A Missing Plane Landed After 37 Years In Incredible Conditions

in july 1955 pan am flight 914 left new york city airport on route to miami however the flight never made it to sunny florida without sending out a distress signal or leaving behind even the smallest piece of wreckage the plane and its 57 passengers seemingly vanished into thin air as the years passed without any sign of the missing plane most people assumed the mystery would never be solved but then 37 years later the impossible happened grab your popcorn and stay tuned to find out exactly what that impossible occurrence was alongside a whole host of other

eerie mysterious voyages one morning in 1992 at an airport in caracas venezuela air traffic controllers were going about their business when they noticed something very strange even though their radars showed an empty sky they could clearly see a plane hurtling in the direction of the runway as it got nearer they noticed that this plane was old fashioned and propeller driven a model that hadn't been used in years air traffic controller juan de la corte immediately made radio contact with the pilot and asked him to identify the mystery plane the pilot replied that this was flight

914 ready to touch down in miami when juan informed him this was an airport in venezuela the pilot was horrified he'd somehow traveled 1200 miles away from his destination and things were about to get even weirder when the plane landed witnesses could see passengers pressed up against the windows wearing strangely old-fashioned clothing and staring in confusion at the modern aircrafts on the tarmac after a long silence juan's radio crackled in a hoarse voice the pilot of the mystery plane asked him to confirm the date juan told him it was may 21st 1992 as he spoke

he could hear the pilot breathing fast clearly distressed moments later the pilot flung open the cockpit window and began frantically waving away the ground crew screaming that he needed to leave as he waved his arms something fluttered down from the clipboard he clutched in one hand but before anyone could react the plane was in motion the aircraft crew watched in shock as mere minutes after it had happened the mystery aircraft sped off down the runway before climbing away into the clouds juan ran down to the tarmac and picked up the document that had fallen from

the pilot's clipboard to his shock he saw that it was a calendar dating from 1955. in the aftermath aviation officers were able to surmise that this unexpected runway visitor was indeed the mysterious flight 914 that had disappeared back in the 50s but even after a thorough investigation they couldn't make any sense of the plane's sudden reappearance and as for the plane itself it was never seen again so how can we explain the time traveling plane the most popular theory among fans of this tantalizing tale is that the plane accidentally entered a wormhole through time and

space transporting it somewhere else 37 years into the future if you think that sounds crazy it's worth noting that the scientific theories of scientists like albert einstein and stephen hawking mathematically support the idea that wormholes could potentially exist but how well imagine space and time as a sheet of paper with a point marked at either end usually you'd only be able to travel through those points by moving along the paper but if you fold the paper in half bringing the points together that's a much quicker way to travel between them this is how a wormhole

theoretically works a space-time bending shortcut through the cosmos that connects two distant points of space and or time together while no one's really sure how a wormhole could come into existence nor has anyone ever actually observed one could this theory explain the mystery of the time traveling plane before i reveal the truth if you think wormholes were behind this mystery click that like button if you're skeptical hit that subscribe button and with the fascinating content i post daily doing both is an equally good choice done great now let's find out the truth as it turns

out the real explanation doesn't require complicated physics to work out that's because unfortunately the tale of pan am flight 914 is actually a vintage piece of fake news first circulated by the weekly world news in 1985 this tabloid was notorious for inventing mind-boggling stories in order to sell papers including the story of a baby born with a wooden leg and the tall tale of a man who sued himself after he was hit by his own boomerang in fact the story of flight 914 made such a splash in the 80s that the tabloid actually ran it

twice more in 1993 and in 1999 it soon became an urban legend circulated online by conspiracy theorists as evidence of time travel but of course i wouldn't bring you here with a promise of genuine mystery and not deliver while the case of flight 914 turned out to be a hoax that's not to say our world hasn't seen its fair share of voyages that took a turn toward the unexplainably bizarre stay tuned to find out just how peculiar some real examples of this type of thing are because sometimes truth is even stranger than fiction bizarre bermuda

would you take a trip over the bermuda triangle over the years this portion of the north atlantic ocean between bermuda miami and puerto rico has seen a number of planes and ships disappear in mysterious seeming circumstances none of these disappearances are stranger or more perplexing than the vanishing of flight 19. in december 1945 a squadron of five torpedo bombers and their 14 crew took off from fort lauderdale in florida ready to tackle a three-hour training exercise not far into their journey flight 19 began to run into problems the flight leader lieutenant charles taylor began to

