50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day

The Voynich Manuscript is pretty cool.
15th century text in an unknown language, yet to be deciphered.

The mysterious part of this picture is not what is in it, but what is not in it. What could possibly be in the kitchen that has these guys so mesmerized?

Probably the cat pushing a watermelon out of a lake.

I like the old UPS truck and sewing machine combo.

american_hoser:

Oh wow. I can actually explain this. Takes place at Princeton lawnparties (annual weekend long formal event) circa 2004. The UPS truck got stuck for about a week after trying to drive down a walking path that was too narrow, and ended up rolling down the hill towards the tennis courts. They've since built a new residential college (Whitman) in that area. I'm still not sure how they got the UPS truck out.
The sewing machine, I have to presume was for repairing a tux. And clearly the guy is drunk, because that's how lawnparties work.

To date, no one positively knows who these children are or where the picture was taken.

One woman came forward saying the girl looks just like her daughter, Tara Calico, who now has been missing for over 30 years.

"Tara Leigh Calico (born February 28, 1969) is an American woman who disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico on September 20, 1988. She is widely believed to have been kidnapped. In July 1989, a Polaroid photo of an unidentified young woman and boy, both bound and gagged, was televised to the public after it was found in a convenience store parking lot. Family friends thought the woman resembled Calico and contacted her mother, who then met with investigators and examined the Polaroid. She believed it was her daughter after taking "time, growth and lack of makeup" into consideration, and noted that a scar on the woman's leg was identical to one Calico had. Scotland Yard analyzed the photo and concluded that the woman was Calico, but a second analysis by the Los Alamos National Laboratory disagreed. An FBI analysis of the photo was inconclusive."

The tulip ghost staircase is kind of freaky. Anything that predates Photoshop with s**t like this freaks me out a bit.

blitzballer:

Taken in 1966 by the Reverend Ralph Hardy, who was visiting the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England on vacation.
However, the really interesting thing about the Tulip Staircase Ghost photograph is how scrutinized it was immediately after it was taken thanks to the Hardy family allowing the photo to be examined by experts in both the paranormal and photography fields.
After noticing the odd apparitions in their vacation photo after returning to Canada, the Hardy’s allowed The Ghost Club back in England to examine the photograph. Later the picture would be examined by the Kodak Film Company
Neither examination could prove the photo away as a fake and in fact the examinations provided this factual data on the photograph:
The photo did not seem to have suffered from photographic tricks or manipulations.
Each photo was accounted for in the roll. Neither the shot before nor after the ghost capture contains any image (both were of other architectural features of the Museum; one of a colonnade and one of a figurehead) that might have ‘bled’ over to the staircase shot.
The photograph was taken with a Zeiss Ikon Contina with Kodachrome 35mm color film. The picture was taken in natural daylight with no flash.

I like the photo which captured a person outside a cabin that went up on reddit about a year ago.

Maby not so much unexplained as creepy, from what I remember they did see footprints in the snow as I recall.

OP:

Up North at my cousins cabin and decide to take a panoramic photo. Look outside. There's someone standing outside.

eastb01:

This might be easily explained. At least in Maine, people go and rob cabins in the winter, looking for medicine and other valuables. It's easy because the cabins are deserted. So, this guy probably wanted to break in, but saw people and just decided to leave and look for some other cabin.
TL,DR, it's a nonchalant burglar.

I still cannot wrap my head around this picture. Is it normal for llamas to do that? or did this dog just walk in at the worst possible time?

The Loretto Chapel Staircase is somewhat unexplained. The story goes that the nun's needed a staircase and prayed to St. Joseph, patron saint of Carpenter's, when a mysterious man came and offered to help construct a staircase over the next couple months, but he disappeared without receiving pay or thanks and could not be found. Within the staircase there is not any support or nails to be found and the staircase makes two perfect 360 degree turns.

I remember seeing this picture one day.

This group picture of some soldiers was taken in 1919 so no Photoshop has been used here. The photographer didn't see that shadowed face when the picture was taken. First later some of the soldiers saw the picture and recognized the face as a fellow soldier named Freddy Jackson, who died in an accident caused by an airplane propeller two days earlier. If it's real I actually feel sorry for that poor guy.. He still thought he was alive and wanted to be part of the group photo.

