles Times writer Larry Harnish noted that the retouched photo along with faked newspaper headlines were presented as true historical material in trailers for the film Battle: Los Angeles. Harnish commented, "if the publicity campaign wanted to establish UFO research as nothing but lies and fakery, it couldn't have done a better job."

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    #46

    Protesters holding unusual signs, including one questioning what if Elektra k****d the Hulk, in a crowd scene. What if Elektra k**led the Hulk.

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    persephone134
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What am I missing? Questionable censorship, BTW.

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    #47

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Unusual lights have been reported here since 1940s or earlier. Especially high activity of Hessdalen lights took place from December 1981 until the summer of 1984 when lights were observed 15–20 times per week. The frequency of the lights caused a gathering of numerous tourists staying there overnight to see the phenomenon.[1] Since then, the activity has decreased and now the lights are observed some 10–20 times per year.

    The Hessdalen light most often is a bright, white or yellow light of unknown origin standing or floating above the ground level. Sometimes the light can be seen for more than one hour. There are several other types of unexplained lights observed in the Hessdalen valley

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    Jay Scales
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessdalen_lights

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    #48

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day The Falcon Lake Incident is a reported unidentified flying object (UFO) encounter near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada claimed to have occurred on May 20, 1967 by Stefan Michalak. He had had taken a short vacation in Whiteshell Provincial Park to prospect veins of quartz near Falcon Lake when he spotted two cigar-shaped objects descending, one of which landed near him. Michelak says he saw a door open and heard voices from inside the object, after which he tried to make contact in English and other languages but got no response. He claims to have burned his hand while attempting to examine "colourful glass" found around the object and seen a grid-like exhaust vent that expelled gas that burned his clothing.

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    Gordon Guitar
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It sure looks like a common allergy test that's performed when folks have allergic reactions to an unknown substance. Each circle would contain a different stimulus.

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    #49

    Young woman with blonde hair and backpack smiling outdoors, featured in a collection of photos with strange and unexplained histories. Probably the famous "backpack girl" image that was featured on many cyber parked websites from 2005 to around 2012. Whenever you would misspell an address, or check who owned that URL you wanted, there she was, smiling at your anger, tears, and rage. Who is she? Where is she? Why is she so famous? Nobody knows!

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    #50

    Waterfall flowing through rocky cliffs surrounded by dense forest in a photo with strange unexplained histories. Devil's Kettle Falls is pretty cool

    It's 'unexplained' insofar as not knowing the precise mechanism of how it works, but everyone's pretty sure it drains into the great lakes.

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    Jay Scales
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_C._R._Magney_State_Park#Devil's_Kettle

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    #51

    Eerie photo of a strange creature with glowing eyes captured in a dark, unexplained history setting. This thing.

    The Morgan City Monster, Louisiana.

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    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A tiny bit of digging finds that this was made for a TV series in 2010

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    #52

    Black and white group photo with one blurred face, illustrating strange and unexplained histories in vintage images. I went to a h**h school that's extremely old and infamous for being haunted. There's a photograph of the senior class from years ago where a ghostly girl appears, with long black hair and a white dress. No one from that graduating class remembers her, or her being in the picture.

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    Agfox
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, why leave a gap in that row when taking the photo?

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    #53

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Well, there's this... I really want to know what's happened here.

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    Drop Bear from Hell
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Police stopped a dodgem car being driven on a public street.

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    #54

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Someone in our family took this photo using a disposable camera and pointing it into a completely dark closet.
    We really can't figure out where the face came from, but it's incredibly spooky.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a metal hood over a fireplace and a reflection in it.

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    #55

    Bicycle parked on a balcony with a wooden statue figure behind a partially open door in strange unexplained photo. Guy on Tumblr found [some...thing] standing on a balcony on Google Street view. Later got blurred out.

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    Sofia
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    why this is unexplained? It's a balcony

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    #56

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day This one has always fascinated me. The story goes that the couple were on their honeymoon. Husband was taking pictures of the wife in her 'sexy times' outfits. The TV was turned off when the picture was taken. They supposedly didn't notice the image on the TV screen until some time after they had left the hotel (Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, AR). I can't speak to the photo's authenticity, but if it IS genuine, as they claim, it's weird.

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    Panda'sMom
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Crescent Hotel is also supposedly Haunted. Stayed a month in Eureka Springs, AR, doing some research. I felt like the whole darn town is haunted. LOL

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    #57

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day The Marfa Lights, mysterious glowing orbs that appear in the desert outside the West Texas town of Marfa, have mystified people for generations.

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    Subvertia
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights

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    #58

    A coastal harbor with unusual tidal patterns, captured in two photos showing strange and unexplained histories. Tide goes in. Tide goes out. You can't explain that.

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    #59

    Dimly lit room with old wooden bed frames and rustic furniture, evoking strange and unexplained histories atmosphere. It's the most unexplainable to me, because I witnessed it.
    I took this in my mother's old home during a visit a few years ago. Through my phone's viewfinder it looked like a green ghost fire that dropped from the window. Panicked hands produced a shaky picture.

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    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Err, it's a reflection/refraction from a source you failed to identify. And why claim the picture is 'shaky' when it's clearly just out of focus?

