Top 20 Scariest Unexplained Discoveries Ever Made

These discoveries freaked people out! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the creepiest archaeological finds that are still unexplained decades – or even centuries – later. Our countdown of the scariest unexplained discoveries ever made includes Headless Vikings, Shackled Skeletons, The Unidentified Man of Sligo, Neanderthal Cannibalism, and more! Which unexplained discovery do you find the most haunting? Let us know in the comments below.

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[WatchMojo]

Which do YOU think is the scariest discovery of all? Discuss in the comments.

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[MojoMountainMan]

5:42 the most amazing part of this most well-preserved mummy is the fact that she was even better preserved than what you see, but when they opened up the crypt and the air hit her she became worse immediately. She was almost lifelike when they found her

[Drakin]

Number 3:
I think I heard the answer to this one once on a mystery TV show. They deduced that the severed feet in shoes are actually the remains from victims of some plane wrecks that crashed and sank underwater. As the bodies decomposed the rubber in the shoes remained boyant and eventually, in the currents, floated to the surface and were washed ashore. Gross and unsettling but hardly paranormal or deliberately sinister.

[sherilynpolitis]

I feel like the first one, has more to do with the plagues of Egypt.

[angelbahena]

Watchmojo doesn't hit like it used to.

[Armillifer]

Codex Gigas is in the Royal Library in Stockholm, Sweden these days, though found in Prague. I still can't believe I haven't gotten to see it yet!

[umarviumarvi]

Number 18 is right by me, people reported there was a man flagging down the cars too, but no one was ever found until they further investigated the issue.

[tamaracroes]

I have read a possible explanation for the severed feet. The things they have in common is that they are wearing lightweight sneakers, and they are all pretty recent, I think from after 1980? Earlier, shoes were much heavier and did not float. When a body decomposes the tendons disappear, so the bones become loose from each other. The loose bones do not float, but the bones inside the sneakers float up. That they end up on the same stretch of coast has to do with currents. Where I come from we have both a Driftwood beach and a Plastic beach. So the feet have nothing to do with each other, basically.

[williamafton]

How is an animal given a burial unsettling? Ancient Egyptians did it all the time, because they worshipped those animals. Whoever buried that porpoise clearly respected it enough to give it a burial they thought was worthy.

[Jeremiah_Rivers]

Ötzi the Iceman’s fate is still up in the air, but I believe he suffered a fatal injury.

[David-aij]

The most haunting is the feet 🦶🏻 of people washing up on shore, disturbing 😳 these could be victims of a serial killer 😬

[tomgorney]

Most of those Mummy's have better teeth than I do.

[xpertme]

How do you rule out foul play when human feet keep turning up with there shoes on?🤔some cases maybe but all the feet?

[NuclearMango.]

I read someone that the feet were presumed to be from tsunami victims whose bodies simply broke apart from decay in the ocean and the shoes with the feet inside floated on the ocean currents where a lot wound up in one area. Haven't heard anything more of that theory lately, though. They mention several have been identified but don't elaborate on that issue.

[nightponyinrface]

6:19 satan? that looks like someone's deviant art oc..

[EricckkkMoneyyy]

#10 I feel as though the porpoise that was buried was the idea that people back then looked at them like the far east view cows.

[Draganter]

the dead don't care about the living

[Amanda-cddm]

That porpoise was loved. That's why it has a grave

[wesleywalker]

I'm surprised that Rujm El-Hiri exists at all. Usually over time, not only are the useful artifacts taken but also all the stones as well to be reused as building materials in the area.

[ROCKONplaceboforever]

This is so interesting 👏 good job guys