Hey everyone, welcome to a potential new series on this channel.
Its going to be a bit like our Urban Legends videos but focusing on mysteries.
Every country has unsolved mysteries which have remained so for years, decades or even
centuries.
Hundreds or even thousands of people have tried to solve them - but nobody has got the
answers.
Lets see what your brain makes of them, also, some of them are a bit disturbing.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary British Mysteries.
Starting off at number 10 we have Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?[a] Those are the words
that first appeared in graffiti in 1944 in Birmingham.
They might sounds like nonsense to you but they were referencing a murder.
The year before, 4 boys in the town of Hagley discovered the body of a woman in the trunk
of a wych elm.
Police estimate she had been killed and put there 3 years before.
The woman was never identified - but the graffiti - the creepy question of Who Put Bella in
the Wych Elm - that kept appearing.
It seemed that whoever started writing the message had knowledge about the case or may
have even been the one who killed the woman - presumed to be called Bella.
In the decades since then, there have been a number of theories about who killed Bella
- some say she was the victim of witchcraft, and that her severed hand was proof of a dark
ritual called the Hand of Glory.
Either way, it seems that someone was once out there who knew what really happened, and
wanted to get people to investigate by writing that one creepy question everywhere they could
…
Moving on to number 9 we have The Solway Spaceman[b].
This one used to creep me out a lot as a kid.
I was fascinated by it.
Perhaps some of you guys watching are about the same age as I was when I discovered this
so Im happy to pass it on to the next generation.
The Solway Spaceman is a mysterious picture taken in 1964 by Jim Templeton in Cumbria,
England.
Jim took a picture of his 5 year old daughter but to his surprise, when he got the picture
developed there appeared to be a figure in a space suit in the background.
Jim insisted that he did not see anyone around them when the picture was taken.
It didnt take long for people to start talking about aliens or time travellers.
These theories only grew louder when Jim claims two men who said they were from the government
visited him but refused to show any ID but demanded he showed them where the picture
was taken.
In the years since then, some have said that the spaceman is nothing more than a view of
Jims wife from behind, her dress appearing white from overexposure.
Read a full article if you like this, really interesting story …
Moving on to number 8 now we have the Suicidal Dogs[c].
For anyone whos been watching the channel for a few years now, this one may be familiar.
Over the past 50 years, about 50 dogs have fallen about 50ft from Overtoun Bridge in
Scotland.
They werent pushed, they werent chased - theyve just thrown themself off - and nobody knows
why this keeps happening.
All of these dog suicides happen at the same spot, just before the final two parapets on
the right hand side of the bridge.
It almost always happens on clear sunny days and all of the dogs were long nosed breeds
such as labradors, collies and retrievers.
A few of the dogs survived, if they were humans you could ask what came over them - bit more
difficult with dogs.
Rumours that overtoun bridge and the nearby overtoun house being haunted have only grown
stronger and some say the dogs are picking up on an energy that is beyond human comprehension.
In any case, its an absolute mystery.
Next up at number 7 we have Madeleine McCann[d].
This will be a name familiar to most people from the UK.
Madeleine was a 3 year old girl who went missing on May 3rd 2007 while on a family trip in
Portugals Praia da Luz.
Her parents were dining with friends in a Tapas bar just round the corner and the group
had regularly checked on their kids.
Maddie was reported missing at 10PM, her brothers and sister who were 1 year old twins were
found sleeping safely in the apartment.
Its been over 11 years since then and so far theories have ranged from botched burglarys,
being stolen by predators or even sold to a rich family in the middle east.
Both the British and Portuguese continue their investigations to this day.
Moving on to number 6 we have Britains Roswell.
Thats the nickname thats been given to a bizarre incident that took place in 1980 in Suffolk.
Locals in Rendlesham forest reported strange lights in the area.
At first people dismissed it but then even US military who were stationed there reported
seeing flying lights in the sky that lowered into the woods and sent cattle into a state
of frezny.
When they got to the spot where the lights appeared to land, they found only burn marks
on the ground.
One of the American officials who witnessed the event was Colonel Charles Halt.
He reported the sightings to the Ministry of Defence - when they didnt appear to make
any efforts to investigate, he accused both the US and UK of having agents cover up the
whole event.
To this day, no official explanation has been given for Britains Roswell.
Coming in at number 5 we have The Hairy Hands of Devon.
