This past year featured quite a few curious incidents and puzzling moments that still have us scratching our heads. With 2025 coming to a close, we're left wondering about painted squirrels in Connecticut, peeled bananas in Britain, exploding birds in California, and supernatural fires in Zimbabwe, among other peculiar cases that made headlines over the last twelve months. With that in mind, here are 12 unsolved mysteries from 2025 that remain truly confounding...

• Who was the bizarre 'Box Demon' (pictured above) that appeared outside a Pennsylvania home?

• What was the source of a mysterious boom that interrupted a Tulsa city council meeting?

• Why was an esteemed Zimbabwean university professor plagued by supernatural fires?

• Who was ritualistically putting a plate of peeled bananas on a corner of a British street on the 2nd of every month at the start of the year? And why did they suddenly stop?

• What was the weird mystery creature resembling a chupacabra caught on video in Colorado?

• Why were birds inexplicably exploding in a California neighborhood?

• Who was the mysterious 'yellow man' spotted roaming around multiple communities in Northern Ireland?

• What kept dropping chicken drumsticks in the yard of a bewildered British homeowner?

• Who painted a pair of squirrels in Connecticut?

• Why was an Ohio antique mall targeted by a mysterious grease vandal?

• What was behind a series of inexplicable lights photographed by a Chilean trail camera, baffling scientists?

• Who was behind a series of 'poison pen' letters that tormented a British community?