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 May 20, 1967, a prospector in Manitoba walked up to a landed craft near Falcon Lake. It blasted him with hot gas and left a grid of burns on his chest matching its vents. Three governments investigated. Canada put it on a coin. Hoax, or the real thing?
What do you think about this? Serpent Mound in Ohio is a 1,348 foot snake of earth, its head aimed at the summer solstice sunset, its body built on the rim of an ancient meteor crater. One dating puts it right after Halley’s Comet in 1066. Sacred art, or a message for the sky?
What do you think about this? Since the early 1990s about two percent of people in Taos, New Mexico, hear a low hum like a distant diesel that never shuts off. In 1993 Los Alamos and Sandia scientists came to find it. Their instruments found nothing. Trick of the ear, or a hidden signal?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a retired air traffic controller cast footprints in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp: three webbed toes, a foot long. He had reported a seven foot gray haired creature with yellow eyes standing over a dead boar in 1963. Hoax, or the Letiche?
What do you think about this? For nearly three years beginning April 2, 1968, a glowing figure of a woman appeared on the roof of a church in Cairo, seen by crowds of tens of thousands, Christians and Muslims together, and caught in press photographs. Mass illusion, or a visitation?
What do you think about this? A 2,200 year old wooden bird dug up at Saqqara in 1898 has no legs, no feathers, straight wings and a tail that stands upright like the fin of an airplane. Some replicas glide. A child’s toy that looks like a plane, or a memory of something that flew?
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