Your favourite unsolved mystery?

wonderfullife

How 2 men can boast about grabbing women by the genitals uninvited and only one of them gets sacked and the other.....

Mysterious stuff.

mzungu

_Jamie_ wrote: »

It's thought there a bit of coercion going on there.

Jim Jones was a master manipulator. A lot of members of his "church"* were taken in by the attention he got from politicians, in a way this made him legit in their eyes. He also championed racial equality at a time when US society was dragging its heels on it. Like all cult leaders he instilled fear into his followers but at the same time was charismatic. Bringing them down to Guyana was a big step in cutting them off from the world. Interestingly, his followers were a big mix from all walks of life who all seemed to buy into that 60s and 70s utopian vision of how the world could be.

They did a few rehearsals of the suicide. Some ex-members have said that the first one or two were tense affairs (understandably) until Jimbo dropped the bombshell that it was a hoax. It is their view that a lot of the dead would have been either desensitised to the idea of mass suicide, or simply thought Jones was a bluffer and no longer took it seriously when they drank the kool-aid the last time.

* Apparently he was atheist!

cavemeister

topmanamillion wrote: »

What happened to Kym Owens? The Monaghan student was badly injured in Dublin in November and is still in a coma.
Guards have no idea what happened.
She may have had a fall, Been hit by a car, Attacked. No one knows.
Seeing as she suffered severe head injuries i wouldn't hold at any hope of her being able to tell what happened, if/when she regains consciousness.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/garda%C3%AD-have-no-suspects-or-witnesses-in-kym-owens-case-1.2931996

She is still in an induced coma in hospital. I think at this stage, only she will be able to explain what happened when she comes round. Very strange and sad story.

sashafierce

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MadYaker

How does Donald Trump get his hair to look like that?

keano_afc

MadYaker wrote: »

How does Donald Trump get his hair to look like that?

Liberal tears

mikhail

How the hell does anyone believe in the Loch Ness monster these days? The bloody tourist boats have sonar that can resolve fish smaller than your hand across the whole breadth of it.

odyssey06

mikhail wrote: »

How the hell does anyone believe in the Loch Ness monster these days? The bloody tourist boats have sonar that can resolve fish smaller than your hand across the whole breadth of it.

Between the sonar sweeps and the impossibility of sustaining a population from a tiny gene pool... sad to say I don't think we'll ever see Nessie short of some sort of Jurassic Park type stunt

razorblunt

mikhail wrote: »

How the hell does anyone believe in the Loch Ness monster these days? The bloody tourist boats have sonar that can resolve fish smaller than your hand across the whole breadth of it.

Does anyone genuinely believe in it?
FWIW Loch Lomond is a far far nicer lake, shít I mean loch!

Ted111

mikhail wrote: »

The bloody tourist boats have sonar that can resolve fish smaller than your hand across the whole breadth of it.

Nessie knows all about their pesky sonar.
Keeps well clear of it.

dastardly00

mikhail wrote: »

The bloody tourist boats have sonar that can resolve fish smaller than your hand across the whole breadth of it.

Ted111 wrote: »

Nessie knows all about their pesky sonar.
Keeps well clear of it.

Aye, she keeps herself covered in thick layers of mud in order to block the sonar

The White Feather

This guy believes in Nessie! He has looked for Nessie for 25 years!!

Of course he has zero evidence!! :D:pac::pac:


https://stv.tv/news/features/1372378-nessie-hunter-who-has-devoted-25-years-to-finding-the-loch-monster/

Keyzer

The White Feather wrote: »

This guy believes in Nessie! He has looked for Nessie for 25 years!!

Of course he has zero evidence!! :D:pac::pac:


https://stv.tv/news/features/1372378-nessie-hunter-who-has-devoted-25-years-to-finding-the-loch-monster/

Dear Jesus... This guy needs a lobotomy. Imagine wasting half your life on this absolute nonsense...

Mike Guide 69

The White Feather wrote: »

This guy believes in Nessie! He has looked for Nessie for 25 years!!

Of course he has zero evidence!! :D:pac::pac:


https://stv.tv/news/features/1372378-nessie-hunter-who-has-devoted-25-years-to-finding-the-loch-monster/

The girlfriend had a lucky escape

Parchment

The White Feather wrote: »

This guy believes in Nessie! He has looked for Nessie for 25 years!!

Of course he has zero evidence!! :D:pac::pac:


https://stv.tv/news/features/1372378-nessie-hunter-who-has-devoted-25-years-to-finding-the-loch-monster/

I kind of love it though - to have that much devotion to something (anything) must be fulfilling.

