What do you think about this?
It was once called the eighth wonder of the world. The Amber Room was a whole chamber, its walls covered floor to ceiling in panels of carved amber, backed with gold leaf and mirrors, glowing like frozen honey when the candles were lit. Given to Peter the Great and later installed in the Catherine Palace outside Saint Petersburg, it was worth a fortune almost beyond counting.
When Nazi forces swept into the Soviet Union in 1941, they stripped the room in just thirty six hours, packed it into twenty seven crates, and shipped it west to the city of Königsberg, where it was put back on display in the castle. And then, as the war collapsed around Germany, it vanished. The last confirmed sighting was in January 1945. After that, nothing.
Most historians now believe the amber burned when Königsberg Castle was destroyed in the fighting that spring. But not everyone accepts that. For eighty years, treasure hunters have chased rumors of crates hidden in mine shafts, sunk in lagoons, sealed in bunkers, whispers that the Amber Room was spirited away before the fire and is waiting still.
Is it possible that the greatest treasure looted in the entire war did not burn at all, but sits intact in some forgotten vault, exactly where desperate men left it?
Ashes under a ruined castle, or a fortune in amber still hidden underground? What do you think became of the Amber Room?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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