radio in distress messages claiming that the squadron had become lost after taylor's plane's compasses malfunctioned as dusk began to set in and weather conditions turned nasty the radio messages became increasingly confused until eventually they stopped altogether as it became apparent the squadron was in trouble two planes were dispatched on a search and rescue mission heading for flight 19's last known location a point over the bermuda triangle only one rescue plane made it back the other plane which was carrying 13 men disappeared from radars within 20 minutes of takeoff and along with the original flight 19

crew was never seen again an extensive search found no wreckage from any of the missing aircrafts and investigations were unable to explain the mysterious disappearances to this day the planes have never been recovered so what is it with stuff like this happening over the bermuda triangle well conspiracy theorists argue that the triangle could be a hunting ground for ufos or the site of an all-consuming whirlpool there's even a theory that ancient technology from the lost city of atlantis scrambles the navigation equipment of vehicles in the area on the other more rational hand in the case

of flight 19 it's possible that the planes really did lose their way after their leaders compasses malfunctioned leaving them all to run out of gas and crash into the ocean after all compasses in the 1940s weren't invulnerable to errors especially considering the significant electromagnetic fields that can build up around planes in stormy weather some also theorize that in the low visibility taylor may have mistaken the bahama islands with the florida keys causing him to accidentally direct the flight further out to sea rather than back towards land and as for the rescue mission the planes were

martin pbm mariners which had a known tendency to build up flammable fuel vapors a nearby tanker reported seeing flames near the spot where the rescue plane vanished from the radars suggesting that it may have exploded due to these flammable vapor buildups what's more scientists have long disputed the idea that the bermuda triangle is really the mysterious vanishing vortex that it's cracked up to be despite its reputation actual accident statistics suggest that disappearances in the bermuda triangle don't happen more often than in any other comparable region of the atlantic ocean but even with all that considered

with no wreckage ever found the true fate of flight 19 remains unconfirmed what do you think happened let me know in the comments below mystery man ladies and gentlemen fasten your seatbelts and get ready to hear about one of the most mystifying unsolved cases in fbi history in november 1971 a man in his mid-40s boarded a plane traveling from portland oregon to seattle washington he gave his name as dan cooper took his seat and ordered a bourbon and soda shortly after takeoff he informed the stewardess that he had a bomb in his briefcase opening the

case to reveal tangled red wires cylinders and batteries to prove it he stated everyone would be safe as long as his demands for four parachutes and two hundred thousand dollars in cash were met the authorities were quickly notified and the fbi ensured the ransom money and parachute were ready when the plane landed in seattle upon landing cooper allowed all 36 passengers to walk free in exchange for the money and equipment he kept the flight crew on board though and calmly told them to set a new course for mexico city once they were back in the

air cooper told the crew to wait in the cockpit he then walked to the back of the plane took off his tie opened the rear door and parachuted away with his ransom money the plane went on to land safely at reno airport but dan cooper was never seen again for 49 years after that night the fbi maintained an open investigation into the daring mid-air crime their prime suspect was richard floyd mccoy who was arrested for a similar airplane robbery a few weeks later but he was eventually eliminated from the investigation as there was evidence that

he spent the day of the hijacking in las vegas despite compiling a list of more than 800 suspects the fbi were unable to crack the case there's another bizarre twist to this tale in 1980 nine years after the crime took place a young boy discovered six thousand dollars in tattered notes along the banks of the columbia river in vancouver the fbi soon confirmed these notes came from the ransom paid to dan cooper though the investigators couldn't agree on whether the notes had been deliberately buried or drifted there from somewhere upstream with no official conclusion even

to this day it seems we'll never know what really happened to dan cooper some officials share the opinion that cooper couldn't possibly have survived his daring jump but since nobody was ever found many believe he got away scot-free whatever happened dan cooper's crime remains the only unsolved act of air piracy in aviation history up up and away hitching a ride like dan cooper is one thing but imagine trying to steal an entire plane and hide it away somewhere that's exactly what two men attempted in 2003 when they stole a boeing 727 straight from the runway

