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Every year archaeologists and diggers enthusiasts find during the excavations many interesting things. There are findings that make to rewrite the pages of history, there – opens the unknown pages, and there are frankly creepy, catching the horror. It is the last and will be discussed in this review.

1. The burial of babies

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Israel
One of the most horrific recent archaeological discoveries have been made in southern Israel. In the ancient seaport of Ashkelon was discovered more than a hundred skeletons of infants. It was found that the skeletons belong to the Roman era. Who were these babies and why they were killed remains a mystery.

2. The skeletons of hobbits

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Indonesia
Flores island owned by Indonesia, became a place of unusual discoveries in 2003, when scientists found the ancient bones of a small hominid Homo Floresiensis, also known as “the hobbit”. First, the researchers believed that the bones probably belonged to a person with microcephaly (disease that leads to small head size and small stature), but later found other skeletons of equally small size has forced to assume that the “hobbits” are not just tiny people, but a separate species.

3. Headless Vikings

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England
In June 2009, archaeologists made a startling discovery in the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset, England. During paving Weymouth road found a mass Roman grave containing the headless remains of 54 soldiers and 51 skull. Experts believe that the Vikings could be executed for treason.

4. Skeleton puzzle

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Scotland
Any discovery of human skeleton somewhat creepy, but what happened after the discovery of four prehistoric mummies in the Scottish Outer Hebrides in 2001, absolutely terrified scientists. Radiocarbon Dating and stable isotope analysis showed that each mummy was actually made from the body parts of several different people, “stacked” to look like the same person.

5. The Neanderthals cannibals

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Spain
In 1994, deep in the dark El Sidron, a cave system in Northwest Spain, scientists found bones of 12 Neandertals. Skeletons by the age of 51, 000 years belonged to the family of 3 children, 3 teenagers and 6 adults. Modern methods of forensic medical examination showed that the family was killed and eaten by another group of Neanderthals. Bones and skulls were opened to extract the bone marrow and brain.

6. Severed foot

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Canada
In the canadian province of British Columbia was made one of the most strange and terrible discoveries in the last few decades. Since 2007, here on the shore (ranging from Jedediah island to Botanical beach) was found to be at least 16 severed human feet clad in running shoes. Although some of the feet have been identified, it is still unknown why they were cut off, and as they hit the sea.

7. The fetus inside the tomb of Bishop

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Sweden
Researchers from the University of Lund, Sweden were surprised when they ran a cat scan of the mummified Scandinavian Bishop. They found the remains of a tiny baby laid at the feet of the Bishop. Researchers believe that the fetus may be a relative of the Bishop. Another theory is that perhaps it was an illegitimate stillborn child that someone wanted to bury properly.

8. Decapitated gladiators

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England
In 2005, in York, Northern England, was discovered a number of mysterious skeletons of the Roman Empire. All the skeletons belonged to people who were beheaded. All men died relatively young, were all above average height for people of that age, and they were buried with weapons in their hands. Therefore, experts believe that the mysterious people were gladiators.

9. Mummies frozen children

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Argentina
In 1999, archaeologists at the Vulcan Llullaillaco in Argentina made a shocking discovery of three mummified children who were left to freeze on the side of a volcano during an old ritual sacrifices of the Incas. Such rituals are often held by ancient Incas to mark an important event or prevent the disaster.

10. Dead skier

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Italy
In 2015, remains the canadian skier Gregory Barnes was discovered in the Italian Alps. The creepy part of the story is the fact that the skier was actually buried in snow for 35 years, before finding it. The Italian authorities made the discovery, said that the hotter than usual summer has caused the melting of the glacier, which showed the remains. The body of Barnes was found in a crack along with his passport, which identified the personality.

11. The tomb vampires

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Poland
Archaeologists dug out a medieval cemetery in the Polish city of Caldas found 14 so-called graves of vampires. In the medieval ages people believed in the existence of vampires, and they used several methods to “cure” vampirism. Some of the alleged vampires were beheaded, others were buried face down, and the coffins of the majority was filled with stones, to the undead failed to get out of graves.

12. The “old” leper

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India
In 2009, in the Indian state of Rajasthan was discovered 4,000-year-old skeleton with clear signs of leprosy. A terrible discovery immediately became the oldest known archaeological evidence of the terrible disease. The fact that it was buried in a skeleton, suggests that the man was a fugitive (according to the Hindu traditions the dead are cremated).

13. Place of mass death

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USA
In 1971, paleontologists found a place of mass death of animals in a corn field, Idaho. On the former site of the lake was about 200 skeletons of animals. The animals probably died from choking under a deep layer of volcanic ash about 12 million years ago.

14. People from Sligo

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Ireland
When in 2014, the 215-year-old beech tree in the Irish Sligo were uprooted by strong storm in its exposed roots revealed a gruesome discovery. They found the skeleton of a young man, now known as “the man from Sligo”. Further analysis showed that people lived in the early middle ages, between 1030 and 1200 years B. C. He was 17 to 20 years old at the time of death. Given the injuries on the bones, he was probably murdered.

15. Surrey Ghost car

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England
On the A3 motorway in England accident — a fairly common phenomenon, so the police in Surrey I was not surprised when the office called and said that the car with headlights turned off the road into a ditch. But when officers went to a call, they have not found the slightest sign of an accident. During the search further, just 20 metres from the proposed site of the accident in the undergrowth found the remains of a wrecked car, at the wheel which had the remains of a decaying body of a young man. According to police estimates, it crashed 5 months ago.

BONUS

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Scotland
For many years prior to the Protestant reformation, the Chapel of St. Mary in the Church. Nicholas in Aberdeen, Scotland was always a quiet secluded place for Catholic women who came to pray. However, a few decades after the reformation, the chapel began to be used for much more sinister purposes. Historians recently uncovered evidence that the chapel was used as a prison for suspected witchcraft: a potential “witches” were kept here in custody until the trial and execution.

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