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[MOTU] What's your favourite Unexplained Mystery

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  • #122
    maccored
    Registered Users Posts: 10,660 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    sounds like they poisoned themselves:

    "16:30 (04:30 PM) be at the agreed place. 18:30 (06:30 PM) swallow capsules, after effect, protect metals, wait for mask signal".

    " A search for toxic substances was impossible, as the coroner's office was very busy at the time, so when the autopsy was finally conducted, the internal organs of the two victims were too badly decomposed for reliable testing."

    Reebrock wrote: »
    That's an odd one.


  • #123
    Reebrock
    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Reebrock


    But what about the random note? Although poison is likely, I'm more intrigued by the situation.


  • #124
    maccored
    Registered Users Posts: 10,660 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    the note - was that the list of electronic parts mentioned in this article? - http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4398

    also:
    Exactly what Elcio Gomes told police, it turns out, when they questioned him a second time. Apparently these men were all part of a local group that called themselves "scientific spiritualists". Gomes said the three of them were interested in trying to contact Mars, and that the explosion had been the unfortunate failure of some device they'd built in pursuit of their spiritualist interests. Compounding this was a book found in Miguel's home workshop, where police found the tools and scrap used to cut the lead masks, with passages highlighted pertaining to "intense luminosity" related to spirits. Someone expecting to be exposed to "intense luminosity" might well choose to protect his eyes with lead shields.

    Bowen also found that two weeks after the deaths, the newspaper Folha de São Paulo published a statement by a self-described "professor of yoga" who stated that the local spiritualist community would often take psychedelic drugs, and it was his opinion that Manoel and Miguel had died due to an accidental overdose. The professor of yoga's statement was anecdotal of course, but it did suggest a version of events that seems to fit the limited amount of information available.


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