People might laugh but its as nuts as being very religious or really into football or whatever. Its a passion.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

The mysterious death of Peter Watts, a 15 year old from Colwyn Bay, North Wales, who left a note for his parents who had gone out one Sunday afternoon saying he had gone to help a friend with some homework and would be back soon. He was discovered in an underpass 300 miles away in London a matter of 9 or 10 hours later dying of injuries associated with a fall.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/fresh-appeal-40-years-after-mysterious-death-of-15yearold-boy-a3159971.html

Parchment

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

The mysterious death of Peter Watts, a 15 year old from Colwyn Bay, North Wales, who left a note for his parents who had gone out one Sunday afternoon saying he had gone to help a friend with some homework and would be back soon. He was discovered in an underpass 300 miles away in London a matter of 9 or 10 hours later dying of injuries associated with a fall.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/fresh-appeal-40-years-after-mysterious-death-of-15yearold-boy-a3159971.html

Wow - thanks, i have never heard about this one!

ligerdub

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

The mysterious death of Peter Watts, a 15 year old from Colwyn Bay, North Wales, who left a note for his parents who had gone out one Sunday afternoon saying he had gone to help a friend with some homework and would be back soon. He was discovered in an underpass 300 miles away in London a matter of 9 or 10 hours later dying of injuries associated with a fall.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/fresh-appeal-40-years-after-mysterious-death-of-15yearold-boy-a3159971.html

Sounds like suicide no?

Parchment

ligerdub wrote: »

Sounds like suicide no?

To me - sounds like he was going to meet someone his family knew nothing about and then was robbed/mugged by that person and pushed off the bridge?? (his watch was missing)

Stigura

ligerdub wrote: »

Sounds like suicide no?

On the face of it. But, that was a bloody long old way, and to a very specific sounding location, for a young lad to go, just to jump.

Parchment wrote: »

To me - sounds like he was going to meet someone his family knew nothing about and then was robbed/mugged by that person and pushed off the bridge?? (his watch was missing)

And yet, the post mortem revealed No signs of him having struggled or even have been pushed over .....

Mystery indeed.

Billy86

MadYaker wrote: »

How does Donald Trump get his hair to look like that?

Ferrari3600

The White Feather wrote: »

This guy believes in Nessie! He has looked for Nessie for 25 years!!

Of course he has zero evidence!! :D:pac::pac:


https://stv.tv/news/features/1372378-nessie-hunter-who-has-devoted-25-years-to-finding-the-loch-monster/

I reckon the Nessie stories were 'encouraged' by the tourist board. But having visited that part of Scotland it is beautiful and doesn't need advertising.

Ferrari3600

Martin Allen is another troubling missing boy case from the UK in the 1970s/1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Martin_Allen

fxotoole

Stigura wrote: »

And yet, the post mortem revealed No signs of him having struggled or even have been pushed over .....

Maybe he just fell.

Stigura

fxotoole wrote: »

Maybe he just fell.

Yep. Might have been a kid before his time. Invented 'Planking' and got no credit for it

Capt'n Midnight

Update
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-38613992

Police investigating the disappearance of an airman have renewed appeals to trace six individuals seen on CCTV on the morning he went missing.

Corrie Mckeague, from Dunfermline, Fife, vanished from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 24 September.

Capt'n Midnight

Hopefully unrelated.

Most of the mysteries here could be summed up as "murderers hide evidence"

I have never understood the fascination with killing people. Don't get me wrong The Ladykillers is a great film, but because it's fiction.

My hero / anti-hero isn't the person who gets away with an unsolved murder. WTF is this BS about this most heinous thing being the "perfect crime" ?

It's the computer programmer who walks into his boss and says "I've just embezzled your bank, if you agree to drop all charges I'll fix it so no one else can , otherwise the company will go under when I tell everyone how to do it". (they folded)

Or the security guard who threatened to wipe the system. The normal reaction to such blackmail is to "go ahead we have backups" except our hero did a night course in computers and learnt one thing. He'd stolen the backup tapes too. :pac:

Hank Scorpio

How Hillary Clinton got away with the email scandal.

Capt'n Midnight

Hank Scorpio wrote: »

How Hillary Clinton got away with the email scandal.

Only if you definition of "got away" includes throwing away the US Presidency.

Hank Scorpio

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Only if you definition of "got away" includes throwing away the US Presidency.

Touché