This one comes from the 1920s in Devon - a time when locals swore there were a roaming
pair of hairy hands in the area.
This is perhaps the strangest one on here.
Back then, there was a strange surge of fatal and serious crashes on a stretch of road that
travels through a desolate patch of Dartmoor.
Some of the crashes were fatal but from the survivors came a strange tale - many of them
said a pair of rough, hairy hands appeared out of nowhere, grabbed their steering wheel
and smashes their cars into a ditch.
Police investigated the road and found that it was a problem with its surface.
Others werent convinced and said theyd never had any problems with the road either before
or after the hairy hands incident - so what exactly happened?
Moving on to number 4 we have The Loch Ness Monster[e].
This has to make the cut.
Whether or not you believe an ancient reptilian creature lurks the waters of Loch Ness in
Scotland - there is still a lot of mystery surrounding its many sightings.
Going back over 1,400 years ago, Saint Columba was said to have rescued a man from suffering
a brutal attack from a water beast in the River Ness.
This story seemed to bubble under the surface for hundreds of years but in 1933, after a
number of sightings, people began to refer to the beast as The Loch Ness Monster.
In 1934, Robert Kenneth Wilson published a photograph of what people claimed to be proof
of Nessie - the picture showed a creature with dinosaur like features with a long neck
and a small head.
The picture was later found to be a hoax but the legend itself has never died down - becoming
an international phenomenon.
Like I said at the start, even if you don't think the Loch Ness Monster is real, all these
sightings over the years require some sort of explanation …
Moving on to number 3 we have Jill Dando[f].
In 1999, Jill Dando was a prime time TV journalist famous across the UK.
She was shot at after arriving home in Fullham, West London at 11:30 am on April 26th 1999.
She had just put her key in the lock when someone grabbed her from behind.
The killer held her with his right arm, forced her to the ground and fired a single gun shot
through her left temple in what police described as a professional style execution.
The following year, police arrested a Barry George who lived nearby to Jills house.
He was convicted and jailed for life but eventually won an appeal against conviction in 2007.
Since then, Police have been exploring a number of different leads including a jealous ex
boyfriend, eastern europe assassins, mistaken identity or perhaps the fact that she worked
on crimewatch - a show that exposed criminals to a national audience.
Either way, its been 19 years and counting but there are still shadows of doubt over
the case.
Moving on to number 2 now we have The Highgate Vampire[g].
This one comes from North London where Highgate Cemetery is said to have been been home to
an actual vampire during the 1960s - some of you may just dismiss that as an urban legend
but a vampire is perhaps the only explanation for this mystery, no matter how far fetched
it seems.
Back then, a group of young people who were interested in the occult began roaming the
overgrown cemetery.
On December 21st 1969, one of the group, David Farrant, spent the night there.
What happened on that night remained a mystery for 2 months - but David couldn't hold it
back any more.
On December 21st 1969, he wrote a letter to his local paper saying he had seen a supernatural
grey figure.
Other people began to speak up and say they had seen a figure too - a tall man wearing
a hat, a ghostly cyclics and a figure wading out into a pond.
There were too many sightings to dismiss.
A man called Sean Manchester put forward the theory that a King Vampire of the Undead was
practicing black magic there.
Some of you may dismiss that as ridiculous, but so far its the best theory for explaining
the mysterious sightings.
And finally at number 1 we have Jack the Ripper[h].
Some of you may have seen this coming a mile off.
Its a story that has become famous across the world.
From August to November 1888, a killer murdered and butchered at least 5 prostitutes in Londons
whitechapel area.
They were all killed with a cut to the throat and all had their abdomens mutilated - some
even had their internal organs removed.
The police recieved one letter claiming to be from the killer - he referred to himself
as Jack the Ripper and the name stuck with the public.
All police had to go on was the fact that due to the killers precise removal of organs,
he may have had surgical knowledge.
When the killings stopped, the police investigation eventually went cold - now the mystery is
left in the hand of modern day researchers, and many of them have their theories on the
rippers identity.
Alright, those were some mysteries produced by Britain - what country shall we look at
next?
I feel like America might be too easy - I could do that one next though if you want?
Also, I hope you guys are checking out our live stream marathons at the weekend where
we play some of our series for as long as you can watch them - keep an eye out for them,
thanks for watching as always, my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next
video!
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