of cuatro de febrero airport in angola amazingly despite extensive investigations by the fbi and cia it was never recovered so how did it happen well in may 2003 two airport employees boarded the plane and began to taxi it along the runway of the two ben padilla was an american pilot while john mutantu was a hired mechanic from the republic of congo both men had access to the plane in order to carry out repairs but neither of them were certified to fly it the control tower team observed the plane making its erratic way down the runway

and tried to make contact but received no response before anyone could do anything about it the plane took off into the sunset and hasn't been seen since so what happened to the plane currently it's all theoretical padilla and mutantu may have stolen it for personal gain hoping to sell parts or they may have stolen it on behalf of its owner for insurance purposes the plane's owner maori joseph had previously been charged with falsifying financial documents and defrauding investments leading many to suspect that he paid padilla and mutantu to carry out the daring theft but it's

equally unclear whether the plane even made it to its unknown destination or whether it crash-landed in the ocean neither the plane its parts nor a wreckage have ever been recovered leaving this expert theft a truly head-scratching mystery the lady vanishes whatever happened to amelia earhart she was a record-breaking pioneer a best-selling author and the first female aviator to fly solo across the atlantic ocean however in july 1937 earhart and her navigator fred noonan set off from new guinea on one of the last legs of her historic attempt to circumnavigate the globe despite a promising start

their plane never made it to its destination and given that she never reappeared earhart was declared legally dead in 1939 so what actually happened nobody knows for sure but one popular explanation is that earhart made an emergency landing on or near the deserted gardner island in the west pacific ocean without a functioning plane she and noonan may have been forced to spend the rest of their days as castaways various expeditions to the island have found strange artifacts including a woman's shoe dating from the 1930s and some improvised tools in 1940 british officials found a skeleton

on a remote part of the island and analysis suggests that it may have belonged to a woman of european ancestry however no plane or wreckage has been found on or near the island casting some doubts on the castaway theory others argue that earhart was captured and executed by japanese soldiers after crash landing in the japanese-controlled marshall islands while some even speculate that she faked her own death and moved to new jersey but given the lack of any substantial evidence for those wilder ideas the idea that earhart crashed into the sea after radio failures and bad

weather is the most likely theory it's worth noting though that since 2002 deep sea exploration company nautilus has scanned nearly 2 000 square nautical miles using sonar around the area earhart may have crashed and has found no trace of wreckage until that elusive plane is found it's likely that the fate of this iconic aviator will remain an enigma free fallen in 1972 one woman experienced an extreme amount of both good and bad luck simultaneously while flying over czechoslovakia vesna vulovic was her name and to this date she holds the guinness world record for surviving the

highest fall without a parachute the serbian flight attendant fell a whopping 33 330 feet after a briefcase bomb exploded in the baggage compartment of her plane not only did she live to tell the tale but she also made a full recovery from her injuries and even asked for her old job as a flight attendant back now that's commitment so what allowed her to survive well aside from a heaping portion of good luck vezna was trapped behind a food cart in the rear part of the aircraft when it exploded while most of the other passengers were

sucked out of the plane immediately after the explosion vesna remained wedged in place the tail section of the plane then plummeted to earth and landed on a wooded mountainside in czechoslovakia where the trees and thick blanket of snow cushioned its fall this slowed the rate of deceleration on impact slightly lessening the forces acting on fsna's body what's more doctors believe vesna's history of low blood pressure may have prevented her heart from exploding on impact think of how a fully inflated balloon could easily pop under a little added force whereas a half inflated balloon has some

room to compress because vesna's heart and arteries were under less pressure it reduced the chances of her heart rupturing during the impact pretty crazy right soon after the crash a nearby villager heard vesna's cries for help and she was taken to a hospital she spent days in a coma suffering from broken bones and temporary paralysis from the waist down but miraculously vezna soon made a full recovery and became a national hero and celebrity although she never recovered her memories of the crash perhaps that's for the best secret stowaway in april 2014 15 year old yahya

abdi embarked on a truly bizarre journey which stumped air travel officials and doctors alike he'd run away from his california home in order to board a plane to ethiopia where he hoped to visit his mother without a ticket the daring teen climbed over the fence at san jose airport chose a plane and clambered into the wheel well what happened next was terrifying the plane which was bound for hawaii took off traveling for five and a half hours and descending to an eye-watering height of 38 000 feet abdi had to contend with extremely low oxygen levels

