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

• (#1) The Gelatinous Blobs of Oakville

  "Gelatinous blobs fell from the sky in Oakville, WA, in the early 90's that made people sick and killed some animals. After testing it was shown to contain human white blood cells."
• (#2) The Cross-Shaped Hole

  "In a village in Sweden called Röjdn there's a cross-shaped "hole" in the ground that won't go away. Over many years people tried to digg it out, fill it up, etc. but it comes back. Nothing grows there, and if you plan something in it it dies."
• (#3) The Mary Celeste

  "The Mary Celeste was an American merchant brigantine that was found adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Azores Islands, Portugal, on December 4, 1872, by the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia. She was in a disheveled but seaworthy condition, under partial sail, with no one on board, and her lifeboat missing. The last log entry was dated ten days earlier. She had left New York City for Genoa on November 7, and on discovery was still amply provisioned.

  "Her cargo of denatured alcohol was intact, and the captain's and crew's personal belongings were undisturbed. None of those who had been on board—the captain and his wife, their two-year-old daughter, and the crew of seven—were ever seen or heard from again."
• (#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."
• (#5) The Hoia Baciu Forest in Romania.

  "Visitors to the forest often report intense feelings of anxiety and the feeling of being constantly watched. Moreover, the local vegetation is somehow bizarre in appearance, like something out of a make-believe story with strangely shaped trees, and unexplained charring on tree stumps and branches. 

  "The forest was named after a shepherd that disappeared in the area with a flock of two hundred sheep. Most people who live near the forest are afraid to enter it due to the stories and legends that have been handed down. They believe that those who visit the site will never return back home. Many of the locals who have been brave enough to venture into the forest complained of physical harm, including rashes, nausea, vomiting, migraines, burns, scratches, anxiety, and other unusual sensations."
• (#6) Gloria Ramirez Emits Toxic Fumes

  "A woman, Gloria Ramirez, was brought into the ER suffering from late-stage cervical cancer. Her body had an oily sheen to it, her breath smelled like fruity garlic, her blood samples smelled like ammonia and had floating particles in it. Most of the people who worked on her got sick themselves."
• (#7) The Green Children of Woolpit

  "Two children, a brother and sister, mysteriously appeared. They claimed to have been from a dark world and were drawn to ours by a bell. Also, they were green."
• (#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."
• (#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!"
• (#10) The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

  "The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter. A bunch of people dealt with a two hour attack by strange little men in the dark woods of Kentucky in 1955.  

  "Here's a little more detail on what supposedly went down that night."
• (#11) Paul Bennewitz and the Government Conspiracy

  "For a mystery very close to the X-Files, you'd need to look at something like the Paul Bennewitz case. He lived and worked close to the Kirtland Airforce base and intercepted what he believed to be alien communications at what he called the Dulce Base.

   
  "He very well may have been the target of a government operation where he was fed false information and documents verifying his alien hypothesis by intelligence agents working for the Airforce Office of Special Investigations.

   
  "He was pushed to the brink and ended up in a mental health hospital, and his story is full of X-Files-esque intrigue, like photographs of landed UFOs he took from the air (he was a private pilot) being stolen from his house.

   
  "There have been a few books written about it, the best being Project Beta by Greg Bishop."
• (#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."
• (#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."
• (#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."
• (#15) Mel's Hole

  "I always liked Mel's Hole. TL;DR: a guy has a hole on his property that he claims is bottomless and has the power to restore dead animals to life. Hole is tested by some people who "verify" the claims, then government gets involved to shut everything down.

   
  "It is probably a hoax, but has all the elements of a good X-Files story, including government cover-up."
• (#16) The Monkey Man of New Delhi

  "The monkey man would have made a great episode. 

  "Summary from Wikipedia: 

  "In May 2001, reports began to circulate in the Indian capital New Delhi of a strange monkey-like creature that was appearing at night and attacking people. Eyewitness accounts were often inconsistent, but tended to describe the creature as about four feet (120 cm) tall, covered in thick black hair, with a metal helmet, metal claws, glowing red eyes and three buttons on its chest; others, however, described the Monkey-man as having a more vulpine snout, and being up to eight feet tall, and muscular; it would leap from building to building like a parkour enthusiast. Still others have described it as a bandaged figure or as a helmeted thing. Theories on the nature of the Monkey Man ranged from an Avatar of the Hindu god Hanuman, to an Indian version of Bigfoot.

   
  "Many people reported being scratched, and two (by some reports, three) people even died when they leapt from the tops of buildings or fell down stairwells in a panic caused by what they thought was the attacker. At one point, exasperated police even issued artist's impression drawings in an attempt to catch the creature."
• (#17) A Mysterious Force Field

  "There was a story of a force field spontaneously appearing in a 3M facility, supposedly generated by static electricity from the films they were working with, but at a strength that would require insane levels of potential difference concentrated into one area for no discernible reason."
• (#18) The Hessdalen Lights

  Numerous sightings of the Hessdalen lights have been reported, but there's been no explanation yet.  
   
  One theory is "that lights could be part of that phenomena that isworldwide, e.g. Marfa lights Yakima lights, ball lightning, etc. andthe Hessdalen lights have been scientifically studied viaSpectroscopy. The common components are dirt -nothing exotic, meaningit's probably a strange occurrence where dirt is swept up into theair and then ignited via static electricity or some other means."
• (#19) D.B. Cooper

  "D.B Cooper was a plane hijacker who parachuted out of the plane mid-flight and was never caught. It's the only unsolved air piracy in American history.  

  "$5800 of the $200,000 he stole was found on the riverbed of Columbia River near lake Mervin. It is assumed that he died in the lake."

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