Channel: Conspiracies Around You
Machu Picchu was built in the 15th century, but in 1532 the palaces, altars and houses were abandoned. Where did the inhabitants go? According to historians, Machu Picchu was home to the elite of the Inca Empire, and with the fall of the empire, the inhabitants simply left in search of a better life. According to popular belief, most of the population was sacrificed to the gods to save the empire, and the rest scattered in the valley. But there is no unequivocal answer.
Forty kilometers from Berlin there is a sanatorium that was once considered the best in Germany. At first it was a hospital for tuberculosis patients and later a military hospital. In 1916 the young soldier Adolf Hitler licked his wounds there. After World War II the hospital was at the disposal of the Soviet authorities. There are many horror stories about the sanatorium in Bielitz. Strange noises are allegedly heard there, and soldiers' letters are still found in the walls of the building.
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Lake Hillier in Australia is surrounded by Eucalyptus forest and separated from the ocean by a narrow strip of land. But the main feature of the lake is that it is pink. The reason for such an unusual color of water still remains unsolved.
House No. 525 on Winchester Boulevard in San Jose has a bad reputation. There are 160 rooms and six kitchens on three floors. Yet many of the doors lead to a dead end, the stairs go to the ceiling, and the windows go to the floor. The house is a maze! Sarah Winchester created this architectural "wonder". Her father-in-law made weapons, for which, in the woman's opinion, a curse was put on their family. On the advice of a medium, she built a house for the souls of people whose lives were taken by old man Winchester's inventions. Rumor has it that house number 525 is actually haunted. But even without them, the grim layout gives visitors the chills.
For decades the island has been abandoned, as it is considered enchanted. In 1935, two members of an ethnographic expedition disappeared on the island, all attempts to find them, proved fruitless. After some time, several families of the Elmolo tribe settled on the island, they were engaged in fishing, and the fish exchanged for bread and milk, but one day, the relatives decided to visit them, found only an abandoned village and extinguished fires. Several dozen people had disappeared from the island without a trace. Two expeditions from Holland and Germany went to the island again, but the same fate befell them, all disappeared without a trace. The island never revealed it's secrets.
In the Hermitage, there is a large and colorful 'Tomb of Homer'. It's impossible to say where it came from, most likely from some island. It's first owner, Count Stroganoff, wrote that when he saw this artifact he immediately thought of Homer being buried in it. As a consequence, there were rumors and legends, people dreamed of seeing the place of burial of the great man. Only a few centuries later scientists were able to examine the tomb and made sure that Homer could not be buried there. Now question comes, who was burried here?
Headless Valley, Canada, this place got its eerie name because of a series of tragic accidents. At the end of XIX century gold was discovered here, and hunters longed for fortune in the valley. In 1898 a group of six gold prospectors disappeared without a trace. Seven years later, two of the McLeod brothers and their buddy Robert Weare disappeared in the same valley. Three years later, 9 decapitated corpses were accidentally discovered. Mysterious disappearances continue in the valley to this day. The locals themselves are convinced that all the deaths are the work of the Sosquatch. Creatures resembling hairy giants were often seen here, and even more often their footprints were found. In fact, it was probably the work of a gang of thugs who were out in the valley hunting for gold miners and their prey.
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The Creeper Program was the first ever computer virus to exist. It was created by Bob Thomas in the year 1971. The virus was actually designed for a security test to see if a self replicating program was possible or not.
A building appeared in Milan, the facade of which closes with a zipper. This appearance of the building, located in the area of Tortona, was given by British designer Alex Chinneck. Chinneck decorated not only the facade, but also the interiors of this house with zippers. Inside there are installations depicting holes in the concrete floor that also close with zippers, or cracks in the walls from which light streams out.
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