on a humid August Night off the coast of Sicily British billionaire Mike Lynch along with 21 other passengers were sleeping soundly on Lynch's luxury yacht the basian then all of a sudden a surging storm hammered the vessel shockingly within minutes the basian had capsized tragically sending Lynch and seven others down with her now you'd presume this was just an unlucky case of Na brutality however some theorists out there believe that somehow Lynch was deliberately targeted that night intrigued well get your trench coat and magnifying glass as we open the case files on this and plenty more supposedly solved [Music] Mysteries Mike Lynch October 2011 was a pretty big month for Mike Lynch his software company autonomy was bought by American tech company hulet Packard or HP for a sum over $10 billion however the deal was dogged from the start with HP accusing autonomy of artificially inflating its profits ahead of the sale fast forward to 2018 and US prosecutors brought multiple charges including wire fraud and conspiracy against Lynch and autonomy's former Financial executive Steven Chamberlain now it's fair to say that things weren't looking good if found guilty they faced the prospect of more than 20 years in prison and considering less than . 5% of federal criminal cases end in AC quiddle they may as well have started saying their goodbyes yet in June 2024 both Lynch and Chamberlain were acquitted of all charges by jury as it was ruled that HP were at fault for failing to properly vet the deal unsurprisingly Lynch was in a celebratory mood Keen to make up for all the time he'd lost on the trial the tech entrepreneur organized a yacht trip around the Mediterranean for friends and family yet for many on board it'd be a fatal Voyage in the early hours of August 19th the basian Lynch's giant 184 ft long super yacht was anchored to the seabed outside of the harbor of porello in Sicily Italy then at around 500 a. m.
a violent storm Fierce enough to whirl up water spouts headed straight for the vessel at first the boat started to rock before long the windows of the yacht shattered as water poured into the vessel within minutes the basian had completely capsized and Lynch had sunk with it now normally you'd presume such such a freak weather event was pure accident but not everyone was so sure according to Giovani costantino the CEO of the company that made the basian The Vessel was Unsinkable so how exactly does an Unsinkable yacht go down in just 16 minutes stranger still Lynch's wife Angela who was also on board at the time claims to have been woken up by a slight tilt but surely a slight tilt isn't enough to send down a supposedly Unsinkable super yacht similarly carsten borer the captain of a nearby vessel claimed that in a moment the basian suddenly sunk It's Possible the basian size could have resulted in its downfall at 237 ft tall this yacht's aluminum Mast was one of the tallest in the world the massive Mast likely increased the surface area exposed to the wind making it more susceptible to tip in such stormy conditions despite that some people claim the basian sinking may have been a deliberate disaster but how could the yacht's captain or crew know what was going to happen no weather forecasts predicted such a severe storm while the direction of the wicked water spout would have been completely unpredictable well there are some strangely suspicious incident that contributed to the basian sinking yachting experts have suggested that open hatches and doors could have contributed to the rapid sinking of the vessel could crew members have deliberately forgot to close hatches before the storm struck allowing the basian to quickly fill with water and sink of the 22 people on board the basian seven tragically passed away interestingly of the fatalities all but one were closely connected to Lynch firstly there was Mike Lynch himself as well as his daughter Hannah then there was Jonathan and Judy Bloomer with Jonathan giving evidence as a defense witness for Lynch during his trial finally there were Chris and Nita morilo with Chris being a partner at a law firm that represented Lynch during the prolonged court case not only did many of Lynch's Inner Circle perish but of the 10 crew members on board all but one survived In fairness Steven asins a partner at a law firm specializing in maritime law claimed the emergence of the storm likely meant the crew were up and working on the upper deck trying their best to navigate The Vessel through the storm meanwhile it's likely the passengers remained sleeping below deck unaware the ship was soon to sink still would the crew members not evacuate or at least notify all of the passengers including the billionaire owner of the yacht off before leaving the ship themselves if that wasn't heads scratching enough five of the six passengers that passed away were all discovered in the same room the first cabin on the left-and side of the basian in a dark twist some online users claim it's possible the crew members not only failed to evacuate passengers off the basan but deliberately trapped Lynch and his allies inside the ship you see it seems some doors were forced shut after all rescue divers had to smash through a port hole to gain access to a room in the wrecked vessel containing five of the victims as the door had been blocked in by Furniture that's right five passengers that never made it out were all found in the same room with a sealed entrance suspicious as that sounds local fire service Commander boglio fandra has a different Theory as the basian sank it settled on its right hand