War Mysteries...

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The Crash of the L-8

The Axis’ heavy use of submarines to sink sea traffic was one of the most effective tactics of World War II, so it’s not surprising that the Allies invented ways to nip it in the bud. One of them was employing “spotter blimps,” dirigible airships staffed by crews who could spot subs from high up in the air and report them to the Navy for sinking. When the naval blimp L-8 took off from San Francisco Bay in 1942, it seemed like business as usual. But their last radio message, indicating that they were investigating an oil slick in the Pacific, sparked a very strange mystery. Almost three hours later, the L-8 drifted in from the ocean and crashed. Responders on the scene rushed to rescue the crew, only to find them all missing without a trace. Aside from the damage from the crash, the blimp was in perfect shape, but none of the crew members were ever seen again.




Rommel’s Treasure

Erwin Rommel, aka the Desert Fox, was one of the most famous German field commanders of World War II. His exploits are legendary, but near the end of his career, he took an action that has captivated treasure-seekers for half a century. As the Allies closed in, Rommel took six steel ammunition boxes and buried a priceless German treasure in them consisting of jewels, gold and silver worth millions. Allegedly, it’s in an underwater cave off the shore of Corsica, but hundreds of treasure hunters have tried to find it with no success.




Glowing Wounds of the Civil War

This is one that actually has been explained by modern science, but when it happened, it really freaked people out. After the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, some of the nearly 30,000 soldiers wounded during the conflict reported that their injuries glowed with a bizarre light and healed faster than the soldiers who didn’t glow. Needless to say, lots of supernatural speculation was raised, and it wasn’t until 2001 that the mystery was solved by a high-school student. Bill Martin’s mother, a microbiologist, had been studying luminescent bacteria and discovered one that not only glowed, but also killed other, harmful bacteria. It normally can’t live in the human body, but temperatures were low enough that the soldiers developed hypothermia, making their flesh cold enough to support the glowing guests.





UFOs Over Korea

During the spring of 1951, PFC Francis Wall had a very strange experience on the battlefield in Korea. One April evening in the region known as the Iron Triangle near Chorwon, Wall and his division sighted a strange, metallic object floating over a hillside. It looked like no craft either army had ever fielded, and seemed immune to artillery fire. However, rifle bullets seemed to damage it, and before flying away, it bathed the American troops with a strange ray that made them feel like their bodies were on fire. Everybody shot by the ray suffered bizarre physical effects -- including elevated white-blood-cell counts -- and had to be evacuated from the battlefield. Many still have symptoms to this day.