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[MOTU] What's your favourite Unexplained Mystery

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  • #2
    beefjerky
    Registered Users Posts: 308 ✭✭beefjerky


    There is one in AH already
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056363952&utm_source=notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=digestthread

    But mine is Taman Shud / Somerton man


  • #3
    BanzaiBk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭BanzaiBk


    Dyatlov Pass Incident

    Creeps me right out! I find the D.B. Cooper (sic) thing quite unsettling too.


  • #4
    emzolita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭emzolita


    just spotted this forum last night, new favourite forum! :D I stayed up till all hours reading about that Taman Shud last night(",)


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    emzolita wrote: »
    just spotted this forum last night, new favourite forum! :D I stayed up till all hours reading about that Taman Shud last night(",)

    This article gives more info Taman Shud thing here:

    http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/the-body-on-somerton-beach/


  • #6
    jonbravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 635 ✭✭✭jonbravo


    Would love to find this..
    http://youtu.be/3nafk1dLmS4


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  • #7
    branie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭branie


    Apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes and Fatima


  • #8
    Paulyh
    Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭Paulyh


    Mary Celeste...........where the hell did they go???


  • #9
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/805FfR/phocks.org/stumble/creepy/


  • #10
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,226 ✭✭✭✭briany


    I've been reading a bit about cattle mutilations recently. A weird phenomenon. What is behind it? Is it a number of different causes or mainly one? What is that cause? Is the occurrence of and circumstances surrounding the cases exaggerated for maximum effect (almost definitely).

    There's various hypothesis surrounding what could be behind it with the most popular one being extraterrestrials. To me, the idea that any kind of being advanced enough to travel the untold distances to earth and when they get there, tear up a cow (at night usually because......there's less chance of them being arrested for this act of vandalism/wanton cruelty?) is completely ridiculous in my opinion.

    Other ideas about what the cause or causes can of course be found here :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation

    The idea that there may be satanic cults behind it, even if they are just a bunch of mixed up or misguided kids with too much time on their hands is pretty weird. The idea of a bunch of people hanging around a deserted area at night in black hooded robes, looking menacing, gives me the creeps. (I blame scobies for the way I feel. ;))


  • #11
    board.eddy
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭board.eddy


    another vote for mary celeste here, really strange that one


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  • #12
    crushproof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,839 ✭✭✭crushproof


    Love the unexplained mysteries, all types.

    But this one is great, the book is still wide open. Crazy that despite such a massive search there still wasn't any trace of him. If he survived, and managed to keep the money he's a legend!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper


  • #13
    jonbravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 635 ✭✭✭jonbravo


    briany wrote: »
    I've been reading a bit about cattle mutilations recently. A weird phenomenon. What is behind it? Is it a number of different causes or mainly one? What is that cause? Is the occurrence of and circumstances surrounding the cases exaggerated for maximum effect (almost definitely).

    There's various hypothesis surrounding what could be behind it with the most popular one being extraterrestrials. To me, the idea that any kind of being advanced enough to travel the untold distances to earth and when they get there, tear up a cow (at night usually because......there's less chance of them being arrested for this act of vandalism/wanton cruelty?) is completely ridiculous in my opinion.

    Other ideas about what the cause or causes can of course be found here :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation

    The idea that there may be satanic cults behind it, even if they are just a bunch of mixed up or misguided kids with too much time on their hands is pretty weird. The idea of a bunch of people hanging around a deserted area at night in black hooded robes, looking menacing, gives me the creeps. (I blame scobies for the way I feel. ;))
    Cattle mutilation is not really something that people question or blame ET for anymore.


  • #14
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,676 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    crop circles are interesting

    Crop_circles_Swirl.jpg

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #15
    Dr Expired
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Dr Expired


    Earths Moon.


  • #16
    [Jackass]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,193 ✭✭✭[Jackass]


    I'm quite interested in hearing what exactly is the truth behind this....

    Tara_Calico_Polaroid.jpg

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Calico


  • #17
    Dr Expired
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Dr Expired


    The Man from Taured


  • #18
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Dr Expired wrote: »
    The Man from Taured

    Great story that, but that's all it seems to be? I can't find it referenced anywhere except a fleeting few conspiracy theory sites?