side he believes it's possible those five passengers headed for the first cabin on the ship's left side as it was the higher side of the ship where there may have been air bubbles that means it's possible the cabin door was blocked with furniture by the passengers themselves in an attempt to prevent more water coming in and allowing the air bubble to last longer so why did these passengers had for the same cabin room and not Escape via the yacht's top deck well as the passengers cabins were found on the lower deck they would have likely had to clamor through cabin rooms and the engine room before climbing up two flights of stairs to reach the top deck and with the ship at 90° and fast filling with water they likely thought they would have had a greater chance of survival using the first cabin on the left hand side's air bubble who knows for sure what exactly happened on board de basian one thing's for sure it's got my Spidey senses tingling given the circumstances it's no surprise bazan's Captain James cutfield was put under investigation by Italian authorities for manslaughter and shipwreck as well as that ship engineer Tim Parker Eaton was suspected of having failed to protect the yacht's engine rooms and operating systems while sailor Matthew Griffith is accused of being inattentive during his watch Duty on the night of the sinking though the investigation will go on for some time Italian prosecutor Ambrosio cartosio said it was plausible crimes of multiple manslaughter had been committed yikes despite all that it was ultimately deemed that Lynch was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and that's that wait a minute there's more remember Lynch's codefendant Steven Chamberlain who was ALS also acquitted of all charges in June 2024 well remarkably just like Lynch he was involved in a freak accident following the verdict early on an August morning just days before the bayy ENC capsized Chamberlain left his home near Cambridge England to go out on a morning run then at around 10:00 a. m. while crossing the road he was struck by a car the 49-year-old woman driver remained at the scene a assisting with the police inquiries as the former autonomy employee was sent to the hospital tragically he passed away a few days later yet coincidental and downright suspicious as Chamberlain's passing seemed the British police said there was no evidence of anything suspicious or UNT I don't know first Mike Lynch then Steven chamberline what are the chances they were both wiped out in bizarre unrelated disasters just days apart but strap in because the mystery doesn't end there in 2013 Lynch founded another company dark trace a shady cyber security firm ever since its founding the company has been known and used by International secret services in March 2022 the company even teamed up with the US Department of Defense protecting the country from cyber attacks sounds like dark Trace might have annoyed some people they really really didn't want to and with Lynch as dark trac's founder and Steven Chamberlain as Chief Financial Officer it's not too outlandish to think these two would have been wanted men for many people online these two cases are about as suspicious and UNT as you can get but what do you reckon was the downfall of Lynch and Chamberlain down to their surprising acquittal the Shady work of dark trace or was it just pure bad luck all right what head scratcher do we have next the Summerton man Mike Lynch isn't the only man to meet his end in mysterious circumstances on December 1st 1948 beachgoers visiting the Summerton Park Beach area near Adelaide Australia made a spine chilling Discovery lying against the seaw wall was a body of a deceased man while that sight alone would be jaw-dropping enough there was something strange about the Summerton man that made it even eerier he was fully dressed in a suit and trousers though the name tags on his clothes were all meticulously cut off his clothes were dry and there was nothing to indicate he'd washed up on shore in his pockets were bus and train tickets chewing gum some matches two Combs and a pack of cigarettes yet puzzlingly there was no wallet no cash and no ID but most mysteriously of all a scrap of paper with the printed words tamam sh meaning the end in Persian was found in his trouser pocket the scrap was later found to be taken from a copy of the rubat of Omar kayam a 12th century book of Persian poetry left in the back of the car near where the body was found to thicken the plot further investigators found perplexing seemingly coded messages written on the book's inside cover experts weren't able to pinpoint the cause of death but medical Witnesses testifying during the inquest agreed the death wasn't natural and likely resulted from poisoning as for his identity the Summerton man's fingerprints were sent around the world but still no one could identify him it wasn't until 20122 when forensic genealogists analyzed some of the Summerton man's hair samples that they finally thought they cracked the code they matched the DNA to a coral web supposedly Webb was born in 1905 near Melbourne Australia in October 1941 he married Dorothy Robertson yet it appears the couple separated 6 years later in 1947 some have theorized that Webb went looking for Robertson who's believed to have lived near Summerton Park beach at the time seemingly things went South resulting in either Robertson poisoning her ex or web consuming the stuff of his own accord not everyone's convinced though whether it's the lack of identification the Curious scrap of paper reading tamam shud or the