5 Unsolved Soviet Mysteries
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- On July 17th, 1918, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, and his family met a tragic end. They were killed-shot and bayoneted-in the basement of the house where they were held captive in Yekaterinburg. This brutal event marked the cessation of a dynasty that had ruled Russia for over 300 years and extinguished one of the wealthiest families on the planet.
A significant portion of their vast fortune remained undiscovered, fueling speculation and mystery for decades. However, the recent unearthing of a letter from the KGB archives may have finally shed light on the whereabouts of the Last Tsar's lost riches.
It has long been accepted that the riches that are still unaccounted for are hidden somewhere in Siberia. The sparsely populated region was a White Army stronghold for much of the Russian Civil War and enjoyed a brief period of independence shortly after the Bolsheviks took over the Russian government.
The specific location of the treasure, however, has remained unknown. Stalin commissioned searches for the Tsar’s lost wealth throughout the 1930s but found little of it.
During WWII, Hitler financed an expedition to search for the lost gold and jewels during the German invasion of Russia. It was led by former members of the White Army who believed they knew where the treasure had been hidden. The mission was a disaster; the Red Army eviscerated the expeditionary force, and nothing was found.
Even after Stalin's death, the Soviet government continued looking for the treasure. The KGB conducted exhaustive searches and often came up empty-handed.
However, the newly released file on the hunt for the Tsar's gold reveals they may have been close to finding it.
During an interrogation by the NKVD, the KGB's predecessor, former White Army soldier Karl Purrok claimed that he and a fellow soldier had buried 26 boxes of gold and jewels five miles away from the Taiga railway station on the Trans-Siberian Line.
According to Purrok, his company was on a train retreating from the Red Army when his commanding officers realized that they would be captured before they reached safety.
To keep the riches from falling into enemy hands, Purrok and his comrade buried the boxes of gold some eight feet deep. The day after they finished their task, they were captured by the Red Army. According to the KGB report, the treasure was never found...
It amazing whe you first come across a brilliant CZcams channel and realise they have a back catalogue of this content going back over a decade. I've got months of these videos to get through and that brings me an unspeakable happiness.
I found such a channel a year ago. Not this one, I've been a fan for at least a decade. But a different one. I know the feeling 😊
Welcome to Dark5
More like Dank5, these videos are always so good @@XLA-zg1nn
A set to binge watch.
They have a heap of channels ... Dark Docs, Dark Skies, Dark Seas etc. Don't use them for learning about history as they make a laughable amount of mistakes, especially with the WW2 and war machines style vids. If you like the creepy Russian paranormal stuff, check out Paul Stonehill, and If you like the UFO stuff, check out Preston Dennett. Both here on YT.
Does anyone else just love the intro music?
F yea
Same
The big majority.
I need it as my ring tone👌
Love that intro-it sets the mood perfectly
I remember a time when you were debating if you should do the voice over or not. Now i think its one of the most iconic voices on youtube.
yeah i remember when it was just text too.
I'd really wish he'd bring the text videos back, they felt more mysterious.
Lol
@@Toineiethat is true
I agree! Of all the 'mystery doc' narrators on CZcams, the one on this channel is my all-time favorite!
According to one show concerning the Romanov’s,they had an estimated worth of $30 billion dollars when the revolution occurred.
$30 billion in today's terms or $30 billion back then?
@@Abenteuerlich77 That show airdate
@@byssmal he means, in today's value? or 1918 values?
The answer is in the original comment.
@@Abenteuerlich77yes in today's value
I LOVE your content. Always thought provoking!
Synaesthesia
The worst disease
You can't taste what you want to hear in times like these . .
Yeah, that'd be tough.
I love the mystery of the Lake Baikal entities.
The fellow youtube channel "Bedtime Stories" do a good video on it
@nicholaskay6955 Oh thanks! I'm definitely going to watch it!
@@just-a-cupcake enjoy
And they love u 2
@@BoBaker-ph1flI'm old Gregg
It is like a coal mine burning since the early 20th century. It is in Pennsylvania I believe.
Centralia, PA?
Centralia
All because people were burning trash in a pit that spread into a coal seam and will likely continue to burn underground even at the end of our lifetime
Silent Hill, of course
Best and most fascinating channel ,as with your other channels! Thank you !!!!
The voice puts story telling to full life, its addictive and informative ... Thanks man. Well done
Great channel ! Lots of interesting and informative stories as always. 👍
I remember reading that the royal family had so many jewels sewn into clothes that the bullets were bouncing off...
Yeah. To only be sold or auctioned off for the constant moneyless Soviets or to be worn by their wives, daughters, and mistresses
Thus the bayonets... so brutal
Some of the bullets bounced off. Unfortunately they didn't stop until they were all neutralized.
