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Your favourite unsolved mystery?

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    #332
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Crop circles intrigued me as a kid. I know some of them were fake, but what about the rest? Anyone done any reading up on them.

    And agree Scientology. More money than sense, some people.


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    #333
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    criticalcritic wrote: »
    Why people still folliow scientology despite being biggest load horse dung ever heard



    Same reason people follow Catholicism


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    #334
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    criticalcritic wrote: »
    Why people still folliow scientology despite being biggest load horse dung ever heard

    Damn right, they should get back to believing something more plausible like how some Jewish carpenter was really God in disguise who impregnated his own mother (who he was also the father of...meaning he was his own father and grandfather) so she could give birth to him to atone for a sin which he was very pissed off about even though it never really happened as the story was just an allegory.

    Those crazy Scientologists and their Xenu and Galactic Confederation :rolleyes:


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    #335
    StephenHendry
    Registered Users Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭StephenHendry


    the kerry babies mystery 1985
    philip cairns disapperance 1986


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    #336
    bijapos
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    I like these two things (neither really mysteries though):

    Ancient abandoned fortress in Siberia (the photos are amazing):

    http://englishrussia.com/2007/08/07/an-ancient-fortress-on-the-island/

    I'm not sure if anything on that site is ever real though.

    That place exists, its called Por Bajin, just type the name into Google Earth and you can see it. Its in Russia almost on the border with China. Two of the reasons they think it survived so well is the preserving qualities of cold air and the isolation of the area, there were never many people living there at any time in history. The site is about 200m x 150m, its big but not massive by ancient standards.


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    #337
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Eever wrote: »
    He could have shot himself, and then the little boy who the policeman sent in the window to open the door for him thought to himself "ooh look a gun! That'll be fun" and stole it??

    :eek::D

    I think you have it worked out!!!


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    #338
    Pretty_Pistol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭Pretty_Pistol


    In Australia around 1980 there was a couple who camped at Uluru with their two month old baby. They claimed a dingo took the baby from their tent and was never found.

    I'm on my phone so can't link the wiki page.


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    #339
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I love the area of aliens in art work, particularly ancient drawings. The thing I love is that even if not extra-terrestial influenced, it's cool to imagine what it is the original artists were trying to convey. Was it there equivalent of bad spirits. Is the familiar alien gray some deep seated human boogey man in our mind?

    This is from 10,000 years ago

    http://www.dudeman.net/siriusly/ufo/art/ancientastronauts.jpg

    These are Aborigine 'Wondjinas'

    http://www.nephilimskulls.com/v/vspfiles/images/kimberly_australia2.jpg

    http://top-technology-reviews.com/uploadfiles/top-technology-reviewscom-1286042749/early-ancient-alien-rock-art-discovered-in-australia-location-being-kept-secret_1.jpg

    Even Medievel Art features some weird stuff.

    http://www.ufo-sightings.org.uk/images/ancientastronauts.jpg

    http://lifesgreatclues.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/6..jpg


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    #340
    secrecy_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭secrecy_ie


    Bird and fish deaths all over the world:
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/bird-deaths-louisiana-911-calls-released-arkansas-blackbird/story?id=12544093

    Also, not a huge mystery, but impressive - dogs in Russia who use the subway:

    http://abcnews.go.com/International/Technology/stray-dogs-master-complex-moscow-subway-system/story?id=10145833


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    #341
    Big Nasty
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    secrecy_ie wrote: »
    Also, not a huge mystery, but impressive - dogs in Russia who use the subway:

    http://abcnews.go.com/International/Technology/stray-dogs-master-complex-moscow-subway-system/story?id=10145833

    Sure we had a cat here recently that uses the DART! :pac:


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    #342
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    Pretty_Pistol wrote: »
    In Australia around 1980 there was a couple who camped at Uluru with their two month old baby. They claimed a dingo took the baby from their tent and was never found.

    I'm on my phone so can't link the wiki page.
    Here ya go
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azaria_Chamberlain_disappearance


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    #343
    --Kaiser--
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    sunflower27 wrote: »
    Crop circles intrigued me as a kid. I know some of them were fake, but what about the rest? Anyone done any reading up on them.

    And agree Scientology. More money than sense, some people.

    Occams razor. Since people admitted to doing hundreds of them before, also we know it's possible for them to be made by humans, why do we need to involve any other theories?


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    #344
    Eever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Eever


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    :eek::D

    I think you have it worked out!!!

    Brilliant. What authorities do I alert to hunt the theiving bastard down and to collect my prize?

    Here's a mystery of my own for yous:

    One day my sister walked out her front door to find a bag had been placed there. In order to put it there one would have had to walk up her garden path, turn to the right and place it in the front porch, it definately couldn't have just been thrown there by someone over a wall or anything.

    She opened the bag and found that it contained law books (which most definitely are not cheap!) So she thought it a bit odd and opened the books, they all had a name written on the inside cover. Then she remembered that a lady in her hockey club (not really a friend of hers but they were friendly enough) has a brother who studies law. She rang said lady and asked if the name on the books was by any chance her brothers name and she said yes!!

