NJABIA Bâté, A Man Isolated Due To His Horns

In 1934, English explorer Ghost Freeman traveled to Fianga, in the Mayo-Kebbi region of Chad, attracted to stories of a man with horns living in a nearby forest. Earning the trust of the villagers, Freeman discovered NJABIA BâTÉ, a man isolated due to his horns, an unexplained phenomenon that generated fear and respect for him.

NJABIA BâTÉ, though marginalized, possessed great wisdom and knowledge about nature and traditional healing methods. Freeman documented his finding, publishing an article that attracted the attention of the scientific community.

A cutaneous horn is a growth on the skin that occurs due to excessive keratin growth. There are numerous possible causes of a cutaneous horn, ranging from skin infections to cancer.

Classical Music Synchronizes Brain Waves, Improving Depression

Western classical music can significantly affect brain activity, particularly in people with treatment-resistant depression. By measuring brainwaves and neural imaging, scientists discovered that music synchronizes neural oscillations between brain regions associated with sensory and emotional processing, enhancing mood.

This study suggests that personalized music therapy could be a powerful tool for treating depression, especially when integrated with other sensory stimuli.

The Lost Dutchman's Goldmine is a legend that has been passed down for generations. The story tells of a man who stumbled upon a goldmine in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains. He kept the location a secret, but it’s said anyone who tries to find it will meet misfortune. The Dutchman's treasure remains one of the most sought-after hoards in the world.

The astonishing story of the Dutchman goldmine – one of the most famous lost treasures in history – has been peddled since the 1890s. At the height of its popularity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it’s believed that over 8,000 people a year tried to find it, including a former Arizona Attorney General.

The legendary goldmine is said to have a curse upon it, and dozens of people have been injured or killed looking for it. Some due to the extreme heat and treacherous terrain, but some in more sinister circumstances, either shot or simply vanished off the face of the earth, never to be seen or heard from again.

Shibam, Yemen.

The walled city of Shibam, located in the center of Yemen, is one of those impossible places or rarities of Arab urbanism that, due to its location and political instability in the area, have not been fully discovered. Its main characteristic is the verticality of its buildings: towers of up to 40 meters and 7 floors built in mud that have given it the nickname of “Manhattan of the Desert”.

Shibam is built on a rock basement. This basement has let the city to survive to the floods of the area. Most of its buildings were built during the XVI century, after the massive flood that destroyed the previous settlement in 1532-3.

Rakotzbrücke Devil's Bridge

Nestled among the verdant foliage in Kromlau, Germany’s Kromlauer Park, is a delicately arched devil’s bridge known as the Rakotzbrücke, which was specifically built to create a circle when it is reflected in the waters beneath it.

Commissioned in 1860 by the knight of the local town, the thin arch stretching over the waters of the Rakotzsee is roughly built out of varied local stone. Like many similarly precarious spans across Europe, the Rakotzbrücke is known as a “devil’s bridge,” due to the colloquialism that such bridges were so dangerous or miraculous that they must have been built by Satan.

Corroboree Rock - 1959

Nobody knows who the ghostly figure in this photo is, but it was taken in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia in 1959.

The Phraya Nakhon Cave is located inside Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park in the Prachuap Khiri Khan Province of Thailand. According to local legend, the cave was discovered around 200 years ago when a local ruler, Nakhon Srithammaraja, was forced to abandon his ship during a storm and found refuge in the cave.

Either way, the cave has long been a treasured natural attraction along the northern part of the Malay Peninsula. When sunlight floods into the cavern, it illuminates the cave’s stalagmites and stalactites, and the lush green trees that lean toward the light from the sandy floor below. It’s a serene and mystical sight, and one deemed fit for kings.

Temple of the Mayan god of death – also known as “The Stinky One” – found in Mexico

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient palace complex in southern Mexico that appears to have been dedicated to a fearsome Mayan death god who ruled over a hellish empire but was also the god of farts. The monstrous deity's name, known as Ah Puch or Cizin, has been translated as “stench,” “flatulence,” and “the stinking one.”

The discovery was made during the construction of a train station near the ancient Mayan site of Calakmul, which was one of the largest and most powerful pre-Columbian city-states that ever existed in the Mayan lowlands.

Worstead Church - 1975

Another church, another ghostly visitor. This ghost has been reported as being seen before in this location too.

Peter Berthelot took this picture of his wife, Diane, sitting on a pew at the Worstead Church in Norfolk, England in 1975. When they had the film developed, they noticed a ghost sitting on the pew behind Diane.

The Gutenberg Bible

In Mainz, Germany, in the mid-1450s, Johann Gutenberg and his partner Johann Fust published more than 150 large-format copies of the Bible in Latin. This is the book known today as the Gutenberg Bible.

Gutenberg may have begun developing a new printing technology as early as the 1430s, and completion of the Bible demonstrated the viability of a press that used individual pieces of metal type to mass-produce books.

Although books would continue to be written by hand in the years— and centuries—that followed, the printing process pioneered by his team became increasingly prevalent, helping change how information traveled in Europe and, later, the world.