Awesome channel. Keep it up
Great work! consistently good quality videos
Thanks love the videos
That intro brings back memories
Yeah it’s iconic, recently the channel stopped using it and everyone hated it so it came back in like a month
Great stuff, thanks ❤
Great stuff👍👍👍
Nice video!
you cut ✂️ the last few boop de da boop da boops out ??
WHYYYYYYYYYYU
Keep posting !!!!
Bro been posting 15 years. I think you’re good lol
Awesome episode dude!!! always keeping me interested, I had never heard of the Lake Baikal Swimmers.
Looking for the Czar's wealth. Try the vaults at Buckingham Palace
@@siegfriedsassoon5071pfffft. That stuff’s long gone. Britain’s been broke for a long time. Believe me.
There is some rare footage from the ISS showing the jellyfish phenomena.
They started as huge orbs (but far away) that quickly came into shot and descended down through the atmosphere showing no atmospheric heating.
They headed down to a large electrical storm system and somewhat pancaked (jellyfished) directly over the discharging areas of the storm for a while before rising back up in a sphere form and headed away.
They emitted no visible light of their own though. Perhaps, once jellyfished, they were Very roughly 50 - 70km across. (I would have to do some scale comparisons to give a fair approximation)
Saw this some (9?) years ago and tried to find it again some 5 years back and failed. But will have to have another look. The clip was here on YT and I think it was a genuine clip from the ISS.
Sounds like lightning sprites, they’re often seen when storms are happening, I have no explanation for the jellyfish type objects spotted with no storms nearby though.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 I watch quite a lot of Pecos Hank and lightning sprites.
These were huge and the trip in from coming into shot in space to clouds maybe took 20 secs.
It was well defined in shape and movement, it withdrew in similar style. Moving slowly on screen but obviously covering great distances at speeds nothing we have can achieve.
@@OniMetsuki that’s really cool, no idea what they could be then. Unfortunately it sounds like something you’d have to be in orbit to study properly. There’s always new stuff to learn and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if there are life forms that live in the vacuum of space most of the time and only ever visit planets to “fuel up” on whatever sort of energy they process.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 That is certainly how it appeared, assuming of course the footage was genuine.
I've seen a fair few clips of "strange objects" footage from the ISS, but this one stood far apart from the rest.
I will definitely try having another search for it. I will have to back up interesting clips in the future !
@@OniMetsuki I’m going to have to look it up too, now I’m intrigued. Thanks for mentioning it!
So many years later, I still love the opening of the videos
I dunno if lake bikaul is the only people who ran into the beings? American Navy seals say they ran into them too in oceans, they get sonar sounds thinking it’s other submarines or animals they dive and there’s many stories of soldiers dying from see threw like humanoids that can illuminate like jellyfish and move rapidly under water
The abyss wasn't completely sci-fi. It's based off actual accounts of Navy sailors.
@@markferreira7682 perhaps that’s where our idea of mermaids comes from? While mermaids as we portray them obviously don’t exist, we’ve explored so little of our oceans that the existence of a humanoid, ocean-dwelling creature cannot be completely ruled out yet. It wasn’t so long ago that things like gorillas and sea snakes were thought to be mythological creatures, not real. And then we found them and documented them.
Thanks Dark 5. 🖤
Dark 5 still got it bruh, never gets old, even when with narration bruh
I read that book about S-in early adult life he thought everyone had a memory like his.He worked as a reporter and his editor realized he never used notes when interviewing people and asked him about that fact.When he realized how different he was he then began using his extraordinary memory to make money as a circus performer.Btw-there are 7 known people in the world who remember every single day and moment of their lives-one is the actress Marilu Henner of the show ‘Taxi’.She was profiled on the show ‘60 Minutes’.
They did an episode of House with a lady who remembered everything.
Liking this page. Keep posting!❤
I was here since the early days and have watched about 100% of this channels videos. Not his 20 other channels though.
I have been following Dark 5 for years and I love this
Very cool!
How about the Siberian Domes? Natives there had talked about them. National Geographic correspondents even tried to investigate it and many fell ill. Most of the video that was recorded has been scrubbed, as in, can’t find it.
Try looking up Yakutia and the Russian Valley of D3ath.
Excellent delivery. Russian history is fascinating. Thanks.
No it's not
No it's not, commie lover
Are you Ukrainian?
Man, always get the chills watching your stuff. Wish you'd do a special text-only nostalgia episode, those were even creepier and riveting!😬
OK. You have in the past requested from the viewers, ideas or historical events to investigate in. If, I am wrong, I apologize for wasting your time. These two incidents, you might have done them? 1) In Soviet Union, time 1900s, Soviet people were put on boats and dropped off on an island, which they eventually, become like Lords of Flies novel. 2) In North Korea, people who were under certain physical height, were placed on an island and I don't know if they survived somehow or died. It was orchestrated by the present leader. I haven't done much research on it. Maybe the second one is fictitious. I hope. Thank you for providing thought-provoking segments.