nearby copy of the ruat of Omar kayam filled with creepy codes some people are convinced the Summerton man was actually a spy with the Cold War command ing just months before the mystery man's passing perhaps he got a little too deep in the Espionage game paying for it by being permanently decommissioned and dumped on Summerton Park Beach considering the complexity of this case I'm not sure we'll ever get to the bottom of it Frederick valentic while we're on the topic of Australian obscurities that brings us to The Curious Case of Frederick valentic born in 1958 valentic was an aspiring pilot with dreams of enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force he held a private pilot's license and routinely went on flights in order to help his dream come true on October 21st 1978 valentic embarked on one such training flight flying in a Cessna 182l he was making the short Journey from Melbourne to King Island off the coast of South a Australia things started smoothly however around an hour into the flight the young pilot noticed something strange he radioed Melbourne Air flight service to report an unidentified aircraft following him though he was told there was no known aircraft at that level valentic claimed to see a large long fast moving metallic aircraft illuminated with four bright lights behind him then the pilot reported the aircraft was approaching him looking up he could see it had a shiny metal surface and green lights on it sounds awfully UFO like doesn't it valentic noted that it seemed to be playing a game with him flying past and around his plane at high speeds and here's the spookiest part asked to identify the aircraft valentic radioed it's hovering and it's not an aircraft before his transmission cut out it'd be the last time anyone heard from him a sea and air search surrounding an area over 1,000 square miles found nothing so had he just vanished investigators concluded that valentic was likely the victim of a pilot error considering he was still an inexperienced pilot the young Australian may have become disoriented with the altitude and direction of travel amid the confusion valentic may have mistaken his own Moon lights reflected by the clouds for those of a UFO while flying upside down before crashing down into the sea where his plane sank the only Trace attributed to the craft was a small fragment of a Cessna 182 L's exterior which washed ashore months later Valenti's father claimed his son was an Ardent believer in UFOs and often worried about being attacked by one was he right or did his fears lead him to panic I mean he virtually disappeared without any Trace could valentic have been taken out by the very thing he feared who knows maybe valentich is in a galaxy far far away this very second let me know your thoughts down in the comments below flight MH 370 36 years after Frederick Valenti's final flight the world was witnessed to more plain puzzlement in March 2014 Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 took off from Koala Lumpur Malaysia heading for Beijing China the Boeing 7 aircraft was filled with 12 crew members as well as 227 passengers excited to reach their destination yet tragically they'd never make it to China flight 370 took off at 1241 a.
m. around 40 minutes later the plan's transponder which pings elect ronic messages to radar systems about the plane's altitude and speed cut out yet strangely no distress calls were made after the plane failed to reach Beijing an official investigation was opened military radar showed the plane changing course making a sharp turn Westward toward the Indian Ocean before disappearing off the radar at 222 a. m.
despite extensive search and rescue operations no traces of the plane were found in fact in the years since only a few pieces of debris washed ashore on Western Indian Ocean Islands have been confirmed as belonging to the MH370 so what happened to the plane and where did it end up in 2015 Malaysia officially declared The Disappearance accidental concluding the aircraft exhausted its fuel over the southern Indian Ocean not everyone bought the no blame story Skeptics believe the pilot zahari Ahad sha deliberately turned off the aircraft's transponder so it couldn't be tracked similarly Australian researcher Vincent line claims The Disappearance of the MH370 was down to an act of unbelievable malicious Insanity by the plan's pilot who he suggested deliberately crash the Boeing Tri 7 somewhere where there'd be no chance of rescue or Discovery a a 20,000 ft deep underwater trench in the Southeastern Indian Ocean bline suggestion is based in part on the fact that Shaw at his home less than a month earlier conducted a simulated flight deep into the remote Southern Indian Ocean the same area the MH370 went missing now that would be some coincidence some out there still won't blame Shaw though you see it's even suggested that the sudden loss of the MH370 from radar as well as the lack of debris and distress signals weren't down to sabotage instead their proof the plane disappeared into a wormhole through time and space of course that's not the most evidence based assumption but it's a little less Bleak to think about right crashing down in the middle of the Indian Ocean or getting sucked in by some interdimensional Wormhole I know which misadventure I'd prefer Mary Celeste not all cases of mysterious voyages take place up in the sky in fact one of the most puzzling of all occurred in the middle of the deep blue yep I'm talking about the Mary Celeste a terrifying Ghost Ship tale that's puzzled the world for over 150 years in