Haunted Britain:

This photograph, taken in 1919, is of the men and women of Goddard’s Squadron, the RAF Squadron who served at HMS Daedalus in WWI, which was actually a land-based seaplane airfield, and has since been renamed RNAS Lee-on-Solent. At first, the photo seems fairly typical for the time, however upon closer inspection it appears there is an extra figure who was not accounted for at the time.
If you look across the very top row, the face of a man can clearly be seen standing behind the right shoulder of the airman fourth from the left. This face has been identified by a number of people as Freddy Jackson. Freddy was an aircraft repair mechanic in Goddard’s Squadron who had recently been k**led in a propellor accident before this photo was taken. His death certificate can be seen in photo 3.
The photograph has attracted substantial attention since its release. The phantom face does not appear to match any other faces in the immediate area of the photo, which reduces the chance of it being a double exposure caused by one of the subjects moving. Also, to fake a photograph of this nature would have required advanced techniques for the time, not to mention a military unit hoaxing a ghost photograph of a recently deceased comrade would have likely been in particularly bad taste, especially following WWI.
The photograph of Freddy Jackson and his Squadron remains a mystery to this day, and has left many skeptics scratching their heads. Squadron Leader Sir Victor Goddard, the man who took the photograph itself is adamant, likely many others, that he inadvertently captured the ghost of Freddy. What do you think?

As the Cooper's move into their new home in Texas, they take a photograph of the family sitting together, but as the photo is taken, a body falls from the ceiling. The OP said he wasn't sure if it was real, but he thought it was real creepy.

The man at the canyon.

Supposedly the man at the edge had no idea anyone was there and didn't see anyone.

swimmerboy29:

A kid probably realized he was in the photo and didn't want to get in the way.

McGuineaRI:

When this was first posted a while back the guy said he and the person in the photo at the ledge were the only people around for miles. They drove to that spot and decided to take pictures. There's nothing for miles and miles around. Neither of them saw anyone else there with them. Not when they were taking the pictures or afterwards. That's what's so inexplicable. Otherwise it's just a picture of three people.

This Carlos Diaz UFO photo.

Taken from the shoulder of a road on the side of a mountain in Mexico.

You can see the object, the trees/bushes between the object and the camera, the metal railing on the edge of the cliff, and the reflection off the hood of the car. Photo was taken from the left side of the car, over the hood, after Diaz stepped out of the driver side with his camera.

He described the object as being no more than 20m away, and making absolutely no sound as it rose out of the valley and then streaked away.

This picture is not taken through the windshield, and the light is not from the headlights. This photo was taken from over the hood of the car, diagonally over the close-left corner of the hood towards the front-right. The light coming off the guard-rail on the road is a result of the form of the light.

Coherent light, like a laser.

The creepiest picture I've ever seen is this one.
"My friend took of his kid in his flat but theres a face in the curtain."

Did we ever find out what the baltic sea anomaly was?

edit: IT'S NOT THE F*****G MILLENNIUM FALCON.

I posted this in the last (non serious) thread. Now there are a few logical explanations of this but if you follow the story, it is pretty creepy.

The Warrens were performing a big investigation into Amityville. There were quite a few people in the house including the investigating team and reporters. At some point in the night one of the automatic cameras caught this image. There were no children in the house.

Hampton Court Ghost.

"Hampton Court ghost refers to a figure seen in a CCTV footage/image near Hampton Court Palace in October 2003. The figure was seen in a long robe-like cloth allegedly haunting the place for a couple of days or months. The figure was first reported in early-2001."

This one fascinates me.

The white UPS delivery truck comes to my mind. I don't know why. It just feels... weird.

Come_To_r_Polandball:

Criminal organizations are known to clone delivery vehicles in smuggling operations. This looks like a really half-assed attempt.

THE NORWEGIAN SKY ANOMALY. This phenomen was first observed in Norway in 1997 and contisues to this day.

Hundreds of calls flooded the Norwegian Meteorological Institute as residents wanted to know what they were seeing. UFO enthusiasts immediately began speculating whether the aerial light display could be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence proposing among other things that it could be a wormhole opening up, or somehow was linked to the recent h**h-energy experiments undertaken at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland