Random Real Life Mysteries That Seem Straight Out of X-Files (19 items)

• (#14) The Battle of Los Angeles

  "Military guns and spot lights just shot up into the sky for minutes and then it was over. No one has a clue what they were shooting at

   
  "It was over LA and no can give any reasonable account as to what happened. The military said it was a weather ballon. Most people say bullshit."
• (#9) The Nurembourg Celestial Phenomenon of 1561

  "It happened randomly in Nuremberg's sky and it appeared as if it was a type of aerial battle with spheres, cylinders, and at the end of the spectacle, a black triangular object fell from the sky and a crash was heard from outside the city. This still does not have an official explanation. UFO Conspiracy theorists everywhere, rejoice!"
• (#13) The Taman Shud Case

  "A man washed up on Australia shores who is completely, and to this day, unidentified. Cause of death unknown, and he was carrying a booklet with him that had an encrypted message that to this day is still without meaning. A suitcase believed to be his was also discovered, with odd objects inside that seem to make no sense to this man's apparent possession of them, some of the items being: Red felt slippers, a stenciling brush for marking ship cargo, and a pair of trousers with sand in the cuffs, along with makeshift weapons."
• (#4) A Personal Abduction Account

  "When I was a kid, like two-ish, I had this dream of a man I called 'Big Daddy' because he looked like a large version of my dad. In the dream, he lifted me up over his head, held me there for what seemed like a few seconds, and dropped me. I recall the dream vividly but not the aftermath, which my parents filled me in on. They heard a super loud thud come from my room, so they ran in and found me several feet away from my bed and both my ears were bleeding. My bed was a car bed that was only about a foot off the ground and it had walls on the side to prevent falling out of it. There was no way falling out of my bed would've made that loud of a noise let alone the likelihood of me falling out of it to begin with.

  "I'm pretty sure I was abducted. After that day, I had extremely vivid nightmares about black panthers (not sure why that creature) watching me from outside my window or in the house sometimes. They happened a few times per month and completely stopped when we moved. I remember those dreams more than any other dreams I've ever had in my life. I tell this story all the time as my campfire ghost story, but I've always been tempted to get hypnotic regression therapy to see if I could look passed the disguises of whatever it was that was in my dreams to see what was really happening."
• (#8) Ursula and Sabina Eriksson

  "Ursula and Sabina Eriksson are Swedish twins who supposedly went totally fucking batshit crazy together for roughly 72 hours. There's footage (and subsequently a whole documentary) of them repeatedly throwing themselves into oncoming traffic and getting hit/run over by multiple cars and even an 18-wheeler. When police arrived to sort things out, they became extremely violent like cornered animals, eventually leading them to need restraints just to administer medical attention.  

  "One was charged with assaulting a police officer when she was released from the hospital (a span of a few hours), to which she responded apathetically or even cheerfully. After something like 2 days in a holding cell, she plead guilty and was sentenced 1 day (which she already served) and was released. 

   
  "Something like a day later, some guy found her wandering around the street looking lost/confused. He invited her in to let her use his phone and try to track down the sister (who was still in the hospital, I believe), and she apparently stabbed the guy 3-4 times in the chest, killing him.

   
  "I say 'apparently' because all the evidence suggested that it was her, but she never actually gave her account of what happened. She answered every question with 'no comment' from the moment of arrest throughout the trial. 

   
  "To top the whole thing off, doctors at the trial declared that she was insane when she committed the crime, but that she was now completely sane, and was not currently a risk to the public. The judge wanted to give her an indefinite sentence, so they would have more time to evaluate the possibility of it happening again. The law, however, required that he give her a definite sentence, since she was declared to not currently be a risk to the public. He sentenced her to 5 years in prison.

   
  "She was released in 2011 and has essentially fallen of the map since then. We know that she kept in contact with her twin through her sentence, and that they likely reunited upon release, somewhere in America."
• (#12) Triangle UFOs

  "One of my favorites is the black triangle UFO(s) seen over Belgium in the late 80's and early 90's.  

  "The Belgium military scrambled F16s to intercept the black triangle but it was captured on the radar jumping from something like 10,000ft to 25,000ft in a single radar blip. It was seen from the ground while being captured on radar. It's a very strong case. Speculation is that it was an advanced military project, but it seems ballsy to test it in public."

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