4 of the Most Mysterious Songs of All Time

It’s pretty rare to come across a truly mysterious song nowadays. Most musicians and bands out there today are constantly promoting themselves across social media, performing live, and doing whatever it takes to get their name onto the feeds of potential fans. These four old songs, though, are quite mysterious. Some have no known songwriter, while others are believed to have been written by someone other than the bands that released them. Let’s take a deep dive into four of the most mysterious songs of all time!

1. “Blind The Wind”

This mysterious song is known by many names, from “Blind The Wind” to “Like The Wind” to “Check It In, Check It Out”. It’s also known as the most mysterious song on the internet.

Nobody knows who recorded the song, where it was mixed, who wrote it, or even why it was recorded. The lyrics are extremely difficult to decipher, too. All we know for sure is that it was recorded on a cassette from a German radio station sometime in the 1980s. Whoever recorded the tape decided to delete any between-song audio, so we’ll likely never know the song’s true title or who performed it. There are whole groups on the internet dedicated to finding the artist behind “Blind The Wind”, and decades later, nobody has figured it out.

2. “Peace Of Mind”

Bootlegs were all the rage in the 1960s and beyond. If you were too broke to buy The Beatles’ new vinyl, you’d have to settle for whatever your local bootlegger had on deck. “Peace Of Mind” was one of many songs found on a Beatles bootleg years ago. The seller claimed it was a “lost” song by the famous group. 

It seems like ridiculous snake oil, considering how amateur the recording is. However, a lot of people believe that it is actually a Beatles song, and there has been quite a bit of discussion on the matter online.

3. “Carnival Of Light”

Here’s a song that was actually recorded by The Beatles, though it was never released. When the group released their absolutely enormous Anthology box set, it included just about every audio recording The Beatles had in their possession. Except for “Carnival Of Light”. 

This still-unreleased 17-minute odyssey did eventually leak, and it sounds like The Beatles’ take on an avante-garde soundtrack. However, George Harrison hated it for some reason, and even Ringo Starr went on to veto its inclusion in The Beatles Anthology. Nobody knows why it’s such a secret, albeit a poorly kept one.

4. “Phantom’s Divine Comedy”

We had to include this whole album on our list of the most mysterious songs of all time. Some believe that this record was a project that Jim Morrison completed after “faking” his death. The record has been looped into conspiracy theories about Jim Morrison still being alive for years. It’s obviously not a Morrison record, but it’s still quite mysterious how the band members on this album are still anonymous decades later. It was eventually revealed that the frontman “The Phantom” was Arthur Pendragon a.k.a. Earl Theodore Pearson. The rest of the band’s identities remain a mystery.

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