below freezing temperatures and the eardrum shattering boom of the engine he stayed conscious for long enough to watch the plane climb over the clouds before passing out for long sections of the journey when the plane arrived in hawaii onlookers were shocked to see a young man stumble out of the wheel compartment and weave his way across the tarmac his survival in those extreme conditions left doctors dumbfounded one possible explanation is that abdi's body became so cold during the flight that his blood flow and metabolism slowed down significantly reducing the amount of oxygen required in his

cells his body likely began slowing or stopping unnecessary functions causing him to pass out but ultimately keeping him alive now before you get any ideas stowing away on a plane is not a great way to save money on your next holiday experts agree that the odds of survival are tiny as the temperature at the heights that yahya traveled at can drop lower than negative 80 degrees fahrenheit and that's assuming you're not crushed by the wheel when it draws up into the plane all things considered it's probably best to book your seat the ghost ship not

all cases of peculiar mystifying journeys take place in the sky some of the most puzzling of all have occurred in the ocean the story of the mary celeste for example has puzzled the world for over 100 years and it's guaranteed to shiver your timbers the bergentine ship left new york in november 1872 with 10 passengers on board eight days later it should have arrived in genoa italy instead it was spotted floating east of the azores a group of islands in the north atlantic ocean a party was sent to offer help to the mary celeste but

when they reached the boat they realized something wasn't right the crew's personal belongings were untouched the cargo was intact and the ship was stocked with enough food and water to last six months but not a soul was on board some speculate that the crew were gobbled up by sea monsters or thrown overboard by pirates but as the ship wasn't damaged the cargo wasn't raided and there were no clear signs of a struggle these theories don't really hold water a more likely explanation is that all or some of the passengers deliberately abandoned ship sailing away on

the lifeboat but why would anyone abandon the mary celeste especially when it was fully stocked and seaworthy some have suggested the crew staged a mutiny throwing the captain overboard before sailing the lifeboat away into the horizon but it's also possible the crew were startled by extreme weather in their panic they may have boarded the lifeboat intending to head for safety but sunk before reaching their destination while the main ship itself survived supporting this theory is the fact that one of the ship's pumps was found disassembled on the deck and the cargo hold was a wash

with 3.5 feet of water it's possible that after taking on some water in harsh conditions the captain feared the ship was no longer seaworthy if he did so he was sadly mistaken the ship was totally fit for purpose and went on to be used for several more years but with no sign of the crew nor any definitive evidence on board it seems hopes of finding the truth has long drifted away on the waves what do you think happened to the ghost ship let me know in the comments below mystery companions soaring back into the skies

now we find ourselves in the winter of 1944 near the end of world war ii around this time allied pilots began reporting strange glowing lights following their aircrafts the red orange and white lights appeared to toy with the planes darting closer and then spinning away through the air at high speeds the sightings were so widespread that soldiers began to refer to them as foo fighters a name taken from a popular cartoon character called smokey stover who used the nonsense word foo as a catchphrase but considering how common these sightings became they appear to be anything

but nonsense there are a few different theories about the origin of these spooky lights author renato vesco claims that the germans had developed a secret weapon called a fireball which flew in the air and spun around like a catherine wheel firework in order to distract allied pilots however historians have pointed out that there's almost no evidence to support this claim some conspiracy theorists meanwhile believe that the foo fighters could have been ufos perhaps checking out humanity's latest military technology in action of course whether or not you believe that theory really depends on your stance on

whether aliens have visited earth a more universally palatable explanation however involves a weather phenomenon known as saint elmo's fire and is arguably just as fascinating this phenomenon causes fluorescent bursts of light to appear around pointed objects during storms the fire is actually a form of luminous plasma which is generated when there's a strong electric field in the air often during thunderstorms it's often observed to erupt from the wings or nose of a plane which could explain some sightings of these strange glowing foo fighters however considering many of the reports described the foo fighters as floating

orbs of red and orange these don't all fit saint elmo's fire which looks more like purple lightning some have pointed to ball lightning a reported phenomenon that hasn't yet been definitively proven to exist by science where lightning reportedly takes on a floating spherical form this would certainly fit the bill but until we properly determine whether ball lightning is a real phenomenon and learn how to study it it seems a satisfying explanation will remain floating just out of reach for now we'll just have to listen to the band of the same name if we want our

fill of foo fighters what are your wildest theories to explain some of these bizarre incidents let me know in the comments below and as always thanks for watching you