Eh it is just fun to suspend disbelieve for a second. ONly moron's would put any faith into the reporting of a channel like this.
first one was Nazinsky/Nazino island no?
@@thecityissleeping Thank you for the quick response! The second one, I believe, was on a CZcams channel. I didn't save it, cause it sounded absurd. But with the present leader of North Korea, I could see him do something like that. Taking people under the height of 5 feet and placing them on the island just for the heck of it. He's not well. Thank you again.
It’s Dark 5, I wouldn’t put too much weight into it it’s true or not. Half of his stuff is conspiracy or not factual
@@weirdshitcoolideasas is most stuff from hundreds of years ago…..
I absolutely love that into sound
Would you be willing to do longer format videos with more in depth information every once in a blue moon? That would be so cool
I just love that intro !
You got me thru high school and now I’m 23 love your videos man
Interesting video D5👍👍
I'm surprised the remaining romanov relatives/ cousins across the globe don't inquire more to find all that money
That gold is long gone
Thanks for the only footage of the Fedorov avtomat (the first assault rifle made in 1916, but the footage is from chukchi hunters in 1941 I believe) in action at: 0:59.
7:35 Looks like one of two things. Either a self destruct of a test launch vehicle using exotic fuels (like aluminium salted hydrazine), or the test of a a zero gen antiballistic missile system.
I was kind of thinking the same. Or a small nuclear device.
What happened to the Tzar's gold? Mel Brooks answered that in The Twelve Chairs.
Deep cut
I cannot find an old dark 5 video with the famous keith sapsford picture (a guy falling from a plane) Has it been removed ?
Why is Tsar Nicholas II's gold so difficult to find? Because before he was dethroned, he hired a small military unit for this task, which transported gold from St. Petersburg and Moscow by rail to Siberia, this unit hid the gold, apparently in several locations, and gave the only map with the route to the treasure to their ruler. After all this, the tsar ordered them all to be shot so that they would not reveal the location of the gold. I read on the Internet that the gold was apparently hidden not only in Siberia but also somewhere in today's Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (which were then the poorest regions of Tsarist Russia).
I wonder if the jellyfish like objects are a kind of interstellar flora or fauna that have yet to be discovered or recognized.
Love that intro and his scary voice.
Cool
The Tsar’s gold was never found? Sure.
Yeaaahhh+ right. Whatever they say....
Ohhhhh somebody has it oy vey
@@unclemonster48if someone found it, It’s not an issue it’s the property of the Soviet authorities, claiming to have found it would not lead to any consequences, so it’s more than likely it has never been found.
@@gloomyvale3671 so the Bolsheviks have it?
Claiming to have found it would mean you have to give it away
A very cool and interesting release dark5 xoxo
The "jellyfish" was possibly a weapon. What of the people who lived in the area? Do they suffer from anything since?
I'm thinking it was some type of small nuclear device.
@@DavidVerbout Or bioweapon
Thank god for the giant red arrow in the thumbnail, i would have missed the explosion thing in the photo.
Intro music still the bomb after all those years
"Mr. Memory" what are the 39 Steps ? ☺
The title of an interwar thrilling motion picture directed by Sir Alfred Hitchcock
I once heard that the crater was created by 2 kids mucking around with a box of matches, and it got way out outta hand 😅
Reducing video's speed, you need to catch a breath 😂.
Otherwise thanks for the vid👍
The truly shocking thing is that none of these people courageously prevented a nuclear war! (my fellow cynics will get that.)
I wonder if teen Roddenberry knew about this in 1987 when he wrote a counter at farpoint the pilot for Star Trek the Next Generation
It sounds like Mr. S had synesthesia and hyperthymesia. Interesting neural connections.
I need a link to background music for a mushroom trip please
Was Nick friendly with the Swiss?The Amber Room is in Swiss banks like Jewish treasures from the Nazi's.
Dark 5, have you ever done research on the Tisul Princess?
Thank you for bring your classic intro back again.
Will someone please pay my mortgage?
I can pay it in fried rice if that’s any use ? If not I’ll just become a vegetarian goat herderer and help you
When they show up, pass them my details, thanks.
Double it and pass it on.
Will someone please help me buy my childhood home
Will someone please help buy me a personal submarine? Preferably a pink one.
I genuinely feel bad that this channel is still underated, i grew up shitting my pants watching this channel
Reminds me of the horror movie Humanoids From The Deep.
Aquaman
I did that pulse rate thing while bored at hospital.
75 bps low to 110 bps high and back again.
Took about 5 minutes each way. Just had to concentrate.
I had a witness watch me do it.