    Her brothers bag, with the books had been stolen THREE WEEKS earlier from a pub in town (Dublin), only to turn up three weeks later, carefully placed on my sisters doorstep in Dublin 18.

    Explain that one!!


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    #345
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    Really enjoying this thread, i look forward to checking it each day. Thanks.


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    #346
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    Eever wrote: »
    Brilliant. What authorities do I alert to hunt the theiving bastard down and to collect my prize?

    Here's a mystery of my own for yous:

    One day my sister walked out her front door to find a bag had been placed there. In order to put it there one would have had to walk up her garden path, turn to the right and place it in the front porch, it definately couldn't have just been thrown there by someone over a wall or anything.

    She opened the bag and found that it contained law books (which most definitely are not cheap!) So she thought it a bit odd and opened the books, they all had a name written on the inside cover. Then she remembered that a lady in her hockey club (not really a friend of hers but they were friendly enough) has a brother who studies law. She rang said lady and asked if the name on the books was by any chance her brothers name and she said yes!!

    Her brothers bag, with the books had been stolen THREE WEEKS earlier from a pub in town (Dublin), only to turn up three weeks later, carefully placed on my sisters doorstep in Dublin 18.

    Explain that one!!

    He faked the theft of the books in a bid to meet her. He then planted the books there, knowing his sister (accomplice) had passed on the information about the supposed missing books.


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    #347
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,394 ✭✭✭cml387


    The cause remains a mystery for a number of major railway accidents in the UK over the years.
    Two that spring to mind:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_and_Wealdstone_rail_crash


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    #348
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Occams razor. Since people admitted to doing hundreds of them before, also we know it's possible for them to be made by humans, why do we need to involve any other theories?

    Christ, talk about a bloody spoilsport. :rolleyes:


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    #349
    StephenHendry
    Registered Users Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭StephenHendry


    anne lovett, the 15 yr girl who died in granard , longford in january 1984 after giving birth to her son (who also died) , the mystery being why this was allowed to happen in the first place, and did people close know but did nothing


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    #350
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Eever wrote: »
    Brilliant. What authorities do I alert to hunt the theiving bastard down and to collect my prize?

    Start with your local garda station...


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    #351
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    sunflower27 wrote: »
    Christ, talk about a bloody spoilsport. :rolleyes:

    Fine. Aliens made them. They've obviously nothing better to be doing than flattening acres of wheat into geometric shapes.

    They have also started branching out into promotional work
    http://larryfire.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/papacrop_3.jpg


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    #352
    Wompa1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,170 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    How about Jimmy Hoffa?


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    #353
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Who were the first Europeans to the Americas? Surely not the Romans? In my uneducated opinion if a ship made it, it was blown there in a storm.

    http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/25/science/underwater-exploring-is-banned-in-brazil.html
    51. Underwater archaeological survey conducted in Baia de Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil, under auspices of the Naval Museum, on what is believed to be a possible Roman amphora carrier from the 2nd century BC. Three other shipwrecks found and surveyed on this site (16th, 17th and 20th centuries). September 1982 - February 1983.

    http://www.shipwreckconference.org/conference_bios_marx_projects.htm


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    #354
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Fine. Aliens made them. They've obviously nothing better to be doing than flattening acres of wheat into geometric shapes.

    They have also started branching out into promotional work
    http://larryfire.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/papacrop_3.jpg

    Lighten up :D:p


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    #355
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    secrecy_ie wrote: »
    Also, not a huge mystery, but impressive - dogs in Russia who use the subway:

    http://abcnews.go.com/International/Technology/stray-dogs-master-complex-moscow-subway-system/story?id=10145833


    Pffff! Subway dogs? DART cats? Go home, amateurs. In Greece, dogs go to riots!


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    #356
    secrecy_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭secrecy_ie


    The Tylenol murders is another one...

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


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    #357
    Popsy
    Registered Users Posts: 110 ✭✭Popsy


    Who is/was the Edgar Allen Poe 'Toaster'?

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

    :)


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    #358
    firefly08
    Registered Users Posts: 856 ✭✭✭firefly08


    The Shroud Of Turin. I read a book a few years ago that made an attempt to explain it, it was called The Second Messiah. The authors had a really clever explanation for the whole thing, which managed to explain every mysterious detail of the shroud and it's history...just no actual evidence unfortunately. They appear to have pulled the whole story out of their asses...still, it was by far the most realistic and convincing theory I've ever heard.


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    #359
    Tazio
    Registered Users Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Tazio


    Popsy wrote: »
    Who is/was the Edgar Allen Poe 'Toaster'?

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

    :)
    Brilliant story imo.


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    #360
    Obelisk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭Obelisk


    Tazio wrote: »
    Popsy wrote: »
    Who is/was the Edgar Allen Poe 'Toaster'?

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

    :)
    Brilliant story imo.

    They are suggesting it's a man.

    An old gay lover, perhaps?


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    #361
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Who shot JFK - the Magic Bullet theory just doesn't hold water for me.

    Where are Ireland's missing women?

    Missing children; Madeline McCann, Philip Cairns, Mary Boyle.

    Amelia Earheart

    What happened to Tutankhamun ( Egyptian Pharoah for those who don't know)
    Others will probably come to me later.


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