Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of American President Abraham Lincoln, had her photo taken in 1872. Behind her, there’s a faint, white, semi-transparent figure with an arm around her shoulder. Strikingly, it bears a resemblance to President Lincoln. However, President Lincoln had been assassinated seven years earlier in 1865. How can this be explained? The Lincoln ...
In the early 1980s, a mysterious event unfolded in An Yang, Henan Province, China. An armory in Lin County (now renamed Linzhou City) was robbed, with 500 weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition vanishing overnight. To date, the reason behind this theft remains an enigma. A shooting competition sets the stage In 1982, led ...
The pharaoh’s curse is a topic full of mystery and legend. Whoever disturbs the sleep of the pharaoh will evoke the god of death to spread his wings and descend on that person’s head. The curse on the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun warned that whoever disturbed the pharaoh’s sleep would suffer misfortune and ...
During the Shunzhi era of the Qing Dynasty, there was a highly accomplished scholar named Shao Shimei, who had been ranked among the top three in the imperial examinations. Since his childhood, there was a name that had been swirling around in his head: “Gao Xiaohuai.” He had no idea who this person was or ...
In 1772, Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand was born into an ordinary family near Paris. She was born with long black hair and teeth, and was considered a “monster” by people, who demanded that Marie’s parents send her away. Helpless, her parents sent her to a convent. When she was 7 years old and the abbess ...
Once upon a time, it was said that there was a small flying mountain. Sometimes it flew toward the east, and sometimes toward the west. Yet wherever it stopped, many houses were smashed, and many people were killed. The crazy monk At that time, a monk was in Lingyin Temple northwest of present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He ...
Many devout Buddhists in the past have had incredible encounters. The Cavalry General met strange people and animals that saved his life, and he witnessed scenes of ascension to Heaven. The sincere heart and filial wishes of a devout young man moved Heaven, and enabled his grandfather to regain his sight after having been blind ...
Although serious space exploration began in the 20th century, the desire to explore beyond the Earth dates back much further. When it comes to investigating the sky, the Chinese may be the most persistent explorers on the planet, with numerous accounts of individuals, such as Wan Hu, attempting to reach the heavens over the course ...
Our world can sometimes show us mysteries that either surprise or shock us. The following are two such stories about mysterious retribution. Thief meets retribution: dies half an hour after stealing a motorbike Recently, a delivery driver reported a stolen motorbike to the police. Within 20 minutes of the phone call, a train ran over ...
In the first part of this article, we encountered mathematician Zhao Da’s magical ability to use arithmetic to deduce and derive “impossible” hidden factors and their quantity down to the tiniest number. Looking into more accounts and records, we can feel that the ancients, particularly before the Song Dynasty, regarded mathematics as we know it ...
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