There was no treasure left except for the jewels they'd sown into their clothes. The czar spent his entire fortune supporting the war. The Romanovs were flat broke.
4:48 if I recall the diver account they mimicked the shape of the diver got close then tore them apart
Marilu Henner has an amazing memory too.
Controlling your heartrate isn't really that difficult, I did it to my first aid instructor during class a few times. I can go from 50-120-50 bpm in about 45 seconds. Haven't tried the temperature thing. My memory is average as far as I know though, bummer
How many of y'all have thought of this - if alien life is more advanced than humans, why do they have somewhat human form?
If aliens are more advanced, it's more likely that we're in their image. We tend to arrogantly think of the universe as earth-centric. ♾
It's an effective design
About the bins, what is one of the aliens propelled the humans to the surface so fast that they would have gotten the bins but the aliens grab them by the ankle and pulled them back down would they then not get the bins or is it too late?
What about the Siberian domes? I know National Geographic went to the bogs where the domes were located and some of the crew got extremely sick.
Perfect shape. Smooth walls. Looks like human made. May have been made by the military. A bomb test to ignite a crater in an oil rich place? Sounds useful.
@7:50 Marilou Henner, the red head taxi driver from the TV show Taxi, has the same memory ability along with roughly 100 other people. I'm don't think she has the same control over her body functions. It's not mentioned in any of the articles concerning her remarkable memory.
The Darvaza crater is probably the largest tourist attraction in the country of Turkmenistan.
70 bpm for a heart beat is normal for a man at rest. 120bpm is normal for puttin out. Lmao
Lake baikal one is real and documented..its crazy crazy world
Somehow, I have the feeling that with the introduction of AI, the human brain will suddenly unlock the powers that Solomon Shereshevsky had.
I think it will be a means of survival for humanity to stay ahead of the technology.
It'll be like an instant evolutionary leap.
How would AI make us evolve? I think the opposite is currently happening and it will just speed up with AI
In Russia, Czarist treasure buries you!
What if the Tsar's gold is a myth? Where's the proof it even existed?
You only have to look at the "500-1000" yrs English stuff. Septor,crown jewels etc...
To get it.
The Tsar's family dismantled countless tiaras, bracelets and necklaces and sewed twenty pounds of gems into their corsets and underclothes. All this did was make their executions brutal beyond words because the gems made their underwear bullet-proof. This meant the family had to be bayoneted.
@@linda10989
I think you just answered your own question. Most respectfully.
As I did not know those things.
I wouldn't want poor peasants to know where my gold was. I/FRIENDS may need it. AND PROBABLY TOOK IT!
Cannot believe Dyatlov Pass wasn't in there.
Can they not cap the crator starving it of oxygen?
>jellyfish-shaped UFOs
I know that's you, Ozymandias!
How about Kashpirovsky? Djuna Davitashvili? Psychics?
Divers were swimming at 150 meters?! I doubt it!
There were Purim holiday cards produced that depicted the Tzar as the sacrificial chicken
There was no Russian revolution it was a few jews murdering millions of Christians
Blood libel's an Anti-Semitic myth.
Yeah, the last one isn't even a mystery, you spelled it out in your own video.
Are you from Bowling Green?
just keep the intro, youre gunna start a riot if you remove it again lol
You forgot that there's a third question to ask: Are these eyewitnesses unreliable? Yes. Yes they are.
Your telling me they dug 8" in the siberian permafrost na someone has it
I think you meant " 8' ". What you wrote means 8 inches.
One apostrophe = feet.
Two apostrophes (also known as quotation mark) = inches.
@@RantingRamsay ya your right
The human body is capable of much more than most people realize. Although Project MK Ultra was overall a terrible thing, a few useful things came out of it. In the mid-late 1970s, a group of US military special operations personnel participated in an experiment in biofeedback. Among the things they learned to do was reduce the sensation of pain, slow or increase their heart rates and breathing, and consciously warm parts of their bodies. Some were even able to voluntarily constrict capillaries enough to slow bleeding from superficial wounds. As you can imagine, these capabilities are extremely useful for soldiers. As far as I know, it never went beyond the experimental stage, probably because it took months and required quite a few eggheads to conduct it. I don't find it too hard to believe that occasionally someone has a strong enough mind-body connection to develop these capabilities on his own.
7:54
Where can I find these images I really have to see this s***, up close.
I can’t believe this is happening.
What?
@@JesseP.Watson
No.
🤷♀️
If you were on one of the teams tasked with searching for the lost gold. Would you hand it in, knowing you’ll be making someone else rich while you continue being a poor soldier?
Hold up. At 1:37 you say, "The KGB conducted exhaustive searches, and OFTEN CAME UP EMPTY-HANDED." Emphasis mine. Do you mean there were at least one or two times they DIDN'T come up "empty-handed"?