Kryptos- The codes that even CIA could not break

Kryptos

      Outside the headquarters of CIA in Langley, Va, there is a mysterious encrypted sculpture. It was designed by artist Jim Sanborn. The script is so mysterious that even the CIA has not been able to crack it completely. The sculpture is in total a collection of four inscriptions. Though the first three inscriptions have been cracked, fourth one isn still unknown. No one till the day knows what the fourth inscription means. In 2006, Sanborn gave a small clue that there is clues in the first inscription to the last one. But till this day, the fourth one remains unsolved. This is the reason why this inscription is one of the mysteries.

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Taman shud case- The man with no identity

            Taman shud case is one of the Australia`s most profound myteries. This case is about an unidentified man who was found dead on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia in December 1948. The mysterious thing about the death of the man was that the man was never identified. There was no existence of him except the tiny piece of paper found in a hidden pocket within the dead man`s trouser on which was written "Taman Shud". The phrase translates as "endedd" or "finished" which is a phrase used on the last page of called "The Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam. A copy of khayyam`s collection was also found in his pocket which added mystery to this case. Due to the khayyam`s poem found in his pocket, this may be a suicide note of sorts, but the exact thing is uncracked, so is the case.

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Beale ciphers- The largest of the buried treasure in the history of USA

     The Beale Ciphers are a set of three fragmented clue that supposedly reveal the location of one of the huge buried treasures in the U.S history. The treasure may be upto thousands of Kilos of Gold, Silver and Jewels. The treasure was obtained by the mysterious man known as Thomas Jefferson Beale in 1818 while prospecting Colorado.

      Out of the three Cipher text or clue, only the second one has been cracked till now. The solved key says about the Declaration of Independence. Surprisingly, Beale shares his name with the author of Declaration of Independence.
      The cracked code reveals or gives the hint of the side where the treasure was buried: Bedford county. Though the county is known, the exact location of the treasure is not found till now as the rest of the clue have not been cracked. Despite this, some people are still trying to solve the clue to find the exact location of the buried treasure while some treasure hunters are roaming the land in the search of the biggest treasure in the U.S history.

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Spontaneous human combustion

     Over the past few centuries, the world has encountered many deadly experiences such as Spontaneous human combustion. This is the phenomenon in which a human body is found to be burnt severely without any sign of ignition or any source of ignition around. This has been a great mystery to the scientists to find out the exact cause of the burning phenomenon. Some link it to the rage of GOD. They say that the people who faced those incident and died must have committed some unforgivable sin so that GOD himself came to punish them. But science claim all this as hoax.

As the victims were all alone in all these case and there were no eye witness, scientists claim that there might have been some incidents. Due to some reasons or some actions, they got paralyzed. And the cigarette they were smoking lit their cloth and when it started burning, it burnt the skin and released the fat stored beneath that to cause more flame. But this is only the prediction. No one knows the exact fact to this and it yet remains one of the serious unsolved mysteries till now.

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Voynich manuscript - World`s most mysterious manuscript

     There is a book of 240 pages written in a mysterious language no one has been able to translate till the date. As the script was founded by the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, the script was named the Voynich Manuscript. He found the script in 1912. The pages of the book contains mysterious drawing of the plants that do not match any of the species of the plant found till now. That is also making it difficult to understand the script and translate it. The original Author of this book is still unknown. But the carbon dating reveals that the book was written in the time somewhere between 1404 and 1438. This script is known as "The world`s most mysterious manuscript."

 

  By the page layout and the drawings on the pages, some believe it to be the ancient book of the Alchemist of that time featuring early modern medicine. But there is a question remained, "Why there is only one book written in that mysterious script?". And some even link this script to the script that the aliens used by their physician at that time. No one knows the real thing about the script, which makes it one of the unsolved mystery till now.

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