Mysteries

AD 1052 1052 carbon-14 candidate 9 clues · 2 hunches Looking good AD 1261 1261 carbon-14 candidate 7 clues · 1 hunch Looking good Do myths remember meteorite impacts? 3 clues · 1 hunch Not checked yet Can old chronicles of a dim or red Sun find eruptions the ice missed? 1 clue · 1 hunch Not checked yet 1190 BC When and why did the Late Bronze Age cities fall (about 1200 to 1180 BC)? 2 clues · 2 hunches Not checked yet AD 1098 A great aurora in September 1098, seen in Europe, and perhaps in Kyoto? 4 clues · 3 hunches Not checked yet AD 1268 1268 carbon-14 candidate 4 clues · 1 hunch Not checked yet AD 1279 1279 carbon-14 candidate 8 clues · 1 hunch Not checked yet AD 1286 1286 eruption: a big sulfur signal that left the Moon bright 3 clues · 1 hunch Not checked yet AD 1453 The mystery eruption of 1452/53 and the omens at the fall of Constantinople 13 clues · 6 hunches Not checked yet AD 1485 English sweating sickness: what was it? 5 clues · 2 hunches Not checked yet AD 1518 What caused the dancing plagues (1374, 1518 and others)? 5 clues · 4 hunches Not checked yet AD 1576 What caused the cocoliztli epidemics that killed most of Mexico's people (1545, 1576 and later)? 4 clues · 4 hunches Not checked yet AD 1808 1808 mystery eruption 7 clues · 4 hunches Not checked yet AD 1920 What caused encephalitis lethargica, the 'sleepy sickness' of 1917 to 1928? 3 clues · 5 hunches Not checked yet 102,000 years ago Why do so many cultures call the Pleiades 'seven sisters' and tell of a lost one? 3 clues · 2 hunches Half solved 12,800 years ago Younger Dryas trigger, 12,800 years ago 1 clue Half solved 1207 BC Did Joshua's 'Sun stand still' at Gibeon remember a solar eclipse? 3 clues · 2 hunches Half solved 1178 BC Does the Odyssey record the eclipse of 16 April 1178 BC? 3 clues · 2 hunches Half solved 660 BC 660 BC Miyake event 2 clues Half solved AD 369 369 guest star 1 clue Half solved AD 386 386 guest star 2 clues Half solved AD 393 393 guest star 2 clues Half solved AD 774 774 Miyake event 3 clues Half solved AD 837 837 guest stars 2 clues Half solved AD 850 Did drought bring down the Classic Maya cities (about 750 to 910)? 2 clues · 2 hunches Half solved AD 993 993 Miyake event 3 clues Half solved AD 1230 1229 eruption (ice cores said 1230) 2 clues Half solved AD 1458 1458 eruption pair 2 clues · 1 hunch Half solved AD 1587 Why did the Roanoke 'Lost Colony' (1587) and early Jamestown suffer so badly? 2 clues · 2 hunches Half solved AD 1872 Why was the Mary Celeste found sailing with no one aboard (December 1872)? 4 clues · 3 hunches Half solved AD 185 185 supernova 2 clues Solved AD 1006 1006 supernova 2 clues Solved AD 1054 1054 supernova 3 clues · 1 hunch Solved AD 1054 Why did Europe barely record the supernova of 1054? 4 clues · 3 hunches Solved AD 1108 1108 to 1110 eruptions 2 clues Solved AD 1181 1181 supernova 2 clues Solved AD 1572 1572 supernova 2 clues Solved AD 1604 1604 supernova 2 clues Solved AD 1831 1831 mystery eruption 2 clues Solved AD 1908 1908 Tunguska 2 clues Solved 5 BC 5 BC broom star 1 clue Ruled out AD 1178 1178 Canterbury moon 1 clue Ruled out AD 1561 1561 Nuremberg sky 1 clue Ruled out