6 Taken in 1919, this is the photograph of Goddard’s squadron which served in WWI and allegedly contains the ghost of a deceased member named Freddy Jackson who died in an accident two days before the photograph was taken. 

The photograph was first published by Sir Victor Goddard, a retired RAF (Royal Air Force) officer and taken at Cranwell at the time of armistice after the First World War. It shows the members of Goddard’s squadron who served in WWI at the HMS Daedalus training facility, now known as the Royal Navy and Air Service (RNAS) Lee-on-Solent. Freddy Jackson was an air mechanic who was accidentally killed by an airplane propeller two days before the photo. His funeral was conducted on the very day the photograph was taken.(source)

7 In 1942, the US Military ordered a total blackout of Los Angeles, fired 1,400 anti-aircraft artillery shells and several .50-caliber machine guns at something that no one knows much about. Known as “The Battle of Los Angeles,” the attack lasted from late February 24 to early February 25. 

The attack took place over Los Angeles, California less than three months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and one day after the bombardment of Ellwood. On the night of 24-25 February, air raid sirens were sounded, a total blackout was ordered, and thousands of air raid wardens were summoned to their positions. The firing started at 3:16 a.m. The 37th Coast Artillery Brigade began firing .50-caliber machine guns, 12 eight-pound anti-aircraft batteries, 1,400 shells in total, into the air at a reported aircraft. The firing continued until 4:14 a.m., and the “all clear” was sounded at 7:21 a.m. The firing damaged several buildings and vehicles, three civilians in car accidents because of the chaos, and two died of heart attacks caused by stress. After the war ended, the Japanese declared that they had not flown any airplanes over Los Angeles. In 1983, the US Office of Air Force attributed the entire episode to “war nerves.”(source)

8 In 1984, a man was found dead on a beach with a piece of paper with the words “Taman Shud” on it. The book from which it was torn was found in a nearby car and contained a mysterious code visible only under UV light. Neither the code nor the man’s identity has ever been solved.

On December 1, 1984, the police were informed at 6:30 a.m. about a dead body across from the Crippled Children’s Home on Somerton beach, Glenelg, Australia. A scrap of paper was found in the deceased’s fob pocket, and the police enlisted the help of public library officials who translated the words “Tamam Shud” to mean “ended” or “finished” and taken from Omar Khayyam’s book Rubaiyat. With the public’s help, the police were able to find the book to which the scrap of paper belonged. The book contained a telephone number and indentations of writings that resembled encrypted text.

On January 14, 1949, a suitcase with no label, clothes, along with other belongings were found at the Adelaide Railway Station. The autopsy revealed the deceased had suffered a severe lack of blood flow to his brain, kidneys, and liver, and had been hemorrhaging in his stomach and kidneys. Though it is believed he died of poison, tests did not reveal any foreign substances in the body. As the Cold War had recently started increasing international tensions, the man’s mysterious death, the involvement of secret code, and the inability to identify him sparked intense speculation.(source)

9 There is a photograph in the Virtual Museum of Canada dated 1941 that allegedly contains a time traveler. One of the people in it is a man claimed to be wearing modern clothing and sunglasses giving him the name “Time Traveling Hipster.”

The photograph, considered authentic, was taken in 1941 at the re-opening of the South Fork Bridge in Gold Bridge, British Columbia. The man in the photo is seen wearing sunglasses and a printed T-shirt. He stands apart from all the other people around him who are wearing formal clothes common during that period. It is debated whether the photograph genuinely shows a time traveler, is a photomanipulation, or just mistakenly seen to be anachronistic. It is suggested that he may not be wearing modern clothes but just dressed unusually in garb that was available during that time. The style of sunglasses he was wearing first appeared in the 1920s, and the T-shirt could be a sweater with a sewn-on emblem of the Montreal Maroons, an ice hockey team of that time.(source)

10 In December 2009, there appeared a large beam of light in the night sky over Norway with a grayish spiral emanating from its end. It sparked several theories among UFO enthusiasts and an unclear explanation from the Russian Ministry of Defense. 

Also known as the “Norwegian spiral anomaly of 2009,” the spiral light appeared on December 9, 2009, visible across three northern counties which compose all of Northern Norway and two counties in the south. According to witnesses, it looked like a blue light coming from behind a mountain that stopped in mid-air and started spiraling outwards. Some of the speculations about the lights are that it could be a fireball meteor or a rare variant of Northern Lights that have never seen before.

UFO enthusiasts speculated that it could be something to do with extraterrestrial intelligence, a wormhole opening, or something to do with the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. The next day, the Russian Ministry of Defense suggested an explanation that it could be one of their missile tests gone wrong, adding that, “At least this failed test made some nice fireworks for the Norwegians.”(1, 2)