  • #19
    Dr Expired
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Dr Expired


    I just came accross it myself today.

    I might have a look around later for more info.


  • #20
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Dr Expired wrote: »
    I just came accross it myself today.

    I might have a look around later for more info.

    I had a google myself there, but i can't seem to find the original source. Mind you, it's from 1954.


  • #21
    dr ro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭dr ro


    Does anyone know anything about the story about the u.s.air force insignia wings that were found in the desert somewhere and carbon dated to ten thousand years old. Heard this years ago but don't know anything else about it.


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  • #22
    oranbhoy67
    Registered Users Posts: 2,803 ✭✭✭oranbhoy67


    [Jackass] wrote: »
    I'm quite interested in hearing what exactly is the truth behind this....

    Tara_Calico_Polaroid.jpg

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Calico

    Ive read about this too and it has intrigued me..



    One of the things that has puzzled me is that there is an argument as to whether it is actually her in the photograph.. i mean surely the photo is clear enough for people to agree on that its her or not!!!



    Nonetheless its a very chilling photograph and also an intriguing case!


  • #23
    tac foley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    dr ro wrote: »
    Does anyone know anything about the story about the u.s.air force insignia wings that were found in the desert somewhere and carbon dated to ten thousand years old. Heard this years ago but don't know anything else about it.

    No, do tell.

    tac


  • #24
    Deki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44,501 ✭✭✭✭Deki


    dr ro wrote: »
    Does anyone know anything about the story about the u.s.air force insignia wings that were found in the desert somewhere and carbon dated to ten thousand years old. Heard this years ago but don't know anything else about it.
    Might that not indicate there is something wrong about carbon dating?:(


  • #25
    FishHook
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭FishHook


    I've always found the disappearance of the Waratah off the coast of South Africa intriguing.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Waratah

    Another maritime, and topical mystery. I often wondered if the Californian was the actual ship witnessed by the Titanic, when she was sinking.


  • #26
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    FishHook wrote: »
    I've always found the disappearance of the Waratah off the coast of South Africa intriguing.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Waratah

    Another maritime, and topical mystery. I often wondered if the Californian was the actual ship witnessed by the Titanic, when she was sinking.

    que?


  • #27
    FishHook
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭FishHook


    When the Titanic was sinking there was a ship in the distance, observed by survivors, that did not come to the Titanic's aid. It was always accepted to be the tramp steamer, Californian, (you might know of it, if you saw the Titanic film 'A Night To Remember') which was estimated have been about ten miles from the Titanic's CQD/SOS position. The crew of the Californian, did claim to see rockets in the night, almost certainly the Titanic's distress rockets.

    However, when the wreck of the Titanic was discovered in 1985, it was located approximately ten miles further south, than the CQD/SOS position they gave in 1912. This pushes the Californian up to twenty miles away from the Titanic, and over the horizon. In the Board of Trade enquiry into the sinking, Titanic survivors claim to have seen a ship much closer than this, during the sinking. Crew even tried to contact it with a morse lamp, without success.

    It is also worth noting that the 'mystery' ship's red and green side lamps could also be seen.


  • #28
    BESman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 563 ✭✭✭BESman


    Great thread, hope I'm not bumping this.

    I've always found unexplained vanishings interesting. The list below is worth reading:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_disappearances

    I suppose first assumption for unexplained disappearances is usually murder but you just have to think that there could be some other reason behind a disappearance. I wonder do a lot of people intentionally "disappear" and start new lives somewhere?

    I've also always been intrigued by the Kola Superdeep Borehole started by the Soviet Union in Siberia. What exactly was the point of this? A hoax went around that the workers on the site began to hear strange noises coming from the borehole (see link below). Think there are some eerie recordings on YouTube as well.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax


  • #29
    MrBinbetweener
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭MrBinbetweener


    WHY PEOPLE FIND CATHERINE LYNCH FUNNY :)


  • #30
    Star Lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    MrBinbetweener wrote: »
    WHY PEOPLE FIND CATHERINE LYNCH FUNNY :)

    I was trying to think how this fitted in this forum.
    Cryptozoology I guess... ;)


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  • #31
    whatsup?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭whatsup?


    Saw this on CBS tonight

    http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Gordon_Collins


  • #32
    Oracle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭Oracle


    The Georgia Guidestones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones


  • #33
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    Incorruptable corpses, does that count? you're ones seem more interesting!


  • #34
    Oracle
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    Rasheed wrote: »
    Incorruptable corpses, does that count? you're ones seem more interesting!

    Whats an incorruptable corpse?


  • #35
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    Oracle wrote: »
    Whats an incorruptable corpse?


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorruptibility

    It was said that to become a saint, your corpse must not decompose like a normal corpse!


  • #36
    Geekness1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭Geekness1234


    dr ro wrote: »
    Does anyone know anything about the story about the u.s.air force insignia wings that were found in the desert somewhere and carbon dated to ten thousand years old. Heard this years ago but don't know anything else about it.

    Had a quick google,and it tossed up this thread.

    I'm calling shenanigans.


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  • #37
    dr ro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭dr ro


    yeah it is more than likely not true. I was told it years ago by someone who believed it himself. I've Googled it many times myself and found nothing, i thought someone here may have heard something. Obviously not. If i ever find anything, I'll be back.


  • #38
    FishHook
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭FishHook


    Geekness1234 wrote: »
    Had a quick google,and it tossed up this thread.

    I'm calling shenanigans.

    +1. Not much to go on with the Man from Taured mystery either e.g no first hand accounts etc. Urban myth more than likely.


  • #39
    childsplay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭childsplay


    Mine would be the mystery of Jack the Ripper. That was one sick puppy!

    Also, Id love to know the truth about Maddie McCann's disappearance.

    Oh and how they get the figs into the fig rolls :D Sorry, just couldn't resist that one.


  • #40
    krd
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    childsplay wrote: »

    Also, Id love to know the truth about Maddie McCann's disappearance.

    There's only one plausible explanation. Her parents cooked and then ate her.


  • #41
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    krd wrote: »
    There's only one plausible explanation. Her parents cooked and then ate her.

    Unfunny.


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  • #42
    Myrddin
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    One of my favs would be The Tunguska Incident


  • #43
    FishHook
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭FishHook


    EnterNow wrote: »
    One of my favs would be The Tunguska Incident

    Most likely a meteor strike.


  • #44
    Myrddin
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    FishHook wrote: »
    Most likely a meteor strike.

    The largest impact event in recorded history, & not a scrap of evidence or crater indicating what it was. I love it :) Your probably right & the meteor exploded in mid air, but we'll never know...it was 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima whatever it was


  • #45
    admiralofthefleet
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    childsplay wrote: »
    Mine would be the mystery of Jack the Ripper. That was one sick puppy!

    Also, Id love to know the truth about Maddie McCann's disappearance.

    Oh and how they get the figs into the fig rolls :D Sorry, just couldn't resist that one.

    i think he was a member of the royalty or upper classes


  • #46
    childsplay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭childsplay


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    i think he was a member of the royalty or upper classes

    Yes that was a theory alright. Even Queen Victoria's nephew was put in the frame, but we'll probably never know for sure.


  • #47
    tippspur
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    EnterNow wrote: »
    The largest impact event in recorded history, & not a scrap of evidence or crater indicating what it was. I love it :) Your probably right & the meteor exploded in mid air, but we'll never know...it was 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima whatever it was
    Strange that it hit one of the remotest places on earth,one hundred miles either way and it would have wiped out thousands of people,I read in a book that some witnesses said that they saw the object in the air and it changed course,a meteorite wouldn't do that.It's a great mystery though.


  • #48
    shanered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭shanered


    Why everybody who has sleep paralysis see's the same hooded figure looking over them....


  • #49
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    shanered wrote: »
    Why everybody who has sleep paralysis see's the same hooded figure looking over them....

    They do?


  • #50
    Star Lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    shanered wrote: »
    Why everybody who has sleep paralysis see's the same hooded figure looking over them....

    They don't. But those that do, I imagine it's due to the engrained mental associations with such hooded figures. (Death etc...)


  • #51
    neathlankly
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭neathlankly


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island

    Its really really odd- what the hell was buried there?


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