Wiki: Mysteries. The 25 Biggest Mysteries of History. The Isdal Woman. There are various unsolved mysteries in the world, but few of them have managed to stir up intense speculation over the years.
One of these cases is called “The Isdal woman” or “Isdalskvinnen” in Norwegian, which refers to an unsolved crime that involves an unidentified woman found dead in Isdalen Valley, popularly known as “Death Valley”, in Bergen, Norway. Data shows that the woman’s burned naked body was found on November 29th, 1970, by a University professor and his two daughters. Later on, police found next to the victim a burned-out passport. According to the autopsy report, the woman took various sleeping pills before she died from blunt force trauma. Despite the fact that local police concluded that the woman committed suicide, the conclusion had always been considered most controversial. Moreover, the whole investigation concerning the case was strange.
Later on, police also discovered in a safety deposit box at a train station two suitcases that belonged to the victim. Related. 900-Year-Old Viking Message Solved! Photo by Jonas Nordby via forskning.no For the past several years researchers have been trying to crack a Viking rune alphabet known as Jötunvillur, a perplexing code dating back to the 11th or 12th century that’s been found in some 80 inscriptions including the scratched piece of wood found above.
Recently runologist (!) Jonas Nordby from the University of Oslo managed to crack the code and discovered the secret message etched into this particular 900-year-old object reads “Kiss me.” Via Medievalists.net: For the jötunvillur code, one would replace the original runic character with the last sound of the rune name. The act of coding secret messages appears to have been a leisure activity amongst the Vikings, as some of the other translated inscriptions turned out to be playful taunts at the person doing the decoding.
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There are unsolved crimes, and then there are the kind of creepy, "What the hell could possibly be going on here" capers that keep the cops, and anyone who hears about them, up at night. Here are the real cases that almost fall into X-Files territory: It Gets Weirder: Fish Egg "Miracle" Needs Cracking. Biologists at the University of Manchester want help in cracking their "miracle" discovery of three fish inside a sealed egg.
The group found the duck egg in a small pond on a field trip to the French Alps and noticed something moving inside it. When they cracked open the shell, three live minnows were inside. They have enlisted the help of other experts, but despite their extensive combined knowledge, the biologists admit they are "baffled". Dr Matthew Cobb, a lecturer in animal behaviour at the university, said: "As 21st century scientists rather than 17th century antiquarians we think it's unlikely this represents a hitherto unknown mode of fish reproduction. Predatory attack "Perhaps the egg fell into the pond following some kind of predatory attack but we're baffled as to how the minnows got to be inside. "Certainly, we didn't see any crack in the egg. " Minnows are small freshwater fish, often used as bait by anglers.