50 Real Photos That Remain Unexplained To This Day

The Piri Reis Map

Fascinating artefact which could change the way we look at the history of the human race.

This Darth Vader image always makes me smile.

Jay Z in 1939.

Was one of Brooklyn’s finest in Harlem in 1939? This Sid Grossman photo of “Harlem Loiterers” from the Prints Collection at NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture has created quite a stir since being posted to the Center's Facebook page the other day. Why? Because the man on the right looks a heck of a lot like Jay-Z. Cue Twilight Zone music, right? Schomburg’s Curator of Digital Collections Sylviane A. Diouf found the photo while researching an exhibition, and said, “I was immediately struck by the similarity to Jay-Z and actually laughed out loud … I still hope somebody will tell us who that young man really was.”

So is Jay-Z a time traveler? Is this someone else - anyone know who? What do you think?

Picture from a hospital CCTV camera shows what appears to be a demon on-top of a dying patient.

“This picture was taken of a nurse’s viewing monitor. On the monitor, this black figure appeared standing on top of the patient who was lying in the bed. The patient died within a few hours of this figure appearing.
Some paranormal sites speculated that the mysterious figure on top of the bed was a mythological being known as a 'mare.'"

Check out the bench on the left.

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So a customer just printed this at my work, please tell me you see what we see.

The Naga fireballs is a phenomenon with unconfirmed source said to be often seen in Thailand’s Mekong river in which glowing balls are alleged to naturally rise from the water high into the air.

Brown Lady of Raynham Hall Brown Lady of Raynham Hall claimed photograph of the ghost, Captain Hubert C. Provand. First published in Countrylife magazine, 1936 Wiki Link

Montparnasse Station train accident.

The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 4 pm on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it entered the station too fast and the train air brake failed. After running through the buffer stop, the train crossed the station concourse and crashed through the station wall before falling onto the Place de Rennes below, where it stood on its nose. A woman in the street below was k**led by falling masonry. The driver was fined 50 francs and one of the guards 25 francs.

It's going to be hard to prove this isn't fake, but I guess you'll either take me at my word, or...not.

So a few years ago I was attending a Halloween party back in my hometown of Boston, that was being thrown by a few of my girlfriend's grad school friends.

I get to talking with a small group of them about things that creep us out, and one of them mentions his "girlfriend's family's ghost", and how creepy it is.

I'm a skeptical person, and I don't believe in ghosts, but it's Halloween and I want a cool story, so I press him for more details. He says his girlfriend's family claims that there's a ghost that lives in their house, and that it's a "friendly ghost" - whatever that means. He is also skeptical from what I remember, but claims to have a picture. He says it's a family photo and the ghost of the lady is in the background. He tries to dig it up on his Blackberry, but comes up short. Bummer.

A few days later, though - I get an email from my girlfriend from her friend.

I still have the picture, and even though I don't believe in that stuff it still freaks me the f**k out.

I haven't looked at it in a while - it creeps me out too much. Gah I hate it.

Has to be this one. We may never know what was going on when it was taken.

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Clearly someone caught a leprechaun and had a completely ridiculous idea to stage a dog drinking competition so big that even the mayor would be there. There was also the swaggest lady of the age -- you can see her pictured here with the hat that says "WIN" on the underside of the brim.
Edit: I'd like to elaborate. The man to the left of the pipe-smoking mayor wearing a similar hat is Jergen Offen, the believed asker of the wish. To the right of The Lady of Swag, Hashtag Kanye, we see Eartha Fire-Wind Dutchess of Marmahol, Catzlvania. She's sporting the same hat that she wore to the Kentucky Derby in the year 1983.

This strange looking bolder was photographed a few years ago on the surface of mars... Quite odd.

"The Mars monolith is a rectangular object, possibly a boulder, discovered on the surface of Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles (300 km) away. The HiRISE camera that was used to photograph the monolith has a resolution of approximately 1 foot or 30 centimeters per pixel."

In 2000, two photographs said to be of the Skunk Ape were taken by an anonymous woman and mailed to the Sarasota County, Florida, Sheriff's Department. The photographs were accompanied by a letter from the woman in which she claims to have photographed an ape in her backyard.[3] The woman wrote that on three different nights an ape had entered her backyard to take apples left on her back porch. She was convinced the ape was an escaped orangutan. The pictures have become known to Bigfoot enthusiasts as the "skunk ape photos."

Martian spherules (also known as hematite spherules or blueberries) are small spherules (roughly spherical pebbles) that are rich in an iron oxide and are found in exceedingly large numbers at Meridiani Planum, a vast Martian plain.

Loch Ness Monster. She's real, real I tell you!

"The Loch Ness Monster, known affectionately as Nessie, is a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands."

Black Knight Satellite

An unidentifiable satellite that was found orbiting earth in the early 1960's. The object is in polar orbit which neither the Russians nor americans were capable of at the time.

Legend has it that in orbit around the Earth is a mysterious, dark object which dates back perhaps 13 000 years. Its origin and purpose are inscrutable, dubbed the “Black Knight” this elusive satellite has allegedly been beaming signals towards the Earth and inspected by NASA astronauts yet only a few on Earth officially know of its existence. The origin of the ominous name is part of the enigma; it is impossible to discover who first called it this or indeed why. Humans have only in the last 60 years had the technology to launch a man-made object into space so what is the logical explanation of tales of an alien intruder on our doorstep?

Hooded figures in the background of a wedding.

Seems really freaky to me.

Phoenix lights.

wickedsmaht:

I have seen this a few times since I moved here 3 years ago. Freaks me the f**k out ever time.

Somebody found this on google street view. I don't know anything else about it. Maybe somebody has suggestions on what it could be about? A specific group of people?

Wow, I found it hard to believe no one has mentioned ball lightning yet

The Eye of the Sahara has been NASA's APOD twice, although I can't link to it due to government shutdown. It's not an unexplained picture as much as it is a picture of an unexplained thing. It is a completely unique, apparently geologic formation in Africa that geologists can't explain or recreate. It is slightly oblong but appears nearly perfectly circular and is absolutely massive, almost 50 km in diameter.
While geologists don't know what to do with it conspiracy theorists come in, many claiming it is the lost city of Atlantis.
Wikipedia article.
Atlantis article