2020’s Most Bizarre Mysteries Left People Utterly Perplexed
The year 2020, it turns out, was a bumper one for fans of the mysterious and the enigmatic. A disappearing star, dastardly murder hornets, a missing $2 billion and the Loch Ness Monster all made appearances in a packed 2020. Read on to find out about 20 of the weirdest – and most puzzling – wonders of last year.
20. Chinese seeds
Unrequested and unpurchased packages were appearing in folks’ mailboxes in all 50 states of the Union according to a July 2020 CNN report. Households in Canada and the Republic of Ireland were also the unwitting recipients of these mysterious parcels. What was in those puzzling packages? Seeds. And it appeared that the parcels had been sent from China. Curiouser and curiouser.
Was this the work of some mad guerilla gardener? Or something more sinister? Actually, the best explanation for this strange phenomenon seemed to be a kind of con known as “brushing.” That involves sending goods to random people and then using that as the basis for fake reviews on sites such as Amazon. The aim is to boost a company’s review scores. But it sure had people scratching their heads in bewilderment.
19. Jetpack pilot
On August 30, 2020 an American Airlines pilot at the controls of a passenger jet was making his approach for landing at Los Angeles International Airport. It had been an unremarkable flight from Philadelphia until about 6:30 p.m. local time. But what the pilot spotted when the aircraft was some ten miles from LAX was anything but normal.
Flying at a height of roughly 3,000 feet, at the same altitude as the airliner, was an individual hurtling through the sky in a jetpack. And this character, by the American Airlines pilot’s estimate, was only around 300 yards from the passenger jet. To this day the identity of the daredevil, or industrial-grade moron as some might prefer, who was jetpacking in a busy flight path remains a mystery despite an FBI investigation.