November 1872 the 282 ton Brigantine ship set sail from New York Harbor to Genoa Italy on board were the ship's Captain Benjamin Briggs along with his wife Sarah their 2-year-old daughter and eight other crew members yet the ship never reached Italy on December 5th it was discovered by a passing British ship floating east of the Azores a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean with no sign of Life two crew members from the British ship climbed aboard to check what was going on they were shocked at what they saw the crew's personal belongings were were untouched their cargo was intact and the vessel was loaded with 6 months worth of food and water yet not a soul was on board so where had they gone some speculated whether a group of Rowdy Pirates had thrown them overboard yet the ship's cargo was left untouched the ship's lifeboat was missing along with some navigational tools indicating that some or all of the passengers Abandoned Ship via the Lifeboat but why would they abandon a ship fully stocked and seemingly seaworthy it's been suggested that the crew staged a mutiny throwing the captain and his family overboard before life boating themselves to safety it's also possible those on board were startled by extreme weather in their Panic they may have boarded the Lifeboat in Hope of sailing to safety but sunk before reaching their destination all while the Mary Celeste survived though the most accepted theory is that a water logging occurred on board convincing Briggs that the ship was sinking after all more than 3 ft of water were found on the lower deck as a result he and the rest of the crew likely fled on the Lifeboat where they succumbed to the Sea on the Wilder side of theories some have even speculated that the crew were pulled from the ship by some colossal Kraken likee creature thinking about it all that commotion could cause the water logging as for the missing crew well no prizes for guessing where they would have ended up it's certainly a crazy and seemingly unlikely Theory but with the mystery having no official solution to this day your guess is as good as mine and why not have fun with it I'm voting the Kraken attack shiver me timbers kalachi sleep epidemic it's fair to say that the Tiny Village of kalachi in Kazakhstan isn't the most well-known place in the world old but that didn't stop this little location from hitting the headlines between 2013 and 2016 around a quarter of Kat's residents were plagued by a mystifying ailment the town's people would suddenly fall asleep remaining in their Slumber for days at a time the sickness Afflicted young and old with some even reporting nightmarish hallucinations too when the victims woke up again they'd experience headaches grogginess and failed to to remember what had happened as the cases increased authorities began to look into the matter immediately their attention turned to the nearby deserted uranium mines obvious an answer as it may have been experts pointed out that exposure to uranium usually causes cancer and organ damage not sleepiness so the Kazakhstan authorities put forward the explanation that carbon monoxide was leaking out of the mines blood tests from those suffering with the sickness showed higher than normal levels of carbon monoxide this stuff binds to the blood 200 times more effectively than oxygen so when the levels get too high it can starve the brain of oxygen triggering it to shut down hence the uncontrollable fatigue believable as that sounds there's one problem the uranium mines were inactive since the early 1990s and carbon monoxide would only typically be released in significant quantities to cause these symptoms during active blasting operations so how would they still be releasing enough carbon monoxide to send the town to sleep what's more only some of those reporting sleeping sickness had elevated carbon monoxide in their blood so rather than gassy mindes some have proposed a more Sinister explanation whether it's cache's isolated nature or the slow unconvincing response of the authorities some some online theorists suggest this place was used as some sort of trial town for experimental forms of biological or psychological Weaponry but could a government really be trying to send its own people to sleep at the push of a button well governments including the USA's have infamously carried out secret biological tests on their own populations so it wouldn't be unheard of but there's also the possibility that the effects are accidental byproducts of government tests it wouldn't be the first time throughout the late 20th century the then Soviet Kazakhstan government performed secret nuclear tests at the semipalatinsk test site which left the totally unaware surrounding towns dangerously irradiated it was only once the Soviet Union collapsed that this information was leaked so the real question is if this really was something more Sinister going on would we have never know I'll leave that up to you Titan submersible speaking of seab based head scratchers that brings us to the infamous case of the Titan submersible at around 9:00 a. m. on June 18th 2023 the 22t long 5ers sub operated by American tourism company Ocean Gate was launched from the Canadian vessel polar Prince the submersible was descending down to the Titanic allowing those on board to get a view of the wreck an hour and 45 minutes into the dive while at a depth of over 12,000 ft down the Titan sub lost contact with the polar Prince then when the Titan sub failed to resurface at its allotted time of 4:30 p.
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