What Are the Strangest Unsolved Mysteries
During the flight, Valentich was in radio communication with Melbourne air traffic control, and he repeatedly made mention of a "strange aircraft hovering on top of me." Right before a strange noise severed the transmission, Valentich went on to say, "It is hovering and it's not an aircraft." Other moments of the radio transmission recorded Valentich saying, "Delta Sierra Juliet—Melbourne. It seems like it’s (stationary) or (chasing me). What I'm doing right now is orbiting, and the thing is just orbiting on top of me also … It's got a green light, and sort of metallic (like). It’s all shiny (on) the outside." In the moments leading up to Valentich's last reported contact, a plumber named Roy Manifold had set up a time lapse camera on the shoreline to capture the sun setting over the water. Upon developing the photos, the images appeared to depict a fast-moving object exiting the water nearly 20 minutes before Valentich's final transmission.
A report conducted by The Scientific Journal of Exploration said witnesses reported an "erratically moving green light in the sky" at the time of Valentich's flight. No trace of Frederick Valentich nor his aircraft has ever been found. In 2012, Keith Basterfield, an Adelaide researcher who has been investigating the disappearance since 1978, concluded, "The only thing we can say for sure is that the plane and pilot disappeared while he was describing a UFO - which is one of those things that just makes people wonder."
Overtoun Bridge
Scotland's Overtoun Bridge, a.k.a. "The Dog Suicide Bridge," is a famous arch bridge that has stood in Milton, Dumbarton, Scotland since 1859. In the past 50 years, anywhere between 50 to 600 dogs have jumped to their deaths off Overtoun Bridge. Every dog has reportedly jumped from the same point on the bridge into the same direction and plummeted to the rocks 50 feet below. If that's not horrific enough, dogs who jumped and survived the first attempt returned to the same spot and jumped to their deaths on successive attempts. No one knows why so many dogs have jumped to their deaths off Overtoun Bridge in such eerie fashion. However, theories include the dogs sensing depression in their owners, the dogs knowingly committing suicide, the dogs succumbing to some kind of supernatural power, and the dogs chasing the scent of something below the bridge.
BLOOD RAIN
Between July 25, 2001 and September 23, 2001, a blood red rain fell over the southern Indian state of Kerala. Downpours of redness fell from the sky to color the land and water and stain the clothing of the locals. Witnesses reported loud thunder claps preceding the rainfall, followed by entire groves of trees shedding shriveled "burnt" leaves. No one knew exactly what caused the red rain, but it was hypothesized the rain had been given the hue thanks to airborne spores from local terrestrial algae. However, the bloody rain returned in the summer of 2006. In 2008, two researchers, Godfrey Louis, Ph.D. and Santhosh Kumar, from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam introduced a hypothesis that got people talking: "The mysterious red color in the rain is caused by unidentified life form that does not have DNA....The molecular compostion of these cells is yet to be identified." The blood-colored rain returned yet again in 2012 and caused panic in the Indian people. There is still no definitive explanation for its color.
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