Life is full of inexplicable events that defy logic, no matter how hard we try to make sense of them.
While some mysteries remain unsolved, lingering as haunting memories, others eventually reveal their secrets, often years later.
In this article, we bring you a collection of astonishing real events that rival even the best mystery thrillers.
When I was 14, there was a quiet boy in my class— he was a true genius. One day, he vanished.
The police couldn’t find him. His parents became recluses and barely left the house.
24 years later, I was shocked to see him on TV. Same name and face but older.
Turns out he was recruited by the government at a young age due to his exceptional intelligence.
Everything was top secret; his parents knew he wasn’t truly missing, but had to maintain the illusion of his disappearance.
Now, years later, he had left that life behind and was featured in a documentary. My heart skipped when I found out about this, everyone in our town had ended up thinking he was dead and now, just like that, he was on national TV.
One evening, I was getting out of a Rotterdam subway (Blaak) to go to my apartment nearby when I saw an old friend—one I hadn’t seen in person for a few years—heading into the subway. I called out his name, he turned, waved, and made this “Call me” gesture; then the doors closed, and the subway rode off.
Thirty seconds later, my phone rang.
It was my friend, who told me he had just seen me get into the (normal) train he used to get home from the bar. Apparently, I had grinned, waved, gestured “Call me!”, the doors shut, and the train drove off.
I lived in Rotterdam. He lived in Enschede.
That’s just over 200 km apart (or about 125 miles).
In the summer of 2012, my daughter was 2 years old. I lost two great-uncles that summer, both unexpectedly for different reasons. On both occasions, my daughter specifically acted startled, looked into a corner of the room where nobody was, and commented that there was “a man in the room.”
She did this both times before we got a phone call but after each uncle’s passing.
I was with her for one of these incidents, and my mom was with her for the other. I like to think that my great-uncles were stopping in to check on us, but who knows. It’s an unexplained mystery until we know for sure.
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