since long before recorded history humans have been natural storytellers it's our way of passing down a little piece of ourselves to Future Generations so after thousands of years of great stories we've grown expecting satisfying endings this is why a great unsolved mystery intrigues us so much we're itching for a conclusion that'll never seem to come we all speculate on what might have happened but we might not actually ever know some Mysteries are so big that they Captivate an entire nation sometimes for Generations they're so intriguing that the beginnings and middles of these stories become part
of the nation's lore and decades later we're all still left wondering what actually happened here are the 10 biggest Unsolved Mysteries in American history amelon aard while attempting to become the first female pilot to fly around the world Amelia aart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2nd 1937 it gripped the entire nation and President Roosevelt even ordered the US Navy to search 250,000 Square miles of ocean when the search was called off people were left to speculate some say that she landed on a Japanese island and was thought to be a spy in executed
others think that she returned to America under a secret identity because she was embarrassed by her failure over the decades there have been several multi-million dollar Expeditions that have kept the nation intrigued Bones on that Japanese island in 1940 were thought to be hers but since they were lost DNA testing may never be possible as of 2024 a company using Sonar spent 80 Days scanning the ocean floor and claims they found a plane wreckage 16,000 ft deep nothing has been confirmed yet and the Mystery continues to Intrigue people 87 years later the escape from Alcatraz
located on a lonely island in the middle of San Francisco Bay alcatra Federal Penitentiary has held captives since the Civil War in 1934 it was refortified into the world's most secure prison and was deemed inescapable from 1934 until the prison was closed in 1963 there were 14 unsuccessful Escape attempts and depending on who you ask there was one more successful one Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence angland spent 6 months planning and preparing their escape and in June 1962 they went for it with crude tools that they smuggled into their cells they cut into
the air vents and crafted rafts in life jackets from scrap rubber no one knows what happened to them next whether the Rough Waters took them or they safely made it to shore they were never found the FBI officially closed the case 17 years later in 1979 but the US Marshals continue to investigate in an unlikely event that the trio is still alive today the Knights of the Golden Circle in 1854 George WL Bickley founded this highly secret society with the goal of forming a new nation feeling that the US government would possibly end slavery they
plotted to take over all Southern States Mexico Central America and the Caribbean island Islands to form a massive slave trade Empire in their new nation called the Golden Circle prior to the Civil War they had members in almost every state including several Governors senators and military leaders President Lincoln's assassin John wils Booth was an alleged member so many believe that his assassination was planned by them it was said that they were destroyed by the Union's Army victory in the Civil War but people believe that this group still exists today they're suspected of provoking pro-southern militia
with racist rhetoric and they may have even hidden millions of dollars around the country to fund a second Civil War The Gardener Museum art Heist the biggest unsolved art heist in the world happened at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in 1990 two men disguised his police officers trick security guards into letting them inside late at night they handcuffed the guards and made off with 13 world famous paintings like Christ in the storm of the Sea of Galilee by rembrand and the concert by verir the total value of the stolen art is estimated to be around
$500 million there have been a ton of theories about who masterminded this from Italian Mobsters to a California screenwriter to the Irish Republican Army to South Boston gangster James Whitey bulgar but to this day none of the paintings have resurfaced and there have been no promising leads even with a $10 million reward for information the Mothman on November 15th 1966 Roger and Linda scarberry and Steve and Mary mlet reportedly saw a large flying man with 10-ft wings and glowing red eyes while driving along Route 62 north of Point Pleasant West Virginia they told the police
that it rose up like a helicopter and followed their car reaching 100 m hour for years it was said to be seen lurking outside homes chasing cars and stealing pet dogs in 1975 it garnered national attention in John ke's book The Moth Man prophecies it even became full-blown American folklore after the 2002 movie starring Richard Gear in 2006 Jeff Wamsley opened the Moth Man Museum in Point Pleasant and has put every sighting and story on display he said I think the Moth Man story is timeless it's never been fully solved or proven as to what
these people were seeing so everyone has their own Theory the Buri Treasure of Dutch Schultz Dutch Schultz was a New York City mobster who made Millions bootlegging alcohol during prohibition to hide a chunk of his fortune from the government he buried it in the cat skill mountains in Upstate New York experts speculate that it was somewhere between $5 and $9 million in cash gold and jewels which is roughly $50 to100 million today soon after Schultz was killed by Hitman and the exact location of the treasure has remained a mystery ever since many crude maps have
been drawn up and experts have narrowed its location to somewhere near Phoenicia New York but many people are still on the hunt recently an Airbnb review in Phoenicia stated that they were there to find the treasure in the local library says visitors still ask for maps of the area regularly the Mary Celeste in 1872 Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs set sail from New York City to Italy with his wife Sarah his 2-year-old daughter Sophia and seven crew members sadly they never made it to their destination and their fate has remained one of the biggest nautical mysteries
in American history on December 5th a ship called dig gratia found the Mary Celeste along the coast of Portugal the LIF draft was missing but the ship was still in seaw shape they found the crew's belongings the entire cargo of 1,701 barrels of alcohol and a 6mon supply of food and water but it seemed like everyone on board just up and left none of the crew or passengers were ever seen again the reason they abandoned the ship has been a mystery for over 150 years and we are no closer to an answer the sudden bird
deaths in Arkansas in 2010 on New Year's Eve in BB Arkansas the small town was celebrating as usual but as it got closer to midnight over 5,000 Birds started panicking and flying around in a frenzy they flew into buildings homes and vehicles and most died on impact most people assume that the fireworks frighten them enough to fly frantically like that so the town banned fireworks for the next year's celebration then again close to midnight without any fireworks going off thousands of birds began doing the exact same thing people have speculated that it was caused by
a weather phenomenon like a Micro Burst or strong downward wind but a spokesperson for the UN environment program said that science was struggling to to explain it it has not happened again since 2011 and it remains a mystery to this day DB Cooper DB Cooper is known as the only person to ever hijack a commercial plane in the United States and get away with it if he survived on the DAT before Thanksgiving in 1971 Cooper boarded a flight from Portland Oregon to Seattle he handed a flight attendant a note flashed what looked like a bomb
and demanded $200,000 in cash that's roughly 1.5 million in today's currency somewhere between Seattle and Reno Cooper jumped out of the plane into incredibly stormy conditions with 200 mph winds in nothing but a business suit The Manhunt became officially known as norjack or Northwest hijacking and is one of the biggest Unsolved Mysteries in FBI history it's lasted 53 years to date and is roughly 800 suspects but zero arrests the gerdon light known as Arkansas's greatest paranormal mystery this strange mystifying light that floats near the railroad tracks in gerdon Arkansas has been seen by hundreds of
people since the 1930s some towns people have seen it so many times that it's become an ordinary part of their lives they describe it as an eerie white blue sometimes orange glowing light that hovers above the ground as it moves as if it has a mind of its own no one has been able to give a solid rational explanation but there are several Legends some believe that it's the lantern of a ghost of a railroad worker who is hit by a train another more scientific theory is that gon light is caused by quartz crystals in
the area that cause electric reactions that results in a glow countless articles documentaries and experts have yet to prove any of these theories hey thank you guys for watching and if you enjoyed this please leave a like and a comment on it also you can watch more by clicking either of the links on screen right now and consider becoming a channel member you get exclusive access to new videos 24 hours in advance as well as exclusive content just for members the link for that is in the description along with all of my socials I'll see
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