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    #60

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day My friend once punched a girl with with a fist from his face

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    Reddus Heddus
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is someone behind the guy leaning toward her & it's their hand

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    #61

    Blurry indoor scene showing a bright explosion or light flare, part of strange and unexplained histories captured on camera The Jakarta Angel

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    Lexi
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They think it's an angel caught on security camera in a shopping mall in Jakarta, it's been classed as bad cgi

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    #62

    Two children standing near a dark road at night with a mysterious glowing light in the distance, strange unexplained history photo. We have a local one around here called the 'Joplin/Hornet Spooklight' Basically it's a road you can park on and there is a light off in the distance where there shouldn't be one. It has been seen for a long time. There is a lot of stuff about it online.
    I made a cheesy ghost documentary a long time ago with a segment about it and filmed it myself, starts at 8:35 my footage is near the end, and is sped up, but you can clearly see the light. not sure why I sped it up so much haha.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot of these got debunked as road traffic on back roads which is why they only appear rarely

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    #63

    People in cloaks gathered around a large ritual fire at night in a forest with strange and unexplained histories. Not really unexplained, but every summer, for two weeks, the most powerful political movers and shakers in the world come to northern california to worship a big owl idol at the Bohemian Grove.

    "The Bohemian Grove, that I attend from time to time—the Easterners and the others come there—but it is the most faggy g*****n thing you could ever imagine, that San Francisco crowd that goes in there; it's just terrible! I mean I won't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco."—President Richard M. Nixon.

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    persephone134
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What new censorship is this? I can't figure out the "faggy g*****n".

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    #64

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day The Phoenix Lights were a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects, seen by 1000s of people, observed in the skies over Arizona, Nevada in the United States, and Sonora, Mexico on Thursday, March 13, 1997.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 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. The lights were reported to have reappeared in 2007 and 2008, but these events were quickly attributed to (respectively) military flares dropped by fighter aircraft at Luke Air Force Base and flares attached to helium balloons released by a civilian

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    #65

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Jim Templeton was in a marsh taking photos of his young daughter and after getting them developed there appeared to have been a Spaceman in full astronaut gear standing behind her. Except there wasn't anyone else around while they were there. Even Kodak verified that it was not tampered with. Freaks me the f**k out.

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    Drop Bear from Hell
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one was debunked not so long ago. The figure was the girl's mother - old style camera distorted the image.

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    #66

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day People believe that this photograph, taken in 1941 at the re-opening of the South Forks Bridge in Gold Bridge, Canada, is depicting a man in seemingly modern dress and style, with a camera that is advanced well beyond its time. The circle on the left illustrates a man with a camera typical to the time-period

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    #67

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day In these two photographs of the gaping hole the plane crashed into the South Tower of of the WTC on 9/11, you can see a woman standing on the edge of the hole waving. Her name is Edna Clinton, and the mystery many people say of these photos is that she actually was a survivor. People inquire how she was able to survive everything that happened at that location, then go on to make it out of the building.

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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If she survived, did anyone ask HER?

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    #68

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day The Demon Dog photo

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    Willow-60
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably pareidolia but if anyone has an explanation?

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    #69

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day I can't believe no one has mentioned Our lady of light. This is one of the most famous Marian apparitions, and one of the few to be seen by lots of people at once, with lots of photographs.

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    Ace
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Lots of photographs"? Are they all of vague blurry shapes and lights, by any chance? I dunno, you'd think that with so many at least a couple of them might actually show something identifiabe.

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    #70

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Dyatlov pass incident. Cooked people, tents torn open, no animal involved. Pictures of the incident in article and there is a good documentary too. The wikipedia page doesn't give too much insight so I just included one from the daily mail. I am at work and unable to find a great link...but still one of my favorite mysteries worth the read.

    Edit: There were internal injuries and one women was missing her tongue and eyes. Everyone had internal injuries and no external...radiation was present.

    Edit 2: The documentary I watched said that their insides were basically cooked. I'm terribly sorry wikipedia doesn't say they were...but if you give me 10 mins I can change that.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They WERE NOT cooked. They mostly died of hypothermia which oddly makes you hot and you strip off before you freeze. Damage to the bodies was due to scavengers. What was puzzling is why they fled the tent.

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    #71

    Some people may say I'm lying and may downvote me. But this is a true story. My dad back in the 70's had a friend who was the singer in the cover rock band they were in and friends with him ever since. My dad's friend ended up living a pretty interesting life.

    He became a photographer for MTV way back in the 80's. At the time, and he showed me this picture when I was 15 or 16, so this was 2003/2004. He owned a cigar shop and on the mantle of the fireplace had framed pictures of him singing and jamming with Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin. He had a picture of him and Ozzy posing backstage back when Ozzy had blonde hair and in the picture Ozzy had an entire apple in his mouth.

    He even had a picture of him selling cigars to Bill Clinton when Clinton was President and posed in a picture with him holding the box of cigars.

    Anyway, my dad told me his friend went to Gettysburg and brought his camera with him. He went to a cemetery to take pictures. And when he developed them, one picture he took of some tombstones in the cemetery there had a transparent woman wearing old Civil War era style clothes and was on her knees praying in front of a grave.

    He never really told anybody about this picture and he wouldn't have showed me that picture if my dad never told him to show me that picture of the ghost. He had to go up in the attic of this little house he turned into a cigar shop and was there for like 5 minutes trying to find it like he just carelessly left it somewhere.

    He showed me the picture and I was telling him it's got to be fake. But he assured me it wasn't. But even told me he's an atheist and even after taking the photo himself and developing it himself he was still skeptical of what came out.

    If anybody is interested I can ask my dad if maybe he can somehow get a copy or a scanned copy of it on the computer. But, I don't know if he would give that photo out. He told me the reason he never went public with it is because he didn't want people to think he was a con artist or crazy to believe in that type of stuff since he was an atheist.

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    CD Mills
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why even bother to post the description and NOT include the photo?

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    #72

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Sailing Stones

    Much photographed, nothing spooky, but still no plausible explanation.

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    G A
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Debunked conclusively MANY years ago as ice forming and carrying them along.

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    #73

    50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day Allegedly this was found very small on an old nasa photo from the moon

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